Things that will be Obsolete in the future?

[Ironic Pirate]

Hopefully, any non-automated transactions. As in, you walk in, grab stuff, and walk out. Billed automatically and everything. That would kick-ass as I don't like real people.

 

[mooseodeath]

Actually, people like DELL generally do the same thing as Apple (just only with PCs, no phones and such).

The point of a PC, if we're talking about gaming mostly, is that they're entirely customisable. You can't do the same with an Apple MAC - and you pay A LOT as well. My Dad got his recently and I think it would of cost around another £700 for 4GB RAM to be pre-installed.

PCs should be viewed as separate components, not singular-products.

You're making the mistake of assuming that one company owns the PC market, in the same way that Apple owns the MAC one.

actually i'm not talking about gaming, i'm talking about the pc industries real meat and potatoe's...business. gaming is small end of the market compared to business systems. if the business market all shifts to purpose built devices like terminal pc's and i-pads the pc gaming market is left to fend for it's own viability. and with more and more publishers pushing at console releases it'll be down to microsft and various others to try and keep games hitting pc to justify companies such as nvidia existing.

it's already happening. major companies have one centralised (or multiple redundant) server(s), and run terminal pc's which only have enough of anything required to run the local content. they don't even need a hardrive the OS is barebones and gets most of it's data from the server. it's not a huge step to start supplying that same setup to the home and at the time will be done so as the "cheaper" alternative to keeping pc's up to date. then it will simply come down to miniturisation of the terminal interface down to a wrist pad or indeed your phone.

it stops piracy, it stops illegal net activity and it stops many other "freedoms" you may not like it...i may not like it... but the crazy soccermums who constantly screech about protecting their children will lapp it up. and the governments of the world love to appeal to those lunatics.

so don't be surprised if in 50 years pc's are a long forgotten chapter in our technological evolution. we'll still use computers. but the PERSONAL computer will be a thing of the past.

 

[Jima B]

Betamax will live on forever.

 

[Dancingman]

Chemotherapy, and most of modern medical technique in general, the future will look upon us like we look upon the science of medieval Europe.

Perhaps, and hopefully, nation-states, we can be one world government. It'll probably come around when people realize that colonizing space will cost way more than any one nation can afford.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

Paper? Maybe when everyone's gone digital we can finally save the planet.

 

[CK76]

I have a feeling things will be surprisingly similar to how things are now, just maybe a little smaller or intuitive. I mean hey, they thought we'd have jet packs and hover cars by now.

True, but they likely didn't ask questions like "why would we have hover cars? what market forces would drive that?"

For all the things we don't have, we also have some amazing things they never conceived of. Right now this message is being read by people thousands of miles apart and we find it mundane. Often the future happens without us knowing it, it is not the flashy Futurama we imagined, but one no less amazing.

 

[lacktheknack]

pc's

they're already too broad in scope, purpose built electronics are smaller, cooler, more effective at their tasks and most importantly cheaper. assuming your talking about being an octogenerian , 50 years ago computers were the size of a room and the personal computer was ludicrous.

for me 50 years from now, pc's will be ludicrous again. it'll get all hitchhikers guide five. why make millions of pc's to sell to individual people when you can make ONE computer and sell it millions of times to millions of people.

don't believe me look at what apple's doing. selling purpose built computing devices. the touch focus's on media, the pad on websurfing, the phone on communicating. eventually they'll sell the interface and the computing will be done somewhere they have total control of it's coming and goings. non-conformance simply means you get the pleasure of living as a ludite.

As long as there are PC enthusiasts, there will be PCs. You may notice that Apple, while selling hundreds of thousands of different single-function devices, are still selling PCs.

 

[Zedzero]

Humans 0.0

 

[silver wolf009]

walking will be only for the hobos who cant afford the hover chairs.

 

[Tharwen]

Physical keyboards. Sooner or later, they'll be replaced by holograms reacting to touch. I don't think that handwriting in all forms can completely disappear, though. It will at least remain in digital form (stylus+touchscreen).

Part of typing is that you can feel where a key is in relation to the ones next to it. Without that you would miss keys all the time.

 

[Kollega]

Part of typing is that you can feel where a key is in relation to the ones next to it. Without that you would miss keys all the time.

One guy already said it. Stop calling me out on it.

Plus, maybe there'll be a workaround. We may never know.

 

[Dahni]

Men.

Believe me, scientists can now grow sperm so women won't really need to spend any time around a man to have millions of kids with him.

 

[gbc1230]

religion.
as science gets better, we have less need for religion to explain the world to us, and eventually it will just die out
... hopefully

 

[mooseodeath]

As long as there are PC enthusiasts, there will be PCs. You may notice that Apple, while selling hundreds of thousands of different single-function devices, are still selling PCs.

read my further elaborations in post 63, 6 above your post, pc enthusiests can't fund a pc market by themsleves. they need the business market that backs it all up and those business's are heading towards terminal systems. ie keeping all of their companies information in one central place. in 50 years time the "personal" computer will be a thing of the past. much easier to keep piracy in check if you can't do anything without big brother seeing it.

 

[Woodsey]

Actually, people like DELL generally do the same thing as Apple (just only with PCs, no phones and such).

The point of a PC, if we're talking about gaming mostly, is that they're entirely customisable. You can't do the same with an Apple MAC - and you pay A LOT as well. My Dad got his recently and I think it would of cost around another £700 for 4GB RAM to be pre-installed.

PCs should be viewed as separate components, not singular-products.

You're making the mistake of assuming that one company owns the PC market, in the same way that Apple owns the MAC one.

actually i'm not talking about gaming, i'm talking about the pc industries real meat and potatoe's...business. gaming is small end of the market compared to business systems. if the business market all shifts to purpose built devices like terminal pc's and i-pads the pc gaming market is left to fend for it's own viability. and with more and more publishers pushing at console releases it'll be down to microsft and various others to try and keep games hitting pc to justify companies such as nvidia existing.

it's already happening. major companies have one centralised (or multiple redundant) server(s), and run terminal pc's which only have enough of anything required to run the local content. they don't even need a hardrive the OS is barebones and gets most of it's data from the server. it's not a huge step to start supplying that same setup to the home and at the time will be done so as the "cheaper" alternative to keeping pc's up to date. then it will simply come down to miniturisation of the terminal interface down to a wrist pad or indeed your phone.

it stops piracy, it stops illegal net activity and it stops many other "freedoms" you may not like it...i may not like it... but the crazy soccermums who constantly screech about protecting their children will lapp it up. and the governments of the world love to appeal to those lunatics.

so don't be surprised if in 50 years pc's are a long forgotten chapter in our technological evolution. we'll still use computers. but the PERSONAL computer will be a thing of the past.

Right well, I think we'll have an exceptionally large "agree to disagree" on that one and leave it at that.

 

[Terramax]

Women's clothing...I mean seriously they seem to use less material each year, it's gonna happen sooner or later. I'm hoping for the sooner ^.^

That. Comment. Owns.

I reckon items like mobile/ cell phones, mp3 players, etc will all disappear in the next 10 years and we'll have just the 1 standard item that does it all, and it's at the size of a paperclip.

Basically the Iphone/ Ipad, but HOPEFULLY Apple hasn't got a monopoly on the industry.

The shitty music of today. The 1900's had such a great and diverse selection of music, from 30's jazz to 80's rock. How this past decade single-handedly ruined music, I will never know.

You know how people stereotype games for having music consisting of bleeps and bloops? Now, games are usually orchestrated while mainstream music has become synthesized bullshit. It's a complete reversal. Weird when you think about it.

I was thinking the exact same thing.

 

[Skoldpadda]

Love.