Posted on 08/03/2017 1:14:19 PM PDT by sodpoodle
Ten Things That Will Disappear In Our Lifetime
This is USA oriented, but Canada and the rest will not be far behind. Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not, here they come.
Maybe not in the seniors of today lifetimes but more likely in our children’s.
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1. The Post Office
Get ready to imagine a world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to sustain it long term. Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about wiped out the minimum revenue needed to keep the post office alive. Most of your mail every day is junk mail and bills.
2. The Check
Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with check by 2018. It costs the financial system billions of dollars a year to process checks. Plastic cards and online transactions will lead to the eventual demise of the check. This plays right into the death of the post office. If you never paid your bills by mail and never received them by mail, the post office would absolutely go out of business.
3. The Newspaper
The younger generation simply doesn't read the newspaper.
They certainly don't subscribe to a daily delivered print edition.
That may go the way of the milkman and the laundry man. As for reading the paper online, get ready to pay for it. The rise in mobile Internet devices and e-readers has caused all the newspaper and magazine publishers to form an alliance. They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell phone companies to develop a model for paid subscription services.
4. The Book
You say you will never give up the physical book that you hold in your hand and turn the literal pages I said the same thing about downloading music from iTunes. I wanted my hard copy CD.
But I quickly changed my mind when I discovered that I could get albums for half the price without ever leaving home to get the latest music. The same thing will happen with books. You can browse a bookstore online and even read a preview chapter before you buy. And the price is less than half that of a real book. And think of the convenience! Once you start flicking your fingers on the screen instead of the book, you find that you are lost in the story, can't wait to see what happens next, and you forget that you're holding a gadget instead of a book.
5. The Land Line Telephone
Unless you have a large family and make a lot of local calls, you don't need it anymore. Most people keep it simply because they've always had it. But you are paying double charges for that extra service. All the cell phone companies will let you call customers using the same cell provider for no charge against your minutes.
6. Music
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.
To explore this fascinating and disturbing topic further, check out the book, "Appetite for Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper, and the video documentary, "Before the Music Dies."
7. Television Revenues
The networks are down dramatically. Not just because of the economy. People are watching TV and movies streamed from their computers. And they're playing games and doing lots of other things that take up the time that used to be spent watching TV. Prime time shows have degenerated down to lower than the lowest common denominator. Cable rates are skyrocketing and commercials run about every 4 minutes and 30 seconds. I say good riddance to most of it. It's time for the cable companies to be put out of our misery. Let the people choose what they want to watch online and through Netflix.
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.
Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all finishing up their latest "cloud services." That means that when you turn on a computer, the Internet will be built into the operating system. So, Windows, Google, and the Mac OS will be tied straight into the Internet. If you click an icon, it will open something in the Internet cloud. If you save something, it will be saved to the cloud. And you may pay a monthly subscription fee to the cloud provider. In this virtual world, you can access your music or your books, or your whatever from any laptop or handheld device. That's the good news. But, will you actually own any of this "stuff" or will it all be able to disappear at any moment in a big "Poof?" Will most of the things in our lives be disposable and whimsical? It makes you want to run to the closet and pull out that photo album, grab a book from the shelf, or open up a CD case and pull out the insert.
9. Joined Handwriting (Cursive Writing)
Already gone in some schools who no longer teach "joined handwriting" because nearly everything is done now on computers or keyboards of some type (pun not intended)
10. Privacy
If there ever was a concept that we can look back on nostalgically, it would be privacy. That's gone. It's been gone for a long time anyway. There are cameras on the street, in most of the buildings, and even built into your computer and cell phone.
But you can be sure that 24/7, "They" know who you are and where you are, right down to the GPS coordinates and the Google Street View. If you buy something, your habit is put into a zillion profiles, and your ads will change to reflect those habits.
"They" will try to get you to buy something else. Again and again and again.
All we will have left of that which can't be changed.......are our "Memories."
And some of us have already lost them!
(received this as an email - but looked it up for copyright potential - the email was expanded)
Unfortunately, we’ll also have liberals and socialists taking away any money we make and giving it to those that don’t deserve it. Too bad they weren’t in the list.
Keep dreaming
The post office will exist as long as there is a federal govt
The younger generations are returning to books. The tablets and readers do not give the same feel. The youngsters I know are returning to books
Music will always exist. Even now they are remastering on vinyl
This is the site which is identical to the email I received.
http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/ten-things-that-will-disappear-in-our-lifetime/129369
11. The White Race?
Yeah, half the price and half the quality. Part of what is driving this is people settling for lesser quality just because it is convenient.
Too bad they weren’t in the list.
Would it not be great to hear the last of the libs, having their ideology proven to destroy and devolve human beings, individual liberty and freedom, are living in San Fransisco in a commune.
I dunno making it up, tired, heck ALMOST FRIDAY....
Have a good night Freepers -
We have a few decades to go yet and will see a revival of freedom and shrinkage of government in the meantime. Things will get better in the next few decades.
But your list will probably occur before the end of this century, after Jesus takes the Church up into Heaven with the Holy Spirit. After that, all hell breaks loose for seven years the likes of which the nations and inhabitants of the world have never seen.
11. The Republicant Party.
Yep. It's constitutionally protected. Of course, so are a lot of things that are largely ignored, now.
Yes, even schools are trying to get rid of hard copy books. Once that is done ( if it ever is ), then whoever is in charge can happily censor away, deny certain written materials to all/everyone, and/or change wordings. And THAT is extremely dangerous and evil!
What are "they" going to do about the fact that millions ( billions? ) and millions of books are now extant AND that there are many private collections of them? BOOK BURNINGS? Will Fahrenheit 451 become fact, instead of fiction ?
People will willingly give up their family photos and movies, because they can put them on the CLOUD? The author of this piece is a tad dense!
Why didn't he or she just write that robots will take over and eventually, there won't be any humans on this planet?
Some people don’t believe in the concept of animals having human ‘owners’. I’ve seen ads for dog ‘companions and partners. Some PETA folks say ‘Your pet doesn’t love you, it’s just trapped by you!’
At least twice a year I hear of someone asking a court to declare animals as ‘sentient beings’ who are on par with or equal to human beings, and as such entitled to legal representation. I am not making this up. Most times, the court says ‘no’. So this kind or activist will continue to shop for the right judge.
They're trying...
I’ll guess the website “Scioto” will disappear within 10 years. I’ll be 67 in about two weeks. I might disappear within 10 years, also. Such is life. Our only hope is the saving grace of Jesus Christ. Through Him, we are assured to have eternal life within the presence of God.
Cursive writing will remain for literate people. So will books, just not te same topics. Holding a book is still often superior to a computer.
Music isn’t dying. It is to important to many. It will take a different form/delivery system.
Privacy is already mostly dead.
It involves jobs. Anything the govt wants you to have will be physically delivered
:Snort!:
In what universe buddy?
ebooks cost the same if not more then the real thing. And a real book won't suddenly change because they decided to "update" their embarrassingly wrong statements.
12. The US.
More than 90% of financial transactions are already digital.
And people make fun of crypto currencies.
You use them every day.
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