{"id":1721,"date":"2015-01-19T00:23:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T23:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2015-02-19T02:15:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T01:15:38","slug":"the-merits-of-obsolete-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2015\/01\/the-merits-of-obsolete-technology.html","title":{"rendered":"The Merits of Obsolete Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/old-mobile-phone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1725\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/old-mobile-phone-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"old mobile phone\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Sales of books are eclipsing digital alternatives, while vinyl records, Polaroid cameras and even simple mobile phones are enjoying a resurgence&#8230; The appeal is only partly faddishness. For the old phones actually do what phones used to do, which is to make and receive phone calls, without depositing your whole life in cyberspace where it can be stolen and used to embarrass you before the entire world. According to the New York Times, one of the main attractions of the retro-phone for celebrities is that it helps keep their secrets safe. And, as rocker Iggy Pop says, \u201cYou can drop it and it doesn\u2019t break.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even typewriters are bouncing back. Spooked by the WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden affairs, intelligence agencies and political groups are reportedly returning to Cold War technology to keep their secrets safe. The glamour is back, too. Movie star Tom Hanks recently published a \u201clove letter\u201d to the typewriter, declaring: \u201cThe tactile pleasure of typing is incomparable&#8230; there is a sheer physical pleasure to typing.\u201d Dr Mike Evans, a theoretical physicist at York University, believes that the appeal of high-technology is being undone by its constant quest for what he calls \u201csterile perfection\u201d&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/11351682\/Why-low-tech-living-is-back.html\" target=\"_blank\">Why low-tech living is back<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sales of books are eclipsing digital alternatives, while vinyl records, Polaroid cameras and even simple mobile phones are enjoying a resurgence&#8230; The appeal is only partly faddishness. For the old phones actually do what phones used to do, which is to make and receive phone calls, without depositing your whole life in cyberspace where it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,200,268],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}