Nine things that will disappear in our life time

Books ought to disappear because of the enormous cost associated with printing and paper.

The cds and dvds will be gone soon. but books will remain forever

Mr.Muralidharan, something can be extinct if it was there in the first place.  You are talking of something which the Government says it wants to make available.  Not something which is already there.  But I get your point.  These things are also important to us.  Everything in the list above is bound to disappear.  How soon?  That is a million dollar question.  In our lifetime, for sure.  In another 40 years?  I have read a physical newspaper before 6 months.  I read the news online.  It is more realtime.  I dont have hassles in reading novels in my laptop.  I either email or courier.   I listen to music in my cell.  I want to get the ipad.  I go to the net for entertainment.  And I am certainly NOT young.  If this is my case, what about the younger generation?  True, the trend has not caught up in rural areas.  But in another 15 - 20 years, they would have caught up.  Do you see any village where the people do not use cell?  Or TV?  Or internet (few)?  And as Mr.Krishnamurthy Prabakar has pointed out, post offices are diversifying their activities  because their core business of delivering letters is becoming obsolete.  Change is life.  And our success depends on how fast we adapt to these changes.  Have a nice day!

You have said, Mr. Raju, nine things that we held in high esteem for our day-today living, will disappear in our life time. I agree. What about our "hard-earned freedom", "ethical and moral values", "cultural ethos", "propriety and probity in public life", "government sponsored schemes for poor and downtrodden, "fresh air to breathe", "uncontaminated drinking water", "hygienic living condition in urban and rural areas", "food on demand through buffer stock", and above all, "right to profess your own religion" - do you think all these stay in your lifetime, or will be extinct in our life time?

"Morality" will also disappear in our life time. Thanks Mr. Raju.

I don't think so! Thanks for referral Purvi!

o my god, is it, thnks purvi

The last thing - Privacy - is certainly going to be the 'THE' factor out of all that is gone/ would be gone.

Thanks for Referral Ms Purvi Ghosh,
It is true. Certain needs to go out when new things come in. But, does not mean that it will vanish ,altogether, from the scene. These entity, is to quickly go over the latest development & accommodate it so that, their identity is retained. I believe some of them are finding ways to, still, find a place among people.

Humanity and our planet earth is in crises, do we have any other alternatives to save it from deteriorating farther, in times to come, machines will take over humans in almost every aspect. I mean almost 90% of jobs will be done by machines. We can still write letters to friends that is not an issue. I do write letters, the only difference now is I write it in mails in the internet however, I am able to convey my message to the concern person to whom I am writing. It is elementary to understand. Same as the pigeon got disappeared now it is time for the Post Man to get disappear...:) Technology...:D

In the above list we can include 'ANTIQUES', as since past two decades the residential accommodation per capita has been reduced to 1/6th of that in 60s. Due to this people have generated lack of storing space. You might feel it right if you consider your own home while reviewing the past 10 years. There was a time of when we used to store news paper cuttings in our files for future reference and hold the un-serviceable/ out of fashion appliances/ instruments for them to remain as ANTIQUES. But now a days, the moment any thing goes un-serviceable or out of fashion we try to get rid of it through X-change or Kabadi, as there is no space in our homes.
Other 9 things mentioned by you seems to go out of dictionary within few decades.

Book,Music never die from my life. Privacy cant say bcoz its depends upon person to person.

The book and Music never die in my opinion coz these two things which make a man alive 

Nice article. The big question being, should we be sad or happy about it? For instance if we go back 7-10 years in the recent past, we would realize that almost everyone used an alarm-time-piece to wake up in the morning. Today most of us use our mobile phones to set alarms. An entire industry (of time-pieces) is possibly on the brink or already wiped out. Can we today imagine a life without mobile phones which among other things is also used to check time, so "The Watch" would soon become obsolete (as pointed out by Shahnawaz in his comments). Should we be happy to have a mobile phone that is a multipurpose device or be sad that watches, time-pieces etc have disappeared? Tough one....

