So, in your opinion, what do you think will be the next device to bite the bullet. I think it will be the DvD, replaced by Bluray...intime, if not then something. Maybe with all the downloadable movie sites coming up will replace them. Download the movie instantly to your TIVO or something.

I think as more and more devices emulate each other in terms of audio, video playback, internet access, communications, etc, the line between game console, cell phone, PC, will vanish as every unit essentially does everything with different sizes and slightly different capabilities in each field (cell phones will stay small and not be able to play as complex games, but will get graphics uogrades).

I don't think DVD will die soon.

BitTorrent, NetFlix, and legal downloadable movies will replace most of the demand for movie rental stores. They will stay open for videophiles as a high-end market (don't want to download SUPARHIGHDEFCONTENT) simultaneously with old people that don't understand movie downloading, but eventually decline and die out.

Speaking of technological convergence, I think it would be pretty neat if Nintendo decided to make a cell phone.

Next to die is I think... hmmm.... I think we've already killed off the weak, blind and stupid in modern devices...
Yeah, nothing else gonna die.

Next to die is the home telephone. Soon after will be FM radio.

regular TV for that HD-TV stuff. all station in OZ are advisting there HD vertions like theres nothing else

HSIAMetalKing:
Next to die is the home telephone. Soon after will be FM radio.

neather of those will ever go. if they do i pitty humanity

Knight Templar:
regular TV for that HD-TV stuff. all station in OZ are advisting there HD vertions like theres nothing else

I know, it's crap. I was watching TV up late and heard a show I likes coming up. "Oh goody" then the TV finishes what it was saying... "Only on HD!" "DAMNIT!" "But stay tuned for we have crappy reality TV for the normal channel." Do they hate us for not upgrading our TV's?

The next to die will be people who put more than a sane number of excalamation marks on anything they type.

Seriously. Any more than one exclamation mark used in an unironic context is a sure sign that the author needs one of those special coats where the sleeves meet around the back.

GloatingSwine:
The next to die will be people who put more than a sane number of excalamation marks on anything they type.

Seriously. Any more than one exclamation mark used in an unironic context is a sure sign that the author needs one of those special coats where the sleeves meet around the back.

I have them in three different colors. White, Egg White, and Off White. :D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

^ Hey, I like this guy.

HSIAMetalKing:
Next to die is the home telephone. Soon after will be FM radio.

Truth.

Thegreatoz:

GloatingSwine:
The next to die will be people who put more than a sane number of excalamation marks on anything they type.

Seriously. Any more than one exclamation mark used in an unironic context is a sure sign that the author needs one of those special coats where the sleeves meet around the back.

I have them in three different colors. White, Egg White, and Off White. :D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quote of the day. ;)

Anyway, I don't think really essential home devices (such as the examples given: Home telephone and FM radio) will be changed. Too many people still use them and they are supported by small-time corporations which simply would not recover if the nation was asked for an entire digital switchover.

Besides, the older generation have almost zero percent knowledge of the alternatives to home telephone. I'm not saying that all old people don't know about Skype, mobiles etc., it's just that a lot of them are seriously, purposely, ignorant.

Monitors will slowly merge with tvs, until the day comes when computers sit in fron tof the tv with the the game consoles that look just like it but arent upgradable because they make more money by selling in generations.

PS. Its called a Straight Jacket, but I'm unsure of the spelling.
PPS. I will never use a cell phone because they can be used to invade privacy easily, and are often used to do so. I will resist anything I can that leads to the privacy free future you so often see in science fiction. Onstar must die!

If playing guitar hero has proved anything to me, it is that 5 buttons is as good as 6 strings. Say bye bye guitars, hello guitar simulators.

The Internet will be input into the brains of our children right at birth.

Get ready for a 4chan religion.

the english languge, my spelling teacher in school said "lol" is that funny or scary?

Depends on the age of your teacher :)

GenHellspawn:
Depends on the age of your teacher :)

around the 35 mark.

I'm waiting for the book thing to die. Im pretty sure in the next couple of decades schoolbooks will be swapped for palm pilot type things with ultra low resolution so the text wont be so hard on the eyes. I mean seriously, I love books but their clumsy, can be heavy, with so many highly cumbersome and losable. Seems practical to, I sure wouldn't mind just re downloading my textbook from my school profile rather than fork over 50 bucks for a lost textbook. It'll totally be missed tho like I miss CD's. Something about having to comb over my friends cd case with all the cd designs was just colorful and cool. Now yay, we have a calculator for music. And yay, soon it will be the same for books im sure >.<

Knight Templar:

GenHellspawn:
Depends on the age of your teacher :)

around the 35 mark.

Saying lol out loud at any age is weird.

Knight Templar:
the english languge, my spelling teacher in school said "lol" is that funny or scary?

thats creepy

sebboh:
I'm waiting for the book thing to die. Im pretty sure in the next couple of decades schoolbooks will be swapped for palm pilot type things with ultra low resolution so the text wont be so hard on the eyes. I mean seriously, I love books but their clumsy, can be heavy, with so many highly cumbersome and losable. Seems practical to, I sure wouldn't mind just re downloading my textbook from my school profile rather than fork over 50 bucks for a lost textbook.

The book will never truly die, it's been ingrained upon our culture since the Renaissance. While school textbooks will eventually go away,(my school has already let us download some books to a flash drive) the novel will stay with us till the end of Western civilization. The reason inanimate things "die" is because they're not missed. The CD gave way to the MP3 because no one had any real sentimental attachment to it. Records are still more precious to us than casettes because it had a certain "feel" to it. When the last textbook thankfully falls to whatever portable media player we use, the novel will stay with us, safely locked away in a little cavern it's been carving out in our hearts for centuries.

John Galt:
The book will never truly die, it's been ingrained upon our culture since the Renaissance.

While I agree the book will never die, our definition of "book" may change radically in the next couple of years. I'm pretty sure book readers, similar in function (but not appearance) to WiFi-MP3 players are right around the corner. Once the display is as comfortable to read as ink on paper and the interface is as convenient as turning pages, the ability to access any book you want, when you want, will outweigh our cultural bias. The technology's more or less here, so my guess is the book publishing industry doesn't want to move out of the 16th century. Book readers aren't any use if book publishers don't want to provide content.

Good point, I guess there actually is a point where technology and convenience will outweigh cultural snobbiness. Come to think of it, that's what the printed book did to all those illuminated manuscripts.

Home telephones for sure, and possibly even cell phones thanks to programs like SKYPE