Posted on 04/22/2018 6:13:57 AM PDT by sodpoodle
And how long would they exist if they delivered without adequate postage?
I clicked on it to express my opinion on articles that refer to “our lifetime”,but I didn’t read it————that’s done a lot around here,I’m surprised you have never noticed it before.
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4Ltr
I’ve been through the Big Empty—Lewisburg, Hughesville, Dushore, Towanda, etc. Beautiful country, and probably politically “red.”
And that landline puts out a healthy 40 volts DC. There are many ways to adapt that for 12 volt DC lighting in the house and many other 12 volt applications during power outages.
Actually, that is simply not true.
Dude, my car charger was hardwired at the factory and my home chargers have only been plugged in on the day I got them.
When I come home I just set the phone down on the chafter. The phone is never plugged in.
Not really.
If you leaf through a book, you can stop wherever an interesting word or phrase catches your eye. With an electronic book, you either have to rapidly slide the pages across with your finger, which I suppose is good finger exercise, but you can’t really go through the pages very fast if you want to see any words, and it takes a tediously long time to move any significant number of pages. Or you can make the pages small, in which case, you can move several of them at a time, but you can’t see any of the words. Being able to see the words and rapidly thumb through is essential for my reading style. And using the word search function does not help. Also, I remember parts of books by where they are in relation to the covers, whether they are on the left or right page, the shape of the paragraph and words, etc., qualities which are lacking or severely limited in electronic format.
“Reason has been replaced by emotion.”
Reason has been replaced by acceptance. What you are told by sources in power is accepted as the truth. And their only failures are when they get caught in their BS and they have to say, “Go back to rule one, where I say so.”
rwood
Do you know the difference between a banjo and an onion? Nobody cries when you chop up a banjo.
I agree this remains in the future. But notice that not so long ago, many thought computers couldn’t play chess above the level of top grandmasters, and would never beat the world champion. So the world was shocked when IBM’s Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in 1999. Today, less than 20 years later, anyone can download chess engines to their smartphone which can destroy all human chess players.
Also notice that even fewer years ago, it was predicted that computers would *never* learn to play Go at the level of world champions. Needless to say, AlphaGo has since beaten the world champion.
In comparison to playing chess or Go, it wouldn’t seem that driving a car safely is that difficult.
Actually it is.
Landlines are powered by lead-acid batteries in the central office. They must be charged. They will be depleted in a few days.
I disagree about music. It is one of the most eternal, primal experiences we have and it will NEVER disappear. The music industry is as {bleeped} as it has ever been, full of whores and thieves, but music is still thriving and always will. The industry itself has no choice but to get better. Musicians are gifted from Gd and hard work. They will always be. I have some deep connections to the industry and I see young people who want to change it in good ways, and tech will end up helping (and changing things) just like it does in every facet of life.
I spend a lot of time with people with Alzheimer’s and there is something magical about seeing an old, neurologically broken person in diapers who can’t tell you what Day year or month it is sitting down before the piano and playing an elegant concerto like they did at 25.
I would like to add another thing that is disappearing. That is losing “value.” Antiques. Young people (even including myself and I’m not all that young) have zero interest in antiques for antiques’ sake. Antiques Road Show is a farce now because even though “a similar piece sold at auction once for $10,000,” in 2018 NO ONE WANTS YOURS. Trust me on that one. (However, if you do love American antiques and wish to spend a lot of $ buying them, please don’t hesitate to call me... ;))
Let’s see, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, maybe, and ended 20 years ago but people just started noticing.
My granddaughter wnet to a college in that area and she enjoyed it——once she got used to it, -——she is basically a city person.
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Plus your fingers love twirling the dial, and you love chatting while wrapping yourself in the curly cord.
Lists of Things that will Disappear will disappear because they are ALWAYS wrong.
Then here is one they never think of: Electronic devices go obsolete in a few short years. Who among you can still read your 8" or 5-1/4" floppy disks? Now even the CD-ROM is getting to be a hit-or-miss way to keep information. The point is, none of these electronic devices will stay in service long enough to make information available even ten years later. I have read from 100 year old books. They continue to work for a very long time. They are what we call "reliable".
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