entrpreneur.com — Determining which industries aren't long for this world may seem easy enough. But some types of businesses, such as telemarketing, are surprisingly hard to kill. And then again, other industries, probably the ones you're sad to see go, can't find a way to survive.
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Closed AccountSep 28, 2007
Call me crazy, but I think the porn industry faces extinction, along with illegal drug.
estacadoSep 29, 2007
I have a feeling that the author's motive for the whole article is the opportunity to say "Game Over" for the arcade industry at the end of the article. He just cannot resist the pun.
whatever1Sep 29, 2007
Everyone should be up in arms about arcades going out of business. Sure, it looks like inevitable, but geeks like us will need places to spend quality time with our kids.
reddikilowattSep 29, 2007
Arcades fell into disfavor when the "seedier" element started hanging out there. Parents didn't feel it was safe to let their kid alone (real or imagined) and so they didn't let them play more than a few games.
Closed AccountSep 29, 2007
Porn is like light. Everything in the world moves in relation to it as a constant, and if it were to stop, so the world would stop.
rsomersSep 29, 2007
The Tazer business will be dead in ten years, bro
thinkboxSep 29, 2007
"Newspapers"- Major newspapers are Advertising driven. The amount of money these sites make from advertising on the web is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars a month.... this isnt anything CLOSE to the actual print business right now. You're looking at millions per month for the majors. Print will not be going away anytime soon, or in the next 20 years. You might see local papers disappear, but you might forget how much small towns base their community off of The Paper. Especially people in their mid 30s and older.The paper will not disappear when there is a large amount of people who dont get their news consistently and daily from the internet."Camera film manufacturing"This is really a shame, to be honest. I have been doing digital photography my entire life, and have recently begun to shoot my own film and work in darkrooms. The quality of large format cameras, and the beautiful skill involved in the darkroom is an incredible thing. Like I said, I've working on digital my whole life, well when i started working on film I thought it would be an annoying chore. Really, I find film to be absolutely beautiful. It has vastly increased my skill in taking pictures and understanding the concept and history of the photograph. The ability to go into a darkroom and be just as creative with my own hands as I am in photoshop (with a mouse) is truly inspiring. The craft of printmaking may be going the way of the buffalo, but I'll always love it.