Age based technology fear

I was walking through a car park today, carrying a large box of IT equipment, and cursing at a car that was slowing me down. It was hard to understand how I could be walking faster than the car which was on it's way out of the car park (so not looking for a spot) ... until I realised that it was a very elderly gentleman driving, having obviously taken his grandson out for the morning since grandson plus baloon were in the passenger seat.

Well, I guess it was his grandson holding the baloon - I couldn't see because whoever was holding it did not come higher than the window sill.

My second thought (after a mild curse) was that I wouldn't want MY son being driven around by someone who could barely make out the line markings. Since I'm not even married or have any children, that's not a problem I'll be having any time soon.

But THEN I had the interesting thought that is actually worth writing here (sorry for the previous filler - my English teacher always did use a lot of red ink scrawling waffle across great swathes of my essays...)

I thought about how this old guy may well be fearful of cars, Sydney traffic, and automatic traffic lights. Such things would have seemed fanciful in his younger days of horse drawn milk carts and gas lamp lit streets (I'm guessing he was over 80).

THAT made me wonder what technology advances, that would sound fanciful now, will become reality and scare the pants off ME when i'm driving my grandson home from the virtual mall in my banged up old hovercraft...

Interesting way to think about what the future holds...