Technologies that will disappear in the next few years

Technology advances very quickly and things that were common ten years ago (CRT televisions, fax machines) are falling into disuse so scary. At this rate, we can predict some current products that possibly will disappear in the next years. The reason for this is because the features are being embedded in other devices, but also the business model has changed.

- GPS: Nowadays, portable navigation devices are shared visions on the panels and windshields of cars. And more, mobile phones are coming with this feature and does many other things, and why not to say better. The free and famous program, the Google Map Navigation is one of the best programs concerning to this area, and can justify the reason of drop in sales of navigation program in 2010 with more than 22%. But we are talking about the GPS for driving purposes, the ones very popular for end users.

- CD/DVD ROM: With the advent of Internet, we can download practically all we need, like programs, videos, games and many other things we have stored in CD/DVD. With the high speed that providers are offering, its much easier and cheaper downloading what we need instead of sending the package to your home and wait for the delivery service. In addition, we are not counting the risk of losing the package or even have the media scratched.

- Netbook: smaller, lighter and cheaper than notebooks, the netbooks were for a short period the best choice for the ones that were looking for something cheaper, portable and with internet access. With weaker processors and tiny screen the netbooks were kind in imperfect solution. Notebooks kept the evolution with faster processors and more than five hours of battery use, but some new gadgets came up, such as smartphones and now the tablets that are much more suitable and accessible to supply the need of internet navigation, entertaining and simple computing functions.

We can quote some more devices, such as e-readers, so popular for reading but now threatened by the tablets that also provide many other things. And why not to say the wireless internet routes, where service providers are offering cable TV, optical fiber, satellites, high speed internet on mobile phones and why not to have the wireless service too?!?!

Not only devices like these are being threatened, but many others in our daily use we don't realize they can be replaced by something more powerful or even the change of habit.
The subject is widely polemic, but in the next few years we'll see which of them still survived!!