CD's. DVD's. A "sock" covering for an early iPod. And even a Supertape 8MM Video Hi-Grade Metal HG-60.
How quickly the world has changed.
My new computer has no CD drives. I can use a flash drive to transfer information. Or even dropbox or iCloud.
I never put info on a DVD anymore. I can barely remember what I used it for.
My computer screen, at 21.5 inches, is larger than the 19 inch TV I had for many years.
And those big video cameras that used 8MM Video are long gone. Now I can use my small phone to video most things.
As I throw away these items, I am briefly reminded of the memories they evoke.
The CD I made for my dad of all the songs I knew he'd love.
The first few years of Alexander's life, sporadically recorded.
Backing up data onto a CD, long before the word cloud, used as a noun, meant anything other than a white or grey mass in the sky.
Alexander's first iPod, received as a Bar Mitzvah gift in 2005. By then, I was on my second iPod; this time a nano.
The many hours I spent making a tape of songs and then creating a story around the songs to give to Eric, when I first started seeing him back in 1989.
- Will landlines still exist?
- Will today's mobile phones seem archaic against the phones of the future?
- Will interactive TV's be in every home allowing us to click on a TV character and get the actor's name, background, other roles, etc?
- Will scheduled programming still exist or will everything be on-demand?
- Will everything be wireless?
- Will money still exist or will all cash be virtual?
- Will my mom finally get an iPhone?
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