Nine Things That Will Disappear In Our Lifetime

2/14/13 | Email

[CollegeRepublican]

Ten years ago my friend got a job out of college working for the Yellow Pages selling ads. I told him to get a new job. The only thing the yellow pages were good for was starting fires.

My mailman hates me already because I never check the mail. It is only junk. I pay all my bills online.

I will miss newspapers only because they are good for eating crabs and cleaning fish.

I had a landline for about a year in my house until I realized that I only used it to call the pizza guy and then I got rid of it. I have gone 9 years cell only.

I will not give up hard copy books. I have a kindle and a tablet but they don’t always work on the beach or in the treestand while hunting.

I need TV for football and hockey.

Most of my music is classic country, classic rock, classical and reggae. Today’s music sucks, but maybe I am just getting old.

I have worn a watch since high school. I will not give it up.

[the OlLine Rebel]

You want to flip to something you know about where it is, you find it quickly.

I’m not talking about having to bring up the search function, type in some specific thing, then find it. You might not even know just what word is applicable.

Besides, so much with books is assumed you’re reading fiction stories. In non-fiction, there is much more variety and not just narrative text. In non-f, there are many more possibilities for visual cues where things should be.

Plus there is still more eye strain with digital pixels. I can attest to that.

[Smokin' Joe]

The thing I really like about the printed word is that it still has the same words when I go back to it.

History on the cloud will be Winston Smith's dream job.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I like not having to turn on the computer just to find a phone number or do other such little things when it’s not on. Takes at least 5 min to get them fully ready.

[untwist]

Very good and interesting list. Additionally, just as the Canadians have discontinued the penny, so will we. I wouldn’t be surprised with our currency devaluation that the nickel and dime won’t be far behind. The quarter may become what the penny is today. With e-commerce, this is coming.

Also, the old FM stereo systems we used to buy are all but gone now. I don’t think the cloud replaces all the hard media, but rather we will have computer hubs that control everything in our house, including our digital media and utilities, pay our bills, pretty much run our lives as much as we wish them to.

[dfwgator]

Today’s music sucks, but maybe I am just getting old.

You'd be surprised how many kids agree, my son loves classic rock, won't listen to the new stuff.

[Shadowstrike]

Books, buy them now while you can.

Landlines? No, too many people are realizing that when (on the Gulf Coast) you get hit by a Hurricane 9 out of 10 times the ONLY thing that will work is your Landline.

[RegulatorCountry]

Music? Somebody’s showing their age. It's human nature to sort of fixate upon the music of your youth and young adulthood, it's the soundtrack of so many of your best memories. However, that is not to say that there is not new music being made to suit anyone’s taste. It's a veritable Renaissance of music, without the tyranny of the record labels.

You just can't passively sit back and expect the music to come to you anymore, nor can you expect to see it in a store or hear it on commercial radio. You've got to seek it out, and seeking it out is easier than it's ever been.

Don't know how to go about it anymore? Set up your own “radio station,” lol. There are several sites that allow you to do this. The pioneer and still perhaps the best known is Pandora, http://www.pandora.com although there are others.

Just go there, set up a username and password, enter in a song or musician you love and let it go, giving thumbs up to the songs it chooses that you like, thumbs down to those you don't and no rating if you're not sure. It builds an algorithm unique to you, to guide what music to play that you will like. Give it time, at least several weeks.

I guarantee you won't be saying new music sucks.

[bluetick]

I have noticed this.

One exception is Ruby Jane.

http://www.rubyjane.org

[GJones2]

I have a strong spacial component to my memory, so I have some books too in which I recall exactly which part of a chapter or page contains what I’m looking for, even when I don’t remember a particular word to do an electronic search. In general, though, I don’t think manual searching comes anywhere close to electronic searching.

As for eye strain with ebooks, e-ink devices (as opposed to ordinary CRTs) are easy on the eyes. Also being able to make the size of the print larger is a great advantage compared with ordinary books. The print in many conventional books is too small to be read comfortably by some persons (especially older persons). Cataracts have reduced my vision to no better than 20:30 in my best eye, but I can read ebooks with ease.