Sometimes you’re on a corporate-sponsored press tour to get up-close and personal with the history of calculators and then you casually walk into the next room and BOOM! …suddenly you’re surrounded by the taxidermied carcasses of our technological ancestry.
Just sayin.
Public phones are disappearing in the U.S., and here in Japan where they remain ubiquitous but are effectively scenery, no one even cares enough to vandalize them. They’re a TERMINAL ANACHRONISM!
This week Japan goes all kindsa Buddha. And while a TERMINAL ANACHRONISM, this navi system is awesome.
Anthrobotic’s devoted a few recent posts to introduce ongoing original features. Wrapping it up, this gallery showcases that which we should stop showcasing, the TERMINAL ANACHRONISMS!
Here in 2012 we still have to physically go to a location to cast a ballot for almost any election. Why is that acceptable? Do we just want the patronizing “I Voted” sticker? COME ON – WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY! (repost)
The goddamn wheelchair has gone essentially unimproved upon for more than 100 years. But now, AMS Mekatronik, surprisingly not a Kraftwerk tribute band, has dropped the Tek RMD. Wheelchairs are running scared. I mean rolling scared.