Things-babies-born-in-2011-will-never-know(finance.yahoo.com)
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Amusing and probably fairly accurate, although I will take exception with the "maps" part. If I was disappearing off into the wilderness I would not trust a phone I had to charge and a GPS signal I might not get to ensure I didn't perish. No I think a paper map will always be a necessity for a proper adventure.
"Wires" is flat-out wrong, unless there's a radical, radical breakthrough which makes Shannon's channel capacity irrelevant. Oh, and lets us transmit a lot of power wirelessly.
"Disappearing off into the wilderness" is something that babies born in 2011 will never know.
"Hand-written letters: For that matter, hand-written anything. When was the last time you wrote cursive? In fact, do you even know what the word "cursive" means? Kids born in 2011 won't -- but they'll put you to shame on a tiny keyboard."
My favorite gifts all have handwriting on them from the person who gave it to me. There's just something personal about getting something with someone's handwriting on it.
Additionally, notes. They need to be hand-written. Yes, there are some classes where this works, but for most math classes? No. For any physics (which is just applied math), you need to take handwritten notes.
This is the first, and hopefully only, time that I ever see anyone declare that "handwriting will die".
My favorite gifts all have handwriting on them from the person who gave it to me. There's just something personal about getting something with someone's handwriting on it.
Additionally, notes. They need to be hand-written. Yes, there are some classes where this works, but for most math classes? No. For any physics (which is just applied math), you need to take handwritten notes.
This is the first, and hopefully only, time that I ever see anyone declare that "handwriting will die".
I don't know about anyone else, but, I like wearing a watch. When I need to know what time it is and look at my watch, I don't get distracted. When I need to know what time it is and look at my phone, I wind up playing Angry Birds for 10 minutes.
And it feels slightly less rude to glance at my watch during a meeting than it does to pull out my phone to look at the time. Still rude, but, slightly less so.
One picture to a frame ...
There's something comforting about having that one family photo on the shelf, where if you need a break, you can just look over for a minute and see everyone. You know whats there - you picked it!
Commercial music radio: Smartphones with music-streaming programs like Pandora are a better solution that doesn't include ads screaming between every song.
I pay for Sirius radio. Sure, I could listen to Pandora or Last.fm, but, sometimes its nice to have a DJ ramble about some band and how they used to be so much better or whatever. I like it when they'll interrupt a string of popular songs and play something different just because they felt like it. I can't be alone in that feeling.