Matt Locke tells us the things that Wired has promised in the past would become things of the past:

• Incessant calling and voicemails might become a thing of the past
• Housework is already a thing of the past
• Paying royalties for George Gershwin tunes could become a thing of the past
• Remembering long lists of website passwords [will be] a thing of the past
• Fear of public singing in karaoke bars may soon be a thing of the past
• System outages should become a thing of the past
• The concept that a writer will get paid for writing may soon be a thing of the past

...via BoingBoing