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

[drumandhake]

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 :( :(

Town centres - these will be urban housing/developments with restaurants and coffee shops, and all retail shopping will migrate to out of town type malls.

I really, really hope that cash doesn't disappear. One day, yes one day the internet will collapse - it is inevitable. Nobody will have access to their money or anything else for that matter. It is utter madness that we are committing ourselves more and more to technology which probably hangs together on a wing and a prayer!

So true. I live in an earthquake prone country, and when we had the last major one here people suddenly found they couldn't rely on technology as it simply wasn't available! Even things like mobile phones were practically useless due to everyone trying to use them at once. There always needs to be a Plan B.

Also, living in a country which is much more focused on agriculture than the UK there is no way people are going to stop eating meat, or drinking milk, in any of your lifetimes.

Remote controls which arrived in my lifetime will be gone I think - TVs (or whatever they morph into) will be voice activated

Mumsnet

Land-line telephone
Television licence
Broadcast television, such as Freeview, so no more TV aerials and satellite dishes (I think all TV will be online in the not too distant future).
Cheap clothes that last barely a season
Cheap "white goods"

Judgement of people being childfree (I think it'll become more normalised and common)
State pensions
Petrol
Payment cards

Why pork?

I quite look forward to all meat being grown from cell cultures in a factory, but not sure if/when it will happen.

I think I will always have a use for a desktop computer. Any serious computer user needs a big monitor, and if you don't need portability, why pay for a second small monitor? Also, a laptop takes up desk space whereas a desktop can be located so it' s not using space requried for anything else.

I have already ditched landline and cash. I think landlines will disappear. I doubt cash will, though the world would be a better place if it did. What's even more exciting is cards disappearing. In China you can (I think) gain access to an unmanned shop, take what you like, and be charged for it, based on facial recognition.

@Pigeontown

Cash Nhs State pensions Property ownership for a large % of adults Long haul holidays that are affordable Retiring below 70 Higher education for majority of post 18 school leavers. Meat eating is going to reduce Petrol/diesel cars Smoking weed will stop being illegal. Possibly even growing weed too. CBD etc greater legalisation GP surgeries will change function and form Hospitals too. Low cost dentistry gone Music in a physical format other then streamed. Terrestrial TV and TV channels with schedules Landlines Daily newspapers in printed form Travel agents on high Street Estate agents on high Street Checkout staff in shops Royal mail daily delivery of letters Email . Think this might go Satellite TV dishes on homes Food stuffs that are climate change sensitive Universal health treatment Coal fired power stations Cheap Chinese labour and imports European and American dominance. Regular seasons White Christmases Labour Party

This is quite depressing... but we do have to also have high hopes for advancements and improvements.
But here's what I don't think will change.
Poverty and inequality
Hate crime
Food shortages
Poorly run government
Greed
Bad eating habits
Our ability to have fun, to love laugh and cry and our human capacity to care deeply for others.
Good will
Kindness to strangers.
Hope
Our ability to find solutions.

Gosh, quite a few of your predictions I think will increase not decrease!

Women. No wait, that’s already happened, now men can be women and adult human females are officially known (by The Lancet, nonetheless) as ‘bodies with vaginas’ 😢

@CMZ2018

Political correctness Socialists Benefit parasites

You won’t see the end of milk and pork. Farming is all interconnected and although the average people with no farming knowledge may not realise it, livestock farming is critical for sustainable arable and fresh produce farming.

Mine are a little different
At some point - maybe not in our lifetimes but our children’s or grandchildren’s:
You won’t dive a car, it will be driverless automatically driven and configured to get you to where you need to be safely.
Humans will settle on Mars (extremely important and the tech need to get going ASAP)
Animal rights will increase and keeping animals at home in cages will be a no (really hoping)
More AI as part of the human body. It will be slowly integrated. First for fixing things like sight and hearing (already happening) and later to enhance communication and lifestyle.
Facial recognition for most things including shopping purchases, ID, entry into venues etc
No cash
Crypto becoming more mainstream
High streets gone and any physical shops out of town

@elbea

You won’t see the end of milk and pork. Farming is all interconnected and although the average people with no farming knowledge may not realise it, livestock farming is critical for sustainable arable and fresh produce farming.

