Posted on 08/25/2021 10:22:06 AM PDT by sodpoodle
Change is part of human life. Our world is constantly changing and evolving to fit our needs and to keep up with technology. In years past, we have seen the typewriter replaced by the computer and the clothes line replaced by dryers. Not everything has been completely replaced though; many things have been updated such as a wooden box camera to a digital camera. Those who adapt to the change will be the ones to thrive in the changing world. All others will be left behind. Here are 10 guesses on the things that will disappear in our lifetime:
1. The Check
Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with checks 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. The result of this means less mail traffic and the post office will suffer.
2. 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. E-mails and companies like 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.
3. The Newspaper
The younger generation simply doesn’t read the newspaper. They certainly don’t subscribe to a daily delivered print edition. 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.
4. The Book
You say you will never give up the physical book that you hold in your hand and turn the literal pages, but you will. 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. Another convenience is not lugging around a stack of heavy books.
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. For the extra service, you’re paying double. All the cell phone companies will let you call customers using the same cell provider for free.
6. Corporate Music
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. Opportunities on the Internet such as online radios and websites like Pandora allow people to listen for free and reach the masses directly without a company.
7. Network Television
Revenues to 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. Cable rates are skyrocketing and commercials run about every 4 minutes. People will choose what they want to watch online and through companies like Netflix.
8. Personal Files
Today your computer has a hard drive and you store your pictures, music, movies, and documents. Your software is on a CD, and you can always re-install it if need be. 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. If you click an icon, it will open something in the Internet cloud. In this virtual world, you can access your music or your books, or your whatever from any laptop or handheld device.
9. 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. You know who “they” are!
10. Fax Machine
Ever since the introduction of e-mail, the fax machine has not been needed or used as much. The only things the fax machine is still used for are when a scanner is not available to e-mail a document somewhere, secure documents that need to reach a location quickly, or when a signature is required. In the future, everyone will relay documents through their smart phones. Eventually, people may even teleport and then people will no longer need to send documents, but just hand them over.
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Early ‘80’s Michael Crichton movie with Albert Finney and Susan Dey. Pretty much about CGI replacing actors and models. Not a bad movie.
Ahead of it’s time. Early 80’s CGI was crude by today’s standards...................
IMO It’s state-actor level work to intercept and pull off a man in the middle attack, to detect and steal a fax going over a switched (POTS) circuit.
Endpoints are the weak link. Including the humans at the other end.
And yeah Caller ID data is meaningless.
The fax contents are pretty secure although authenticating the sender is dubious.
Would you agree?
Hi.
And quarter troops in private homes or facilities.
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We have kept one Land Line in the house. Good to have.
Those reasons are all archaic thinking. You could use most of them for still using snail mail. I’m retired, but when I was working it irritated the hell out of me when someone said they wanted to send me a fax. Just send me an email for crying out loud!
Yet New York City added 660,000 people from 2010 to 2020. The rest of the state is another matter…
-PJ
1) 8 Track
2) Beta max
3) Cassette
4) vinyl records
5) Juke boxes
6) VCR
6) Muscle cars
7) Most 60's rock groups (but Kieth Richards will still be here)
8) the floppy disk
9) Good TV shows
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10)Those violent Saturday morning cartoons
That ignores rural areas with DSL at best and crappy to no cell service.
Debit or Credit cards are here and will be for a while. Just
like at the gas station, put card in, give it your ID # and
fill up. The format may change but the process is here. Go
thru line at the grocery store, same process. Cashless is the
wave of the future.
From the list:
“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. For the extra service, you’re paying double. All the cell phone companies will let you call customers using the same cell provider for free. “
TDD machines and captioncall phones use landlines.
No landline, no comms; deaf and hearing disabled folks would have no means of communication.
There are around 11 million deaf and hard of hearing people in the US:
https://apstarc.acl.gov/APS-Blog/August-27-2020.aspx
1. The Check
Agreed. The government will most likely try to force us to stop using checks. It is so much easier for them to track our expenditures on credit cards, that for them, it is a no-brainer.
2. The Post Office
Of course they want to get rid of this. It is, in fact, one of the very few actually Constitutionally aurhorized government functions. I still use postal mail and checks for certain bills that I like to have physical records of, such as my mortgage.
3. The Newspaper
Newspapers killed themselves. Their endless propaganda merely moved online.
4. The Book
This is probably going away as well, though I suspect certain physical books may continue to be published.
5. The Land Line Telephone
Haven’t had one of these in ages. No point to it at all.
6. Corporate Music
Nope. Not going away. Sure, most of the music from the big labels is nothing but crap, but they are =very= good at marketing crap to sheep. I fully expect this to continue. OTOH, there =is= a lot of good music out there if you know how to look for it.
7. Network Television
I certainly hope this dies completely, but it’s death will be long and drawn out, because there are still a =lot= of sheep out there who feel the need to be told what to think about everything imaginable.
8. Personal Files
“The Cloud” is just someone else’s computer. I put NOTHING in the cloud. Physical disks are still superior in every way to network drives. They’ll pry my hard disk out of my cold, dead fingers right along with my encryption keys.
9. Privacy
Pretty much agreed. Pricacy is dead. We’re going to have to figure out how to route around the damage the government and corporations are doing to this.
10. Fax Machine
People still use Faxes? I would like to see greater acceptance to Open Document formats that allow for true digital signatures. Unfortunately, the government is not interested in any kind of personal security that this would facilitate. Same goes for good crypto.
Funny article. Seems as if the writer just winged it in ten minutes. Every item on the list will be here in 50 years. Things that went away thanks to electricity 1940:
stove-heated irons
horse-drawn alfalfa cutters
kerosene lanterns
hand-pump water spouts
wood-burning stoves
ice boxes in the kitchen.
😳
I am barely on the grid now.
So,I think I could return to the days of land lines..outhouses..get water from a spring...grow..can a lot of ones own food.
Probably won’t have choice before long.
11. Christians (Rapture)
5. The Land Line Telephone
I’ll be keeping mine for as long as they exist. Sure, the technology is over 100 years old, but right now, that’s how I get my internet (VDSL). Also, during the floods here in Houston of 2015, 2016 and 2017, when we didn’t have power for a week or more, the land line phone worked. We could still communicate with people, and get calls, too. Crazy how a POTS works, even with 2 feet of water on my 8 acres of land (but not in the house).
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