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9 Things That Will Disappear In Our Lifetime very soon……..
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**Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to
them. But, ready or not, here they come.

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.
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.

2. **The Cheque**
Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with cheque by 2018. It
costs the financial system billions of dollars a year to process cheques.

Plastic cards and online transactions will lead to the eventual demise of
the cheque. 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.

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 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.

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 to 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.

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.
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 “catalogue 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 fascinating and disturbing topic
further, check out the book, “Appetite for Self-Destruction” by Steve
Knopper, and the video documentary, “Before the Music Dies.”

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 companies to be
put out of our misery. Let the people choose what they want to watch online
and through Netflix.

8.** The “Things” That You Own **

Many of the very 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” or 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. There
are cameras on the street, in most of the buildings, and even built into

your computer and cell phone. But 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. “They” will try
to get you to buy something else. Again and again.
**
And moreover,.once we have pets in our home, and move with them daily,

we just forget our tension & worries for a while,as a way of diversion
and the pets do get some of our qualities sometime.

All we will have left that can’t be changed are “Memories”.
And then probably Alzheimers will take that away from you too !*