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Re: The 2019 Mindset List

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On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 18:59:42 +0100, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>    Among those who have never been alive in their lifetimes are Princess
>>    Diana, Notorious B.I.G., Jacques Cousteau, and Mother Teresa.
>>
>>    Joining them in the world the year they were born were Dolly the  
>> sheep,
>>    The McCaughey septuplets, and Michael "Prince" Jackson Jr.
>>
>>    Since they have been on the planet:
>>
>>    1. Hybrid automobiles have always been mass produced.
>>
>>    2. Google has always been there, in its founding words, "to organize  
>> the
>>    world's information and make it universally accessible."
>>
>>    3. They have never licked a postage stamp.
>>
>
> I checked out the URL and it's a half decent list.  Lots of other
> relevant things still apply.  This generation hasn't ever come close to
> needing to wind up a cassette tape's innards with a pencil, for example.
>
> A generation for which Google has always existed is sort of scary
> though, if you think about it.  It's also a generation that knows
> nothing of Apple pre OS 7 and those cute, colored iMacs that heralded
> Steve Jobs' return to Apple and the beginning of a reversal of Apple's
> fortunes that continues to this day with Apple's astounding market cap.
>
> Was thinking too, this was a generation for whom the public library is a
> bit of a quaint anachronism that remains a hairsbreadth away from
> getting defunded ("and who cares? It's all on the internet anyway, blah
> balh blah").
>
> 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 ...
>
> Bah, humbug.  I'm too young to be this curmudgeonly :)

I'm not!

-- 
Bah, and indeed, Humbug

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