Changing Times
Changing Times
Being a graduate student at Ball State University, my life is fairly routine. I wake up at 7 am by my alarm clock made possible from my cell phone. I fix a quick breakfast and head to work. I work in a computer animated design (CAD) lab at Ball State. My job consists of fixing printers, installing software, and aiding students in the programs already installed. My main form of communication on a daily basis is through email, which I check at least 5 times a day. After work and class, I go home and watch a DVD or play video game on my Play Station 2 (that is of coarse after my homework is done… like a good student). It is hard to imagine life before the current technologies I am use to, but it wasn’t always like this. My grandfather told me of his life growing up.
When he was a kid, his family lived on a farm, where he would get up at 5:30 am to do his daily farm chores of feeding the live stock and milking the cows. From there, he would get clean and head to school…. not by car, but by foot. (At least it wasn’t up hill both ways). After spending the day in his one room schoolhouse, he walks back home to once again do his chores at home (which he did not get paid for). At night, for entertainment, they would listen to the radio, or get neighbors together and play card or board games.
There was no such thing as the internet or television. Their shower consisted of filling a large bucket up with water and bathing in that. They did not have a freezer, so in order to keep their meat good, they used salt. People still complained about gas prices, although it was 10 cents per gallon.
Technology has given us many luxuries in our lifetime. In the last 70 years, technology has changed so much, it is hard to imagine what the future will hold.