Ten things that will disappear in our lifetime.

email from a friend and scioto ^ | 4/22/2018 | unknown

[libertylover]

...have just about wiped out the minimum revenue needed to keep the post office alive. Most of your mail every day is junk mail and bills.

Junk mail IS the primary revenue source for the Post Office, not stamps for letters to your mother.

[TexasGator]

My cellphone call quality is very good and the cost is only marginally higher but it pays for itself when shopping or traveling around.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

We traded privacy for anonymity a long time ago. The world is becoming more like a 'whack-a-mole' game. If you step out of the 'norm', you get whacked back into place. "All in all, your just another brick in the wall."

[TruthWillWin]

And if Trump fails at draining the swamp add Freedom to the list.

[GingisK]

I have found that technical information kept on the web is significantly inferior to technical information found in books. When people write books they seem to pay more attention to logical organization of the material and depth of content. When they write for the web they provide little information and lots of circular links. Microsoft is the world’s largest offender of degraded quality of technical information.

[libertylover]

Traffic lights are likely to vanish as self-driving cars establish a safety record superior to humans, leading to a ban on non-self-driving cars.

Now there's an interesting item I hadn't expected and I suspect it to be true. I'd guess that by 2050 (or earlier) most cars will be self-driving. There will be a period of overlap where it's still legal to self-drive, followed by the outlawing of self-drive cars and the removal of traffic lights, as you predict.

[GingisK]

One blast of EMP, and the books will come back. ;-D

[Drew68]

6) I can’t say, but I do believe live music is alive and well.

Sadly, it's on the decline. The live music scene is dying out. Bands used to have to cut their teeth on the bar and club circuit as they built up a following. The smaller venues that host these bands are closing down one after the next. The bar scene in general is dying out and the few remaining are choosing DJs or paying music licensing fees over a 4-5 piece band with a soundman.

[usconservative]

Logic is dead. Excellence is punished. Mediocrity is rewarded. And dependency is to be revered.. This is present-day North America. When crooks rob banks they go to prison. When they rob the taxpayer they get re-elected.

Posts like this make me glad I'm far closer to the end of my life than I am the beginning of it. The future ain't looking good, we're headed for another dark age.

[Jim W N]

11. Common Sense.

[TexasGator]

OTOH I have found info on the web that I would have never found in ten lifetimes at the library.

[usconservative]

And if Trump fails at draining the swamp add Freedom to the list.

You think we still have freedom in this country? Just try exercising your first amendment rights in this country and watch how fast the libtards on social media try getting you fired from your job and making your life a living hell.

[NTHockey]

Amazing. Most comments are about telephone communication. Are we not concerned about privacy loss? No privacy means government control of everything, even thoughts.

There’s a war in full force and we worry about creature comforts. The Foundinf Fathers would call us cowards and wonder why they risked life and personal wealth.

[spintreebob]

Post Office? terribly managed. That is why it is in trouble.

It should be sold to private investors that exclude FEDEX, UPS and AMAZON to maintain competition.

The real estate alone will bring many billions of dollars in a sale. One of the reasons the Post Office is so inefficient is even new post offices are located with the horse and buggy mentality.

There is upside and downside to living in remote rural areas, just as there is upside and downside to living in the city. Rural residents need to be honest about the reality of their choice. The Post Office is a good example.

[Larry Lucido]

There are still a lot of business offices, and there is no substitute for a good multi-line desk phone with a decent speaker function.

Of course, you need to make sure that anyone on "hold" can't hear the conversation you are having on the other line....

[GingisK]

I have found stuff in books that will never be found on the web.

[GingisK]

When four are gathered in conspiracy, three are agents of the king.

[warsaw44]

Agreed.

I am a small time eBay / Etsy seller who uses the post office almost every day. There are so many of us out there who rely on the relative low cost of the post office for shipping.

I could not use Fedex, UPS at anywhere the same costs.

Also the writers estimation of books going the way of the Dodo
bird might be incorrect. I read somewhere that the popularity of ebooks and the like has leveled off.

I stare at a laptop all day long and look forward to reading
an actual book the end of the day. I do not want to stare at a tablet in order to read the latest from a favorite author.

[neverevergiveup]

"#4: electronic gadgets can never offer the ability to quickly thumb through a book to read bits and pieces here and there... Electronically, it is very hard to thumb through the pages."

I agree entirely, and this is actually a problem with electronic medical records. If paper charts are well-organized, it's much easier to access information by flipping to appropriate sections (e.g. previous procedures, original operative notes, etc.) while dictating a note off a chart, as compared to trying to find everything and navigate multiple fields in an electronic record. Maybe if they were organized better, unlike the POS Epic program, it would be less painful.

[Romans Nine]

You win!!