With the speed of innovation in the tech industry, we can’t know every piece of technology that will fill our everyday lives in five years, but we can predict what won’t last. As smartphones begin to render low-end cameras obsolete and Netflix continues to upend the DVD and Blu-ray market, it’s clear the technology landscape will look dramatically different in the near future.
I – Word Understanding
fill our everyday lives – become useful for daily life activities
upend – to cause something to fall down
II – Have your say
Here are the 5 products predicted to disappear in 5 years:
1. Blu-ray/DVD players – Netflix is the iTunes of movies on demand.
2.Stand-alone in-car GPS units – In a little over six years, over 1.3 billion iPhone and Android smartphones have been sold around the world, and all of those devices have access to mapping software.
3. Dial-up Internet – In fact, 3 percent of Americans still use dial-up Internet
4. Low-end digital cameras – In five years, low-end market will have been completely subsumed by smartphones.
5. Car keys – smart keys has been introduced to reduce physical keys, but may soon be replaced with smartphone apps.
