Have you ever had a favorite local restaurant change its ownership and name, yet you continue to call it by its original moniker years later? Or have you ever known someone since your school years and two marriages later still think of her by her maiden name? And in my top example of this occurrence, has your CBS and NBC channels switched after the first 30 years of your life? Twenty plus years later I have to consciously recite to myself their old assignments then reverse them to get to the “newly” designated numbers.
Why is it, in a fast-paced, ever-changing, technological world where old dogs do learn new tricks is there some data we do not update? Is it nostalgia? Stubbornness? Habit? Brain flatulence?
Whatever the reason the most important thing is to be able to communicate to others the what, who and where in present terms. It’s okay to think in the past, but not to live in it.
