Small world

I realized today how small technology makes me feel and how much smaller it makes our world seem. We use it in every aspect of our lives and sometimes are too dependent on it. But when I think about how we can communicate with other across the world with the click of a mouse I can't help but feel a little bit smaller.
My uncle is an avid musician and plays several insturments. Recently he purchased a web cam and he was telling me at Easter how he regularly talks with a person in Russia and is learning how to play some Russian music. It is amazing to me to think that he is seeing and talking to someone "across the pond" in real time. I wonder sometimes how can we come up with all of this new and wonderful technology so quickly. We are a society that likes newer and bigger and better so the demand is there not just in America but world-wide. I used this story because there's the old saying that music is the universal language. However, lately it seems that Texting or Twitter is the new universal language. I guess we are evolving once again.
This brings to another funny family/technology related story. My second cousin is 12 and she is growing up in the digital age. When we were all at my grandma's house for Easter she was standing in the upstairs kitchen pointing at something on the wall. I went in to see what was up and I had to laugh out loud. She was staring at my grandma's rotary telephone hanging on the wall. She kept poking her finger in the holes and asking why won't it dial?!! I told her she had to put her finger in the hole and turn the dial- I ended up having to demonstrate- then she finally caught on and gave it a try. It didn't last long though, she decided that was too much work and headed straight for the cordless in the family room! I just had to share that little tid bit.