I came across this funny on facebook, posted by an old uni roommate of mine. It occurs to me that this cheeky wee image makes me a little sad. Whilst my toddler whisks her way through the touch screen menus of my phone, tablet PCs and the underwhelming IPad, I can't help feeling a little something has been lost. I am not unaware that I am following in the footsteps of the laments of generations before mine... I'm quite certain these cries were heard about computers vs pen and paper back in the day. But still...I am quite the sentimental type and will hang on to any item that even slightly whiffs of nostalgia. Of course, this is much to my detriment as it also means that I hoard the most useless bunch of crap that ever existed since Noah built the Ark.
I wonder at the hundreds of cassette tapes that have boxed up in the attic. I love listening to my tunes and have made full use of the modern technology that is the IPod...I have most of my listening appetite on it (them. I have a couple. And the IPhone). I will most likely never use a cassette player again - in fact the only one I do have chews up cassette tapes in the only way an '80's relic can. So WHY are they taking up valuable storage space?
Because a little part of me worries that one day I will lose my music collection in cyberspace. Because you can't lose a cassette into thin air. Now we have iCloud...where (for a small annual fee) we can store hundreds of millions of documents, photos, files, data, you-name-it into nothingness. Brilliant, isn't it? (It's genius, no wonder Apple wipes its backside with $100 bills)
Call me a technophobe but seriously, everything's virtual these days, don't some of you hanker for the tangible?!
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