Thursday, January 21, 2010

Modernization & Fear

I just love this clip. It is from an old instructional video that telephone companies used to introduce the dial phone to consumers. The whole video is centered around one grandfather's fear of change and frustration with technological progress. Does this scenario sound familiar?


3 comments:

Paula Montrie said...
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Paula Montrie said...

Your video post reminded me of one of my favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek

I like to use it to diffuse the anxiety some feel with learning new technology.

Mrs. Tenkely said...

This is hilarious, I had nearly this same conversation with a colleague today.