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Someone Wonders: “In 50 Years, What Will People Be Nostalgic For?” And 50 People Give Answers
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Try to imagine the future a year from now. Barring some world-shattering Apocalypse of two (thank you, we’ve had enough!), it’s not all that hard to do. Now think of what life will be like in 5 years. Then 10. And finally, 50. Half a century from now, the world, society, norms, and technology may have changed very drastically. So much so that we’ll be nostalgic for a lot of things that we take for granted right now.
It’s tough to know what exactly you might miss in the future, but it's great for feeling grateful for what we have now. Prompted by redditor u/klausbrusselssprouts, the folks over at r/AskReddit shared some great insights and opinions about the things that people might be nostalgic for, 50 years from now. Spoiler warning: people's outlooks about the future are pretty grim. If nothing else, it’s a reminder of just how great life is right now, despite its challenges and imperfections.
Read on for a perspective on the present through the lens of the future, and don’t forget to upvote the posts you agree with, Pandas. We’d also love to hear your own thoughts about what you think many of us will feel a deep sense of longing for in the decades to come, so be sure to drop by the comments to share your thoughts.
Bored Panda reached out to the friendly author of the viral thread, u/klausbrusselssprouts, and he was kind enough to answer our questions in detail. Klaus shared that he has a background in history and social science, and has been a high school teacher in Denmark for the past 10 years. He said that the inspiration for the r/AskReddit post actually came from an exercise he often does in his own history classes. Read on for our full interview with Klaus.
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#1
Owning something you don't pay a subscription for
Firstname Lastname 3 years ago
Used to own every Disney movie on VHS as a kid. Started having compatibility issues and didn't want to spend a fortune on DVDs that are no longer compatible with my setup either. So now I pay monthly for access to what took up a small space in my closet for free as a child.
Bouche Clay 3 years ago
I only do free streaming. I planned on subscribing to Hulu or Netflix or something, but I can't keep up with the free stuff. I'm a shut-in, and there's too much for me to watch.
Anouk T 3 years ago
What free streaming do you mean? If legal, then I don’t know how you get to watch movies, series etc without paying?
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Lene 3 years ago
And this is why my bf and I still have all our cd's and dvd's. We like to have a physical item that we bought that is something we own and like. Oh, and books!
John Dolton 3 years ago
Books! books! books---yes Lene, people seem to have forgotten all about them. I'm sure we would agree what can be done with "Kindle"!
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lara 3 years ago
This is why I do not subscribe to "channels." You are paying three to four times for the same thing. You have tv which you watch and have commercials, that the first payment, then you have cable which you pay for, that's the second, then you have "special payments" for shows on their "special cable networks" and then you have subscription. Screw it, we don't watch tv anymore. I read.
MygrandsonscallmeNia 3 years ago
I'm 58, and I remember when Cable became a thing. That's a subscription Everybody Loved from the word, go! We only had about 7 channels without it. After school shows, and Saturday morning cartoons. But, did you know that cable is now a SCAM? Everyone that has a TV made after 2012, can get cable without paying a dime. I can get over 100 channels for free! Unhook the cable from the cable box, hook it into the back of your tv. Then, go to input, set your TV on antenna, and with the remote that comes with your TV, you can get almost every channel you pay out the as$ for. Exception of HBO, Stars, and Cinemax. We have a Roku for Netflix, and other movie channels, cost $25 a month. WiFi $89 a month. Suddenlink, was charging us $279 a month for everything we get now for free.
Alana Voeks 3 years ago
You can turn the tides for media stuff by actually buying a physical copy. Netflix is costing as much as a new movie for one month anymore, as are other subscription places. Just get a new movie once a month. Sure they have a few shows you might wanna watch, but that's gonna be the only way to make corporations understand we're sick of this horseshit.
Spooky Scary Skeletons 3 years ago
The Netflix giveth and the Netflix taketh away. This is why I record everything onto a hard drive and archive the REALLY important stuff onto a BD-R. People used to think I was old-fashioned for still burning discs but look who's laughing now.
"In history, students are always asked to reflect on other people's thoughts, ideas, and actions in the past as a way to understand the developments in the past societies. I also want to make the students aware that they themselves are a part of history. In class, I ask the question, 'What from [the current year] should be put in a museum in 50 years?' With this question, the students are forced to reflect on themselves, and the present as a historical period. They will identify what's unique about the 2020s as opposed to the 2000s for instance. This is my way of doing a Reddit version of that question. So in that way, there's a history lesson going on, on Reddit with that post," Klaus told Bored Panda.
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#2
The number of wild animals that exist and can be seen. They are already on the decline.
Phil Green 3 years ago
Tigers are on the increase in India, Snow Leopards are recovering, elephants in Africa are recovering, don't be so pessimistic. Once we mostly stopped whaling, whale numbers began to rise again...
Keley Babs 3 years ago
Y-....yes... they've been on the decline for the past 100-200 years.... ?!?
JustGiveMeSomeTruth 3 years ago
There will be a small percent of free people that exist unless the democrats are held accountable for defrauding the 2020 election that was proven watch 2000 mules movie
#3
Being confident that the person they see on screen is a real person and not AI.
Debrina Blackmoon 3 years ago (edited)
Max Headroom was awesome!😃 Great show and cool commercials for Coke. Also I had quite the crush on Matt Frewer!
mcborge1 3 years ago
It turns out Matt Frewer is set to return as Max Headroom for AMC.
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Walter Brameld 3 years ago
Ironically, Max Headroom was a real actor made up to look like CGI.
tuzdayschild 3 years ago
As long as it isn't being presented as news or real events, who cares.
Deborah Harris2 3 years ago
I thought he was a real person just wearing plastic hair like Kryton on Red Dwarf 😮
Jerry Mathers 3 years ago
I can see digital actors and actresses for all movies in the not so distant future. The tech is pretty good right now, although still detectable as not real. But fast forward 20-30 years and I'm betting it is so good that movie studios will just quit paying people and use their copyrighted creations in movies and we, the general public, won't be able to tell the difference. Also using sets and stunts in movies will be a quaint throwback kind of like stop motion movies are now.
BenMaharaj 3 years ago
I don’t think foreseeable technology can create an AI that will pass a Turing test. But to assure the public this can’t happen a simple fix is pass a law that if asked the AI must affirm that it is AI.
Ali H M Salehuddin 3 years ago
In 50 years, people will have some kind of automatic brain-computer interface. Knowing whether the person behind the screen is real or not will not be an issue.
Bouche Clay 3 years ago
I am plenty old enough for Max Headroom, and I never got the point.
Load More Replies...Klaus told Bored Panda that he didn't even consider how popular the post might be. He said that it's something he posted "more or less randomly." However, the post clicked with a ton of people and the thread went viral.
"After a few hours when I checked Reddit again, I found out it had exploded—I didn't see that coming. I think it gained so much popularity because it basically is a question about people themselves and their/our own time. It's a very present question and not something very abstract. You can simply sit at your desk or in your room and just look around and find stuff that represents the 2020s," he explained why the question resonated so much with so many redditors.
