Things that will become obsolete in the near future.

• Ender Wiggin

  

  Well the obvious ones are in the Technological field, CDs are pretty much done for now. I dont know anyone whos has bought and actual CD in a few years. Blu-Ray will be around for a while, but places like Blockbuster are also nearing extinction.
  
  I dont know if you can go straight to "Obsolete" but things will for sure become more streamlined. IE smaller or more portable etc.
• 3reppom

  

  As a means of storage the CD is still viable, barely. As a medium for media publication it is dead, or at the very least on life support. The early adapters of iTunes, the iPod, P2P and torrents built the CD a nice cushy coffin, fit for a former king and the mainstream taking to those technologies will nail it shut.
• Curly J

  

  Mikey Clark...I guess he already is with most of his names.
• dont_belong

  

  3reppom wrote: The home phone line is becoming obsolete. I still think people will have home phones in addition cell phones but there isn't really a need for a hard line anymore.

  Umm...I still need it for my dial up internetz!
• Strapping Young Lad

  

  Computer keyboards and the mouse. I think Blockbuster will hang around tho. Perhaps just not in its current state. They'll prob become a mailorder thang like netflix. Then the two will compete that way...
• j_crazy

  

  company paid pensions.
• gut

  3reppom wrote: As a means of storage the CD is still viable, barely. As a medium for media publication it is dead, or at the very least on life support. The early adapters of iTunes, the iPod, P2P and torrents built the CD a nice cushy coffin, fit for a former king and the mainstream taking to those technologies will nail it shut.

  Actually, you bring up a good reason the DVD eventually goes the way of the dinosaur. DVD's and CD's will still be used for music/movie distribution, at least until car/stereo/tv are fully integrated with memory stick and internet or I-pod type devices.
  
  The memory stick/card will ultimately kill DVD and CD. Much more portable and durable - 16gb memory card/stick is already equivalent to a dual-density DVD, and will eventually surpass it. Cost right now is the only advantage.
  
  It's crazy. The DROID has capacity with 2 cards for 32gigs of memory, which is on par with laptop computers just about 6 years ago. Already there are 32 and 64gb flash memory cards on the market, so it's conceivable the next gen of smart phones will have capacity of at least 64gigs, perhaps double that. In 5 years, these smart phones are going to be as powerful as commercial laptops available today. Although it is most likely battery life that is and will continue to hold them back.
• UA5straightin2008

  

  wouldnt battery life continue to get better as well?
• Eric Taylor

  freehuddle.com
• UA5straightin2008

  

  hes back!!
• justincredible

  

  Eric Taylor wrote: freehuddle.com

  I agree.
• september63

  

  Snyds Cat, as of 9:45 tomorrow morning!
• wes_mantooth

  

  justincredible wrote:

  Eric Taylor wrote: freehuddle.com

  I agree.

  Yeah, but we had a pretty good run. According to some, you didn't have the smarts or the bandwidth to run this site. Hind sight being 20/20...we should have just merged, that site has to be HUGE now.
• Eric Taylor

  Nick Mangold will also be obsolete in the near future.
• gut

  UA5straightin2008 wrote: wouldnt battery life continue to get better as well?

  Sure....But it's just my rather non-technical opinion that battery life is what is holding them back from already being more. I read that the top-end smart phone processors are all capable of more but are underclocked to extend battery life.
  
  Still, the DROID running at 550mhz is basically where laptops were 8-9 years ago. The other big issues would probably be ram (currently 256megs) and dissipating heat. Laptops would be faster right now if they had efficient ways to cool the processor down without killing battery life.
  
  It will be pretty sweet in 5 years when your smart phone can do pretty much everything your laptop does today, save maybe some high-powered apps and games. Bluetooth will sync up with your car or home stereo, you'll be able to access your DVR over the internet (can already with a slingbox, but maybe not from a smart phone)....Basically you'll have access to all your music, photos, movies and tv shows via your smartphone. And I'd guess a large percentage of people will just have an external monitor and keyboard (wireless) to connect and will have little need for a pc.
  
  Now if only they can figure out how to get free wireless on an airplane.
• mtrulz

  I was just about to say that, ET.
• justincredible

  

  Eric Taylor wrote: Nick Mangold will also be obsolete in the near future.

  I agree.
• Heretic

  

  justincredible wrote:

  Eric Taylor wrote: Nick Mangold will also be obsolete in the near future.

  I agree.

  Especially since, from what I've heard, he's upgrading to N-Mangold V1.5 during the offseason. That old Mangold model's shelf life is coming to an end.
• ytownfootball

  

  Eric Taylor wrote:
  My account's good standing before the end of the night.

  100% spot on.
• j_crazy

  

  gut wrote:

  UA5straightin2008 wrote: wouldnt battery life continue to get better as well?

  Sure....But it's just my rather non-technical opinion that battery life is what is holding them back from already being more. I read that the top-end smart phone processors are all capable of more but are underclocked to extend battery life.
  
  Still, the DROID running at 550mhz is basically where laptops were 8-9 years ago. The other big issues would probably be ram (currently 256megs) and dissipating heat. Laptops would be faster right now if they had efficient ways to cool the processor down without killing battery life.
  
  It will be pretty sweet in 5 years when your smart phone can do pretty much everything your laptop does today, save maybe some high-powered apps and games. Bluetooth will sync up with your car or home stereo, you'll be able to access your DVR over the internet (can already with a slingbox, but maybe not from a smart phone)....Basically you'll have access to all your music, photos, movies and tv shows via your smartphone. And I'd guess a large percentage of people will just have an external monitor and keyboard (wireless) to connect and will have little need for a pc.
  
