Old News Critique-- Ernie and his Amphicar

The picture that stood out most to me at the old news show was Ernie and his Amphibicar. The picture has a certain quality to it. It shows a man who has a then groundbreaking piece of technology that is rather useless in everyday life, but he was simply having a good time using it. Although the picture was just originally intended to be a news piece, it has transcended that into being an presentation of a simpler time, when people were amused by a vehicle that could go on land and water. Seeing all the pictures in this exhibit made me think of how I'll see the pictures from today's news in twenty-five of thirty years. I think the whole exhibit is important for people to see. It shows that we are all living in what will someday be history. I especially got something from the exhibit because I often wish I was able to live in the past, but the exhibit made me realize that some day I'll be able to look back over my whole life and see how all the things have changed.