jrsone
January 6, 2014, 8:42pm
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I feel that I was the last generation that had to learn that. I went to elementary school beginning in 1990. I grew up with computers but we very much learned things like the card catalog and the manual ways to do everything (including cursive writing!). Computers weren’t doing everything yet, just more of a novelty.
Baker
January 6, 2014, 8:44pm
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Camenwolf:
I do not think that a person’s inability to use a card catalog is an adequate indicator of intelligence. It’s an antiquated system that is seldom used or taught anymore. As another user pointed out, this would be like your grandfather calling you stupid for not knowing how to use a slide rule… also take for example solving basic mathematical functions using logarithms, or navigating using a sextet, or telling time using a sundial, or growing food using three field crop rotation. These things were all fairly common knowledge at one time.
The use of a traditional card catalog is largely deprecated. Just because it was done so in your lifetime doesn’t mean people are stupid because they haven’t learned it. They don’t need to.
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