Day 228: Mushrooms

Dinner Menu:

• Salade de Betterave
• Boeuf bourguignon
• Yaourt de brebis et banane

My Dad recently mentioned on his blog that he had downloaded a mushroom app on his phone.  You take a photo of the mushroom you find in the woods and the app tells you what it is and if it is edible.  I remember going mushroom hunting with my parents as a teenager with varying degrees of enthusiasm depending on the weather and the quality of the book I was reading.  I'm pretty sure my level of interest would have been enhanced if smartphones and mushroom apps had been available 40 years ago.  I wonder what it is about screen based information that makes people want to interact with them.  I'm pretty sure that you could teach children most of the knowledge they acquire in their present school environment in half the time and half the effort if it was done through appropriate apps.  That would free up the rest of the time for social interaction, physical activity and creativity.  (also if smartphones were a compulsory school subject maybe children would reject them on principle!)