50 Technological Advances, Your Kids Will Laugh

No doubt the advanced technology of today seems silly for children of today and much of the technology of today to shame the children of tomorrow. Here is a list of 50 technological developments, past and present, young people have asked, "I used to have to do what?"

1. TV

The week long wait for your favorite TV program was a familiar part of many a childhood as little as a decade ago. These days TV schedules are less significant because of television's "catching up", many rehearsals, on-demand television services on the Internet, and less law-abiding, torrent services. In the future, the planning concept will still be dissolved as television becomes a service primarily focused on the application.

2. Mobile
One way or another, whether through smart phones, tablet computers or electronic paper, is the idea of ​​lugging a bulky heavy computer will seem strange in a not too distant future. "I used to have to carry a separate bag for my computer", you will find yourself explaining some young when he unfolds his e-paper, laptop touch screen, it connects to the database cloud storage and begin to see a movie.

3. Wireless phones

The phone uses a cable and mounted on the wall for some unknown reason, it would probably be in the room, forced to sit on the stairs when we talked. Then came the cordless phone. It is nice to be able to walk around the house, when you are on the phone? But do not try to leave the house with the phone - do not do. Although phone companies offer phones that change the home network to a cellular network, so you can continue the conversation, leaving the house. Your child will wonder why the phones are always attached to the houses, which leads us to

4. Buildings with phone numbers

Yes, you really need to call a building to ask if the person you wanted to talk about was there or not. Buildings had numbers, not people. Now, almost everyone has a cell phone and the concept of trying to guess where a person can be before you call them are almost entirely superfluous. At some point people will probably be issued with numbers at birth.

5. glasses to correct vision

The use of lenses to correct vision problems is still a social norm, but with the laser eye surgery and contact lenses is not difficult to imagine a time in the near future, when they become obsolete. However, the concept of glasses hanging in front of his face has been for centuries and still very useful. Sunglasses will be for a while and your children can begin to wear glasses to enjoy the services of augmented reality, such as navigation.

6. Video and audio tape

The tape is already gone in most homes. You do not need to remember to rewind the video rental service before you return and do not have to roll back and forth to listen to your favorite song on an album. The language is still, and your child may wonder why you're talking about, show "taping" TV when you're just doing to save hard drive "Personal Video Recorder (PVR). You have selected are listed for each program that you saved and you can also start to look a certain point. If you tell your children that you used to have to fast forward through the video tape, if recorded only fools and horses before or after Question Time last week, they think they have.

7. Photo processing

Comedian Demetri Martin says he loves digital cameras because they allow him "to commemorate the same." The idea that you have to shoot an entire roll of film resistance, if you're lucky, 36 photos until you can see if any of them were strange sounds good to the generation camera Digital. Even stranger is the idea of ​​taking your film to the drugstore - meaning after slamming three photos of your cat to finish the film - and then wait an hour while they have faced. In addition, one quarter of your snaps stickers would have to tell you to take the blurry photos.

8. Watches

Spend so much time sitting at a computer that displays the time on the corner of the screen. When you are at home can see the time on your DVD player and oven. And when you're away from home carrying a mobile phone that displays the time. Admittedly, the clock is just a piece of jewelry now, right?

9. Keyboards

Many of the touch-screen devices still click when you type them, but there is no real reason. Modern keyboards are very quiet - nothing like the thump of old typewriters clack of keyboards or 80s. But the keyboard itself, can not last much longer. They take up space, adding bulk to portable devices, and suffer: English keyboard can not become a Russian, but can not touch. While the touch screen take a little 'getting used to those who have learned the keyboards, it is unlikely that those who grow up with the same problem.

10. CD, DVD and mini

The physical media are constantly replaced. The path from the files of eight track cartridge tapes to CD, mini disc for MP3 players are filled with stereo equipment dead. During the Cul de sac, such as laser discs, digital audio and HD DVD. They take up space, requires special equipment and eventually everything will be replaced by wireless downloads for your viewing or listening device. Your CD collection is already so obsolete that the library of your grandfather of 78 laps.

11. TV weather maps

Can remember when meteorologists had to keep some lightning-spouting clouds at a card box? Do you think that Flash graphics today, which predicts race across the country that, yes, flying meteorologists who come to see something better in 20 years?

