Techno dump

 

 

Nobody wants a Princess phone from the 1960s.

 

But turns out, DVDs and CDs are toast too.

 

A Great Courses catalog arrives clearing out a warehouse of great ideas in the wrong format.

 

A 48-hour history of Western civilization they sold for $439? Now $25.

Nearly 40 history, arts, music courses they sold for $300+? Now $35.

 

The problem:

The courses are all on multiple DVDs, with 200-page guides, photographs, bibliographies.

 

And we live in a world of on-demand, Zoom and streaming.

 

Car makers trash-canned tape decks first, then CD players, now even the AUX is gone from many new cars.

 

I try to inventory the abandoned cast-aside gear in my house: three notebooks, two Kindles, countless modems, two cassette decks, three amplifiers, two turntables, two satelllite dishes in the yard, on and on.

 

How many different operating systems have we all had to learn? For the desktop, browser, iPhone, Android phone, TV zapper, Smart TV, even how to change the car clock?

 

No, I am not advocating a return to the simplicity of The Axe.

  

But all this crap in our closets is going somewhere, after we do.

 

That techno dump will rival Everest.