{"id":2421,"date":"2011-07-25T03:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miridiatech.com\/news\/?p=2421"},"modified":"2018-05-23T05:27:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T11:27:45","slug":"the-future-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miridiatech.com\/news\/2011\/07\/the-future-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future is HERE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, my eight years old asked me what the word population<\/em> meant. I used the same answer that my mom gave me when I was a kid:\u00a0 \u201cGo and look it up in a dictionary.\u201d She looked at me funny and then asked:\u00a0 \u201cWhat is a dictionary?\u201d I shook my head and showed her an old dictionary on the bookshelf. She then asked if she could just use the computer to look it up on Google. Sometimes I am jealous of my kids. They live in a world with digital cameras, cell phones, text messaging, Google, iPad, and laptop computers. They can pull together a term paper in a fraction of the time it took me. Why? Because the resources they have at their fingertips are just amazing!<\/p>\n

I loved being a college student, and I\u2019ll have to admit that I was a TCM nerd. My books became worn and ragged because I would spend hours studying. I have boxes of handwritten notes tucked away in the garage, files and files of notes on my computer from lectures, and textbooks filled with handwritten notes in the margins. \u00a0I hold onto these notes because they are filled with valuable information\u2014but I don\u2019t have access to them when I need them in my clinic.<\/p>\n