Generation G because there is a thing called GPS and all the young people can't seem to get around with out it. It's as if a handheld map is something foreign to them and encrypted text on an electrical gadget that talks back to them and tells them where to go is of the most normal.
To consult the paper which unfolds to a map of the 5 boroughs is just a little bit more time consuming. To press in a few "buttons" on the touch tone screen with a computerized voice is easier as long as the map loads quickly.
And these things just happen to multiply into all sorts of forms because now even those cellular things called phones have GPS too. For a small fee of a probable $9.99 extra a month, one doesn't have to worry about the directions and how to get there. Why instead of talking into your phone, it talks back to you and tells you that at 500 ft there will be a turn coming up and that you should stay to your right and perhaps merge too. To think that if someone would have told us 10 years ago that we would be following a little computer that talks back to us and depend so much on it, we may have looked at them as if they were wearing last seasons resort collection in mid winter. Bemused & befuddled. Yet that is exactly what has happened, now we must make sure to have the latest model of that positioning system because we also need to calculate the most efficient way to get somewhere all the whilst saving gas and time of course, oh and traffic too. It's important to get to our point b from point a in a timely manner.
That little squared object that needs to be charged after a certain period of time and who at some point in the near future may not even need to be plugged into the car, but to the solar charger that keeps it going. Perhaps one day they will come with a little solar window making things the more easy to pack.
GPS? Check. Car? Check. Car keys? Check. Directions? oh yes definite check.
To go and to get back. To keep going and drive on. GPS what would we do with out you? Be a little more resourceful? Hmm...but how? What would we search to do?
Simply find a way to make the map reading a little easier. To somehow insert it in an apparatus that will position properly and move along with us. One that would show us a view of the near by streets and roads that we drive through. The little signs that we pass by and the actual formation of the streets too.
Wait, we already have that. It's called general position satellite or something.
But it's o.k. to have such a gadget because it makes things a little bit easier when one has not direction. All you need is a place to go and GPS will tell you how to get there. It would be quite fabulous if there were something in life that helped us out the same way when we aren't exactly sure of where we are going. Then again, I guess that is where prayer takes part and we ask for some sort of direction to help us take our path.
Oh generation g, we that are still growing and learning who we want to be and what we want to do. We that are still unsure where we want to be and how to get there...In the mean time, we have GPS to help us out a little. Keep straight and prepare to turn right at 77 ft and you will reach your destination on right.
-Bionica
