"Custom ringtones. It used to be such a huge industry back in the day and people would actually pay money for s@#tty 8bit versions of songs to play when people called them. Now most people I know just keep their phones on vibrate or silent and use default ringtones."
Midge, probably the specific GPS devices is what they are referring to here. Picture a Nokia 6xxx with a slightly larger screen. Cr#ppy black/white pixelated stuff. Those are long gone. We all have the GPS in our phones and cars now. :-)
#4 Cordless phones - flash forward A COUPLE OF YEARS? More like 20 years
#10 IR is used in many smartphones today as a universal remote controller
#18 GPS industry is HUGE even today
Long story short, whoever wrote this article knows very little about technology
It is just entertainment, ... chill.