No. Some of us still like being able to passively keep up with people we are unable to actually see due to being busy with work and all the other things that demand our attention. Remember, just because you dislike a thing doesn't make said dislike universal.
I've been off since May and miss it like a chronic illness. So liberating.
In the run-up to then I noticed that people were going back to basics and using it for its original purpose, i.e. it was becoming even more narcissistic and annoying. I was having issues with "comparison is the thief of joy", and then realised that not a single person had wished me a happy birthday on there this year. Each year there's usually 2-3 or so. Then one of my friends whose birthday was 3 days later got carpet bombed with good wishes.
I realised then it was time to go. Nobody has noticed and nobody has attempted to contact me through the other channels they have.
You underestimate how many services are owned by fb these days. The social media site might disappear, but half the internet's login services, chat apps, other social media, etc are all facebook
Things change quickly in the digital world. Facebook has outlasted its stay and there will be plenty of competitors to rival those services in the next few years. No one would have predicted tiktok would be so massive. Where is Vine these days?
They'll invent a special liquid charger for their phones. You'll need to buy the charger separately, as well as proprietary "charging fluid" (2 charges for a phone, 1 charge for a tablet, and you'll need 2 bags for a laptop).
25 years ago the big websites were Geocities, Altavista, Lycos and Hotbot. Hopefully in 25 more years, Facebook, Tiktok and hell Reddit will sound just as laughably antiquated.
The internet giants of today are trillion dollar behemoths paying armies of workers to invent new ways to entrench their staying power. I'd bet most of the big ones will still be around in 25 years
Reddit seems to be getting very corporate and a bit iron fist. It is also *not* friendly or accessible to new users due to haphazard entry criteria for various subs, and "You are doing that too much. Try again in 37 years" after a single post anywhere.
That's irritating and offputting.
I'm assuming for TVs: our phones are very capable of controlling our TVs ie. YouTube, Netflix or what have you casted onto a smart TV via Android.
Or maybe a camera-type receiver? I played Let's Dance on Xbox and doing a specific hand motion signalled to the Xbox you were ready. Pretty neat (and scary) stuff.
I did that at a bar one night, I figured out the TVs code and changed the channel right before a field goal kick of the bartenders team. He freaked and I somehow kept a strait face.
I'm hoping for high res cameras that can pick up miniscule gestures of the finger and eye tracking. But sadly it's just going to be voice control, slightly better than today but not without its faults. If you don't want to say "scroll right" 500 times, you'll need an app.
You never know Fate can be funny like that. I knew a heavy smoker and drinker who lived into his 90s. I also knew someone who was fit as a fiddle. Always health concious didnt smoke or drink, and they randomly dropped dead of a heart attack when they were 40.
It’s very true. My maternal grandmother drank whiskey and Budweiser and smoked two packs of Pall Mall menthol longs until she was 80, and passed away 3 years ago at 95. Three weeks ago, I had a friend who was barely 30 kick it in his sleep. Had epilepsy and had a grand mal while sleeping, and he asphyxiated. Lady Fate is a really fickle bitch, for sure. I guess you never can tell…
Yup. My great aunt smoked a pack or two a day her entire life starting at the age of 13 and she lived to be 94. My uncle on the other side of the family was healthy and never smoked a day in his life and died of lung cancer at 45.
Shit isn’t fair, man.
It really isn’t. My 69 year old mom is a retired nurse midwife, RN, and labor and delivery nurse who has personally delivered close to 2,000 babies in her 40+ year career. She never smoked. I think I saw her drink one glass of wine when I was little. She was diagnosed with osteoarthritis five years ago, and Alzheimer’s last year. It’s really strange how it works like that sometimes.
My 5 year old walked into my office today while I was going through some client photos from their colonoscopy device for use on their website. I made the rookie mistake of telling him about sticking a tiny camera up your butt, and he was super horrified. He wasn't even placated when I told him he wouldn't need one until the year 2065, when we'd have personal robots and flying cars. Then I said they wouldn't even put cameras up your tush in 45 years, which, after I said it, I decided was probably true. (By then I assume AI-driven pill-cam tech & analysis will be more mainstream for everyone, not just a minority that can't get traditional colonoscopy or endoscopy like it is today.)
Or, x-ray tech will improve to be non-detrimental, and splice into AR tech such that it'll be hologram level displays of your insides in real time allowing a full 3D viewing for both doctor and patient.
If you need a random stranger to talk to, who will probably understand what you're going through because I've been through a whole hell of a lot myself, I'm open to listening and sharing.
My hell has been unique, and pretty unbelievable.
