Before I forget: Present history of the future

List of things I might forget in the techno-future:

1. That not having or updating a blog used to be ok
2. How to transport things without a USB stick
3. How to store things without a hard disk
4. The difference between a SCSI and a parallel zip-drive
5. To be quiet in a non-electronic library
6. How to make paintings without Photoshop or Illustrator
7. How to post a letter
8. That mail only used to come one time a day
9. How to play a game without my PS2
10. How to communicate to people directly
11. That in the train I used to listen to other people’s conversations instead of my iPod
12. How to get a date without a social networking site
13. How to get money from a bank cashier
14. That people used to argue over directions in the car instead of using Tom-Tom
15. That people used to look at the signs on the road instead of their GPS coordinates
16. How to write with a pen
17. How to calculate without a calculator
18. That Ctrl Z does not undo my actions in real life
19. What Typex is
20. How to spell correctly – without Word
21. That I cannot elongate my legs or get rid of pimps with just a simple retouch
22. To smile at the shop assistant instead of my computer after a latest purchase
23. That I had to walk to my TV to turn it on
24. That I used to book my tickets at a travel agency
25. To be careful when putting on a record because a replacement needle cost 50 Guilders.
26. What’s on a Guilder (God zij met ons) instead of what’s on my Chipknip
27. That modern music piracy meant borrowing a cd from the library and put it on a music tape
28. How to fix a music tape with Scottish tape
29. Not to press but to actually dial a number on my land line
30. Where to develop my pictures – and having to wait to see them
31. That I cannot walk around with a device because it is plugged in – it has wires
32. That I used to have an address book stored in my drawer and not on my mobile
33. That I used to ask information about train services at the train station
34. That I used to ask my teacher instead of Google if I wanted to know something
35. That WWW stood for waiting, waiting and more waiting
36. That CD-I was the latest invention
37. That I manually had to allocate memory to my Mac applications
38. How to give a presentation with a slide projector
39. How to make things move without Flash
40. Not to worry about charging my phone -as I did not have one
41. That Windows computers used to crash (o, they still do…)

• That the world is not my desktop

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Before we'll forget, I created this 'memorial' list on technical practices for 'future reference'
...please feel free to comment or add!

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