Watching GenZ/Millennials play an old Trivial Pursuit deck in a bar is a source of unending amusement. "Where is the Sea of Tranquility?" "Vietnam!" "Thailand!"
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Now that you mention it, that generation also seems perpetually bored.
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I’m just also old enough to remember books and librarians, but also a millennial *shrug*
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Well, then you'd probably concede that things have changed in a pretty big way whose repercussions we can only dimly perceive now.
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Yeah I definitely think things have changed, but I also think people overplay the generational changes and underplay the speed at which technology has changed within each generation.
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Sure. The generations are these artificially-defined boundaries that are kind of fake. But still...I think the big jump is between analog, offline culture and "I'm a cyborg wedded to my phone". And most everyone is kind of one or the other these days.
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I hate twitter because this is interesting but I feel like I need to think about it more but this conversation will disappear in ten minutes.
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Ain't that the truth? And typical of our bizarre and unsettling age.
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A co-worker said YouTube fixed his chronic back pain, which had bothered him for decades and none of the medical professionals he tried worked.
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People who grew up with books are so so ready to believe the Nazis were Socialists these days even though every text book I read in the mid 90s clearly identified them as far right Ultras.
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Book based upbringing gave us the pervasive belief that medieval Europeans believed the earth to be flat, and that Orson Welles war of the worlds radio theater caused widespread panic when it first aired.
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Among other much more subtle misconceptions such as the military genius and moral worth of men like Winston Churchill. The problem of functional illiteracy becomes grave in the age of cheap media outreach, but it long precedes this time and it certainly wasn't cause by it .
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(oh, and of course, "the protocols". Another pervasive lie that has caused millions of deaths, predates TV and radio)
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cool story bro
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Internet has made everyone a know-it-all .. I can google while you’re asking and make it sound like no big deal. No context, no culture, no stories around the tidbit.
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Now we get to search on
@google@bing@yahoo and get information that has been put through a@thedemocrats filter. So the#truth shall not be knownThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The game came out 8 years before the Berlin Wall fell
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Nothing in technology has freed me of the need for mechanics
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Yeah, today really is awesome. The entire wealth of human achievement is in my pocket at all times, I effectively “know” everything that humans know or have known!
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