Things Babies Born in 2011 Will Never Know - Polidicks

Source: [url]http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/111745/things-babies-born-in-2011-will-never-know?mod=family-kids_parents[/url] [quote] Huffington Post recently put up a story called [URL="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AtfvZuSolHzlqVdtbUX1uGsPBa1_;_ylu=X3oDMTE2Mm1tOTJoBHBvcwMyBHNlYwNhcnRpY2xlTWFpbgRzbGsDeW91cmVvdXQyMHRo/SIG=12iqf3b0r/**http%3A//www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/22/obsolete-things-decade_n_800240.html"]You're Out: 20 Things That Became Obsolete This Decade[/URL]. It's a great retrospective on the technology leaps we've made since the new century began, and it got me thinking about the difference today's technology will make in the lives of tomorrow's kids. [B]More from [URL="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=1133cpitq/**http%3A//www.moneytalksnews.com/"]MoneyTalksNews.com[/URL]:[/B] • [URL="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=12pn9js8m/**http%3A//www.moneytalksnews.com/2010/11/24/the-10-commandments-of-wealth-and-happiness"]The 10 Commandments of Wealth[/URL] • [URL="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=12ppgr4ia/**http%3A//www.moneytalksnews.com/2011/01/04/how-i-beat-the-pants-off-the-pros-last-year"]How I Crushed the Stock Pros Last Year[/URL] • [URL="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=12c05sr6h/**http%3A//www.moneytalksnews.com/2010/12/20/10-tips-for-the-sleep-deprived"]10 Tips For the Sleep-Deprived[/URL]I've used some of their ideas and added some of my own to make the list below: Do you think kids born in 2011 will recognize any of the following? [B]Video tape:[/B] Starting this year, the news stories we produce here at Money Talks have all been shot, edited, and distributed to TV stations without ever being on any kind of tape. Not only that, the tape-less broadcast camera we use today offers much higher quality than anything that could have been imagined 10 years ago -- and cost less than the lens on the camera we were using previously. [B]Travel agents:[/B] While not dead today, this profession is one of many that's been decimated by the Internet. When it's time for their honeymoon, will those born in 2011 be able to find one? [B]The separation of work and home: [/B]When you're carrying an email-equipped computer in your pocket, it's not just your friends who can find you -- so can your boss. For kids born this year, the wall between office and home will be blurry indeed. [B]Books, magazines, and newspapers:[/B] Like video tape, words written on dead trees are on their way out. Sure, there may be books -- but for those born today, stores that exist solely to sell them will be as numerous as record stores are now. [B]Movie rental stores:[/B] You actually got in your car and [I]drove [/I]someplace just to rent a movie? [B]Watches:[/B] Maybe as quaint jewelry, but the correct time is on your smartphone, which is pretty much always in your hand. [IMG]http://l.yimg.com/a/p/fi/35/05/43.jpg[/IMG] ©Will D/flickr[B]Paper maps:[/B] At one time these were available free at every gas station. They're practically obsolete today, and the next generation will probably have to visit a museum to find one. [B]Wired phones:[/B] Why would you pay $35 every month to have a phone that plugs into a wall? For those born today, this will be a silly concept. [B]Long distance:[/B] Thanks to the Internet, the days of paying more to talk to somebody in the next city, state, or even country are limited. [B]Newspaper classifieds:[/B] The days are gone when you have to buy a bunch of newsprint just to see what's for sale. [B]Dial-up Internet:[/B] While not everyone is on broadband, it won't be long before dial-up Internet goes the way of the plug-in phone. [B]Encyclopedias:[/B] Imagine a time when you had to buy expensive books that were outdated before the ink was dry. This will be a nonsense term for babies born today. [B]Forgotten friends: [/B] Remember when an old friend would bring up someone you went to high school with, and you'd say, "Oh yeah, I forgot about them!" The next generation will automatically be in touch with everyone they've ever known even slightly via Facebook. [B]Forgotten anything else: [/B] Kids born this year will never know what it was like to stand in a bar and incessantly argue the unknowable. Today the world's collective knowledge is on the