What is an encyclopedia?

[radiantquest]

My 15 yr old step daughter asked this in the car the other day. My answer was "Google in a book"

My best friends daughter asked what a record is.

I also remember seeing a picture of a cassette tape and a pencil with a caption saying "anyone born after 1992 will have no idea what the correlation is"

Just makes me wonder what else the younger generation doesn't know of or understand. I at least know what an 8 Track is!

 

[kenny]

Tell her she sounds like a broken record and tell us what her facial expression is.

 

[Fly Girl]

We still have a dial phone I use to receive calls in the basement. For years it was fun watching DS's friends trying to dial out on it. Last call I took down there it was an automated system trying to set the time for a delivery of my furniture, and I couldn't beep an answer, so I didn't get my delivery. Grrrrr!

We still dial a phone number, rather than beep it, don't we?

 

[kenny]

That reminds me.
After 250 years of printing the Encyclopidia Britanica is no longer going to print the books after the existing stock is sold out.
The last set of ever to be printed are still for sale at $1,395.

I was considering buying a set just keep as a collector's item/investment, and not even opening the boxes.

Do you think it would be a waste of $1400 or might an untouched final 32-volume set in original packaging be worth much more than that in 30 years?


http://store.britannica.com/products/ecm001en0?gclid=CLW_6N_aiq8CFSQZQgod0zMH9w

 

[amc80]

That reminds me.
After 240 years of printing the Encyclopidia Britanica is ceasing printing the books.
The last set of ever to be printed are still for sale at $1395.
I was considering buying a set and not opening the boxes to just keep as a collector's item/investment.

Do you think it would be a waste of $1400 or worth much more than that in 30 years?


http://store.britannica.com/products/ecm001en0?gclid=CLW_6N_aiq8CFSQZQgod0zMH9w

Whether or not it goes up in value, it would still be a neat thing to have. I'd buy a set if I had the money.

 

[kenny]

That reminds me.
After 240 years of printing the Encyclopidia Britanica is ceasing printing the books.
The last set of ever to be printed are still for sale at $1395.
I was considering buying a set and not opening the boxes to just keep as a collector's item/investment.

Do you think it would be a waste of $1400 or worth much more than that in 30 years?


http://store.britannica.com/products/ecm001en0?gclid=CLW_6N_aiq8CFSQZQgod0zMH9w

Whether or not it goes up in value, it would still be a neat thing to have. I'd buy a set if I had the money.

Yes, I love Google, but there's still something magic about a book, a real book.

 

[TravelingGal]

That reminds me.
After 240 years of printing the Encyclopidia Britanica is ceasing printing the books.
The last set of ever to be printed are still for sale at $1395.
I was considering buying a set and not opening the boxes to just keep as a collector's item/investment.

Do you think it would be a waste of $1400 or worth much more than that in 30 years?


http://store.britannica.com/products/ecm001en0?gclid=CLW_6N_aiq8CFSQZQgod0zMH9w

Whether or not it goes up in value, it would still be a neat thing to have. I'd buy a set if I had the money.

Yes, I love Google, but there's still something magic about a book, a real book.

Yeah, but how many times as a kid did you rely on the encyclopedia for something and they didn't have an article on it? No such thing with Google!

I still remember how awesome it was when call waiting came in. I no longer had to kill my brother for tying up the phone lines when I knew my friends were going to call. Kids these days would have no idea what an "emergency breakthrough" is. In fact, when was the last time anyone had to talk to an operator? Do they even HAVE operators anymore?

 

[radiantquest]

I think news about Britannica not printing anymore is the only time she has ever heard the word Encyclopedia. Where do they think name Wikipedia came from?

As a side note I learned today that when they came up with area codes, big cities where given their choice first and that is why major cities of today have numbers like 212 and 215 because they were quick to dial on rotary phones.

I think you should buy it if you have the $. It would be neat to have. I really hope that books become valuable and not just obsolete.

I remember being young and asking my mother how to spell something and she would tell me to look it up in the dictionary. Which never made sense to me because how was I supposed to find it if I couldn't spell it, but it worked out. Kids today have autocorrect and such. They will never learn to spell a damn thing.

 

[Sha]

Children today probably don't know anything about film cameras either. Nothing about having to wait till the pics are developed to see them, not being able to 'erase' a photo that you don't like, etc. -

 

[mary poppins]

Polaroid cameras and film!

Manually rolling car windows up and down.

Going inside the bank during bank hours to conduct transactions. On that note, having to plan in advance to get cash during restricted hours.

 

[distracts]

Children today probably don't know anything about film cameras either. Nothing about having to wait till the pics are developed to see them, not being able to 'erase' a photo that you don't like, etc. -

I remember when I got my first camera and had to buy film with my own money - I only ever had like 24 or so pictures from any given vacation so I had to be real stingy with what I took pictures of. They were all either carefully posed or else landscapes, because I couldn't risk anything not being right. I only have about 40 total pictures of my cat from the 11 years I had him. I take about 40 pictures of my current pets a week. And take on average about 400 pictures on a week-long vacation. I really like that I can just snap away and if someone makes a weird face in a picture or a car zooms by or whatever, I can retake it without issue. And I can play with the framing and take several different shots of the same thing in different ways to see which one I like best. I never ever did that with my film camera!

I am also really glad that in order to alter my pictures, I just need photoshop, and not a darkroom. When I was in middle school I tried to take a photography class but the dark room chemicals made me faint. A friend of mine is film photographer and his dark room makes me faint too... So digital photography allows me to get some of the same effects that I'd never be able to otherwise due to faintyness.

 

[zoebartlett]

I teach 2nd grade and I'm always amazed at how much my kids know about the internet and computers in general, and then I remind myself that it's because it's all they know. I can't imagine doing my job without Google, getting ideas from teacher blogs, etc., and I DO remember what life was like before the internet, etc. I'm 38.

I told my class the other day that I didn't want to sound like a broken record but they need to read directions carefully and put their name on their paper all the time. This is nothing new. We've done it since the first day day of school, and I was getting grumpy. It didn't even occur to me that they might have no idea what I was talking about.