my favorite Millennial Thingโข is when a group of us are standing around and talking and someone asks a question that no one knows the answer to and suddenly itโs a race to get out your phone and google it and be the first to know, and then someone starts reading the Wikipedia article about the thing aloud to everyone else, and what started as a casual conversation is now A Learning Opportunity and we all walk away a little more knowledgeable about a random topic
Like, Boomers hate when we do that, but I think itโs one of the best things about us.
So long as we have internet or a cell signal, all of the worldโs collective knowledge is at our fingertips, and damned if we arenโt going to use it.
My dad always get mad when I do this. Heโs always like โWe didnโt need to know.โ That makes no sense to me. Why would that make me ignore my ability to learn something? I donโt always *need* to know but that doesnโt mean Iโm going to pass up an opportunity to learn something new.
Why carry a supercomputer around in your pocket if youโre not gonna use it?
