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Ask Slashdot: Which Businesses Will Go Away In the Next 10 Years? (nbcnews.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the fading-industries dept.

AmiMoJo writes: Ten years ago NBC published a list of business types that it predicted would disappear in the following decade. Ten years later and we can see how good their fortune telling was. What businesses do you think will go away by 2027? Who is destined to become the next buggy whip manufacturer, whose demand dried up due to changing technology and a changing world?

For reference, NBC's list was: Record stores; Camera film manufacturing; Crop dusters; Gay bars; Newspapers; Pay phones; Used bookstores; Piggy banks; Telemarketing; Coin-operated arcades.

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  1. Slashdot by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    just kidding, lighten up

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    1. Re: Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Paradoxically, the quality of the comments here would be better if the posting limits were removed. It's stupid that you can only post twice before having to wait long periods of time before being able to comment again. It makes good discussion impossible. Plus it drives away good commenters. The end result is the low quality discussion we now see here so often.

  2. Youtubers by gosand · · Score: 3, Funny

    Please, for the love of the gods, please let this stop being a profession.

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  3. No. by quantaman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dammit, that didn't make any sense.

    I guess it's time to close up shop on my Betteridge's law of headlines auto-responder consultancy.

    At least business is booming at my Poe's Law-firm.

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