Giving up my iPod for a Walkman

Interesting, who walks around with a Sony Walkman these days? In “Giving Up My Ipod for a Walkman,” by Scott Campbell, the father of a teenage boy introduces his old walkman that of which once served as the hippest gadget comparable to the iPod of today. Scott Campbell, a 13-year-old, decided he would give his iPod a rest for one week in exchange for using his father’s old walkman instead. Using the fast-forward/rewind buttons as the shuffle button and carrying around tapes in order to play more than twelve songs, Scott was surprised that his father viewed such a technological contraption with amazement in the past. A few more of the many inconveniences that Scott had faced were that the walkman was very large and bulky, had distorted sound, and very short battery life. The only advantage the walkman had over the iPod was that it had two headphone sockets built in so that he could more easily share music with someone and a power socket to charge the battery.
It seems to be apparent that by looking back at technology’s past, Scott was able to better appreciate the technology of today. Also who knows, if the iPod would even exist today without the invention of the walkman hence the convergence of old and new technological media enables the growth of more advanced and novel technologies. In addition, such an article can make one ponder about the iPod becoming close to an obsolete apparatus in the future just as the walkman had.