Several months ago, a young undergrad looked at me quizzically when I mentioned off-hand a CD I had just bought. "Wait, you buy CDs?" she asked in disbelief, "You mean you don't just stream Spotify through your smartphone?" When I protested that I downloaded music onto my iPod, she said, "Wow, that's like hipster status right there!" I was about to guffaw that iPods hardly qualify as vintage tech, but then I realized that iPods are now 10 years old. Oh, man. That...
Published on August 16, 2014 18:45