Robert Scoble came up with the idea to make a list of obsolete skills - things we used to be good at but no longer need to be, including:
- Dialing a rotary phone
- Putting a needle on a vinyl record
- Shorthand
- Using a slide rule
- Optimizing 640K-worth of memory
- Refilling a fountain pen
- Operating a dictaphone
- Using the eraser ribbon on a typewriter
A wiki sprung up to flesh out the list, and there are now hundreds listed (I added “Cleaning ball bearings in skateboard wheels without losing them”).
Music: Herbie Hancock :: Edith And The Kingpin feat Tina Turner