10 Businesses Facing Extinction in 10 Years

Record stores
Odds of survival in 10 years: Great, if you consider Wal-Mart a record store.

Camera film manufacturing
Odds of survival in 10 years: Some entrepreneurs who specialize in making camera film for amateur photographers could possibly make a living.

Crop dusters
Odds of survival in 10 years: The type of crop dusting plane that chased after Cary Grant in North by Northwest will have almost certainly gone south. Farmers say that they'll always need crop dusters, even though new technologies have made them less important than in the past. But commercial airlines are increasingly taking business away from the small, independent crop dusters.

Gay bars
Odds of survival in 10 years: As with many industries, the very best of them will endure; the rest won't.

Newspapers
Odds of survival in 10 years: They won't disappear; they'll be on the internet. We don't recommend startups investing a lot of money into a printing press plant.

Pay phones
Odds of survival in 10 years: They'll be around, but won't be anything to call home about.

Used bookstores
Odds of survival in 10 years: Some of them will still be eking out an existence, but the handwriting is on the wall.

Piggy banks
Odds of survival in 10 years: Sure, they'll probably still be a few around--in antique shops.

Telemarketing
Odds of survival in 10 years: They'll be here. Humbled, more impotent, but probably still here.

Coin-operated arcades
Odds of survival in 10 years: Game over.


[via www.entrepreneur.com]

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