Dunno bout you guys, but in any serious exams we have in School/College if you even glance at a phone your kicked out, we have to leave them under your chairs or in your bags outside. And watchs are always handy since they don't require charging every 48 hours.
I just bought a watch though...
I plan on keeping my '88 Jeep just to show my kids that fun can still be had with hand cranked windows and a carburetor.
While this happens for them, we will be the ones saying "back in my day" and "son! how do you work this whatchamagigger?" followed by a swift "bah the old fashion _Insert obsolete item_ worked better in my day?!"... GAH, IM TOO YOUNG TO BECOME OUTDATED!
Books are not going to disappear. They have been with us for many years, just because we can buy one digitally doesn't mean that people will migrate to digital books. I love the smell of the paper in the book, I would never buy them digitally.
Most of these things will still be around 50 years from now.
I hate when people say shit like "books are getting phased out!" It's absolute bullshit.
Not everyone is going to go buy a kindle and rebuy all their books.
God damn i hate kindles.
[QUOTE=mysteryman;27264755]Most of these things will still be around 50 years from now.
I hate when people say shit like "books are getting phased out!" It's absolute bullshit.
Not everyone is going to go buy a kindle and rebuy all their books.
God damn i hate kindles.[/QUOTE]
So do you prefer paperbacks (where the spines break after like 10 reads?) or hardcover (have fun if you need more than three or four books at one time) books then? Have you ever tried reading a book on a proper E-book reader from start to finish?
[QUOTE=Glaber;27253811]If I ever get married and have kids, I'll introduce them to some real outdated technology. A Type Writer![/QUOTE]
:3:
I found an old-fashioned typewriter, it's sweet.
It even has a slightly fresh ribbon already loaded. It even makes its adorable [i]Ching![/i] sound.
[editline]7th January 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Kagrenak;27265111]So do you prefer paperbacks (where the spines break after like 10 reads?) or hardcover (have fun if you need more than three or four books at one time) books then? Have you ever tried reading a book on a proper E-book reader from start to finish?[/QUOTE]
If you manage to break a book's spine after ten reads, I wonder how you manage to not smash your Kindle into itty-bitty futuristic bits.
Colossal libraries have always been a sign of awesomeness; the Emperor's study, the Lord's library, they all have a faint aura of power, wealth, and epicness with twenty-feet-tall shelves full of massive novels, wall-to-wall.
It's still there today.
Having a single micro-computer is convenient for the space-impaired, yes, but they don't reek of shock and awe.
I wasn't born in 1860 what on earth is a carriage or a steam engine or a wooden boat or a telegraph oh god someone HELP ME
I can see it now, Facepunchers become that old, dumb fart on the street corner that yells at kids for doing all their new, young things, and complains that kids are lazy and blah blah blah.
Ironically, the very thing they hate now-a-days.
Anyway, I'm glad to see that technology continues to go full speed ahead and drop its old, rusty parts in the museums where they belong.
the real question is if any of these punks will feel lucky
[QUOTE=xpod1;27266518]the real question is if any of these punks will feel lucky[/QUOTE]
Shut up punk!
[QUOTE=ruarai;27253501]wires lol good luck sending power through the air[/QUOTE]
Two words. Tesla Coil.
[img]http://www.synthstuff.com/mt/archives/tesla-coil-sg-75.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=ruarai;27253501]wires lol good luck sending power through the air[/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_energy_transfer[/url]
Zing
Certain books were written specifically to be in an exact format in a paper book. Like House Of Leaves.
The book involves constant flipping all over the pages and chapters, with stories running through and between other timelines in the novel. The text formatting is crazy as shit, and even the physical dimensions of the book itself have relevance to the story.
Good luck putting that on an e-reader.
[img]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4060/4254597246_7c7fdfcc85.jpg[/img]
Film cameras?
List is pretty shit. Most of these things will continue to exist alongside new technologies for years and they will probably be used by a lot of people too. Wires, man, so much more reliable than wireless.
[quote]Books, magazines, and newspapers: 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]Not everyone will have an eBook reader in the next 10 years.[/b]
Movie rental stores: You actually got in your car and drove someplace just to rent a movie? [b]Where I live (Austria) there are only four ways to get a movie: rental store, buy the DVD, wait for it to come up on TV or pirate it[/b]
Watches: Maybe as quaint jewelry, but the correct time is on your smartphone, which is pretty much always in your hand. [b]Tons of people have watches (myself included). It's just a lot easier to take a quick look at your wrist instead of having to try to get your cell phone out of you pocket. There's a reason pocket watches are extinct.[/b]
The evening news: 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]Video news are only on TV, not everyone wants to read their news when they could be watching it[/b]
One picture to a frame: 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]I haven't ever seen a digital picture frame outside a store selling it. It will take a [i]lot[/i] longer for them to replace picture frames.[/b]
Wires: 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]Power cables?[/b]
Talking to one person at a time: 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]It's still offensive not to listen to a person talking to you and that will never change[/b]
Mail: 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]They listed all the mails you still get...[/b]
Commercials on TV: 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]The kind of people who watch TV I know, are watching it because they don't really know what they want to see right now. A DVR doesn't help them at all, so they still have to watch commercials[/b]
Commercial music radio: Smartphones with music-streaming programs like Pandora are a better solution that doesn't include ads screaming between every song. [b]None where I live. FM radio is bigger than ever and which streaming radio programs in the US or wherever they are common have news, awesome hosts and comedy?[/b]
Hiding: 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.[b]Turn it off!
