Missing Out?

I don't know if it's because of the toys and things from my childhood that I've been seeing in antique stores lately or what, but lately I've been thinking fairly often about the things that my children will probably never have to do when they get older (like in their teens). It's crazy how fast this world changes, and it seems like recent technology is making it change so much faster than ever before. So, here's my list of a few of the things that I believe my kids will never have to do.

• Be home at a certain time to watch something as soon as it airs on television. I predict shows will just be "released" to computers, televisions, phones, or whatever at certain times or on certain days. It's crazy that even at 3 years old, the kids expect everything to be available on TiVo. Don't even get me started on them never having to sit through a commercial.
• Make arrangements to meet someone at an exact place and time. With cellphones, this is already happening for the most part. However, there's always the issue of someone not hearing their phones or being out of range of a good signal or being out of battery. I think none of those things will be an issue in the future. Who knows if "phones" will even be that method of communication by then?
• Read a paper map or write out directions. It'll all be in GPS systems, and everyone will have one everywhere... in cars, on phones, on cameras (which are probably also your phones)
• Worry about dropping any electronic devices into the water. They'll all be waterproof. Why aren't they already?
• Buy glasses. Lasik (or whatever the technology is at that time) will be so cheap, it will cost more for contacts/glasses. Maybe this is further down the road than their teenage years, but we'll see.
• Have to choose whether to spend the extra money on buying organic. I'm thinking by then, everything will be organic. Except maybe spam. But, I don't see them buying that.
• Have to choose whether their new cars should run on electricity or fuel. I have a feeling fuel, as we know it anyway, will be only for old cars by then.
• Use a landline phone. It's so weird to think that they'll probably never have to worry about a cut line or paying a monthly phone fee just so they can have TiVo. :) And, never mind even trying to figure out how a rotary phone works.
• Use a payphone. I'm honestly surprised that these are even still around. The few times that I've needed to use a phone and haven't had one readily available to me when I'm out in public, I've actually asked a stranger to use his/her cellphone before even thinking about a payphone. Most of the time, I wouldn't know where to even look for one anyway.
• Buy actual cd or dvd media. It'll all be digital. No need for that disk crap. :) And forget ever having to go to Blockbuster to rent a movie. I can just hear them saying "You mean you actually had to leave the house to go get a movie... and sometimes it wasn't even there?!"
• Have their houses pre-wired for phone or cable. See above entries.
• Have to worry about the VOCs when painting a room. I'm sure they'll have the whole paint in every color without having to worry about VOCs thing figured out by then.
• Be a collector of something that you actually have a hard time finding. Thanks to ebay, craigslist, and other sites like those, you can be a collector of pretty much anything without leaving your house already. Although it's nice when you're missing just one thing in a collection, I also think it's kinda sad and that it takes the joy out of collecting something.
• Take a polaroid picture. They may never even be in a polaroid picture aside from the couple that I have already. That makes me sad.
• Get a roll of film processed. I'm guessing this will be super expensive if they ever do have to do this. And that it will only happen if they find and decide to print a random roll that I never had developed for some reason.