I saw an Instagram ad for a pair of earbuds that you have to rent. You don’t have the option of just buying them, even if you’ve paid more than their value in monthly payments. So you could theoretically be forced to pay over a thousand dollars after enough time and still not own them. And if you just stopped paying, they’d deactivate them remotely.
And generally, a livable planet. I’m sure a good amount of people will still be alive and well in 50 years, but people are fully ignorant if they don’t think many millions of people are going to die directly from climate change in the forthcoming 5 decades. Endless heatwaves, ecosystems collapsing, inability to produce crops, and that’s on top of the super unpredictable shit like massive flash floods in places that are used to 9 cm of rain a year.
Companies can only get away with bullshit practices like ad spam and subscription models when the barrier to entry is high. For example trying to make your own printer or printer company is basically impossible, so you’re locked in to existing companies with their bullshit proprietary overpriced inks.
There’s a short story by Isaac Asimov called “the fun they had”, it’s about kids in a future where all schooling is done online discovering an old book that talks about the olden days when kids went to school and could socialize with their peers.
Came here to say this but yeah, as a Gen Xer I remember the time when we had some privacy in life. I watched it slowly disappear and it's sad. I feel like in the future real privacy will be a luxury only afforded by the very rich and hermits.
The real scary thing about data privacy isn't that everyone can see the pictures you share. I used to work in data sec; phones are constantly tracking your location, and not just "what store are you at" kinda info, it's "what exact shelf in the store were you standing in front of". Companies can buy this data in bulk and start putting out more targeted ads based on that information, and I know it sounds crazy, but it goes even deeper than that. If you live with a partner or someone else with a phone, whoever has that data can recognize that two devices are regularly in close proximity to each other and start showing both people ads based on each others profiles. And sure, folks will say "it's just ads, its no big deal.", but is it just ads? You can do a LOT with the data people share. Anything from creating profiles of political beliefs by location based on peoples searches - think, drawing voting district lines with that data - to matching people to known crimes based on their location data giving their proximity to the crime. I understand how "tin foil hat" that can sound if you don't know much about tech, but without rigorous data privacy protections built into our legislation, our lack of privacy will only get worse.
I'm working hard to make sure my kids have the autonomy to decide their own social media presence. I don't think most parents are malicious clout chasers when they post their kids stuff, rather they aren't thinking of their children as autonomous individuals and future adults. Their lives and their kids lives are one and the same, so they share without thinking about a the potential long term impact for their kids as future adults. It's a novel social issue that we have to deal with as it comes along.
I'm already wishing I had that my mom has my entire life on MySpace (well started with that) and now Facebook and she still tries to post my entire life there even after I've moved out. Meanwhile I have social media accounts but I've almost never just updated what's going on in my personal life through it. I just find it weird if someone wanted to go through my entire life history from birth-18 they can find it
Hang on to your clothes, kids, because fashion is cyclical. I have clothes in my closet from 2005 waiting to make a reappearance... At my next yard sale.
I've always estimated it to be more like 30 years. The 80s was crazy about the 50s: Back To The Future, La Bamba, The Stray Cats, Porky's. Peggy Sue Got Married took place in 1960, technically, but it's not really "the sixties" as we think of it.
I think this is already dead. You can be anonymous to other people, but there are entities and agencies that identify people based on how they move their mouse. You have to be Snowden paranoid to browse without being IDd by anyone
I think they'll definitely still be around in the 2070s. Don't underestimate the Dutch; their coastal engineering is so good that it would take 4+ meter sea level rise to wipe them out, even though a large portion of their land is already below sea level.
I think there will be a next generation form of social media. Wether this is the metaverse or some other form. I think you're right and social media is going to change a lot in the future
Got locked out of my email that my Facebook is attached too. And the only thing that had the password saved so I could sign in was my computer. Had to restore it, it wiped everything including passwords and now I have no Facebook and it's fucking awesome. I haven't argued with someone on a topic I don't give a shit about in a month and I feel great 😃
Continual corporate surveillance. Everywhere you go, everything you see, everyone you meet and everything you buy will be known and used to sell you more or manipulate your opinions.
