Thursday Thirteen 257: Beloit Mindset List 2012

Beloit College has released their annual "mindset" list. The class of 2016 was born in 1994. Here is a peek at some of the 75 items on the list:


-- They have always lived in cyberspace, addicted to a new generation of "electronic narcotics."

-- Michael Jackson’s family, not the Kennedys, constitutes "American Royalty."

-- They have never seen an airplane "ticket."

-- For most of their lives, maintaining relations between the U.S. and the rest of the world has been a woman’s job in the State Department.

-- Their folks have never gazed with pride on a new set of bound encyclopedias on the bookshelf.

-- The Green Bay Packers have always celebrated with the Lambeau Leap. (I did not add this one—it really is on the list!)

-- A significant percentage of them will enter college already displaying some hearing loss.

-- Women have always piloted war planes and space shuttles.

-- Having made the acquaintance of Furby at an early age, they have expected their toy friends to do ever more unpredictable things.

-- Outdated icons with images of floppy discs for "save," a telephone for "phone," and a snail mail envelope for "mail" have oddly decorated their tablets and smart phone screens.

-- Star Wars has always been just a film, not a defense strategy.

-- Gene therapy has always been an available treatment.

-- The Twilight Zone involves vampires, not Rod Serling.


Ah, heck—here are a few more, just for fun:

-- They watch television everywhere but on a television.

-- Point-and-shoot cameras are soooooo last millennium.

-- Despite being preferred urban gathering places, two-thirds of the independent bookstores in the United States have closed for good during their lifetimes.

-- Genomes of living things have always been sequenced.



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