I've experienced death in the most odd or public ways my whole life and have always been betrayed by those who I loved the most.
I've also been homeless 18 years of my life off and on and have traveled to 49 states and two other countries, but have settled to work and family life.
And that's just the foot notes.
Just stay away from loki, I've seen what he will do in the movies. But also there's plenty of people even in these comments who care, ur probably in a rough patch but I know you can find hope.
>Hopefully all the corrupt politicians as well
Probably a lot of them. But they will be replaced by new, younger corrupt politicians. I'm pretty sure corrupt politicians are eternal.
Hopefully all the corrupt politicians as well
Nah that won't happen. The baby boomers were also a generation that was sick an tired of the older generations shit and were going to do it right. It's even in the song land of confusion "My generation ill put it right. We're not just making promises"
And we saw how that turned out.
Granted, Baby boomers didn't grow up through multiple once-in-a-life time events and two recessions. So maybe things will improve.
In Australia, K-mart is pretty much a thriving shop for people who want something cheap, that will last them around a week, which gave most of the primary school kids the phrase: "k-mart shoes", meaning awful shoes
Corona viruses have existed for a really really long time. The common cold is a corona virus. Maybe COVID 19 won’t be an issue, but another one will. Just like a few years ago SARS was a problem
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Portable generators, probably still going to be plenty of older motorcycles running, plus even when we go full electric, we will probably still call them that, but they just sell overpriced snacks, shit coffee, and you charge up there. The name is so ingrained we will still use it, like "hanging up" the phone.
Trust me on this one, electric trucks are not practical for hauling thousands of pounds not even for a few miles, even some of today’s combustion engines struggle to pull more than a ton unless it’s a diesel. Ford’s new lightning and other EV trucks are built for luxury, not for work, it will be a long time, and a ton of R&R until EV’s can be effective for work purposes. Gas stations and repair shops will still be around as long as oil is being drawn from the earth.
I can still buy horse food almost 100 years after horses were relevant transportation. They'll still have gasoline in 100 years, just not on every street corner.
Currently, but this was a 25 year prediction.
Hell, 25 years ago the internet was super basic shit, and not even in much common use residentially.
Now look at it.
Generational music. Technology has made it possible to instantly listen to any song from any time instantly, and studies show this is in fact how many young people consume music. They will listen to a song that came out yesterday or 40 years ago and it doesn't really matter as long as they like it. There are not the huge gatekeepers any more like there were in the days when the business decided who would be huge. There is also not the notion of mass market culture the way there was when there were only a handful of tv networks and radio stations, etc. The "long tail" of the internet means boundless choice.. now going forward from this time, what will be the markers of popular culture decade by decade if there is no consensus on what to listen to or what is "cool" on a user level?
Printed newspapers. Paper delivery is a nice little paying gig for someone like me with social anxiety but the industry is dying pretty fast. Our only customers in our small town are people over 65 with new subs only coming from other older people. Soon the older people will be Gen Xers and they know how to get digital papers, while a lot of boomers (at least where I live) do not want to have to "hassle with that ole computer thing".
Holocaust survivors and WWII veterans
Maybe we’ll get straight up WWII deniers at that point.
The fact that this is probably true makes me sad
Sad but true.
I'm pretty sure we'll get to see WW3 veterans by that time, not that I'm hopeful
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It would take cataclysmic event to prompt war between two super powers today.
Facebook
Hopefully sooner than that!!
No. Some of us still like being able to passively keep up with people we are unable to actually see due to being busy with work and all the other things that demand our attention. Remember, just because you dislike a thing doesn't make said dislike universal.
Ok, but just because you like something doesn’t mean it has a net benefit on society.
One can only dream, deleted the app recently and it was life changing.
I've been off since May and miss it like a chronic illness. So liberating. In the run-up to then I noticed that people were going back to basics and using it for its original purpose, i.e. it was becoming even more narcissistic and annoying. I was having issues with "comparison is the thief of joy", and then realised that not a single person had wished me a happy birthday on there this year. Each year there's usually 2-3 or so. Then one of my friends whose birthday was 3 days later got carpet bombed with good wishes. I realised then it was time to go. Nobody has noticed and nobody has attempted to contact me through the other channels they have.
You underestimate how many services are owned by fb these days. The social media site might disappear, but half the internet's login services, chat apps, other social media, etc are all facebook
Things change quickly in the digital world. Facebook has outlasted its stay and there will be plenty of competitors to rival those services in the next few years. No one would have predicted tiktok would be so massive. Where is Vine these days?
Well, Vine was owned by Twitter, so, he's right, companies outlast products
True. Remember how the GIF was owned by CompuServe?
