My neighbor three doors down the street died. Nice lady, always walked her dog and we’d wave at each other. No spouse or kids, apparently. Her siblings put everything in the house up for sale. I went in, looking for bookshelves - my kids and I prefer sliced trees, even as my wife prefers glass rectangles, to read from. One of the items that caught my eye was a gazetteer. You don’t see these much anymore, but it’s a paper book of every single road in a state. Doing archaeology for a decade, even post smarty pants phones, we used these as the canonical record of random county roads. I don’t know why she had a gazetteer. And I think in a few gas stations and bookstores you can still find them. But they’re a relic from before Google Maps. It was a sign that my generation is in some ways from a bygone era. It’s kind of a lonely era - we’re the only generation to both remember the world before the internet was in your pocket (or your desk) and also native to the internet. It’s hard to articulate what new generations have lost. The present is 100% better than the past, but there’s certainly trade offs - it’s two steps forward, one step back. That doesn’t make progress a mistake, just that there were certain charms and benefits to the past that kids today miss - like learning to navigate without a GPS, with a paper map and a compass.