There’s a strange reality coupled with technological advances that fundamentally changes how we live and how we view things from the past. Not that anyone intended to change how things used to be, it is just a side effect of the advances. Just as folks didn't need horses once the car was introduced, or washing boards once the washing machine became a common household item. Today one of the most obvious changes is internet and online shopping, and the end of malls. Who would have believed that? Because there’s a huge marketplace with often better deals online, the hassle of driving to, parking at, walking through, and spending money at stores in a mall is quite simply outdated. Why do that when you can just type commands on a search query line through something like Amazon, find a thousand of what you want extremely cheap, and have them shipped them to your doorstep?
Digital Photography And The Outcome
While the internet has made things more convenient, it has also erased other meaningful and even valuable aspects of daily life that were once common place. Digital photography has totally changed how we take, manage, and store pictures. In the world of yesteryear, family photos were kept in photo albums. Today, digital photos can be kept online and reprinted a million times.
Consequently the photo album is a bit outdated, (though smart people still print the best photos and make selective albums) and folks who care about passing those photos on will in any case have the best ones scanned and saved digitally. Additionally, any photos one cares about need to be placed in a new archival album to preserve the photos. So what do you do with those old albums once you've removed the photos? Surely you don’t just throw them out? Here, we’ll explore a few different ideas for organizing those old albums in order to upcycle, or if necessary toss!