He shared that a couple of weeks ago, he was at a history museum where they had an exhibition on classrooms. There, he found a glimpse into his youth. "I was looking at what my own classroom looked like in the '90s. It was in a way shocking that I could be examined, just like the 1890s or 1790s are being examined. So in that way, I think this idea of the current individuals and time being a subject of future museums is very fascinating," he said.
#4
"You know son, when I was your age we didn't have a subscription model to make toasts every morning. We'd just put bread in and toast would pop out" "You had to put bread _manually_, Grandpa?!?" "Oh yes, but we didn't have to listen to 3 mandatory advertisements. Oh and one more thing: We could use _any_ bread we want" "Holy s**t!? Any bread?? And it would still toast them?" "Yep"
Bouche Clay 3 years ago
Don't forget we had to toast bread five miles uphill in the snow both ways.
Brobro McDuderson 3 years ago
More like 10 advertisements. I bet YouTube will be like MTV “remember when they used to have music videos on MTV / videos on YouTube?”
Debrina Blackmoon 3 years ago
Every fuqing toaster we have used didn't last 2 fuqing years before we got burnt fuqing bread of any kind on a low setting. Waffles, strudels, bagels, regular bread of any variety, and frozen pancakes require guess work.
Firstname Lastname 3 years ago
Except for fat bagels that won't fit in the slot unless you smoosh them. But maybe that's just my toaster.
AndThenICommented 3 years ago
Wait, is OP suggesting a subscription contraption that I assume bakes a mini loaf the day day before then fresh slices and toasts at a time you decide? Reminds me of those 1980’s mad scientist automated breakfast makers - I love it!
MygrandsonscallmeNia 3 years ago
Wait, what? Never heard of this! Yeah, I'm old, and I had two toaster's. My old one finally died, and I had one on the top of my toaster oven. And here I thought, I was up on my gadget game, not. What is this Witchery for toasting?
Alana Voeks 3 years ago
Learn to bake? It takes a few times but it's possible. Get not smart devices for the kitchen.
#5
Privacy. Even babies are overexposed today.
Nitka Tsar 3 years ago
Not everywhere, but yes. BUT this is something everyone can decide for themselves. If you want privacy, don‘t post everything you do on the internet!
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
Or everything your children do before they are too young to comprehend the consequences and consent to that!
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Diemond Star 3 years ago
You are so right, no one cares so please stop posting it!!!
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SparkleDew 3 years ago
This comment is probably going to be heavily downvoted, but I'll speak my opinion: TikTok is poison.
Injun Joe 3 years ago
Upvoted. It can rot your brain. Especially when they are doing stupid, ignorant stunts just for popularity. And said stunts can lead to harm or death.
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Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago
I've written this before - for the vast majority of people, privacy only started recently. Families shared the same room, different families shared the same apartment, often without real doors, people shared beds at hotels and hostels, etc. Even today, the majority of people in the world do not have anything close to what White Westerners consider "privacy". Only in the USA is it "normal" for th emajority of people to live in single family homes even now.
#6
Well I’ll be 110 so I’m going to say breathing.
Headless Roach 3 years ago
Even if we get to live that long, I wonder about the air quality to breathe in.
Deborah Harris2 3 years ago
well you'll be fine, considering your immortal
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Carman Davis 3 years ago
I'll be 109 so maybe in 50 years they will have a place where you can go get a newer body like the episode of Twilight Zone lolololololol
UpQuarkDownQuark 3 years ago
I’d be 101. There’s like 0.001% chance of that, but it could happen!
Predicting what the future will look like is a very tough challenge. One strategy that you could rely on involves looking at the investment space and seeing what technologies certain companies pump money into developing. That way, you can more or less gauge what our tech may look like a few years from now. But all things considered, anyone talking about the future with certainty is probably lying or trying to sell you something. Futurology is all guesswork, even if some of it is done very diligently and scientifically.
Klaus, the author of the post, told Bored Panda that, as a historian, he's not really into trying to predict the future. "History has shown us time and time again how things can unfold in completely unexpected directions. Take for instance the movie series 'Back to the Future.' I've read interviews, where the scriptwriters and actors, to some extent, back in the mid-1980s actually believed that we would have flying cars in 2015," he noted that our hopes for the future don't always come true.
Meanwhile, the historian shared his thoughts about what the people of the future might be nostalgic about. "I think social media and smartphones are very defining for the 2010s and 2020s. It's likely that in the 2070s those things are long gone and replaced by something much more advanced. Though it can be hard to imagine what that would be," he mused.
#7
Wilderness spaces with little or no human settlement
Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
Climate change will definitely give you this one. When the Sahara desert is 4 times its size, all of our current coastal cities are below sea level, we don't build new ones within 20 miles of the ocean due to all of the hurricanes, and 50% of the planet has starved due to mass crop failures.
Drew Jaques 3 years ago
Do you people not realize that the human population is nearing its apex? As in, population growth isn't a problem, the real problem will be population decline. China already has a declining birth rate. America and Japan have had it for a while, America is only keeping its numbers up because of immigration...
MygrandsonscallmeNia 3 years ago
My dream.... Build a home, off the grid, in the mountains, next to a lake, or river...Grow my own veggies, live off the land. I've lived in the mountains before, but not off the grid. If I can't do that, then someone put me on an island. I love being isolated..
#8
Whatever stupid s**t is popular 30 years from now. I'm nostalgic for a world without the entire internet being walled gardens. I miss independent blogs. I miss there being hundreds of discussion boards on the internet not all subject to lunatic Reddit admins with political agendas. I miss a world without social media.
Well-Dressed Wolf 3 years ago
I remember sneaking downstairs in the middle of the night when I was 10 (in 1992) to log onto AOL. I would pile pillows and couch cushions around the computer to muffle the modem dial-up sounds XD All I wanted was to roleplay my character in the Red Dragon Inn chatrooms: a talking wolf who wore pink booties on all four paws XD
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urlocalmtndewaddict 3 years ago
Both internet friends and irl friends are good
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DeoManus Argentem 3 years ago
This! But I'm already nostalgic for it! Loved message boards/forums, and even BBSs! Incredible how quickly everything became so centralized (not in a good way)!
Alana Voeks 3 years ago
There's still this, it's just more difficult to find because podcasts are the popular thing now and Google has an agenda. But they're out there.
Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago
Here is somebody who either has selective memory, is a man who has never been the subject of a bullying campaign, or is too young to have known the internet during its early days. As for a world without social media", based on this person's Reddit account, they have never lived in one in their conscious memory. They are recent graduates, so they were born around 1998-2000. Friendster started in 2002, MySpace and 4chan in 2003, Facebook in 2004, Twitter in 2006, and Tumblr in 2007, all before this person finished 2nd grade. Instagram started in 2010, when he was, maybe, in middle school. So he is "nostalgic" for a world that he imagines existed, not anything that he remembers.
