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Re: The 2019 Mindset List

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RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> writes:

> On 2015-08-20, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>> http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2019/
>>
>> Quoting from the URL above:
>>
>>    2019 List
>>
>>    Students heading into their first year of college this year are mostly
>>    18 and were born in 1997.
>>
>> [snip]
>  [snip]
>
> Going to be a weird generation that scarcely cares what a folded,
> printed map is, and will be unable to navigate its way from the kitchen
> to the toilet without Google Maps or equivalent giving turn-by-turn
> directions ...


    "The pop star as we knew her...was actually an artifact of
    preubiquitous media."

    "Of---?"

    "Of a state in which 'mass' media existed, if you will, within the
    world." 

    "As opposed to?"

    "Comprising it."

                 -- Hubertus Bigend and Hollis Henry, Wm. Gibson, 
                    _Spook Country_, 2007


> Bah, humbug.  I'm too young to be this curmudgeonly :)

When you turn 70, you get a free upgrade from Curmudgeon to Cranky Old
Geezer.  Just this last visit, my grandson found, much to his
satisfaction, that he was tall enough to reach the hand pump at the
kitchen sink.


-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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The 2019 Mindset List Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-08-20 23:28 +0000
  Re: The 2019 Mindset List RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-08-23 17:59 +0000
    Re: The 2019 Mindset List Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-08-23 18:28 -0300
    Re: The 2019 Mindset List "Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2015-09-10 09:47 +0100

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