10 Things That Are Practically Obsolete Now that We Have Smartphones

PJ Media ^ | 13 Nov 2018 | Chirs Queen

[HotHunt]

I never wear a watch anymore since getting a smart phone.

Or own a digital camera.

Or have land phone lines in the house.

[dfwgator]

11. Smart People

[golux]

10 Things That Are Practically Obsolete Now that We Have Smartphones.

Independent thought

Critical analysis

Memorization

Creativity in cooking for far too many

Privacy

Elementary mathematical ability

Grammar

Spelling

Memorizing one anothers' phone numbers

Three dimensional affection

[Rummyfan]

Yeah those too.

[gcparent]

I won’t give up my landline. Best in emergencies. Have plenty of flashlights. I use my address book for Christmas card lists

We don’t need answering machines anymore.

[Terry Mross]

Porn magazines and movies
... or so I’m told.

[cherry]

I keep many flashlights in the house and in the car....I still have a landline....I don't see too many pay phones anymore though....

what I hope doesn't go away completely are official mail drop boxes.....seeing fewer and fewer....

[DoodleBob]

There's an old saying about cameras that also applies to calculators: "The best camera is the one you have with you."

The same is said about firearms.

Thank you, FRiend. I just bought the app....It doesn't flash 'running' like the original 12C did when it calculates the IRR but otherwise it's AWESOME, TOTALLY AWESOME!!

It is also beautiful...like a piece of good modern art.

[bigbob]

Flashlights, my ass!

[Truth29]

I wonder if this list could be turned into a predictive test? Could you predict a persons politics and likelihood to vote for a particular candidate based on how many of these 10 items the voter uses and which ones?

[bigbob]

Kept losing pocket calculators so I now have an HP-85 in my shop. Desktop computer and instrument controller.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Maglites are unbeatable. Either for light or for beatings.

[thesligoduffyflynns]

I am far far from 80 but have & use all those things in my house. Not everything digital is good and I have purposely not made those changes. Life is good!

[null and void]

TMI!

[DoodleBob]

...then there is the flashlight that is also a stun gun...can't do that with an iPhone (yet)

[mountainlion]

Rural America, “Fly over country” composes most of the land mass of the country and has the least coverage.

[mikrofon]

Good manners
Real compassion
Useful, practical knowledge
…

[Ouderkirk]

I had a 28S.

THe RPN is hard to be for the simple logic of it. Once you got used to using it, it is hard to go back.

12, 3, +, 15.

[the OlLine Rebel]

What battery do you mean?

In the old days we had corded phones, that didn’t need any power or batteries. I always kept a corded phone for that reason. Now, that phone will go out along with a power failure, and the best they give us is a battery backup, which isn’t very convenient, BTW, to our layout/furniture situation.

I’m not talking about our remote phones, just those that did not use batteries.

I’m sure it will work out fine, but the point is we’ve lost true redundancy.

E.g., we have a back-up for our sump pump. No, it is NOT battery electric, it is pressure-based purely mechanics. IOW, it will work no matter how bad the situation.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Yes, nice, but disgusting how even textbooks are written specifically with TI-83/4 as their centerpiece. Talk about “product placement” and crony capitalism! Students are FORCED to buy these things even for remedial math. Absurd.