My story of kids growing up in a post AI world:
replyThere's a gag in Star Trek 4 where Scotty goes back in time, and tries talk to a computer.
The gag is funny because he is from the future where you talk to computers normally. When the computer doesn't respond, someone hands him the mouse, and he tries use it as a microphone.
I watched that scene with my kids recently (9 and 6).
They didn't get the gag. They thought Scotty was completely reasonable to try and talk to the computer.
It took a while to explain.
I would think your parents thought about television more than refrigerators. That's one technology that really set the world on a new trajectory. Imagine if Nixon won the presidency in 1960, if we didn't have real-time video of the Apollo landings, or if America stayed in Vietnam for another ten years.
replyTelevision and radio set the parameters for the "single-stream culture" that emerged in the 20th century. Mostly a result of the limited bandwidth of early broadcast technology, so everyone had to watch the same few channels.
replyWeb 2.0 broke this into millions of creators. Generative AI produces everything on-demand, but again there is a small number of (polymorphic) models producing the content.