12. Voting paper

You can slide the paper weeks before Election Day. You can store in a safe place, or if you are to me, to lose it completely. Then, on election day you go home in a dilapidated courtyard of the local school, hand the person a card with a long list, and then go to the cabin and check the box. This is a mature technology improvement, right? Future generations, was born as a chip implanted in the brain to vote - just before being given a lifetime phone numbers. (Probably.)

13. Pagers

Take your name called the hotel or airport bustling TANNOY is undoubtedly cool. Being paged says: "I am important." Or maybe, "I have a name that sounds silly when you read more than TANNOY". In both cases, it's cool. But the pager - that requires someone to call, so that the message can be sent to you call them back - is nonsense. Do not even try to explain to your children. It makes no sense. Get a cell phone and text messages.

14. The map and compass

Maps and compasses are not likely to disappear in the near future. We all need to find our way to places. But the time for the paper map, a compass and the physical body is gone. Having a map of the device, such as mobile phones, so it can be updated, if necessary, and can be made interactive, eliminating unnecessary elements or the directions above '. Building a device compass, too, and you're ready.

15. Movies and TV in black and white

The world used to be black and white, at least that's how it looks like children.

16. Letter

The art of writing a letter was governed by Matthew Moore in his list of things to be killed by the Internet. But it is not only art, but the technology of letters that have been usurped. The idea to write something, put it in the mail and wait until it arrives and then wait even longer for an answer seems strange in our world always-on communication. Tickets, bank statements and bills are already paperless for most people.

17. Cards

We still have the hand of all the little pieces of other cards in the meetings so we can contact later, or just remember where we are. Then do these pieces of cardboard or transcribe the information in a book or contacts on the computer. Or simply lose. This is useless, we can only hope that our children will not have to go through. We can exchange data wirelessly now, you know.

18. Faxes

Occasionally a piece of paper can not be emailed to someone and, as mentioned above, the position is too slow. So we have to dust off the fax machine in the corner. This technology dates back to 1970 and their properties a little magic - "It's just sent letter printed on the phone in seconds!" - If not fully trust Many people continue to phone later. sending a fax to verify that the magic worked the process involved in sending a fax is as follows:. write a letter on your computer, print it on letterhead, fax, phone to verify that the fax was received.

19. E-mail

As we have already seen, replaced the e-mail letters and offers a pleasant alternative to the horrors of the fax machine. But do not think that e-mail friendly means you can escape the ridicule of your juniors. Teenagers these days to take away from email to instant messaging to direct communication and prefer social networks for long messages. Even that is likely to be swept by collaborative tools such as Google Wave, which combines aspects of instant messaging, email, file sharing and internet for a tool in real time.

20. Gasoline vehicles

Our children can be a little shocked to hear that we used to pump the fluid in our cars to run them. Maybe they are, instead of connecting. Of course, not be lost to the streets full of smoke, fossil fuel powered cars create.

21. Game Consoles

Mobile phones are game consoles in recent days. Console gaming is a much greater computing power of a mobile phone, but it is not hard to imagine a future in which computing takes place on the TV or PVR, and the game is streamed from the Internet instead of on disk. In fact, a more powerful phone, the technology could be in your pocket and the game flowed into the TV. Oh, and game controller is a thing of the past too.

22. Telephone booths

The problem with numbers attached to buildings (see paragraph 4) is that there is no way to call people when you are out. So we left the phone lying around the country, in huge red boxes with doors unfeasibly heavy and used them instead. When someone wanted to use one of these phones, they would pay, which meant having to change have on you. And then rang a building, a conclusion that the person you wanted was not there, wasting your money and you need to find another pay phone later, so you can try again.

23. More remote

Before we had to cross the room to change channels on the TV. It was not a problem - for ages that there were only three channels anyway. But finally we have the remote control and then we had several boxes - videos, satellite tuners, etc - and the most remote controls. Finally, at the prospect of not being able to enter the room due to the pile of remote controls, the human race developed universal remotes, rather clumsy, imitated multiple remotes. In the future, your phone will probably double in a remote control for everything you try to run. (These phones do a lot in the future, right?)

