So kids will jump higher and twist and turn more. New, ever more creative ways to challenge gravity will be concocted. Even mainstream athletes are becoming bigger, faster and stronger. There are more amazing feats and injuries in professional sports than ever before. Videos and video games become more graphically violent and realistic.
TV shows become more risqu and sexually provocative.
And it all streams into our homes via hundreds of satellite cable channels or via a personal computer and the Internet. No wonder the prospect of a family game of cards on a Sunday afternoon bores my kids. Sometimes it make me wonder.