6 Technologies That Will Stick Around

6 Media Players
Somehow, the portable MP3 player is one of the few gadgets to defy the pending onedevice-to-rule-them-all convergence. Why? Smaller non-phone form factors, jogging, and simplicity, for starters. All we know is that Apple sold a whopping 17 million iPods in the fourth quarter of 2010, that’s 3 million more MP3 players than iPhones.


5 Landline Telephone
More and more people are ditching their landlines, but they’ll never go away entirely. Service is cheap, call quality is reliable, and given how easy it is to overload mobile networks, they’ll probably work better in case of an emergency. And we don’t see businesses and corporations switching anytime soon.


4 Internal Combustion Engine
Hybrid tech is intriguing, but it’s a stop-gap measure that, ultimately, is still gas-powered. With lots of oil left on the planet, slow-moving auto makers, and no good fuel alternative, we’re going to be driving internal combustion engines for a long, long time.


3,2,1 The PC, Keyboard, and Mouse
We lump them together because in our minds, they’re a package deal. We hope we’re not jinxing ourselves, but in some way, shape, or form, the desktop computer will continue to sit at the center of our technological lives for some time to come.

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