At many concerts these days, there comes a time when everyone opens their cell phones to shed some light. I am always amazed when I see that. It wasn’t that long ago that the mobile phone was a rare novelty, now it is an accessory that has pretty much crossed every socio-economic position in life.

When passing a stranded motorist, I (for better or worse) feel less compelled to stop. In the “old days”, it would be nice to stop and see if you could, at least, get them to a phone so they could call a family member, or friend.

Now, it is pretty safe to assume that they have placed that call and are simply waiting for help to arrive. I don’t want to get into what one should do when a stranded motorist is seen, but I do find it interesting how normal the cell phone has become.

That thought has often let me to wonder who uses pay-phones anymore. Perhaps I don’t want to know the answer, but it has seemed counter intuitive that they raise their rates as demand decreases.

With that thought in mind, I appreciated coming across this list of 10 businesses facing extinction in 10 years.

I will have to do some thinking of other things that seem to be going away. I will add them to these posts as future edits. If you have any to add, leave them here as a comment!

(Others I thought of)

• Personal correspondence by mail
• Air popcorn popper.
• (Update) Polaroid
• (Update) Actual Yellow Pages?
• (Update) Newspaper Classifieds