What will be defunct by the time your grandkids are born?

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Talking about this today with my teens, I'm still mind blown by music streaming and can remember listening to the same albums over and over. Having tv on your phone is also amazing.

What do you think will change by the time your grandchildren are born, surely there will be an solar way to charge phone.

Surely something magic will happen that you don't need to plug in your hairdryer!

Anything else?!

Good thread Post Op
I can't think of anything at the no😕

Working in the office 5 days a week. I hope that working from home will become more commonplace and that there will be more of a move towards flexible working.

@00100001 @NeedsImprovement01

I agree. DD tracked down the last Quality Street chocs on Christmas Eve, due to an oversight I hadn't bought a large tub in the supermarket. She bought two small boxes in Poundland but they were £ 2 each. Came home moaning that it should be renamed " a few Pounds Land "

Surely there will be advances in cancer cure and dementia treatment

The highstreet
The NHS
Daylight savings
Club 18-30
Spectacles

Probably not much, my first grandchild is due in the spring. It's too much to hope for that Covid will have buggered off by then.

Cars. That you drive yourself. In fact I don't think my DC will take driving tests, they're 8 and 4.

[quote stillusingxmaszoflora]@WomenAreBornNotWorn where I live in the S.W meat is already a dirty secret. People whisper about bacon in hushed voices, and meat is always in the reduced section, pork especially.[/quote]
The opposite is happening where I live. People are seeking out decent cuts of meat, and eating and cooking meat (and posting about it on social media) seems to be the big thing at the moment.

Personally I think 'plant based food' is the next environmental scandal brewing.

Perhaps the meat is being left in the supermarkets because people have rediscovered their local butcher?

Spectacles

Even if lasering becomes the norm, specs may stay as a fashion accessory.

Now I am middle aged, mine do a good job of hiding the bags under my eyes!

Office jobs.

@NeedsImprovement01

Lots of disposable things will be illegal/highly taxed. Reusable nappies will become the norm.

Yuk !

can't see this being the only option.
what about for adults who are doubly incontinent; who's going to wash and re-use those, when you don't grow out of it, ie it's not a developmental stage, or only gets worse in time passing.

I hope the clocks changing ends soon. It's utterly pointless.

Presenteeism in office environments. Totally unnecessary.

Caring jobs being all firmly in the minimum wage/low wage bracket.

I also reckon supermarkets will change. They brought everything under one roof, and we're now living in a manner which means we don't even need (or want) to be under that roof. I'd imagine them being more "food distribution stores" with a small offering for those who arent online (e.g. a setup like Argos where you drop your list in and within five mins it's been boxed up - with a cap on number of items). But in the main people will order online for home delivery or drive thru collect.

heading footballs.
rugby tackles.
boxing.

maybe there will be a turn away from consumerism.
one can only hope.
eg the lidl/aldi model, smaller food shops with household and clothing items a few times a year, the weekly specials.

Technology seems to be changing so fast from my 50ish perspective. Who knows what next big leap is on the horizon.

There’s a Lana Del Ray song called ‘Love’:

“Look at you kids, streaming vintage music through satellites while cruising”.

When I think about the weirdness of what’s happening in that sentence blows my mind a little.

@Herdwick I think it depends on the reasons for not eating meat. There are no non halal butchers in our area which is very densely populated with every other type of local, independent food business. I don't think this is an oversight. There is just no market for nice meat. If you take out those who only eat, halal, the veggies and vegans and those who are too skint to buy proper nice meat, there's few people left. Those left probably get a delivery box or drive to Waitrose.

Actual plastic credit/debit cards

Pin numbers and passwords

Meat

Road traffic accidents..I think all cars will be driverless and kids in the future will be amazed that people would be killed by cars and that kids had to learn about road safety

No scandal, it's been proved scientifically many times over that the redirection of crops from livestock to direct human consumption is much more eco friendly. Plus the fact we keep billions of animals caged/barned and so many are victims of cruelty and even sexual violence (beastiallity laws have been adjusted to allow the the reproduction process within the meat industry) The scandal is that we let these animals suffer.

newrepublic.com/article/160448/meat-bestiality-artificial-insemination

www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/10/huge-reduction-in-meat-eating-essential-to-avoid-climate-breakdown

I think grandkids will become defunct. My DC's say they don't want to have children!

Hand writing, esp joined up writing.
I've barely written more than a few notes and the weekly shopping list, in years and even those I occasionally type on my phone.
I wouldn't be surprised if the greatgrand kids just learn to type.

Wow! Writing surely can't go!

What shops will go, surely the high st will be online

@stillusingxmaszoflora

Does anyone 'watch telly/ channel hop' anymore? We never do and watch everything through streaming so my kids were amazed at their grandparents that they had to look at a paper (?) to find out what was on and then type in a channel number. It was bizarre to them!

I have just got a subscription for the Radio times, 14 issues for £1 so still watch normal TV, we also have all the streaming platforms but Sky is by far the easiest to use so hope it doesn't disappear anytime soon

No gas appliances in the home, petrol cars will be rare, small new builds will have a kitchen as an optional extra, foreign holidays will be very expensive, UK will have split up and each country will be kowtowing to China.
Africa will be the manufacturing power house, the standard of living for most Europeans will have fallen (think of Portugal now). Russia will be going through internal conflict with civil war as regions try to split away.

Holidays abroad will be a pita so lose popularity, we have had the best time for this in days gone by but going forward all the stuff with global warming, terrorism, pandemics will kill it off.

The High street as pp said, though suspect that will be gone much quicker than OP's timeline.
Royal Mail.
'Proper' journalism.
The notion of kindness, fairness and manners. It may just be my age, but society is a lot more feral of recent years considering we are a supposedly more sophisticated than ever.