As technology ages it sometimes becomes less essential.
Sometimes not. A wheel is just as useful as it has ever been.
And a few people still find punch cards and floppies useful.
But some technologies are simply gone and forgotten.
But what if the technology’s disappearance is not due to age, but to simple unavailability?
For economic, political, or cultural reasons, we could wake up one morning and an entire technology could no longer exist.
How would we adjust?
