Reply #82: Its who I have access to...

[ProgressiveProfessor]

Its UC, not Radcliff or Yale. Not sure of their general economic backgrounds, but the class was far from lily white.

The conclusion I am coming to is that the current college generation (like many generations) has the common human failing of not being able to conceptualize of things outside their immediate experience. They have always had ID and can not imagine not having it. Not sure what would happen if they lost instant comms...but it would certainly rock their world. You should hear the whinning when they are in a class where the tools have no GUI, and life revolves around a line editor.

One of the things I have researched and track is the effect of technology on social evolution. This is a reflection of that. The results in the third world are more dramatic, but they still occur here as well.