Here, I'll try to track all of the lame-ass "death of ..." predictions, like the death of the home phone, the death of ipv4, the death of myspace, ... :)
IPv4: predicted death: Jan 1, 2011
Yesterday, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA, part of ICANN), allocated two blocks of 16.8 million IPv4 addresses to the RIPE NCC and another two blocks to ARIN. The RIPE NCC and ARIN are the Regional Internet Registries that give out IP addresses in greater Europe and North America, respectively. This brings the global pool of still available “/8” address blocks that IANA maintains from 11 down to 7.
PC Era: predicted death: June, 2012
Shipments of smartphones, tablets and other app-enabled devices will overtake PC shipments in the next 18 months, an event that may signify the end of the PC-centric era, market research firm IDC said.
VGA connector: dead by 2015
Intel and AMD expect that analog display outputs such as Video Graphics Array (VGA) and the low voltage differential signaling technology (LVDS) panel interface would no longer be supported in their product lines by 2015.
The titanic will literally be gone in 2040
A newly discovered microbe dubbed Halomonas titanicae is chewing its way through the wreck of the Titanic and leaving little behind except a fine dust, researchers report in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. ‘In 1995, I was predicting that Titanic had another 30 years,’ said Henrietta Mann, a civil engineering adjunct professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. ‘It’s deteriorating much faster than that now.
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