This won't speed up your work or give you anything useful that can help with what you're doing today, but it will give you pause. And it will make you appreciate the iPhone in your pocket anew – by comparing it to an advert from 1991.

The ad is for Radio Shack – which was known here in the UK as Tandy but was in other ways identical and doubtlessly ran ads like this – and Trending Buffalo says:

The back page of the front section on Saturday, February 16, 1991 was 4/5ths covered with a Radio Shack ad.

There are 15 electronic gimzo type items on this page, being sold from America’s Technology Store. 13 of the 15 you now always have in your pocket.

Read the full article to see the tastefully understated 1991 print ad in full plus the fifteen things Trending Buffalo is talking about. And maybe even why the writer is called Trending Buffalo.