These chairs on boing boing today are really cool. Really cool, but I dont think I would want to have them. Imagine how cold they would get on a cold day??

http://m.boingboing.net/2011/04/07/jet-age-chairs-at-re.html

Who uses them anymore? I’m really curious. I haven’t touched one in at least 6 years. No one I know has used one in years. Even my parents who are not the most computer literate will now “Google” something.

For the more tech savvy, lets look at the tsunami of options that are available for us.

- There is the traditional 411 which costs lots of money.
- 1800 Goog411 which is free and is awesome.
- There is the Google text service where you sms them what you are looking for and they text you back the answer.
- There Google maps that can look up quite alot of places that you want.

and these are just tools on the mobile phone. Give me a computer with an internet connection and the sky is the limit.

So that goes back to the main question, how are they surviving? Remember the old tag line “Let your fingers do the walking”? Well, I’m sad to say that it does not look like those old fingers have a lot more walking left in them.