35 things that will soon be obsolete

[Remarkableriots]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/bills-to-pay/your-remote-control-and-35-more-things-that-will-soon-be-obsolete/ss-BBQOS0R?ocid=AMZN#image=36

1. Cash

2. remote controls

3. car keys

4. hotel room keys

5. house keys

6. manual-transmission cars

7. college textbooks

8. classroom chalk boards

9. mail-collection boxes

10. In-person voting

11. shopping malls

12. pay phones

13. plastic shopping bags

14. plastic single-use straws

15. business cards

16. checks

17. desktop computers 

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Wait, what? Computers are fading away? Not computing in general, just the big old desktop dinosaurs that sit atop an office desk like a Volkswagen. In this era when more and more workers want the option of working from home, a laptop or tablet gives portability and flexibility.

 

18. paper maps

19. cursive

20. print catalogs

21. fax machines

22. GPS devices

23. portable music players

24. sharing school photos

25. print magazines

26. alarm clocks

27. head phones with cords

28. parking meters

29. land line phones

30. CDs

31. paper receipts

32. movies on dvd

33. paper bills

34. paper airplane tickets and boarding passes

35. theater tickets

[SoberChef]

...and this is why so many middle aged people are offing themselves at a record pace.

[Keyser_Soze]

Parking meters are here to stay, how else is the city supposed to make $80 off you because you forgot to pay?

[Remarkableriots]

11 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

Parking meters are here to stay, how else is the city supposed to make $80 off you because you forgot to pay?

Instead of putting quarters into a parking meter a lot of them now have you use your smartphone to pay for the spot. You download a app and pay with a debit/credit card. Or it has a kiosk where you put in your card to pay for the spot.

[Keyser_Soze]

Not around here they don’t  

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

Classroom chalk boards? Lol maybe in wealthy suburban schools

[CastlevaniaNut18]

15 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Classroom chalk boards? Lol maybe in wealthy suburban schools

Really? I graduated in 2005 from a super small podunk town high school and they'd done away with nearly all the chalkboards by then. Nearly every classroom was dry erase. 

[Anathema-]

15 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Classroom chalk boards? Lol maybe in wealthy suburban schools

 

They use white boards around here and I honestly think it's a step down for interaction with the students.  I felt that back when I transitioned from community college to a tech University and that hasn't really changed. There's just something detached about it. 

[CastlevaniaNut18]

Chalk boards can fucking die. One of the worst feelings ever writing on one. 

[Anathema-]

Oh man I love writing on a chalk board. I even love the occasional squeal.

[Bloodporne]

CDs? Suck my ass, I have like 900 of these and still play LPs.

 

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

17 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

Really? I graduated in 2005 from a super small podunk town high school and they'd done away with nearly all the chalkboards by then. Nearly every classroom was dry erase. 

In my wife's school district, the poor schools she taught at (read: full of blacks and Hispanics) still had chalk boards while the wealthy schools (read: white kids) have dry erase for the most part. 

 

[Remarkableriots]

It won't take too long before smart boards become very cheap and replace most of the white boards.

 

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

There's plenty of teachers who can't even operate PowerPoint, let alone use a smart board or much other tech.

[Remarkableriots]

7 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

There's plenty of teachers who can't even operate PowerPoint, let alone use a smart board or much other tech.

Hopefully those teachers will retire or become gym teachers?

[CitizenVectron]

Every single school in my city has white boards with short-throw projectors mounted to them to allow teachers to "write" on them digitally with mimios and other similar devices. Smart boards suck, though.

[Remarkableriots]

7 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

Every single school in my city has white boards with short-throw projectors mounted to them to allow teachers to "write" on them digitally with mimios and other similar devices. Smart boards suck, though.

What would be the problem with smart boards? Seems like a smart idea so time isn't wasted because the teacher has to spend the first part of class writing everything on the board. You also have access to apps that enhance the learning experience.

[Keyser_Soze]

My school had a mix of white boards and chalk.

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

1 hour ago, Remarkableriots said:

Hopefully those teachers will retire or become gym teachers?

They're older, but they're also "good" teachers because their wealthy, non-IEP students do well on state exams. 

[SuperSpreader]

2 hours ago, Bloodporne said:

CDs? Suck my ass, I have like 900 of these and still play LPs.

 

Suck it hipster!

[GeneticBlueprint]

2 hours ago, Bloodporne said:

CDs? Suck my ass, I have like 900 of these and still play LPs.

 

Me too.

 

But they won't "soon" be obsolete. They already are and have been for quite some time. You can buy thumb drives that hold more data than a CD and buy one for cheaper. And those are also obsolete.

[RedSoxFan9]

Cursive is the worst

[CitizenVectron]

1 hour ago, Remarkableriots said:

What would be the problem with smart boards? Seems like a smart idea so time isn't wasted because the teacher has to spend the first part of class writing everything on the board. You also have access to apps that enhance the learning experience.

