Yes there are lossless forms of compresison, but they’re not used very often in downloadable music.

I guess if you think audio quality begins and ends with ibuds, it doesn’t matter. For music types, it does very very very much matter.

Fax Machines – My employer, a hospital, uses scanners to transmit physician’s medication orders to the pharmacy. The original stays in the legal medical record, and the pharmacy can archive it.

And in relation, Printers – for the time being, it seems most legal records are required to be printed. They may change eventually, but frankly, 25 years ago everyone was talking about the “Paperless Office” was the way of the future. I’m still waiting for it.

Snail Mail – I have heard of companies whose mailroom scan most of their incoming printed correspondence, and email it to the recipient, while archiving the printed copy.

Landline Phones – that’s going to be a hard one. A simple phone works without external power – no need to plug into AC or charge.

Pagers – still less expensive, more reliable, and have better coverage, than cell phones, will probably stay around for commercial uses. However, one of our facilities is using WiFi VOIP phones for in-house communications.

USB drives – microSD won’t replace them until every PC has a reader, and microSD gets similar capacities. There are now 256GB USB drives.