My, how times have changed. Technology has made such a huge impact on our daily lives, but it’s crept in so surreptitiously we don’t always recognize it.

We live in an era where people rely on technology to take over even the simplest tasks. Most annoying to me is people’s inability to count back change without a computer to tell them the answer. I’m no math whiz, but I’m pretty good at figuring out how much change I’ve got coming. A couple of days at a job without a fancy register helps you figure it out pretty quickly.

My daughter gave my husband a new collection of “vintage” sodas for Christmas. They came in bottles with the “old-fashioned” bottle caps. My stepson wasn’t quite sure how to approach it, as the cap didn’t just twist off. When I handed him the bottle opener, he looked at it like it might bite him and he wasn’t even sure which end he should use. Now this is a pretty technologically savvy kid, and he was thrown off by a little bottle opener.

On the other hand, my stepson could dance circles around me when it comes to playing video games. Considering all the new technology that abounds today, it’s probably a good thing our children are so adept at it.

When you think about all the technology on board our military aircraft alone, for example, it seems only right our children are so much better at it than we are. It is, after all, our children who will be the ones stepping up to serve our country.

So, for as much as some technology has made us lose touch with our past, it is the wave of the future and more power to those who can master it.

-Kathy Reed, editor