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Article #625637Re: The extinct tech you forgot existed
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 19:11
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 19:11
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On 8/18/2018 1:19 AM, Jorgen Grahn wrote: > On Fri, 2018-08-17, Andreas Kohlbach wrote: >> In this >> <http://www.bbc.com/future/gallery/20180816-do-you-recognise-these-obsolete-technologies> > > I wish web servers would accept <http://www.bbc.com/future/gallery/20180816> > and show an overview of the content for that day. > >> BBC article children in the UK between six and 18 years were asked >> if they'd recognize ancient technologies like floppy disks or rotary >> phones. Suppose results in the rest of the world would had been >> similar. > > That slide show would have been much more interesting if they had > analyzed the reactions from the children, beyond "40% drew a blank" > or "85% were baffled". Surely the children speculated based on their > knowledge, and came up with some interesting facts and theories. > Learning and knowledge of the past is deprecated these days... the kids just thought how stupid older people were ... to use such things! IMO -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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