Life is moving at such a fast pace. Technology changes everyday. Something you buy today will become obsolete the moment you walk out of the store. Here are 8 things that will disappear by the year 2020.
1.) Landline Phones
With cell phones, the internet, and video conferencing, who really needs a landline? Sure, maybe office buildings and other commercial properties will have them, but the landline will all but disappear from residential homes.
2.) Dial-up Internet
Relatively cheap prices and the proliferation of high speed internet will put the final nail in the dial-up coffin. Kids 15 years from now will ask what was dial-up and how did we surf the internet with it.
3.) The Mail
Email has slowly killed post offices everywhere. The biggest customer of the USPS, Netflix, has the option to watch movies directly on your computer. Banking and bill paying are going paperless. While the mail service, envelopes, will slowly disappear, package delivery is here to stay.
4.) Newspapers
Thousands of newspapers across the world are shutting down and/or going exclusively online. The advertising dollars are not able to keep funding the paper operations. Advertisers are putting their ads for free on sites like craigslist. Goodbye newspapers.
5.) Compact discs
Does anyone buy music CDs anymore? With iTunes and illegal downloading becoming the best ways to get music, CDs will slowly disappear from stores.
6.) Printed books
With the iPad, Kindle and other e-readers becoming ubiquitous, printed books will all be digital. While books might be the longest lasting thing on this list, they will eventually succumb to technology.
7.) Privacy
Privacy will be a thing of the past in 10 years (if it isn’t already). Social networks like Facebook and Twitter have brought what you ate for breakfast into the public spotlight. And with the speed in which information is disseminated, nothing will stay private for long.
8.) Getting lost
It will be pretty difficult to get lost in 10 years. Almost every cell phone will come with a GPS system, so it won’t matter if you’re in the middle of New York City or in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, you will find a way to get back home.
the furry catapillar. the praying mantis.
perch(type of fish).. blue berrys.. strawberrys..
mountain lion.. the fox… rerrits.. wild honey bees.. more.. i been around 69 years and i see them going.. flowers.. mountain laurrells.. king crown..
wallnet tree.. poppys.. iris.. i could go on..
you people born after 1960. you havent seen.. i did
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I sure hope that REAL books NEVER disappear!! To me, an “ebook” is not a book at all. A book is much more than the information it contains. It’s also an object in itself, a thing of beauty to treasure and behold. The sensory delight of holding a book, smelling the ink and paper, turning the pages, even caressing and hugging it, cannot EVER be provided by a cold, lifeless machine. Oh, yes, books — printed books, that is — are ALIVE. They actually have a soul.
In the old “Star Trek” series, it was the romantic Captain Kirk who had a collection of “antique” books in his cabin aboard the “Enterprise”. Of course he read important, Federation documents on a computer. But when he wanted to get lost in the worlds of literature, he turned to his collection, and savored its rare pleasures like those of a fine wine.
I have sworn NEVER to buy a Kindle, Nook, or whatever other e-reader is out there. If you gave me one as a gift, I would throw it in the garbage. Reading is a sacred activity, but when it’s done on a COLD MACHINE, it becomes an activity utterly devoid of the numinous, and full of the mundane.
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