This video features a bunch of children who were all born in the year 2000.  Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez, Kobe Bryant, and George Lopez are the biggest celebrities.  Britney Spears has lost her touch, simply known to the kids as “the girl who cut her hair bald.”  They all started using computers, iPods, cell phones, and portable gaming devices at very young ages.  They never heard of Napster and the file-sharing saga.  The sound of dial-up is foreign to them; they associate it with phone answering machines, not computers.  They have a grasp on what it means to be green, though they aren’t too educated about the global warming phenomena.  (Al Gore, get on that!)  They share a keen understanding that Barack Obama is black.  Biggest news story?  When MJ died (not 9/11?).  On the 9/11 subject they all seem to remember what happened that day, what a terrorist is, and the pains of living during wartime.  Interestingly, immediately after discussing terrorism and wartime the interviewer asks the children to share their biggest fears and their answers remind us all that they are in fact a group of 9-year-olds.

Interviewer Allison Louie-Garcia has created sound clip time capsule with this short but poignant session with 9-year-old children.  It’s humorous to hear that they can’t put their finger on the sound of dial-up.  I’m glad I was born when I was.  Every now and then I ask my grandparents what it was like growing up and how fascinated they were with the transition from black and white to color TV and living through the introduction of computers and MP3 players.  I always used to complain that they saw so much and was able to live through many technological advancements.  I would think to myself “where do we go from here?”  This sound byte reminds me that I have lived through plenty of breakthroughs and I am convinced the next few decades will bring many more exciting advancements.  Flying cars, flying cars!

[Via Gizmodo]