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Maybe oneday the save icon will go because applications will maintain their state automatically and the whole concept of working on an "open" copy of a file which is different from the "saved" one will disappear. Actually, why hasn't that taken over a long time ago? Some applications and many web apps do it so they don't need any save icon.

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> Actually, why hasn't that taken over a long time ago?

Ultimately because people prefer the control that it gives them. They can edit a document and just decide they don't want to save their changes and they can do that. Or they can save it under a different name or in a different folder.

> Actually, why hasn't that taken over a long time ago? Some applications and many web apps do it so they don't need any save icon.

And many don't, thus it's still useful.

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