Myth #4: If It’s Not Shiny and New, It’s Not Viable

Send us Fan MailTRUTH: The Wheel Is Still Pretty Viable!10 Technologies That Went Extinct While Radio Didn’t.Over the last 25 years, we’ve watched essential innovationscollapse under the weight of progress, one after the other.1. Fax Machines- Replaced by email, PDFs, and digital signatures.- While fax lost its purpose, radio expanded its purpose —reaching us on apps, smart speakers, car dashboards, and stillin our ears every day.2. Video Rental Stores- Killed by Netflix and on-demand culture.- Unlike Blockbuster, radio embraced digital: podcasting,streaming, and content on-demand without losing its live, localidentity.3. The iPod- Its single-purpose utility got absorbed into smartphones.- Radio isn’t just music. It’s news, personality, real-timerelevance — a multi-purpose platform that tech can’t just“absorb.”4. Pagers- Then cell phones arrived. Game over.- Mobile didn’t kill radio - it gave it wings. Your favoritestation is now in your pocket 24/7.5. Encyclopedia Britannica in Print- The internet made it obsolete overnight.- While Britannica became a static relic, radio thrives onimmediacy - updating by the minute, not the edition.6. CDsFrom million-sellers to bargain-bin leftovers.- Streaming changed the way we consume music forever.- People still crave curation, personality, surprise — radiodelivers what algorithms can’t: live, local humanness.7. CamcordersUsed to be in every family’s travel bag.- Smartphones made them redundant.- Radio isn’t a one-function gadget. It’s live, emotional,connective, and not something you can replace with an app.8. Landlines- Mobile phones made them irrelevant.- Radio didn’t cling to hardware — it evolved with the hardware.In cars, phones, homes, and wearables - availableeverywhere you go.9. PalmPilot / PDA- A brilliant idea that didn’t scale.- Radio scaled beautifully. It went from local towers to globalreach, while staying rooted in communities.10. MySpace- Outpaced by better UX, smarter networks, and Facebook’sdominance.- Radio keeps reinventing — new formats, new talent, newways to listen - without ever losing its core: real-time humanconnection.All these technologies were big, beloved. But none of them coulddo what radio did:- Adapt- Evolve- Stay relevant- Stay humanRadio isn’t dying. It is doubling down on live connection, localtrust, and multi-platform access.Time to celebrate radio’s incredible wheel-like ability to outliveall comers!Support the showLinkedIn