Whenever a new piece of technology pops up in the mainstream world, people get all up in arms about what it means for the prior piece of “technology”, for the previous way of doing things. When CD players came around it was all “OMG! What will happen to my cassette tapes?!” and then MP3 players came on the scene and it was all “OMG! What will happen to all my CDs?!” and so on. We won’t even go back as far as the record (which people still collect) and 8-tracks. Do some things become obsolete? Kind of. It’s true I do know someone who’s still listening to tapes in his car, but he’s a rarity.
So of course when
Published on April 26, 2012 04:00