24. Postcode Street Signs

The strange habit of printing the postal codes of street signs in major cities of Great Britain is certainly unnecessary, because we all have maps and compasses on mobile devices we carry with us? (See paragraph 14).

25. Diskettes

Storage media back and forth (see paragraph 10), but the disks were common between 1969, when they appeared in their eight-inch format, and the mid-1990s, when they were reduced to three and a half inches and was in a plastic disk decidedly not the case. Your children are bound to see them in movies and be surprised to learn that their best, they held up to 240 MB This is equivalent to approximately one eighth of the capacity of the iPod Shuffle last.

26. Directories

Back to the phones again. To take a majority of the buildings (see Section 4) and left a few on the road (see paragraph 22) After we had a problem of how someone could find the number they needed. So we printed on every phone number we thought would be a huge significance of the book, which is delivered to every household in the country. Seriously. Then people began to ask the directory is omitted, rendering them largely useless.

27. The dial-up Internet

It seems strange to future generations that are used to transform our access to the Internet for short periods throughout the day. It's like turning water into the network each time you want to run a bath. Part of the reason for these short periods of network activity - during which you could not use the phone - was that you were charged per minute of access. And in the minutes of dial-up speed, as anyone who has ever seen a picture on the screen one line at a time to be confirmed.

28. Wiring up a wireless network

Remember that when you have your house connected to the grid? No? How about when equipped with a water hose and connected to the sewer system? No? Well, it's almost certain that the Internet connection for now and probably had a go at creating a wireless network. Just how are "wireless" network, anyway? In the future, when the wireless cloud that surrounds us, our children will marvel at our stories of routers and switches and RJ45 cables.

29. Computers in boxes

The big beige box on your desk made his death sentence with the launch of the iMac in 1998. Now, only the market for low-end desktop machine and a very high voltage need their own turn away from the screen. As components become even smaller and more computing power is transferred to the cloud, cutting the need for local resources, the need for a box will be completely removed.

30. Visiting a Supermarket

Unless you really like to wander aisles filled with washing powder or shower gel to be grateful for home delivery supermarket. By the time your children have grown, these products will be boring to be ordered online and delivered to save you the hassle of going to the store and get them. Your supermarket will become more of a huge market filled with fruit and farm fresh vegetables, exotic meats, cakes and type of products you wish to spend some time browsing. Or it will be transformed into a large Poundstretcher. Sorry.

31. Local Storage

512 MB hard drive connected to your Wi-Fi router could be a pretty slick engineering at the moment, but their children with access to unlimited amounts of super-cheap online backup for pennies, I ask why all stories.

32. "Owners" of music, books and movies

The idea of ​​"collections" of the media was crucial as long as there have been books, movies and music. But once the data can be stored in the cloud and access from your device when you need it, the idea of ​​"owning" something starts to seem strange. If you buy more than one album per month, you may be better to put that money into a subscription service and listen to the album you've bought the disc and any where you like. Availability and portability issues hinder these services today, with the nagging fear that the service could disappear, taking their "collection" with her. This is changing quickly in case, your children will not pick up albums, all your disks are arriving all the time.

33. Wires and Cables

This mix of spaghetti as plastic blocking the space behind his desk to go. The child is complicated, difficult to connect, always very short and prone to loose connections. The wireless data transfer devices, batteries and wireless charging pad will be the crux of copper powder in all offices to look as dated as Sweeney Ford Granada.

34. 35 mm Cameras

Digital cameras take pictures of the confusion has been developed (see Section 7) and not required to carry rolls of film with you and then cut into the back of the unit every time you want to change a movie.

35. TVs And Radios That Need Tuning

People on television and radio time to say "tune in" when they are really asking you not to turn off or change channels. Sentence lost its original meaning, and your children can never imagine that you used to shoot a little 'playing safe crackers as an effort to get the TV tuned to the right channel. Fiddliness not satisfied with this process, some TV manufacturers with a plastic stick was inserted into the receiver, so you can find the channel. If you have forgotten a small stick, the whole mass was inoperable.

