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

[Politicians247UnderwearExtinguishingService]

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?!

No, not remotely worried.

I agreed with your post and then thought 'well, the birth rate has been below replacement for decades - immigration from high birth rate countries is likely to continue'. And IVF use is growing all the time. Not sure no sex in the UK would actually mean no births or population decline

Why? Every expert says they will be.

Concerts are one of the only ways artists make money.

Gosh I doubt it and hope not! I support a lot of local charities.

Interesting. The advantage of AI would also be being able to very quickly, objectively and accurately assess the knowledge gaps of a child and tailor their education to them, saving a lot of time and maximising their learning.

For someone who always felt teachers are often unfair to my dc I wouldn’t be mad with that.

Good luck cooking Christmas dinner for ten in an airfryer, unless the airfryer is as big as an oven!

Disposable income

Sky dishes will probably disappear after 2029

No that won’t go (why in public?). I can’t read books on screens as they give me a headache so only real books for me.

The birth rate doesn't really reflect whether people are having sex though. With effective contraception, everybody could be at it all the time yet we could have no births!

Because the field I work in can't be affected to the extent that anyone will lose their jobs. At the moment I'm being paid a lot of money to sort out the mess AI is making and I can't see that ever changing.

@ThisPithyJoker p.s. The OP didn't specify 'in the UK' so I was talking about if sex died out worldwide.

The BBC in it’s current format

Royal Mail in it’s current format

Stamps

Chequebooks

Most paper based mail

Cash eventually but not within 10 years

Freedom

Yes, I worry for DS who does one of those middle tier accounting type jobs.

It’s been great for me and the customer service has been excellent.

The UK.

I think the next election result will lead to a dramatic decline in living standards and instability and it will fuel requests for independence. I think we will leave the ehcr and undermine the good Friday agreement further. The King will die and William will dissolve the monarchy entirely.

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

I don’t see this happening but possibly the other things you have mentioned.

Pubs…..I think these will disappear, your traditional drinking pubs. There will just be restaurants and bars.

Night clubs, there are not many left.

Argos, most stores have vanished other than the ones in Sainsburys.

Single sex public toilets, I think most will be single cubical for either sex.

For you maybe. I guess you have no children (or gc now or in the future) to worry about. I worry for my young adult kids. My 22yr old has already had one redundancy and I do fear for him if there are more in the future, because there’s going to be less and less jobs but more and more applicants.

This is the biggest change I think will shift in the next 5 years.
Once AI is better which won’t take long, most videos are going to be ai. And you won’t be able to tell those that arnt anyway.
So what’s the point? It becomes meaningless to both consume and create.
Smaller scale, for friends and family, people you know well, it will still exist. But all the content that’s exploded in the last 10 years won’t be the same.
Its going to be an interesting ride for social media.

Cash money
Services interaction with a person face to face
Kids playing in the street with other kids (already happening)
Mechanical robots/technology substituting people

I'm glad I'm 65 y.o. and won't be alive to see the incoming future.

Take out private health insurance then. I couldn’t possibly afford private health insurance the nhs going would be a disaster for me. Do you really wish the nhs would disappear or do you just wish it was better?

Agree with all of these

I don’t bother with Pinterest anymore because of AI. I used to use it a lot for pin boards that I have built up over the years. Now my own created pin boards are flooded with AI that I didn’t put on them. Pinterest must be at least 90% AI now, it’s so disappointing. I just feel angry looking at my ruined boards, so I’d like nothing more than it to fail and disappear.