Which current things do you think will disappear entirely in the next 5-10 years?

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Looking at the world as we see it today and the way the wind is blowing, which things that are currently (and have often long been) a part of many of our lives can you see just completely vanishing completely - whether through the writing being on the wall for them and nobody wanting them anymore, or through actually being officially scrapped/banned?

So far, I've come up with (and there's every chance that I'll turn out to be hopelessly and laughably wrong):

TV licence in its current format. I don't think the BBC will disappear at all, but their privileged funding model, payable for watching ALL live TV, will only be sustainable for maybe 5 more years at most.

Broadcast/terrestrial/scheduled TV.

Cash and all bank branches. Also bank cards - all will be incorporated in phones as standard or swapped for implants.

Royal Mail. I think Amazon will branch into collections as well as just deliveries, with a much cheaper, quicker and more reliable service - probably more for parcels, as written letters become increasingly obsolete.
Also post offices will completely disappear.

Humans being allowed to drive vehicles - also leading to no need for anybody to actually own a car of their own, if they can use an app to summon a driverless pod at any time.

Printed newspapers and magazines, as well as paper utility bills, invoices, receipts etc. No urging to switch to receiving things online, as that will simply be the only option - even for important official documents. Before long, maybe all paper will be gone and seen as much as a relic of the past as parchment is now.

Private bonfires and fireworks.

Learning foreign languages - everybody will speak into their phones and the other person will automatically and seamlessly hear it in their own language - quite probably in the exact same voice.

In-person voting.

The option/ability to live life without being online.

There must be loads more... what else?!

It's thing you think will disappear, not wish. I will be wearing fake eye lashes and glitzy bits on my nails out of spite if necessary

This is so depressing. If life ends up like some of these predictions, I frankly don't see the point in anything.

I wish we could go back to life pre internet, pre smart phones, pre email, pre social media etc. I'm old enough to remember life before these things and, in my opinion, life was so much better. The pace of life was slower, work was less stressful, more jobs were needed, people had real connections, real friendships...not the shallow, technology-led 'connections' of nowadays.

People laughed more, had more fun, had more free time. People talked on the phone. I remember the excitement of a friend calling on the landline. We'd have talked for hours if we could have. Today it's just messaging or comments on facebook or instagram.

People were just happier overall. I sort of envy anyone who doesn't remember those times, as it must be easier to deal with the way things are today.

What very little we have left …common sense

Suits with ties. Smart casual seems to be the norm for so many office jobs now.

Gosh, I hope you're wrong.

Most jobs

Lou look at digital ID you'll soon see or maybe you believe in unicorns which I'm guessing you do judging by your ignorance

I don’t know if people were happier overall back then but it certainly seems to have a lot more appeal.

Galloping technology seems to have separated us all into distinct camps and the future with AI doing everything alarms me. But that could be because it’s all still quite abstract and perhaps the reality will be marvellous.

I had some challenges with my trading account, but with assistance from support team NordevamberCom, I was able to recover my account and access my funds. The support staff was professional and helpful throughout the process.

Blimey that’s depressing.

There will be no need for teachers or childcare workers anyway as people are hardly having kids.

Completely agree. Every young generation wants to be cool and to differentiate themselves from the one above.

We recently had a letter from our DC's school to inform us that there will be a robot 'child' in one of the classes soon, as there is a DC who is very ill and who won't be able to attend in person for the foreseeable.

The child will hear the lesson through the robot's ears, see it through the robot's eyes and will be able to participate by remotely raising the robot's hand and speaking through the robot's mouth.

It all sounds amazingly futuristic; but I could well see, before too long, a time when not just the few very ill kids who cannot go to school in person, but ALL kids could be taught remotely, via a robot, like this as the norm.

There are also various other innovations - using the Internet Of Things - that have been brought in to help disabled and/or frail elderly people cope with everyday tasks, especially those suffering from dementia and memory loss; that I could well envision becoming the norm for everybody.

Things that monitor your appliances and your use of them, the contents of your fridge and how quickly stocks of different foodstuffs are depleted etc. The kind of stuff that could help vulnerable people to maintain a level of independence, but which would actually remove independence from the majority of healthy, non-vulnerable people.

Maybe it could be tied up with healthcare: monitoring your consumption of junk foods, fats and sugar etc. and warning you or notifying your nominated HCP if you need to eat more vegetables. If we have some kind of personal health insurance by then, instead of the NHS, it could use the data to judge your lifestyle and diet and set your premiums.

Like my thoughts above regarding car MoT tests, I think it will become laughable, the idea that we would only have periodical check-ups, rather than constant ones.

Yes, that's how fashion works with clothes, so why not with everything else?

Clothes fashions aren't inherently better or worse than what people were wearing during the last season/wave/decade; the idea is just that they're different - and you partly affirm your identity by marking yourself out as belonging to THIS generation, rather than THAT one. It goes far, far deeper than merely how skinny the jeans happen to be, how long the skirts are or what materials are used in making them.

Do some research on it . . .

All the information is available.

Yes I know what ID cards are, thanks. How exactly are they going to impact your freedom? Are people in the many countries that have ID cards not free?

Are you alright upstairs ??

You clearly haven't researched the UK Government's version of a Digital I.D.

Marriage
Education in its current form. Many degree courses will be discontinued.

Food will change, more and more vitamin and protein snacks. Less sugary, fizzy drinks.

More co living cooperatives. More urbanisation.

in the next ten years?

Why do you think marriage will end within the next decade? If anything younger women seem to have a better grasp of the legal side of marriage, not just romantic, and current “traditional” cultural trends /new religious young men are keener on marriage.

I think a lot of religious teachings will be scrutinised via international online debate, more science, engineering, tech, logic based analysis will lead to the collapse of religious dogma.

And you haven't explained how they would limit our freedom. Just one simple example would do.

I was quoting Karl Pilkington as he very famously considered what the future would be like 20 years ago and came up with these daft ideas.

It was meant to be a bit of lighthearted fun for anyone who recognised it and I didn’t expect my own mental capacity to come under scrutiny!

I knew what you meant even though others didn’t! Karl Pilkington is great.