January 7, 2016
Go Modern, But Go Slow
By Ray Bowden, U.S. Air Force Academy / Published January 07, 2016 U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- My mother recently gave me a rotary phone my grandparents owned. It's jet black, heavy as a brick, and hung on a wall above their microwave oven for more than 30 years before they opted to "go modern" in the 80s. The dial alone is a brilliant work of retro art -- it's four inches in diameter, almost a centimeter thick, and rotates at a glacially slow pace. I remember standing on a stool with my grubby fingers wrapped around that phone...
