The Lost Arts

How does a group of people just forget how to do something? I mean, I’m currently 51 years old, but I can still remember how to dial a rotary phone, to drive a stick shift (barely), and rewind a cassette tape with nothing but a pencil. Bear in mind, I’m not living in some 70s throwback house, hanging out in my bell-bottoms and sipping Tab Cola. No, I probably live like most of you and haven’t seen a rotary phone, slowly depressed a clutch, or hit ‘play’ on a Sony Walkman in at least 20 years. Yet—stay with me here—I haven’t forgotten how to do any of those things.

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