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?!

Some of these make me feel really sad and it’s almost like we will be looking at our life now like we look at the war times and the “olden days”

Our lives will not too far in the future will appear in a museum somewhere ..

im not ready for it and certainly not looking forward to it !!

Google Notebook is having a good shot at it. DH is a teacher and uses AI a lot for resource development, he recently started using notebook to create videos, quizzes etc. He’s aware that some form of this will replace him some day, maybe more than ten years though.

Learning languages won't disappear. Maybe for people who never leave their country, and it might become a marker of the elite, but there's nothing like speaking someone else's language for closeness. For high level business, politics, diplomacy and obviously immigrants of all sorts it will always be cruical, like being literate and having good table manners. It's funny how even now multilingualism is only found at the top and bottom of society, and thay might get more pronounced.

Ironing! Sounds daft, but I think it's crazy that we can still buy clothes like shirts or dresses that crinkle and rumple up so badly that they require ironing, and that humans still put their clothes on an ironing board and smooth them over with a hot, flat iron to make them look better to wear. Every time I get the ironing board out (very rarely now, if I'm honest) I think it's well past the time this disappeared altogether!

staff in supermarkets.

Cash, cheque books, ironing boards.

What's Keir doing to your freedom?

Not disappear completely but I think air travel will become very expensive or even rationed. I see signs of it already in the banning of internal flights between certain destinations in France because the train is either better or quicker or less carbon footprint.

The days of really cheap plane tickets has already passed but in twenty years time I can see flying being once again only for the very rich.

Just ‘A’ or other letters from the alphabet too? 😉😊

I hope so. I believe that all AI videos and photos should have to legally let people know that it's AI.

As someone who works in the magazine industry and hearing about yet more redundancies at work then I sadly agree with you on that one

Vaping

Learning online at home.

I'm still waiting for the cars on The Jetsons cartoon to be reality. I'm sure there was a country that was trialing something like it a while ago.

It’s almost gone already

Compassion, manners, laughter…

Haven't received or sent a Christmas card for years.

😹😅🤣🤣

The Labour Party 🤞

Real people on social media. It is already 50% trolls paid by various shady states like Russia and China, so in the future all real people will leave and it will be mainly trolls spouting whatever crap they are paid to spout communicating with few imbeciles who think they are real people.

I agree with cash, cards and cheque books (or have cheque books already gone?).

Christmas cards are almost extinct, they will definitely disappear.

Physical things like receipts and tickets.

Landlines.

Physical loyalty cards. Apps will soon be the only way.

Also, hopefully - Reform as they will wreck whatever they can, make enough money for themselves and disappear off to the paid dinner party scene, like Boris.

Labour doesn’t exist anymore. The conservatives are effectively already gone too.

Not that much will change in 5 years, certainly not a lot of the things being said on here. We will still have bank cards, still have schools and teachers, still have most things we have now. Some things may dwindle in usage as they are replaced by other things but will still be very much around.

I agree with everything except the fjreworks. I thinknsuccess will come from USP's about NOT using chat bots or offshore customer service teams.