NINE things that will disappear in our lifetime..

Do we ever imagine the world now are like as we are living, we would be as how could we see our self back then and now there have been tremendous change in technology which affect our daily life. Sometimes people can perceive it positively or negatively but it will all depends on how do we react on each changes.  


 1. Post Office - Get ready to imagine a world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to sustain it long term. Email, Fed Ex and UPS have just about wiped out the minimum revenue needed to keep the post office alive. Most mail every day is junk mail and bills.

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2. Cheque -  Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with cheques by 2018. It costs the financial system billions of dollars a year to process cheques. Plastic cards and online transactions will lead to the eventual demise of the cheque. This plays right into the death of the post office. If you never paid bills by mail and never received them by mail, the post office would absolutely go out of business.


3. Newspaper - The younger generation simply doesn't read the newspaper. They certainly don't subscribe to a daily delivered print edition. That may go the way of the milkman, butcher, baker and fruit and veg man. As for reading the paper online, get ready to pay for it. The rise in mobile Internet devices and e-readers has caused newspaper and magazine publishers to form an alliance. They have met with Apple, Amazon and major cell phone companies to develop a model for paid subscription services.

4. Book - You say you will never give up the physical book you hold in your hand and turn the literal pages. Many said the same about downloading music from iTunes because they wanted hard copy CDs.  When they discovered they get albums for half price without ever leaving home to get the latest music, they changed their minds. The same will happen with books. You can browse a bookstore online and even read a preview chapter before buying. And the price is less than half that of a real book. Just think of the convenience ! Once you start flicking your fingers on the screen instead of the book, you find that you are lost in the story, can't wait to see what happens next, and forget you are holding a gadget instead of a book.

Source: guardian.co.uk

5. Land Line Telephone -  Unless you have a large family and make a lot of local calls, you don't need it anymore. Most people keep it simply because they've always had it. But you are paying double charges for that extra service. All cell phone companies will let you call customers using the same cell provider for no charge against your minutes.

6. Music - This is one of the saddest parts of the change story. The music industry is dying a slow death. Not just because of illegal downloading. It's the lack of innovative new music being given a chance to get to the people who would like to hear it. Greed and corruption is the problem. The record labels and radio conglomerates are simply self-destructing. Over 40% of music purchased today is "catalogue items", meaning traditional music the public is familiar with. Older established artists. This is also true on the live concert circuit. To explore this fascinating and disturbing topic further, check out the book "Appetite for Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper and the video documentary "Before the Music Dies."

7. Television - Revenues to networks are down dramatically. Not just because of the economy. Many people are watching TV and movies streamed from their computers. And they're playing games and doing lots of other things that take up the time that used to be spent watching TV. Prime time shows have degenerated to lower than the lowest common denominator. Cable rates are skyrocketing and commercials run about every 4 minutes and 30 seconds. It's time for the cable companies to be put out of our misery. People will  choose what they want to watch online and through Netflix.

8. "Things" You Own - Many of the very possessions we used to own are still in our lives but we may not actually own them in the future. They may simply reside in "the cloud". Today your computer has a hard drive where you store pictures, music, movies and documents. Your software is on a CD or DVD and you can always re-install it if need be. But all of that is changing. Apple, Microsoft and Google are all finishing up their latest "cloud services". That means when you turn on a computer, the Internet will be built into the operating system. So, Windows, Google and the Mac OS will be tied straight into the Internet. If you click an icon, it will open something in the Internet cloud. If you save something, it will be saved to the cloud. And you may pay a monthly subscription fee to the cloud provider. In this virtual world, you can access music, books or whatever from any laptop or handheld device. That's the good news. But, will you actually own any of this "stuff" or will it all be able to disappear at any moment in a big "Poof"? Will most of the things in our lives be disposable and whimsical?  It makes you want to run to the cupboard and pull out that photo album, grab a book from the shelf or open up a CD case and pull out the insert.

9. Privacy -  If there ever was a concept we can look back on nostalgically, it would be privacy. That's gone. It's been gone for a long time anyway. There are cameras on the street, in most buildings and even built into your computer and cell phone. But you can be sure that 24/7, "They" know who you are and where you are, right down to the GPS coordinates and Google Street View. If you buy something, your habit is put into a zillion profiles and your ads will change to reflect those habits. "They" will try to get you to buy something else. Again and again.



All we will have left that can't be changed are "Memories". 

Source: Metallica Album: The memory remains

 p/s: There is no correlation between this video and my post, is just want to share one of my favorite songs from of all time Rock band, Metallica.