“We’re allowing the present to conspire against the past in the name of the future.&rdqu

“We’re allowing the present to conspire against the past in the name of the future.” Over at Tedium this week, I laid out a serious problem with planned obsolescence and preservation, which has caused serious long-term problems which will only worsen as technological changes lead to increasingly obsolete gadgets. Not everyone will agree with me on this, but it’s a debate worth having.