Are These 20 Basic Skills in Danger of Extinction?

Are These 20 Basic Skills in Danger of Extinction? | Intellectual Takeout:
If teenagers today need to locate something on Google Maps, no problem. 
If they need to locate something using a traditional map, they’re probably screwed.

Skills such as being able to read a map or start a fire were once considered essential for everyday life. Now, however, possession of these skills is increasingly rare.

A study conducted last year by Ordnance Survey—the national mapping agency for Great Britain—showed that the British believe the following 20 basic skills are now in serious danger of dying out among their people, and among most peoples in the developed world:

1. Reading a map
    
2. Using a compass
    
3. Tie a specific knot
    
4. Darn socks
    
5. Looking something up in a book using an index rather than “Googling it” 
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