Museum Pieces?

Each day at work I use my desk-top PC with its corded mouse. None of your 'touch-screen technology' in the NHS! I was sending a quick text just before I left the office, and one of our younger staff members sarcastically asked if I had got a new phone. Cheek!

It got me thinking though; my wee Nokia doesn't do anything fancy, so I call it a Dumb-phone. I have a digital camera for taking pictures, a laptop for doing emails etc., a DAB radio to listen to the Archers; and an address book for keeping details of all my friends. I have a photo-album (or 20!) with snaps of family get-togethers and babies and holidays, but I also have them stored on a memory stick and on some CD-Roms. I have no desire, currently, for i-Pods, Pads or Touches, or anything of the kind, but the day may come.

My thought was: if my dear old Dad, who died in 1990, heard me say this, he would understand "phone/camera/radio/address book/photo-album", and not have a blinkin' clue what the rest of this was about. (If anyone told him they had a tablet, he would either have thought they had been to the doctor, or their Mum had been busy with condensed milk and sugar.)

In 24 years time all of the above will be ancient artefacts; I wonder what the world will be bamboozling me with then?