Ten Things That Will Disappear In Our Lifetime ?
1. The Post Office
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. (NOT SURE THAT'S SO BAD)
> 2. The Check
> Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with the
> check 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. (ACTUALLY A GOOD IDEA )
>
> 3. The Newspaper
> 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.
>
>
> 4. The Book
> 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 **** 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. (THAT"S A SAD ONE)
>
> 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.(BIG SAVINGS?)
>
> 6. Music
> 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
> "catalogue 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." (WE REALLY NEED NEW MUSIC THAT IS MEMORABLE)
>
> 7. Television Revenues
> 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. (YEP 5 1/2 long commercials running me off)
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. (WHY PAY FOR ALL THAT CONTENT YOU DON"T WANT)Let the people choose what they want to watch
> online and through Netflix. (I LOVE NET FLIX)
>
> 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 **** 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 click 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. (SCAREY?)
>
> 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) (JOINED IS FASTER NOTE TAKING)
>
> 10. Privacy
> 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.
(EACH OF THESE ABOVE GIVES US A LOT TO DISCUSS!!!)
>
> All we will have left is that which can't be changed:
> our "Memories".
>
> Logic is dead. Excellence is punished. Mediocrity is
> rewarded. And, Dependency is to be revered.
>
> This is present- day America.
> When people rob banks, they go to prison. When they
> rob the taxpayer, they get re-elected.