According to The Mindset List for the Class of 2014, put out by Beloit College, the Class of 2014 has emerged as a post-email generation who finds the current digital world and technology too slow. They find e-mail to be so slow that they do not use it, they text instead, they do not wear wrist watches because their smart phone has a clock and would never remember a time where a telephone had a cord.
Each year since 1998 Beloit College has released it’s annual Mindset List which provides a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students, who will enter college in the fall. The Mindset List breaks down the year into a list of 75 items that the class of 2014 may have never experienced in their lives, such as the use of cursive, snail and would never have seen a time that a computer didn't have a CD Rom.
I found the Mindset List fascinating and was wondering what your take on it is?
Do you think the generation of today is ahead of their time, right on target or behind?
Do you think that the technology is too slow for today’s digital world?
Leave your comments below!
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Dr. Laura Schlessinger says in the midst of the controversy surrounding her use of the N-word, that her 1st amendment rights were violated. She gives this as the reason for very publicly quitting her job in talk radio yesterday.
In response to the incident where she used the n-word several times in a conversation with a caller who called in for her assistance, Dr. Laura feels that people are oversensitive to the word and are hate mongers. However, as Larry King reminded Schlessinger, just as she does have a right to say what is on her mind, the public has the right to disagree and be upset.
Do you think that Dr. Schlessinger’s rights were violated? Do you think that she should be able to say whatever is on her mind? Or are there areas that are off limits?
Or, do you feel that she resigned because of the numerous sponsors that have pulled their money from Schlessinger’s show from her repeated use of the word? And that by quitting simple because some people oppose what she says?
Please leave your comments below!
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in Random Thoughts on Feb 12, 2009
You are the bread and the knife,
The crystal goblet and the wine...
-Jacques Crickillon
You are the bread and the knife,
the crystal goblet and the wine.
You are the dew on the morning grass
and the burning wheel of the sun.
You are the white apron of the baker,
and the marsh birds suddenly in flight.
However, you are not the wind in the orchard,
the plums on the counter,
or the house of cards.
And you are certainly not the pine-scented air.
There is just no way that you are the pine-scented air.
