I was a kid pre-Internet. People talk about how we had to go to the library to look something up if it wasn’t in the family encyclopedia, and that’s true, but what they don’t mention as much is that we only did that if we had to or really care. If you were talking with friends and someone said “I swear that’s the same crow that hung around here years ago - I wonder how long they live,” in all likelihood you’d all look at each other, shrug, and then go skateboarding. If someone said, “I don’t know, let’s ride our bikes to the library and look it up!” you’d probably laugh at him.
So one of the cool things to me is that, if that comes up today, someone is going to pull out their phone and say, “Oh, it could be: they typically live 7 to 8 years in the wild, and they can live up to 30” and now we all know this cool crow fact.
I was a kid pre-Internet. People talk about how we had to go to the library to look something up if it wasn’t in the family encyclopedia, and that’s true, but what they don’t mention as much is that we only did that if we had to or really care. If you were talking with friends and someone said “I swear that’s the same crow that hung around here years ago - I wonder how long they live,” in all likelihood you’d all look at each other, shrug, and then go skateboarding. If someone said, “I don’t know, let’s ride our bikes to the library and look it up!” you’d probably laugh at him.
So one of the cool things to me is that, if that comes up today, someone is going to pull out their phone and say, “Oh, it could be: they typically live 7 to 8 years in the wild, and they can live up to 30” and now we all know this cool crow fact.