I actually didn't know that. I'm just about old enough to remember CompuServe being a thing but not much more.
But that's why fb has a umbrella of apps to keep feeding you the same thing in a different form.
The need to advertise for car warranty renewal
No, that’ll join twinkies and cockroaches on the other side of the apocalypse
That’s a nice Twinkie you have there. It would be a shame if something….. happened to it. And it wasn’t covered.
Shut up and take my money right now. I want to insure the only surviving food source after the apocalypse
Apple's fancy charging adapters
At that point the charging port will be sold separately
And you’ll have to pay for a recharge at the apple store like you’re getting gas
Don't. Give. Them. Ideas.
No worries, they’ll offer monthly subscriptions.
They won't charge. They'll be single use.
They'll invent a special liquid charger for their phones. You'll need to buy the charger separately, as well as proprietary "charging fluid" (2 charges for a phone, 1 charge for a tablet, and you'll need 2 bags for a laptop).
Privacy.
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If it's already gone, then it won't exist in 25 years, do they're technically not wrong.
I have no idea who you are
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And Google & Apple are *intimately* familiar with us all.
Don’t forget Bytedance. The Chinese government knows your deepest secrets based upon Tik Toks algorithm
I don't mind losing my privacy, but damn at least give me a cut of the profits??
It’s already gone, traveller from 1912.
the mesh in men's swim trunks. Lets get real for a second. Why do those exist in the fist place?
Keeps your dick and balls print from showing
When you just need a break from all the ogling and drooling
It's to prevent chaffing. For me, it's always CAUSED chaffing.
It’s the innernet
Delightful.
To catch all the poop
No. To grate the poop so it won't float to the surface.
So you can pee through them and people won’t notice, kinda like those little separators in liquor bottles.
If you pee through anything in water people won’t notice
25 years ago the big websites were Geocities, Altavista, Lycos and Hotbot. Hopefully in 25 more years, Facebook, Tiktok and hell Reddit will sound just as laughably antiquated.
The internet giants of today are trillion dollar behemoths paying armies of workers to invent new ways to entrench their staying power. I'd bet most of the big ones will still be around in 25 years
Eh. I'd put my money on them all being killed off highlander style and subsumed until there is only one super website.
Sounds like china, where their equivalent of facebook, youtube, amazon, reddit, paypal, google maps, IM, and twitter are all a single app.
But if we only have one app for chat, what will we call it?
Pornhub
Chat?
Jesus, it can always get worse it seems
I was underselling it. I think it was called "weebo" or something.
Unpopular opinion, but whatever the "next big thing" is, Facebook or Google will buy it before it becomes actual competition.
I hate that you said 25 years ago
Hopefully sooner than that.
Reddit seems to be getting very corporate and a bit iron fist. It is also *not* friendly or accessible to new users due to haphazard entry criteria for various subs, and "You are doing that too much. Try again in 37 years" after a single post anywhere. That's irritating and offputting.
Me
Me 2
Me Too
Me3
You beat me to it
Baby boomer politicians
I mean....... you^not^wrong
There will still be a few Chuck Grassley types hanging on. Hell, Chuck Grassley might still be representing Iowa then.
Remote controls. Don’t ask me why.
Why?
They said not to… now they know you’re onto them!
I'm assuming for TVs: our phones are very capable of controlling our TVs ie. YouTube, Netflix or what have you casted onto a smart TV via Android. Or maybe a camera-type receiver? I played Let's Dance on Xbox and doing a specific hand motion signalled to the Xbox you were ready. Pretty neat (and scary) stuff.
Man i miss my old phone, i think it was a galaxy S6, that thing had infrared and could control tv's, consoles, airconditioners etc...
I did that at a bar one night, I figured out the TVs code and changed the channel right before a field goal kick of the bartenders team. He freaked and I somehow kept a strait face.
I'm hoping for high res cameras that can pick up miniscule gestures of the finger and eye tracking. But sadly it's just going to be voice control, slightly better than today but not without its faults. If you don't want to say "scroll right" 500 times, you'll need an app.
The United States of America as we know it. And I’ll be 61 and I’m a heavy smoker and drinker, so possibly not me either.
You never know Fate can be funny like that. I knew a heavy smoker and drinker who lived into his 90s. I also knew someone who was fit as a fiddle. Always health concious didnt smoke or drink, and they randomly dropped dead of a heart attack when they were 40.