 

Oh there's nothing wrong with smart boards, but they are inferior (in practicality) compared to regular white boards equipped with projectors and mimios (or other assistive devices). Basically, what we have in our division and the other in the city (69 [K-8] elementary schools and 12 high schools [9-12]) are the following:

• Regular white boards that can be drawn on with marker
• Short-throw projectors mounted directly above board that project down vertically
• Mimio-type devices (so little boxes that mount to the board and track motion of a smart-pen on the white board)

This ends up being cheaper than smart boards, more modular, and more flexible. You can write on the board if you want, project and use the smart pen to "draw" with the projector (and because it projects down vertically, you don't get in the way), and because each component is separate, it's much more flexible and modular to install and replace components as needed.

 

Smart boards are good, but in a school where things are always breaking (much harder use than a corporate environment) it makes sense to use cheaper and modular components. Basically, it's just a better replacement for smart boards in an educational environment. I am not advocating using just a white board/chalk board!

 

*works in IT for a school division

 

[Bloodporne]

35 minutes ago, 2user1cup said:

Suck it hipster!

Have fun with your inferior digital music collection while I sip a frappe-mocha-cino-iced-vente-soy-latte in my $3,000 recliner hand-made in Uganda by an obscure tribe and listen to Crass and Dead Kennedys albums on my $4,000 Blaupunkt stereo setup. 

 

Bitch. 

[Remarkableriots]

40 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

Oh there's nothing wrong with smart boards, but they are inferior (in practicality) compared to regular white boards equipped with projectors and mimios (or other assistive devices). Basically, what we have in our division and the other in the city (69 [K-8] elementary schools and 12 high schools [9-12]) are the following:

• Regular white boards that can be drawn on with marker
• Short-throw projectors mounted directly above board that project down vertically
• Mimio-type devices (so little boxes that mount to the board and track motion of a smart-pen on the white board)

This ends up being cheaper than smart boards, more modular, and more flexible. You can write on the board if you want, project and use the smart pen to "draw" with the projector (and because it projects down vertically, you don't get in the way), and because each component is separate, it's much more flexible and modular to install and replace components as needed.

 

Smart boards are good, but in a school where things are always breaking (much harder use than a corporate environment) it makes sense to use cheaper and modular components. Basically, it's just a better replacement for smart boards in an educational environment. I am not advocating using just a white board/chalk board!

 

*works in IT for a school division

 

Can short-throw projectors connect to laptops and show videos? It has been a very long time since i have seen school projectors and they were simple machines.

[TwinIon]

This is a very odd and completely pointless list. Many of these things, like paper maps, CDs, Music players, landline phones, and DVDs, are already long since obsolete. It'll be a while before all of these things go extinct, but obsolescence is long since past.

[SuperSpreader]

1 hour ago, Bloodporne said:

Have fun with your inferior digital music collection while I sip a frappe-mocha-cino-iced-vente-soy-latte in my $3,000 recliner hand-made in Uganda by an obscure tribe and listen to Crass and Dead Kennedys albums on my $4,000 Blaupunkt stereo setup. 

 

Bitch. 

I'm more of a Herman Miller type.

[Bloodporne]

18 minutes ago, 2user1cup said:

I'm more of a Herman Miller type.

I...don't know what that is gladly.

[SuperSpreader]

19 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

I...don't know what that is gladly.

https://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/lounge-seating/eames-lounge-chair-and-ottoman/

[CitizenVectron]

1 hour ago, Remarkableriots said:

Can short-throw projectors connect to laptops and show videos? It has been a very long time since i have seen school projectors and they were simple machines.

 

There are a few ways to connect:

• Through an HDMI cable through the wall/ceiling
• Through a wireless transmission system built-in to the projector (miracast/widi, etc)
• Through a dongle that does the same thing 

We use dongles that plug into the hdmi port of the projector + USB port for power (Microsoft Wireless Display Adapters). Also modular, so they are cheaper ($50 each) than having the projector have a built-in wireless connection (which adds $500+ to the model). Miracast/WiDi are a standard that allows Windows and Android devices to cast their entire screen (not just a video) to the projector. Great tech.

[Firewithin]

Ctrl + F....democracy

 

[Chris-]

2 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

There are a few ways to connect:

• Through an HDMI cable through the wall/ceiling
• Through a wireless transmission system built-in to the projector (miracast/widi, etc)
• Through a dongle that does the same thing 

We use dongles that plug into the hdmi port of the projector + USB port for power (Microsoft Wireless Display Adapters). Also modular, so they are cheaper ($50 each) than having the projector have a built-in wireless connection (which adds $500+ to the model). Miracast/WiDi are a standard that allows Windows and Android devices to cast their entire screen (not just a video) to the projector. Great tech.

 

All of our classrooms have built in A/V with 15-pin VGA.  Keeping track of the HDMI adapters is the biggest pain in the ass.

[CitizenVectron]

 

7 minutes ago, Chris- said:

 

All of our classrooms have built in A/V with 15-pin VGA.  Keeping track of the HDMI adapters is the biggest pain in the ass.

 

We used to use that, but now our projectors are permanently mounted on the wall above the whiteboards and everything is done wirelessly, which is so easy. I feel your pain about keeping track of adapters, haha. Our biggest hassle is that every teacher in the division gets a Lenovo Thinkpad, and teachers are hard on their computers. About 1/2 of the kids have HP Stream laptops as well (which stay in the schools), and those are equally as frustrating to keep up.

[sexy_shapiro]

36. Democracy

[marioandsonic]

37. Clean air

38. Hope