Nothing is timeless anymore. Everything is new and souped-up and slick. Rugged will not exist in the 2010s. And that’s something that truly saddens me. You, more than likely, saw this yesterday:
This is Apple’s new iPad…or as I like to call it: The absolute end of print anything. We’re not going to need magazines soon, because they’ll all be digital. (Half of them are already headed that way, anyway.) However, print journalism is not the only thing dieing out. In a few years, kids are not going to have to lug books home to and from school. There texts will be right there…on the iPad. You won’t need to purchase that copy of The Great Gatsby or The Cather in The Rye anymore…or borrow it from a friend. (I straight up split both of those books with my locker partner in high school.)
Why? Because you’ll have it right on your iPad. And perhaps it will be easier…I mean, it will definitely be easier.
But not the same.
There’s something timeless about holding a book. Putting it down and picking up.
There’s something timeless about lugging a shitload of books to school during finals week. That was half the work, man.
There’s something timeless and picking up a magazine in the grocery store or on the street corner…whether your a devout reader or it just catches your eye. And that feeling…that timelessness…is about to roll out Peace. Hasta. What-have-you.
Thank you, Steve Jobs…for forcing to me to evolve faster than I wanted to.
On the other hand, the combination of new and timeless is kind of dope. I definitely want to cop these Wooden Turntables I’ve been staring at for at least an hour.
Stay up, kids.
