Yet far too often you are forced to realise that when you belong to a reading generation, there is a whole web or map of references, information, knowledge that you have taken for granted;
They also think they can explain the bright flash seen from the earth earlier this month: it was a meteor, though a small one that didn't get very far.
The isi itself is widely believed to be responsible for everything from the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in late 2007 to the rise of fundamentalist chat shows on cable television.
"You could say there is even a sort of groundswell of public sympathy, I would say, in the aftermath of the assassination, and that is translated into support for the PPP," said Scott Mastic.
A Norwegian demographer, Henrik Urdal, reckons a country's risk of conflict rises four percentage points for every one-point increase in the youth population.