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I don’t have an iPhone. I’m sure I’ll get one at some point, but I want to get a vintage one. I am convinced that old iPhones are going to one day have all the appeal of vintage Cadillac, so I figure I should start collecting early. iPhone ‘07 in the house! Using one will be a nod to nostalgia not unlike using a laptop case printed with a picture of a typewriter. When your current one to starts looking old and clunky, it can come live in the retirement home better known as my purse.
Unfortunately, the wait has been a long one. Each generation of iPhone has looked a lot like the previous one. In fact, it’s been hard to even picture how this sleek device could be made to look any more iPhone-y. Haven’t we already whittled it down little more than pure essence? Nope. Yesterday, my husband and the rest of the Gizmodo team world did me a solid: they introduced the world to the new iPhone4. 3GS? Obsolete!
This Is Apple’s Next iPhone - Iphone 4 - Gizmodo
1 CONTEST: What is obsolete in your life?
Today, we experience more change in one year than previous generations experienced in their lifetimes. Sitcoms from ten years ago look as if they might as well have been made in the 1700s. See the size of the cordless phones Ross is using? How were they able to make so many storylines that revolved around answering machine bloopers? Just think about all those disastrous blind dates that Jerry and George could’ve avoided if only they could’ve looked each other up on Facebook first…
Our lives are packed with ideas, objects, and habits that likely won’t exist for very much longer. What is obsolete—or on the brink of obsolescence—in your life? Every day for the next ten days (now through September 21), I’ll be accepting submissions to this website: photos, videos, short essays, audio clips, etc. Each day, the best submissions will be featured on the site; each day’s winning entrant will receive a free signed copy of OBSOLETE.
To enter, please email me your submission to ObsoleteTheBook@gmail.com or use the form here. Make sure to include your email address so that I can contact you if you win.
But wait! There’s more! If you are a TUMBLR or FACEBOOK or TWITTER user and you reblog or mention this post, you will receive a little token of my appreciation. For free! Via mail! Old school, right? All you have to do is email me a link to the reblogged post, or a screen shot, and your mailing address.
4 Is the screen the new paper? Will publishing houses go the way of the old-fashioned record store? Is digital delivery the new bookstore? Is Google the new library? Is the author the new musician, playing directly to the audience? Is the audience the new author?
Former literary agent/book publisher asks all the right questions in a Sunday New York Times article about the way technology has affected the workplace. Preoccupations - Treasuring the Artifacts of Publishing.
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My old alarm clock. I’m weirdly sad about giving it up. Nostalgia I guess. It’s been my alarm clock since I started first grade, and it’s probably older than I am. But last night it gave me a fit about actually being set, and it didn’t go off this morning, so it’s time. Viking funeral, or bureal at sea?
