"That's right ma'am, we get up before the chickens"

At work, group bonding time, co-worker cracks a joke.
Little old English lady, upon hearing that we work the 5am shift, said in the dearest possible way "Oh my, you must get up awfully early", "That's right ma'am, we get up before the chickens."

Everyone laughs, I stood there blinking my eyes for a full minute before the joke hits me. What can I say, it's been a while since I heard the cry of a rooster. I actually fully remember, in techno colour, roosters crying in the morning in my grandmother's house. I must've been 2 or 3 years old then, the apartment we lived in was long demolished to make way for new residences. I actually remember the entire floor, the stairs, the balcony, the old concrete kitchen and of course, the crying of the roosters. There would be virtually no electronic appliances. We used unscented soaps, cooked with coal stoves, and entertainment of the week would be watching my grandmother gutting fish.

And there I stood, still smelling the fish soups, and realized that I'm working in goddamn Alias. Surrounded by computers, 2 feet away from me there's a blazing 64bit computer with 4 gigs of ram, I got 2 computer on desk and we are calling people around the world with a few mouse clicks, and I had just answer a question in goddamn Japanese.

The amount of change in the world that I experienced is pretty extreme. There are generations these days who can't even imagine a world without TV or computers. People of my generation is funny. We are brought up without much technology, and yet we are comfortably immersed in it. We are the generation that bridges across the technological divide. Our sons and daughters will have no comprehension of the world of their grandparents, not only their lifestyles, but also their morals and ethics. This worries me. It'll be up to us to transmit such ideals and build characters in the next generation. However in this age of mass media and overwhelming competing sources for attention, have us learnt such ideas well? Have I?