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Are we the Jetsons yet?

By Ingrid Laine

Mortgage and Lending with Sun West Mortgage Company, Inc. NMLS#292396/VA#MLO-6503

November 28, 2010 03:28 AM

Our kids are three and two. They will never live in a world without iChat and Facetime! When they want to “Call” their cousins, they actually expect to see them face-to-face! How funny! When I hand my cell phone to my kids to talk to Grandma and Grandpa they don’t know what to do… They say: “I can’t see them,” and hand it back, like something is wrong!

And now Space Travel with Sir Richard Branson’s new company! They are already going into space with a few flights a day! Amazing!

Other normal things my kids will take for granted:

•Ultra thin 3D Televisions

•Amazing Video Games

•Microwaves

•Home Computers

•Home Printing

•Paperless offices

•Virtual workdays

•iPods

•DVD Players

•Flash Drives

•Cartoons EVERY DAY ALL DAY!

•TiVo/DVRs

•Online Banking, Learning, and Shopping

•Email

•Blogs

•Cell Phones

•GPS!

•Overnight delivery

•iRobots to clean the floors vs. vacuuming

and so much more…

Do we live in an amazing time or what! I love that they get to take these things for granted! Are we the Jetsons yet?

—Ingrid

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Don MacLean

New England Real Estate Center Inc. - Easton, MA

Realtor-Homes for Sale- Easton, Mass 02356

I know it's amazing with technology what the times have traded.

Kids (and us) who do not need to work on memorizing phone numbers of friends and families to the connection between video games and great surgeons who work with lasers and screens

Enjoy the day

Nov 28, 2010 03:32 AM

Joetta Fort

The DiGiorgio Group - Arvada, CO

Independent Broker, Homes Denver to Boulder

These are amazing things, true. And yet, we're still waiting for the day we cure the common cold.

Nov 28, 2010 03:33 AM

Dan & Laurie Pittsenbarger Team

Keller Williams Western Realty - Bellingham, WA

Lakeside & Coastal Single Family Homes

It is truely amazing - the advancement and tech and gizmos and the rate at which they are becoming apart of everyday life. Jezz - wonder what we are going to take for granted in another 20 to 30 years.

Nov 28, 2010 03:34 AM

Ingrid Laine

Sun West Mortgage Company, Inc. - Virginia Beach, VA

Loan Officer

Don—it is incredible! Especially in the advancement of medical science.

Joetta—I just don't think there is enough money in finding a cure for the common cold. My only guess...

Dan—I know 20-30 years from now I can't imagine what we will be living like! Flying cars, and undersea homes... which just may be above sea homes today, with global warming!

Take care!

Nov 28, 2010 03:39 AM

Susan,

I am not sure... I cannot imagine a time other than the Industrial Revolution that we have had this type of speed of product development and integration into everyday life, and the IR seemed to be a bad time to be a child or woman from what I have read. I think we have it better!

Nov 28, 2010 03:49 AM

Surprise Arizona Realtor Jim Braun Sun City Grand Active Adult Communities

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Jim Braun Sun City Grand Az - Surprise, AZ

Surprise AZ real estate Phoenix West Valley

The speed of new technology in continuous change and how we can produce videos, virtual tours and any other media is amazing. It is easy to take all for granted when they have lived this technology since day 1.

Nov 28, 2010 03:52 AM

Norma Toering Broker for Palos Verdes and Beach Cities

Charlemagne International Properties - Rancho Palos Verdes, CA

Palos Verdes Luxury Homes in L.A.

Just wait until they are in school--homework is done online, research is done online, dictionaries, online again. Sixth graders now need their own laptops and cell phones not to mention a host of other techie toys.

Nov 28, 2010 03:54 AM

Jim—Yep... I hope so, or is there going to be so much more to learn?

Norma—I know, they already have techie toys and use technology! My 3 year old in taking computer classes in her pre-school!

Nov 28, 2010 04:28 AM

Silvia Dukes PA, Broker Associate, CRS, CIPS, SRES

Tropic Shores Realty - Ich spreche Deutsch! - Spring Hill, FL

Florida Waterfront and Country Club Living

Ingrid, the scary thing about this list is that there are a few items on it that I don't know how to operate! LOL

Nov 28, 2010 05:25 AM

Silvia—Funny! Can you just imagine what the next 50 years holds? I am betting holographic TV, and Space Travel will be normal!

Nov 28, 2010 05:52 AM

Gabrielle Kamahele Rhind

KGC Properties LLC, Tucson Property Management & Real Estate - Tucson, AZ

Broker/Owner

HI INGRID! Wow - when it's put in a list like this ... I wonder how I managed as a kid soooooo many years ago! Cleaning out a few things - my daughter came across a cassette tape and it amazed her that she couldn't stick it in to a computer! -- Gab

Nov 28, 2010 10:09 AM

Robert Vegas Bob Swetz

Las Vegas, NV

Great post Ingrid and we do live in a hi-tech world and there are many gadgets that companies are holding back. I also think that Facebook will be replaced by a network that VB is working on, "Top Secret" information though ...

Vegas Bob ;)

Nov 28, 2010 10:53 AM

Gabrielle—I know! Cassette tapes, DVDs, CDs, gone the way of the 8 track, 33s, & 45s!

VB—I eagerly await your triumph over facebook! Please remember us when you do!

Nov 28, 2010 11:46 AM

Sandy Shores FL Realtor®, Melbourne Real Estate

M & M Realty of Brevard Inc. - Melbourne, FL

Brevard County Real Estate, Florida's Space Coast

Ingrid, The Jetsons was one of my favorite cartoons - they were the best! There are so many things today that my kids have that we didn't when we were growing. Wow, how times change.

Dec 13, 2010 02:44 AM

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