Ten Technologies That Refuse To Die

"Analog watches Compared to today's digital timepieces, old-fashioned, sweep-hand watches are pathetic one-trick ponies. Digital-watch wearers can check temperature, altitude, and the time in Tokyo, play tunes and games, and send messages. Can wristwatch videoconferencing, Web surfing, and tarot readings be far off? But what digital watches can't do, according to sweep-hand proponents, is display the time and context as elegantly and intuitively as an analog model. Children often start out with the digital bells and whistles, then graduate to a sweep hand; then finally, perhaps, they dispense with electronics altogether and acquire an all-mechanical, high-end trophy watch sales of which have grown dramatically in recent years. In the end, how a device performs its essential job matters more than its extra functions."