My prehistoric childhood…
Friday night, at my friend Allison’s birthday party, I was graced with the presence of a Super Nintendo. Now, I’m not the most anti-social of folk, but I can definitely be a bit easily distracted when I’m in a situation where I don’t know anyone. I won’t lie, right in the middle of the party, I started playing a game of Super Mario Bros (and lucky for me, I brought half the party into the room with me).
Anyway, Super Nintendo and the other gaming systems of my childhood still astonish me, but Christopher Locke’s work has brought to my attention that they are obsolete, along with a lot of other electronics from 10-20 years ago.
He took fairly common objects like cassettes, joysticks, telephones and Nintendo controllers and made them into fossils.
It’s pretty sad to think about that. It’s even worse to think that silly things like 3-D television and the iPad are going to be what take over current technology.
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