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?!

The welfare state will either disappear or be rolled back to a huge degree

Sex and relationships. The current generation conducts most social and emotional relationships in virtual spaces.

Weight loss groups like slimming world and weight watchers to be replaced by pharmacies with WL medication.

GPs. AI will give diagnoses and prescribe medication.

Small local charities. They’ve been suffering for awhile but increased demand on services, fewer volunteers and less donations will see the sector crumble.

I wish!!

Tolerance. Hate will continue to prevail until it implodes and we are brought to our senses again.

Morrisons

Name one way Keir Starmer is limiting our freedom!

Maybe not in that timescale but possibly countryside professions and ways of life - livery yards, small family nurseries and farms especially livestock farming. This will not bring the inclusive access for all some might naively say it will mean business owners buying land setting up glamping/ dog fields/ festivals but all paid for access without much freedom. Better fencing/ fenced footpaths and diverted to edges of fields, this is coming so fast due to all the loose dogs and irresponsible owners. Obviously wildlife trusts etc will still be there. Parish churches, volunteer run organisations will dissappear as cost of housing means people work more hours and cannot afford to do low paid jobs or work for free. Skilled workers harder to get in the trades, professions and education. The quality of attention span is so shortened now many are not learning properly and education is full of behaviour problems blocking learning. Access to ownership of housing - this is the biggest issue we face and it is not limited to this country.

I hope cash doesn't disappear. The card readers at my local supermarket all went down the other day, it was the only way any of us could pay! Technology is great until it gets hacked or glitches and then we are all up shit creek.

If sex dies out in the next 5-10 years, we won't have to worry about any of the other things because there will be nobody left on the planet.

The current high street.

I would hope that the land will be used for social housing but it will probably be used for private housing.

Theatres and live concerts.

Restaurants.

Sex isn’t the only way to procreate.

Nothing that there haven't been significant moves to reduce already. 5- 10 years is the blink of an eye when it comes to turning away from something embedded in our lives. We'd also have seen signs by now like reduced investment and investment in alternatives because strategies would be in place. So things like motoring, not a chance. In 5 years, probably nothing. In ten, we may see even fewer smokers in the UK.

Our small rural general hospital. I really hope not though. Otherwise it's a 2 hour journey to one! They are gradually downgrading it though. We are having to travel further for specialised services.

Agree with the newspapers and magazines. Noone under 65 buys them.

You’re never going to stop people shagging. And certain folk are procreating like they have no concern for the future!

So funny to read this today when I've just looked up from my phone and been astonished to see more people reading than on their phones in this carriage. I had just thought to myself books must be having a revolution!

What other ways do you suggest? IVF would be prohibitively expensive and takes a lot of resources. I don't think cloning is viable yet. And I can't see many people using artificial insemination. Sex is a natural biological urge so I doubt very much if it's going to die out any time soon, even if there were alternative ways to have children. People don't just have sex to procreate!

Are people not terrified about AI decimating jobs? I am.

My DS is in year 9.
He told me last week that more and more AI is being used by teachers to teach them in their lessons. His history teacher, before half term, told DS's class that in the future they will be taught entirely by AI and there won't be a role for class teachers anymore.
Whether or not this is true I don't know.
But I've encountered so many primary school teachers who were worse than useless at their job, and I mean appalling, and now I encounter so many secondary school teachers who are irritable, intolerant, shitty in their attitude, bad tempered, hostile, sarcastic and judgemental, where for my 2 DC having to navigate the teachers' temperaments each lesson is harder for them than dealing with other students who might be aggressive or unfriendly, that I wonder if AI might be the better option.

Or how about not at all...

I have no pets but I feel sorry for all the dogs howling and barking in my area and imagine the rabbits in their hutches petrified out of their wits, and cats scrambling under cars.
Hate them and such a waste of money too!

Nit in the next 5 years but in the future.
Teaching in person. All children will be expected to learn remotely at least some of the time. Support staff will not exist. Robots will replace teachers. There maybe 1 or 2 humans the rest will be robots. Pupils will either take their own lunch or buy meals from a vending machine, no dinner ladies.
Qualified teachers will not be needed, replaced by cover supervisors.
PE will not be taught with the exception that all pupils will have to jog regularly around the building supervised by cameras.
Music and creative arts will only be taught by the pupils listening/watching videos of the subject. Pupils will not partake in the subject by actually doing it. The same applies to cooking or practical subjects.
Religion will be taught as part of history as it will he banned in schools.
There won’t be any school plays or concerts.
Pupils will be encouraged to learn on laptops from their own home.
NHS staff will begin to he replaced by AI. Operations will he done by robots with one human overseeing them.
Likewise doctors receptionists will be replaced by AI.
Retail staff will be replaced by automated shops. Your bank details will be taken from you the moment you enter the shop. Robots will scan what is in your basket and deduct that amount from your bank. You will not be able to leave the shop until you have paid.
Warehouses will replace staff with robots.
Humans will be able to buy a robotic partner and marry them.
They will be able to buy a robotic child and adopt it, treating it like a human child. When they have had enough they will be able to pay to get rid of it.
People will be able to get buried/cremated in mass graves in various locations including care homes. Funerals will take place one a week and be en mass. If you want a private burial/cremation the fees will be extortionate and to discourage it, the deceased home will be taken as payment too.
Banks will start to sell properties to more than one person thus enabling people to be able to afford a home, so 2 strangers will effectively house share.
Males will be offered sterilisation upon reaching the age of 18. This will be fully reversible but only on proof that the male earns at least a minimum required wage.
There will be no state pension.
Having more than 1 child will be frowned upon.
Call centres will not exist in the UK, all businesses will use foreign call centres.
Robots will replace the majority of car mechanics.
Clothes will be ordered online. You will give a brief out line of what you want and it will be made in China and shipped to you.

Oh god. I do not think it is the better option at all.

Nah, the UK is on a similar latitude to Moscow - it's the Gulf stream that keeps us temperate and the best estimates are that it's likely to collapse between now and the end of the century. The UK is going to get a lot colder, I'm afraid.

Also people will be able to chose the sex of their child.

Have the posters who think sex will die out ever met a teenager? 😂