From WTOP:
The University of Maryland business school plans to give Blackberry wireless devices to all full-time MBA students this fall, an effort to make students technologically savvy and aware that a key to business is being able to access people and information at all times.
Pah! When I was at Maryland, we had typewriters.
Seriously...I had to pass a typing test to be admitted to the College of Journalism, and when I started, most of the j-school classrooms were outfitted with IBM Selectrics.
To be fair, though, when I graduated (four years later, thank you) there were a few Selectrics in the library, but in the classrooms we had computer terminals. We were even connected to the news wires, and it was very cool, when a prof got boring, to be able to read what was going on in the world courtesy of AP and UPI.
In fact, it never occurred to me until just now, but that surreptitious news-reading during class prepared me well for the future of surfing the internet when I'm supposed to be working.