Could technology kill Santa and the Easter Bunny?
Sitting here on Easter eve, I had a thought: what if some tech-savvy kid decided to set up a webcam to catch Santa or the Easter Bunny pop in, and instead saw their parents putting out the presents? Sure, the parents could lie and say “Santa was in a hurry and told us to do it”, but not-so-fast parents could sit there dumbfounded with nothing to say.
Now, this isn’t a post about whether or not people should or shouldn’t believe in these things, it’s about how technology can conceivably kill a belief we’ve given children for hundreds of years. Technology seems to be breaking down a lot of barriers of late. First, it gave people the ability to send messages around the world instantly, to talk to them without the use of a phone, send pictures, videos, and now we chat in real time which was possible 20 years ago through IRC, but it wasn’t as prolific as it is now.
So, if technology could break down all these barriers, could it make children aware of the truth about Santa and the Easter Bunny earlier than we want? Could these icons become a thing of the past?
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