Library Card Catalogs

 

I just thought about library card catalogs.  It’s pretty wild to reflect on the fact that when I was young, we had to go to libraries if we needed or wanted to find information about anything.  Then we had to look in card catalogs to see what books or other resources were available at the library.  This seems incredibly primitive in comparison to the way things are now.  I don’t know what’s more crazy.  The seeming primitiveness of the way things were when I was young, or the level of technology that now exists just a few decades later.  

Could things really be so different within a single lifetime?!!  I know I have reflected on this before and I feel convinced that surely there must not have never been any other time in the history and evolution of humanity when things changed so quickly in such a short span of time.  Okay maybe except for the people during whose lifetime they figured out how to create fire.  I can imagine this was pretty huge also to those who experienced it. 🔥 It gave them heat and light in the dark and a way of cooking food.