{"id":5952,"date":"2012-07-05T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T03:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5952"},"modified":"2012-07-05T20:00:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T03:00:12","slug":"finding-a-future-in-the-digital-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5952","title":{"rendered":"Finding a Future in the Digital Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4996\" title=\"userpic=masters-voice\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicmasters-voice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"64\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>Today&#8217;s news chum brings together three stories of old things being impacted by a digital future:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The High School Reunion<\/strong>. A recent article in the SacBee asks the question, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2012\/06\/22\/4581080\/is-facebook-cutting-demand-for.html\" target=\"_blank\">Has Facebook killed the High School Reunion?<\/a>&#8221; The basic issue is this: We&#8217;re now staying in touch with our high school friends via Facebook, so who needs the reunion? I think this is certainly a valid question for the younguns &#8212; that is, the folks that have been on the internet their entire life. Will my daughter go to a reunion when she&#8217;s been in touch with her friends all her life? I can&#8217;t answer that yet &#8212; ask me in 10 years. But for us old farts, I don&#8217;t think the reunion will die, because not everyone is on Facebook.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vinyl Records at Radio Stations<\/strong>. An interesting article from the Chicago Tribune about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/ct-met-wgn-records-20120705,0,7429723.story?dssReturn\" target=\"_blank\">AM radio station WGN selling their record collection, because they no longer had a need for it<\/a>. This, evidently, is what a lot of radio stations are doing. This is a collection of over 10,000 records. Most of it was sold to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dustygroove.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dusty Groove America<\/a>, which operates a storefront as well as a mail-order business. Store owner Rick Wojcik and his employees hauled dozens of cardboard boxes filled with LPs, 45s, 78s and CDs out of WGN&#8217;s storage space in Tribune Tower on Michigan Avenue last week and took them to Dusty Groove headquarters at 1120 N. Ashland Ave.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Road Maps<\/strong>. I love maps. People ask why I started my highway pages, and a map collection and curiosity about numbering is the answer. The LVRJ had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvrj.com\/business\/paper-maps-trying-to-find-their-way-161409505.html\" target=\"_blank\">a nice article about whether road maps are going away in this digital era<\/a>, exploring how some states have stopped printing them, but others still want the maps for visitors and such. Me, I love the paper maps because you can use them in places where you could never use a digital map.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Music:<\/strong> <em>The Most Beautiful Strauss Waltzes<\/em> (The Ball Orchestra of Vienna): The Beautiful Blue Danube<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s news chum brings together three stories of old things being impacted by a digital future: The High School Reunion. A recent article in the SacBee asks the question, &#8220;Has Facebook killed the High School Reunion?&#8221; The basic issue is this: We&#8217;re now staying in touch with our high school friends via Facebook, so who <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5952\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5953,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions\/5953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}