Technology changes

Since I had to work the 11:00 am-7:00 pm shift today, I spent some off time reading journals.  One was about the changes in technology and possible impacts on Higher Ed.  That came full circle as I walked in to my office and saw a colleague balancing a pile of video tapes. Not long ago, tape was the new best thing in video and audio storage media. It came right after the 8 mm and 16 mm film rage for homeowners and educators.  I've spent the last couple of years trying to share family memories with my siblings in the form of scanning stills and film to digital formats and annotating the result.  Then I realized that will be as useful to my grand kids as a Zip drive or floppy disk is to me now - NOT.  Who knows what technology impact media and the sharing of ideas, memories and images.Certainly not me!