We live in a time of such rapid technological change that we forget how foreign this experience would be to almost all generations who lived prior to the nineteenth century. One safe prediction is that absent a cataclysmic nuclear war we will see no slowing of this pace in the present century.
I recall that my Bride and I won a VCR in a raffle in 1983. Very expensive and cutting edge at the time. Thank heavens it was vhs!
Yes, times change. Tech gets better but to what end? Not good as I see.
By the way took my collection 1000+ CD’s to Good Will. Out with the old. The next thing for Good Will are most of my books, most of which were only partly read or not at all. Mainly I bought the idea of the book and to support the author.
My ideal is to get reduce all possessions to what I can live with in one room.
Will the same thing happen to movie theaters?
I will cling to my printed media and discs until they put me in the ground.
Streaming, eBooks and cloud services are the dream technologies of tyrants.