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Edited by pyropura at 22-1-2015 12:23 AM

Why low-tech living is back                       
Sales of books are eclipsing digital alternatives, while vinyl records,   Polaroid cameras and even simple mobile phones are enjoying a resurgence
Books. Remember them? The big lumps of wood pulp that used to clog up your   shelves? Well, they’re back, and hotter than vinyl records.

Last week, the British Library announced that the rise of the digital age had,   paradoxically, helped boost numbers visiting the British Library by 10 per   cent. Meanwhile, James Daunt, the chief executive of Waterstones, Britain’s   leading bookselling chain, revealed that sales of traditional books were   rising strongly again, while demand for ebook readers had, “to all intents   and purposes disappeared”.

This was something of a volte-face for Mr Daunt, who, just three years ago,   declared: “Our customers want to read digitally,” while announcing a juicy   deal with Amazon to sell the online giant’s Kindle ebook readers. Reports   from the book trade speak of a spectacular Christmas with record-breaking   sales and packed shops, but ebooks appear to have missed the party.

Meanwhile, Waterstones’ rival, Foyles, says its sales were up by 8.1 per cent   on last Christmas, despite fewer promotions, and with traditional books   accounting for most of the advance. “The physical book is having a   resurgence,” says Foyles boss, Sam Husain. “People still like to shop   online, but there’s nothing like being in the bookshop.”

It wasn’t meant to be this way. When ebooks took off in the mid-Noughties,   many foresaw the death of the printed variety that has dominated the market   for 600 years, and great was the wailing and gnashing of teeth among   traditionalists. A slim, six-ounce Kindle could store hundreds of books, and   the device was packed with nifty features for tech-addicted customers. The   book was clearly headed the same way as the quill. Or the typewriter. Or,   for that matter, the vinyl record.


Happily, the ebook pioneers forgot something important. There are some things   that technology can’t replace, and readers began to realise that a proper   book possessed something akin to a soul. Not just older readers, either. My   16-year-old son begged for a Kindle a few years ago. When I asked him last   week if he still used it, he looked up from the hand-bound, folio edition of   The Count of Monte Cristo he had got for Christmas, and blinked. “Oh, that,   not really.”
Behind the world’s unstoppable technological advance, it seems, is the awkward   human refusal to be rushed. Or conned into believing that things that will   actually make their lives more complicated will make them easier. Or sold   expensive solutions to problems that don’t exist. And from these stirrings   of resistance is arising the phenomenon of low-tech.
To the rallying cry, “Old is Gold”, millions are re-embracing technologies   that seemed doomed to a cobwebby obsolescence. Clam-shell and “flip” phones   are the new height of chic, with the likes of Anna Wintour, editor of US   Vogue, singer Rihanna and actress Scarlett Johansson all flaunting the   venerable devices. Good-quality examples of these old phones can fetch over   £800 – far more than the latest Apple iPhone 6 – and so big is the demand   that Samsung, the Korean manufacturer, is bringing out a new version.
The appeal is only partly faddishness. For the old phones actually do what   phones used to do, which is to make and receive phone calls, without   depositing your whole life in cyberspace where it can be stolen and used to   embarrass you before the entire world. According to the New York Times, one   of the main attractions of the retro-phone for celebrities is that it helps   keep their secrets safe. And, as rocker Iggy Pop says, “You can drop it and   it doesn’t break.”
The same sound reasoning may explain the extraordinary comeback of the   Polaroid “instant photo”
camera