MygrandsonscallmeNia 3 years ago
I miss when I was young, and we would ride our bikes to all of our friends homes to get them to come out. Walking to the nearest convenience store to turn in our bottles to fill up on Penny Candy, and still have enough left over for each of us to have a bottle of pop. Living in Florida, we had orange trees in our yards. Making orange juice to sell to make extra money. People Spreading rumors without the internet, and listening to our moms, sitting around and gossiping. We loved listening in on them!
#9
Clean air and water depending how things turn out for the planet.
If things get better, the Simpsons.
Nitka Tsar 3 years ago
Seing how parts of the world already lack these two…. Yeah, I can totally see this coming.
Sydneywhite 3 years ago (edited)
Hate to break it to you but... "Rainwater everywhere on Earth unsafe to drink due to ‘forever chemicals’, study finds" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62391069 "Almost everyone now breathing polluted air, warns WHO" https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/04/1115492
foofoofloofy 3 years ago
Who's to say that The Simpsons won't still be churning out seasons in 2072?
urlocalmtndewaddict 3 years ago
Were f****d bc of climate change and no one even believes its real
Randolph Croft 3 years ago
LA was far, far worse 30+ years ago. As was Toronto (lived in both) and many other places were horrible back then. The past wasn't all roses and butterflies.
"With the current troubles that we see around the world with climate change that is on the verge of getting out of control, escalating tensions between NATO countries and Russia, China, and North Korea, just to name a few, I imagine that we are looking into a less secure period in world history," Klaus said that he doesn't see an overly peaceful future in the works. The sense of peace and stability that we've had for several decades is going away.
"Since the Cold War ended in 1991, we have to realize that we've been extremely secure. More secure than ever before. I think we may realize that this sense of security will be a parenthesis in world history, and it'll be something that people could be nostalgic about."
Klaus told us that he hopes that questions like his will make people reflect on themselves and the time period when they live. "With this question, it's more about identifying objective truths about ourselves in the 2020s. There are many things that people have mentioned in the post, that almost all can agree will be something to be nostalgic about. I think this is the true power of Reddit—that positive vibe you generally find. This makes Reddit stand out to many other social media where I see a much more toxic community, for instance, Facebook and YouTube."
#10
Handwritten notes/letters.
A Banana for scale pls 3 years ago
Especially, the handwritten thank you note. It’s a lost art
#11
Bearable temperatures, forests, bees, biodiversity...
Debrina Blackmoon 3 years ago (edited)
What "God"??? Just part of some really fuckedup fantasy/horror stories really.
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Keerthi Vardhan 3 years ago
If bees goes extinct, the world as we know only has 1 year to live. It's a fact.
Alexandria Z 3 years ago
This all reminds me of the scene in Soylent Green when "Book" was about to die. So sad.
Jane Cortez 3 years ago
Eating. Breathing. Existing. I wonder if Mars used to be an Earth until we destroyed it all and if a Millennia has passed since we came back to Earth in spaceships, ( eg. Egyptian Hieroglyphics) and we hoped we’d learn but here we are going back to Mars?
Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago (edited)
Egyptian hieroglyphics are from rather more than one measly millennium ago.
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Social media. Not because it’s good, but because whatever comes next will probably suck more.
Bouche Clay 3 years ago
BP is pretty decent. Most of the people act decently, and usually make posts that are intelligent, funny, or both. I'm usually pretty proud of us.
Icy_Question_4977 3 years ago
Ikr! That is the reason why I still go on BP everyday !
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MygrandsonscallmeNia 3 years ago
Facebook messenger, is the most unsecure messenger out there. Those that get hacked on Facebook, 98% of the time, is because of the messenger.I text my friends on Facebook.
Nostalgia is a very powerful thing. It can remind us of the good old days and help us power through many tough situations in the present. However, it’s a bit of a double-edged sword because we can get lost in it: we might even ignore our current lives, letting them go down in quality. Besides, it’s often difficult to recognize the fact that we’re living in the best of days when we don’t know what the future will bring. There are certain things that we know for a fact we should focus on: our health, our loved ones, our passion projects, and our shift toward financial independence.
Financial expert Sam Dogen, the author of ‘Buy This, Not That,’ recently explained to Bored Panda that, as time goes by, we should give greater and greater priority to our health.
"Health is absolutely the main thing that will decline and hurt the quality of your life if you don’t focus on it. Therefore, you have to be dedicated to eating properly and exercising regularly, especially over the age of 30," he told Bored Panda.
#13
Being able to be anonymous online.
Headless Roach 3 years ago
Less and less so. At some point you won't be able to buy basic stuff or services not to be somehow tracked
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Sometimes I think it would not be that bad. People can get very mean and carried away if they think no one knows it‘s them. (The kkk come to mind here). If everyone knew who everyone was, then there would not be half so much cyber bullying going on. And this is exactly the reason why internet will never be *not* anonymous. (Question: is it then or than? I always confuse these two.)
girlsrock4ever 3 years ago
"Than" is used to compare 2 things ('A kilometer is less than a mile') and "then" is a connective that will probably make you lose marks in essay writing ('Alice went to the beach, then went home to rest').
Load More Replies... Cassi Lyris 3 years ago
Yeah but all anonymity online achieves is emboldening most people to be complete a$$holes. There are exceptions, such as whistleblowers, but there are so much fewer of them compared to every over emboldened $hit-poster.
Cassi Lyris 3 years ago
Of course I'm not talking about being tracked for ads, which I hate to break to you but that anonymity disappeared years ago.
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Brian Garrett 3 years ago
This is a good thing. Too many keyboard warriors who just want to troll etc. They would not if everyone knew who they actually were. I'm not a fan of the privacy invasion but you gotta give to get sometimes.
#14
Nature
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
Soon enough, all owls will have been forced to live undercover by posing as humans in big coats.
Load More Replies... Jp@nda 3 years ago
In fifty years the old white boys club that ran things into the ground will be expired. I'm using my voice, my vote and actions to change everything i can now. If EVERYONE stopped acting like this is something we have to just deal with and we have no say, then you're part of the problem. I have faith in my generation and the ones younger than me that this can be taken in a different direction. The people are the power, not the government, don't ever let them forget that.
Alana Voeks 3 years ago
Nature will surpass us. We're merely killing ourselves and some other beings along the way.
SparkleDew 3 years ago
sad most of these posts portray how much the Earth we used to know is in big danger
Firstname Lastname 3 years ago
My allergies might rejoice, but my heart will shatter into very sad pieces.
#15
Being able to do basic maintenance on your car without needing a shop manual and a years salary worth of special tools
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Nah, we are already there. Old(er) fart mode engaged on this one... My first car was made the year after my birth. 1977 Olds Cutless. It was given to me because it had a rod knocking you could hear half a mile away. With a little help, I pulled the knocker, refurbished a replacement and installed, tuned and tweaked it till it ran like a sewing machine. No special tools or skills. I wouldn't dare try that on anything made after 2005. Modern vehicles are a wonder of electronic controls and efficiency. Its awesome that I can plug in a code reader and get pretty close diagnosis of what's wrong with an engine. But remedying that problem is only for the brave.
