You Can't Go Back to the Future ; the Time has Come to Ditch Your Vintage Video Recorder and 35mm Camera and Enter the Dizzying World of Hi-Tech

Summary

---

If I may adopt the vocal mannerisms of an Eighties Valley Girl for one minute, I have an announcement. Retro is, like, so over. That's right, it's gone. Consigned to history. Banished to the charity shop for good.

If you're the sort of man who has a collection of typewriters, telescopes or old VHS machines, then it's time you got with the programme (and I'm not talking about Starsky & Hutch). If you're the sort of chap who 'misses the warmth' of 35mm film, or who spends hours on eBay looking for old copies of Smash Hits, then you're probably also the sort of chap who thinks that ketchup doesn't taste as good from plastic bottles. Not only is retro dead but - trust me on this - the future really is only about the future.

See the full content of this document

Extract

---

You Can't Go Back to the Future ; the Time has Come to Ditch Your Vintage Video Recorder and 35mm Camera and Enter the Dizzying World of Hi-Tech

The world is moving at such a pace I often wonder whether we simply embrace new technology because it has appeared, rather than because of what it can do. Although when I start thinking like this I pinch myself and pour myself a l...

See the full content of this document

---