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Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
> 
> Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>> Michael Black <mbl...@pubnix.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 27 Jun 2018, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
>>> 
>>> When they had the SF Worldcon here in 2009, I wrote somewehre about
>>> it.  It included something like "the future is better than
>>> anticipated, but not nearly as good".  I should look up the exact
>>> quote.  IN some ways anticipating the future was exciting, living
>>> it is less so, even if we have so much more gadgetry than anyone
>>> imagined.
> 
> New Year's day, 1949.  Did Dick have his radio watch by then?
> 
>     http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/temp/tracy.jpg
>  
>> When you imagine it you swoon over all the great stuff the future
>> will bring, but tend to ignore the problems. Few imagining todays
>> "social media" probably considered the privacy problems ant the
>> proliferation of advertising.
> 
> Gee, I dunno.  Swoon?  I got a computer as soon as I could afford one,
> actually by trading fancy metalwork for an obsolete one because fancy
> metalwork isn't, in my neck of the woods, a way to get heaps of cash.
> Oh, and a modem pretty early on, too.  And Wikipedia is just great for
> subjects that nobody's having bunfight or in a personal snit over.
> 
> But all the new gadgets?  Most of them leave me cold. After every
> browser upgrade (or Emacs upgrade, for that matter) I spend a lot of
> time figuring out how to disable all the new features.  I was getting
> pretty good with a 35mm SLR but now I'm reduced to the equivalent of
> ny 1955 Brownie Hawkeye or else a pricey camera that takes 10 minutes
> and good eyesight just to set up all the options for a shot.

Getting ready to sell my Olympus in a garage sale, and there's a good
possibility no one will want it. I want to cry. That camera took wonderful
pictures, even with my limited knowledge of appropriate settings, but
dead-tree pictures are in the past now.

I think you can get good digital SLR cameras, but the cost is about the
same as a good film camera, you're paying for the optics.

-- 
Pete