computer in your pocket or purse. And since you have it with you at all times, why bother remembering anything? [B]The evening news:[/B] The news is on 24/7. And if you're not home to watch it, that's OK -- it's on the smartphone in your pocket. [B]CDs:[/B] First records, then 8-track, then cassette, then CDs -- replacing your music collection used to be an expensive pastime. Now it's cheap(er) and as close as the nearest Internet connection. [B]Film cameras:[/B] For the purist, perhaps, but for kids born today, the word "film" will mean nothing. In fact, even digital cameras -- both video and still -- are in danger of extinction as our pocket computers take over that function too. [[URL="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=10qk93aql/**http%3A//yhoo.it/gmHpFl"]Minivans Making a Comeback[/URL]] [B]Yellow and White Pages:[/B] Why in the world would you need a 10-pound book just to find someone? [B]Catalogs:[/B] There's no need to send me a book in the mail when I can see everything you have for sale anywhere, anytime. If you want to remind me to look at it, send me an email. [B]Fax machines:[/B] Can you say "scan," ".pdf" and "email?" [B]One picture to a frame:[/B] Such a waste of wall/counter/desk space to have a separate frame around each picture. Eight gigabytes of pictures and/or video in a digital frame encompassing every person you've ever met and everything you've ever done -- now, that's efficient. Especially compared to what we used to do: put our friends and relatives together in a room and force them to watch what we called a "slide show" or "home movies." [B]Wires:[/B] Wires connecting phones to walls? Wires connecting computers, TVs, stereos, and other electronics to each other? Wires connecting computers to the Internet? To kids born in 2011, that will make as much sense as an electric car trailing an extension cord. [B]Hand-written letters:[/B] For that matter, hand-written anything. When was the last time you wrote cursive? In fact, do you even know what the word "cursive" means? Kids born in 2011 won't -- but they'll put you to shame on a tiny keyboard. [B]Talking to one person at a time:[/B] Remember when it was rude to be with one person while talking to another on the phone? Kids born today will just assume that you're supposed to use texting to maintain contact with five or six other people while pretending to pay attention to the person you happen to be physically next to. [B]Retirement plans:[/B] Yes, Johnny, there was a time when all you had to do was work at the same place for 20 years and they'd send you a check every month for as long as you lived. In fact, some companies would even pay your medical bills, too! [[URL="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=10p0l3qrm/**http%3A//bit.ly/i7OziO"]Watch: Toddler Can Name U.S. Presidents[/URL]] [B]Mail:[/B] What's left when you take the mail you receive today, then subtract the bills you could be paying online, the checks you could be having direct-deposited, and the junk mail you could be receiving as junk email? Answer: A bloated bureaucracy that loses billions of taxpayer dollars annually. [B]Commercials on TV:[/B] They're terrifically expensive, easily avoided with DVRs, and inefficiently target mass audiences. Unless somebody comes up with a way to force you to watch them -- as with video on the Internet -- who's going to pay for them? [B]Commercial music radio:[/B] Smartphones with music-streaming programs like [URL="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=10sd99343/**http%3A//www.pandora.com/"]Pandora[/URL] are a better solution that doesn't include ads screaming between every song. [IMG]http://us.bc.yahoo.com/b?P=73B_KdG_R1ewnw0LTSIxjQIrRqEPtE0mvdkAB1I_&T=17u1k7su6%2fX%3d1294384601%2fE%3d2142045455%2fR%3dfin%2fK%3d5%2fV%3d2.1%2fW%3dH%2fY%3dYAHOO%2fF%3d2131853425%2fH%3dc2VydmVJZD0iNzNCX0tkR19SMWV3bncwTFRTSXhqUUlyUnFFUHRFMG12ZGtBQjFJXyIgc2l0ZUlkPSI0NDUxMDUxIiB0U3RtcD0iMTI5NDM4NDYwMTUwMjU0MSIg%2fQ%3d-1%2fS%3d1%2fJ%3dB946BFD1&U=12c3dt5s3%2fN%3d0NDdLUJe5ms-%2fC%3d-1%2fD%3dFSQR%2fB%3d-1%2fV%3d0[/IMG] [B]Hiding:[/B] Not long ago, if you didn't answer your home phone, that was that -- nobody knew if you were alive or dead, much less where you might be. Now your phone is not only in your pocket, it can potentially tell everyone -- including advertisers -- exactly where you are.[/quote] Some of these things are just sad. I'm starting to feel old now.