  Now if only they can figure out how to get free wireless on an airplane.

  How realistic is wireless electricity? I seem to recall someone playing around with radio wave conversion that generate (albeit small amounts) electricity. In 5 years whose to say your smartphones battery replenishes when you have good service?
• gut

  j_crazy wrote: How realistic is wireless electricity? I seem to recall someone playing around with radio wave conversion that generate (albeit small amounts) electricity. In 5 years whose to say your smartphones battery replenishes when you have good service?

  Wow....Have never heard of such a thing. That would be amazing. It seems its a reality, but getting the necessary power for laptops and cell phones over large distances might be a ways away yet.
• 3reppom

  

  gut wrote:

  UA5straightin2008 wrote: wouldnt battery life continue to get better as well?

  Sure....But it's just my rather non-technical opinion that battery life is what is holding them back from already being more. I read that the top-end smart phone processors are all capable of more but are underclocked to extend battery life.
  
  Still, the DROID running at 550mhz is basically where laptops were 8-9 years ago. The other big issues would probably be ram (currently 256megs) and dissipating heat. Laptops would be faster right now if they had efficient ways to cool the processor down without killing battery life.
  
  It will be pretty sweet in 5 years when your smart phone can do pretty much everything your laptop does today, save maybe some high-powered apps and games. Bluetooth will sync up with your car or home stereo, you'll be able to access your DVR over the internet (can already with a slingbox, but maybe not from a smart phone)....Basically you'll have access to all your music, photos, movies and tv shows via your smartphone. And I'd guess a large percentage of people will just have an external monitor and keyboard (wireless) to connect and will have little need for a pc.
  
  Now if only they can figure out how to get free wireless on an airplane.

  What you just described is the future of home electronics, embedded computing. The roots of those technologies are already available in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and to a lesser extent, India and China. As per usual they are about five years ahead of us. But in the next 10 years nearly every appliance will come with a CPU that can be linked to the other appliances in your home to create a network system.
• Glory Days

  

  j_crazy wrote:

  gut wrote:

  UA5straightin2008 wrote: wouldnt battery life continue to get better as well?

  Sure....But it's just my rather non-technical opinion that battery life is what is holding them back from already being more. I read that the top-end smart phone processors are all capable of more but are underclocked to extend battery life.
  
  Still, the DROID running at 550mhz is basically where laptops were 8-9 years ago. The other big issues would probably be ram (currently 256megs) and dissipating heat. Laptops would be faster right now if they had efficient ways to cool the processor down without killing battery life.
  
  It will be pretty sweet in 5 years when your smart phone can do pretty much everything your laptop does today, save maybe some high-powered apps and games. Bluetooth will sync up with your car or home stereo, you'll be able to access your DVR over the internet (can already with a slingbox, but maybe not from a smart phone)....Basically you'll have access to all your music, photos, movies and tv shows via your smartphone. And I'd guess a large percentage of people will just have an external monitor and keyboard (wireless) to connect and will have little need for a pc.
  
  Now if only they can figure out how to get free wireless on an airplane.

  How realistic is wireless electricity? I seem to recall someone playing around with radio wave conversion that generate (albeit small amounts) electricity. In 5 years whose to say your smartphones battery replenishes when you have good service?

  i did see something on this on the science channel or something. from what i remember there is nothing close now and there would need to be some huge technological break throughs for it to happen. plus i imagine it being something like a lightening bolt, not exactly something you want flying around haha.
• gut

  Glory Days wrote: i did see something on this on the science channel or something. from what i remember there is nothing close now and there would need to be some huge technological break throughs for it to happen. plus i imagine it being something like a lightening bolt, not exactly something you want flying around haha.

  I did a quick bit of reading...Seems it's viable over very short distances, and compatible devices may start coming out this year where basically it charges wirelessly by being place on a pad. Doesn't do much in the way of portability but it would eliminate the needs for all kinds of different cords and chargers.
  
  A guy at MIT apparently has a technology that is close to being able to power your home electronics wirelessly from a base device in the basement. But obviously doing that for a cell walking around town would be some ways off.
  
  It seems like a crazy idea, but it might be surprisingly a reality in 5-10 years. One issue I'd foresee is I have to imagine this is an order of magnitude less efficient then a battery or plugging in, which would pose very challenging given current carbon-based fuel usage and and already overburdened US power grid.
• Glory Days

  

  gut wrote:

  Glory Days wrote: i did see something on this on the science channel or something. from what i remember there is nothing close now and there would need to be some huge technological break throughs for it to happen. plus i imagine it being something like a lightening bolt, not exactly something you want flying around haha.

  I did a quick bit of reading...Seems it's viable over very short distances, and compatible devices may start coming out this year where basically it charges wirelessly by being place on a pad. Doesn't do much in the way of portability but it would eliminate the needs for all kinds of different cords and chargers.
  
  It seems like a crazy idea, but it might be surprisingly a reality in 5-10 years. One issue I'd foresee is I have to imagine this is an order of magnitude less efficient then a battery or plugging in, which would pose very challenging given current carbon-based fuel usage and and already overburdened US power grid.

  well even with the pad and everything it still has to be touching. i think also the problem would be concentrating it. radio waves and everything go in all directions(unless they are specially focused). it would seem a waste of electricity to do something that went all over unused. i think another problem would be interference to other devices when there is eletricity in the air.