Remains of the Day: New York Subway Token Cufflinks
Monday, October 26th, 2009
As more and more parts of our lives that used to require vast numbers of physical objects-archives that needed paper, or music collections that needed record albums, for instance-get upgraded to digital formats that exist only as a series of zeroes and ones, what becomes of all of that stuff? Unfortunately, a lot of that stuff will end up in a landfill, but some of it will find a new home.Once upon a time, in a great metropolis, citizens used tokens to pay their fares to travel underground. Eventually, the tokens were replaced with plastic cards that weren’t nearly as charming. Thankfully, there’s a new use for the tokens in our New York Subway Token Cufflinks:
Isn’t that much better than throwing them all away?
