Lately i was struck by the save icon used in many of the softwares. It employs a diskette to signify a "saved" function. In this day and age where diskette seems to be so outdated that computers don't come with the floppy disk drive anymore. How interesting it is to see an icon that makes sense probably in the 80s or earlier surviving now in this world where the smallest storage capacity goes in a few hundred megabytes. Wherein our default mode of storage is the thumb drive.
So it begs the question. How would we express the "save" function that makes sense and reflects our digital age today. Would it be a welcomed change? Or something that is irrelevant and bears no consequence. How would future generations who have not seen a floppy disk relate to it? Would it be a seen as a quirk of people and their thinking?
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