Also, advertisers won't get your location unless you send it to them and even with your current location they can't send a guy to the bar where you are sitting trying to sell you a vacuum :downs:[/b][/quote]
I don't agree with those at all. Reasons in bold.
hahahahahahahaha what a fuckin' joke
books
on the way out
pffffffffft ahahaha
books are not leaving any time soon
Film Cameras: What. I don't want to see a JPEG raped Inception.
Wires: Hell yeah my computer has wireless cable management skill all I have to do is replace the double A's every day.
Commercials: There goes technology
Mail: Yes my printer can print packages.
Hiding: Are they going to remove the off button on your phone?
Books: Yeah no. Unless we convince Churches to buy eBibles.
Watches: First thing rich people buy or so it seems.
Derp herp.
A lot of the stuff mentioned on the list I use, and don't see myself abandoning them any time soon.
Wired phones? Why would we get rid of that? It's much cheaper and reliable than cellphones.
Books? Newspapers? I don't know about you but I still read newspapers and books. Maybe because I don't have to worry about the battery running out of my laptop when sitting at the bus bench or having to lug around a heavy piece of equipment just because I want a quick read of something.
And a bunch more things like watches, paper maps, single picture frames...seriously, I don't see them disappearing any time soon.
The article assumes that everyone has digital picture frames and DVRs and completely depend their life on smartphones and the lastest technologies, which is incredibly stupid because not everyone is like that, and if everyone WAS to become like that then we would pretty much be fucked because of a single power out, or if one was to lose his smartphone, we would all be very lost.
[quote][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]
That scares me. You won't just be able to turn it off, either, because with that kind of accessibility employers will fire you for not answering your phone after hours just the way they'd fire you for refusing to answer your phone at work.
I have a huge ass collection of VCR tapes in my Living room.
Some of that list is stupid as hell.
Dial up? Much of rural America still lives with dialup because the broadband providers will not run their lines out to those areas.
Evening news? I always prefer to watch the local news at 6, 7 or 9pm instead of watching the talking heads on the 24 hour news networks babble on and sensationalize Hollywood's latest slut getting caught with some pot.
CDs. If you don't have an MP3 player, or your car doesn't have a jack for it, CDs are still the primary medium for music.
Fax Machines are still prevalent in most offices. Even if they have a fax to email server, they still need a fax machine to receive it.
Mail. The US Mail is government run, and as such, will never die, no matter how useless it becomes and how much money it bleeds.
Commercials. Fuck, I wish that were the case. They'll never die. And they'll always find a way to screw with your head while watching a movie late at night...if they can't be louder, they'll be brighter. If they can't be brighter, they'll play white noise to gain your attention.
[QUOTE=Habsburg;27253346]Watches? what[/QUOTE]
As weird as it sounds, it's true. Very few of my classmates in school wear watches, and I'm the only guy I know at my school that wears an analogue. Everyone just whips their cell phones out now.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;27272210]That scares me. You won't just be able to turn it off, either, because with that kind of accessibility employers will fire you for not answering your phone after hours just the way they'd fire you for refusing to answer your phone at work.[/QUOTE]
My phone has quiet hours(Cyanogenmod) and Airplane mode. How about battery dead? In another room? With the age of smartphones is the age of crappy battery life--there's another reason.
[editline]7th January 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Sega Saturn;27273238]As weird as it sounds, it's true. Very few of my classmates in school wear watches, and I'm the only guy I know at my school that wears an analogue. Everyone just whips their cell phones out now.[/QUOTE]
I've seen a fair few bluetooth watches, and I still fancy the fact that I don't need to show that I have a smartphone, so I use a watch. People are impressed when I show them all my watch can do, even though they have phones.
Back then cartoons used to be hand drawn and in 2D
Back then, Video games were released in cartridges
Back then, we have cassettes players to play music.
Kids today won't know what those things are
[QUOTE=RR_Raptor65;27253531]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.[/QUOTE]
I've been using my Logitech wireless mouse since May on the same batteries and it still has 930 days of power left. I only turn it off to prevent accidentally tapping it and bringing up the UI during movies.
Oh my god.
I swear my children WILL know about books.
Ugh, this hypothetical future sounds horrid.
I love snail-mail, I will always hand-write letters in cursive (And I even have a quill now :3:).
I think I'm going to be one of those people who'll always enjoy the old fashioned things.
But still keep up with technology.
Or I'll just be the cooky old mom who still owns hundreds of books.
Dream of owning a book store; mildly shattered now :saddowns:
Why not concentrate on making lives better instead of removing unnecessary things to make children more business accustomed...
They'll assume current gen consoles are amazingly retro and black ops is a masterpiece. Precisely why I'm stockpiling old consoles to bring my children up on :unsmith:
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