Grandparents' Basement and Technology

Kids are very busy on their phones and tablets discovering and creating new things. Grandparents understand that, but kids should also understand that basements have old things that gave birth to new things.

Kids will think grandparents have completely lost it, if they say things on their phones and computers are old things lying around in the basements. I can imagine kids saying:

Grampa, you must be kidding right?

Grandparents clear the basement because they are selling the house. It’s too big since the other partner died or they’re moving to a place with no stairs to climb.

It might be hard for kids to believe that things in their phones are old things that can be found in their grandparents’ basements, but phones and computers have all the evidence.

Icons in their devices are right there in  the basement: files, clipboards, magnifying glasses, paintbrushes, flash lights, erasers, printers, floppy disks, rotary phones, you name it.

There’s nothing new under the sun, just re-painted and recycled.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.