Every year Beloit College prepares the Mindset List, which provides the worldview of the incoming freshmen. Most of those freshmen were born in 1990, which rather blows my mind, and they will graduate college (ideally) in 2012. The mindset list is almost freakish – I can’t believe some of these references.
The list is great at making you feel old, but it’s also fantastic for looking at those folks who will be your employees in about 4 years or so. From that perspective, a mindset list isn’t a bad idea. There are 60 items on the list; I thought I’d share just a couple.
4. GPS satellite navigation systems have always been available.
17. Club Med resorts have always been places to take the whole family.
18. WWW has never stood for World Wide Wrestling.
22. Clarence Thomas has always sat on the Supreme Court.
28. IBM has never made typewriters.
33. The Tonight Show has always been hosted by Jay Leno and started at 11:35 EST.
34. Pee-Wee has never been in his playhouse during the day.
51. The Windows 3.0 operating system made IBM PCs user-friendly the year they were born.
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