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Ten
Things That Will Disappear In Our Lifetime
Get
ready to imagine a world without the post office. They are so deeply in
financial trouble that there is probably no way to sustain it long term.
Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about wiped out the minimum revenue
needed to keep the post office alive. Most of your mail every day is junk
mail and bills.
Britain
is already laying the groundwork to do away with checks by 2018. It
costs the financial system billions of dollars a year to process
checks. Plastic cards and online transactions will lead to the
eventual demise of the check. This plays right into the death of the
post office. If you never paid your bills by mail and never received
them by mail, the post office would absolutely go out of
business.
The
younger generation simply doesn't read the newspaper. They certainly
don't subscribe to a daily delivered print edition. That may go the way of
the milkman and the laundry man. As for reading the paper online,
get ready to pay for it. The rise in mobile Internet devices and
e-readers has caused all the newspaper and magazine publishers to form an
alliance. They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell phone
companies to develop a model for paid subscription
services.
You
say you will never give up the physical book that you hold in your hand
and turn the literal pages I said the same thing about downloading
music from iTunes. I wanted my hard copy CD. But I quickly
changed my mind when I discovered that I could get albums for half the
price without ever leaving home to get the latest music. The same
thing will happen with books. You can browse a bookstore online and even
read a preview chapter before you buy. And the price is less than
half that of a real book. And think of the convenience! Once
you start flicking your fingers on the screen instead of the book, you
find that you are lost in the story, can't wait to see what happens next,
and you forget that you're holding a gadget instead of a
book.
5.
The Land Line Telephone
Unless
you have a large family and make a lot of local calls, you don't need it
anymore. Most people keep it simply because they've always had
it. But you are paying double charges for that extra service.
All the cell phone companies will let you call customers using the same
cell provider for no charge against your minutes.
This
is one of the saddest parts of the change story. The music industry
is dying a slow death. Not just because of illegal
downloading. It's the lack of innovative new music being given a
chance to get to the people who would like to hear it. Greed and
corruption is the problem. The record labels and the radio
conglomerates are simply self-destructing. Over 40% of the music
purchased today is "catalog items," meaning traditional music that the
public is familiar with. Older established artists. This is also
true on the live concert circuit. To explore this fascinating and
disturbing topic further, check out the book, "Appetite for
Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper, and the video documentary, "Before the
Music Dies."
The
networks are down dramatically. Not just because of the economy. People
are watching TV and movies streamed from their computers. And they're
playing games and doing lots of other things that take up the time that
used to be spent watching TV. Prime time shows have degenerated down to
lower than the lowest common denominator. Cable rates are skyrocketing and
commercials run about every 4 minutes and 30 seconds. I say good riddance
to most of it. It's time for the cable companies to be put out of our
misery. Let the people choose what they want to watch online and through
Netflix.
8.
The "Things" That You Own
Many
of the very possessions that we used to own are still in our lives, but we
may not actually own them in the future. They may simply reside in "the
cloud." Today your computer has a hard drive and you store your pictures,
music, movies, and documents. Your software is on a CD or DVD, and
you can always re-install it if need be. But all of that is changing.
Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all finishing up their latest "cloud
services." That means that when you turn on a computer, the Internet will
be built into the operating system. So, Windows, Google, and the Mac
OS will be tied straight into the Internet. If you cl ick an icon, it will
open something in the Internet cloud. If you save something, it will be
saved to the cloud. And you may pay a monthly subscription fee to the
cloud provider. In this virtual world, you can access your music or your
books, or your whatever from any laptop or handheld device. That's the
good news. But, will you actually own any of this "stuff" or will it all
be able to disappear at any moment in a big "Poof?" Will most of the
things in our lives be disposable and whimsical? It makes you want
to run to the closet and pull out that photo album, grab a book from the
shelf, or open up a CD case and pull out the insert.
9.
Joined Handwriting (Cursive Writing)
Already
gone in some schools who no longer teach "joined handwriting" because
nearly everything is done now on computers or keyboards of some type (pun
not intended)
If
there ever was a concept that we can look back on nostalgically, it would
be privacy. That's gone. It's been gone for a long time anyway. There are
cameras on the street, in most of the buildings, and even built into your
computer and cell phone. But you can be sure that 24/7, "They" know who
you are and where you are, right down to the GPS coordinates, and the
Google Street View. If you buy something, your habit is put into a zillion
profiles, and your ads will change to reflect those habits. "They" will
try to get you to buy something else. Again and again and
again.
All
we will have left that can't be changed.......are our
"Memories".
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