Timing is Everything (Agency Technology‪)‬

For most people of my generation, today's technology gadgets, gizmos and thingamabobs are wonderful--and frightening--advances. They beguile us with a Hollywood-like promise of amazing powers while at the same time repel us by the fear of the unknown and the speed with which they rush by in the ever-changing tides of technology. For my parents, though, technology at the level of computers, smart phones and anything having to do with WiFi, let alone the looming Grid that will soon replace the Internet, is something of a blur. While they understand and appreciate things like "cordless" technology every time they take the kitchen phone into the living room, the idea of a wireless network and a VoIP phone is way beyond them and, as far as they're concerned, unnecessary for them to learn now that they're in their late 80s.