Elk jaar maakt Beloit College een lijst van dingen die de jongeren die nu zullen starten in het (hoger) onderwijs niet meer zullen weten, en waarvan het handig is dat de lesgevers die beseffen. De lijst is zeer Amerikaans, maar enkele voorbeelden van dit jaar:

• Ferris Bueller and Sloane Peterson could be their parents.
• Their school’s “blackboards” have always been getting smarter.
• Amazon has never been just a river in South America.
• Women have never been too old to have children.
• Life has always been like a box of chocolates.
• They’ve always gone to school with Mohammed and Jesus.
• The Communist Party has never been the official political party in Russia.
• Music has always been available via free downloads.
• Electric cars have always been humming in relative silence on the road.
• While they’ve been playing outside, their parents have always worried about nasty new bugs borne by birds and mosquitoes.
• Andy Warhol is a museum in Pittsburgh.
• They’ve always had the privilege of talking with a chatterbot.
• Andre the Giant, River Phoenix, Frank Zappa, Arthur Ashe and the Commodore 64 have always been dead.