Ten things that will disappear in our lifetime.

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

[gunnyg]

Great first choice!
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[napscoordinator]

Landline and newspapers are gone from my household already. Post office is rare.

[TexasGator]

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

OTOH, MOST books are on the web.

[grumpygresh]

Privacy. Because these millenials buy digital books, no longer buy CDs or DVDs, use credit cards for a cup of coffee and keep their homing tracking device on themselves constantly, they can never have any expectation of privacy.

The answer here is cash and the retention of information in a independent, physical form. I would imagine that older computers that don’t require Internet updates to function will be at a premium.

[TexasGator]

Do you know whay a ‘bookmark is?

[PUGACHEV]

Robot calling, not obsolescence, is killing our enthusiasm for landlines. We owe no debt, do not donate cars or possessions to charity, and have no intention or need to refinance. Still, we get no less than twenty robo calls every day from mortgage companies, charity pick up services, and rogue debt collectors. Our telephone alllows us to block fifty numbers, but that capacity has long since been exceeded. We are plagued by annoying calls and it is only getting worse.

[exDemMom]

I have yet to hear a cell phone that matches the quality of a land line. I can tell when someone is calling on a cell phone, even when I am using a land line. The sound quality just is not there.

I think I am particularly sensitive to sound quality, since I have very bad tinnitus. I hear a constant loud high-pitched screech of two or three simultaneous frequencies; if the sound quality is at all lacking, it is difficult or impossible to understand what the other person is saying. I think that people who do not have tinnitus can probably compensate for the lower sound quality on cells without too much difficulty and may not even notice it.

Speaker phones are difficult to understand, for pretty much the same reasons.

[laplata]

I see human robots/zombies every day.

[matthew fuller]

Interesting, but somewhat sad.

[greenishness]

For those that think cellphones are expensive, the early 2000’s called and they want thier cellphone back. You can get a good smart phone for $80-$100 and an unlimited plan for $30 per month.

[DoodleBob]

Amen. I too have books and while I'll miss my CDs and albums and live rock shows, I'd love to see these guys become stars in a post-EMP world of music.

Thunderstruck by Steve'n'Seagulls

[Sirius Lee]

6. Music

Rap is crap. And whatever isn't rap is overproduced pablum where each song is designed to sound exactly the same as the next. I don't know why the folks who produce this stuff are so afraid of a melody. Maybe they just don't know how to craft one.

[Wolfie]

The Post Office is the only business in the country forced to fully finance pensions, going out decades. The law was a poison pill designed to kill it. Other companies will have their woefully underfunded pension obligations bailed out by the taxpayers.

[TexasGator]

I can easily say that my smartphone pays for itself.

[headstamp 2]

11) Grammar

[exDemMom]

Indeed. For business, I save everything in electronic format on my computer. But if I am in the middle of a task, I print everything related to the task and put it in a folder for easy reference. Then, when I finish the task, I scan everything I need to keep—if I have written on any papers, I want to keep the notes—and shred everything.

I suppose, when I leave this job, I will save a selection of those electronic records to a dvd, and then destroy that several years in the future. For legal reasons, of course, since I am no Hillary Clinton.

[pinkandgreenmom]

Thanks for sharing that!

[neverevergiveup]

Yes. Still not the same. Plus lots of things from outside hospitals etc. are ‘scanned’ in to EPIC as PDFs, and EPIC does not allow you to easily go back and forth from those to the note you're writing. It's a lot easier for inpatient documentation, but outpatient is a hassle, especially if you're thorough. Plus, when they launch EPIC they only go back ~3-4 years, so you wind up not having access to some very important information (e.g. operative reports).

[exDemMom]

In many cases, the information just is not conducive to electronic format. For example, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is best read by opening a page at random and reading it. I can’t imagine reading that book from front to back. At work, I have a copy of it which I had found in a bargain rack at a bookstore, five dollars for a hardcover.

[PeterPrinciple]

Logic is dead. Excellence is punished. Mediocrity is rewarded. And dependency is to be revered..

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