Seriously, though, I think y’all’re missing the bigger point: people certainly do put a lot of emotional weight on physical objects, and they may choose to use them rather than digital alternatives, but the fact that they have the choice indicates that it is now impossible to replicate the historical experience of using those objects. The future will not be devoid of analog communication and physical objects, but in an important sense it really will be all-digital, even when you’re using those objects. You can buy vinyl now, but it’s different when you know you could hear those songs instantly, if you wanted to. I still write paper letters, but they now mean something totally different, now that faster means of communication exist. The world of information scarcity in which those objects made sense is gone. And that, I think, is what Gen X people need to think about. We will soon be the last people who remember what that world was like. How do we want to communicate that experience to people who never had it?