NEW TECHNOLOGY IS CONSTANTLY REPLACING old technology. Typewriters are fading into history, sadly, replaced by computer keyboards. Gone are iceboxes, mimeographs, dial phones, transistor radios, and phone booths. It’s a good thing Superman came along when he did. Velcro seems to be in the process of attempting to replace buttons, snaps, and zippers. Alexa, a voice-controlled virtual assistant, does everything but wipe your runny nose for you. Still, there is one mechanical device that has persisted through the whole of the 20th Century and now well into the 21st. What is that in the photo? It is the first commercially available toaster in 1909 by GE. It only heated one side of the bread at a time and required a person to manually flip it for toasting both sides. It would be ten more years before the first automatic pop-up toaster hit the market, and the humble toaster still sits in kitchens today. It has undergone upgrading here and there, but the basic item hasn’t really changed much. And they last seemingly forever, unlike another home appliance that occurs to me, the vacuum cleaner, which I am always having to repurchase every few years when the one I have gives out. Then again, too much technological advance can be annoying. My new car, with its computer, advanced sensors and cameras, tells me when I’m moving out of lane or not keeping my eyes on the road. I’ve yet to see a toaster that tells you it prefers wheat to rye, but perhaps that’s next.
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