Watches? what

Well it makes sense. We have phones and ipods and everything else that gives us the time. So watches are a dying breed.

:frown:

bah, it will live on in the fashion world

wires, what the fuck. and watches are classy

Send them to a third world country.

Sometimes I wonder if all this technology is a good thing or not. Also I much prefer wires over wireless it may be more of a hassle but works much better.

I prefer wired mice, keyboards and internet over wireless ones anyday.

I get in my car and fucking drive to this place where they rent out dvds for a dollar. It's fucking better than redbox. And I prefer film over digital and so will my children god fucking dammit.

Watches? What the hell? "Maybe as quaint jewelry, but the correct time is on your smartphone, which is pretty much always in your hand." Good point but what if the phone happens to be in your pocket and you're in a meeting or something like that?

:sigh: Its a shame, it really is.

Also watches are as much as a stylish accessory than a time-telling device (Why do you think people pay stupid amounts for them?)

I like physical forms of media. Sure, the internet is great. But I still like using paper. M$ Paint is not substitute for a pack of Crayolas. Also, I like going to store to buy DVDs. I don't want every product I own to just be pixels on a screen. It will be a shame that if I talk to a kid 10 years from now, he won't know what "HEY ARNOLD!" is.

I still use paper maps.

Movie rental stores: You actually got in your car and drove someplace just to rent a movie? yes I do.

I've pretty much sworn off all wireless devices unless they recharge themselves at a docking station. Especially all those fucking keyboards and mice that require AAA batteries. I still don't carry a phone though, or a watch. Hell, if I want to know the time I just look at the position of the Sun.

Ahaha did they seriously just think commercials on tv are going to die. There goes all TV period then. I hate these pretentious asshats who think common every day things are gone dead and buried and that the cellphone is the most important invention of the past five hundred years.

I hate my generation and feel sorry for the next.

[QUOTE=lockdown6;27253502]this sounds pretty far-fetched for now.[/QUOTE] Just the other day I bought an old Polaroid and can't find film for it anywhere. Or a new battery. And all the camera stores that used to be around here have closed. All we have left is Best Buy but they only know how to sell me a digital camera, not actually fix up old ones. It's sad :frown:

And Technology marches on.

Watches? I may have the time on my phone (nokia 1100 btw) but i fucking love my retro-style Casio and it's classy as fuck.

Some of this is total bullshit. Watches will still be around. People don't wear watches to get EXACT time. They wear watches to be fucking classy. Books. Yeah, I don't see books disappearing any time soon. Wires? Yeah, good luck with that computer that has no wires and powers itself with a built in fusion reactor. Catalogs? Fuck that, I love getting my IKEA catalog so I can have some nice furniture to admire while I take a dump. All of this stuff is kind of scaring me, actually. What would happen if we were attacked by an EMP weapon. (Not science fiction, EMP weapons actually exist) I'm pretty sure they had an episode of future weapons where they had some prototype EMP weapon, and they said that if a fully functioning version was detonated in the middle of the US at 36,000 ft. (average airliner cruising altitude) that it's blast could successfully wipe out any electronics in [B]the whole United States[/B]. (Excluding Hawaii and Alaska) If this ever happened it's like we'd be back in the stone age. No watches? Gonna use sundials? No encyclopedias/books? Good luck getting anything done. Look at all the things on that list. Virtually all of them are only dissapearing because they're being replaced by the internet. All of them would be gone if we were ever attacked with an EMP weapon.

I still collect records :3:

I love the feel of pouring over a paper map and searching for something

An 'emp weapon' is basically just an airburst atomic bomb.

[quote] Film cameras: For the purist, perhaps, but for kids born today, the word "film" will mean nothing. In fact, even digital cameras -- both video and still -- are in danger of extinction as our pocket computers take over that function too.[/quote] 35 mm is still very used, and movies are still filmed in cellulose. And digital cameras are here to stay, since there's not a single device that has a camera add-on with the quality of an actual digital camera. [img_thumb]http://www.sciencetodaynews.com/wp-content/uploads/images/LG_Intros_L_03C_Camera_Phone_with_3X_Optical_Zoom_12_Megapixel_CCD_Sensor.jpg[/img_thumb]<- Those don't count because they're cameras with phones on them.

[QUOTE=mastermaul;27253607]An 'emp weapon' is basically just an airburst atomic bomb.[/QUOTE] True, but it can be done without an atomic explosion.

[QUOTE=FunnyBunny;27253581]Some of this is total bullshit. Watches will still be around. People don't wear watches to get EXACT time. They wear watches to be fucking classy. Books. Yeah, I don't see books disappearing any time soon. Wires? Yeah, good luck with that computer that has no wires and powers itself with a built in fusion reactor. Catalogs? Fuck that, I love getting my IKEA catalog so I can have some nice furniture to admire while I take a dump. All of this stuff is kind of scaring me, actually. What would happen if we were attacked by an EMP weapon. (Not science fiction, EMP weapons actually exist) I'm pretty sure they had an episode of future weapons where they had some prototype EMP weapon, and they said that if a fully functioning version was detonated in the middle of the US at 36,000 ft. (average airliner cruising altitude) that it's blast could successfully wipe out any electronics in [B]the whole United States[/B]. (Excluding Hawaii and Alaska) If this ever happened it's like we'd be back in the stone age. No watches? Gonna use sundials? No encyclopedias/books? Good luck getting anything done. Look at all the things on that list. Virtually all of them are only dissapearing because they're being replaced by the internet. All of them would be gone if we were ever attacked with an EMP weapon.[/QUOTE] Top bit, yes. Second bit, no. Even detonating a nuclear bomb above the US wouldnt create such a huge EMP, and they have already covered EMP as an act of war, which is the point when the nukes start flying. To do it without a nuke, well we dont even have the technology to make a pulse that would wipe out a city, nevermind a country.

[QUOTE=Lilolia;27253637]Top bit, yes. Second bit, no. Even detonating a nuclear bomb above the US wouldnt create such a huge EMP, and they have already covered EMP as an act of war, which is the point when the nukes start flying.[/QUOTE] Those nuke's guiding systems won't do much considering they just got EMP'd.