Before the internet...
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- Jaline0
Well, nothing can replace a book, but the internet is quite amazing. I got my first email account in 1999 (I was about 13) when Hotmail was getting really huge. My little sister got her first email address when she was 10 or 11. Now they have little cellphones for kids as young as 6 years old. It's crazy.
"The printed page is obsolete. Information isn't bound up anymore. It's an
entity. The only reality is virtual. If you're not jacked in, you're not alive.""Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower or a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell. Musty and, and, and, and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer, is, it ... it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible, it should be, um... smelly."