By: Daniel Nardini
When my wife returned from school, she brought back a very big sort-of suitcase made of leather and cardboard. It had a sturdy handle and brass clasps. According to my wife, it had been discarded and left at the free books section. I knew what the item was. It is what we call a file case. Similar to a brief case except this was used by professors, academics and even office workers at college for storing their papers. And since professors possessed lots of papers, they needed a fairly large case. The file case served this purpose. We will never know who used to have this file case, and we will never know who previously owned it (since there was no name on it).
We do know that something like this is no longer used, and no longer desired. No one really needs such a thing anymore since all official school records are now being kept on computer. All students (and even many professors) just store their homework, their class schedules, their notes, and even their textbooks on their iPads, their iPhones, their Samsung Three Galaxy phone, etc. There are still students who bring all their books in their backpacks, but a growing number of students are using their online access to read their texts and also use audio and video for class lectures. No longer do so many people need to store books or papers for anything. No longer do people have to physically write papers on paper, and no longer do students have to physically submit actual paperwork (they can do all of this online).
Because of all this, what is the point of a file case? If actual paperwork is no longer needed, then a file case is simply no longer needed. It is going the way of the old analog TV set, the wristwatch, the physical paper book, the corded rotary phone, and the wind-up alarm clock. These things have become or are becoming museum pieces that many young people are just unfamiliar with, and see no point to anymore. Well, I am keeping the file case for all of the newspapers in my house. Oh yes, someday the physical newspaper will also be as much an unwanted museum piece as the file case.
An Old File Case
By: Daniel Nardini
We do know that something like this is no longer used, and no longer desired. No one really needs such a thing anymore since all official school records are now being kept on computer. All students (and even many professors) just store their homework, their class schedules, their notes, and even their textbooks on their iPads, their iPhones, their Samsung Three Galaxy phone, etc. There are still students who bring all their books in their backpacks, but a growing number of students are using their online access to read their texts and also use audio and video for class lectures. No longer do so many people need to store books or papers for anything. No longer do people have to physically write papers on paper, and no longer do students have to physically submit actual paperwork (they can do all of this online).
Because of all this, what is the point of a file case? If actual paperwork is no longer needed, then a file case is simply no longer needed. It is going the way of the old analog TV set, the wristwatch, the physical paper book, the corded rotary phone, and the wind-up alarm clock. These things have become or are becoming museum pieces that many young people are just unfamiliar with, and see no point to anymore. Well, I am keeping the file case for all of the newspapers in my house. Oh yes, someday the physical newspaper will also be as much an unwanted museum piece as the file case.