Comments on: What Technology of Today Will be Obsolete Tomorrow?

By: Scott Miles

Scott Miles — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:31:46 +0000

I am thinking physical media will die out along with DVD’s and Bluray. with all of the streaming going on these days and the digital age taking over, it will be all stored via servers and flash drive storage.

By: r4ds

r4ds — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:52:52 +0000

I think it would be blueray and DVD and external hard drive. Hope computer will stay for the longer period of time with us !!!

By: Karl

Karl — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:42:35 +0000

Well throughout time with computer and being a self taught technician for hardware for the last 20 years. I do agree with you to some point that the computer will change through the years. Eventually keyboards and mouses might disappear from the computer itself or be changed for something else in it place. But I will disagree with you on this is the Operating System that still needs to be running on computer. And we are aloud agree to disagree on things like this. But personally. I think even if it is a diskless system. (Where there is no floppy drives or hard drive to load the operating system.) You still need to load something from either a EEPROM chip or being sent through some kind of Network adapter connection in order to use the physical hardware that you have that represents the actual computer that you are using. Whether it is a windows base, Mac OSX base, or a Linux varient based Operating system. You still need something to use the hardware with in order to get what you pay for on the computer itself.

I still enjoy showing some of the older technologies like the good old 8 inch, 5.25 and 2.5 inch diskettes that are around and were widely popular since the very beginning when computers had these available from the 80′s on up.

Then going from Dot-matrix to using inkjest and laserjets for the replacement of the dotmatrix. I still use on occasion the good old floppy via USB when absolutely essentiial to restore the master boot record when windows or Linux cannot install properly on the primary master boot record.

By: Shtanto

Shtanto — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:23:37 +0000

We’ll always have the corkscrew and the bottle opener. Tin openers too. Those things will never go away!

By: Teebo

Teebo — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:34:22 +0000

Blu-ray, Definately.

Curiously, DVD will hang on a bit longer only because it is the mass market product that Blu-ray will never be.

By: Busta5000

Busta5000 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:31:21 +0000

I guess CD’s & external hardisks since we have better connections to have a virtualdrive. Like Dropbox or Ubuntu One.