Early 2000s internet where you could search something on Google and your biometric data and search records weren’t sent to 50+ government agencies and data mining firms
I’m already there. I grew up spending summers at my grandparents’ house on the Chesapeake bay, and when I was a kid you could walk out into the water and scoop up Blue Crabs with a net, there were so many of them.
You may find searching “generational amnesia” interesting. Delves into how people assume their original ecological environment is what was “wild” or “natural,” despite their recollection being in an already degraded state from the previous generation (who is no longer around to speak of it). When you say “they are already on the decline,” this can unfortunately be said for the past few centuries, it’s just that nobody is around to remember what a true “wild” looks like any more.
Birds used to dark in the sky. They were butterflies everywhere. So much is already gone. We don’t notice because of human life it’s just a little bit too short.
I remember going to popular pokestops near my apartment after my wife went to bed from like 10PM - 12AM to hunt for pokemon and they were always packed with people of all ages.
I still play it. It’s embarrassing. I am embarrassed. But my husband and I find quite a bit of joy out of it, we trade Pokémon, catch Poke at the beach or when we go somewhere unique. No one knows except our adult daughter and now… Reddit.
I’m convinced the world actually ended in 2016, that was our peak. Cubs won the World Series, I met my future fiancé, Pokémon go… the world was great and full of hope
Sad but true. We used to have tons of snow every winter season. We haven't had snow since 5 years now. Only very occasionally but it melts right away and left nothing but water on the ground. It really hurts to see.
I was born in Russia. The Russian attitude to snow is literally “kill it with fire” as we have too much of it. However, everyone also seems nostalgic for the 19th century & time of the tsar when we could take sleds to work & towns were cut off from each other for months at a time. It’s a weird disconnect we have. Once the gas fields are depleted we might have more snow again but then we’ll also die so idk
The inbred senator from my home state in the US had a compelling argument. He brought a cooler onto the Senate floor. He reached into the cooler and pulled out a snowball. Basically “how can climate change be real if I have this snowball?”.
I'm convinced WoW is going to be the longest running mmorpg. It doesn't matter how much Blizzard screws up retail expansions. Players are addicted and will keep playing or coming back. The game is unique to others.
Come to South Africa. We already have planned powercuts multiple times a day called "loadshedding". We are all nostalgic for days where we had 24 hours straight with electricity.
I sometimes walk through the grocery store and wonder if I’ll be telling future kids about what this time of hedonistic excess was, this era where no matter the season, every grocery store was full of every food you would want. How now expensive foods that are difficult to grow in the post climate change hellscape were once things an average person could have whenever they want.
That will hopefully still be around in fifty years. Meeting up with friends feels different then being in a group chat, and I'm assuming VR still has a long time before recreating temperature and touch sensing.
I'd say people will miss being uncontactable. Like back in the day, you could just go to your bedroom, and block the rest of the world away for a couple of hours. Now we've got video calls, phone calls, texts, emails. Urgh.
You can also do it today, there is a "power off" button on your phone. Takes 3 seconds and you can get to the magical land of "back-in-the-days-it-was-so-nice"
I own my home. I've already decided that since I have no heirs, when I die I'm going to give my home to a young family. It'll set them up for life. Imagine never having to pay rent or save for a home. You could save for retirement instead.
The phones, appliances that we are using. Just like cd, dvd, nokia series, windows xp, retro kitchen appliances and such is very nostalgic to many people out there.
Congratulations on picking your new couch and loveseat! The reclining feature is available for $25 a month and the sleeper function on the couch is on special this week! It's either $50 a month or $100 per use. The couch and loveseat will need to be connected to the Internet at all times and we reserve the right to reclaim either one at any moment for any reason!
We had an awesome multiple movie theater in Revere Mass with like twenty theaters in it. It was nice and they did an awesome job with it. I went there my whole life and took my kids there.
Owning something you don't pay a subscription for
Owning anything outright.
THIS is exactly what I hate rn about everything
I saw an Instagram ad for a pair of earbuds that you have to rent. You don’t have the option of just buying them, even if you’ve paid more than their value in monthly payments. So you could theoretically be forced to pay over a thousand dollars after enough time and still not own them. And if you just stopped paying, they’d deactivate them remotely.
The moment auto manufacturers can sell you AI driving as a service it’s all over for cars.
