As if going to college wasn’t expensive enough, in comes the list of required textbooks and makes you apply for a bigger student loan. The saddest thing about it all is that more often than not, some classes don’t even get to finish the textbooks assigned to them.
Fortunately, some colleges are internalizing that this textbook-buying business isn’t working and offering alternative options. Some of those alternatives include lending used books to students for the duration of the school year, or handing out packets with necessary information.
Cash Registers
With so many sales and transactions performed online, it looks like cash registers are going to be the next item to only be found in vintage stores. Also, now that we have so many options for online payment, cash is becoming the least favorite payment method. It only makes sense for this item to become unnecessary.
So next time you pay in cash for something at a local convenience store, savor that moment. Who knows? It might be the last time you see a real-life working cash register.
Side View Mirrors
The vehicle industry is becoming increasingly automated. While fully autonomous vehicles are only common among the extremely wealthy, many cars on the road simply have automized components. Such a component is the rearview mirror.
Many vehicles use a camera option instead of an old-fashioned mirror to see what’s behind them. Next in line to make room for video technology are the side view mirrors, which will also help you tackle your car’s blind spot.
Fax Machines
Okay, we’re just going to say it – fax machines were always terrible. This machine was invented over a century ago and has never been 100% efficient. Missing toner, paper jams, and smudgy text is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to why this machine has always been horrible. Thank god no one uses it anymore.
With modern technology that allows us to instantly send texts and images, fax machines are making their way out of this world. They will only become fully extinct, however, when the government stops using them.
Video Cameras
People who were either parents or kids in the 1990s remember video cameras as a must on every occasion. Be it a birthday party or a school play, if a video camera didn’t tape it, it didn’t happen. But times have changed, and we no longer need those cumbersome cameras and small tapes. Smartphones have made them obsolete.
Other than the smartphone market, the only businesses benefiting from that change are the ones offering conversion services. These are the people that transfer the content on your old tapes to a modern format so you can view them on your computer. How else will you remember how awkward your dads used to be?