Seven Gadgets that Won’t Be Around in 2020
Stand-alone GPS Systems
E-Readers
Feature Phones
Low-end digital Cameras
DVD players (Blu-ray players will hang on for a while longer)
Recordable CDs and DVDs (portable hard drives and
USB drives will take over)
Video Game Consoles
-- http://shopping.yahoo.com/articles/yshoppingarticles/717/7-gadgets-that-wont-be-around-in-2020
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Time marches on! Death and taxes spring eternal, but formats don't last as long as the merchandise. Some of this is planned obsolescence, but much of it derives from slightly better solutions to existing problems as well as advances in technology, especially denser and denser computer memory.
Other new products are coming to market -- plain-sight, glasses-free, home three-dimensional television, for example. That will make live sports more exciting, and may spell the end of live theatre in the USA. There are less than 100 major plays watched on a few stages in the United States, most of them surviving off government money and tourism. If there are excellent productions available in 3D, electronically, why bother to spend an evening at the theatre?
Stand-alone GPS Systems
E-Readers
Feature Phones
Low-end digital Cameras
DVD players (Blu-ray players will hang on for a while longer)
Recordable CDs and DVDs (portable hard drives and
USB drives will take over)
Video Game Consoles
-- http://shopping.yahoo.com/articles/yshoppingarticles/717/7-gadgets-that-wont-be-around-in-2020
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Time marches on! Death and taxes spring eternal, but formats don't last as long as the merchandise. Some of this is planned obsolescence, but much of it derives from slightly better solutions to existing problems as well as advances in technology, especially denser and denser computer memory.
Other new products are coming to market -- plain-sight, glasses-free, home three-dimensional television, for example. That will make live sports more exciting, and may spell the end of live theatre in the USA. There are less than 100 major plays watched on a few stages in the United States, most of them surviving off government money and tourism. If there are excellent productions available in 3D, electronically, why bother to spend an evening at the theatre?
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