An encyclopedia of once-common things passing us by.

(You can buy the lovely book version too.)

 

 

In “What the Internet Killed” Newsweek offers up an elegiac look at some old technologies that died long before we expected they would. My book, Obsolete is basically a longer riff on the same idea. Yes, that was a plug. What, do you think I’m blogging for my health? It’s Christmas, dear readers. Buy it. If you’re in NYC, I’ll even sign it for you. If you ask me nicely. And are willing to meet somewhere warm and listen to me talk about my dog site until you are ready to fake an asthma attack just to change the subject. But I’m not sure anyone really has the kind of attention span needed to read a book. Maybe they did back when I wrote the book, but that was, like, a year ago. I mean, I can hardly focus long enough to read my own blog posts any more. Because my brain is always like…Wait, hold on. I just need to Google something for a sec. Wait, what we were talking about? I hope it had to do with dogs.

In “What the Internet Killed” Newsweek offers up an elegiac look at some old technologies that died long before we expected they would. My book, Obsolete is basically a longer riff on the same idea. Yes, that was a plug. What, do you think I’m blogging for my health? It’s Christmas, dear readers. Buy it. If you’re in NYC, I’ll even sign it for you. If you ask me nicely. And are willing to meet somewhere warm and listen to me talk about my dog site until you are ready to fake an asthma attack just to change the subject.

But I’m not sure anyone really has the kind of attention span needed to read a book. Maybe they did back when I wrote the book, but that was, like, a year ago. I mean, I can hardly focus long enough to read my own blog posts any more. Because my brain is always like…Wait, hold on. I just need to Google something for a sec. Wait, what we were talking about? I hope it had to do with dogs.

Notes

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