SD card. Half us old timers won’t even realize it’s not a floppy disk.
Yet 90% of young people won’t know what it is because digital cameras have been replaced by phones and phones no longer have microSD lol
I reject the question. That’s not a picture of a floppy disc, that is the glyph that means save
You literally called it the save symbol. And that’s what it is…100 years from now, if we’re still around and still have computers, the save icon will still be some stylized glyph based on the floppy disc
The existence of the floppy disc is already just a bit of trivia about the save icon
It’s like asking what we should change the Bluetooth symbol to? Why do you yearn for the world to burn?
An icon can be any random glyph, but it has to stay recognizable and consistent in meaning, that’s the entire concept here
Hope you are right.
But really the Save icon will become: ✨
thats’s the Google AI icon
You can’t just jump to the future, so use this one for the next decade:
Nobody else immediately thought of this?
every letter in the alphabet started as a symbol of something 2500-6000 years ago, “A” for instance is an upside-down Ox head. people in future generations will continue using the floppy symbol, cuz they learned that means saving, despite floppies not being relevant to their lives
An arrow pointing into a folder, similar to this. Sidesteps the tech issue altogether.
This makes me think “new file”
Let’s be real, when some shitty company (MS) gets around to it, it will be: ☁️⬆️
