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The Drawer Of
Dead Technology
A Museum Nobody Visited On Purpose
Every house has one. It is in the kitchen, or the study, or the cupboard under the stairs. It contains a cable for a device this household has never owned. Nobody has ever thrown anything out of it and nobody ever will, because it might be useful.
The Permanent Collection
63 short chapters, catalogued with a seriousness the contents do not deserve.
- The phone that still works, technically, and has not been switched on since 2014
- A cable for a device nobody in this house has ever owned
- Three chargers, all slightly different, two of them for the same thing
- The headphones with one working side, kept in case
- A remote control whose device was replaced twice ago
- The router that did its best
- A memory card holding forty-two photographs of something important
- Two dead batteries and the optimism that kept them
- The instruction manual for a thing that left the house in 2019
Also Inside
- The one day a year the drawer is opened, and what is taken out of it
- The cable that is kept in case, and the case has never come
- A chapter on the phrase 'it might be useful', and its true cost
- The drawer's neighbours: the jar of screws and the box of keys
- An interview with the oldest charger, which had opinions
- What happens if you dust it, and why nobody has found out
- A moving tribute to the thing that definitely still works, probably
The Museum Plaque
Every museum has one of these. Ours is more honest than most.
- Drawer opened2009
- Drawer last fully emptiedNever
- Items examinedWhatever fits in two hands
- Items found workingOne, apparently
- Items thrown awayNone
- Reason given"It might be useful"
The museum is free to enter. It is not free to have. It has been costing you that drawer for eleven years.
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