...and your children's children.

[Mray3460]

Today I was reminiscing about a grade school assignment I did back in the early 00's (wherein I would interview my grandparents about their childhoods, young-adulthoods, and such, all the way up to about the eighties) and thought what it'd be like to answer similar questions later on, about what it was like to be a young adult during the war on terror, or to live through the great recession, or to fight in the robot uprising/zombie outbreak/alien invasion of '23 (They may or may not happen all at once).

Anyway, actual discussion topic:
What do you think your grandchildren (or, young people in two generations if you want to be more general/aren't planning on having kids, let alone grandkids) would ask you about, given a similar assignment/out of curiosity? What would your responses be?

(Note: Lets assume, for the purposes of this discussion, A. that humanity is alive and well off enough to have public schools at this time [2012 was either a second Y2K, or was something that humanity survived] and B. that two generations roughly works out to 30-40 years into the future.)
(Second Note: If this has been done before [I searched] please link to the original thread.)

 

[DeadlyYellow]

"What do you mean you didn't have robot overlords back in your day?"

 

[Cabisco]

"Hey grandad i've just IM you, i wanted to ask what it was like back in your day when people actually met face to face. Oh sorry brb, mother is teleporting me my food from her bedroom. Yeah, she's still the active one in the family going to the toilet down the hall instead of using the automated system in our lazy boy tombs."

 

[DMonkey]

I would lie through my teeth, and make my life sound way more awesome then it actually was...
Or, just tell them the truth and that it was pretty much the same, except things were a bit slower, and we had fewer advertisements...

 

[tomservo4prezident]

They would say "uuuuugggh..."

And I would shoot them in their filthy, filthy zombie heads.

 

[Omikron009]

I'm definitely not planning on having children. But even if I did, by the time they'd exist the Earth will have been devoured by self replicating nanobots.

 

[BlindMessiah94]

I'll tell them that I rode a T-Rex to school where they showed us something called "moving pictures" and it was a really exciting time because we had just invented the wheel.

 

[Aerodyamic]

"IN MY DAY, we walked 50mi, uphill both ways, in -40c and blizzards, and I had to lead my brothers to pasture and the sheep to school, and then we'd have to chop firewood with a rusty axe, and that's how I lost this eye."

"And my spleen."

 

[AmayaOnnaOtaku]

I would probably tell them a embarassing stories about their dad (my son) possibly show them what i had to play video game wise when I was their age.

 

[Pimppeter2]

"Grandpapa, why'd you cheat on grandmama and flee to Europe?"

 

[Mray3460]

Almost forgot, need my own:

Questions:
1. Where where you when you first heard about the world trade center attack?

2. What was it like growing up in the late 2000's?

3. What was it like to drive an automobile?

4. Do you ever feel guilty about defecting to the AI Alliance during the uprising?

Answers:
1. I was walking into my third-grade classroom, the teacher was crying, there was an old-fashioned disaster-weather radio in the corner that everyone was gathered around, the first words I heard were "...just confirmed that this is a terrorist attack."

2. Frustrating above everything else, the patriotic fervor of the post 9-11 years had died down to be replaced by patriotic fervor for the new presidency, and that'd soon fade anyway with the annoying politics of the political parties souring everything, as always. But it was an optimistic time, a lot of us almost felt we could do anything. And we were just beginning to see people begin to merge with their gadgets, I remember my own grand-dad commenting that my iPod and cell phone almost looked like a part of my body when I used them, he had no idea how true that was.

3. Pretty much like using one of the rec-carts that you guys like down in the entertainment district, only bigger, noisier, and a lot less fun. And no, before you ask, the fumes from the engine didn't make me sick, it was just there, granted it didn't smell very good but other than that we really didn't notice anything, unless of course, something was wrong with the car.

4. Not really, after the government collapse it was between the militias/NRA and the Alliance, and since the Alliance had D.E. weapons, food, shelter, clean water, antibiotics, and, you know, a high probability of victory, it was really a no brainer, especially considering humans struck first...

 

[Biosophilogical]

"Pokemon wasn't obscenely gimmicky and the soul-sucker of the nations when you were young? How is that possible?"

This is basically sourced from me thinking that they will keep adding gimicks to pokemon, so in 50 years it will be like every gimmick imaginable put in a blender of poor gameplay. Also, I love Heartgold so far, it is like ecstasy or some other drug I've never had or will.

 

[Mray3460]

I'm definitely not planning on having children. But even if I did, by the time they'd exist the Earth will have been devoured by self replicating nanobots.

Ahem...

...(or, young people in two generations if you want to be more general/aren't planning on having kids, let alone grandkids)...
(Note: Lets assume, for the purposes of this discussion, A. that humanity is alive and well off enough to have public schools at this time [2012 was either a second Y2K, or was something that humanity survived] and...

 

[Chummychanga]

I've made a vow, to raise my children how I've always wanted to be raised so those future punks better treat their kids right, or I'd kick their ass.

Anyways, I'd tell them the truth and be all boring like.

 

[Iron Criterion]

My fear is my grand-kids won't see me as ever being cool. Despite you know being a guitarist/signer/song writer in a heavy metal band.

 

[Hollock]

You mean you had to use your hands? That's like a baby's toy!

 

[engineermk2004]

when I was young we had to make things with our hands out of raw substances, not just re-imagine the material world however we wanted.