In an era when everything is an indexed stream, a growing cohort of millennials and Gen Z collectors are choosing giant, clunky discs over effortless playback. This article explains why LaserDisc - once obsolete, now fetishized - fits a yearning for ritual, superior presentation, and resistance to algorithmic consumption.
How bulky tapes, shaky pans and the ritual of rewinding remade family memory in the 1990s. A deep dive into VHS and 8mm camcorders, their aesthetics, rituals, and the nostalgia enthusiasts keeping the tapes alive.
From System Shock's claustrophobic emergent systems to Elite's infinite horizons, cult classic sci‑fi games left design fingerprints that are obvious-and subtle-across today's titles. This article unpacks those threads with developer interviews, case studies, and practical takeaways for designers and players.
Why are Gen Z and millennials decorating dorm rooms like a Miami Vice set, blasting synthwave, and favouring zig-zag geometrics? This piece explores how neon and 80s patterns shape mood, creativity, and productivity - and how to use them without frying your attention span.
Once dismissed as relics of a bygone office era, fax machines are quietly proliferating again - especially where legal weight, regulatory comfort, and air-gapped reliability still matter. This piece explains why, where, and how the fax persists, and how organizations can use it responsibly in 2025.
Kodak invented the digital camera, then spent decades protecting film. Its decline is a textbook lesson in how corporate success can calcify into strategic blindness - and what modern tech firms must do to avoid the same fate.
How did on-screen robots go from comic sidekicks to morally ambiguous killers? This essay traces that shift across 1980s–90s films - from Short Circuit’s wide-eyed Number 5 to the Terminator’s cold inevitability - and shows how those changing tropes mirror our anxieties and aspirations about technology.
How did a wooden ruler, a clacking pocket calculator and the glowing rectangle in your pocket form a single lineage? An analytical, often wry look at how calculation tools evolved, what calculators taught us, how they seeded the smartphone age-and what we quietly lost when everything went app.