Several months ago, I was knee-deep in explaining a potential switchover from “regular” television broadcasts to streaming to my parents. My dad was not thrilled, to say the least. But it occurred to me that the transition process is what he struggled with the most. He doesn’t understand the technology behind streaming, and therefore couldn’t find a personal benefit from making this switch. And that’s totally understandable!
But it did get me thinking that we are in the middle of transitions all over the place in life and society. I would say 95% of them are for the better. And it seems to be incumbent on the younger generation to assist the older generations in making those transitions. It is hard.
I mean, look at the notion of moving from rotary dialing a telephone to the push button model. That probably freaked people out when they did it the first time. Same thing, just on a much smaller scale.
P.S. In the end, he preferred going to back to broadcast. For now. :)
