I don't know if I agree with the e-reader, but the rest seems pretty hard to argue with.
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I’m not going to the link Seth.
Desktop computers?
Voting machines might be out of use by then too
He’s right and wrong on consoles, I doubt they are integrated into TV”s. However it’s clear that the standalone consoles is dead, I can see the future consoles being part of a dvr/digital set top/ content on demand box you get from your local cable company.
Flying cars won’t be around by 2020.
I have just put all of our home movies onto DVD discs. I hope there is some other way I could store them.
Alot of it seems geared towards moving into a data-streaming model.
You won’t be able to listen to a song or watch any type of vid without shelling out. Probably each and every time.
Ferget it. Of I pay to buy a CD, it’s MINE!!!!
I’ll listen to it once or listen to it a thousand times, same thing with DVD movies and vid...
BTW, I still have about 50 LP’s, and the means to listen to them...
and do listen to them.
I think commas and semi-colons don’t stand a chance of surviving.
If the CD will disappear then that surely means the Eberhard Faber #2 word processor is on the way out too.
Teleprompters.
men
marriage
manners
freedom
Anyone can throw in a few megapixel sensor. The problem is getting a decent lens and flash. I bought a 12 megapixel camera with a 5x optical zoom and really close macro focus for $100 about a year ago. You might get the same sensor in a phone, but they'll put on a crappy little small aperture lens to give you enough depth of field to get away without focusing and a digial "zoom", but it won't be nearly as good as a five year old digital camera.
I disagree with 75% on the list. Camera, mp3 players, and e-readers in particular. DVD players and recordable cds and dvd’s also.
Most people I know and I deal with a lot of people don’t want everything to on instant viewing. At least 25% of the people I work with have no computer and do not plan to get one.
My e-reader (Kindle) is awesome. The battery lasts at least a month. And I can synch where I am on my desktop home computer, my work computer, my son’s Android. So no matter what I have access to, I can read it. The best thing, though, I can sit outside and read a book; can’t do that with a tablet.
Not sure I agree.
I predict a backlash against integrated technology, following some future, massive data breach, of one of the major non-gaming wireless providers.
The thing with technology now, is that it’s all fundamentally linked. Your phone deposits trace information from your gps onto your photos. Your car keeps track of your location. Your information is all loosely associated, and may end up at risk.
A stand-alone gps does not provide information to your your stand-alone digital camera, which does not communicate with your flip-phone.
Dinosaur tech? Or simple, security?
Gotta disagree (partially) on the CD/DVD disappearing. It might disappear for entertainment (which would be stupid), but the computer industry will need permanent media for some time yet. There will always be a need to do an operating system install on the servers that make all the other tech magic happen, and it has to be do-able without a network connection. And USB drives aren’t a viable solution, as they lack the permanence of a properly stored DVD disc.