Physical copies of stuff in general. Things that don’t need to be connected to the internet to work
You will own nothing and be happy, lol
Easily accessible fresh water.
Drinking water from the tap
I was looking for this comment, because I thought exactly the same
And generally, a livable planet. I’m sure a good amount of people will still be alive and well in 50 years, but people are fully ignorant if they don’t think many millions of people are going to die directly from climate change in the forthcoming 5 decades. Endless heatwaves, ecosystems collapsing, inability to produce crops, and that’s on top of the super unpredictable shit like massive flash floods in places that are used to 9 cm of rain a year.
Took a while to get to this one. This is a serious concern.
"You know son, when I was your age we didn't have a subscription model to make toasts every morning. We'd just put bread in and toast would pop out"
"we could even throw it in the bathtub and end our misery"
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Companies can only get away with bullshit practices like ad spam and subscription models when the barrier to entry is high. For example trying to make your own printer or printer company is basically impossible, so you’re locked in to existing companies with their bullshit proprietary overpriced inks.
BlackMirror
Unauthorized Bread intensifies
Unauthorized bread.
Well I’ll be 110 so I’m going to say breathing.
I'll be 102. TBH, with advances as they are, we might be able to meet up for a drink.
Being confident that the person they see on screen is a real person and not AI.
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Think that will be true to everything we se on screen.
Real people will be akin to practical effects today.
Like this example working today?
Grandparents will say to their grandkids “When I was your age, I had to get off the screen and actually GO to school”.
Uphill, both ways
There’s a short story by Isaac Asimov called “the fun they had”, it’s about kids in a future where all schooling is done online discovering an old book that talks about the olden days when kids went to school and could socialize with their peers.
TLDR: School as long as it exists will always be critical to be a social event.
Privacy. Even babies are overexposed today.
Try lowering your ISO.
Fuck man, I have a kid on the way and all the baby monitors want to broadcast your kid over the actual internet.
it makes me vastly uncomfortable how COMFORTABLE people are with posting everything about their children.
Came here to say this but yeah, as a Gen Xer I remember the time when we had some privacy in life. I watched it slowly disappear and it's sad. I feel like in the future real privacy will be a luxury only afforded by the very rich and hermits.
The real scary thing about data privacy isn't that everyone can see the pictures you share. I used to work in data sec; phones are constantly tracking your location, and not just "what store are you at" kinda info, it's "what exact shelf in the store were you standing in front of". Companies can buy this data in bulk and start putting out more targeted ads based on that information, and I know it sounds crazy, but it goes even deeper than that. If you live with a partner or someone else with a phone, whoever has that data can recognize that two devices are regularly in close proximity to each other and start showing both people ads based on each others profiles. And sure, folks will say "it's just ads, its no big deal.", but is it just ads? You can do a LOT with the data people share. Anything from creating profiles of political beliefs by location based on peoples searches - think, drawing voting district lines with that data - to matching people to known crimes based on their location data giving their proximity to the crime. I understand how "tin foil hat" that can sound if you don't know much about tech, but without rigorous data privacy protections built into our legislation, our lack of privacy will only get worse.
I'm working hard to make sure my kids have the autonomy to decide their own social media presence. I don't think most parents are malicious clout chasers when they post their kids stuff, rather they aren't thinking of their children as autonomous individuals and future adults. Their lives and their kids lives are one and the same, so they share without thinking about a the potential long term impact for their kids as future adults. It's a novel social issue that we have to deal with as it comes along.
I'm already wishing I had that my mom has my entire life on MySpace (well started with that) and now Facebook and she still tries to post my entire life there even after I've moved out. Meanwhile I have social media accounts but I've almost never just updated what's going on in my personal life through it. I just find it weird if someone wanted to go through my entire life history from birth-18 they can find it
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At least you have a plan 🙏🏼
I have an unopened box of Frozen -themed breakfast cereal I've saved for the last 7 years. We'll be unstoppable.
Come on man, let it go.
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Movies made 30 years from now. Nostalgia always runs in 20 year cycles.
Hang on to your clothes, kids, because fashion is cyclical. I have clothes in my closet from 2005 waiting to make a reappearance... At my next yard sale.
Considering how much nostalgia from the 80s to 2000s is recycled... I'd say it's 50 or 60 tops.
