A 'key' by your definition ...
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.
What happens if you lose your phone, it gets stolen, or it breaks and you lose it all ? And don't tell me that the sim ( or is it spelled sym? ) card will be okay.
But THAT isn't the same thing as having for REAL, hard copies of books, with notations and/or obits and handwritten dedications to the owner.
A 'key' by your definition ...
“Did you throw away all of the actual pictures?
What happens if you lose your phone, it gets stolen, or it breaks and you lose it all ? And don’t tell me that the sim ( or is it spelled sym? ) card will be okay.”
LOL! No. I gave them to my sister.
The original scans are on my harddrive which is back up to another which is backed up to a portable drive.
And they are not on a ‘sim’ card. My phone has a 32 gb sd card.
a 'key' by your reasoning ...
Oh, yeah, any day!
The importance of this alone dwarfs all other reasons! I have books that will never be on the Internet; and, they are critical works for both literary and life-sustaining reasons.
Internet works are typically shallow, certainly not all-inclusive. Many of them are circular links to incomplete material.
One case in point: Microsoft software documentation had usable content when it was organized and printed on paper. Their paperless documentation is mostly useless.
This goes on and on: There are no decent Internet materials regarding the machine shop or wood shop. Oh, there is a lot there, but not the in-depth quality of some of the 1900's books on the subjects.
Now you’re just being silly! ;^)
Good for you ( you don’t want to lose those pictures ) and please excuse the fact that I don’t know the name of what’s in your phone.
The "promise" that "someday" the net will have ALL books ( yeah...right...LOL ) on line, is a LIE! Some of the books I have were privately published, in limited editions, with hand water colored illustrations, well over 100 years ago and no way will they EVER be put on line. And I know this, because these were rare books books to begin with and not many of them still exist. They are literary treasures, to boot.
And you hit on a different kind of book, which is valuable to you and probably others, too.
” Keys are used to open and lock things.”
No. Keys are used to unlock and lock things.
Openers are used to open things.
The end of movie theaters was predicted a decade ago:
Movie studios were very afraid of TV, so they brought out Cinerama and 3D. I’m sure there’s been plenty of predictions of the demise of live theater since the original Birth of a Nation established feature length movies in 1915.
Nobody ever claimed that live theatre would die, when SILENTS were available; they didn't even do that, when TALKIES came about. The ONLY reason that live theatre is sort of dying out, now, is due to the obscene cost of tickets and the absence of anything worthwhile to see.
T.V. did manage to kill of radio ( I'm talking about drama, comedy and soap-opera shows ), but that too until the late 1960s, here. In the UK, radio is still sort of flourishing ( re drama and comedy shows ), but its on its last legs.
BIRTH OF A NATION was made in 1915 was NOT the first AMERICAN full length feature film ever made. "TRAFFIC IN SOULS" was made in 1913 and was a SIX REELER. "DAMON AND PYTHIAS", also a six reeler, was made in 1914. And there were other full length silents, long before BOAN.
You Have great eyesight and see very little.
Me neither. I really don't get out much anymore but I explore on YouTube a lot and am constantly amazed at what I didn't know already existed.
I remember my first trip across the desert, in a car, 35 years ago pulled into Needles and couldn't shut the car off it was so hot. 15 years later all my cars could idle all day in 125 degree temperatures and never overheat. My last five cars have been Toyotas as well.
I didn’t state that BIrth of a Nation was the first long film. I said it established the long form drama. The running time was nearly twice as long and ticket sales ten times more than those earlier films.
I see very well, you've never seen what is on my T.V.s, and there is NO WAY that you or anyone else here can or should attempt to refute my statement about the supposed "quality" of the picture on my T.V.s! And frankly, I don't want to see the pimples/skin flaws on the people on the screen, nor every blade of grass.
The reason that BOAN is still remembered, even by people who know very little to nothing about early film history, is because it was/is filled with lies, is blatantly racist, anti-North, and was shown in the White House by then president Wilson and highly praised by him.
You described me as all giddy over the suggestions I made to you. Insulting at best since all I was doing was offering help from my experience which you rejected as stupid on its face.
All I said was you may have perfect vision but use it very selectively. All new things are not trash, I can give you thousands of thing that you won't try that are infinitely better than the products/ideas you embrace.I don't want to see the pimples/skin flaws on the people on the screen, nor every blade of grass.
There are a lot of solutions for that problem beginning with the off switch but declaring you prefer a lousy picture because you may not want to see the flaws in the actors is just silly.there is NO WAY that you or anyone else here can or should attempt to refute my statement about the supposed "quality" of the picture on my T.V.s!
Frankly no one has to refute the quality of your picture, you define exactly a decidedly inferior picture that is solely defined buy the equipment you say you have. That is an unquestionable fact. You may be happy with that, your choice, but it is inferior, pure and simple. The fact that you can buy 4k TVs for $300.00 lets anyone see he difference. My first 1080 P 55 inch TV went for nearly $3,000.00 but I bought a 43 inch for my wife's computer a couple weeks ago for $223.00 at Walmart. That changed her computer experience for the better.
The newest computer I have is a 2010 model the older ones are over 12 years old. The TVs are a couple years old and for me currently there is little advantage to move to 4K since none of my Macs have a Video card to provide good performance at 4K, maybe someday. You like could learn a lot on YouTube maybe even see new things you would never have thought of and find them useful.
Sadly you sound somewhat like a closet Luddite.
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