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Most over-hyped thing you predict to fall flat in the next 3 years

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Anyone that is saying CDs is a moron. Technologies don't disappear in that timeframe where there is already massive infrastructure to support it in place. History has proven this over, and over, and over again. Nearly every piece of software distributed in the past eight years has been on CD. That's dozens or hundreds of discs per user, for hundreds of millions of PCs out there in the world right now. You think that in three years, all that will go away?

Floppies are still around but starting to go away. Namely, as I mentioned, because the distributable media of choice for a long time was CD-ROM (this process started a decade ago); in 2003/04, the arrival of cheap USB keys are replacing the portabilty aspect of the floppy. The CDR or CDRW itself would have never replaced the floppy since there wasn't native support for burning until XP, and furthermore it still took several minutes to burn, even if you just wanted a single 1 MB file (like a document?)

Cliffs: People in OT are talking out of their ass...again.

My belief? Conventional Bluetooth. It had too many interop issues from the start and never got widely adopted. Plus it operates in the same 2.4 GHz band as B/G radios which means OEMs don't like supporting Bluetooth since interference degrades performance of both and drives up support costs. Bluetooth coexistence isn't easy to implement. Since it is primarily laptops that are bundled with B/G radios, and laptops are migrated to PCI-E which also runs in the 2.4 GHz band, you have a lot of density in that part of the spectrum and Bluetooth is the least supported and least needed. Thinking ahead, Ultra Wideband (UWB) will provide much greater bandwidth and allow peripherals a feasible wireless alternative to USB (who actually uses bluetooth printers/mice/keyboards anyways?).
 
Originally posted by: PawNtheSandman
Hybrids price doesn't save the buyer money in the long run. The MPG gains are not enough in 100,000 miles to save money compared to paying for gas. Also hybrids are SUPER expensive to repair.
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But they will when production increases and the cost of production goes down, and they will also become more viable when the cost of gas goes up even more.
 
Originally posted by: Ilmater
Originally posted by: PawNtheSandman
Hybrids price doesn't save the buyer money in the long run. The MPG gains are not enough in 100,000 miles to save money compared to paying for gas. Also hybrids are SUPER expensive to repair.
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But they will when production increases and the cost of production goes down, and they will also become more viable when the cost of gas goes up even more.
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I also reiterate what I posted earlier. It's not about the money to everyone. It's about decreasing US consumption of gas to lessen our dependence on foriegn oil. It's about lessening the impact of emissions on the environment. I'd drive a hybrid for those reasons alone. The fact that I can get more mileage for the money just sweetens the deal.
 
Originally posted by: GeekDrew
The floppy drive is already dying out... many manufacturers are no longer including them, unless you request them. Zip drives are even rarer. 🙂
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LOL- major manufacturers only put floppies on high end PC's now, and I haven't seen a zip drive in 2 years. The OP sounds like he made this prediction 3 years ago 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Fritzo
Originally posted by: GeekDrew
The floppy drive is already dying out... many manufacturers are no longer including them, unless you request them. Zip drives are even rarer. 🙂
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LOL- major manufacturers only put floppies on high end PC's now, and I haven't seen a zip drive in 2 years. The OP sounds like he made this prediction 3 years ago 🙂
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Now if only so many of my mobos had options other than floppy of updating my bios or windows xp installing sata drivers without using a floppy or creating my own windows cd with integrated sata drivers. Wish it would be replaced by memory keys.
 
CD? the OP stated 'over-hyped'. CDs are not over hyped.


PS3 is probably the most over-hyped thing, but it is also not likely to fall flat. so many people will buy it on brand recognition alone.
 
Originally posted by: step-dawg
For what I think is currently overhyped, I'll go with the current enviromental problems, included "global warming." Obviously these concerns do exist, and there is much research proving their existence; however the media has done their usual excellent job of blowing things out of proportion.
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Seriously, if by some small chance, these concerns turn out to be valid, we could always inhabit the Moon or possibly Mars.
 
Originally posted by: tennisflip
Originally posted by: Ilmater
Originally posted by: PawNtheSandman
Hybrids price doesn't save the buyer money in the long run. The MPG gains are not enough in 100,000 miles to save money compared to paying for gas. Also hybrids are SUPER expensive to repair.
Click to expand...
But they will when production increases and the cost of production goes down, and they will also become more viable when the cost of gas goes up even more.
Click to expand...

I also reiterate what I posted earlier. It's not about the money to everyone. It's about decreasing US consumption of gas to lessen our dependence on foriegn oil. It's about lessening the impact of emissions on the environment. I'd drive a hybrid for those reasons alone. The fact that I can get more mileage for the money just sweetens the deal.
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Im worried about the impact of all of these huge batteries going bad within a few years and costing people tons of money. Just think about how long laptops batteries last sometimes....
 
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
1. Blogs
2. Reality TV shows
3. SUVs
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We can only hope about reality shows. They're cheaper to produce that sitcoms or dramas, so I don't think the studios will ever get rid of them unless *everybody* stops watching.

With the SUVs, I think the fad is starting to die. Offroaders and people with boats and camping trailers will still buy them. Either that or SUVs will become more like cars and minivans to the point that there's no difference. See the Freestyle, RX, Pacifica, etc.
 
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