Yep, you ought to see the look on young people's faces when I crank up the Victrola or my Edison Cylinder phonograph!

It's not that kids are idiots today. On the contrary, my 13 year old constantly amazes me with how adaptable and how fast she learns. Its simply that the rate of change in technology today is accelerating at a pace that things we might have dealt with sometime in our lives came and went, and young people were never exposed to them. I too laugh at that, but it won't be long before I'm in the position that my parents are in - they don't get it, and have given up trying.

The pressed disk recording had a 100 year run. What about wire recorders, reel-to-reel tape, 8 track, full size cassette, compact cassette, mini cassette, DAT, CD, DVD, HDD, various forms of Flash memory, etc.? What will displace them all? I'm in a development lab doing 22nm integrated ckts for multi-gigabit chip. I have a 3'x3' picture of a 1k PROM on my wall in which I can visually count each memory cell - something I worked on in the 1970's. People even within the field cannot relate, but then technology is changing so fast!

My daughter is writing code and moderating a web site. I look over her shoulder in awe.