Meet George Jetson, or "Oh Brave New World." A meditation on technology.
What I already miss: Five-and-dimes, old church hymns, band concerts on the green, neighborhood groceries, Salvation Army bands, greeting cards sent through the mail with stamps.
What I'm going to miss: The Post Office (how will we describe disgruntled employees who take out their former workplace?)
Newspapers, for obvious reasons and also how will kidnappers do ransom notes?
Photo albums (it's fun leafing through them)
Books (okay, I can give up hardcover encyclopedias, but who wants to read to a toddler off a Kindle?)
Land lines and phone booths (what are they going to do with those red ones in England? Huh?)
What I probably won't miss: video rental stores, standing in line (did you know you can even order movie tickets online? Probably), typewriters, any camera that isn't digital, fax machines (never got the hang of them when they were popular), VCR tapes (see above), doing the income tax manually (OK, Dave does our taxes, but it's rewarding to me not to see him suffer, thank you Turbo Tax.). I'm just sayin'
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