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 Technology can make our lives easier. It was so much more convenient to press this year's mooncakes using the plastic molds but one day the spring will wear and the plastic plates will probably go brittle and snap. 

The wooden one is harder to use, harder to wash, but in 100 years it will still be functional unless I leave it in the outdoors to rot. The likelihood of the plastic ones lasting 100 years is next to 0. 

Chasing tech is a short lived pursuit. Old school methods will still be here long after our tech enabled creations have failed or reached end of life.

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