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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I went to 11 different schools in my lifetime. Not one had internet. Heck they did not have air conditioning either. I guess it is impossible that I received and education and learned anything.

Times are different.

When I went to school, calculators were mostly not allowed in my various math classes. In the few cases where calculators were allowed, they absolutely could NOT be graphing calculators. When my kids went to school they were REQUIRED to have graphing calculators.

Many years ago, probably 21, I was interviewing a guy that was trying to get a job at "Western Digital" the hard disk manufacturer. At one point, we asked him how he would deal with stress if the Internet connectivity for the corporate HQ was down and/or there was no email and the execs were breathing down his neck. His response was something like "10 years ago, they didn't have Internet or email and they managed to do business."

Just because things were different in the past, doesn't mean that we suddenly want to have the world without cars or mass transport or indoor plumbing or electricity.

Surely you don't want to go back to carving stone tablets or writing in clay the way you did when you were young.