I read an article recently from Live Science about technologies that we have now that will never be used by a child born today. It’s like a hand crank pencil sharpener. I hardly ever see anyone using those anymore. Then came the electric pencil sharpener. Wow!
Kids born today won’t know what a wired home internet is. Wires? Dedicated cameras and camcorders will be real antiques. Landline telephones will only exist at grandma’s house - maybe.
We think computers now are fast, but in the future, computers won’t take two minutes to boot and they will run faster. Only a few will ever turn their computer off and if you do, it will take only a couple of seconds for it to boot. Solid state drives, SSDs, will replace hard drives.
Movie theaters will likely not exist. You can already have better quality picture and sound at home. Fax machines and phone numbers are on the list of things that will never be used. You’ll just have a user ID, not a phone number. And, why would you send a fax? Or by then, what is a fax?
It’s sad to think that all the ‘stuff’ we think is cool today will be useless in just ten or fifteen years. Heck, I remember a wired remote control for TV and 8mm cameras. Then there was the 8 track tape that still reproduces the best sound quality.
But, I really miss those hand crank pencil sharpeners.
What’s a pencil? I’ll have to save some so I can go to show and tell in the future.
PMO
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