This podcast looks at the significance of old technology in our modern lives. An over-looked addition to the return to basics - locally sourced foods, holidays at home, recycled everything -is the appeal of vintage computers and other devices from an era of brick-sized mobile phones and portables that looked like suitcases. Archaeologist Christine Finn examines the relevance of the collectors and their mission to educate and inspire. For the collectors at California's Vintage Computer Festival these pioneering machines are a source of nostalgic and incredulous delight. Christine also compares the Luddites, who distrusted the machines of the Industrial Revolution, with those who refuse to embrace changes in society today. Less