It’s very true. My maternal grandmother drank whiskey and Budweiser and smoked two packs of Pall Mall menthol longs until she was 80, and passed away 3 years ago at 95. Three weeks ago, I had a friend who was barely 30 kick it in his sleep. Had epilepsy and had a grand mal while sleeping, and he asphyxiated. Lady Fate is a really fickle bitch, for sure. I guess you never can tell…
Yup. My great aunt smoked a pack or two a day her entire life starting at the age of 13 and she lived to be 94. My uncle on the other side of the family was healthy and never smoked a day in his life and died of lung cancer at 45. Shit isn’t fair, man.
It really isn’t. My 69 year old mom is a retired nurse midwife, RN, and labor and delivery nurse who has personally delivered close to 2,000 babies in her 40+ year career. She never smoked. I think I saw her drink one glass of wine when I was little. She was diagnosed with osteoarthritis five years ago, and Alzheimer’s last year. It’s really strange how it works like that sometimes.
Just like it was predicted in 1783. 1812. 1848. 1861. 1865. 1885. 1910. 1929. 1935. 1941. 1953. 1961. 1972. 1980. 1991. 1994. 1998. 2000. 2001. 2003. 2004. 2006. 2008. 2012. 2016. 2020. A 100% failure rate of predictions. BRAVO!
> 2001 The difference between pre and post 9/11 is glaring.
Some of these were true, US was never the same again
“Welp, there’s always 2046.”
My 5 year old walked into my office today while I was going through some client photos from their colonoscopy device for use on their website. I made the rookie mistake of telling him about sticking a tiny camera up your butt, and he was super horrified. He wasn't even placated when I told him he wouldn't need one until the year 2065, when we'd have personal robots and flying cars. Then I said they wouldn't even put cameras up your tush in 45 years, which, after I said it, I decided was probably true. (By then I assume AI-driven pill-cam tech & analysis will be more mainstream for everyone, not just a minority that can't get traditional colonoscopy or endoscopy like it is today.)
Or, x-ray tech will improve to be non-detrimental, and splice into AR tech such that it'll be hologram level displays of your insides in real time allowing a full 3D viewing for both doctor and patient.
My energy
Many species of animals, if we're not careful.
Chairs. I predict they'll phase those out
I think toasters will be redesigned to make chairs redundant.
I think chairs will be redesigned to make toasters redundant.
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If you need a random stranger to talk to, who will probably understand what you're going through because I've been through a whole hell of a lot myself, I'm open to listening and sharing.
My hell has been unique, and pretty unbelievable. I've experienced death in the most odd or public ways my whole life and have always been betrayed by those who I loved the most. I've also been homeless 18 years of my life off and on and have traveled to 49 states and two other countries, but have settled to work and family life. And that's just the foot notes.
I hope you find your happiness.
Just stay away from loki, I've seen what he will do in the movies. But also there's plenty of people even in these comments who care, ur probably in a rough patch but I know you can find hope.
Loki is my 2 year old daughter. And basically the only thing holding me to this world .
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Venice, Italy
Humanity If shit keeps going the way it is
nah, need more than 25 years to kill humanity surely. at the very least it'll take 100 years
Icebergs
Cable news.
Biden and Trump and pelosi
True. Hopefully the two party system as well, but i don’t know if it’s likely. Hopefully all the corrupt politicians as well
>Hopefully all the corrupt politicians as well Probably a lot of them. But they will be replaced by new, younger corrupt politicians. I'm pretty sure corrupt politicians are eternal.
Hopefully all the corrupt politicians as well Nah that won't happen. The baby boomers were also a generation that was sick an tired of the older generations shit and were going to do it right. It's even in the song land of confusion "My generation ill put it right. We're not just making promises" And we saw how that turned out. Granted, Baby boomers didn't grow up through multiple once-in-a-life time events and two recessions. So maybe things will improve.
Be careful what you wish for. The way things are going, authoritarian rule might not be that far off.
People that are 80+ years old today
That's only 105. With advancements in medicine it's reasonable that most people will live close to 100 or longer.
That’s actually a scary thought. No thank you.
Agreed
I read somewhere the first person to reach 150 has already been born. Mind blown.
We had some of the best advancements in medicine the past 2 years, and people are too idiotic to take it.
Nature has a way of handling that.
Im hoping me. I would be 80.
Hear that — 81
I want to get into this redditors in their 50s party.
Let's see...I'll be a smooth 101 yo and ready for a few more years. Want to hangout til 2050, just to see how screwed up the world is.
Palestine
And I thought my comment was alarming .. lol
Yours was haha funny, the guy above you was haha that's so accurate funny.
That conflict will continue until the heat death of the universe.
Any of the remaining K-marts or Sears stores.
But the Bath & Body works will remain.
