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

1. The Post Office. Ironically, all that junk mail is both a revenue source and a fact of postal customer life that it may hasten the demise as no one will really care.  I still like getting my paper copy bill, but I am slowly and surely paying more stuff online.  You can pay at the last minute and not have to worry about it getting there on time.

2. The Check. I still get my paycheck hand written at that.  I do expect resistance. Without hard copies it boils down to your word against the computer.

3. The Newspaper. I have a subscription, but then I'm not all that young.  The local paper keeps shrinking, first in size and now in content.  I still prefer it to reading the online version.

4. The Book. Will be diminished but will hang around for a quite a while past our lifetime.  Level of appreciation for the hard copy will increase as they become more rare.

5. The Land Line Telephone. Cell phone signals still suck.  We're going to need some major improvements here and no areas where you can't get a signal without an accompanying big jump in price.  Don't expect that to happen.  There seems to be more collusion than competition in the cell phone industry.  I recently tried to get into a cheaper plan as we weren't getting close to using our minutes each month.  No flexibility.

6. Music. The industry will diminish no doubt and no one will care.  Music itself ain't going anywhere.