When I teach mobile marketing/social marketing @DanielsatDU, I show a slide of “dead things” to give students a real sense of how fast things change. What used to take 10 years for cultural/behavioral adoption, now takes about 3-5. I refer to getting up to speed with these changes as “hopping a bullet train”. Enjoy the list!- PDAs
- Paid email accounts
- Cassette decks
- Dial-up
- Getting film developed
- Digital/video cameras
- Movie rental stores
- Maps
- Newspaper Classifieds
- The landline
- Long distance charges
- Pay phones
- VCRs
- Fax machines
- Phonebooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias
- Calling 411
- CDs & DVDs
- Snail-mail bills
- Buttons (on devices)
- Losing touch
- Paper
- Record stores
- Books made of paper
- Book shelves
- Feature phones
- Desktops & maybe PCs
- Privacy
