George points us to a list of technologies that are in various stages of dying. If you’re skeptical, you can get a little of the reasoning in this slideshow at Businessweek. Or is it Bloomberg? Whatever.
- Combustion engines
- Consumer video cameras—MiniDV, Flip cameras, camcorders
- Credit cards
- Desktop (tower) PCs
- DVDs and Blu-ray
- Digital music players
- E-readers
- Fax machines
- Game consoles
- Pagers
- Dash-mounted GPS systems
- Keys
- Landline telephones
- 3D television with glasses
- Metronomes and tuners
- PDAs
- Point-and-shoot digital cameras
- Power cords
- Remote controls
- USB memory sticks
I’ve already said goodbye to some of these and can easily live without most of the rest.