In a culture obsessed with technology, the media have developed a smirky attitude toward low-tech. If you believe everything you read, books are doomed dinosaurs, at least in paper form. Newsprint is an archaic custom we will remember with bemused fondness just a few years from now. Forget about a pencil and a day planner to record that dental appointment what you need is a Palm Pilot. Yet it s a lot more complex than that.
Board games are a good example.
They re hanging on. People still buy them. Families still play them. Consider Monopoly, the granddaddy board game of them all. The company keeps a list of its top 30 classic games titles such as Monopoly, Scrabble, Twister, Life and tracks it sort of like a Dow Jones industrial index.