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Beloit College Mindset: Tech Highlights
May 22, 2007 |
The items on Beloit College’s yearly “Mindset List” can be seen as humorous as well as a profoundly interesting time capsule. Either way, the social and cultural ramifications of the technological advances implied on their 2010 list are a testament to changes that are affecting all aspects of our daily existence. The following list suggests 10 paradigm shifts that college students in the 2010 graduating class never had to make.
- They have never heard anyone actually “ring it up” on a cash register.
- They are wireless, yet always connected.
- They grew up with and have outgrown faxing as a means of communication.
- “Google” has always been a verb.
- Text messaging is their email.
- Bar codes have always been on everything, from library cards and snail mail to retail items.
- Carbon copies are oddities found in their grandparents’ attics.
- They have always had access to their own credit cards.
- Bad behavior has always been getting captured on amateur videos.
- Television stations have never concluded the broadcast day with the national anthem.
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