generation gap

There's something I noticed recently, it has to do with people my age, and people who are old, and by old I mean they didn't grow up with computers and the internet. I've noticed that the older generation doesn't believe in the power of the internet. Or the power of google. This is shown when these people have a question, need information, or directions, and they turn to the old resources to get their answers. Anyone my age would get on their phone or computer and Boom! have the answer in a matter of seconds. The older generation will hem and haw, struggle with the issue until finally they realize they need to go online. Por ejemplo, I have to give people directions to my place of work. Part of me wants to just give the address and say, just google map it, but because these people don't believe in the internets they want me to tell them step by step where to go. Time is money, people. Also, my coworkers will want to do something in Microsoft Word or Excel, so they'll search and ask people how to do a certain thing. When they get to me I tell them to google it and it will be online how to do it. I'm not the computer genius but I do know enough to know that you can pretty much find the answer to anything by googling it. Seriously. I've taken apart sinks and vacuums with instructions from the internets. My generation trusts the internet to have all the answers and it usually does. The reason this fascinates me is because I watch the older people struggle when I just want to yell, "google it!" and then they'll have their answer so much faster. How did people live back in the day?...

The thing I'm interested to see is if people my age take up the call that Elder Bednar gave last General Conference. He told the tech savvy teens and young adults that they can assist in temple work by helping with family history. I loved this. We have such an ability with the technology available and people our age are so good at using it that there is such a huge potential for a lot of things to happen. I'm not quite sure how this will happen but I got the feeling that Elder Bednar knows that once this family history work and technology gets in the hands of my generation that it will skyrocket. I think it will too. And I think that's exciting.

Gheez, could I sound any more like Kip? I love technology, but not as much as you, you see...