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Recently, my kids have started watching Hunter × Hunter. There is a scene where the main character finds a message from his father that contains a video game memory cartridge, obviously based on the memory card of the original PlayStation.

I had to explain to my kids that long, long ago, video games came on cartridges and you could not save your game. Then, still long ago, but later, video games came on CDs, and consoles like the PlayStation had memory card slots. Now video game consoles have internal hard drives or connect to the Internet and save to cloud storage. This technology is as foreign to them as vinyl records and typewriters.



It's weird to think about how so many aspects of technology look the same for long periods of time. A video game console is still a box that plugs into your TV. A smartphone today looks like a smartphone from 20 years ago. A car has four tires and a steering wheel. But other aspects of technology, that you think will last forever, are gone before you know it. My new phone doesn't have an SD card slot for storing pictures. My new car doesn't even have keys anymore.

Thanks for reading.