FX.co ★ Usual things that may disappear

Cash and credit cards

Some experts think that in the near future banknotes and plastic credit cards could disappear. It is believed that soon banks will apply the biometric technologies to identify the customer, and people will be able to pay through smartphones interacted with payment systems and applications from banks.

Mechanical storage devices

Experts say that children who were born recently will never know what a DVD-ROM drive and HDD-drive are. In several years, these devices can disappear forever.

DVD and Blu-ray players

DVD and Blu-ray players are another candidates for elimination from our life. These devices are being replaced by wireless communication, an abundance of online cinemas and affordable cloud-based storage devices. The price for a single Blu-ray disc is quite high, and some virtual cinemas offer customers a monthly subscription for the same money.

USB flash drives

This useful accessory is quite young, when compared with DVD-drives and other storage devices, but according to experts, it may also become useless in a few years. The USB flash drives will be replaced by cloud storage, photo-sharing services and other.

Printers

This unit which currently can be found in almost every office will become unclaimed in the future. Paper document management, as well as sales of printers, is declining year after year.

PC and Windows

Experts have been talking about the imminent lack of demand for personal computers for a long time, however, the sales remain unchanged. Experts note that in the near future, small offices will use mobile platforms which show a very high level of performance, and, in addition, are cheaper than computers with Windows.

3D-TV

It seems that TVs (and cinemas) with 3D function entered the life of public recently and should stay in it for a while, but experts think differently. The analyst position is simple: 3D technology has not gained popularity with the public. Cinemas rarely show films in this format, as the producers add 3D option only for the most expensive models of TVs.

Wired Internet

Experts believe that by 2021, the Russians will use the fifth-generation networks (5G) to access the Internet. Today, wired Internet goes slowly into the background under the pressure of the high velocity systems.

Mechanical door locks and iron keys

The replacing of usual iron locks was invented long ago but the new technology takes time for the potential disclosure. Experts believe that the electronic locks which are actively used in Asian countries will soon enter into the lives of other states.

Fixed phones

Recently, a fixed phone was an indispensable attribute of the urban resident's apartment. However, with invention of cellphones people almost forgot about this unit. Today fixed telephones are actively used predominantly by office staff.

Fluorescent and incandescent lamps

Fluorescent lamps will soon be driven out of our life by LED counterparts which service much longer and cost the same.