Now, there's lots of outdated things in the Criminal Code — in a section on witchcraft, the federal law swears that: "Every one who fraudulently...pretends from his skill in or knowledge of an occult or crafty science to discover where or in what manner anything that is supposed to have been stolen or lost may be found, is guilty of an offence".
Oh, and the store's got a kind of outdated security thing going on, but I think it still works.
I am fascinated by slightly outdated technology, things that are familiar but also far enough away that we can see them clearly.
Like "Pull yourself up by the bootstraps!" Like some outdated Horatio Alger thing.
Too many outdated, bizarr-o things are biblical, and we put them in the box of random things somebody managed to get into the text.
Bad outdated thoughts are one thing; what appears to be state-sanctioned homophobia is quite another.
Aside from the outdated control mechanisms, this thing is surprisingly forward-thinking: it's got modular slots for adding functionality like a robot arm or disk drive, it has pressure-sensitive bumpers and a system for remembering the layout of the room it's in, and a "Polaroid Rangefinder" sonar sensor to aid in navigation.
The whole "Taking Over The World" thing is outdated.
Educating children in the U.S. means engaging issues like poverty and homelessness, racial and ethnic transformations and entrenched, outdated ways of doing things.
