[martin_fierro]

For some perspective, here are things that "Those In The know" have decreed will be obsolete by this year.

Here, too.

And here.

[Jonty30]

I disagree about flash drives. As long as there is information for my eyes only, I will use a flash drive over the cloud. I will also be the last man alive in using software I own over software I have no control over using.

In regards to GPS and encyclopedia, they also will always exist. The physical forms might change, but that doesn’t stop them from existing. My phone has a GPS and the encyclopedia is the internet.