What things do you think will cease existing in your lifetime?

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Not a wish list btw.
I'm mid thirties and I think I will see the end of:
Petrol and diesel cars
Cows milk (majority drinking soy/oat)
Pork being eaten by most
Smoking (that's hopeful)
People casually throwing around comments about people's weight
Royal family
Legacy benefits :(
Landline telephones
Desktop computers
A lot of pubs :( :(

In person Interactions
Commute to work

Large scale passenger flights - I think they will be freight, military and super rich

Space travel

Bookshops (again perhaps some specialist antiquarian booksellers)

Paying cash

The NHS

@PermanentTemporary ahh bookshops no!! Really nothing like them. I feel my local Foyles does ok.

Life as we know it due to climate change…

On a lighter note
Print newspapers/magazines

Why space travel @PermanentTemporary? I thought we were all supposed to be going on holiday to space soon!!

Cash

@Birdkin maybe I'm in a lefty south west bubble but aren't most making steps to (try to) change that? Even my least concerned friends seem to be walking more and eating less meat.

Tv license

Some people may be walking a bit more but packaging, individual lorry deliveries to homes, road haulage, food waste, power use overall, heat and energy waste are all up and up and up and up.

Green fields

Cash

Covid! I'm optimistic.

United Kingdom

CDs!

Killing animals for meat (hopefully!)

Cash
Newspapers and magazines will be online only

I live in the Med. You'll have to prise their pork from their cold, dead hands here.

House phones. I don't know anybody that still uses one.

Cash

I agree about the petrol/ diesel cars.

Desktop computers, cows milk, pork, bookshops and pubs are definitely here to stay though!

I agree with PP who thinks cash will go.

Current western/developed world way of life. Could go one of two ways.

Good = reduction in inequality between rich and poor and a more sustainable life for all.

Bad = increase in inequality leading to dystopian levels of violence as the majority struggle to survive and the rich shelter in luxury.

Unfortunately, I think it'll be the latter especially when you factor in the mass displacement of developing countries once climate change really bites.

Diesel cars
Landline phones
Coal powered anything
Air BnB
Mass consumption of meat
In-person travel to Venice

I think you’re wrong about:
Cows milk - that will reduce but not go as it has the shortest and most reliable supply chain, and high calcium and protein
The Royal Family - I think there won’t be the bandwidth for a Republican overthrow. No political party is going to waste their time overseeing that when there is a lot more to concern them.

I can’t see bookshops going anywhere any time soon, as the sales of physical books have been on the increase year by year for several years now.

I do wonder if we will bother to still have cinemas, though.