I will never give up my landline. I can hear it ring from anywhere in my apartment and screen the calls. It's kept in one place and never needs charging.
Having music on vinyl also means you have the art cover.
Fax? Paper documents can be physically filed and not get lost on hard drives. Not easy to change the wording or signatures on them either. Same with the Polaroid.
Pay phones? There will be times in your life when when you wish that one would magically appear.
While I agree with the sentiment of this post, I can't make it work in my life. Here's how it breaks down for me:
Landline - extra cost, don't use it. I do most of my business while I'm on the go. I don't spend enough time at home to make my business viable by running it from a land line. If you can hear your landline from anywhere in your apartment, great. You can hear your cell phone from anywhere in the country, as it's in your pocket. Also, it's good at screening calls.
Music on vinyl is just awesome. Everyone should be doing it. There's a resurgence in vinyl production. I know because virtually all of the artists I represent are producing it.
Paper documents burn in a house fire. Digital documents, saved in a variety of places, and on remote servers on different continents can't be destroyed by a fire. And, with the right software, easy to detect forgeries of signatures. I'm certainly not saying there is no value in paper documents. I do quite a lot of business with paper documents, putting the pen to paper to sign. Then, I scan them and save them to my various upload spots. I can name them so specifically that I am able to search through my hundreds of gigs of documents and find the very one I want in seconds.
Pay phones? Yeah, there may be times I might want one. However, I'm also fine walking into a business or restaurant, and asking to use their phone. One minute's work, and a long distance call can be billed to me. Pay phones just aren't necessary any more.
Bob, you know I think a lot of you. It seems we are wired differently, though. Will you still call me in the morning?
. For the first time recently I finally have a tablet I use for things so I don't have to lug my entire desktop computer to somebody else's house when I need to update it or download anything but the smallest things. Of course since there isn't any wi-fi nearby and I can't create my own spot I can't connect to anywhere with the tablet while home. It's just easier to use that for data transfers than to carry my entire computer. I would say it would be a good book reader, if I ever bought any electronic books for it, but once I found out the prices on them I said, "screw that".
