Streaming was supposed to kill off vinyl and CDs. Not a bit of it
The emergence of the expression “get a handle on” as a more modern version of “get to grips with” is an apt linguistic reflection of the history of technology. Putting handles on things is more modern than gripping them – 2.1 million years more modern, apparently.
That sounds like a dizzying amount more modern to those of us living in this era of fast technological change. Can you imagine something 2.1 million years more modern than the latest iPhone? What would it be like? Some lights in a cloud of semi-opaque gas that follows you around sending all your data to the giant gas god in space that feeds on it and defecates long seasons of high-budget quality drama that trail down on to the Earth like goldfish poos on to gravel?
