Going the way of the VCR or 8-track tape

[winos5]

Outdated Technology



15 technologic advances that will be going away in the next 10-15 years.

 

[LordKOTL]

Some of them i doubt:



The "desktop". I think this will linger around much like record players and manual transmissions will. Far too much tinkering ability. Yeah, they will be niche market but IMHO they'll be around.



Theaters. The big marketing push is 3d, but the problem with 3d is that in all but the most elaborate home theaters, at-home 3d television is less of an "immersed in a 3d world" experience and more of a "looking out a window at a 3d world" experience. The limiting factor being screen size. While it's possible a projector and a wall can help, unless the screen fills most of your angle of vision, 3d will likley not catch on much in the home market. Until glasses that have built-in screens with a high effective resolution or holographic projection gets invented, Theaters, especially iMAX, will still be around.

 

[MassHavoc]

This list needs to make up it's mind because half the thing were already dead and the other half will take much longer.

 

[supraman]

Most of them I feel they are flat wrong



Slow Booting Computers: SSDs have a shorter length than HDDs



Harddrives: see above



Desktop: I will never want a laptop or tablet over a desktop. I will always prefer a desktop. I think most gamers are with me on this.



Mouse: If desktops don't die neither will mice, I don't want to have to poke at my monitor.



Windowed OS: Windows 8 will fail and windows 9 will go back to the traditional format because users of a PC will not want a Smart Phone OS on a PC



Remote Controls: Kinect hasn't exactly lit up the world and using it to control the Xbox interface is a pain in the ass according to my brother

 

[jaxhawksfan]

I guess I'm one of those crochety old codgers because I'm not willing to give up my digital camera. I don't care what the manufacturer says about cell phone cameras and how many megapixels they capture.....when you have fingerprints all over the pinhole sized lens your pictures look like shit. It is like fingernails on a chalk board when people post hazy, out of focus, dark photos on facebook. My niece is extremely guilty of this. If the pic is that shitty I don't see the point in keeping it, much less sharing it.

 

[roshinaya]

As already mentioned some of these things are going to stick around. Like the camera. Anyone serious about photography isn't going to move to damn cellphone cameras no matter what fantastical megapixels they have. There's more to photography than megapixels. Dumb list done by someone who doesn't know what they are talking about or hasn't thought it through.

 

[winos5]

I won't miss fax machines.

 

[Ymono37]

I won't miss fax machines.

I totally agree - I email pdfs when I can these days...

 

[LordKOTL]

I guess I'm one of those crochety old codgers because I'm not willing to give up my digital camera. I don't care what the manufacturer says about cell phone cameras and how many megapixels they capture.....when you have fingerprints all over the pinhole sized lens your pictures look like shit. It is like fingernails on a chalk board when people post hazy, out of focus, dark photos on facebook. My niece is extremely guilty of this. If the pic is that shitty I don't see the point in keeping it, much less sharing it.

You're a crotchety old codger? I won't get up my 35mm SLR! Over 10 times the dynamic range of the best CCD/CMOS image sensors on the market FTMFW.

 

[winos5]

I see niche markets for alot of that stuff, but nothing like it's been the last 10 years for digital cameras, or the last 20 for desk top PCs.

 

[MassHavoc]

I won't miss fax machines.

The government alone will singlehandedly keep them alive. They are slowly transitioning to email, but they still force a lot of their contracting items to either be mailed or faxed in. I think they don't want email addresses being jammed packed full of worthless shit.