Twelve Months to the Millenium...What will Stay and What will Go; A Twelve Month Prediction
By; Alphafalphah
Features Editor
It's here 1999! Yes only twelve more months until...You've guessed it THE MILLENIUM aka 2000! Here are my predictions for what will be staying and what we will be saying "goodbye" to in the next twelve months
- The twelve things that will be staying well into the millenium;
- 1. Interactive television
- 2. Computer Animation
- 3. Satellite and Cable reception for television
- 4. Automated Telephone Service
- 5. theglobe.com (just had to add that)
- 6. Windows based programs
- 7. Super High Speed Modems
- 8. Internet Advertising
- 9. Continuous upgrades for ALL web browser programs
- 10. More Internet based movies Like "You've Got Mail."
- 11. Restoration of "Cel Animated" Cartoons from the 20th century
- 12. DVD enhanced movie sound at movie theaters
- Here are the twelve things that we will be saying "goodbye" to in the next twelve months;
- 1. Audio Cassette tape decks
- 2. Audio Cassettes themselves for they will be no longer needed (Compact Discs and Mini Discs are now the thing to listen to)
- 3. V.C.R.'s (in a slow pace)
- 4. Video Cassettes (DVD is slowly but surely replacing them as a medium)
- 5. Television Antennas
- 6. Analog Celluar phones
- 7. Cell phones that are "bigger" (in size) than the "Star-tac" by Motorola (this goes for the other cell-phone companies also)
- 8. Electric Cars (they fail now...so I can only imagine the futher technical damage they will do in the future)
- 9. Solar Powered Cars (they only work in day light...so what good will they be under the moon light???)
- 10. In person and/or phone booking appointments/reservations/orders (because just about every hotel has a web-site and most medical/dental professionals, hair salons, restaurants,florists, and department stores have web-sites and you can book reservations for hotels/restaurants and appointments for medical/dental professionals and/or your hair-dresser, or order your favorite outfit from your favorite department store, or send a floral bouquet by just simply visiting "their" web-site)
- 11. Annoying Info-mercials on television for Cable and Satellites will begin to "stop" showing them at "peak viewing hours"
- 12. Photo developing stores (Yes, Kodak is going High-Tech!) for every camera will no longer need "film" in order to take pictures. The present micro chip disc camera is a fine "468x60 pixel" alternative to the almost obsolete 11x8, 10x5, 5x7, 4x6 and 3x5 "portrait shots" of 110, and 35mm cameras of soon to be "yester-century"
You may not agree with what I have to say, but this is the way I feel about what will be staying and what will be going in the next twelve months as well as the millenium. Have a safe and fun 1999! See you in the next exciting issue of "Internet Spectrum."
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