Happy B'days to Kerry and Donald.
I remember mimeo machines and having to type on those papers that were like carbons and, if you made a mistake, well...you were screwed or had to start over...
I have a love-hate relationship with technology. I like many of the conveniences but I feel I will always be behind the learning curve. I still don't know how to use all the functions on my cell phone. I adamantly refused to even get one until I had to drive across country last year on our move here.
I think that we have too much technology to amuse ourselves with and are amusing ourselves to death, frankly. I think it is worse with the generations coming up behind me. We fritter away so much time with our techie toys and have an inability to concentrate on important matters and human interaction...I don't need an i-pod stuck in my ear 24/7; I don't need to be spending hours on myspace reading about the mundane lives of mundane people; I don't need to be accessible by phone every minute of every hour. Unless somebody's died or had an accident or is locked out of the house, nothing is that crucial that I need immediately respond.
I think all restaurants and theatres should be able to install the blocking devices that make cell phones inoperable. That's the other thing: so much of this technology has made us incredibly rude.
On the plus side, I can remember back in high school me taping on my little cassette records from the library and the audio of movies off the TV with the microphone attached to the speaker with putty.
But still I have several hundred movies on tape or DVD or that I've taped off the tube and how often do you think I watch them? Some I've taped I've never watched.
Best thing about old magazines, BK, are the ads. I don't remember Time having a lot of them...but Look and Life and The Saturday Evening Post ads are amazing. I've got several Colliers magazines from the 20's and 30's and the ads are fascinating.
