One day, I tacked up a quote from the "Max Headroom" TV show. The dialogue it was from went like this:
Blank Reg: "Here, take this."
Kid: "What is it?"
Blank Reg: "It's a book."
Kid: "What is it?"
Blank Reg: "It's a non-volatile storage medium. You should have one."
Kid: "Shove off!"
I explained this to a coworker, and after laughing he told a story about how, decades ago, a few folks had made a computerized "repository of all human knowledge". Semi-recently, some folks tried to read the data on this massive storage device; technology had advanced and changed so much... they couldn't. However, we can still read "ancient books" like the Gutenberg bible.
Note: The Gutenberg bible was just an example of a really old book; religion was incidental at best.
Blank Reg: "Here, take this." Kid: "What is it?" Blank Reg: "It's a book." Kid: "What is it?" Blank Reg: "It's a non-volatile storage medium. You should have one." Kid: "Shove off!"
I explained this to a coworker, and after laughing he told a story about how, decades ago, a few folks had made a computerized "repository of all human knowledge". Semi-recently, some folks tried to read the data on this massive storage device; technology had advanced and changed so much... they couldn't. However, we can still read "ancient books" like the Gutenberg bible.
Note: The Gutenberg bible was just an example of a really old book; religion was incidental at best.