Grandparents Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow

Grandparents Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow Grandparents Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow If anyone had told us, some years ago, that, someday, as a GF (or my wife as a GM), I would spend part of our time at computer, on a thing called "the Internet," chatting about my life and family with hundreds of total strangers, I would have laughed and thought they were "crazy!" ... Yes, here I am doing it! Save, Social Networking ... Any substance ... in Free Basics or Net Neutrality ... (market product of govt Masala ...!) [spying by market or govt]. Anyway, if Net becomes FREE, say, upto 50 MB ... Well and Fine... So now I'm wondering what changes will take place in the future - and what some future VS, will ruminate of what we talk about here and how we go about it. Will GP (grandparent) caregivers, like me, be a thing of the past or the absolute norm? Will the "family" look much as it does, today, with all the variations it's already experiencing? Or will it have taken on such a new shape that the conversations on sites like this will be entirely different? Will we even still communicate with each other in this way? Or will technology have brought us whole new forms of contacting each other that we can't even imagine right now? As a GM, my wife always recall when the electronic typewriter was the most modern piece of equipment in the family. Now it seems quite "primitive." Will our ways of communicating seem just as archaic to some future reader? And as much as I hate to say it, will 'this material' (the 'rubbish', I pour out, here and in Media) even still be here? Or will it have disappeared as the technology became outdated and newer types of communication took over? Regardless, I expect I'll be talking a lot about changes, as I write here and in a many a blog - those that I underwent as I took on the caregiver role and those I've gone through and am still going through as my role, itself, evolves. But with these kinds of questions in my mind, I almost can't help addressing myself to that possible future, as I write, as well as, of course, those of you who are reading here and now. That is, if this bla .. bla .. is even still here in the far future and if any reader, at that time, is even interested in what's said by an 'oldy' from the early 21st Century!