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?!

House keys. I watch Korean and Chinese dramas. Most homes have a digital key pad. It works well if a friend is visiting or feeding a pet, as the homeowner messages them the code to let themselves in. No need for spare sets of keys. Downside: I’ve seen thrillers where they were hacked and opened. Other buildings have biometric pads.

If we don't change course now the environment will be defunct.

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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!

Yes. We watched A Victorian Slum then David Attenborough last night.

We also use streaming services, but still watch or record programmes on BBC, ITV and channels 4 and 5.

Liking this thread.
I think like Utini that there will just be a glory of cars/transporters floating around and your'll just jump in one.

Cables, wires and plugs all over the house.
Signatures- fingerprint or eyeball recognition could replace

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Cables, wires and plugs all over the house. Signatures- fingerprint or eyeball recognition could replace

Yes, I just recently tasked DH to remove all the defunct telephone wires, I must re remind him . He did make a small start but there are many from old telephone extensions, Sky and internet, some go under floorboard so a bit of a task

M & S Will solely be a food supermarket within 5-10 years

Retirement

Please no to retirement! It seems so mad that women retired at 60 what a dream that would be!

Woodburners

Meat on anything but very special occasions

We just realised recently our ds8 didn't know what a cigarette is. Never heard the word, never seen one, found the whole idea ludicrous.

I reckon there will be a chip implanted on your body somewhere
Everything will be on it. Bank accounts health info passport personal details some kind of tracking device - basically everything your phone does now

Scary but there’s already technology for it

No more petrol cars. Perhaps people flying in drones? Its already been done.

Uk soil has enough nutrients for another 60yrs of crops, so some other method of feeding the massive horde of humans will have to happen. Food and water shortages, extreme weather, more pandemics, climate refugees. The future will be horrific, all those things I mentioned were from Guardian articles in recent years. I’m proud to not be contributing anyone to suffer existence in the upcoming decades.

Paper newspapers and paper boys. My 6yo has to write a newspaper article for homeschooling. He doesn't know what it is. He has seen them at the grandparents but didn't register them iyswim.
Hand operated vacuum cleaners.
Cash and cards, we will all use a phone or other device to pay.
Computer mouses.
Excess plastic packaging hopefully.
Cheap battery farmed meat.
Fossil fuels.

I expect this laptop will probably have had it

Came on to say handwriting

Nearly obsolete now

We use coal to heat our home. This will be a thing of the past. We know there will be electronic cars. So that's the end to petrol stations.
Libraries could go online (massive shame as I love them)

More voice based messaging, less print material & books.
Fresh water; snow; Helium balloons for Party’s - world supply almost depleted now; DJs - everyone has own playlist;
, ink pens, stamps, money/coins reduced;

Increased Plant based food chain, farming underwater to allow the deforestation & natural habitats of reverse for wildlife. We need more trees in the global eco system;

The Royal family

In 2 or 3 generations:
Autonomous electric cars
Digital fingerprints / face recognition / eyeball recognition will replace bank cards, passports, id etc.
No cash. Digital money only.
The same things won’t kill us. Less cancer deaths but more deaths from something new.
A far better way of communication than primitively typing each letter with 2 thumbs.

Further down the line to this:
Further developments in fixing body parts with machine. No more blindness, deafness.
Eventually, further into the future, humans will be able to communicate brain to brain directly.
The collective knowledge of human kind becomes more and more centralised. Imagine being able to download all of human knowledge so far directly into your brain.
We have almost harnessed all of our planets energy to use. One day we will harness all of the suns energy to use and consume and become a type II civilisation. These things fascinate me.
I would love warp for one day 2000 years into the future but the shock of change would probably kill me.

Think you might need to clarify how far ahead you are talking...... some of might be grandparents already, or within the next couple of years ....

I tell you what is brilliant to watch - on BBC Archive - some of the 'Tomorrow's World' programmes from 40 years ago, predicting what we might have in the 21st Century......

Me.

I think energy will be free and renewable
instead of video calls some kind of hologram call
Big changes in medicine
And aliens of course👽

Herdwick I'm pretty sure that Club 18 - 30 went out of business a couple of years ago!