Things Soon To be Forgotten

The World changes and the gap between generations' experience of the world is growing wider and wider. There are already so many things millennials will never understand such as pre-internet life, the old style dial phones and especially Vinyl Albums which my kids do like to chuckle about, especially as i haven't owned a record player since 1998.
Today's millennials could be about to feel the same way as things from my youth which have been forgotten and find themselves explaining to their children how we used to carry our shopping home in Plastic Bags which are one of a few things i can imagine will be a memory within the next couple of decades.
Where only a few short years ago we had a wide array of mobile phones attached to charging cables, the only things on the end of charging cables now are my e-cigarettes as various wireless phone chargers are dotted around our place and where we once had remote controls on a cable, they become sleek controllers which became lost down the back of sofas but the new TV's have voice commands so you don't even have to hunt down the remote to turn over the TV, you just stay in your seat and shout 'BBC1' at the tele.
Where once you had almost had a conversation with a reluctant cashier at the supermarket, now the only thing you hear is 'unexpected item in the packing area' as self-checkouts replace supermarket checkout staff and shops are starting to offer emailed receipts rather than paper ones so not for much longer will we know the joy of scrunching them up and tossing them into the bin outside the shop before realising that's us knackered if we need to return it.
The stunted conversation with right wing Taxi Drivers moaning about the weather/current Government/illegal immigrants could be condemned to the past as driverless cars become a thing but at least we won't have to hear them moan about how Internet shopping is forcing shops to go out of business because shopping centres could be a relic as businesses decide they don't need a bricks and mortar shop and shopping centres become massive Amazon warehouses instead.
Pay phones have been in decline for years although there are a few desperately hanging on but not for long as everyone has a mobile phone in their pocket along with key fobs and car keyless ignition systems which probably do look far more enticing in the fruit bowl at those type of parties.
Technology moves on, the world changes and sometimes it's not a bad thing and as for the kids mocking my 12" Frankie Goes To Hollywood Vinyl collection, they could just as easily be sold to pay for a Cruise as be your inheritance so think about that next time you laugh at them.