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On Sat, 2018-08-18, Charles Richmond wrote:
> 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

My point is that's what we're /meant/ to believe, and I'm not at all
sure it's true.  I think it's just a meme created as some kind of
neurotic reaction by people who are uncomfortable with today's
technology.

If it's true, and today's kids indeed lack curiosity, then we're in
big trouble.

I visited a second-hand shop last weekend.  A man in his thirties was
there with his son, who looked ten.  One of them -- I think it was the
boy -- got interested in a cassette radio, and they ended up buying
it.  When I left the shop they were still discussing the availability
of cassettes, and how you could tape over the write-protect hole ...

/Jorgen

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