Or so we're told by
this piece in Yahoo! Finance.
According to the article, the six endangered technologies are: digital cameras, video game consoles, iPad/tablet PCs, netbooks, GPS, and -- yup, you guessed it -- e-book readers.
My view: Notwithstanding some "convergence" of these technologies, niche markets will persist for at least some of them. No phone camera is going to replace my digital SLR and its interchangeable lenses anytime soon. I like my netbook, but I'm agnostic about the future of that species. (Probably ephemeral.) I love hacking into my portable GPS to do things like correcting text-to-speech pronunciation, so I hope this one sticks around. (But I wouldn't bet my life on it.)
Dedicated e-book readers? I can't really speak to them as I've never owned or used one. (I have a K3 Wi-Fi on order.) They'll probably be replaced by
something, but I find it hard to believe that it'll be a small hand-held device. Not for book-length reading material, anyway.
What do you think?