july

I’m fascinated by “semantic fossils” that exist in the world

I.e. where we use a phrase / word like “hot off the press”, “floppy disk icon”, “riding shotgun” or “horsepower” but we don’t use a shotgun in cars anymore, or horses for measuring power or floppy disks anymore

One day, we’re going to be on another planet, and some kid who’s never been on earth is gonna wonder why some things are still measured in 365 days

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building roc.camera, writings: july.rocks

> but we don’t use a shotgun in cars anymore

speak for yourself

I take it you haven’t been to downtown SF lately

Yeah - the correct situation is:

Riding with a shotgun in a horse carriage to deter bandits in the Wild West from raiding you