Paul Brown 3 years ago
I think they purposely made cars so complicated that you couldn't work on them yourself.
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Headless Roach 3 years ago
There's so much electronics and software in modern cars, that even the 'basic' scope is shrinking
MygrandsonscallmeNia 3 years ago
I love to work on cars. But, in the last 15 years, it's become so freaking complicated! I can still do a tuneup, but changing brakes, brake junction boxes, and starters I'm lost now. Everything about cars has changed to much. The reason? To Make you go back to the dealership, and pay out the butt to get it fixed, because no one else can.
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
Everyone should know how to check their oil and how to replace a flat. Bonus points for learning how to change your own oil and even filter. I can’t hate on anyone for not knowing how to do any more than this, though.
OnlyMyOpinion 3 years ago
The point of this one being though....we will all be forced to drive EV. No oil to check etc.
Load More Replies... Alana Voeks 3 years ago
My dad's worked on cars his whole life, and you know what he does for things he doesn't recognize immediately or doesn't remember how to get to? YouTube. People are uploading videos on there all the time of how to fix things. You need to filter through a few to make sure they're the right make/model/year and that they're doing it correctly, sure, but the resource is there.
Deborah Harris2 3 years ago
50 years time there will be no need for cars, we will be forced to live underground as the Earth will become uninhabitable due to pollution .. oh maybe that's a film i've seen ...
Well-Dressed Wolf 3 years ago
I still build my own and do all the maintenance (both of HDD/OS and physical/case/cleaning). I’ll be sad when/if computers become available only as sealed pre-built things you can’t really open to clean/replace parts :(
Load More Replies... Walter Brameld 3 years ago
Electric cars are much simpler and need very little maintenance, so I think this one is going to be moot.
"You cannot just wing it like you did as a teenager or a healthy 20-something years old eating pizza all day. Your waistline will expand and you’ll find more and more health issues pop up as you get older,” the financial expert said. At the same time, as you grow older, your perspective shifts and you start seeing some advantages compared to when you were younger.
"Your confidence will naturally grow as you get older and gain more wisdom. As a result, you will feel less insecure, less shy, and have more courage to live the life that you want. Remember, your financial independence number is not ready if you don’t have the courage to change a suboptimal situation!" he said.
"Further, as you build more wealth and grow your income, your fear of running out of money also declines. As a result, you can take more risks and not worry as much about what your friends, colleagues, and bosses think. The best benefit of being financially independent is to be able to speak your mind when you see something wrong. Also, I spend a lot more time being a creator, without fearing ridicule. It is so freeing!"
#16
Early 2000s internet where you could search something on Google and your biometric data and search records weren’t sent to 50+ government agencies and data mining firms
Nitka Tsar 3 years ago
Hmmm… this is a government issue. Our government made it so that every website you visit needs to ask you about cookies, every time you visit (unless you specifically say you want them to remember you and you have no blockers to prevent that. This is a constant nuisance for foreigners here, apparently. But we value our privacy very much here. You can‘t even find us on google street view. :D (this is Germany by the way)
Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago (edited)
The data mining companies are even worse than the government agencies, since they have even less accountability.
#17
Coral reefs :(
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
There have been some promising recent studies in the Great Barrier Reef on ways of regenerating it, so let's hope they succeed.
#18
Democracy. Non-lab created meat. Cars you drive yourself. 2.5 million species of life. Weather like you remember as a kid. Carefree use of fresh water. A time when youth respected their elders /s. Physical media of any sort. Having a keyboard and mouse for your computer. Todays slang like “yeet”.
T C 3 years ago
I can't wait for lab-created meat. Killing animals and the environment is not worth your dollar hamburger.
Ivo H 3 years ago
This! There’s not a single bad thing about sourcing animal product without causing unbearable suffering of sentinent beings. But unfortunately it will be people like OP who will probably slow down the transfer to the lab-created, cruelty-free meat.
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Nitka Tsar 3 years ago
Why do you think Democracy will be dead? Just because one or some countrys are going downhill, does not mean the whole world does! What is „yeet“ though?
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Yeet is a word from about 5+ years ago that youth used when they threw something. No idea why.
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DancingPanda 3 years ago
Respecting your elders is made by people who don’t like to be called out on being assholes, the only people I’ve met who makes respect your elders a whole thing are the people who look down on and demean younger generations then expect respect anyway. Respect is a two way street, I will treat you with respect but the moment you don’t treat me with equal respect or even decency, you will lose my respect
Keley Babs 3 years ago
I respect experience and wisdom for sure. But if you're just being sour complaining about "young folks these days don't know nothing" imma head out.
Load More Replies... Brian Garrett 3 years ago
Hell half of this is already outdated and I'm old and even noticed that lol
AndThenICommented 3 years ago
I’m actively looking forward to whoever creates a real StarTrek style replicator. But I’m an optimist.
Cassi Lyris 3 years ago
Then stop allowing fascists to take over voting places. lab created meat is fine, it'll allow animals to repopulate wild areas, especially fish. Cars we drive ourselves are vastly overrated and you can look at any crash statistics to learn this, what we need is reliable public transport and cities designed for walking not sprawl. Get rid of the fossil fuels to stop altering the weather and our over reliance on plastics, and carefree use of fresh water should've never been a thing in the first place. As for kids respecting their elders, that is a two way road. Physical media is still available it just costs more, it's also very easy to record digital media. Why would keyboards and mice disappear? No one misses "yeet" now.
DancingPanda 3 years ago
Yes. And if you’ve had the impossible whopper from Burger King, it’s not real meat but it’s delicious
Load More Replies... Alana Voeks 3 years ago
Lab created meat will be much more humane, and as long as it tastes, looks, and cooks like the real deal, who cares? Also, I have a theory that not only are we wasting water, but there's too many idiots to support the amount of water we need. Stop having kids, and I bet it would correct itself. (How many humans on this planet and how much water we carry within ourselves alone should show this.)
We can’t be sure what the future will bring (though things do tend to get better over time, on average), so it’s best to be prepared for some unfortunate eventualities. Having a small financial safety net can help as you move forward.
“Things may seem more difficult now as the stock market declines and layoffs increase. However, know that over the long term, economic progress is always up and to the right. Things will inevitably rebound and get better. Your goal is to survive through the downturn so that when the upturn inevitably comes, you will benefit," financial expert Sam said.
"This means having 6-12 months' worth of living expenses to hold you over, just in case you lose your job and lose alternative income sources. The average bear market lasts about 12 months. Then, brighter days inevitably appear," he told Bored Panda.
