“It now appears that books in the form so beloved by Uncle Alex and me, hinged in unlocked boxes, packed with leaves speckled by ink, are obsolescent. My grandchildren are already doing much of their reading from words projected on the face of a video screen. Please, please, please wait just a minute.
At the time of their invention books were devices as crassly practical for storing or transmitting language, albeit fabricated from scarcely modified substances found in forest and field and animals as the latest Silicon Valley miracles. But by …

Polaroid cameras put pizzazz and spontaneity into any party, and make camera geeks out of all of us. In the right hands they can produce serious (and seriously beautiful) art. What’s not to like about the Polaroid?
Profit.
So says the Polaroid Corporation as it tolls the death knell of a camera that changed photography and, its corollary, how we see the world. Apparently, the ‘instant film camera’ just isn’t instant enough for the growing numbers of digital users who, in a supposed age of impatience and vaporous attention spans, want …