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First published in Saturday newspapers under the ''Magazine/BoysAndGirlsPage'' (1 December 1951) by the Newspaper Enterprise Association and written by Creator/IsaacAsimov, this ShortStory is about two children playing with an ancient artifact; a book. [[https://newspaperarchive.com/brainerd-daily-dispatch-dec-01-1951-p-5/ Archived newspaper from 1951 December 1.]]
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First published in Saturday newspapers under the ''Magazine/BoysAndGirlsPage'' (1 December 1951) by the Newspaper Enterprise Association and written by Creator/IsaacAsimov, this ShortStory is about two children playing with an ancient artifact; AncientArtifact; a book. [[https://newspaperarchive.com/brainerd-daily-dispatch-dec-01-1951-p-5/ Archived newspaper from 1951 December 1.]]
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* OrwellianRetcon: When it was printed in newspapers (in 1951) and ''Magazine/TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction'' (in 1954), Margie's diary said May 17, 2155 but Dr Asimov changed the date to 2157 when it was published in ''Literature/EarthIsRoomEnough'', making it [[ExtyYearsFromNow exactly 200 years in the future]].
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* OrwellianRetcon: When it was printed in newspapers (in 1951) and ''Magazine/TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction'' (in 1954), Margie's diary said May 17, 2155 but Dr Asimov changed the date to 2157 when it was published in ''Literature/EarthIsRoomEnough'', making it [[ExtyYearsFromNow [[ExtyYearsFromPublication exactly 200 years in the future]].
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* ExtyYearsFromNow: When it was republished in ''Literature/EarthIsRoomEnough'' (first published in 1957), Dr Asimov took the opportunity to make sure the story took place 200 years from publication.
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First published in Saturday newspapers under the ''BoysAndGirlsPage'' ''Magazine/BoysAndGirlsPage'' (1 December 1951) by the Newspaper Enterprise Association and written by Creator/IsaacAsimov, this ShortStory is about two children playing with an ancient artifact; a book. [[https://newspaperarchive.com/brainerd-daily-dispatch-dec-01-1951-p-5/ Archived newspaper from 1951 December 1.]]
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* AudioAdaptation: Creator/SpokenRealms made an audiobook adaptation in 2014, with Creator/JohnWMichaels as narrator.
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* ZeeRust: The cartoon included in the newspaper with this story showed characters wearing wingtips on every shoe and overly large collars. The story itself contains punch-cards, with the assumption that first grade would teach children how to make the right holes, and black-and-white television. While the idea of individualized education using computers has progressed similar to Dr Asimov's prediction, the idea of homeschooling parents enforcing the same learning hours is laughable.
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* ZeeRust: {{Zeerust}}: The cartoon included in the newspaper with this story showed characters wearing wingtips on every shoe and overly large collars. The story itself contains punch-cards, with the assumption that first grade would teach children how to make the right holes, and black-and-white television. While the idea of individualized education using computers has progressed similar to Dr Asimov's prediction, the idea of homeschooling parents enforcing the same learning hours is laughable.
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Margie thinks this idea sounds much better than the [[UsedFuture boring old mechanical teacher]], and [[NostolgiaFilter daydreams about being there]] while doing her schoolwork.
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* FanofthePast: Tommy certainly seems quite knowledgeable about present-day education, despite treating Margie poorly for her lack of information.
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First published in Saturday newspapers under the ''BoysAndGirlsPage'' (1 December 1951) by the Newspaper Enterprise Association and written by Creator/IsaacAsimov, this ShortStory is about two children playing with an ancient artifact; a book. [[https://newspaperarchive.com/brainerd-daily-dispatch-dec-01-1951-p-5/ Archived newspaper from 1951 December 1.]]
In the [[TheFuture year 2157]], two children, Margie and Tommy, take a moment to read an old book. Unlike modern books, this one was printed on yellow paper. The words stayed still, and didn't even change when you flipped the pages! Unlike their telebooks, which contain more than a million stories, books from their grandparent's time only contain one story.
But the really interesting thing was that this book had a story about school back before they had mechanical teachers. Modern teachers are computers installed at home, with different subprograms for each subject. The school in this book is a special building, and all the kids go there while a human teacher teaches a whole group at once.
Margie thinks this idea sounds much better than the [[UsedFuture boring old mechanical teacher]], and [[NostolgiaFilter daydreams about being there]] while doing her schoolwork.
