This Article is insane i couldnt live without some of these things

http://news.yahoo.com/15-current-technologies-child-born-today-never-142409696.html i fear the last one the most it means the end of next gen gaming for me if it happens

 

Lol, what a load of crap!

 

Only 26% of American households only have cell phones? So 74% still have a goddamn land line? What the hell?

 

I believe fax machines and optical disks. Everything else is crap.

 

I have a land line. Everyone should have a land line. They aren't expensive and always handy to have if the shit hits the fan on the mobile network. But yeah, that article is a load of crap.

 

90% of that has come about in my life time... so i doute it and slow booting pc's XD that will never change. it physicaly pains me booting a pc without a ssd nowerdays

 

Slow booting PCs is the biggest thing he could think of in terms of headaches for computers? Gimme a break.

He can also suck a rail if he thinks mobile phone internet access will continue to be faster than wired. Fact is the US lags behind so much of the world that we are a laughing stock and on top of that the available spectrum is getting smaller and smaller. Mobile internet speeds won't be getting exponentially faster. However, DSL/Cable could increase 5-10x wherever you are in the US within the next year if the investment was made.

 

Erm... yea. Parents are "thinking" about getting rid of ours, but the amount of contacts that we have given our friends / company people (doctors, whatever) / etc. is all to much to go to to call every single one of them and tell them that number is no longer valid. And yes, all 5 of us do have smartphones

 

I loled at one of the comments "can we please add reality television to this list?"

 

XD

 

There was a Gizmodo article that was almost exactly the same as this.

 

I know quite a few people who don't have landlines which is kinda weird to me... mobile calls are expensive. Then again as long as I can call someone I don't care lol.

 

I don't have a landline i have 2 mobiles thru xD

 

"Windowed Operating Systems", "The Mouse" and "Desktops"? Well, I sure as hell don't want to see these go, at least not in relation to the desktop machine. If I'm on the go, sure, I wouldn't mind having a tablet for the internet, notes, videos, photos, etc., but at home? I don't want to sit on my sofa, hunched over a tablet - kinda like in the days of the GBA (only without the desk lamp) - to type a mail or surf the internet. If that's really going to be the future, I'll prefer to stick with my outdated desktop hardware and software for as long as possible.

And landline phones? The mobile networks here ex. regularly crap out over midnight at New Year's, because everyone and their mother is trying to call or message their relatives or friends. It might've gotten better over the last years, but there's still times where your call doesn't go through or your SMS takes 15 minutes to reach the destination.

 

You're weird XD

 

Indeed the author has brains full of arse gravy.

Wired Home Internet - There is only a finite amount of bandwidth and despite Governments trying hard to kill as many analogue signals to sell off in a radio frequency fire sale there is never going to be enough bandwidth for a large city to run complete highspeed. They can't even allocate enough bandwidth to voice calls, so highspeed broadband looks more and more unlikely. If more telcos start installing more fibre optic cables then faster internet for all would be more likely. Also when will governments force ISPs (esp of Boardband mobile) to get rid of the weasel word of unlimited when they do have a limit...

Dedicated Cameras and Camcorders - Yes smartphones do have 10 megapixel abilities and do have flash, but they still lack decent sized CCDs and decent lenses. It is also a lot easier to hold a decent camera then the flat slab of a smartphone... Although more and more people will take lots of crappy snapshots, if you still want to take a decent picture you do need a decent camera. Cameras also have other advantages of having tripod mount screws, external flash units, changable lenses, viewfinders, swivel viewing screens, more camera options.... Same with camcorders...

Windows Operating Systems - Funny that older mac owners know the bad old days of when the system would only run one task at a time and you had to taskswitch between them. New touch based os systems basically have the same one program unless you switch to another for a PDA that is fine but for a real os when you might want lots of information at the same time it is not the wasy to go about it. Windows 8 has Metro but it still has the underlying Windows OS under it and I can still see Windows being here in 10 years time. MS-DOS in the form of the command prompt is still in Windows 8 and it will still happily run MS-DOS that don't require graphics mode quite happily (Infocom adventure games work fine...) and MS-DOS has been dead for how many years

Hard Drives - Notebooks / Tablets and the like will probably have SSD drivers in the low terabyte regions but high petabyte hard drives will still be cheaper and probably more use.

Cinemas - Will still be around due to the large viewing screen and high definition projector. Did watch a film recently with a few other people in a cinema with a nice 4K projector, can't see me doing that at home.

Mouse - Yes as there is nothing easier the holding your arm out and adjusting lots of things with your hand... Kinect owners will know that trying to make an avatar with the Kinect is more painful and slow then using a Joypad, if you could use a mouse it would be even quicker. Touch screens are nice for a number of things but unless some company makes a screen that does not require cleaning every day and you can grow a transparent finger then the mouse is likely be here to stay. Mice have improved a lot over the years, even an inexpensive mouse will have a infrared laser so you can use it on any surface and you have more control and sensitivity then a trackpad, touch screen, kinect...

Remote Controls - As these are generally quite cheap and to use the more complicated features would be annoying with gestures of voice commands, you can see these being around in 20 years time.

Optical Discs - It is interesting to note that Vinyl record sales have increased every year for the last 10 years.... Vinyl was meant to have died ages ago but it is still around and most large music shops still have vinyl sections.... Even in 10 years, I personally can still see DVDs being sold as people do like physical objects.

 

This is the kind pf bullshit linkbait top-10 lists all these cheap arse blogs are making these days

Zero journalism (costs) and lots of product placement, they offload this shit to blog farms and yahoo just bought one (AC)

I really laughed my ass with the bandwidth part, considering we dont even have unlimited data plans anymore, just 4 miserable GBs at best

 

I work in Commercial Business Banking, the fax is not going anywhere anytime soon. Trust me on that !

 

Make that 4 if N-gages still count XD