Columnist Joe Queenan asks: What horrible fixtures from today’s world will persist far into the future? (Aside from leaf blowers, that is.)
Last week, The Wall Street Journal’s personal technology columnist Joanna Stern wrote about devices her two-year old son would never know. The list of once-cutting-edge, soon-to-be-laughable technologies included oversize smartphones, cords, ports, dedicated cameras, smart speakers, DVDs, chip credit cards and keys.
Each of these reasonably serviceable items is on the way to being replaced in a way that will make the world a marginally—if not spectacularly—better place. Human beings are good at improving technology that way....
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