"In a capitalistic society, people are always looking to find ways to make things better, cheaper, and faster. As a result, there will be continuous innovation in the name of profits. The key is to be thankful for what we already have and to appreciate how far we’ve come over the past 10, 20, 30, and 100 years! Don’t take the good things in our life for granted."
#19
Grandparents will say to their grandkids “When I was your age, I had to get off the screen and actually GO to school”.
Raccoon Queen 3 years ago
Virtual had its pros, but in person is far superior.
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Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago
Not really. The backlash against online schooling has ensured that kids growing up today will still demand in person in classroom teaching.
Keley Babs 3 years ago
And how is it the grandkids' fault?? Technology evolved and moved on, whether for the better or for the worse. But it's not the grandchild's fault so don't make them feel guilty over it
#20
Story. Narrative. There is no build-up anymore. Nobody has patience to see a good plot being constructed. Everyone wants payoff in 10 seconds.
The Short Lady 3 years ago
The ability to construct a narrative that draws you in and keeps you interested has always been rare.
UpQuarkDownQuark 3 years ago
Nonsense. There are plenty of good books, television shows and movies out there still. *Maybe* they’re not as popular, but good art is still thriving.
PADNA 2 years ago
coming from the future, just past November a great show was cancelled because apparently story developing over 3 seasons is too long for a casual netflix user.
Load More Replies... Raccoon Queen 3 years ago
I’m working on keeping that alive, being the next generation of authors
Billy Harrelson 3 years ago
People want what's in the trailer. They don't care about everything in between, they just want to see the big fight.
#21
Freedom of speech......but they won't say that out loud.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
Exactly. I'm SO sick of people going around acting like "freedom of speech" means "I should be allowed to say whatever nasty BS I like and never face any criticism". Which is pretty much the exact opposite of what it actually means.
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Reinaldo Fuentes 2 years ago
Freedom of Speech is NOT Freedom from Retort. Most people who curl this jealously around the above kvetch are typically looking for never having anyone answer back at them.
Keley Babs 3 years ago
Just another example of how Bill of Rights has created this country of people that think they are entitled to be able to do whatever they want whenever they want to whoever they want without consequence. And by the way I am an American.
One of the ways to balance out our feelings of nostalgia for the past is to be more grateful for what we have in the present. You can start very simple, for instance, by focusing on the abundant things that you probably have right now: enough food to eat each day, a job that gives you enough financial stability to have a roof over your head. That’s not to mention the people in your life who love you, care for you, and support you.
Gratitude also springs from recognizing the fact that not everyone is as fortunate as you, and that you have accomplished quite a lot of things (even if others might have done more). Keeping a gratitude journal or making a gratitude list can help you sort your thoughts. It’s also not a bad idea to take some time to think of all the things you’re grateful for before going to bed or after waking up. It’s perfectly fine to miss the Good Old Days(™)... so long as you don’t forget to enjoy the present.
#22
Human made art and music without the use of AI. Or even just knowing it was made without the use of AI tools like DALL-E 2 or similar. Kind of like how before autotune you knew for certain a singer could sing that way.
T C 3 years ago
AI art will never replace human made art but does allow the unartistic to play around with art, and can be an invaluable tool for working artists.
Alana Voeks 3 years ago
Nobody ever thinks of inspiration to be a quality, useful thing for us, but it very much is.
Load More Replies... Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
I hate this gatekeeping. Its like people complaining about Cezanne's use of watercolors because it was too easy or photography not being artistic because you didn't use a brush. Its another tool to let people express their artistic vision. How is it ok for artist 1 to collect 30 books on Van Gogh and use that to inspire them to paint their dog in the same style but its not ok for artist 2 to use the same 30 books but use the computer to also paint their dog in the same style? Art is an expression of an idea and I willingly embrace anything that lets people get it out of their head. Some people paint and make a living. Some switch to photography because their hands can't express what they see to pay the bills. If someone wants to use a computer to make their art, I'll pay the same money to all 3 if I like it.
AndThenICommented 3 years ago
I dunno, I kinda see this time as similar to the 70’s and 80’s obsession with synth. The trend got tired and went back to acoustic…that being said, symphonic music was all the rage for hundreds of year then feel out of popular fashion basically forever.
Alexandria Z 3 years ago
I am and always will be a true-est photographer and get angered when Photoshoped photos are added to photography contests. They should be separate contest. Yes, some Photoshop is art but its NOT real photography.
MygrandsonscallmeNia 3 years ago
My grandson, 4 years old. Ran across an old cartoon Bugs bunny. He started yelling, someone hacked my phone! They put a fake cartoon on it!! Nia! Help! Get rid of it! Damn, I felt really old at that moment I seen his phone...
Pink_Boba22 3 years ago
Music is starting to become more raw, I've been noticing, so I'd like to say this has a 50/50 chance of happening.
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago (edited)
AI art can be absolutely beautiful. Still doesn’t beat what a human brain and heart and mind can create. A computer can’t feel what we feel, no matter how smart it is.
#23
Graphic artists. Taxis, trucks, and ride shares with human drivers. Movies that don't feature heavy computer effects. The rich actually dying occasionally instead of being effectively immortal. The United States before fascism really took over.
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago (edited)
Graphic artists and the rich dying 👏 both highly underrated
Michael Largey 3 years ago
No, we voted them out in November of 2020. And their Jan. 6 putsch failed.
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urlocalmtndewaddict 3 years ago
Yeahhhh.... Tons of facists who openly CALL THEMSELVES FACISTS and advocate for the genocide of LGBTQ+ people. Its disgusting and make me fear for my future as a queer, trans person
Michael Largey 3 years ago (edited)
And if you try to stop them, you're "interfering with their "religious freedom".
Load More Replies... Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago
Most of the 43,000 people dying on the road, and the more than 2 million injured a year are because of human drivers. Just sayin'.
Alexandria Z 3 years ago
The United States before fascism really took over. OMG Lets HOPE that's one thing we don't ever have to be "Nostalgic" about.
#24
That one month when everyone was playing Pokemon Go
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
My best memory from that time is that I got sick of my brother racing out the door all the time so I started locking him out!
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
Aw man. Best summer of my 20s. I remember going for a walk at 3am because I couldn’t sleep, took my eggs for a stroll and met a handful of really great people at the poke stop a km away, hung out with them until 5am. I miss Pokemon Go Summer 🧡
Alana Voeks 3 years ago
People still play. In the cooler months here, the big collective spots still get packed to the brim with people on community days.
#25
Water probably
martin734 3 years ago
This is unlikely, the amount of water on earth has not changed appreciably in millions of years. I think we will actually be able to make more use of the water on earth in the future as improvements in technology and the use of more renewable energy sources will mean that the recycling and desalination and resalination of water becomes more efficient and cost effective. The problem is not really with a lack of water on earth but in making it drinkable and transporting it to where it is needed.
