Things Babies Born This Year Will Never Know

So I'm surfing around, looking at all kinds of sites, and found this article on Yahoo Financial News.  It's about what babies will not ever know that are born this year, 2011.  Kinda made me think of things through my life that I grew up with that are gone, possibly forever.  Like rotary phones, records, reel to reel tape machines...Here are just some of the items:

Video tape: The tape-less broadcast camera today offers much higher quality than anything that could have been imagined 10 years ago -- and cost less than the lens on a camera previously used.

Travel agents: While not dead today, this profession is one of many that's been decimated by the Internet. When it's time for their honeymoon, will those born in 2011 be able to find one?

The separation of work and home: When you're carrying an email-equipped computer in your pocket, it's not just your friends who can find you -- so can your boss. For kids born this year, the wall between office and home will be non-existent.

Books, magazines, and newspapers: Sure, there may be books -- but for those born today, stores that exist solely to sell them will be as numerous as record stores are now.

Movie rental stores: You actually got in your car and drove someplace just to rent a movie.

Watches: The correct time is on your smartphone, which is pretty much always in your hand.

Paper maps: The next generation will probably have to visit a museum to find one.

Wired phones: We use are home phone as a fax line only. For those born today, this will be a silly concept.

Long distance: Thanks to the Internet, You can talk to somebody in the next city, state, or even country unlimited.

Newspaper classifieds: Craigslist, besides Newspapers put all the data on the internet.  So the word “paper” in News will go away.

Dial-up Internet: Everyone is not on broadband, but dial-up Internet goes the way of the plug-in phone.

Encyclopedias: Imagine a time when you had to buy expensive books that were outdated before the ink was dry. This will be a nonsense term for babies born today.

Forgotten friends: Babies born today will automatically be in touch with everyone they've ever known even slightly via Facebook.

Forgotten anything else: Kids born this year will never know what it was like to stand in a bar and incessantly argue the unknowable. Today the world's collective knowledge is on the computer in your pocket or purse. And since you have it with you at all times, why bother remembering anything?

The evening news: The news is on 24/7. And if you're not home to watch it, that's OK -- it's on the smartphone in your pocket.

CDs: First records, then 8-track, then cassette, then CDs -- replacing your music collection used to be an expensive pastime. Now it's cheap(er) and as close as the nearest Internet connection.

Film cameras: For the purist, perhaps, but for kids born today, the word "film" will mean nothing. In fact, even digital cameras -- both video and still -- are in danger of extinction as our pocket computers take over that function too.