Things Our Kids Will Never Be Concerned With

This all began with an article in Forbes Magazine.  It's a listing of things our kids will never be bothered with. The list was fairly short so on the Joe Lowe Facebook page, I asked folks to add to the list.  http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=3512031409021&id=1518987353&notif_t=feed_comment,

Paying bills by writing checks.
Our kids won’t understand why we ever spent so much time writing and mailing checks to pay bills when everything can be paid electronically.

Buying an expensive set of encyclopedias.
Encyclopedia Britannica announced last week that it will no longer print its famous set of encyclopedias. Kids today would have a hard time believing that their parents actually shelled out upwards of $1500 for information that’s so readily available for free today.

Using a payphone or racking up a big "long-distance" bill.
Most kids today have no idea what a “long-distance” call is and most of them will only see a rotary-dial telephone in a museum. Likewise, they will never likely use, or even see, a payphone or phone booth in the near future. Instead, they will all just carry phones in their pockets, as many of them already do. And they’ll be flabbergasted by how many trees we cut down so that people could look up numbers in something called a “phone book.”

Having to pay someone else to develop photographs.
Few kids today have ever touched film or gone to stores to have pictures developed. Digital photography has almost completely disrupted that business. They would have no concept of “conserving pictures” so as to not blow all 36 exposures. Instead, we snap away hundreds of pictures and decide which ones we want to keep.