RE: Fw: 9 Things that will Disappear in our Lifetime...

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a very correct future scenerio. every body can assess each aspect of these 9

subjects.Some of these may become articles to be preserved in Museum so that

future generation will know that theirgrand/great gran parents heve been using

such---? things.OPG

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Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 01:17:09 +0800

Subject: Fw: 9 Things that will Disappear in our Lifetime...

Dr.Dilip J Raichura

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Subject: 9 Things that will Disappear in our Lifetime...

9 Things that will Disappear in our Lifetime...

Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them.

But, ready or not, here they come.

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1. The 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 of your mail every day is junk mail

and bills.

2. The Cheque Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with cheque 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 your bills by mail and never received them by mail, the post office would

absolutely go out of business.

3. The 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 and the laundry man. As for reading the paper online, get

ready to pay for it. The rise in mobile Internet devices and e-readers has

caused all the newspaper and magazine publishers to form an alliance. They have

met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell phone companies to develop a model

for paid subscription services.

4. The Book You say you will never give up the physical book that you hold in

your hand and turn the literal pages. I said the same thing about downloading

music from iTunes. I wanted my hard copy CD. But I quickly changed my mind when

I discovered that I could get albums for half the price without ever leaving

home to get the latest music. The same thing will happen with books. You can

browse a bookstore online and even read a preview chapter before you buy. And

the price is less than half that of a real book. And 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 you

forget that you're holding a gadget instead of a book.

5. The 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 the 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 the radio conglomerates are simply self-destructing. Over 40% of the music

purchased today is " catalogue items, " meaning traditional music that 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 the networks are down dramatically. Not just because

of the economy. 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 down to

lower than the lowest common denominator. Cable rates are skyrocketing and

commercials run about every 4 minutes and 30 seconds. I say good riddance to

most of it. It's time for the cable companies to be put out of our misery. Let

the people choose what they want to watch online and through Netflix.

8. The " Things " That You Own Many of the very possessions that 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 and you store

your 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 that 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 your music or your books, or your 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 closet 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 that 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 of the 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 the 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

MAY GOD BLESS ALL,

C. K. Shah