We received a printed phone book from Verizon in the driveway this morning. In my opinion, printed phone books are obsolete. In your opinion, what other items are around today that won’t be around in 5-10 years?
Question of the Day, Feb 10
We received a printed phone book from Verizon in the driveway this morning. In my opinion, printed phone books are obsolete. In your opinion, what other items are around today that won’t be around in 5-10 years?
Be glad you got that phone book…there is value,
consider TP, as the pages of the book will be better than nothing.
Can also use the pages of the phone book as fire tinder.
There are still some technophobes out there who don’t have internet or smart phones. They still need phone books.
I’m not a technophobe but I like a phone book.
spoken like a true prepper…love it!…
If TPTB get their way: cash.
Paper money. Stops drug dealers, terrorists and saves trees.
People screaming about global warming.
Radio Shack.
JC Penney.
Macy’s
The Clintons
Card….you are usually a sharp person, but to infer ‘paper money’ will go the way of the Dodo due to “Stops drug dealers, terrorists” is a joke.
That is Not why countries are trying to eliminate cash.
Think worldwide Debt, bankrupt countries, economies failing (no growth).
Eliminate cash and you eliminate Bank Runs; in addition, the Gov’t can just steal your money; remember, money in the bank is not your money – it is a loan to the bank; thus without cash, all your money is in a bank; we are fucked.
Oops, forgot to add the Don’t cha know, at the end of the first line. 😉
Hair trigger; I could tell it was tongue in cheek.
Besides US currency is made from cotton and linen, not wood pulp.
Getting rid of cash will not stop a single crook in WDC, NYC or elsewhere but it will make all US Goy the Banksters slaves.
J.O.B.S.
Cash, credit cards, insurance and medical cards will eventually be replaced with biometrics like tattoo aps that will be verified with fingerprints and retinal scans. Soon people won’t even be able to log onto the internet without this type of verification.
Kim Jong-Un
Common sense
Fat liberals. They will have died from AIDS, Diabetes, STD’s etc. due to their “lifestyle”.
One can only hope so.
‘Liberal’ being any person who is not like you. The term liberal has been so abused as to lack any meaning other than boogey man. It’s nothing but a trigger word, your liberal is another man’s useless eater. To the oligarchs, that would be you, Anon.
Books
Hope not, think of the book & movie “451 Fahrenheit,” & how the media & social media is manipulated.
110/120 volt AC power. (60 cycle, USA)
Why should everything I own, all the new lights, electronics, all need step-down transformers.
The big appliances use 240 volt. The coffee pot uses 120, but there is a tipping point where 110/120 VAC is a nuisance, all it does is make excess heat in 20 little transformers here & there.
Those wall warts are also rectifiers, converting AC into DC.
AC is superior in transmitting electrical power over long distances, hence it’s use (see Tesla v. Edison).
What do you think will supplant 120 VAC?
I had that a bit wrong, it’s high voltage that is better for transmitting electricity, but stepping down in voltage for residential service is less complex for AC than DC.
Primarily, they will still be around because AC power is the most efficient way to distribute power. DC Sucks except at very high levels due to Isquaredr losses.
Muck About
Cash
Radios – Internet streaming will kill these
Thumb drives – Streaming and wifi will also kill these
The Constitution
Taxis, especially those driven by people
Pennys, Sears, Macys, and half the other current retailers
Shopping malls
Good government – oh wait, that’s gone already
Honeybees
BTW, what’s a phone book?
California & Philadelphia?
PatriotTIT, If by California, you mean San Diego and San Francisco, then by all means. If you mean the whole state, you can chomp through a stack of dicks for breakfast and come back for the nuts at dinner time.
Keep it clean please. There is no need to go into the toilet.
BTW: I know that there are “some” good people in CA, & I hoe that they can move out, but in all of our travels throughout the contiguous states, NYC & CA were the only foreign spaces we encountered, & only in the latter were the people outright hostile to us.
Never mind EC. His motto appears to be: “Why use a flyswatter when a shotgun will do?”
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PT, NY and CA are only contiguous in the mind as we can easily skip the flyover states.
Let me warn you that asking to keep it clean will only label you are a dainty. Even Admin has been known to use strong language on occasion. It comes in handy during discussions of import. Strong language, don’t leave home without it.
One comment I read said that victims were at least 5% at fault for the stuff that happened to them. Failure to use strong language where appropriate is 1% of that fault.
What is PT?
Are you a leftist Troll?
I really miss the phone books. Bring them back. I don’t know how to get phone numbers or find people anymore, & I don’t want to go through a hundred websites or pay a bunch for it either. It sucks!
