Anachronism
Anachronism
/əˈnakrəˌnizəm/
noun
something belonging to a time period other than the one in which it exists or is depicted in, a chronological inconsistency, especially one that is old-fashioned
We know time to be a hurricane…our buildings, our sense of style, our ideas, all of these will soon enough be anachronisms, and the machines in which we now take inordinate pride will seem no less bathetic than Yorick’s skull.
– Alain de Botton (1969 – )