Why old-school tech still matters in a digital world

National World - LocalTV

From cameras to vinyl records, analogue tech is still loved by many. We ask locals why they think these old-school items still have value in our digital-first society.

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00:00That one is a very good question and I think it is because people, they have sentimental

00:06values attached to it, their fathers, their parents, their grandfathers, they have memories

00:13of animals through these means by which they capture those memories, it's almost they can't

00:18let go of that, they want to relive that moment and really propel with the things that made

00:27them feel happy as kids.

00:29Animals, they're more tangible to people, they're more tactile, they can see how they

00:37work to a greater extent than just things online or hidden digitally, so I think that's

00:45why.

00:46Very eloquent.

00:48Look, there's part of human behaviour that quite collects things and in the digital world

00:53you never really own anything, you don't know if it might disappear and you can't hold it,

00:57you can't share it in a tactile way.

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