With the development of science and technology and the progress of social life, many everyday things are gradually eliminated by the times and become a unique memory of the historical era. The French "Echo" predicts 10 things that will soon disappear from our contemporary life Which 10 pieces can you guess?
key
In the hotel, the tenants are accustomed to using the house card, rather than the old-style keys; when driving, some car keys are replaced by electronic cards; smart phones are even more deadly for the keys: connecting via Bluetooth or WIFI , Everyone can open the door to their home or office through their mobile app, and even when the phone is lost, people still enter the password on the borrowed handset to get in.
Traditional fast food service
McDonald's has installed caterers in some of its restaurants in France since 2016 (expected to increase to 14,000 by the end of 2020), helping customers with self-service orders without waiters, but prices are still self-service forms The main obstacle to promotion - the cost of each ordering machine in the 120,000 to 160,000 US dollars (about 792,000 yuan to 1,056,000 yuan) between However, has set up a self-service ordering machine restaurant sales In the first year on the average increase of 5% to 6%.
Clutch pedal
In the United States, more than 90% of vehicles already have automatic transmissions, and in Europe the path to 'automating' the vehicle is long: instantly in the most 'automated' country, Switzerland, with only 20% automation, and France It is only 5%, but in the new car, this ratio has exceeded 20% .Manufacturers think the manual transmission will be eliminated soon.According to the model, the additional cost of the automatic transmission is about 1000 to 2000 euros (about RMB 7900 yuan to 15.7 thousand yuan), this is still an important constraint.
Internet box
Before 2000, people went online through the traditional 'cat' (ie, a telephone modem), and now it has disappeared, replaced by the Internet box provided by telecom operators. In the spring of 2017, the chief executive of France's leading telecom operator Orange Officials Stphane Richard announced that these boxes may gradually disappear in three to five years.According to Orange boss introduced alternative products may no longer be the physical box, thanks to cloud technology, related functions will be virtual The
mailbox
Every year in France, the volume of mail dropped by 6%, and the number of postal parcels and parcels has been halved in 10 years. In Canada, the delivery service has been terminated and incorporated into the bill, which is expected to take effect in 2018. The metropolitan Only public mailboxes are left in all neighborhoods, and the United States has already canceled its service on Saturday, a measure that is being studied in France but has not yet been adopted.
cash
In November 2016, India issued a sensational financial measure: all banknotes of par value 500 and 1000 rupees will be abolished to combat rampant local black market and corruption, and the two denominated currencies account for the market circulation In Europe, Sweden is also moving towards a cashless economy, where 40% of notes and coins in circulation have quietly evaporated in less than 10 years.With bank cards, mobile payments, online transfers The number of cash disbursements in life is declining, Professor Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard University pointed out that the disappearance of cash would be inevitable.
CD
Streaming media will likely overtake CDs and vinyls as major sales of music labels in 2017. According to PwC estimates, real-world record sales will fall 10% in 2017 to below $ 8 billion , And streaming media revenue will grow by 40% to more than 9 billion USdollars CD is unlikely to survive .Even the CD will still be used at the discotheque, is likely to disappear after 10 years.
Fuel car
French Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot announced that France will ban the sale of diesel and gasoline vehicles by 2040. Six countries, including the United Kingdom, have also decided to ban the use of thermopia, but so far As of today, more than 99% of vehicles on earth are still driven by internal combustion engines, and the International Energy Agency predicts that the number of electric vehicles will reach 200 million by 2020, or 10% of the global fleet, and many experts and manufacturers are convinced that electricity Car growth will be faster than expected, while China, the world's largest car market since 2009, has also accelerated the pace of car transformation.
Plastic bags
Since January 1, 2017, France has completely banned the use of disposable plastic bags at checkout counters, a goal set by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) in 2009. Prior to France, more than a dozen countries had taken At the beginning of the 21st century, about 4 to 5 trillion plastic bags were produced around the world, while in Europe it is estimated that up to three quarters of the plastic bags will be replaced by 2025.
password
Everyone today uses an average of more than 20 passwords in everyday life, and cybersecurity issues are receiving increasing attention, but with the development of biometrics, the challenges in this process of modernization can quickly become past. For example, many smartphones already have fingerprinting enabled, and the iPhone X is opening the door to facial recognition, with Google claiming the Trust API, the new technology it launched in 2016, Recognized in a variety of ways, including typing patterns, sound patterns, and facial features.