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 :( :(

Common sense
Compassion
Empathy

@HarebrightCedarmoon

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

But so much has appeared to facilitate change. For example the internet has appeared, therefor many things can disappear like newspapers and tax discs in cars and face to face work meetings.

Agree:

EU - unsustainable esp if tax and army now required
Plugs - but we will have plug sockets in our houses for a few years
Mass ownership of cars
Shooting and stalking as a hobby, in fact most field sports
Buying flowers that have been grown in another country and flown to the UK

Disagree:
UK - demise predicted for 300yrs, still wrong - as defence much more a priority to the nations, they will remain banded together
Meat -‘Grown’ meat will outstrip ‘real’ meat but not entirely replace

My more optomistic self hopes there is a backlash against technology and people go back to a simpler way of life.

I'm with you on that.

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

I am not sure why you think eating pork, or drinking milk will go.

Thin people as standard

Cars that we own/drive. I think there will be self-navigating cars that you just order on demand in an app and enough of them that you shouldn’t have to wait to long or could pay a premium for emergency urgent use or whatnot to jump the queue.

Cash. I would think we would get the option of some chip implant and if you refuse it will eventually end up you can’t buy anything.

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

My more optimistic self hopes there is a backlash against technology and people go back to a simpler way of life.

In what sense though? As in, get music on cassettes or have to hand crank the car or go into the bank to make a transfer or pay to make an international call? No technology that makes life more convenient will get rolled back and actually, a lot of technology does simply/ streamline previously cumbersome processes. It becomes mainstream because it has mass benefits.

What I think we may see is a retreat from social media and public sharing for the average Joe (as opposed to influencers aka advertisers) and potentially the emergence of curated (paid) news services that cut through the toxic tide and pick out what's important long term vs a minute by minute account of something that is attention grabbing but actually pretty inconsequential.

Seaside towns, rhinos, and orangutans.

My more optomistic self hopes there is a backlash against technology and people go back to a simpler way of life.

I think it would go the opposite way with houses being completely run by Google boxes etc.

A divided Ireland
Gender ideology
Royalty
FGM
Hunting animals for sport

Why are people saying pork over any other type of meat? Just interested!

Landline phones
Wired electronic devices
All fossil fueled systems and engines
The Tories and in fact party politics
The monarchy
Long haul pleasure flights
Much of coastal UK

Political correctness
Socialists
Benefit parasites

Fuel bills (houses will be energy neutral/contribute to the national grid)
Global fuel wars
The patriarchy
FGM
Male violence and toxic masculinity.

Pollution

Why have someone mentioned pens and pencils?

Writing and drawing is one (admittedly not the only one) way of teaching children fine motor skills.
And while a lot of people communicate text electronically, what about art and drawing?

You are definitely wrong about milk and pork! No bacon or sausages? I don't think so! And the majority of people have not switched to soya milk in my world!

petrol cars
gas cookers and boilers
cash- maybe?
the Labour Party

Meat and Dairy
Horrible industries.

Normal TV, everything will be Internet based/ streamed/ catch up . With the exception on 24 hour news channels. I already know very few people watching live TV now
I think we will see the end of chicken pox too

Majority of marine life
Immigration to Australia from UK due to global warming.
Hunting for sport
Various animals, insects and plants.

[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]

Sorry but you and your friends walking more and eating less meat means the grand total of about 0.00001%. The meat you aren't eating is still getting made and either eaten by other people or just thrown to waste. The cars you don't drive are still being bought by other people and still being produced at big environmental impact. The petrol/diesel you don't use still gets used by someone else.

Individual impacts mean nothing. Birdkin is right, it's needs to be governmental, organisational, massive changes that get made. And it will never, ever happen. Until its too late of course.

Cash
Commonsense
Work/Life balance
Retirement before 80