The amount of information at my fingertips (literally) is mind boggling. I used to read Worldbook encyclopedias when I was a kid (mostly at school). A set cos

The amount of information at my fingertips (literally) is mind boggling. I used to read Worldbook encyclopedias when I was a kid (mostly at school). A set costs hundreds of dollars... and is eclipsed by Wikipedia + google. I used to collect cast-off databooks (National Instruments, TI, Motorola, Intel, etc.), now all that information and more is only a google search away. I used to buy ARRL Handbooks to learn about electronics and circuits. Now I mostly don't bother (just kidding, I still dabble in electronics, but gave up my Ham license many years ago - just wasn't interested in talking to random strangers). Hmmm, now I type text to random strangers and browse random strangers' blogs. I used to subscribe to magazines (e.g. Byte, Dr. Dobbs) to learn about computers and software, now I run, read, and contribute to Open Source projects. You know how you always forget the bad stuff and only remember the good stuff? Looking back, I remember a lot of cool things I did, but I kind of blank out how much effort it was to find the necessary information. On the dark side, I waste a lot of time on the internet. One of our kids did a clay "diorama" of "this is my family." Someone else's kid had their family around a campfire. My kid had the family in the living room, me with a little clay laptop on my lap. Oh-oh.