Well said. Artificial fertilizer use is not a good idea. Also the need for milk to make formula. If you get rid of cows' milk then breast feeding will have to be much more commonly practised.

Malaria - yesterday was a momentous day that not enough was made of on news. Malaria has killed, and continues to kill around half a MILLION people every year and has remained one of the biggest causes of death in the younger populations in all developing countries . Yesterday’s news was a massive breakthrough in reducing those deaths and stopping some of the over 200 million cases EVERY year that eat into the resources and livelihoods of developing nations. 1.1 BILLION people are in a high risk category that can, in theory, now be vaccinated.

Then also medically
Antibiotics prescription for all but life saving use
A few cancers and progress on treating others
Dementia- but in reality the Slowing of progress of dementia and earlier detection to do that

Plus from the environmental perspective
End of Cheap air travel for the masses and with it cheap overseas holidays ( but I am hoping we’ll see a beginning of solar powered air craft that are viable.)
Petrol/diseal anything

Gas boilers in any new home and most older homes - that’s a given already and replaced with heat pumps which are not great alternative
Gas cookers and hobs
Cheap meat- I think it’ll still be on the shelves, we will still be buying it, but with the rise of fuel costs it will be expensive (end to factory raised cheap chicken for instance). Meat will therefore become a more luxurious item not eaten every day
Affordable Fish- between loss of environment in the sea and crashing fish stocks and the rise in energy costs, our warming seas around the uk and Canada and Norway we won’t even be able to get cheap salmon.

Thanks for the news on malaria . I had missed it

@Silverswirl the second half was increase ...I said I don't think they'll go

@PattiPritell

Millions of vehicles sitting around doing nothing for 90% odd of the time will be seen as a foolish concept

This is a good point but if you live in a rural area imagine how many miles there might be between pick ups and how many double journeys.

On-demand could be much more efficient though. They could have a "pool" of cars available, and it's cheaper to hire them at off-peak times. You could also have the option to car share to improve efficiency and reduce costs (possibly being allowed to set up a group of people you're happy to share with, or else by the "cars" being kind of separate pods just linked together like a train so you can't move between them).

So essentially, instead of a rural bus service, you get 20 people in the area saying they want to go to BigTown tomorrow, they're not that fussed on time as long as it's before, say, 11am. Then a car train gets sent round to pick them all up (with just one "engine car" needed at each end). On the other hand, there's always a multitude of car trains to get you to BigTown for 8.45, and you can book a space on one of those.

If you want an individual car for a specific time, you have to pay more.

Also there will be less need to travel to BigTown if you can get stuff delivered; electric cars could be used as part of the delivery network as well.

I feel like I've thought about this too much.

Cancer

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

i still need mine. Its only used to locate my mobile though

Tolerance

@tillytoodles1

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

I rely heavily on mine. Out in the sticks with little mobile phone coverage and wi fi calling is crap - despite having a fast internet connection! Can get fast Broadband but no phone signal here. Not even for a text 😅

@AutumnAlmanack

I really, really hope that cash doesn't disappear. One day, yes one day the internet will collapse - it is inevitable. Nobody will have access to their money or anything else for that matter. It is utter madness that we are committing ourselves more and more to technology which probably hangs together on a wing and a prayer!

I agree. Our city and surrounding towns were badly affected by Storm Desmond. No electricity at all for 2/3 days and then disrupted supplies/power cuts for the following week. Mobile phone masts were also out because of no power.

The only way you could buy things was cash. The only way you could travel (buses, taxis, trains) was cash. Simply because there was no power for the card network.

To the PP who said bookshops might fizzle out, BBC is reporting that the industry is seeing it's best sales of physical books for a decade - I think people prefer proper paper books to reading off a screen on the whole, the whole experience is just better, so I don't believe they will go.