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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. Re:Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  2. Immigration Lawyer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    After all, once immigration is ended once and for all, who needs a lawyer?

    1. Re:Immigration Lawyer by bruce_the_moose · · Score: 3, Insightful

      All the people trying to get the fuck out

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  3. Re:gas stations by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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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  4. Re:Not prophetic, but very accurate by aardvarkjoe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  5. Uber! by manu0601 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What company will disapear? Uber! You cannot loose money on every trip forever.

  6. Re:Slashdot by Megane · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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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  7. Re: Slashdot by Megane · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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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