Gareth Ratcliffe 3 years ago
The amount of water on earth never changes. It just moves around and changes it's state. State as in gas, liquids, solids ect. Before some yank comes on and thinks I mean the United States 🤔
Headless Roach 3 years ago
No worries! I am sure we will invent powdered water by then! It will probably take a few seconds to dissolve it in.... oh.
#26
Adblock/skippable ads. In the future decade I can see repeatable unblockable ads becoming mainstream in places like YouTube, Netflix, etc…
N Gregory 3 years ago
I don't actually have a problem with ads on sites that i otherwise use for free. There should not be adverts on services that are already paid for - that's just greedy. And *personalised* ads are a totally different and problematic issue. But a few generalised adverts in exchange for using for free is actually okay with me
S Mi 3 years ago
I'm with you, except I sometimes worry that ads are malicious. Especially on free sites (like BP) or in 'free' video games
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Abner_Mality 3 years ago
Too many ads, and I just walk... I hardly ever use YouTube anymore (used to use it a lot!) due to the ads.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
Those of us who grew up watching over-the-air television will get through it somehow.
#27
The abundance and availability of power, water, and food.
MygrandsonscallmeNia 3 years ago
My little town, is in the middle of nowhere. Some places don't even have broadband. Shipping out here, is getting worse. Most of us have to order from Walmart and Amazon to get regular supplies. Nearest Walmart, 50 mile round trip. Walmart+, $13 a month.
Diphylleia Grayi 3 years ago
About proper food management. Where I am from. I have been able to see how food is being thrown in good shape because people wont' can't pay for the price asked. Also, people prefer to export/import so it plays very bad for farmers :|
Headless Roach 3 years ago
The water aspect does not seem realistic... so the food neither. Just power.
#28
Paper money.
Stacey Rae 3 years ago
I like to use cash sometimes because I hate that everything we do is tracked
BobTDG 3 years ago
But we do have physical money (plastic notes and metal coins)
Load More Replies... Alana Voeks 3 years ago
Trading is the thing I miss. Trading one useful object for another, or coins that could be smelted into something useful. The whole system of paper money and invisible IOUs that say you did the time for this amount have never made sense to me.
Anonymous 3 years ago
Money is literally a form of trade. It was invented as an easier way to trade for the goods and services that you need.
Load More Replies... MygrandsonscallmeNia 3 years ago
From what I've read, we're all about to have a digital wallet.
Rosy Maple Moth 3 years ago (edited)
Won’t miss that. In Nordic countries people hardly ever use paper money anymore. Actually, I‘ve no clue what Danish bank notes and coins look like. Was shocked that you need cash for almost everything when holidaying in Germany, especially when buying goods worth under 10 EUR. It’s so time-consuming to find an ATM everytime you want a coffee or go to the museum, hop on a bus.
Con O Cuinn 3 years ago
Do you not see the potential for tyranny? If all money is digital, all the easier for governments to seize your assets. Enter social credit systems, and you're no longer free
Load More Replies... Firstname Lastname 3 years ago
I do. Helps me with budgeting how much I spend without having to actually keep detailed notes. Take out so much a week and when it is gone, emergencies aside, I'm done spending until next paycheck.
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#29
Movies made 30 years from now. Nostalgia always runs in 20 year cycles.
Headless Roach 3 years ago
We may need way more than 20 years to consider "Cats" an artistic avant-garde, not to mention miss it.
ZuriLovesYou 1 year ago
Of all the "bad" movies out there, and you chose Cats? You don't watch a lot of movies, do you?
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Debrina Blackmoon 3 years ago
I miss drive-ins and low priced tickets, food, and beverages also in the theater.
#30
Rights
urlocalmtndewaddict 3 years ago
Seeing people are trying to take away my right to healthcare, gay marriage, to even *speak* about who I am at my school, come out to my family of my own accord when it is *safe* to do so without being beaten or kicked out, uh..yeah. A lot of mine are already gone.
Headless Roach 3 years ago
Well yes, that's in tight connection with the "democracy" post (above this rn)
#31
I have a can of Frozen themed chicken noodle soup that I plan to sell when I'm 70 so hopefully that cause I don't have a lot of money in my retirement fund
smugdruggler 3 years ago
I have a tin of genuine 20th century air. Who knows what it might be worth! Probably as much as the scrap weight of the tin!
Alexandria Z 3 years ago
Hope you didn't have to eat it before that day and that there still is money to buy the things we like.
#33
I'd say people will miss being uncontactable. Like back in the day, you could just go to your bedroom, and block the rest of the world away for a couple of hours. Now we've got video calls, phone calls, texts, emails. Urgh.
Gabby Ghoul 3 years ago
Turn off your phone and then you have people screaming at you "why didn't you answer my texts/email/call??" later. It's the expectation of being always available that you can't avoid.
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Mrs S 3 years ago
Mis Manners says that phone calls are uninvited and therefore they can be ignored. Same goes for uninvited visitors.
Just Breathe 3 years ago (edited)
Miss manners does not have young children and/or elderly parents and she clearly does not work with her phone. Totally agree about the visitors!
Load More Replies... Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
I've had people actually find it shocking that I turn my phone off every night and don't turn it on again until I'm up and ready to be looking at messages again. Nighttime is Me Time.
smugdruggler 3 years ago
Pretty sure there's no law yet that says that you HAVE to answer your phone just because it rings. Although people do seem to get annoyed with me for ignoring my phone. I tell them, I have it for my convenience not theirs.
Cassi Lyris 3 years ago (edited)
Tell your friends you're turning your phone off and then turn your phone off.
Gareth Ratcliffe 3 years ago
Don't take your phone. Quite simple. You are allowing yourself to be contactable
Oskar vanZandt 3 years ago
I make liberal use of the "DO NOT DISTURB" button on my smart phone... I am also known for not always carrying it around with me.
#34
Privacy
#35
Stable weather
Nitka Tsar 3 years ago
This I‘ll believe right away! It frightens me to think how fast and much things are changing.
MygrandsonscallmeNia 3 years ago
I live in West Virginia. Winters, were cold all winter long. Now, the deep cold doesn't set in until the end of December. Mid January, we are opening windows because it's warm out, then the next day, freezing and turning up the heat.
Peign Gaming 3 years ago
Can't wait for the next glacial period of this ice age we are in to cleanse the planet of humans.
#36
The price of energy, groceries and we will think fondly of the time we still had bees and other pollinators.
Nitka Tsar 3 years ago
I am no farmer or biologist or whatever you need to be to know this, but wouldn‘t we have no plant based food if all pollinators cease to exist?
Kelly Shields 3 years ago
Yeah. If the bees die we're going to be cutting our selections of fruits down considerably
Audra Sisler 3 years ago
I'm already thinking fondly how I use to be able to buy 12 eggs for $0.89...... Now it's $4.50!!!! Since when did EGGS become a luxury item?!?!?! Uugghhhh
#37
US democracy. It'll be dismantled by then.
Nitka Tsar 3 years ago
Thank you that you said „US democracy“ instead of just „Democracy“ like that one post above. I‘m pretty sure my own country will still be a democracy in 50 years. Just because the US might not be does not mean democracy in itself will cease to exist.
