Posted on 08/03/2017 1:14:19 PM PDT by sodpoodle
We’ll be right behind them.
Correction: Political parties.
Many people are divesting themselves of useless items, and at this point can you think of anything more useless?
you know what I miss most?
A wind up clock with its glow in the dark hands.
Tick tock tick tock.
Yes they are.
11. Barry Manilow. Please.
Latin music sucks
The Post Office - would require a Constitutional amendment since it is required in the Constitutuion.
The Check - This has been predicted for a long time, people seem to love getting balance transfer checks and signature loans in the mail.
The Newspaper - Probably.
The Book - No, Books are a non-volatile storage medium which can last centuries.
The land Line - People who like this will switch to VOIP.
Music - The RIAA is dying a deserved death. If you are not finding new music, you are not looking in the right places. Most of the best music these days are being self published on sites like youtube, spotify, band camp and similar websites.
Television revenues - Time for a paradigm shift in this industry.
The things you own - Memory is cheaper than ever for those that prefer it.
Cursive Writing - Like other things it is dead for the masses, but will still be around.
Privacy - I will always have privacy in my own home, as I do not purchase products that spy on me.
This is one of the saddest parts of the change story. The music industry is dying a slow death. Not just because of illegal downloading. It's the lack of innovative new music being given a chance to get to the people who would like to hear it. Greed and corruption is the problem. The record labels and the radio conglomerates are simply self-destructing. Over 40% of the music purchased today is "catalog items," meaning traditional music that the public is familiar with. Older established artists. This is also true on the live concert circuit.
How is that "music dying"? Music will still be around, even if the "music industry" dies off. There was music before the "music industry" came along and music will survive whatever happens to the industry.
8. The "Things" That You Own
Many of the very possessions that we used to own are still in our lives, but we may not actually own them in the future. They may simply reside in "the cloud." Today your computer has a hard drive and you store your pictures, music, movies, and documents. Your software is on a CD or DVD, and you can always re-install it if need be. But all of that is changing.
That goes for books and art and audio and video recordings, but all the pants and sweaters and dresses and wrenches and lamps and tchotchkes that people have cluttering their houses aren't going to be migrating to "the cloud" any time soon.
Wrong about books. Ebook sales are falling off. Consumers don’t like reading on their phones, and don’t want to bother lugging around another gadget. Not to mention purchasers of ebooks don’t actually own the ebooks. And ebook prices are still too high.
New music is dying. Seriously, how do you improve on what has already been recorded?
There was a lot of great music made in the 70s that was unknown then, that is being discovered now by new generations.
9 and 10 are the only 2 they’re at all accurate on.
#10 - Privacy was the foundation for abortion. Pretty sure that’s gonna be fought tooth and nail. Penumbras and emanations from Griswold won’t go down easily.
I watched with fascination a Millennial woman banker doing some fancy printing on a form.
It is wondrous, what these so-called futurists foresee, sometimes.
I wonder if the ‘pos(t)er at Scioto’, has ever gone through a huge natural disaster, leaving not one atom of their precious posessions intact. I think not. I submit, for the viewing public, my witness .. Hurricane Katrina. The town of Buras, LA., was wiped clean off the face of the Earth, and most folks with it.
I am a writer, both by (gasp) pen and ink, and by digital means. “Cursive writing”, a.k.a. “Penmanship”, once the pride of the American business world (either Palmerian or Spencerian), IS BEING RE-INTRODUCED INTO SCHOOL CURRICULA THIS SCHOOL YEAR!! Books, papers, journals, letters, are all things that have that air of immortality or notoriety, and are physical aids in filling in the gaps of history. “The cloud” could be seized by a censorship nut, and there goes the truth that folks have deposited to this ethereal media.
As long as there exist federal government unions, the post office will always be alive, even if it is not to openly pander for Hillary Clinton.
Music will exist, even to be sung in the shower. The present convention of “anyone-with-an-electronic-device-can-sing” nonsense is finding its dregs. Music, as a means of instruction for those wishing to actually learn to play an instrument, shall always exist. When the lights go out, and it is longer than the life of “your electronic device of choice”, how else can you read sheet music?? How else could you HEAR music??
One more thing about books. Ask someone how many cookbooks, ‘Harlequin’, or even ... “Game of Thrones”, “Harry Potter”, “Nero Wolfe” books grace their shelves.
That's right! Everything old is new again.
Vinyl record sales have been skyrocketing, recently experiencing an annual growth of 10 percent, according to The Washington Post. More than 9.2 million records were sold in 2014, according to Time. By 2015, sales had jumped to $416 million, the highest level since 1988, Fortune reported.
Sony plans to bring back vinyl records
I know several "seasoned" individuals who have no access to the internet or other electronic means of paying bills. One of them still uses Princess phone.
The bit about music was very interesting. I still like 70s and 80s music and listen to essentially anything I want on YouTube.
I can understand paying for a live concert. But do people still actually buy recorded music?
Why would they do that?
And double why given the current crap that passes for “pop music”.
Here you go.
Yet another group of predictions from someone that will have no repercussions if they are wrong. Nice job to have where you can make things up and never are required to be correct. Sort of like being a global warming scientist or an liberal economist.
I rarely use the APC at the post office.
When it comes to newswrap papers, I never buy them. It’s probably been a decade since I purchased one.
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