Posted by Andy G on December 12, 2005 at 10:38:36 from 130.159.248.44 user AndyG.
In Reply to: Re: Reading AR dangerous? Volunteer projects. posted by rlcossar on December 10, 2005 at 16:19:48:
...and how different the AR books would have been had they been written more recently!
(Warning - the following is more than a little blasphemous!)
What use for morse and semaphore if the S&A's had been able to text each other!? Emails from Holly Howe to Beckfoot and vice versa. Nancy guiding the Winter expeditions by webcam. GPS used to survey Secret Water, and GPS on the Goblin allowing the Swallows to fix their position off the coast of Holland, but long before they ever got there, a radio or cellphone present to summon help... John being trained in the use of glassfibre to repair the wrecked Swallow in SD (!!!). "Titty Alone" playing on her portable Play Station to pass the time, rather than looking at dippers...the mind boggles. :-|
The core values of the books will never change - children make friends, support one another, play out games - but I do wonder if the technology depicted in the books, which wasn't dated much at all when I first read them in the 70s, will increasingly make the series appear like a lost world to more modern readers?
Andy