Demise of an Overhead Technology

Those of us who have been living for decades in a technologically active society have experienced a bewildering number of changes/advances. I had just mastered the VCR and it was gone, as were many other ‘wonders’ superseded with increasing frequency by newer and more advanced things. The Swiss Army knife of technology, the modern cell phone, with its myriad of uses may dampen one branch, because there can’t be much more to add?

But the subject of this story is an innovation that came and went half a century ago on the other side of the world. It was highly specific and…