It’s all about progress, vinyl records giving way to streaming, handwritten letters replaced by text messages, that sort of thing.īowling alleys across the country are ditching traditional pinsetters - the machines that sweep away and reset pins - in favor of contraptions that employ string. Even if you don’t care about bowling, his vexation is understandable. “That should have been a strike,” Mills says.Ī technical revolution is changing the game he grew up with.