26 December 2009

Technology in the time of terror

We are approaching the end of a decade.
For what will the 00 decade be remembered?
The 70's?  Disco?  Vietnam?  Three's Company?
The 80's?  Regan?  Wall Street?  Berlin Wall?  Space Shuttle?
90's?  Aids?  Grunge?  Lewinsky?

How about the 00's?

This has been the decade of terror and of conflict.  Partisanship, fear and hatred.  Really high highs and really low lows.  With all this said, I just want to send out a note about technology and all the things that have been made obsolete in the decade that will soon be over.  I may even put forth a prediction or two.

US mail
Dial up internet
Good music
Land line telephones
CRT TV's
CDs
VCRs
Well written TV shows
Original movie ideas
Fax machines
Answering machines
Newspapers
Film cameras
Hand written letters
Patience

All that said, I want to offer a few predictions about the next decade or two and about elements of life that may not completely disappear, but will easily become insignificant:  Email will be be made obsolete.  With social networking and texting, it will just be too slow and old fashion.  Movies will be gone or changed forever.  Video games will own the next 20 years as you will be able to insert yourself into the plot of any movie scenario.  Laptop computers?  Gone.  PDA phones and the like will force these things into the history museums.  Radio stations are on the way out.  These are still the love to the older generation.  Digital music availability will bury them even further into obscurity.  Malls.  Why go when you can click?  Wires...for everything.  Printed books.  And more.

Feel free to add your thoughts...as long as they are original.

1 comment:

  1. The end of human interaction for any other purpose than to procreate.

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