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If your argument is that some people want to keep doing things the way they've always done them, then yes, of course that's true. What's *not* true is that the rest of us have to sit and watch them stagnate. Shari |
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Just a Yellow Smiley.
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I know 75 year olds that like ereaders and I know 25 year olds that prefer books. So it all depends on the person. Oh and in the old days, you recorded your music off the radio onto 8-tracks and later cassettes. You always hoped the DJ didn't talk over the first of the song. |
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Well trained by Cats
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I get Skype calls from my 90 YO Aunt. Not one (or e-mail) from any of my Cousins
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Well trained by Cats
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Phono records: (before 2000) Mono, Stereo (You could not play Stereo Discs on olderplayers equipped with Mono cartridges, the disk would be damaged because the needle would not move in the Stereo V Tape: Speed (rounded): 78, 33, 45, 16 <<used for audio books QUAD decoder: SQ, QS, CD4 Vehicle: Video: NTSC, PAL, Secam (for other than film)Muntz, 8-track, compact cassette Home: (1/4") Mono, Stereo half track, Stereo Quarter Track, Quad 4-track Portable : 8-Track Cassette 3-5" Open Reel Cassette Film 16mm, 8mm, super8 And if you Traveled out of country, you needed to worry if your equipment handled 50 or 60 Hz (pulley/shaft kits) and a wide range of voltages (same plugs as today)Tape: VHS, Beta, HiFi VHS, 8mm (?consumer releases?) Disc: Laser, RCA (CED), DVD Simpler... No Way |
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Just a Yellow Smiley.
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We all forgot the old reel to reels.
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My 25-year-old niece, who has Angelman Syndrome and is not verbal, has never shown any interest in print books beyond throwing them. She was given a sturdy children's Kindle Fire for Christmas last year, and we are astounded at the way she relates to it. Despite poor motor control, she quickly learned how to find and play movies. She can turn the pages of ebooks by swiping, and she studies the pictures. She has never shown the slightest interest in turning the pages of a print book, probably because it is difficult for her. She won't allow anyone else to touch her tablet, nor does she need anyone's help. She finds and listens to her own music and will even listen to an audible book for short periods if the reader is animated.
That Kindle Fire has opened the world to her as no print book ever could. She sleeps with it and clutches it throughout the day. Now she has a duplicate tablet since charging it was a nightmare. This is a bit off topic, but I think it's important to suggest that perhaps young children also may relate to print and tablets in different ways and that both can be important to their development. |
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Indeed. Make them both available. Let them develop their own affinity for one or the other (or both).
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How many "grandmas" do you know? All of my parents and parents-in-law use ereaders, and they're doing just fine thankyouverymuch.
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The exception is one man (82 at the moment) who got into computers in the 80's. Maybe it's different in other places, but over here, in the south of the Netherlands, the one generalization I can safely make is that if (now elderly) people didn't get into technology in the 80's or 90's, at least at the basic level, they're having problems now. Some of them go as far as unable to use an ATM-machine, and they've been around here since 1984 (IIRC). |
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Maybe the older folks you know are just technology declined.
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Most of the smartest techy/geekish people I know are women older than 50. So I'm really sick of "grandma" or "your aunt" or "your mum" being held up as the somehow obvious example of someone who must be ignorant and terrified of technology. |
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I got read to by my father, the other half and I read to our daughter. I would read to any child, but would probably prefer a sturdy printed book to a device for a toddler. Older child, either one, but unless device really shows pictures and colors ----
Say to them "where is the cat" and they rather exuberantly swat the page. I don't think a beaten on, jellied type of treat smeared all over the screen as a necessity. |
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