Alot of these make me sad. Just think of all the jobs that are/will be lost for good along with these items and services.

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/artic...-never-know?mod=family-kids_parents

the loss of the yellow pages makes Tom a sad panda.

was just reading that too.

I resent them saying that CDs are obsolete!

Vinyl and cassette tapes are still made to this day.

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.

I get the point, but I think it's going to be quite some time before everything goes wireless (like components in stereo systems, cable boxes, etc.)

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?

Wasn't someone trying to sue TiVo for this? Saying that they had the right to have viewers see their commercials and they were trying to prevent TiVo from allowing users to skip commercials or something like that?

Commercial music radio: Smartphones with music-streaming programs like Pandora are a better solution that doesn't include ads screaming between every song.

Yeah, okay. Then get rid of the ads on Pandora.

Those born in 2011 may even see real tanks in their lifetime.

Out with the tanks, in with the giant, city-stomping death robots.

just because some douchebag on Yahoo says these things are becoming obsolete doesn't make it true

in b4

Books will never be marginalized, even e-readers will just be a bump in the road. I will take a solid paper book over a hunk of plastic and computer chips any day.

They didn't say cassettes were obsolete. They said that videotape was becoming obsolete, and that cassettes were succeeded in popularity by CD's and MP3's, which is true.

Keep in mind the point of the article, it's not about right now, it's about what kids born now will find obsolete in their lifetimes. And for those of you that don't realize it, cassette tapes is DEFINITELY going to be one of those things. I think we're down to only TWO manufacturers left in the WORLD that are producing analog tape, and it has quickly become so expensive and hard to find that even tape purists like Steve Albini have switched their recording studios over to digital. Now if that's what is happening at the beginning of the chain, do you really think cassette will last much longer as a viable end-product?

I agree with you there, and disagree with alot in this article, but I think they are talking about kids born around this time. Even the little bastards nowadays are uncomfortable with any info that is not on a screen. I think books, magazines, catalogs, etc. will continue to decline, but it will take awhile.

CDs suck dick and so did tapes. My NKOTB tape doesn't even play and my use your illusion I and II sounds like a warbly phonograph. Vinyl rules, ditch CDs and go big or stay home.

This whole list is either super obvious, or things that only retards that were wow-ed by Gameboys think will happen.

"Film Cameras" Can't wait for Hollywood to abandon film in favor of iPhones.

"Travel Agents" lol. Cool career move bro.

"Hand written anything" Yeah, nobody is ever going to write anything on a post-it note ever again when they can scrawl it on their Newton.

Honestly, in 2011 I think it's alright to admit you hate cds. Drop it once in your car while you're trying to load South of Heaven while you're eating a croissant and driving on the highway, and it's scratched forever. If you're lucky you own the CD a week before you step on it and crack the case forever. Owning physical music is great, but once you have enough cds what do you do with them? Go buy some ugly storage rack? Stuff them in one of those huge CD books that will either fall apart before it scratches your discs or scratch all the discs before it gets stolen? Even the sound and texture of jewel cases rubbing up against eachother pisses me off at this point.

I'm deaf enough not to care anymore, but I always preferred cassette to vinyl when my ears could still tell the difference. Granted, I will never miss that warbly ocean wave thing that you mention. I used to HATE when that happened to my tapes. Or when the tape deck would eat the tape, especially the longer 120 minute ones. Pain in the ass.

Vinyl I think used too little volume/dynamics. I assume todays vinyl would be the same thing. CD is too MUCH bandwith, and loses a lot of the warmth of classic mixes. Tape was a very happy middle ground to me.

I especially hate CD's for being the catalyst for the 'volume wars' that have led to the complete annihilation of all dynamics in modern music.

the world will end on Dec 21 2012 anyway so it will not matter for some brats born this year

If all the people wishing for the world to end would just get it over with and kill themselves, the world might be so much better off it doesn't need to end after all.

you're right about the volume dynamics. nobody pays attention to that detail anymore.

I couldn't do RTTP with out CDs. it's a visceral thing. At home, I don't want to deal with CDs. MP3s all the way. But that physical relationship with a CD or vinyl makes me able to have a relationship with the CD and connect with it to play it.

I'm that way with albums. I can't just download a song or two, or singles. I need to hear the whole thing, all the way through, in order. At least, the first time through. It's not the same having something come up randomly on a shuffled playlist.

Once these retards start using wikipedia as their major source for research, that's when stupidity will reign supreme. We need an apocalypse.

I like CDs.

Wasn't done. I like CDs and WILL NEVER pay for a digital download (ITunes, anything). You think the music industry sucks now - you can kiss another customer goodbye.

One of the items on the list is mail? Seriously, mail is gonna be obsolete? This list sucks.

id like to add women to this list. And voting.

I mostly hate mail.

Democracy is obsolete. And shitty!

I'd like to add RTTP to this list. And metal. And blessed offal.

And the_rev.

I can see that, but my only question is, does it croon?

Life is obsolete.

The technology for going completely wireless is here and available. Have you seen that powermat thingy?

i know its necessary but i also think its ironic that you still have to plug in the wireless charger.

there is a reason that Tesla didn't make a wireless charging system. EFFICIENCY. Inductive charges come from a destinations that sit in 2 dimensions but the sources of the field goes in 3 dimensions. Like using and incandescent light bulb to power a solar powered calculator.

TESLA also got fucked because he tried to use money from Rockefeller loans to build a generator that was going to give unlimited free power using some sort of sonic waves present in the atmosphere.

Know what else isn't on that faggot list? Samhain "November Coming Fire"

ITT: TRoD doesn't understand the work of tesla. He was using tesla coils. It works by induction. Like I said, a 2-d inductor works from 3-D power output. makes it horribly inefficient. Tesla's downfall was due to edison.

your mom will be obsolete

Edison lost the ac/dc battle to Tesla... and after that Tesla lived out a decent life working on secret projects of which we know almost nothing as Rockefeller collected all of his papers when he died. Rockefeller loaned him huge sums of money and claimed the copyrights to Tesla's designs as pay.

And what I was talking about was Tesla's Tower

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower

""If Tesla’s plans had come to fruition, the pilot plant would have been merely the first of many. Such “magnifying transmitter” towers would have peppered the globe, saturating the planet with free electricity and wireless communication as early as the 1920s. Instead, the futuristic facility’s potential went untapped for over a decade, until the tower was finally demolished for salvage in 1917. ""

I wonder why a man like Rockefellar would not want such a system to become operational...

also, interesting to note that one of Tesla's biggest dreams was to invent an engine-less, wingless air craft...which would be in the shape of a cigar or saucer...hrmmmmm interesting that only a few years after his death we would have roswell.

In short, fuck Edison, Tesla's brain would crush that patent stealing geriatric. I mean, Tesla even bitch slapped the shit out of Einstein's theory of relativity basically saying it is a negative almost metaphysical belief that should be bleached from the minds of all prospective scientists and physicists.

I think books will stick around for a good long while. I've got a Kindle and I use the app on my phone as well, but I still usually carry another book around with me.

Also my personal favorite (because hiding is fun):

i always thought Tesla were a bit overrated. They had a couple of good songs, but no way could they win an AC/DC battle...

someone should add mankind to the list...

THE ONLY GOOD HUMAN>>>IS A DEAD HUMAN!

Someone say "Man Animal"?

Also, none of those thigns will become 'obsolete', so much as they won't be as prominent. Plenty of people still use VCRs, CDs, and casettes coz they're wicked cheap(sometimes) and still work fine. If it ain't broke, why replace it?

is that john traBOVA?

lulz

I am going to make you as happy as a baby Psychlo on a straight diet of kerbango.