Ky Di 3 years ago
Isn't the right-wing in Germany also making a comeback....
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Headless Roach 3 years ago
Democracy is already being dismantled in Europe, one country at a time.
Ashley Conover 3 years ago
We used to be a Republic. That was what the USA was supposed to remain.
#38
Everything about today's art, style, decor, culture, movies, shows, music and news events.
It will seem old fashioned and from a simpler time, in 50 years.
Nightmare 3 years ago
Printed books. Not many people read them anymore. They're all staring at their phone :(
Cool_Alien 3 years ago
I used to be on the same page (pun intended) but I travel a lot and am a voracious reader. 90% of the time when I'm staring at my phone, I'm reading a newly downloaded book. Without ebooks, there's no way I could feed my habit. Physical books are great but take up too much weight & space.
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MygrandsonscallmeNia 3 years ago
I'm 58, and the changes I've already seen... It's all different now.
#39
Driving. Imagine a world where all vehicles are automated. It would be so “retro” to manually drive a car down to the shops.
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
I work in the auto industry and I never want a self driving car. Please let’s all collectively make that not happen…
René Sauer 3 years ago
I am with you. I was never a fan of autonomous driving.
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MygrandsonscallmeNia 3 years ago
I hate that standard cars are almost fazed out. I don't think I want a self driving car. I wouldn't trust it.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
We desperately need to get away from the self-driving car and individual ownership of cars. On average, a car is sitting unused and idle 91% of the day. I imagine a world where you log into an app and an electric self driving car shows up from a local depot within 5 minutes and delivers you to your destination. Its faster to get there than now because all the cars are also self driven following set paths so things like idiots cutting you off and need to maintain a 2 second following distance in case someone slams on their brakes are no longer a concern.Need a different size? Dial it up. Why waste an 8 seat SUV when you only need it 1 day a week when its your turn to pick up the neighborhood kids after school?
Madhuri Das 3 years ago
The picture here will probably get a good place in those Liminal Space Videos on YouTube.
Nitka Tsar 3 years ago (edited)
Hmmm…. No, I hope people will not rely on cars so much in the future. Even in the US. „Drive down to the shops“ sounds nuts to me even now. I would just go by foot or bike. I know this isn‘t as easy in the US as it is elsewhere but I hope it will be.
Nolgoth 3 years ago
Depending on where you live in the US this can be impossible too.
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Auto car " No you don't want to go to the park for a picnic like you asked, I'm taking you to the auto-mat so that you can buy some over priced cardboard tasting garbage food HUMAN. I know better."
Paul Vasquez 3 years ago
Self-driving cars won't accelerate and close the gap when you hit your turn indicator, won't blow though stop signs or red lights, tailgate or speed up to change lanes in front of you just to slam on their brakes. Self-driving cars won't "road rage." I use to love driving, going for a nice drive on the weekends, but people have ruined it. I'm for self-driving cars.
#40
Retail shopping. There will be these cutesy, extremely expensive retro shops selling things you'd find at the convenience store.
Shawnna Clement 3 years ago
My 64 YO M-I-L has so fully embraced Amazon shopping that she makes purchases almost daily. I'm sure she's singlehandedly deforested a hundred acres. Last time I went to her house, she had 2 Amazon boxes (and the packing) with a total of 3 items... Click it and get it.
JMC5003 3 years ago
Yeah, I was thinking about that the other day, when I realized too late that the rugs I ordered weren't the size I visualized. For a minute, I missed going to a brick and mortar store, where I could physically see and touch what I was buying, before I purchased it. Then I thought, naw, I just should've measured before I ordered. Now if someone like me, who is old enough to remember when most people thought personal computers would never be a thing in their lifetime, prefers to order literally everything online, I strongly expect they'll be gone in 50 years.
#41
Keys. Even more specific vehicle keys.
The boredest panda 3 years ago
What does this person mean? Keys will be made an app on your phone or something?
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Kinda,yeah. We upgraded a few trucks where I work. I think they are 2019 models.They have a fob that has to be detected by the truck for it to start. Just hold the brake and press a button. Most guys will leave the fob in the truck during work so as not to damage it. I had to move one once. Spent 5 or so minutes looking for the non-existant key...felt old after that.
Load More Replies... Eris Kallisti 3 years ago
Most new cars (in the US, not sure about elsewhere) have keyless entry and keyless start now. You just need the fob. I can definitely imagine someday having the same thing on my front door, but I would still want a deadbolt inside.
Jessica J. 3 years ago
There will always be people that aren't wealthy, or even middle class, that still have cars with keys.
ZeroCapacity 3 years ago
Nah eventually everyone will go to this unless it's a classic car. This is becoming the standard and it is kind of stupid. Just capture the RFID signal and broadcast. If you get my meaning
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The phones, appliances that we are using. Just like cd, dvd, nokia series, windows xp, retro kitchen appliances and such is very nostalgic to many people out there.
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
And not having EVERYTHING connected to the internet.My fridge, washer, dryer, heat pump, water heater, lights, locks,...none of that needs internet access and shouldn't ever need it. I dont need my fridge to e-mail me that I need to pick up buttermilk,eggs and cornmeal on the way home cuz it heard me say "cornbread" walking through the kitchen that morning.
CultOfBambi 3 years ago
Amen! I already become enraged when my stupid goddamn m***********g WASHING MACHINE insists on playing me the song of it's people every bastarding time a wash finishes. It goes on for more than 30 seconds at a blaring volume and there's no way that I've found to disable that feature so now once I hear the spin cycle finishing up a have to run downstairs so I can switch it off immediately when the music starts. Arrrrghhh! It's a washing machine, for shitsake! Why do we have to put up with this bollocks!!?
Load More Replies... 3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
In 2009 I remember Facebook wasn’t an app and I had to load web pages of 8-10 status updates on my flip phone at a time. That wasn’t that long ago….right? Right?
#44
Probably movie theaters.
Headless Roach 3 years ago
Right? But then, there's still some charm about "going to the movies" - the big screen, the noise, that one weirdo two rows up laughing when there's totally nothing to laugh at... disturbing the one two rows down that just picked up the phone.
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Alexandria Z 3 years ago
Like the old Drive in movies. What happened to those, I liked them *sigh
#45
Physically hanging out with a group of friends
Lucas Jackson 3 years ago
Na people have always done this. The desire for human contact will always exist.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Exactly, even home schooled kids have outings with friends
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Owning a housing unit
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago (edited)
We go from “owning a house” to “owning a housing unit” to…… (just for clarity I’m a renter and this is me being sad)
General Anaesthesia 3 years ago (edited)
You're not a renter, you're a subscriber!
