Epreuve d’anglais CDG 62, le 03 décembre 2007

Margie even wrote about it that night in her diary. On the page dated May 17, 2157, she wrote: “Today Tommy found a real book in his attic.”
It was a very old book. Margie’s grandfather once said that when he was a little boy his grandfather told him that there was a time when all stories were printed on paper.
They turned the pages and it was awfully funny to read words that stood still instead of moving the way they were supposed to -on a screen, you know.
“Gee,” said Tommy, “When you’ve finished with the book, you just throw it away, I guess. Our television screen must have had a million books on it and it’s good for plenty more. I wouldn’t throw it away.”
“Same with mine,” said Margie. She was eleven and hadn’t seen as many telebooks as Tommy had. He was thirteen.
“What’s the book about?” she asked.
“School.”
“School? What’s there to write about school? I hate school.”
Margie had always hated school, but now she hated it more than ever. The mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in geography and she had been doing worse and worse.
She said to Tommy: “Why would anyone write about school?”
“Because it’s not our kind of school, stupid. This is the old kind of school that they had hundreds and hundreds of years ago.”(…)
Margie went into the schoolroom. It was right next to her bedroom, and the mechanical teacher was on and waiting for her. The screen was lit up and it said: “Today’s arithmetic lesson is the addition of fractions. Please insert yesterday’s homework in the proper slot.”
Margie was thinking about the old schools they had when their grandfather’s grandfather was a little boy. All the kids from the whole neighbourhood came, laughing and shouting in the schoolyard, sitting together in the schoolroom, going home together at the end of the day. (…)
Margie was thinking about how the kids must have loved it in the old days. She was thinking about the fun they had.

Isaac Asimov, The fun They had, 1951.

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