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 :( :(

I hope that the demise of town centre shopping might lead to more green spaces in towns: as in Stockton on Tees.

Christianity as a state religion
Marriage as a majority aspiration - possibly replaced by civil partnerships for set periods
IVF on the NHS
Student loans
Multigenerational households will increase, due to lack of childcare / supported living / affordability of housing.

Gender identity, will instead find an entry in DSM.

Polar Bears

@Magicpaintbrush

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.

Yes, I agree. I have a kindle, but far prefer a "paper" book to read. My son is at Uni and hates the online books - he finds it hard to "flick" between pages online. He also finds them hard when you have, say, a picture/graph on the left page and the narrative/notes on the right, as you have to keep moving page forward/back on a screen whereas with paper you can have the book open (as it was designed/planned for) and just cast your eyes from left page to right page.

It's already been announced that the phone network is closing , google says dec 31 2025

In person help desks and face to face service

Retail in city centres ( just entertainment venues and food drink outlets)

The Labour Party

Sterling currency

All cars bar electric

Physical passports ( all will be fingerprints/ facial recognition checks)

Northern Ireland.

@midgedude

It's already been announced that the phone network is closing , google says dec 31 2025

Which phone network?

@Spiindoctor

Landphones will go, as many people are already not bothering.

I have an old fashioned plug in to the socket phone. The thing is it works even if the electricity has failed.

So when all the power shuts down for a length of time due to any myriad of possibilities I'll be able to use my phone there might not be anyone else to phone but still

Interestingly, I’ve just had an email from BT saying my landline is being changed to digital (provided through the broadband hub). One of the first things I noticed in the small print was that it specifies you won’t be able to make calls in the event of a power cut.

@midgedude

It's already been announced that the phone network is closing , google says dec 31 2025

Lots of things are "announced" and then either delayed or forgotten. Look at turning off the analogue tv signal (delayed many times) or turning off the analogue radio signals (now forgotten).

The plan is to keep the existing landline system for those without broadband (using some kind of adapter plugged into the phone socket), and of course, many broadband customers are getting broadband by the landline wiring, so the wiring will stay for years to come.

So, there are provisions for people without mobile phone internet and/or without home broadband.

Cash.

@Silverswirl If UK is being discussed then I understand it's the technology underpinning landline aignal transmission in the UK which is moving completely to a modern IP infrastructure from the old way of connecting telephone lines and sending signals as running the two technologies in parallel is too expensive for Busby/Openreach. It doesn't mean landlines are going and it may be no users whose line is based on old technology will notice.

All the things you mention apart from landlines will still be around.

90%of all species,
Landmass
Recognizable weather patterns
NHS
Pensions
Cash
Freedom of speech

On the Venice thing and not wanting tourists - I think this depressing picture says it all

edition.cnn.com/travel/article/venice-cruise-ship-ban-government/index.html

All the things you mention apart from landlines will still be around.

I'm not so sure - I haven't had a landline phone for years!

If cash goes would illicit transactions like drugs, stolen goods, prostitution go also?

Fear of death
Extension of life regardless of quality
Obesity

@stayathomer

A new bookshop actually opened recently near to me and they seem to be doing well. I personally don't think they're going anywhere soon - if anything the pandemic has made people support and value their local shops more. People want human interaction and don't want to buy everything online. Totally agreed, I think paperback and ebooks and audio are co existing nicely and hope it will continue but I do think we might see more print as required/on demand for print books

I could see bookshops as normal, but with a special printer in house, capable of printing & binding anything that's available in paperback to order - come back in 15 minutes and it's there for you.

The NHS
The Labour Party
The EU
Diesel and petrol vehicles, and gas heating.
Coin money, possibly paper money too.
Real stamps (as opposed to ones you print yourself or a unique code of some kind)
iPhones
Facebook
State pensions
TV License

Supermarkets
Single use plastic

Homelessness
Buy to let mortgages
Profit making home rental market
Second home ownership

@maddening

If cash goes would illicit transactions like drugs, stolen goods, prostitution go also?

Unlikely. They'll find other ways of "payment". Organised crime (top level drugs, arms, etc) already have other payment forms, such as artwork, cars, yachts, property, etc. Even lower level amounts are transacted electronically, i.e. there have been convictions for shops being used as a "front" for drugs, i.e. people paying £25 for a sandwich (legitimate card transaction) who then get a little packet handed to them over the counter! One of the "red flags" for money laundering is businesses that seem to be doing "too well" or items being sold too expensively.

Teapots

I seriously doubt it. Judging by what's in the shops and the number of fancy online tea sellers, loose leaf tea is pretty popular.

I agree that cinemas might die out.

"Countryside, rural havens for wildlife, forests and fields. Everything has been handed over to developers to make as much profit as they can out of our surroundings"

"On the other hand: rewilding, tree planting, wildlife corridors, regeneration of chalk streams and endangered habitats, reintroduction of endangered species."

A huge percentage of this 'wonderful' carbon reducing woodland planting won't be as idyllic as many would think. Think more along the lines of tightly packed, vast softwood (conifer) forests rather than leafy deciduous woodlands. Most of this 'rewilding' is just a nice little earner for wealthy companies who can continue to make a a tidy profit whilst fulfilling their carbon offset requirements.

Softwood forestry is a hugely profitable business strategy as it can be felled and re-planted. Shit for wildlife and the offset of carbon is debatable considering the necessary destruction of the farmland and preparation of land to develop the forest and then the work required to plant and then manage it....

So we lose agricultural land, bought up by wealthy companies ...we therefore lose farmers and the land we grow our food on. Where do we then get our food from? Oh yes, we'll import it. Great for the environment! Plus it'll be more expensive, yay.

This is will then in turn assist the demise of the middle class. It'll be the wealthy and the poor.

I don't think there's any rush to get rid of cancer. It's too profitable.

Books I think might stay, hopefully!

Cash I'd hate to see go but think it will.

The NHS.

I wasn't worried about the future 20 years ago but I am now.

@fresno

"Countryside, rural havens for wildlife, forests and fields. Everything has been handed over to developers to make as much profit as they can out of our surroundings"

"On the other hand: rewilding, tree planting, wildlife corridors, regeneration of chalk streams and endangered habitats, reintroduction of endangered species."

A huge percentage of this 'wonderful' carbon reducing woodland planting won't be as idyllic as many would think. Think more along the lines of tightly packed, vast softwood (conifer) forests rather than leafy deciduous woodlands. Most of this 'rewilding' is just a nice little earner for wealthy companies who can continue to make a a tidy profit whilst fulfilling their carbon offset requirements.

Softwood forestry is a hugely profitable business strategy as it can be felled and re-planted. Shit for wildlife and the offset of carbon is debatable considering the necessary destruction of the farmland and preparation of land to develop the forest and then the work required to plant and then manage it....

So we lose agricultural land, bought up by wealthy companies ...we therefore lose farmers and the land we grow our food on. Where do we then get our food from? Oh yes, we'll import it. Great for the environment! Plus it'll be more expensive, yay.

This is will then in turn assist the demise of the middle class. It'll be the wealthy and the poor.

I don't think there's any rush to get rid of cancer. It's too profitable.

Books I think might stay, hopefully!

Cash I'd hate to see go but think it will.

The NHS.

I wasn't worried about the future 20 years ago but I am now.

Well said fresno. It's definitely happening in Wales.