What do the kids have these days!?!?

[TheJavaPirate]

When i was younger, way back in the 90s, we were too stupid to use the internet, and entertained ourselves using what we could find. My childhood consisted of a precious few things: Pokemon, Zelda, <ario, beanie babies, and baseball. This is all i have memories of, but what do the kids of the new generation have to grow up on? Pokemon has become a joke now, with all the new Pokemon there are, so that's out. And with the internet being more popular than god himself, are we breeding a generation of kids so hooked on technology that they simply cannot survive by themselves? With the boom of video games, will today's youth become more violent? (Back in my day, games were 2D and innocent, oh how far we've come.) What will happen to today's technology dependent kids?

 

[neoman10]

When i was younger, way back in the 90s, we were too stupid to use the internet, and entertained ourselves using what we could find. My childhood consisted of a precious few things: Pokemon, Zelda, <ario, beanie babies, and baseball. This is all i have memories of, but what do the kids of the new generation have to grow up on? Pokemon has become a joke now, with all the new Pokemon there are, so that's out. And with the internet being more popular than god himself, are we breeding a generation of kids so hooked on technology that they simply cannot survive by themselves? With the boom of video games, will today's youth become more violent? (Back in my day, games were 2D and innocent, oh how far we've come.) What will happen to today's technology dependent kids?

I know, it is a sad sad thing

I remember when a game didnt have to be rated M to be fun, I remember when single player was all you could do, those were the days

 

[Knight Templar]

Thats a bleak outlook, I think having the ablity to gain so much information is good.

 

[Berethond]

Don't worry, the good ol' days will return during the Digital Dark Age.
(when new technology is created so fast that data can't be transferred to it fast enough.)

 

[neoman10]

remember "ahhh real monsters"?

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

Games don't make kids violent, I've had enough of that nonsense. Anyway if society collapses and tech becomes useless then all these kids are doomed. most people will be to be quite honest. I worry about redundancy systems for fixing shit if it all goes bananas. If all tech breaks down and most people that know about it die or whatever, then all that tech becomes so much junk.

 

[Apocalypse Tank]

Here are some things that an Escapist frequenter would say:

1. Disney killed our kids with scantly dressed little girls
2. Teenagers shooting up schools are the parents' fault
3. The current generation of games are becoming worse/less creative
4. Kids online need to grow up, teenagers are stupid.

 

[meatloaf231]

"Kids these days..." arguments have been made since ancient Greece. Every generation thinks the following one is "losing it's way."

 

[silentsentinel]

"Kids these days..." arguments have been made since ancient Greece. Every generation thinks the following one is "losing it's way."

Bugger. Exactly what I was going to say, except that you said it with more clarity.

 

[blackcherry]

The fear of change and being surpassed by your youngers is a common fear.

Saying that, kids of today do seem to care less about important things like world political events and more about what bra size jordan is.

 

[theklng]

you think this is bad, wait till we get cybernetic implants as babies in about 100 years from now. then lets start talking about dependency.

 

[hypothetical fact]

you think this is bad, wait till we get cybernetic implants as babies in about 100 years from now. then lets start talking about dependency.

Capitalisation is your best friend. Also to the OP, did you ever think that a child can use technology while being taught and parented? Children are not becoming more violent no matter what FOX news tells you.

 

[theklng]

you think this is bad, wait till we get cybernetic implants as babies in about 100 years from now. then lets start talking about dependency.

Capitalisation is your best friend. Also to the OP, did you ever think that a child can use technology while being taught and parented? Children are not becoming more violent no matter what FOX news tells you.

i'm sorry but i don't give a damn about capitalization. find something else to cry about.

 

[DangerChimp]

When i was younger, way back in the 90s, we were too stupid to use the internet, and entertained ourselves using what we could find. My childhood consisted of a precious few things: Pokemon, Zelda, <ario, beanie babies, and baseball. This is all i have memories of, but what do the kids of the new generation have to grow up on? Pokemon has become a joke now, with all the new Pokemon there are, so that's out. And with the internet being more popular than god himself, are we breeding a generation of kids so hooked on technology that they simply cannot survive by themselves? With the boom of video games, will today's youth become more violent? (Back in my day, games were 2D and innocent, oh how far we've come.) What will happen to today's technology dependent kids?

How far we've come? Wolfenstein and Duke Nukem ring a bell? Games were just as violent back then. Also, criminology stats suggest violent crime among youth is down compared to the 1990s.

Also: there's more to life than Pokemon and the Internet, man. Give the youth some credit. They've become more expressive and creative than our generation ever was, in no small part due to the Internet.

You are, of course, free to sit back in your rocking chair, smoke your pipe and tell those mean lookin' teens to "get off m'land!"

 

[Isaac Dodgson]

I had legos...Legos are awesome, and by the transitive property of awesomeness, I too, am awesome...

Ahem... any way kids these days have the most of the same things i did back in the 90's as well... cartoons and video games, action figures and candy...It's just sold differently. The Sega Genesis/Megadrive and the Nintendo 64's (what I had) become the XBoxes and Wii's (lets face it no mother or father is gonna shell out 400 bucks for a PS3 lest they happen to be rolling in mounds of cash), and Spiderman, Batman and the X-Men have become, Ben-10, Yugi-Oh, or dare I say SpongeBob... Legos and action figures are around still, and of course so is candy, but the main point i'm trying to get across is that the only thing that's changed is how the things kids have look and how they are sold...

 

[9-liner]

Language, written and spoken, is a technology. Public utilities, writing utensils, food storage methods, they're all forms of technology. As long as humans communicate with each other, live in dwellings and use tools, no matter how simple the tools happen to be, we are going to be using some form of technology. Just by being able to describe yourself to yourself as a human makes you a prime example of the technology dependent class.

As far as "the boom of video games" is concerned, I welcome you to share an example of a newly discovered technology that wasn't misused in some form, accidentally or on purpose, upon it's introduction to a human society who previously had no concept of it's existence, much less it''s use. The application of technology will always be only as flawed as those who bother to apply it, and you know the track record of we humans when it comes to having flaws. As far as video games causing

"the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person or against a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment or deprivation."
[br]-The definition of violence, according to the [a href="http://www.who.org/"]World Health Organization[/a]*

in children, my guess would be that it would all be based on how thoroughly the child in question was introduced to the concept of violence, it's uses, results and consequences.

What will happen to today's technology dependent kids? Depends on how you all have scheduled your upcoming day...


*Technology made me know this! Damn freely accessible stream of internet information!...

 

[Bolverk]

How far we've come? Wolfenstein and Duke Nukem ring a bell? Games were just as violent back then. Also, criminology stats suggest violent crime among youth is down compared to the 1990s.

That's probably because they are all to busy on the internet.

I agree, though, that what we had in the 90's was better by comparison to what kids have today. The reason they think what they have is better is because they were introduced to this new stuff before what we had, and think that the 90's 'fun' is too b-grade.
I'm aware that 90's kids would have said the same things about decades before them, but it is for the same reason. Nevertheless being a 90's kid myself I miss the good cartoons, the good games, and the simple entertainment before technology was more advanced than Tamagotchi.
Hell, I miss some of the older stuff too...I'm 17 and some of my favourite shows are from before my time, like Red Dwarf, The Young Ones, HR Puffinstuff...And then the 90's cartoons of course..Aahhh! Real Monsters, The Animals of White Stag Park, the ORIGINAL Pokemon (as in the first 150), Rocko's Modern Life and for some reason I still enjoy the extremely gross partnership of Ren and Stimpy.