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 :( :(

[quote Strokethefurrywall]@NumberTheory they don’t have anything to do with each other but they independently have strong links to mass produced meat.
Cheap meats are full of antibiotics to stave off the vast number of infections the animals are exposed to on factory farms. Mass antibiotic exposure means bacteria are becoming harder to treat with conventional medicine. This is also true of doctor prescribed antibiotics in humans. We now have MRSA in hospitals that regular antibiotics can’t kill and other infections becoming harder to treat.

Similarly, Covid-19, swine flu, bird flu etc have all developed due to the way animals have been kept/farmed/slaughtered.[/quote]
I totally get the antibiotic resistance. There are ways to mass produce meat without the same sort of widespread antibiotic use as has been common and I think pressure about resistance will lead to adoption of stricter practices rather than a massive reduction in the size of farms.

As an aside (because your point on viruses is substantiated by the other examples though, again, I think practices will change and maintain large production sites) - What's the link between COVID and mass produced meat? I under the impression it was initially linked to wildlife sales in wet markets not mass produced meat, and even that is not considered so likely anymore?

I’ll be sad to see landlines go as I prefer them for calls.

I think Facebook will no longer exist as a social media platform but might continue as some kind of business and analytics tool.

I also think everyone will have forgotten about Tiktok within a year or so.

I think owning individual cars will stop being a thing once self driving cars get going which will be great for reclaiming pavements and curbs but bad for taxi drivers etc

@Explosivefarts

The SNP

It’s logical that after Scottish independence the SNP will have no reason to exist anymore in a similar way to the Brexit party and UKIP.

U.K. will be England and maybe Wales if we don’t pee them off to much better now and then.

*between

Christmas cards

@Laaaaa

Surely the cinema, Like a ghost town every time I go

That’s due to Covid. Hopefully it will recover eventually. Some people prefer to watch their tv/tablet/phone at home but people who care about film will always use cinema.

Or another example: People have books of art at home but still choose to visit art galleries.

Which reminds me, tattoos will go out of fashion

Cash machines/ATMs
Fossil fuels
Dying from cancer
Cheap international flights
NHS
EU

Not a lot, maybe a few tech things but I am old so my lifetime is in the latter stages

Mn will be gone in 10 years.

Why is pork being singled out from other meats? Possibly because (1) pigs are v intelligent compared to other animals- can plan and empathise, and (2) pigs act as a cross species vector for diseases (to be fair, chickens do as well).

I actually disagree re pork (China) and think that lab grown meat will focus on beef which is the big climate problem due to both rumination and grazing, and also makes more sense on a cost basis. At the moment the costs are way too high for lab grown to be commercially feasible, but as they reduce it's easier to hit a comparable price point for a fillet steak vs a chicken breast. Also, I think elimination of raised meat will take way longer globally than any of our lifetimes if you think about how people in developing countries are adopting more meat rich diets. Pigs also relatively easy and cheap to rear vs beef cattle in most of the world.

My predictions (which will almost certainly be wrong)- Gone by 2080, for reference

• Cash
• Typing
• Self driven cars in developed countries - I expect legality of driving your own car to vary by country- depends a lot on whether driverless and driven cars can coexist.
• Coal fired power stations but not gas fired
• Most petrol/diesel cars, but not motorbikes
• Wars about oil. There will be wars about water rights and agricultural land instead.
• About 33% of the current Chinese and Japanese populations (natural decline)

Well you’re not wrong about landlines, they will be gone in their current form by 2025.

A bit confused by pork eating though.

I think we need a new AIBU thread re pork with voting buttons

Conservative Party Conferences and The Party, sooner rather than later.

Who is still voting these idiots in?

Internet and mobile phone signal will have to improve mightily for a lot of this to happen, often when we go away in our caravan the mobile signal is shit, 4g mobile unavailable, lucky if we get 3g and some areas don't even get that and are using the same mobile signal that we used about 15 years ago with the first iPhone. A lot of people can only get ASDL broadband still

I don't think the NHS will completely disappear but will exist in a form like dentists are now so limited NHS provision and people paying a fee to see the GP especially if they want an in person appointment or waiting some time for NHS appointment,

Oh god no I love cows milk

Almond milk might disappear from our shelves (can't grow almonds in the UK) but there is no way dairy will disappear in the next 50 years.

@NigellaSeed

Fountain pens

No way.

Too many of us love them, they might become more of a specialist niche thing but they will not die.

Much of this depends on what age you are now.
As an oldie I don't see much changing - the end of newspapers and magazines, you'd think so but there are stacks of magazines for sale in Tesco if anything there seems to be more options.
Cow's milk, well might reduce but I dont' see any reduction in the amount of cheese being eaten so the cows will remain even if cow's milk reduces.
Cars - everyone on public transport - I'm not sure. Maybe only rich people will have cars. One of the problems imv is having a wet climate - walking to the bus in the dark, standing in the rain on a cold winter's morning is pretty miserable. This won't apply in drier parts of the country.
Perhaps simpler diets will be the fashion. Eg salad of lettuce, tomatoes, beetroot, cucumber, grown closer to home, less of the exotic imported stuff.
People will wear warmer clothes indoors as fuel prices rise.
Something will have to change with NHS. Perhaps more private health care and then those without that can have faster services. (a bit like just now)
When Kindle arrived we thought books were on their way out. It seems to be the opposite.

Disagree about the majority drinking oat and soya milk. And we won't ever give up meat!

Electric cars will be the big change. Diesel and petrol cars will just appear in museums for our grandkids to look at
Less food and food choices in the shops. A change over from meat to meat free products.

Polar bears

I wish industrial farming, but it won't. I'm in my early thirties and to be honest I think an awful lot we take for granted will disappear in my lifetime, supposing I live to a natural age. I think we all know it really, its just hard to accept. I used to work with someone who was an expert in climate change reporting and he monitored the science very closely. Ecological catastrophe is coming sooner rather than later. I'm not saying it will be end of humanity - it won't, at least not immediately - but there will be dramatic and fundamental changes in the way we live.

My first thought was things like tigers, rhinos, polar bears, butterflies...

Very little. Not much disappeared altogether in my parents lifetime when you think about it.

Fox hunting