20 things technology will kill by the year 2020

"well that's you scratched off my
e-christmas card list...."

 

living anything down from your past, and getting a clean start in a new place

 

That's a good one.


People's ability to open doors for themselves. I can't count how many times I've seen people walk into a door because they thought that it was an automatic opening door.

 

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

My spirit

 

Your reply goes so well with the facial expression in your sig pic!!

 

I wouldn't be surprised if CD's were gone, or very close. Everything is becoming buy online, or by the song on some website.

 

I think it's kind of hard to tell. 15 years ago, a lot of people thought virtual reality would be really big. Like, you'd wear glasses, and open documents by opening a virtual file cabinet. The technology is there, but people definitely don't want it. (3d movies aside...just a fad I think.)

I do think that in general, people will be spending a higher proportion of their income on technology as opposed to food and other essentials. I don't think many people predicted that most people would spend so much on cell phones and tv, and most people 10/15years ago would say there's no way they would have that much money to spend on something like that.

You can tell by all these responses that people crave interaction with others, so I don't think that will change, but people may find other ways to interact.

I think one other big thing is that the weather is going to get harsher and harsher as it already has. So, we will be force to spend a lot of resources dealing with that. I'm not sure how people will react to that...probably some combination of getting very angry and feeling compassion. Hopefully the anger doesn't win, although it usually does.

In almost every case in history, the people who are the best at killing become the most powerful. I doubt that will change.

 

Human relations

This is virtual reality, you're in it. The internet.

 

According to wikipedia's article on CD sales, they have dropped 50% since 2000. I could see that, as a young teen around that time I bought the fuck out of CD's, now all my music is either bought on vinyl or downloaded via torrents.

 

2020 is only nine years away. Things will be different, sure. But the difference won't be that drastic.

 

Not Larry King

 

Brilliant carpentry.. Well maybe not kill but reduce to a major specialization.
How did skill. not just in this but all such skill .. get turned into dust.
The system cant control or teach it.

ART it can endure cause it is a 'gift' but a skill... is what they cannot abide..
deviant
Does not fit in box A or B

 

uhm.. yeah. Things aren't gonna change THAT drastically. People thought we'd have flying cars and virtual reality by now. That didn't happen

 

It'd be nice if technology just collapsed on itself entirely.

 

imo not even art can escape technology to a certain extent, pretty much everyone I know draws in photoshop instead of on real paper and when their computer breaks they just stop drawing until they can find another computer and tablet

 

If all that happens, next big thing will be space tourism and cloud computing.

 

Virgin is way ahead of you on that one

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

 

I agree with you, but i do like to use some of it. A total collapse would put us in a depression we have not seen before. Becoming use to it, then losing it all would put is on or own entirely.

 

False

Flying cars have existed fore over a decade.. see moller skycar on google.
Roles Royce built one that cost several million pounds.

The problem is you cant put inept drivers in these vehicles.. or you get them crashing into playgrounds..
Human idiocy ruled out skycars.