Listening to records in Mullae-dong, Seoul
There are places where you can rent and enjoy an old-school Sony Walkman and tape decks are still revered as 'cool technology'.
In Seoul, South Korea there are ample opportunities to roll back the clock to 1987...and spend a quiet afternoon listening to WHAM records - on a record player, while enjoying a delicately roasted sesame seed latte.
There are also places where you can rent and enjoy an old-school Sony Walkman, and tape decks are still revered as 'cool technology'.
Superficially this kind of yearning for outdated devices in a hypermodern city may appear absurd, but the attraction is not for the historical artefact itself, but rather (we would suggest) of for the first-hand experience of an alternate world; a disused period of time.
Relentlessly pushing forward is just one possible path towards remarkability, but there are feasibly countless time dimensions available for purposeful experiential design that is commercially compelling.
The point is not to fear forgotten or unfashionable experiences. For many, going back to the near past will be an incredibly futuristic thing to go through.