ABSTRACT
If you want to scare history teachers, tell them that they will soon be as obsolete as stone wheels. They might rant about the importance of not repeating the past or owning our heritage, and those are valid points. But remind them that forty years ago, a computer that could simply do word processing (like the one resting on my lap right now) or do easy calculations (one of the dozens of functions of the cell phone resting in my pocket) would have taken up an entire room. Before most of us become pieces of history ourselves, denizens of the developed world will walk around with watches or phones that will voice activate on a search for any date, name, or geographic feature.
