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 :( :(

democracy

State pensions

[quote drumandhake]@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.[/quote]
I definitely think there are plenty of individuals that are making small changes but at this point we also really need big governmental changes, and that’s globally. The UK going fully green won’t help much if China and the US don’t change anything. Sorry to be a downer I do generally try not to think about it too much as it fills me with existential dread!

@FangsForTheMemory

democracy

It was invented by the ancient Greeks and has had literal millennia in the making. Er, so no.

State pension
Taiwan

Teapots

What’s that about Venice? How come?

Pork! Not a chance. Hugely popular on the continent especially Italy, Spain, E Europe as well as SE Asia. Best meat out there IMO

State pension
Nhs
Landlines

Passwords. I'm sure pretty soon it will be face recognition or eye recognition. Maybe fingerprints somehow.
It might be wishful thinking but they infuriate me. Especially when you need a certain number of characters with a capital letter, number, special character and so on.

Non-lab grown meat and milk
Voluntary euthanasia being illegal
Cash
Gender
Porn

...Or some of these may be more like 100s of years in the future

Wish list

Royal Family
United Kingdom
The Daily Mail

State pension

NHS

Home ownership- we'll all be slaves to the system and pay rent

Air travel- unaffordable to everyone but the rich

Will see if I can think of anymore

I'm mid 50s and thinking... UK. Could literally split up.
Lots of in person shops. Town centres are going to transform.
Pop up shops and market days will become more normal for buying miscellaneous stuff.
Diesel domestic cars but commercial diesel vehicles will persist.
TV license, and BBC as we know it. :(
RIP quality speech radio.
Books?
Photo albums?
Physical dictionaries.
Textbooks.
Domestic landlines maybe, too.

People casually throwing around comments about people's weight

That won’t be going unless there is a way of making being overweight healthy. The NHS however won’t be around to pick up the bill, and health insurance companies will place premiums on the insurance payments of the overweight

United Kingdom

Why on earth would we no longer have teapots?!

The Daily Mail

there's one thing to look forward to at least

• Energy from fossil fuel / gas / coal
• Fossil fuel based cars / trucks / buses
• Cars / trucks / buses that need a driver (and consequently most individually owned vehicles - transport will become a service)
• Eating animals

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.

Hmm

Eating meat as standard
CDs/DVDs
Cash
Covid tests...

Agree on UK.
BBC.
Maybe marriage.

Oh and hopefully the sale of tobacco and cigarettes, I would not be sorry to see the back of them.

Freedom