In the personal landscape department, I was interested to read an article in the most recent AARP newsletter about what today’s college freshman sees as his or her own personal landscape.
The article noted that today’s freshmen don’t view the world in terms of Vietnam and Watergate like we did. Their world is framed instead by 911 and Afghanistan.
They cannot remember a world without computers or, in fact, a computer that doesn’t use CD Rom disks instead of floppy disks.
Few of them know what cursive writing is and have never seen a carousel of Kodachrome slides (remember that song "Kodachrome" by Paul Simon in 1973?). They also don’t remember hard line phones with a coiled handset.
To them, Clint Eastwood is a sensitive film director, not the “Dirty Harry” character we remember in his films.
College professors be warned and be aware. Here comes the next generation.
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