What will be the next Prominent Technology to disappear?

On December 31, 2008 the last truck full of VHS tapes shipped to the American public. Old people still have boxes of VHS tapes but the format is all but extinct and it's not even possible to buy a VCR through ordinary means. If you find out what technology someone used when they were young you can guess their age.

Vinyls -  Shouldn't still be alive
VHS -  Ancient....50 years old at least
A Cassette player - 25-30 years old
Portable CD player - 20-25 years old

It just goes to show how fast very popular technologies can suddenly become obsolete. When I was young we used to use small cassettes to play music and you were the coolest kid in town if you had a Sony Walkman. My family used to watch VHS tapes of Steven Seagal and Jean Claude Van Damme movies in what we thought was great quality but has now been relegated to being the low definition video format of choice for Al-Qaeda. 

The latest generation has no exposure to some of these older devises and would assume a cassette was a weapon before they'd assume it was for music playback. Now everything is electronic and it's all about MP3's, mp3 speakers, blue tooth, WIFI,  smart phones and other digital devices etc but I often stop to wonder which prominent technology will be the next to disappear?

I'd say CD's and DVD's. We are already seeing a diminishing use for them. For computer storage they are almost obsolete. Zip drives now store so much more information and make for easier information transfer. A portable CD player has been rendered a relic by the i-pod and other mini mp3 players. I can think of very few reasons to go out and purchase Cd's or DVD's because now you can even use software to make a zip drive emulate a CD or DVD and you can now plug your Mp3 player into your card radio as opposed to needing a CD.  So that's my guess. Either way, I will definitely smile and look back fondly to the days when I though I was the big man on campus with my Walkman.

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