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One of the big differences between my children and myself as a child is that my kids never want to leave the house. When I was a kid, you had to go out to watch movies or eat pizza or (I'm that old) play video games. Now they come to you.
As a parent, I wish I knew whether I should worry about this. I don't love it, but maybe I'm just old fashioned. As an investor, I see this trend is self-reinforcing and has a long way to run. So "let people do x at home" = a good startup idea for surprising values of x.
Different kind of house maybe as well?
Yes. And part of that involves houses that can change through time, due an exceptional uncertain future.
Maybe it's too much technology, where children don't want to step out of the house.
No, we can never have too much technology.
We might see a comeback of the arcade with VR - omnidirectional treadmills and all the other peripherals needed for a truly immersive experience are expensive and bulky for home use.
I keep hearing this from parents, but there is another way to look at this? Only certain types of children used to prefer to stay at home -- the bookish, the introverted perhaps. Now it's _all_ of them. I wonder if that will turn more kids into contemporary equivalent of bookish.
Hardly.
If we make an analogy, in our time we were Navy Seals, dodging dangers in every corner. Now the boys are virtual soldiers trained virtually through screens.
What I still can’t get my head round is how happy my kids are to interact with their friend virtually, without always needing to be physically with them. 20-30 years ago, being at home mostly meant being lonely.
You can do so much more virtually now. You don't have to pretend the stack of cardboard boxes and trashcans are a castle, you can build the digital castle of your wildest dreams and defend it from zombies.
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