- Backing up to floppy disk or CD
- Calculators
- Calling 411 to find a restaurant or store
- Cathode ray tube monitors and TVs
- Tethered computer terminals
- Dial up internet service
- Eight track tape
- Encyclopedia sets and dictionaries
- Fold up maps and road atlas books
- Separate GPS devices
- Movie rental stores (like Blockbuster)
- Paid e-mail accounts
- Personal digital assistant (like Palm Pilot)
- Personal online
privacy
- Phone Books
- Non-jet commercial planes
- Punch tape, paper tape, and punched cards
- Typewriters (manual and electric)
- Black and white TV
- VCR (videocassette
recorder).
- Cable TV
- Physical cables to deliver cable TV (to be replaced by WiFi)
- Camera (non-digital)
- CDs (compact disks)
- Newspaper and magazine classified adds
- Fax Machines (except in medical field)
- Getting film developed
- Landline phones
- Tower PCs (vs laptops)
- Public pay phones and phone booths
- Record stores.
Other things we wish would go away include the myriad types of non-standard cables, all cables with big bricks (baluns) at the end, and sticking a needle in us to deliver medicine. Things we wish will never go away include hugs and kisses and smiles. . . oh, and bacon.
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