This story has been reprinted over two dozen times, and Creator/IsaacAsimov would include it in several of his collections/anthologies; ''Literature/EarthIsRoomEnough'' (1957), ''Literature/FiftyShortScienceFictionTales'' (1963), ''Literature/TheBestOfIsaacAsimov'' (1973), ''Literature/TheFarEndsOfTimeAndEarth'' (1979), ''Literature/MeineFreundeDieRoboter'' (1982), ''Literature/RaintreeReadingSeries2'' (1982), ''[[Literature/FantasticReadingStoriesAndActivitiesForGrades58 Fantastic Reading: Stories and Activities For Grades 5–8]]'' (1984), ''Literature/TheBestScienceFictionOfIsaacAsimov'' (1986), ''Literature/TheAsimovChroniclesFiftyYearsOfIsaacAsimov'' (1990), and ''Literature/TheCompleteStoriesVolume1'' (1990).
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!!Examples of tropes within this work:
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The story takes place in 2157, but it was first published in December of 1951. Students all have specialized computers that teach them in their homes, rather than going to a specialized education building.
* DramaticIrony: Margie and Tommy demonstrate many contrasts between how TheFuture works and how the present (of the audience) works, as well as between our present and their expectations of our present. The largest bit of irony is the way Margie [[NostalgiaFilter daydreams about]] the way children used to go to school together, [[TitleDrop and the fun they had]]. Ironic because (present-day) kids hated going to school as much as Margie does, even though her school is in her own house.
* ExtyYearsFromNow: When it was republished in ''Literature/EarthIsRoomEnough'' (first published in 1957), Dr Asimov took the opportunity to make sure the story took place 200 years from publication.
* FanofthePast: Tommy certainly seems quite knowledgeable about present-day education, despite treating Margie poorly for her lack of information.
* FeaturelessPlaneOfDisembodiedDialogue: None of the characters (aside from the computer repairman) are given a description, nor the rooms where Margie and Tommy are playing.
* TheFuture: Margie and Tommy, children from the year 2157 (or 2155, depending on [[OrwellianRetcon which version]]), have books on tv, a room in their house with a dedicated computer to be their school, and [[{{Zeerust}} punch-card interfaces]].
* MrExposition: Tommy already knows how present-day schools work, and takes great care to arrogantly explain them to [[TheWatson Margie, who only only knows what schools in the Future are like]]. Ironically, it's her lack of information that makes her provide {{Exposition}} to the audience about TheFuture.
* NoPaperFuture: Margie is fascinated by Tommy's book, partly because it's made of ''paper'' rather than being a modern telebook, which is read from the television.
* NostalgiaFilter: Margie thinks the old way of doing school, where children went to a special building and all learned at the same time, must've been so much more fun than getting individual lessons from a mechanical teacher in her own house.
* OrwellianRetcon: When it was printed in newspapers (in 1951) and ''Magazine/TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction'' (in 1954), Margie's diary said May 17, 2155 but Dr Asimov changed the date to 2157 when it was published in ''Literature/EarthIsRoomEnough'', making it [[ExtyYearsFromNow exactly 200 years in the future]].
* ShoutOut: In the editor's note prefacing the story in ''Magazine/TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction'' (February 1954 issue), they mention ''Literature/BiochemistryAndHumanMetabolism'' as [[MagnumOpus Asimov's opus]], at least by the standards of Boston University.
* TitleDrop: At the very end, the title is used to express Margie's [[NostalgiaFilter nostalgic wish for the way children had fun two hundred years ago]].
* UsedFuture: Repairs and adjustments for the mechanical teachers are a matter of normal business for life in the 22nd century. Kids are wishing for the teachers to be taken away to be fixed rather than snow days.
* TheWatson: Margie's primary purpose in this story is to be the viewpoint character asking questions about the book that describes present-day schools.
* ZeeRust: The cartoon included in the newspaper with this story showed characters wearing wingtips on every shoe and overly large collars. The story itself contains punch-cards, with the assumption that first grade would teach children how to make the right holes, and black-and-white television. While the idea of individualized education using computers has progressed similar to Dr Asimov's prediction, the idea of homeschooling parents enforcing the same learning hours is laughable.
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In the [[TheFuture year 2157]], two children, Margie and Tommy, take a moment to read an old book. Unlike modern books, this one was printed on yellow paper. The words stayed still, and didn't even change when you flipped the pages! Unlike their telebooks, which contain more than a million stories, books from their grandparent's time only contain one story.
But the really interesting thing was that this book had a story about school back before they had mechanical teachers. Modern teachers are computers installed at home, with different subprograms for each subject. The school in this book is a special building, and all the kids go there while a human teacher teaches a whole group at once.
