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Gone and Mostly Forgotten

Remember the rotary phone? Can you imagine kids using one of those today? Their heads might explode just waiting to dial the next number. Rotary phones are so yesterday. And even the newest of newfangled land line phones are soon to be obsolete, too. What else have we lost or are about to lose? Goodbye chalk boards and checkbooks. And while cash is king now, will it soon be deposed? Originally broadcast Jan. 15, 2013.

Anna Jane Grossman, author, Obsolete: an Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By
Jared Bendis, Creative New Media Officer, Case Western Reserve University
Marina Gorbis, Exec. Director, Institute for the Future