Ziggy by Tom Wilson & Tom II for June 16, 2022

just thinking aloud in order to give an example, like a Nintendo Entertainment System (or the Japanese original equivalent FamilyCom)? Not that I personally wanted one back then.

Pong

It won’t be long, and people will be obsolete.

Yeah, there can only be one Attila the Hun.

It’s an eternal pity that no one wants to be a jerk – they are always up-to-date

Yes.

I’m retired. That’s the very definition of obsolete.

Being retired is not the same as being obsolete.

Or too old to become.

Your life has been outsourced to China, Mexico, India …

No…everything I wanted to be growing up is still there, Indy car driver, Motorcycle racer, Deep Sea diver, Explorer & US Marine….

I wanted to be a cartoonist…

All too often true.

Not me, I wanted to be a garbage man. We still have someone drive the truck and use the robotic arm, so not quite obsolete yet.

I remember reading an article in the 1960s. The author stated that refrigeration and welding would be obsolete. Was he ever wrong.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but the father is lazy. Advancement comes from wanting less work. Sperm donor is a lot less work than father, & it creates law enforcement jobs.

I wanted to be retired. And here I am. Not obsolete yet.

I wanted to be an astronaut in the days when all you needed to be was a brave, fighter pilot. Now one Ph.D. is hardly enough. :)

Im retired, unemployed, and disabled!

Or, as I told my students when they asked how (whatever) was relevant, I’d tell them neither they nor I had any idea what was going to be relevant in their adult lives.

If you want to talk about being obsolete, I miss the good old days when I could go to Blockbuster Video.