What’s an incandescent?You know, those funny looking things you bought by the dozens back in 2014 and stored away.
BTW, still available, but at a premium price.
Posted on 03/18/2017 6:04:20 PM PDT by upchuck
Complete article here: http://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/business/T057-S001-7-things-that-will-soon-disappear/index.html
Quick list:
1. Keys - Keys, at least in the sense of a piece of brass cut to a specific shape, are going away.
2. Blackouts - Frustrating power outages that leave people with fridges full of ruined food are on their way out as our electrical grid becomes increasingly intelligent – and resilient.
3. Fast-food workers - Burger-flippers have targets on their backs as fast-food executives are eager to replace them with machines, particularly as minimum wages in a variety of states are set to rise to $15.
4. The clutch pedal - Every year it seems that an additional car model loses the manual transmission option. Even the Ford F-150 pickup truck can’t be purchased with a stick anymore.
5. College textbooks - By the end of this decade, digital formats for tablets and e-readers will displace physical books for assigned reading on college campuses. K–12 schools won’t be far behind, though they’ll mostly stick with larger computers as their platform of choice.
6. Dial-up Internet - According to a study from the Pew Foundation, only 3% of U.S. households went online via a dial-up connection in 2013. Thirteen years before that, only 3% had broadband (Today, 70% have home broadband). Massive federal spending on broadband initiatives, passed during the last recession to encourage economic recovery, has helped considerably.
7. The plow - Modern farmers have little use for it. It provides a deep tillage that turns up too much soil, encouraging erosion because the plow leaves no plant material on the surface to stop wind and rain water from carrying the soil away. It also requires a huge amount of diesel fuel to plow, compared with other tillage methods, cutting into farmers' profits. The final straw: It releases more carbon dioxide into the air than other tillage methods.
8. Your neighborhood mail collection box - The amount of mail people are sending is plummeting, down 57% from 2004 to 2015 for stamped first-class pieces. So, around the country, the U.S. Postal Service has been cutting back on those iconic blue collection boxes. The number has fallen by more than half since the mid 1980s. Since it costs time and fuel for mail carriers to stop by each one, the USPS monitors usage and pulls out boxes that don't see enough traffic.
9. Your privacy - If you are online, you had better assume that you already have no privacy and act accordingly. Every mouse click and keystroke is tracked, logged and potentially analyzed and eventually used by Web site product managers, marketers, hackers and others. To use most services, users have to opt-in to lengthy terms and conditions that allow their data to be crunched by all sorts of actors.
10. The incandescent lightbulb - No, government energy cops are not coming for your bulbs. But the traditional incandescent lightbulb that traces its roots back to Thomas Edison is definitely on its way out. As of January 1, 2014, the manufacture and importation of 40- to 100-watt incandescent bulbs became illegal in the U.S., part of a much broader effort to get Americans to use less electricity.
Hehehe I took the bull by the horns on that one!
They stopped making VCR’s last year. I pick one up at the thrift store every so often to build up a reserve.
...Things That Will Soon Disappear Forever....
Checkbooks
Cash/coins/pennys
Any books
Newspapers
Magazines
Auto workers
Pencils/pens
Steering wheels
Typewriters
AM/FM radio
DVD/Blue Ray
Broadcast TV
What’s an incandescent?You know, those funny looking things you bought by the dozens back in 2014 and stored away.
BTW, still available, but at a premium price.
And Public pay Telephone booths with dial phones & phone books
If I can’t get my Jeep in standard I will buy something else.
***incandescent light bulbs to last me***
Same here. every time I open a drawer or storage box I find more 100W light bulbs.
Now it is getting hard to find the 100W equivalent in squiggly fluorescent bulbs.
Whats a typewriter? (just kidding.)
I hate click bait and wish this column would just be a column, instead of a pop-up ad nightmare if you want to see the next thing.
Number 11: Global communism
well maybe wishful thinking but here is hoping multiculturalism can be achieved by the nation state and respect between nations.
Number 11: Children with a proper education
Here in MI just in the last few months, water(Flint), power(brother was just out for almost a week after windstorm), sewer/water(sinkholes, 60+ year old water/sewer lines, lead/other contamination)
And of course(on the "privacy" side)the full implementation of "the internet of things" means NO privacy...at least not for the peons and serfs.
Not a particularly religious person myself, but a case can certainly be made for prophecy...where it relates to the degradation of humanity anyway.
Picture this snowflake society should a REAL depression/power-grid failure/terrorist attack(real or false flag)hit.
Guess the lesson is to always be prepared, have a course of action, and of course...LOTS of Twinkies!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3119845/posts
“The Wall Street Journal’s Rebecca Smith reports that a former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chairman is acknowledging for the first time that a group of snipers shot up a Silicon Valley substation for 19 minutes last year, knocking out 17 transformers before slipping away into the night.
“The attack was ‘the most significant incident of domestic terrorism involving the grid that has ever occurred’ in the U.S., Jon Wellinghoff, who was chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at the time, told Smith.”
The plow ain’t going away as long as we keep raising
that evil weed tobacco.
Privacy is a lost cause.
Civility, integrity, credibility.....
I’ve had that problem most of my life :)
College text books are history.
That’s another reason why I will keep both of mine. One Willys and one American Motors.
I'm gonna wager Laz's virginity isn't long for this world either. He's a really good person and one of these days one of those jailed teachers is going to be online reading free republic and thinking to herself "you know, when I get out of this place, I'm gonna hit Laz, because when I was at my lowest, he said he'd hit me."
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