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In reply to the discussion: Are you ever SHOCKED by how butt-ignorant *SOME* young people are? [View all]1monster
(11,045 posts)it was difficult to find information. We had encyclopedias that had an inch or two of information on each subject, and if it wasn't in there, we were screwed because we had to then look in text books, magazines, the card catalog (remember those?) newspapaers, and magazines.
It was easier just to learn and remember things.
Today, we have the Internet and Google. All we have to do to find information is make a few keystrokes and hit "enter" and we are given more information than we could possibly process. It's not as important to remember so much information because it is literally at our finger tips.
Those of us who existed before the Internet, organize our minds and learning differently (but we are changing too!) from the younger ones who have always had reams of information in 0.032 seconds.