This age of computers, the Internet, wide, wide broadband communication capability (and growing),
the Cell Phone, which is not just a phone anymore, sophisticated "gadgets" like the iPod and a
multitude of others will create big and unforseen changes to this world .
Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt
to them. There will be no
going back and you best be ready to go with the flow. But, ready or
not, here they come! Consider the
following:
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. They closed down 2200 offices last year. 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. What will replace it? Either HUGE fees, a buck
a letter, with ONCE a week delivery, or NOTHING. A big hole in the
ground
and then some other building goes over the old Post Office. Although
some rich men got Congress to try to privatize it, so if any of their
legislation goes through, posting will become super costly. See to it
your grandkids have a keyboard!
2. The Check. Britain is already laying the groundwork
to do away with checks by 2018. It costs the
financial system billions of dollars a year to process checks. Plastic
cards and online transactions will
lead to the eventual demise of the check. 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. So count to 2018 and say ADIOS.
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 bakery wagon, 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. So who pays journalists to collect and write the news?
ONLINE versions of all the big Dailies will charge. But don't weep for them
Argentina.They were corrupt, MainStreetMedia MSM hacks, flunkies of the advertiser corporations.
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 and 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. No more cut down trees and New Authors can self PUBLISH. without literary agents or posh New York publishers, doing so for nearly free at KINDLEVILLE!
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. That's the way it is around
my house. 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 "catalog 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 disturbing topic further, check out
the book, "Appetite for Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper, and the
video documentary, "Before the
Music Dies."Google that one.
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 (TV) companies to be put out of our misery.. Let the
people choose what they want to
watch online and through Netflix.Roku.etc.
8. The "Things" That You Own. Many of the 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"? 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 ever since you first heard your neighbors having a fight and then make up sex, through the wall, or heard Prime Time Crime shows you don't ordinarily watch at full tilt through the same wall. Try a Google search on your name and see how much information is available. You will be very surprised (usually but mebbe not).
Also, there are cameras on the street, attached to most of the buildings, and even built into your computer and cell phone and that of the person coming at you looking at your weird coat and hat and shooting you to show to his chums. Or when you've got wine dribbling down your chin as you kiss your sweetie at a rave. That's goin' out on the net. 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. And "They" will try to get you to buy something else. Again and again.
All we will have that can't be changed are Memories. But there are new
ways to have those. Your video phone and graphic files, your video files
are all going to be hanging out in cyberspace in big scrapbooks.
10. CITY HARASSMENT - http://www.activistpost.com/2015/10/camping-on-your-own-land-is-now-illegal.html
So build barracks for the "workers," (really vacation villas for a dozen other families allowing you to buy the farm with a dozen other people chipping in.)
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