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.
Three things that will disappear soon.
Jimmy Carter.
Bill Clinton.
and Hillary!
Maybe we could have a combined service and put
them in a deep pit.
Three things that will disappear soon.
Jimmy Carter.
Bill Clinton.
and Hillary!
Maybe we could have a combined service and put
them in a deep pit.
Anyone have an old septic tank that needs to be filled?
“Alas the island sunk beneath the waves, and there are no more deodorants.”
Hank Johnson warned us!
At 199,000 miles just about all of my 97 Lumina is a ticking time bomb but the transmission has never had any problem.
The last couple of Toyotas that have been through here aren’t touched except for the routine service. My new one is the same.
I still like to turn a wrench on the old stuff if for no other reason that I can do other things than support technology. At least the oldies are mine so if I break something, no one else needs to be involved.
Yesterday I ordered a wheel/harmonic balancer puller kit and am going to try my hand at a Willys steering box. I have all the rest of the parts in.
Today I will go where my CJ7 project and the off and on again K5 live and see what I can do. They are in a fairly secure building a hop,skip, and jump away from the local PD. They ride by frequently. I’m glad they do.
The big job for K5 is the cooling system but I have been doing little things to suit me, mostly TLC stuff. I also plan to strip the dead AC system too.
There’s a whole lot of public school ignorance in that article.
Lol. Thanks.
There will always be a niche market for incandecents. I am happy with the ones I have bought lately.
I trust a metal key more than some cheap electronics for locking things.
I never liked the “curlie-cue” light bulbs but I’ve been checking out the LEDs and so far, I like what I see.
If only we had listened!
Metal keys are not going away. That’s just silly.
Call me a Luddite, I don't care, reading a book, a REAL BOOK, is better than reading on a machine ( iPad and phone, or anything else that they may dream up ), because nobody can change a word of it, nor delete it on you. There's also a trail, of what you are reading and privacy, of any kind, is getting harder and harder to have now.
You think that I don't know how the KEY fob, for a car works, when I tell you that I have TWO of them, for two different cars? LOL
It's still a key...you can't open the doors without one on your person and neither will the car start. ;^)
Sorry you missed out on it, but as all collectors of any say....”some day”! I truly hope that you manage to get one, very soon!
Movie makers became nervous about losing out to T.V. back at the end of the 1940s, when T.V.s were still pretty rarely owned on a large scale. But what has killed off play/movie/and network T.V. has been unions and the garbage that all three things now produce/put on; self inflicted destruction; all!
Excellent vehicles. Sadly Bay State roads get salted in the snow, which eats frames away. You don’t have that problem in the Lone Star State, hence the term ‘Southern Car’.
Keys blackouts and clutches aren’t going away, at least not soon. Way too many of the things we lock don’t deserve the price of the hitech replacements, and nobody can remember more than 2 or 3 combos. As long as there is lightning it will strike the wrong places and kill the power. And there are enough die hard stick junkies that there will be a market for clutches all the way up until there’s no longer a market for driving yourself.
And privacy went away a long time ago, people are just finally noticing.
I get out plenty; just don't want extraneous, absolutely USELESS crap. A while back, we were given some stupid gadget to hook on the T.V., so that we could get something or other on one of the T.V.s. I said thanks, but please take it and use it yourself, we don't want this.
We don't have NETFLIX, don't watch Amazon programs, and am NEVER going to be interested in what you giddily find so wonderful.
We have T.V. with the whatever it's called so that the picture is supposedly better. My spouse and I can't see the difference and yes, our eyesight is good. ;^)
The person I replied to, said that he went to the library to use the machines to get books on his machine. I want REAL books, I can hold and read from. :-)
And I also collect first editions, some signed, that are my treasures. :-)
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