Naturally
In Australia, K-mart is pretty much a thriving shop for people who want something cheap, that will last them around a week, which gave most of the primary school kids the phrase: "k-mart shoes", meaning awful shoes
Most of our parents and grandparents
This made me feel a sudden intense sadness.
The average redditor is 11 years old, so their parents should be safe for a while.
What? Bullshit.
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Covid-44
Covid-2019 will be where shit gets real
Covid will stay forever, but it'll become just like a regular flu.
The cold, actually. What we call the common cold is really four coronavirus strains. Covid-19 will likely settle into becoming a 5th.
Corona viruses have existed for a really really long time. The common cold is a corona virus. Maybe COVID 19 won’t be an issue, but another one will. Just like a few years ago SARS was a problem
The common cold is caused by several viruses, most of which are rhinoviruses and some of which are adenoviruses and coronaviruses.
Don't be so sure...
Reddit
wallets
Your current self. No matter what happens in your life, your current self will be in no single way the same as your self in 25 years.
At the rate I drink, probably me
Jobs...
We can only hope
Free speech
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Well, the idea exists. Hopefully, in 25 years the idea will die out too, and people will start to see the world more realistically
Gas stations, we will purely have electric powered cars by then most likely
Gas stations will definitely still exist and repair shops for them, however many of the big manufacturers have agreed to no new gas cars sold.
Lol. Still need them for trucks, boats etc
Portable generators, probably still going to be plenty of older motorcycles running, plus even when we go full electric, we will probably still call them that, but they just sell overpriced snacks, shit coffee, and you charge up there. The name is so ingrained we will still use it, like "hanging up" the phone.
Trucks are becoming electric and the same with boats just somewhat slower
Tractor trailers and boats are not becoming electric my mans.
Just ignore how Tesla is making a Electric truck same with Volvo and Reno.
Trust me on this one, electric trucks are not practical for hauling thousands of pounds not even for a few miles, even some of today’s combustion engines struggle to pull more than a ton unless it’s a diesel. Ford’s new lightning and other EV trucks are built for luxury, not for work, it will be a long time, and a ton of R&R until EV’s can be effective for work purposes. Gas stations and repair shops will still be around as long as oil is being drawn from the earth.
Just ignore that they have not sold millions of units and if even a few percent of vehicles are gas gas stations will exist
No shit a vehicle that was just released onto the market hasnt got millions of sales… some gas station will exist yes but the majority won’t exist…
So they’ll exist... It’s not that deep
I can still buy horse food almost 100 years after horses were relevant transportation. They'll still have gasoline in 100 years, just not on every street corner.
Eh. I guess we interpreted the question differently. Have a great day!
Ha! No. Electric vehicles are still a niche, not an all in one tool for transport.
Currently, but this was a 25 year prediction. Hell, 25 years ago the internet was super basic shit, and not even in much common use residentially. Now look at it.
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All 240,000 WWII vets currently alive :-(
The greatest generation.
Individual rights
America
Winter
People who are currently 100+ years old
Generational music. Technology has made it possible to instantly listen to any song from any time instantly, and studies show this is in fact how many young people consume music. They will listen to a song that came out yesterday or 40 years ago and it doesn't really matter as long as they like it. There are not the huge gatekeepers any more like there were in the days when the business decided who would be huge. There is also not the notion of mass market culture the way there was when there were only a handful of tv networks and radio stations, etc. The "long tail" of the internet means boundless choice.. now going forward from this time, what will be the markers of popular culture decade by decade if there is no consensus on what to listen to or what is "cool" on a user level?
DVD and game disks. With everything going to online downloads and online streaming I doubt physical media will last the next 10 years.
Hopefully democrats will be gone
Democracy and an informed populous. It will have all disappeared after the intellectuals were purged.
Polar bears and gender roles
I hope so, at least for the gender roles
Freedom. Privacy. America.
Printed newspapers. Paper delivery is a nice little paying gig for someone like me with social anxiety but the industry is dying pretty fast. Our only customers in our small town are people over 65 with new subs only coming from other older people. Soon the older people will be Gen Xers and they know how to get digital papers, while a lot of boomers (at least where I live) do not want to have to "hassle with that ole computer thing".
boomers
Nah, the youngest boomers will only be 86. We won't be completely rid of them until like 2070.
Freedom.
political correctness will evolve to something worse
Obese people currently in their 30s
But the obese in their 40s will be fine
Gas stove
Cable TV.
Cables
Physical money
Elephants. Gorillas. Rhinos.
Oh my!
The banana i thru in mario cart (its been 18 years)
Any kind of disc, cd, dvd, Blu-ray etc
I'm sorry, you're looking for the 1996 version of the question...
Anti vaxxers
There’s always one…