, once the instrument of choice for   aficionados of amateur erotic snaps. Last year’s Hollywood
nude photo   scandal in which hackers accessed Apple’s iCloud storage system and put   naked pictures of more than 100 actresses, including Jennifer Lawrence and   Kirsten Dunst, on the internet, had a chilling effect in celebrity
circles. It was excellent news for Polaroid, though. Near bankrupt in the early 2000s,   the US corporation stopped selling its famous self-developing film in 2007.   The rights were bought by a small Dutch-based company, the Impossible   Project, which is now struggling to meet demand.
“Last year our film sales were up 60 per cent,” says Creed O’Hanlon, the   company’s executive chairman. “We probably sold 1 million packs of film and   we sold 3,000 cameras on Black Friday alone.”
The firm is currently scouring the globe for old Polaroids it can refurbish   and sell. While celebrities have helped create a buzz, admits Mr Hanlon, the   big buyers are teenagers. “Today, the thing teenagers love is taking a   picture, hearing a click and a whirr,” he says, “then seeing an image slowly   appear in the palm of their hand. People love the tangibility. You can write   on it, you can give it to somebody. It feels one-off and more special than   just transferring you a file.”
Vinyl-record sales are booming, too. Last year they hit an estimated 1.2   million – the highest for 20 years, and a five-fold increase since 2008.   Threatened by seemingly superior technologies, the old discs seemed headed   for extinction, but – as with books – it is the “soul” of vinyl that has   been its salvation.
In particular, fans like the covers – once an art genre in their own right and   now being rediscovered by a new generation. “They are one of the key reasons   people are buying vinyl again,” says Gennaro Castaldo of the British   Phonographic Industry. “They help to transform a record into an artefact   fans like to own and collect.”
Even typewriters are bouncing back. Spooked by the WikiLeaks and Edward   Snowden affairs, intelligence agencies and political groups are reportedly   returning to Cold War technology to keep their secrets safe. The glamour is   back, too. Movie star Tom Hanks recently published a “love letter” to the   typewriter, declaring: “The tactile pleasure of typing is incomparable...   there is a sheer physical pleasure to typing.”
Dr Mike Evans, a theoretical physicist at Leeds University, believes that the   appeal of high-technology is being undone by its constant quest for what he   calls “sterile perfection”.
People are naturally curious, he argues, and they like to have some sense of   how things work. With, say, a record player it’s obvious; with a shiny   plastic stick, it isn’t.
“Devices shield us from reality, only because it is fashionable to do so. For   example, when you switch on an old radio – even one with automatic tuning –   you hear a few seconds of white or coloured noise as the tuner seeks the   right frequency. It’s a nice sound, evocative of the electromagnetic physics   of the carrier wave. New models don’t do that until the tuning is completed.

Modern gadgets are designed not to betray the imperfect physical nature of   their workings,” Dr Evans continues. “That is a shame, because imperfections   are important in helping us to understand the world.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cultu ... living-is-back.html


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Post time 21-1-2015 11:54 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
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Post time 21-1-2015 11:56 PM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
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 Author| Post time 21-1-2015 11:57 PM | Show all posts

letak artikel panjang salah, tak letak artikel pon salah...

tunggu komen Mod wannabe  @Modngengade   

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Anna Wintour looks at her mobile phone during the 2014 US Open


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semoga dapat dipahami oleh golongan less intelectual...








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 Author| Post time 22-1-2015 12:26 AM | Show all posts

..buat sesapa yang tak reti baca artikel Inglis panjang2....

Celebrities Going Back To Using Old Flip Phones To Block Hackers




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Post time 22-1-2015 12:28 AM | Show all posts
Bang @pyropura fin hanya guna telefon nokia yang lama tu je. Tak blh sambung wifi bagai. Tapi bagus sebab rasa aman saja. Kalau ada wifi mesti masuk grup watsapp dan dapat notis tak habis2.  minimalisme gitu..
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Post time 22-1-2015 12:29 AM | Show all posts
pyropura replied at 22-1-2015 12:12 AM
Anna Wintour looks at her mobile phone during the 2014 US Open

Ya rock old folks!!!!  
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Post time 22-1-2015 12:55 AM | Show all posts
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Post time 22-1-2015 04:38 AM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
aiiiii mentang2 pasal buku...bejela mcm novel
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Post time 22-1-2015 06:49 AM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
pyropura replied at 21-1-2015 11:57 PM
letak artikel panjang salah, tak letak artikel pon salah...

tunggu komen Mod wann ...

Tahniah kerana dah pandai tepek article ......walaupun sendu
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Post time 22-1-2015 07:20 AM | Show all posts
i still collect books.. big bad wolf tu bagi i jadi gile huhu!!
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Post time 22-1-2015 07:47 AM | Show all posts
Sama mcm album gambar. Tgk dlm album digital tak sama feel dgn tgk kat album gambar printout
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Post time 22-1-2015 07:55 AM | Show all posts
hp hakak dh musnah...hakak pki hp lama semula...no ig no fb...

nk beli hp baru xde duit...
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Post time 22-1-2015 08:02 AM | Show all posts
...more than 100 actresses, including Jennifer Lawrence and   Kirsten Dunst, on the internet,


Marvelous sangat gambar jennifer lawrence tu

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Post time 22-1-2015 10:19 AM From the mobile phone | Show all posts
ultra78 replied at 22-1-2015 08:02 AM
Marvelous sangat gambar jennifer lawrence tu

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Spidey tak kenal sangat siapakah dia.
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Post time 22-1-2015 10:25 AM | Show all posts
tp btul la mmg terasa lain tul kalau baca buku dgn ebook ni. ebook ni kelebihan die, kalau bc novel inggeris tetiba terjumpe perkataan baru yg tak tau nk sebut mcm mane atau ape maknenye, ade function TTS. tu je lah kot. buku ni ade semcm satu bau yg menyebabkan kite rs nostalgic, susah nk gmbrkan perasaan tu kalau korg bukan kaki buku
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