Posted on 03/18/2017 6:04:20 PM PDT by upchuck
Complete article here: http://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/business/T057-S001-7-things-that-will-soon-disappear/index.html
Quick list:
1. Keys - Keys, at least in the sense of a piece of brass cut to a specific shape, are going away.
2. Blackouts - Frustrating power outages that leave people with fridges full of ruined food are on their way out as our electrical grid becomes increasingly intelligent – and resilient.
3. Fast-food workers - Burger-flippers have targets on their backs as fast-food executives are eager to replace them with machines, particularly as minimum wages in a variety of states are set to rise to $15.
4. The clutch pedal - Every year it seems that an additional car model loses the manual transmission option. Even the Ford F-150 pickup truck can’t be purchased with a stick anymore.
5. College textbooks - By the end of this decade, digital formats for tablets and e-readers will displace physical books for assigned reading on college campuses. K–12 schools won’t be far behind, though they’ll mostly stick with larger computers as their platform of choice.
6. Dial-up Internet - According to a study from the Pew Foundation, only 3% of U.S. households went online via a dial-up connection in 2013. Thirteen years before that, only 3% had broadband (Today, 70% have home broadband). Massive federal spending on broadband initiatives, passed during the last recession to encourage economic recovery, has helped considerably.
7. The plow - Modern farmers have little use for it. It provides a deep tillage that turns up too much soil, encouraging erosion because the plow leaves no plant material on the surface to stop wind and rain water from carrying the soil away. It also requires a huge amount of diesel fuel to plow, compared with other tillage methods, cutting into farmers' profits. The final straw: It releases more carbon dioxide into the air than other tillage methods.
8. Your neighborhood mail collection box - The amount of mail people are sending is plummeting, down 57% from 2004 to 2015 for stamped first-class pieces. So, around the country, the U.S. Postal Service has been cutting back on those iconic blue collection boxes. The number has fallen by more than half since the mid 1980s. Since it costs time and fuel for mail carriers to stop by each one, the USPS monitors usage and pulls out boxes that don't see enough traffic.
9. Your privacy - If you are online, you had better assume that you already have no privacy and act accordingly. Every mouse click and keystroke is tracked, logged and potentially analyzed and eventually used by Web site product managers, marketers, hackers and others. To use most services, users have to opt-in to lengthy terms and conditions that allow their data to be crunched by all sorts of actors.
10. The incandescent lightbulb - No, government energy cops are not coming for your bulbs. But the traditional incandescent lightbulb that traces its roots back to Thomas Edison is definitely on its way out. As of January 1, 2014, the manufacture and importation of 40- to 100-watt incandescent bulbs became illegal in the U.S., part of a much broader effort to get Americans to use less electricity.
LOL! (Sears & JCP)
Dumbasses.
They should’ve added the T-Rex when, ‘Jurrasic Park Fever’ hit us in the 90’s.
Who the feck is running Milton Bradley these days? Yeesh!
Over a million people were without power here in SE Michigan last week due to a windstorm. At least one to twice a summer we are out for a day or 2 at a time. I look foward to the day when natural gas powered microturbines are how we supply our own power.
CC
LOL!
+1 :)
Many others have done what we did...buy and horde tons of regular light bulbs; I'll die before we run out of the; thank GOD!
Some of the things on that list may come true, all of them? NO!
Not a tobacco farmer I see
Me too! :-)
11) NWO globalists
Prefer LED bulbs here. Any heat reduction is a blessing in SFL. And I see no problem with the light from them.
Would gladly abandon incandescent for LED and am slowly changing out as I can afford.
As I understand it, some descents come in cans, some in bottles, and some in boxes. So you have incandescents, inbottledescents, and inboxdescents.
Hard to find in big stores, my hometown locally-owned supermarket has a lot of incandescent bulbs, and I buy a few every time I shop. Will buy even more.
They also carry non-clumping kittie litter in 10-pound bags, just right for a girl like moi to schlep upstairs to 2nd floor apt. And right for beloved kittie who does not deserve to have clumping litter clump up in his intestines.
They also have super yummy grass-fed beef and lamb, yum, but kittie should be so lucky.
“Buy locally” really works.
>> I look foward to the day when natural gas powered microturbines are how we supply our own power.
I’m counting on Mr Fusion.
In the 60’s I had Chevy Powerglide automatics. They were 2 speeds.
Books will just become MORE valuable.
Lots of people collect coins...they'll never go away.
Artists use pencils are, so they'll never go away and little kids use them in school. Many school districts finally woke up and have reinstituted cursive writing, so pens and pencils won't ever go away.
Radio and T.V. aren't going to go away....that's silly!
Steering wheels? Not for a VERY long time, since the self driving cars are not safe, crash a lot, and won't be ready for every day use for decades.
What's going to replace DVDs?
Reading list like this one, I’m reminded of how we were all supposed to driving flying cars by 1970.....
I wanted to find Liberals, Leftists on the list!
Young clerks who can make change accurately.
or enough to start it....
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