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In a way it is scary to see what is happening to the youngest generation who are exposed to all of the modern devices without any background explaining what processes the devices replaced and the problems they solved. Brings to mind some of Asimov's short stories.
Dave.
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Scary? Not realy.
My grandparents likely went through the same with widespread electric lighting - flick the switch and there you are, just ignore the power stations and distribution systems behind it all.
My parents the same with the widespread car ownership.
Ourselves TV probably.
The 20~30 group today expect (and get) a level of communications that would have required miracles and unbelievably deep pockets when I was their age.
The access to computing that the toddlers of today have will bring forth it's own future: hopefully we will understand enough of it to cope!
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For one reference, see Asimov's "Profession" in the book "Nine Tomorrows". I know there is another one. but I'm still looking for it.
Dave.
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Well, I certainly need to reread some Asimov. He had some brains.
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Still hunting for the other story. As I remember it, the title did not give away the plot, I just have to hunt and maybe the story title will strike a chord... Still faster on line than my 3 bookshelves of his books.
Dave.
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Found it! "The Feeling of Power"
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I don't remember who said it anymore, but everything you learn before the age of fifteen is natural.
Between 15 and 35ish, it's new and exciting. And when you're above 35 (give or take) it's scary and threatening and needs to be forbidden, alternatively regulated.
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Children are awesome and never cease to amaze me at the things they absorb and are able to comprehend.
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He has me knowingly never seen a map before, but he got the concept in a second and told me which road to take. And was correct. 
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Amazing a Cartographer in the making? 
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You spend a year teaching them to talk and a life time teaching them to stop - my dad.
Ger
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My dads version was slightly longer.
You spend the first year with teaching them to talk and walk, and the rest of your life to shut up and sit still.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: How probable is that on a scale?
I would say a lot based on my experience with my kids. My older daughter is 10 years old, the twins (boy and girl) 4 and a half, my wife 34 and I'm 47 years old. You have no idea how many times I have been surprised/amazed by all of them (it's the age variety supporting it). What I do is to accept their signals for what they really like, and the way they understand and interpret information, and believe it or not I'm learning a lot.
A small story to let you know what I mean. My son loves CARS (Disney cartoons) and last year he asked to play online games with McQueen and other heroes from the movies. I found a few on Disney website and he started playing with Luigi who supposed to collect as many tires as possible from the ones they fall from a roof. The first three times he was doing nothing than looking carefully the tires falling. Then he played three more times trying to place Luigi at the (one and only) best possible position without moving him left and right during the game. The third try was the last time he played that game by making a score that my daughters and my wife could not break. Personally I was shocked because first of all I caught my self using his findings (for a really relaxed play) by adding a few left and right moves to make a slightly better score, and then when I helped him to compare our scores he told me that I made a lot of effort for "a not big deal" difference!!!
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When my oldest son was learning to talk, he did the usual "dog", "cat", "Mom", "Dad" etc. but one of his first 50 words was "California", which he said perfectly.
...needless to say, better than Arnold.
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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H.Brydon wrote: ...needless to say, better than Arnold.
Oooooh!!! So this is what Arnold was trying to say. I thought it was CONANian.
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My granddaughter ( will be 3 in January) and I have identical Android tablets (something I find very amusing). A couple of weeks ago when we were visiting, she grabbed mine. Couldn't find her ABC-TV viewer app on the menu screen. No problem to her, she just went into the Google store, got it and started playing her favourite Peppa Pig. wte? Her grandma can't even turn it on (or swipe to scroll when I show her a long page on it).
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Seems like a waste of perfectly good vodka!
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Loads of text messages have been sent with vodka. Most of them "I really still love you, let's get back together" only much worse spelled. And often sent to the wrong person.
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It's like smoke signals but with wasted booze.
I wonder what baud rate they get?
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"The researchers had difficulty in explaining how their concept differs from the old smoke-signals that the native Americans used. Probably because there is no difference, and practical uses seem to be comparable. The conclusion was that more research (and funding) would be required."
Get a elephanting job.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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They have one.
What you have missed is the subtext: They have a job that involves copious testing of booze that is supplied to them for free and expected to disappear during the day...
Now, when I was twenty, that would have been my ideal job! 
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What's age got to do with it? 
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I hardly drink at all these days... 
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