…and hunt down large, ill-tempered prehistoric badgers for our food. Then eat them, raw, because we hadn’t discovered fire yet. At least, that’s what I did: Rand Simberg was probably one of those early adopters of flame technology. He has the look…
What? Sorry, I was reacting to this story about a thirteen-year-old kid who carried around a Sony Walkman for a week, all anthropologist-like. His conclusion? It’s a big, heavy, clumsy device that sucks up batteries like nobody’s business and eats tapes. Here’s a quick news flash: we knew that at the time, too. That’s why people went out and invented the MP3 player in the first place: if the Sony Walkman hadn’t been ultimately a big pain in the neck, we wouldn’t have bothered. I mean, really… 1979 was the year that Alien
Sheesh.
Moe Lane
PS: No, I have no idea why this harmless and innocuous article got up my nose like that. Maybe it’s because I never knew until now what the metal switch was for, either.
PPS: This thing with the metal switch may have been a common situation.