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Ask Slashdot: Which Businesses Will Go Away In the Next 10 Years? (nbcnews.com)
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.
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.
Why not? The quality of the community and articles is not what it was. It keeps getting passed around from company to company. It is just one corp org away form shutting down. What is left is a very loyal community. But not one that probably earns whoever owns it right now much money.
After all, once immigration is ended once and for all, who needs a lawyer?
I suspect that's more on the 30 year timeframe, as I still see cars built in the 1980s and 1990s on the road, and only the rich can afford electric so far.
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Poorly maintained forums that get sold from sucker in search of advertising revenue to sucker in search of advertising revenue. Doubly so if they don't support unicode (or if they do).
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The article's headline said that these were businesses "facing extinction in ten years." In reality, very few (if any) of the businesses they identified actually are extinct.
Within the article, they did include weasel language under almost every single item to the effect that "it will be around, but their business will decline." Of course, if they had headlined their article "10 businesses that will decline in the next 10 years," nobody would have given it a second glance.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
What company will disapear? Uber! You cannot loose money on every trip forever.
They can't even get the comment thresholds to work anymore. They've been broken for months, I can't save any changes I make to them and have to drag the sliders every time I open a new article.
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Or you could, you know, create an account and log in? The posting thresholds are effectively gone when you post with a username. Only when I use the "Post Anonymously" checkbox do I have to deal with the posting limits.
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I post interesting technical stories from time to time, but either the staff don't accept them or sometimes if the trolls are particularly attentive they mod them down because it's me.
The political stuff is mostly click-bait for outraged hard-line conservatives. It's a shame because there could actually be some really good debate on those stories, but any on-topic comments get modded to hell.
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