They depend instead on expensive slates. Students depend on paper too much. They no longer know how to write on a slate without getting dust all over themselves. Students depend too much upon ink. They no longer know how to use a knife to sharpen a pencil.
Students depend too much on store bought ink.
You give the birthday kid a Saturn, made by Sega, the gamemaker. It runs on a higher-performance processor than the original 1976 Cray supercomputer. Today s average consumers wear more computing power on their wrists than existed in the entire world before 1961. In 1991, companies spent more money on computing and communications gear than the combined monies spent on industrial, mining, farm, and construction equipment. I very much doubt that we re the only family on the block without a Web page.