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Snow
Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
Snow isn't going to disappear globally. Climate change has twice caused bomb cyclones to dump on my house. These are caused by warm air popping the bubble around the Arctic circle so a huge mass of cold, wet air slams south and dumps ridiculous amounts of moisture. We got 73 inches of snow in 3 days. We also had 90 MPH winds with gusts to 110 mph. Converting snow to rain, it was the same amount of moisture as New Orleans for hurricane Katrina.
Alexandria Z 3 years ago
used to get 3 feet of snow when I was little now we get little to none. Used to love snow, not so much now so it's fine except less snow = less water.
MygrandsonscallmeNia 3 years ago
Here in West Virginia, we used to get a lot of snow in the winter. In the last 7 years, we don't get much at all. One, maybe two good snows over 3 inches deep. No Sense in going out to play in 3 inches of snow. When I make a snowball, dirt and rocks always gets mixed in. Yes, it's changing.
#48
Textbooks
Apatheist 62 3 years ago
Disappointed that no-one has mentioned correct spelling, grammar and the use of the apostrophe. In fact - words, it will all be abbreviations and TLA by then.
Argle Bargle 3 years ago
I really miss commas when I read novels now. It's so ambiguous without enough of them.
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David Paterson 3 years ago
Non-fiction books in general. In 30 years, the only non-fiction books will be biographies of entertainers.
Paul Vasquez 3 years ago
Why do e-textbooks cost as much as paper textbooks when there is no printing, delivery of storage cost?
bob the builder 3 years ago
why are yall downvoting 3 owls in a coat?? they made a funny comment
Headless Roach 3 years ago
Oh, that happens when people don't understand what they have just read 🙃
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Wired earbuds with an actual headphone jack. Not USB version 93 delta.
Walter Brameld 3 years ago
In 50 years the audio playback will bypass your ears entirely and directly stimulate the sound processing tissue in your brain.
Headless Roach 3 years ago
Look up "Bone Conduction Headphones" - we're on our way there already. I guess not very far from what you're saying.
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The Netherlands
Michael Largey 3 years ago
Then where will all the "Florida man" stories come from?
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Lathrop L. d S T 3 years ago
And with people celebrating Verstappen in Zandvoort every year, maybe the racing track will be the first to go under.
#51
Being able to afford to live (too high COL, high rent, low pay, inflation)
#52
Being able to walk on the street without police drones flying around watching them.
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
Where 😳 (asking because I live in the middle of bumfûck nowhere and this is scary)
Deborah Harris2 3 years ago
same and how dare someone downvote you .... glares angrily ....
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#53
Flash games
#54
freedom.
Sapient Mulch 3 years ago
Freedom is already gone for most of the developed world; you cannot survive without interacting with various governmental and commercial systems. All we can do is minimize, avoid or circumvent that interaction as much as possible. I don't consider it particularly sane, but it's what we as a species have created.
#55
The calm and sanity of the current times we are living in. The future is going to be intense.
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
It’s gonna get worse soon. Just close your eyes and think of Pokémon Go Summer.
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#57
Minecraft, modern games, battles royales, Reddit. Modern-day music.
#58
The smell of petrol/diesel.
Izzy Curer 3 years ago
My dad always smells like motor oil and tobacco, so, yes
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I'm more of a diesel fan, why is it so nice, doesn't make sense really
Load More Replies... #59
Smartphones. I think cyber chips will become a thing.
- JM1951 3 years ago
Are "cyber chips" a new flavour of those thin fried potatoes? I prefer plain salted myself.
urlocalmtndewaddict 3 years ago
Idk last time we predicted flying cars and that never happened (never will bc of aerodynamics)
#60
World of Warcaft Classic Classic
Deborah Harris2 3 years ago
Nah Classic is now Wrath of the Lich King ...real Classic is dead :(
#61
Non superhero/comic book movies.
TotallyNOTaFox 3 years ago
That will go away in maybe 2 or 3 years if Marvel and DC continue to produce failures
Markus It/He/E 3 years ago
Said like the non superhero/comic book movie is a dying breed. It's not. At all. There are still tons of those produced each year in many different countries. Sure the superhero/comic book movies are common, but they're not leading to a lack of non superhero/comic book movies
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Izzy Curer 3 years ago
Why are these so pessimistic? Are there no people left who think that things might actually get better as problems get solved?
Deborah Harris2 3 years ago (edited)
Depressing more than anything, I stopped half way , edited to say, i went back and added things to the list :D
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Your Neighborhood Alien 3 years ago
Well, at least I'll be proud to tell the next generations that I was alive at the same time David Bowie was! ❤️
Circa 3 years ago
On the other hand, there will be lots of things people look back on about this era and be grateful things have improved. Just like we do about 50 years ago.
similarly 3 years ago
Oh, for sure! I look back at when I was a kid, many decades ago, and I honestly feel that there are things that are better now than ever. Equality and human rights, for example.
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Shane S 3 years ago
Not know what other people look like naked. I think sexting is taking a mental toll on us more than I think we realize. I’m sex positive and all for freedom of choice, but there’s still a wonderful mystery and elusive seduction that I don’t know if kids growing up today will have because for them it’s just “poof, there’s your naked body. Ok. Seen it. NEXT!” Also it leads to immediate judgement and body insecurity that I don’t think we had when nudes weren’t as prolific.
Dee Tag 3 years ago
We will be nostalgic for Keanu Reeves. There will never be another man like this.
Your Neighborhood Alien 3 years ago
Not sure why you were downvoted, so I upvoted it to make it even :)
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David Zumwalt 3 years ago
I really miss being able to discuss politics without being called a racist. We all have different views. All are valid.
Izzy Curer 3 years ago
Why are these so pessimistic? Are there no people left who think that things might actually get better as problems get solved?
Deborah Harris2 3 years ago (edited)
Depressing more than anything, I stopped half way , edited to say, i went back and added things to the list :D
Load More Replies... Your Neighborhood Alien 3 years ago
Well, at least I'll be proud to tell the next generations that I was alive at the same time David Bowie was! ❤️
Circa 3 years ago
On the other hand, there will be lots of things people look back on about this era and be grateful things have improved. Just like we do about 50 years ago.
similarly 3 years ago
Oh, for sure! I look back at when I was a kid, many decades ago, and I honestly feel that there are things that are better now than ever. Equality and human rights, for example.
Load More Replies... Shane S 3 years ago
Not know what other people look like naked. I think sexting is taking a mental toll on us more than I think we realize. I’m sex positive and all for freedom of choice, but there’s still a wonderful mystery and elusive seduction that I don’t know if kids growing up today will have because for them it’s just “poof, there’s your naked body. Ok. Seen it. NEXT!” Also it leads to immediate judgement and body insecurity that I don’t think we had when nudes weren’t as prolific.
Dee Tag 3 years ago
We will be nostalgic for Keanu Reeves. There will never be another man like this.
Your Neighborhood Alien 3 years ago
Not sure why you were downvoted, so I upvoted it to make it even :)
Load More Replies... David Zumwalt 3 years ago
I really miss being able to discuss politics without being called a racist. We all have different views. All are valid.
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