The next five years will no doubt unleash products and services that we have yet to imagine. But as we progress, what will we leave behind? Here are a handful of things we use today that likely will either be gone completely or on their last breath, disrupted by new innovations, technology and methods.



1. Cash, checkbooks, and ATMs

Today, most business transactions accept debit or credit cards, and are done online though electronic payments.
Soon, you will have all your banking done through any mobile device. In the more distant future, there will be no cash. No cash means no cash machines — bye, bye ATMs.



2. USB sticks and flash drives.

By 2020, 70 percent of the world will be using a smartphone, according to Ericsson’s mobility report. Mobile data networks will cover 90 percent of the population. With cloud services like Apple, Box, Dropbox, Google and Microsoft offering near-unlimited storage at near-free prices, there’ll be little need for storage devices taking up room in your pocket. Not to mention the increase in standard storage for mobile devices in the next five years.

Event organizers around the world will need to come up with new swag to reward attendees at their conferences as USBs will be a token of the analog past.



3. Security: Easier, more secure access. No more Passwords and keys.

This is a hard one because passwords are used so broadly today. The average person is said to have 19 passwords and nearly half admit to using unsafe, weak passwords. But even if you’re adamant about using only strong passwords guess what hose can be cracked too.

Biometrics are already becoming mainstream, especially on mobile devices, which are now the main access point for many of our online activities. Fingerprints, voice and facial recognition will replace your first dog’s name and your wedding anniversary as the way you access your secure accounts. These will have their own security risks, but the character password will be no more.

Similarly, soon you will not have physical keys to lose. Your key will be any of the smart devices you carry, which will be linked to you biometrically so that only you can operate them.



4. No one will miss this: The remote control

No more scrambling around your house tossing the cushions of your couch in the air looking for the elusive remote control (or 10 of them, depending on the complexity of your in-home audio and video setup).

The research firm Strategy Analytics forecasts that emerging categories in the Internet of Things (IoT), smart home and wearables will connect an additional 17.6 billion devices by 2020. Even today, devices such as the Amazon Echo are taking voice search and commands to a new level. With so many new devices connected to the Internet by 2020, building separate hardware for a remote control will just no longer make any sense.



5. Static documents and paper agreements

Paper-based signatures and paper-based processing physically needing to print, fax, scan or overnight documents for reviews, approvals, decisions and/or signatures to complete a transaction are fast-becoming archaic in today’s digital world. In the future, we will rely on “cloud agreements” to actively manage any transaction.

Cloud agreements will be: actively connected to the identities of the involved parties (forever), able to mete out payments as contract objectives are met and actively contact actors in the transaction when the time is right.


So you should consider getting a head start on cleaning out the old-tech clutter you have in your life to make way for a digital New Year. Sure, you have some time. But with all of the exciting technology disruptions taking place right now, why wait?


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So True.

Not all

I concur

True

Not in Africa

kossyablaze:
I concur

Seconded.

Facts.

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The remote control will still be very much relevant. You can't get full OEM Remote control functions on wearables and mobile devices.

I agree to an extent...

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