I also miss the public phone booths, post boxes, & especially Ma Bell & land phones too. I can’t seem to properly work these stupid cell phones, with bad connections, can’t hear people well, & buttons not working properly. Computers don’t work well for me either. The only one that worked well for me was the Apple II+ (bring that back too!) Born too late I guess.
We also need multiple floppy/disc device players, that will run them all.
Nowadays you have to pay $50 to the internet white pages service to look up a name you could easily reference in a physical phone book.
Family Farms, small family businesses and stores ….farm stands may go the way of the lemonade stand. Speaking the truth…..
I think flash’s copy&paste keys will be worn out by then.
Most newspapers
At least 25% of small colleges
Bozo the Clown
Trump, if not before 4 years, then in 4 years!
Kellogg’s
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I have a good idea – we give illegals a choice: go back to Mexico – or have one of these gals sit on your face.
Dutchman, you seem to be obsessed with that idea, this is the second time in a week. I think you secretly wish Pelosi would set her hairy muff on your face, Nancy boy.
As soon as the SHTF, all fat stupid lazy over educated unarmed Urban Jungle liberals will exceed their consumer expiration dates (for El Cunning Dog, that would be all the: FSA Democrats, RINOs, Know it Alls, Snowflakes in their Safe Zones, Morans trying to stop traffic or rob Farmers/Ranchers, Dopers, Tree Huggers, LGBTQs, Ivy Leaguers, Vote/Pole Riggers, over paid Talking Head Liars/Fakers, Fake Scientist, Banksters, Schlock Marketers, Hollywood, and PC Nobel Prize Winners).
HA, HA
Battery and Hybrid electric cars. Wind turban fields, Solar collection fields and other such blatant boondoggles for big green energy corporations.
You wouldn’t count wind farms out if you’ve seen them in Texas.
Funny but true fact about those giant windmills: unless all other power supplies are cut off and make the price of electricity skyrocket, the maintenance and finally the wearing out of the head unit eats up so much cost that the cost break-even point never comes.
Same with solar farms except in a desert. One weather-related event (hailstorm, tornado, straight-line wind, ice storm) wipes out any conceived profit. If they don’t get stolen or vandalized, that is…
Couldnt disagree more with Javlins.
Farmstands could be turned into Covert barter stands if a cashless society emerges. Everyone may have one and exchange fruits and vegatables for barter. But the fruits would be covert money.
The Ninth Circuit Court of appeals.
Unhinged, in a week or so, your clever jest will be about as inscrutable as the bhagavad gita.
Facebook
Half of the silicon valley useless firms like Snapchat
(Simon Black did an insightful analysis of how Snapchat sucks)
NGOs that push socialism (MediaMatters, MoveOn, Tides Foundation, etc.)
NPR & PBS
Whatever pays Al Gore’s bills
Several departments in D.C. (I nominate DoEn, DoEd, DHS, DH&HS, and FEMA for starters)
Multiple universities and colleges
Several large banks (WF, JPM, Citi, DeutscheBank, depends on who fails first who gets dragged in)
Daily US postal service delivery. In fact I bet in 30 years kids will be amazed that there was a time when every house had a mailbox out front.
I think it will go to 3 days a week.
You really can’t talk about 5 years because things tend to linger even when you think they should or really want them to be gone or obsolete.
Now, for 10 years….
(1) Cheap Gas – The Petrodollar will be gone within this time period, so we will see gas prices go back up in the later half. If not due to scarcity… then do to hefty taxes… road tax, carbon tax, etc.
(2) $100 Dollar bill – With what’s happening in the EU, it is very likely there will be some kind of big push here in the U.S. as well. It has nothing to do with crime and everything to do with control.
(3) The Last Vestiges of the 4th Amendment – Border Patrol can already stop you within 100 miles of any border and search you, your vehicle and demand I.D. In the 8 to 10 year period, your freedom to travel without I.D. will disappear. Remember, TPTB want to eliminate all anonymity. I don’t think we’ll see a national I.D., but the 10-20 year mark could very well see this come to pass.
(4) Gallon and 2 Litre Bottles – Sounds absurd, but through shrinkflation… this will happen. We already lost the 1 lb package of Kielbasa, 1/2 gallon of Ice Cream, 1 lb bags of coffee… To sum it up, we will continue to lose our buying power.
This is just a quick list…. it could go longer. We all know that we are going to see less of everything in the future and not just due to technological advances
Philosophical AND religious question: Could a MANDATORY fingerprint identity process be considered equivalent to ‘THE MARK OF THE BEAST’ as foretold in Revelations?
If we ever do reach a point where no one can buy or sell without a special mark, then you can say it is the mark of the beast.
If they could fingerprint your forehead.
My wife and I probably won’t be around in 5-10 years. We’re both old.