“Are You Clinging to Obsolete Skills? Discover 11 Abilities That Modern Life Has Rendered Irrelevant!”
There’s no more need to rip papers out of booklets and queue to bank them.
6. Cursive Writing
While still taught in some places, cursive is less commonly used in everyday life. Learning to write in cursive used to be an almost do-or-die skill. With the advent of texting and emailing, handwriting itself is a dying skill, let alone cursive writing.
7. Manual Driving
Cars are getting more and more automatic, we moved on from push-to-start buttons to self-driving cars. In the days gone by, driving was an extreme sport with all the changing of gears and all.
Today, you can barely find a stick-shift car, and most of the people who drive one are the Boomers or those who still love to shift.
8. Landline Phones
There were once landline phones in almost every home. In the era of smartphones and digital communication, however, the usage of landline phones has declined significantly.
9. Encyclopedias
Before Google and Wikipedia, there were encyclopedias in most homes. This is where you get all the information, just like, well, Google.
You just needed to learn how and where to search.
10. How to Use a Dictionary
Dictionaries were a big deal, and learning how to search the meaning and read the pronunciation of a word was a great skill. Then the internet happened and every word we need is available at the click of a button, and you can even slow the pronunciation down to hear it better.
