20 things technology will kill by the year 2020

In response to this thread about the 20 things that technology replaced over the past ten years, what things do you think will die out in the next ten years as a result of technological advancements?

http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?t=416468&f=10

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/22/obsolete-things-decade_n_800240.html#s210824

Record shops will die out as a result of ebay and online mp3 downloads

People will no longer use remote controls as everything will become voice and motion automated

Light switches will also become obsolete for the same reason

People will no longer go to the cinema

Door handles will no longer be in use as all doors will be replaced with electromagnetic force fields

Windows will be replaced by invisible force fields as well

People will no longer use pens to write

The oldest profession in the world, prostitution will die out and be replaced with virtual reality sex therapy centres

Carpets will become self cleaning and walls will have the ability to change colour alleviating the need for hoovering and wallpapering

People will no longer receive post as paper will become a thing of the past

 

by 2020?...Im pretty sure technology will have killed off most of the human population by then

 

That's a very s-alien-t point indeed.

 

Our souls
Our muscle mass
Our brains
motivation
Hard Work
The environment
and then everyone on the planet

but technology has already killed or is in the process of killing these things as of 2010, definitely not going to take 10 more years

 

You know what, I think he has a point.

 

Technology does have to do with this post.

Animals will only exist in zoos. Lions, tigers, elephants, polar bears, all bees and frogs, all fish species on the seas of japan and other asian countries will be gone.

Oil Supplies will be down and the price will be unthinkable. World wide.

More people will buy into the chip implants for there children.

The NWO and a one world government will be on schedule.

North Korea wont do anything except be overthrown.

Computers won't require keyboards or a mous.

The world will have electric vehicles of all kinds but it will be too late to use them.

 

I just hope you're all being overly pessimistic.

 

I could see frogs being extinct.

I think DVDs will be obsolete due to streaming video.

At least 50% of the endangered species will be gone.

 

I dont think much is going to change by 2020...


All I know is that we'll be hitting our global peak in petroleum consumption because by then there will be only half the amount of crude left in the world than there was before we started mining it. After the half-way point, unless we find a new fuel source, the amount of petroleum left will be consumed within 50 years at current rates. Unless we find a miracle of a renewable energy source, the future ain't looking too bright.

Not much room for gizmos at least. I have mixed feelings about no more petrol.

 

Yeah man. People seem to think that electric cars are going to be the next thing. Me thinks they are not.

 

If you have ever seen the Plant Earth dvd there is a extra features episode that talks about what is left on the earth. Its really depressing how much humans have consumed and not put back. All the professors agree we losing wild life at an unthinkable rate. Supposedly we lose 200 species every year. Wether they are tiny tiny insects, bugs, to the big grass feeders they are disappearing. When you take one out, the others are hurt. When you take several its becomes an even bigger problem. ect ect ect...

 

I swear the problem with damn near everything is there are too many fucking people.

 

In 2002 The standard setting committee for accountancy (FASB - Financial Accounting Standards Boards) signed the Norwalk Agreement which committed to establishing with the IASB (International Accounting Standards Board) universally accepted U.S. and International accounting standards. The SEC (Securities and Exchange Commisssion), which is the agency that regulates securities (stocks, bonds, etc.) in the U.S., issued a roadmap for the use of IFRSs (International Financial Reporting Standards) by U.S. companies. This expedites automation of the procedures and requirements of international financial reporting, thus enabling and encouraging presence of U.S. companies on foreign stock exchange markets. In 2010 the SEC brought forward a Work Plan for the study of implementation of IFRSs into U.S. standards. If all goes as planned the use of IFRSs by U.S. firms could be standardized by 2015.

That only means that trade will be easier on accountants, but how long will it be before XBRL and IFRSs make it possible to outsource all accounting operations to another country?

 

Privacy will be dead.

 

books! save the books!
oh yeah, and we are destroying all of our forests. so, maybe we'll run out of oxygen.

 

hah, it already is dude. I've seen ads by google geared towards shit I'm interested in that I NEVER typed into any computer but somehow they know about me

 

Just clear the cookies often.

 

You can't clear anything, the cookie jar is still there.

 

But it's information I never typed in to begin with, information I only talk about in person with friends