Technology becomes obsolete, but nothing goes away.
That's what WIRED magazine's founding editor Kevin Kelly argues in his new book What Technology Wants. He claims that inventions never go extinct once created, and he hasn't found a single gadget that has completely vanished off the face of the Earth.
"I say there is no species of technology that have ever gone globally extinct on this planet," Kelly told NPR's Robert Krulwich.
Is this really true? Krulwich isn't a believer, but he can't think of a single item to disprove Kelly's theory. NPR asked Gadget Lab readers to help debunk Kelly's theory of techno-immortality. Just head over to Krulwich's post and comment with an item that you can prove is dead and nowhere to be found. And of course, feel free to discuss your ideas with one another in our comment section as well.
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