Already been mentioned by others...
Books.

Granted, they aren't a technology but if Amazon & Google have their way they would soon end up being redundant.

I love my books, I just love buying a new hardback by one of my favourite authors and getting comfy in my reclining chair with a bottle of Whisky by my side and looking forward to an evening of getting lost in a new adventure.

Paperbacks for older books that I can't get the hard cover for, being anally retentive about not bending the spine and having a crease appear. Putting it up on my bookshelf after reading it and seeing it sit there with the others novels in pristine condition.

Getting inspiration when I'm stuck with my own novels and the plot is dying a death, gazing up at my bookshelves and looking at each spine and remembering the story in each book which gives me ideas to get my own stories back on track.

A small part of me would die if I ever had to give them up for an ebook reader. I don't need a bit of tech that can hold 3,000 novels when all I ever need at any one time is just the one.
(ParaSitius is an Optimistic Pessimist, Mon 8 Nov 2010, 15:10, 6 replies)

I bet the Muslims would think twice...
Before burning their kindles with copies of the bible and the Satanic Verses...
(The Archduke of South London I'm in your Girlfriend eating her organs, Mon 8 Nov 2010, 15:20, closed)

But would they react so disgruntled if Pastor Wossname in Florida
had simply deleted a copy of the Koran from his iPhone?
(sabre-tooth monkey, Mon 8 Nov 2010, 15:45, closed)

I love books!
I try to buy as many as possible that are over 100 years old, making them even older "technology". I'm currently in a pickle as I have the first two and last in a series, but not the needed third. I can't read the last without the third!
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Mon 8 Nov 2010, 15:47, closed)

What is it?
Which one are you after, you never know one of us may see it whilst out and about for you.
(langers, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 13:16, closed)

It was "A Thief In The Night" by Hornung.
The third collection of stories in the A.J. Raffles series. Some wonderful soul on ebay directed me to a website called Abe Books where they had *three* of the exact book by the same publisher as the other two I own! I'm getting it for christmas. =D

Thank you for offering your help. That really was very nice of you.
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 19:20, closed)

Could not agree with you more.

(Cylon Bum Raider already knows how this will end, Mon 8 Nov 2010, 16:56, closed)