The Museum of Soon-to-be-Obsolete Technology

The half-life of technologie has never been fast.

Critical must- have today, a worthless piece of junk tomorrow.

The turn-around time has never been fast.

LP records lasted for about 70 years until cassette tape drove them out.

But cassettes were only around for 15 years before CDs took them out.

And poor CDs?  About a decade before iPods made them obsolete.

And now that everyone carries their tunes around in their phones, who needs an iPod?

Herein then, my list of soon to be obsolete technologies.

Feel free to contribute:

Land lines.

They were once th backbone of the telephone industry.

Today, do you know anyone who has one?

Why should I call a building when I can call a person?

Wrist watches.

Apparently no one under the age of 21 uses them.

Smart phones tell you the time. What do you need this anachronism for?

Digital cameras

Likewise, a victim of smart phones.

When every phone has a pretty good camera built into it

(and one you can upload or email immediately from (is that English?)), why do you need to drag around another piece of hardware.

ie – Sell your stock in Casio.

Television

Not the machine itself, but the concept that you have to wait to watch a show you want, broadcast to you in real time by a network

A screen is just a screen

What you put on it, (and when you do it) is entirely up to you.

(sell stock in Discovery)

Wires

Remember when having an Internet connection meant running cables all over the place?

Remember routers?

Today, with the arrival of wifi more and more connections are going to be wireless.

So much so that in a few years cables will seem as obsolete at typewriters.

Sell stock in Cisco

Physical media storage

When was the last time you saw a floppy disc?

These workhorses of the computer revolution are today as rare as rockinghorse s**t.

I once had one of those Bang and Olufsen very high tech CD players.

Who buys CDs?

Conclusion – dump your Blu-Ray stock immediately.