Blame DJT
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.
I have a five year old nephew that wants to be a mailman and a librarian when he grows up.
Halogen incandescents are available all over the place.
Number Nine is already gone. The Government records everything and stores it in the data center in Utah, or so we have been told.
I fear the Government much more than an Internet company, but the difference is likely to become moot.
As long as there are lightning storms there will be blackouts.
When I was a kid back in the 60a I loved to shift gears manually but even back then I would have taken the automaitic if it performed better and according to “Car and Driver” magazine they do.
I guess manual transmissions really will go by the way.
oops I’m supposed to include those mentioned.
0. The number of decent people telling ignorant islams and illegals to GFTS. Lemmings educated to accept mediocrity and whiners and islam rapists.
Wish I'd bought more 60W now.
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>>“The Wall Street Journal’s Rebecca Smith reports that a former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chairman is acknowledging for the first time that a group of snipers shot up a Silicon Valley substation for 19 minutes last year, knocking out 17 transformers before slipping away into the night.
People shoot transformers all the time around here. Snipers! LOL.
“Even the Ford F-150 pickup truck can’t be purchased with a stick anymore.”
Dammit! How’s a girl going to, ‘grind her gears’ in the future? ;)
Socialism ruins EVERYTHING it touches!
*SMIRK*
Yep. It’s a new racket to make sure everyone has to pay full pop for the textbooks.
ping
“No, government energy cops are not coming for your bulbs. .........
......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.”
So they ARE. Dimwit.
Blackouts will disappear?
Good, I can start drinking again.
There are some heavy use light fixtures in the house that go through 2 or 3 incandescent bulbs a year. Two years ago I replaced those with LED and haven’t had to change them yet.
Here ya go. All you want for $.41/ea. 2500 hour life.
Yet students will still somehow have to drop $1,000/semester on them.
“I have enough incandescent light bulbs to last me until the end of World War VII.”
Us, too! I buy some whenever I’m out. I cannot READ properly without my ‘Reveal’ bulbs. Pretty sure (that EVIL!) GE will continue to make them for...for-ever! ;)
They are now making “energy efficient” incandescent bulbs.
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