We Are What We Forget

Everyone will be familiar to point of amnesia
about the trickle down theory of technology,
often because it has gone on so long
and it has rarely been clearly articulated.

From from the valve radios of the 1930's
through to small black and white televisions
to those early portable MW and LW radios,
and the stereo radiograms of seventy years ago,

to the music centres of fifty years ago
through to the walkman of more recent times

-the more portable and private the listening,

the better the quality of sound became,
but the less musical the newer music became

as new sounds matched newer technologies.

What I find most discomforting is how little
we remember of how entertained we were
by those technologies that have filled
so much land fill, if indeed the items there

were allowed to decay that constructively

in the days before talk 'green footprints'.