Quand ’ is that it feels old? When the world around us is changing and we can't understand what is happening. Do things like start your gripes with the phrase “young people now…”, re watch one of your favorite movies from few years ago and you realize that the key is completely different. Someone realizes why he hurt in places that didn't know to have… we say that generally happens when change too many things.
When I'll arrive I'll say more… for now you must be content with this vague description. Feeling old, like say almost all those who are in full old-age, it is a mental state. Closed this sentence we pass to the next. The flowing time. Sometimes runs so fast that we hardly have time to realizing it, an example? If you have 30 years in latest years have made several phone calls with the Phone Disc mouse-grey color and have watched with a bit of contrariety arrival of flat telephone white with black buttons.
You have used a cassette recorder to record your voice by pressing two keys simultaneously and then you discovered that your voice sucks… and maybe you also discovered (as in my case) that you had used a tape of your father which was poured a rare Beatles concert. Now that I did return your mind to sweet memories the years of childhood, pampering you with images of serenity and pure fun, You should definitely watch the video below.
There is nothing to say I'm a very bad girl and I ruined your day.
When I saw the video I was so bad that for a while I didn't believed it possible that the images were real. And instead those small elementary school kids St-Grégoire-le-Grand they had really the indecisive expression of those doesn't know and understand the objects and their use. Blissful innocence. The video is called “Il était une fois ... les technologies du passé” (Once upon a time the technology of the past) and was created by the journalist Jean-Christophe Laurence (for the online magazine cyberpresse Headquartered in Quebek) It is equipped with different common objects over the years 80 and 90 for kids and provided them to small students to test their knowledge.
It is certain that these used Ipod and realistic games don't understand immediately the utility of game boy and perhaps are even more surprised at the thought that we should use a cartridge as big as their hand to play instead of a cd or a download application.
If someone ever said you when you were children that with electronic object, flat little more than a cardboard packaging, you could watch videos, play, write and draw you would have laughed at and hurt you would shut in your room listening to music with a walkman headphones from spongy and almost useless for the purpose! Today, instead, how many things that you don't have courage to throw but that are completely useless and out of time?
In Italy thought the Museum of obsolete objects i.e.: Obsolete objects of contemporary, asking one effort the patrons of the web to compile a list of virtual objects that have fallen into disuse Why replaced by better technology or by “grandchildren more evolved”. I have not the foggiest idea of how you can insert in the list sink-plungers Whereas it is useful, durable, economical and environmentally friendly in comparison to a mush chemistry for sale at the supermarket, or worse yet someone has tagged the safety pin… but I can understand the presence of a cilostile or a hand-cranked washing machine.
The reflection is quite obvious: good design lasts forever and, according to me, we must make a clear distinction between invention and design. A product like Gramophone (metal pin, shellac discs with grooves, Spring to spin the disk and to spread the sound Horn) in time it is turned on turntable and then in cd and this is always subject to changes dictated by the advent of ’ technology more and more evolved and from requests of market, but the real invention remains to listen infinitely a song. Then at the end… What are really outdated objects?
For those who want to discover more about the objects contained in the article there is National Museum of science and technology.
Amazing the disconcertment of the faces of these kids in front of objects that only yesterday were considered advanced technology. I struggle to understand these fast times, I belong to other rhythms of life and frankly I also goes okay. However makes me think and create anxiety for the future.