The market for analog cathode-ray tubes will implode as various sorts of more compact, power-efficient flat panel displays come to dominate. Ditto for incandescent lightbulbs, which will give way to much longer-lived LED lighting sources that consume little power.
Analog cellular phones and phone modems will be disconnected forever as high-performance digital systems replace them. Although it would be great if mobile phone service got more reliable as a result, the likely scenario is that cellular services will be as flaky as today, only they'll move a lot more data, including video.
Unfortunately, decreased reliability seems to be a pervasive side effect of progress, which explains why your PC crashes a lot more often than your TV. Broadband connections will be a much simpler way to distribute movies, music, and software. Network distribution of content will also be considerably cheaper: no manufacturing, no middleman, and no inventory to stock. It will also be hard to find anyone who holds a cell phone to his ear because it will be much more convenient to put the guts of the phone on a wrist or waist and have it wirelessly link to a small earpiece and microphone.
Advertisers will print their messages in your home or office using your online connection without troubling themselves with postage and printing costs. You won't call it junk mail because advertisers will know so much about you from monitoring your purchase patterns and online behaviors that the advertisements will be for items you probably will want to buy anyway.
Postal meters will also be stamped out in an era in which secure remote printing of postage in homes and businesses becomes commonplace. Similarly, the Screen Actors Guild probably won't have extras on its roster in 20 years.
Victims of Gene-Based Therapies Genes express themselves by causing cells to manufacture proteins that form the building blocks of life. Various therapies will probably come on the market in the order of the complexity of these proteins, with simple therapeutic proteins such as growth hormones arriving first, followed by antibodies, then whole cells, and finally entire organs.
Doctors will administer these new therapies by turning genes "on" to grow therapeutic proteins, by placing healthy genes in diseased cells, or by tricking the genes of one class of cell into transforming those cells into other types of cells, which can then be used to replace diseased tissues.
Predicting which medical treatments will be replaced by gene therapies is both easier and harder than making guesses about digital electronics. It's easier because the long clinical testing cycles of up to 10 years dictate that new drugs introduced a decade or more from now must already be in the early stages of development. It's more difficult because discoveries in biology have never obeyed the orderly laws of progress shown by engineers working with semiconductors.
Antigraying formulas may also fade away as gene therapies restore melanin pigments to older scalps. Although genetic baldness treatments are in the very early stages of development, the revenues that could be generated from effective treatments will no doubt guarantee that significant research dollars will be focused on getting to the root of the problem. Promising early results from clinical trials of vascular endothelial growth factor 2 suggest that stimulated blood-vessel growth may be a viable treatment option both in the heart and in the limbs well before Wireless charging is already on the market for some high-end devices but the technology could become standard for most technology.
If cash, cards and paper receipts are on the way out, it makes sense for our wallets to also face becoming extinct. After all, what would we need to put in them?
For a small subscription fee you can even stream Spotify and Netflix, automatically back up the data, and have instant access across multiple devices. Your smartphone does everything these days. So what use do any of us have for a physical calculator anymore? According to figures provided to CarAdvice the past five years of sales data shows the Toyota Corolla — Australia's best-selling small car — has seen a marked decline in the demand for manual transmissions by consumers.
With a manual now only available in the entry-level Ascent within the current Corolla range introduced in , just 1. The coronavirus and social distancing measures have accelerated the already declining ink signature. The changeover to digital signatures was put into motion some time ago, but there are still several documents which require a handwritten signature before they can be logged or recorded. But the new business normal of remote working and virtual, rather than physical meetings could soon see a stop even to that.
The coronavirus pandemic and government shutdowns also caused a significant shift in how the retail industry adapted business to survive in the crisis. Retailers embraced electronic payments and online shopping, some for the first time, which begs the question of how many will return to their physical stores and rents now rules have relaxed.
Fast forward another couple of decades and we might see the traditional shopping centre disappear as retailers either increase their online presence or move online entirely.
There are two reasons that the usual everyday office has become redundant thanks to the shortcomings of virus contamination risk and the surge in remote working. Many businesses have simply realised they no longer need the space and can instead streamline their costs and overheads by having the bulk of employees work remotely instead.
Those which do decide to eventually return to the old working environment will have to have plans in place to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Want to get better with money and investing in ? Every decade, there seems to be a significant innovation that changes how we live our lives. With these advancements, other technology can become obsolete.
Flash drives, cell phones, and cable TV are a few of the things that tech experts suggest could become obsolete in a few decades due to current or predicted advances in technology. As cloud storage improves, USB drives might not be necessary. Due to their ever-improving camera technology, smartphones could take the place of digital cameras.
Tablets will eventually have the capacity and power to replace laptops. Non-autonomous cars may no longer be on the roads by Smart lighting could become the future of lighting in homes. Retinal implants or some other hands-free system might take the place of cell phones. Computer monitors could be replaced by casting technology. Safe scanning technology will eliminate the need for cash and cash registers. With the popularity of online streaming, cable TV could very well be on its way out.
Touch ID might be the answer to getting rid of the dozens of passwords you can never remember. Virtual and augmented reality might mean the computer mouse could finally be eliminated. Loading Something is loading. Email address. Freelancer Obsolete Evergreen story BI-freelancer. Are we on our way to a cashless society? We might be, at least according to recent studies.
According to Tech Crunch , while as much as one-third of purchases were made by cash in , the use of cash is nevertheless declining. Sweden and Norway are the two countries where cash transactions have declined the most, according to Financial Times. Credit cards have replaced cash for now, but in the future credit cards may also be replaced. Some of us use jars or bags to store our leftover coins.
Some of us misplace them around the house. Some of us keep them in our car. And some of us simply accumulate them in our wallets. Coins can be rather awkward to spend and with the decline of cash, we might not have to do so for much longer. Remember floppy discs? Once upon a time, they were a standard feature in all personal computers. Then they disappeared for good. And it seems like hard drives will also be heading towards extinction.
According to officials at Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba , the decline of hard drives is bound to happen and the only question that remains is — when will that happen? Most will agree home buttons found on smartphones are useful but how necessary are they really? Apparently, not necessary enough to keep them. And while some may grumble at the prospect of smartphones with no home buttons, there is certainly a case to be made for the elimination of the home button. The elimination of the home button will result in a wider screen which will give mobile users more space.
The button itself will be replaced by — you guessed it — advanced touch technology. We check every possible place and eventually find them in the most unlikely of spots.
But our woes may be solved sooner than we all think. BMW is also looking at this possibility, according to Automobile Mag. However, thanks to cloud computing they will inevitably become obsolete. For example, to access your data on cloud you need an internet connection which is not needed to access your data on a USB stick.
Almost everyone will agree that paperwork is a lot of hassle, whether you are an employee dealing with paperwork or a customer who needs to collect a form, fill it out, and then return it.
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