Margie thinks this idea sounds much better than the [[UsedFuture boring old mechanical teacher]], and [[NostolgiaFilter daydreams about being there]] while doing her schoolwork.
This story has been reprinted over two dozen times, and Creator/IsaacAsimov would include it in several of his collections/anthologies; ''Literature/EarthIsRoomEnough'' (1957), ''Literature/FiftyShortScienceFictionTales'' (1963), ''Literature/TheBestOfIsaacAsimov'' (1973), ''Literature/TheFarEndsOfTimeAndEarth'' (1979), ''Literature/MeineFreundeDieRoboter'' (1982), ''Literature/RaintreeReadingSeries2'' (1982), ''[[Literature/FantasticReadingStoriesAndActivitiesForGrades58 Fantastic Reading: Stories and Activities For Grades 5–8]]'' (1984), ''Literature/TheBestScienceFictionOfIsaacAsimov'' (1986), ''Literature/TheAsimovChroniclesFiftyYearsOfIsaacAsimov'' (1990), and ''Literature/TheCompleteStoriesVolume1'' (1990).
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!!Examples of tropes within this work:
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The story takes place in 2157, but it was first published in December of 1951. Students all have specialized computers that teach them in their homes, rather than going to a specialized education building.
* DramaticIrony: Margie and Tommy demonstrate many contrasts between how TheFuture works and how the present (of the audience) works, as well as between our present and their expectations of our present. The largest bit of irony is the way Margie [[NostalgiaFilter daydreams about]] the way children used to go to school together, [[TitleDrop and the fun they had]]. Ironic because (present-day) kids hated going to school as much as Margie does, even though her school is in her own house.
* ExtyYearsFromNow: When it was republished in ''Literature/EarthIsRoomEnough'' (first published in 1957), Dr Asimov took the opportunity to make sure the story took place 200 years from publication.
* FanofthePast: Tommy certainly seems quite knowledgeable about present-day education, despite treating Margie poorly for her lack of information.
* FeaturelessPlaneOfDisembodiedDialogue: None of the characters (aside from the computer repairman) are given a description, nor the rooms where Margie and Tommy are playing.
* TheFuture: Margie and Tommy, children from the year 2157 (or 2155, depending on [[OrwellianRetcon which version]]), have books on tv, a room in their house with a dedicated computer to be their school, and [[{{Zeerust}} punch-card interfaces]].
* MrExposition: Tommy already knows how present-day schools work, and takes great care to arrogantly explain them to [[TheWatson Margie, who only only knows what schools in the Future are like]]. Ironically, it's her lack of information that makes her provide {{Exposition}} to the audience about TheFuture.
* NoPaperFuture: Margie is fascinated by Tommy's book, partly because it's made of ''paper'' rather than being a modern telebook, which is read from the television.
* NostalgiaFilter: Margie thinks the old way of doing school, where children went to a special building and all learned at the same time, must've been so much more fun than getting individual lessons from a mechanical teacher in her own house.
* OrwellianRetcon: When it was printed in newspapers (in 1951) and ''Magazine/TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction'' (in 1954), Margie's diary said May 17, 2155 but Dr Asimov changed the date to 2157 when it was published in ''Literature/EarthIsRoomEnough'', making it [[ExtyYearsFromNow exactly 200 years in the future]].
* ShoutOut: In the editor's note prefacing the story in ''Magazine/TheMagazineOfFantasyAndScienceFiction'' (February 1954 issue), they mention ''Literature/BiochemistryAndHumanMetabolism'' as [[MagnumOpus Asimov's opus]], at least by the standards of Boston University.
* TitleDrop: At the very end, the title is used to express Margie's [[NostalgiaFilter nostalgic wish for the way children had fun two hundred years ago]].
* UsedFuture: Repairs and adjustments for the mechanical teachers are a matter of normal business for life in the 22nd century. Kids are wishing for the teachers to be taken away to be fixed rather than snow days.
* TheWatson: Margie's primary purpose in this story is to be the viewpoint character asking questions about the book that describes present-day schools.
* ZeeRust: The cartoon included in the newspaper with this story showed characters wearing wingtips on every shoe and overly large collars. The story itself contains punch-cards, with the assumption that first grade would teach children how to make the right holes, and black-and-white television. While the idea of individualized education using computers has progressed similar to Dr Asimov's prediction, the idea of homeschooling parents enforcing the same learning hours is laughable.
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