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Seven Products, Concepts, and Ideas That Won't Exist by 2025
Motley Fool ^ | 08/21/2012 | Sean Williams

Posted on 08/21/2012 2:33:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

I'm sort of ashamed to admit that Friday night's baseball game between the San Francisco Giants and Colorado Rockies is the inspiration for this article. As a sidebar to the actual game itself, the broadcasters noted that someone had built a replica DeLorean hovercraft and was riding it around McCovey Cove in San Francisco, Calif.

This got me thinking (yes, a replica hovercraft DeLorean inspired me; laugh all you want), what if we could travel into the past, or better yet, into the future to see what products, concepts, and ideas survived and which ones drifted away. Back to the Future II wasn't exactly the best predictor of what the future would be like. According to the movie, in three years we're supposed to have flying cars and a Pepsi is expected to cost close to $50. Neither of those predictions looks even remotely feasible, although I will give the movie credit for correctly predicting a baseball team in Miami.

So today, I'm going to give you my best Doc Brown and highlight seven products, concepts, and ideas that won't exist by the year 2025. I could well be wrong, but these seven things are a long way from hitting 88 MPH and sending themselves back to better times.

Products

Concepts

Ideas

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There you have it -- 1.21 gigawatts of products, concepts, and ideas that are destined for extinction by 2025. Let me and your fellow Fools know your take on the above ideas in the comments section below, as well as other products, concepts, and ideas that could fall by the wayside over the next decade.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: products; technology
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To: mwilli20
At no point was I ever talking about flat lenses.

I was talking about mounting systems that allow standard lenses to be mounted on thin cell phones and tablets without a raised rim or deep recess.

Go back and look at all of my posts.

You really need to spend some time with a dictionary. Failing that, you may need a good english as a second language teacher to explain to you what a mounting system is.

Because I have been talking about advances in mounting systems - not advances in lenses and you do not seem to be able to comprehend that those are two different things.

61 posted on 08/24/2012 6:53:02 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: MrEdd
You know, instead of wasting your time accusing me of being a retard in need of remedial English classes you could have posted a link to this mounting system because I still can't find any info on it.

In fact if you search Google for “flat surface lens mounting systems” the top 3 links talk about flat lenses.

But to quote Ann Coulter in Treason “Were there any communists in the State Department?” or in our case, you still haven't answered my original question: Do you believe that digital cameras will be gone in 13 years?

62 posted on 08/26/2012 11:10:12 PM PDT by mwilli20 (BO. Making communists proud all over the world.)
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