New Media is Always Bad

Oct 30, 2016 00:56

So... I'm browsing sci fi shorts on youtube. And I came across one, set in the near future, where a woman is upset that her partner pays more attention to his augmented-reality overlay than her.
One of her complaints is that he takes pictures virtually, while she does it with an old Polaroid. She romanticizes the chemical process, the silver ( Read more... )

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tavella October 31 2016, 19:52:41 UTC
It's somewhat amusing when you live long enough to see entire technological innovations be born, commercialized, and then disappear. Videotapes and video stores is the one notable one for me.

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cmdr_zoom November 6 2016, 11:48:28 UTC
Oh yeah, me too. I still have yet to replace most of my old VHS movie library with DVDs, and I don't even own a BluRay player.

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