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Will everything be digital in the future?

Asked by 90sbaby (10points) May 5th, 2018

In the future will everything from regular watches, normal tvs, tv remotes, physical calendars and analog alarm clocks become obsolete? I’ve been hearing about things like that being obsolete in the future and I’m scared. I grew up with all the analog things and I don’t want everything to turn digital in the future. I’ve also heard that shopping centres will close down in the future as the rise of online purchases are wiping out their existence.. is any of that true? What is your opinion on the matter?

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JLeslie's avatar

Probably everything will be available in digital, but people will still buy $10k Rolex watches that aren’t digital. Are kids still taught how to read a clock?

There must be other examples where status or appreciation for antiques will keep some analog around.

LadyMarissa's avatar

Sadly, life doesn’t care what it is you want. The truth is you adapt or you fall out. Actually, your future may be even stranger than you’re anticipating. The next generation will create something to replace the digital items. You’ll be fortunate IF you can still buy necessities online. Black market high prices on the street asking for more than you can afford to pay will become the norm. The next 100 years will be going straight down hill!!!

Zaku's avatar

“Obsolete” is an opinion, and different people hold very different views about what’s obsolete or not.

Modernists (and marketers for new products, and writers who write about new technology) may call all those things obsolete already. Others may never consider any of those things obsolete.

Depending on what you mean exactly by “normal TVs”, none of the things you mentioned are going to vanish in your lifetime. There will always be mechanical watches, physical screens for watching shows, remote controls, physical calendars, analog alarm clocks, and shoping centres. At most, there will continue to be alternatives to all those things, and those things will be more visible, and the others less available (but not unavailable), not so much because those things aren’t perfectly useful any more, but because people already have them and companies are competing to try to sell people things as much as they can, so they also generate hype about the latest things.

My opinion is that some of the new things offer some improvements, but that much of it is needless and even wasteful by design. One of the atrocious fallacies of consumer economy is that it makes sense to keep making and selling as much as possible of things people already have, and therefore making crappy disposable or soon-to-be-declared-“obsolete” products.

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LostInParadise's avatar

I foresee an analog rebellion.

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