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

Posted by BeauHD on Monday October 2, 2017 @11:30AM 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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Re:Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-02 11:45 · 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.
Uber! by manu0601 · 2017-10-02 12:19 · Score: 5, Insightful

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