I went and signed up for a beta test of the new online word processing application from Google. I haven’t played with it yet, but it looks great. I’m eager to try creating a document and sending the text to this blog, which is one of the cool features you get with an online word processor. And the interface is so much cleaner than Word (not surprisingly).
I wonder how Ava is going to express herself by the time she’s ready to head off to high school. That’s 11 years from now. In 1993 I was browsing the nascent WWW using Mosaic and my old Mac SE. It’s only 13 years later, and it’s difficult to imagine my present life without the Internet. It seems likely, with the way things are going, that Ava won’t be using computers at all, at least not computers as we know them today (I imagine her and a friend stumbling across my iBook in the attic one cool fall day and marvelling over the relic, daring each other to turn it on). I’m already preparing myself for the day she comes through the door and knows more than I do; hopefully I have some time to get ready for that.