By CAROLINE NJUNG'E More by this AuthorA couple of days ago, my 10-year-old eagerly asked me to Google the word ‘typewriter’. They had been told it was the machine that people used before the computer was invented. Just a couple of years later, along came thinner and lighter and better-looking machines, phasing out the one with the protruding tummy. MOBILE PHONESAdvertisementAnyway, this conversation with my son brought to the fore just how different a world we’re raising our children in. It’s almost scary, this rapid change, especially in the face of Covid-19, this disease that scientists all over the world have been unable to unravel seven months later, a disease that keeps changing face every month, getting more and more complicated and deadly.

Source: Daily Nation July 19, 2020 04:52 UTC