And these books are recent enough that they probably can be updated to not chase away younger kids. (There are of course always some younger kids who can read historical novels perfectly happily, and some number who can actually get to "historical SF and fantasy"; but not so many.)
Thinking back through my life, things didn't change "much" for the first 35 or so years; until the hand-held cell phone and then the public internet hit. Then things changed pretty fast for a while, and are continuing to do so. And actually, it takes intellectual analysis for me to understand how much the cell phone changes things; while I've had one since, oh, about 1991, it hasn't drastically changed MY life until it started being mobile Internet too (about three phones ago now). The huge improvements in cars haven't really changed that much in how people act; the huge improvements in airplanes, ditto. The huge improvements in computers behind the scenes have changed my work, but not my life really until the public Internet hit (well, maybe earlier, everybody I knew in Massachusetts was accessible via DECnet email in the early 1980s).
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Date: 2011-05-30 11:13 pm (UTC)Thinking back through my life, things didn't change "much" for the first 35 or so years; until the hand-held cell phone and then the public internet hit. Then things changed pretty fast for a while, and are continuing to do so. And actually, it takes intellectual analysis for me to understand how much the cell phone changes things; while I've had one since, oh, about 1991, it hasn't drastically changed MY life until it started being mobile Internet too (about three phones ago now). The huge improvements in cars haven't really changed that much in how people act; the huge improvements in airplanes, ditto. The huge improvements in computers behind the scenes have changed my work, but not my life really until the public Internet hit (well, maybe earlier, everybody I knew in Massachusetts was accessible via DECnet email in the early 1980s).