Is Technology Leaving Us Passed By?

One of my favorite gadget sites, Gizmodo, featured a story from the wife of one of the writers about how technology is changing so fast and furious we’ve completely lost some important ways we used to communicate in only a few years — and today’s generation will never have known them.

Love letters, long conversations, labeling the white paper in cassette tapes, having to wait for something to rewind, listening to whole albums instead of singles, physically visiting the library for  research….the list is endless and once technology leaves, it takes everything with it for something else — better?

Her name is Anna Jane—author of Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By

I think about this type of thing all the time, the report below is very interesting and her recent book looks like it might be worth picking up.

Not reading on the iPad, physically picking it up.