"What country is the Black Forest in?" Nobody knows. Reads answer: "West Germany." "This game is really old." "Must be from before Gorbachev," as if we're talking about Jesus Christ.
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Before everyone @'s me, I get it, education isn't really about knowing things anymore, and trivia games in a Google Age are pointless. They've adapted to their environment. It's an interesting question though what happens when humans don't really know anything factual anymore.
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I'm old enough to remember a time when if you wanted to know about a thing, you either found someone who did, or found a book about it, both of which could be rare. Entire jobs--teacher, mechanic, scholar/experts of various flavors--existed only because Wiki and YouTube didn't
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Replying to @LessThanLiz
Now that you mention it, that generation also seems perpetually bored.
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Replying to @antoniogm
I’m just also old enough to remember books and librarians, but also a millennial *shrug*
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Replying to @LessThanLiz
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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Replying to @antoniogm
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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Replying to @LessThanLiz
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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