Thanks,Virag for referral.The use of all nine things will remain more or less for simple reasons that rural populous is still untouched of fast evolving technology.

IF U GO BY THE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER I FOR ONE WOULD PREFER BOOK FOLLOWED BY PRIVACY. TO B MORE PRECISE I LOVE BOOK.
DEAR MR.RAJU. " ONE DAY MY PAGES OF MY BOOK WILL COME TO AN END. IF I HAPPENED TO GO THROUGH IT AGAIN I WILL DEFINITELY FIND U THERE BECAUSE U R ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CHAPTER IN IT. THANKS FOR REFERRAL.

Good info but dont forget - community meets since we hardly have time for each other and meet people more easily on FB, cars because the way petrol prices are going and once existing stock is exhausted, we have to switch back to walking or cycling, agriculture because of the increasing commercialisation of land and shrinking of arable land for agriculture, big snow fed rivers like Ganges and bhramaputra because of the rate at which the snow fields or glaciers are melting due to pollution, wildlife which will soon be extinct completeley because of our maddening drive towards urbanisation.... 

U may be right as the current trend is like that, but unfortunately, I fear, that the body parts of a human being will also become inoperative slowly and the robots may take over their functions and eventually the human being will also disappear and only a human machine remains without any human emotions, as the wild animals and birds are slowly vanishing from the sight. I think that there should be some limit to exploit the nature so that we can live a natural human life and not living a machine life, where nobody is happy and satisfied and running after a goal which is an illusion only.

I dont think so, perhaps it may be the case with metros, urban centers but not the semiurban and rural india there are still so many things required in these areas including electricity.  There are villages which depend community tv for entertainment. so these things will not vanish from India.

Yes indeed most of the mentioned things are gonna to disappear, but the irony is we are also losing our privacy, somehow this should be protected at ay coat otherwise it will cause vulnerability in our livess.

Purvi, I am strongly agree with Mr. Suryanarayan Murthy, 
Post office, land line phones are almost out. Days are gone when we used to wait for the post man in the afternoon. But Music and Books, it takes many years to take them away from us, particularly Indians !!

i like the way Mr. Murthy explained!!sometimes i miss those days!thanks for sharing

Music & Books will remain, still existance of world.
Thanks for referral, Purvi.

Purvi thanks for referral. A nice article indeed. A lot of things have started showing downward trend but I think in a Country like India it will take time for all these things to disappear even in long run. 

I think the following may also disappear:
1. The Personal Computer: If 24 hour battery life becomes the norm technologically, won't the Personal Computer which needs a constant charge disappear.
2. The watch: Haven't seen many people with watches, the few that exist may disappear soon
3. Gas stove: I think that Microwaves (with constant charge, pre-charged or Solar charged) may replace them. Personally speaking, I have found the number of microwaves in people's homes (or at least me and the people I know) to have increased exponentially.

(1) I agree post office is almost died. 

(2)Old / real Music & Television is died and New/ version is enterd in market as per generation acceptance. 

(3)News paper and landline phone will not disappera totally but the use of those things will down or almost already down. 

(4) The use book will not down totally, many old as well as young readers are existance in market. If you will go in Cross word or many good library places, you will find many raders as well as slaes of various books.

Thanks Ms. purvi madam for referal... 

Mr.Raju
I agree with you, in near future all the things you had said may disappear from our life as a result of our modern technology.Though technology makes life faster and easy but there must have a need of music,book and privacy. 

Yes books and music won't die this soon... other things might ... lets see what happens...

Yes and i agree with you. However, it may not be with indian Post Offices where they offer 36 services such as savings bank, insurance and other services. However,about others you are right. I wish they disappear before consuming the large amounts of natural resources. 

Yes, You are right. Post office, land line phones are almost out. Days are gone when we used to wait for the post man in the afternoon. But Music and Books, it takes many years to take them away from us, particularly Indians !!