9 things that will disappear in our lifetime....

AtomicCrimsonRush wrote: Yeah, I would say of the 9 things that music industry will be around for years to come but they will have to captalise on the new download society or it will be wiped out. bands have to use download tech rather than just the CD these days. itunes and other sites are the new corporate music bodies. I noticed that most music i am after is available as a download so why would I waste time hunting for it in a CD shop. Also it is possible to listen to the CD well before its release so we can taste and see for ourselves before forking out the dollars.   Are DVDs going to disappear? Blu Ray may not replace them after all....

I think that they are both going to disappear, as on-line rentals will eventually replace them both.

Yeah, I would say of the 9 things that music industry will be around for years to come but they will have to captalise on the new download society or it will be wiped out. bands have to use download tech rather than just the CD these days. itunes and other sites are the new corporate music bodies. I noticed that most music i am after is available as a download so why would I waste time hunting for it in a CD shop. Also it is possible to listen to the CD well before its release so we can taste and see for ourselves before forking out the dollars.

Edited by AtomicCrimsonRush - June 24 2011 at 10:45

An article I found on the web that discusses industries that are doomed (at least in America).  http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/112946/doomed-industries-bnet

1. Probably. Nobody uses snail mail for anything legitimate anymore.
2. Probably. We just have to wait for the pensioners to die.
3. Probably, except for the pay model. Refer to NYT paywall debacle.
4. Meh. Books have additional utility that a CD does not.
5. Probably. We just have to wait for the pensioners to die.
6. Pfaw, no. Think about how much the base for classical music has narrowed, yet Joshua Bell is still rather wealthy. As long as someone is willing to hear you play live, the industry will live on. Will the recording industry survive? Probably not in its current form.
7. Hulu. Television on demand. Passive entertainment isn't going anywhere, it's just going to be a lot more deliberate.
8. Still exists somewhere, and it will be a tough sell to say that you don't genuinely own what is stored in other locations (just as you still own all the old furniture you've have in that storage unit since your aunt's terrible taste finally killed her).
9. Sadly, we've voluntarily cast it aside. Cory Doctorow made an interesting point about why.
10. The world economy died in August of 2011 when the U.S. defaulted on it's debt. That's why we all live under totalitari-- hey, what are you doing here? Get your hands off me! HEL---

We really don't need to have threads about chain mail...

Equality 7-2521 wrote: The US Economy failed to make the list for the same reason that the dodo bird does not appear.

Its eggs were eaten by pigs and rats?  

Edited by Dean - June 24 2011 at 08:05

I disagree on all counts. Things may be different in our respective places, though, but here it's not happening. My possible nominations would be arctic ice, several important animal species, petrol, several languages that have only a handful of speakers left, stuff like that. 

The Post Office we can do without - it is an anachronism - while it was a monopoly we tolerated it, but now that has been broken consumer choice has told it where to so go you cannot blame email, fed-ex and ups for that, it's the Post Office's fault for still behaving like a protected civil service when it was none of those things. Now it has been stripped of all the non-postal things that it should never have been involved in (like pensions, car tax, tv licences, etc) we've discovered something we've known all along - it's rubbish at the one thing it was set up to do 400 years ago - deliver mail.

The idea that music will die is ridiculous. The list itself is pretty ridiculous too because it implies we should care about all of these things it claims will disappear.

1-5 are very true.