We got lucky? So I'm watching this video, and I'm thinking about how much of it has come to pass.
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Think of all the extinct technology shown us in this video:
+ Portable radio / cassette player. Who still listens to radio, anyway? Portable radios?
+ Records -- these are coming back!
+ TV? Try hulu/netflix, sucker! Okay, okay, lots of people still own TVs, but standard def CRTs are becoming rarer and rarer. I think I'm one of the last people I know to have one in the house. (Don't own an HD set, don't plan to. Oh, and the only CRTs I've ever owned have been freebies, so I've never actually paid for a TV. That's probably the next best thing to never owning one, snobbery-wise.)
+ Jukeboxes. These seem to be relegated to "retro" eateries. Why don't more places have mp3 jukeboxes?
+ Guitars. Even when this video was made, guitar music was on its way out. To the point where non-overproduced rock bands in the early 90s were called "alternative."
+ Mechanical slot machines. They're all videofied now.
+ Arcade games!