May 15, 2017

Bionic Superhumans and Pocket money- Musings on Mother's day

Posted by Sunitha Vijayanarayan at 10:40 AM

My son and I were watching Phineas and Ferb cartoon on Netflix together.Suddenly he looked at me and said, "You know none of this can be real , right Amma?". They had been learning fiction and non -fiction in school and I tried to bring in those concepts as I replied. Of course this is fiction, it is an imaginary story. I'm sure kids like them would not be able to build such complicated things so easily. So is the other TV show with bionic humans",  referring to a sci-fi comedy that we all watched called Lab Rats which had  3 bionic children as its main protagonists. To which he indignantly replied , "Bionic humans are not fiction, I'm quite sure science is very close to humans having bionic chips and implants, may be they have already done it somewhere."  Before I could get another word in he got back to the topic

"I mean , I can totally get that they are super smart and able to create roller coasters , what I can't understand is , how would they ever get the money to build those things" ,he mused. Personally I had not thought of that as an impediment and to foster debate , suggested that may be Phineas and Ferb's parents were very rich and they gave them a lot of pocket money. At this he started laughing loudly and said "Amma you don't get it , no parents would give kids so much pocket money. It has to be fiction."

I chuckled to myself.We live in an age where super smart children and bionic super humans are close to reality. But thankfully parents are still parents and children receiving huge amounts in pocket money is still fiction.

Many times , we tend to forget that our children live in a world far more advanced than we can comprehend and seeing it through their curious eyes is a gift to cherish.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

P.S : It does look like bionic humans are coming for real.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/13/elon-musk-humans-merge-machines-cyborg-artificial-intelligence-robots.html



4 comments:

maithili on June 3, 2017 at 9:49 AM said...

Very true! Sometimes seeing the world through the new generations eye gives a whole new perspective! Totally agree that parents through the years have been the same irrespective of the generation :D

WordsPoeticallyWorth on June 30, 2017 at 3:53 PM said...

Children can have a different perspective insight! I enjoyed reading.

Thank you. Love love, Andrew. Bye.

research paper service on August 16, 2017 at 5:52 PM said...

It is so true that our children are living in completely different times right now and we must realize that to connect with them better

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