36. Low-resolution Digital Photos And Video

Concepts such as' low bandwidth ',' limited storage space, "and the" two-megapixel camera ", will soon be as ridiculous as the 16K RAM pack mounted behind the ZX81. High-definition cameras are installed as standard on mobile phones and monitors computer (and windows, headlights and front, we all know), and YouTube to provide crystal-clear images of the followers of a hi-fi quality, driving video piracy in the future guardians of the cycle.

37. Mouse

Since 1968, our hands and fingers have been reduced crude pointing devices, which can only show a set of coordinates on the screen, and then stabbed. Multi-touch user interfaces means that we can use all our ten fingers to move, zoom, select, reject, manipulate and edit. Combine a touchpad mouse and keyboard, the removal of a device to your desktop.

38. Mobiles With Antennas

There are few better ways to make you look important in the 80's and early 90's carrying a phone the size of a minibus for your case, extending six meters long and the air of a conversation by shouty prices . The brokers of the future will hold talks with shouty invisible, small headphones, which at least has the merit of them look more foolish.

39. Desktop Software

Most software is now moved from the disks to download and the next step is to remove the software completely from your desktop. There are already online office suites, offering a wide range of functions without having to install on your hard drive. Expect software in the future be performed entirely in the cloud - another blow to the concept of "ownership" of media.

40. ADSL

Your ADSL broadband can now feel faster, but try to download an HD quality video, while someone is playing an online game and a third of Internet radio streams. Connection speeds of the future are already available in many parts of the world. Assuming that the government and ISPs to recover their children will not be stuck with a speed of 8 Mb in 20 years.

41. Disposable Batteries

You probably have very little battery-operated these days. Mobile phones, laptops and MP3 players mainly use rechargeable batteries. The idea that you used to have to throw batteries away, and then go out and buy some new, already seems quite strange.

42. Wi-Fi Hotspots

"Gather round, children, and I'll tell you a story about the mysterious regions of the country where no transfer of wireless data solutions were possible and only involving mobile phones, and something called" tethering "would allow you to check Your email things mail or online. Oh, can you imagine the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments that will result, or along, trudge through the dark streets where we had to find a place where someone invisible Us charged several pounds a few minutes of connectivity? "

43. Fillings In The Teeth

It 'good to know that in the near future, all business for the injections, your mouth numb, and the metal amalgam is over and the old, damaged teeth removed and replaced with shiny friends news, stem cells are grown to order. The last generation to know the specific fear that the complaint on the rise, and drilling has already brushed my teeth.

44. Passport

So, do not rush home from the airport in a taxi had forgotten to bring your retina or fingerprints, but still we carry small leather-page bundle of documents, as if we were joint owners of Her Majesty.

45. Cheque

You may laugh at these now, and your children will laugh along with you. Imagine: a book of pre-printed coupons that you use instead of money. You must write "only" at the end of the amount for any reason, and that you distribute information which allow the holder to set up direct debits to your account with each payment. They are guaranteed that by signing the check processing person is as likely to recognize they have to pass on the payment within three working days (that's what they used to call the Monday to Friday, children) days.

46. Signaling

Universal satellite navigation means that the Council could save money by reducing the sheets of metal as a clumsy side of the road, and forcing the car to announce that it is five kilometers from the center of the city or road works will disrupt traffic until July 2035. These same devices also monitor and report on movement speed of the traffic police, so it should not need both fleets Gatso cameras.

47. Minitel teletext

Fun colors, the small amount of text on the screen need to remember many page numbers - teletext was a bad internet really was not? It took some time to get the Internet on television, but your kids can now watch every minute comments on football instead of watching a loop of the last scores on teletext.

48. The paper schedules

Traffic scheduling problems is that they tell you only what should happen. The reality is often different. Today, the GPS and the Internet means that you can find out exactly where the train is at this time, and now arrives at the station.

49. The Cookbooks

In the house of the future, smart appliances mean more headaches what to cook for dinner. Instead, the refrigerator is not known exactly what kind of food it contains, and what foods can be made with these ingredients, while the integrated video boards in work areas will guide you through each step of the kitchen.

50. Walkie - talkies

Children always want to use walkie talkies. They also listen to incomprehensible messages to friends, until it goes beyond garden's length away from each other. Today, children prefer a cell phone, so you can call all their friends without their walkie talkies first.

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