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?!

NHS
Woodburners
Teachers, replaced by AI

god I hope not.

Maybe not entirely but I think expensive perfumes. The rise of shops doing dupes of everything seems to have meant young people going to say Zara for a cheaper scent rather than buying a Chanel perfume. Same for expensive makeup.

Online being the main way to shop with so many actual shops now going under.

Online dating

Our freedom the way kier is going tbh

Loss of jobs because of self service tills and tp many people using them our cash if we are not using it all worrying things

Jobs. I lie awake thinking of it.

Fireworks, I don't know anyone who buys them and only a few went off last night near us

I worry libraries may disappear

Sending cards, I only do this for older relatives at Christmas

Octopus Energy. Despite MN's best efforts, people will finally realise it is a dreadful company with shocking customer service.

Within ten years
Tv license
spontaneity (!) so much has to be pre-booked now
the way things are going - loss of more workforce due to ill health, more loss of health/healthy life years
loss of some of the more draconian school policies
loss of weight as weight loss injections become more accessible
Maybe AI decent fact checkers alongside politicians on tv/screens so loss of lies (or loss of ability to distinguish truth if it goes wrong)!
more hybrid learning options for those that it suits better, for when people are unwell (less deliberate spreading of illness to try to reduce ill health burden)
maybe increase in more timely diagnoses as AI has to “listen” to patients?!
more surveillance, less privacy
Increase in certain jobs we won’t even have heard of now
further reduction in printed media
further loss of customer service
loss of paper billing and documentation (but not loss of certain government departments still insisting you provide paper copies)!
increase in chatbot hell (or maybe increase in human customer service as people get too fed up of chatbot hell)
increase in disasters from global warming
loss of nhs as we know it, becomes further privatised and then will come up with a shit model for healthcare instead of following one of the better models
I’d love to say more long term thinking in politics

Great thread. I hope a lot of the boasting and posing will die out.

Hope books don’t disappear too

Climate Change Skeptics.

I don't mean all of them, just the politicians.

They will eventually come across like comical Ali, when he was on telly saying there were no tanks in Baghdad, as everyone could hear tanks rumbling outside, in Baghdad.

It's important to remember (though easy to forget the way contemporary culture has developed) that we are at the end of the day, lumps of animal flesh operated by brain jelly and nervous systems, that use our senses to interact with the world and our unsurpassed capacity for thought and communication to build those interactions into cultures and societies.

People will always eat, grow food, laugh, cry, raise live human children, give, receive, look each other in the eye and try to work out, as best they can, each other's truth.

If large scale social structures like government, capitalism and the internet become even more divorced from the experience of being human then that doesn't mean that experience will cease to exist. It will just exist outside of the those structures, the way the impulse to freedom and truth-seeking existed in the Soviet Union in the cracks between the systems of government control. This makes for a messy, uncomfortable and unstable relationship between the two, which is not as good for either as when they interact organically with each other. But if that's the way it goes then we'll just have to deal with it, while living our real lives as best we can.

Jobs.

Petrol and diesel cars?

Interesting reference to the USSR .

Given that authoritarian states have, and do, depend on state controlled media to retain power, one would expect the rise of the internet and information to cause their demise.

But we are actually seeing the opposite. We are seeing more authoritarianism, and more theocracies. Countries such as the PRC are using the internet to increase their power and influence.

So perhaps it is the truth that will disappear.

Large factions of world society, such as the Trumpsters are already in a post truth age.

I agree, it's scary already that you can't tell what's real or fake.

NHS
Women's rights if the Trans have their way (and it's looking like it)
Pet dogs
Unarmed police force
Coins
Public libraries

Betting shops
Cash
Chinese takeaway only accepting cash
Police on the street

I do think social media as we know it is on its way out. If you can't differentiate between reality and AI, what's the point?

People realising their vulnerabilities and understanding crooks online.
And acceptance of the need to understand AI and how the world is working.
Sadly IMHO

None of these sounds like an improvement, though.
I am terrified at the thought of letting Amazon take control of even more aspects of our lives.
Fortunately I live in a country where people voted to keep hard cash, which I still use for most transactions.
I only have a smart phone because two factor authentication forces me to. I only have a credit card because that's how I buy plane tickets.

I would love if smartphones would disappear but that’s unlikely.
the cash thing seems realistic here in the UK but much of the developing world use cash widely, we were in Marrakech a couple of weeks ago and in the old town everything was cash only.

Manners

"Countries such as the PRC are using the internet to increase their power and influence."

All states are doing this. Simultaneously, citizens in the PRC are very ingenious in using the internet to get around state controls. The internet is just a tool. It can be used by both sides.

Critical thinking