ROSE-COLORED GLASSES Sure, we now have plenty of slick, practical alternatives to the film camera, BlackBerry. The difficulty of actually doing this has made me long for a time when technology was less omnipresent, less powerful, just…less. Here, writers of different generations pen obituaries to that bygone era, stories about the tech they miss the most. And a doctor reminisces about speaking her notes into a Dictaphone instead of pecking them into an electronic chart while her patient waits. For each, we’ve highlighted current gear or software that might help anyone feeling a similar loss recapture—or even improve on—the magic.

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