I've always estimated it to be more like 30 years. The 80s was crazy about the 50s: Back To The Future, La Bamba, The Stray Cats, Porky's. Peggy Sue Got Married took place in 1960, technically, but it's not really "the sixties" as we think of it.
Being able to be anonymous online.
Excellent point, Tom.
Privacy in general. Assume youare being tracked everywhere.
I think this is already dead. You can be anonymous to other people, but there are entities and agencies that identify people based on how they move their mouse. You have to be Snowden paranoid to browse without being IDd by anyone
May I have some smegma my friend
I think privacy regulations will strongly remain in place.
Being able to do basic maintenance on your car without needing a shop manual and a years salary worth of special tools
John Deere has entered with BMW in tow.
that's something people are alredy nostalgic for lmao. my car was made while Truman was president you can do almost everything yourself it's crazy.
Dude. My subaru manual is 6000 pages long and doesn't actually tell you how to fix things, just how to change parts.
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Or specialized code readers to just reset the brake/ oil change alerts
The Netherlands
It'll be spoken of like Atlantis. A utopia of giants, weed, prostitutes, and bicycles.
I think they'll definitely still be around in the 2070s. Don't underestimate the Dutch; their coastal engineering is so good that it would take 4+ meter sea level rise to wipe them out, even though a large portion of their land is already below sea level.
The Netherlands will outlast all other countries. They will make rising sealevels their neighbours problem.
Haha... yeah...
Our ancestors built
No, we just build kilometer high dikes and stay cozy and gezellig while we watch the rest of the world flood
Keys. Even more specific vehicle keys.
Even more specific Alicia Keys.
And the Florida Keys.
Similarly, I miss gear shifts being on the steering column
Privacy
Well shiiiit. Nostalgic about that already.
Social media. Not because it’s good, but because whatever comes next will probably suck more.
It's called
Back when social media was just on a phone, and not implanted on a chip in your brain. Personalised ads in your dreams
You just summed up the 2000s.
I think there will be a next generation form of social media. Wether this is the metaverse or some other form. I think you're right and social media is going to change a lot in the future
Got locked out of my email that my Facebook is attached too. And the only thing that had the password saved so I could sign in was my computer. Had to restore it, it wiped everything including passwords and now I have no Facebook and it's fucking awesome. I haven't argued with someone on a topic I don't give a shit about in a month and I feel great 😃
Continual corporate surveillance. Everywhere you go, everything you see, everyone you meet and everything you buy will be known and used to sell you more or manipulate your opinions.
Early 2000s internet where you could search something on Google and your biometric data and search records weren’t sent to 50+ government agencies and data mining firms
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Adblock/skippable ads. In the future decade I can see repeatable unblockable ads becoming mainstream in places like YouTube, Netflix, etc…
I'm already nostalgic for that... We're heading now to minutes long ads and this sucks so much when I think of the original YouTube
I think all this would do is make it easier to walk away from these platforms/forms of entertainment.
Ugh, makes me think of one of the first Black Mirror episodes where the guy HAS to watch the advertisements on the walls of his bedroom.
The number of wild animals that exist and can be seen. They are already on the decline.
I already miss seeing hedgehogs while walking home (this is in England), their numbers have been dwindling for quite some time.
Bugs. I was just telling my wife that I havent seen one of those small white butterflies for the entire year and we're already getting into fall.
Monarch butterflies
68% drop in wildlife count since 1970. Like, all of it. Fish, birds, insects, mammals. You name it, humanity is killing it.
I’m already there. I grew up spending summers at my grandparents’ house on the Chesapeake bay, and when I was a kid you could walk out into the water and scoop up Blue Crabs with a net, there were so many of them.
68% of all wildlife has been destroyed already. No wonder. Do you remember the amount of insects there were in our youth. Shit is scary
You may find searching “generational amnesia” interesting. Delves into how people assume their original ecological environment is what was “wild” or “natural,” despite their recollection being in an already degraded state from the previous generation (who is no longer around to speak of it). When you say “they are already on the decline,” this can unfortunately be said for the past few centuries, it’s just that nobody is around to remember what a true “wild” looks like any more.
Agreed. Currently,
A while ago I've read this and it made me cry:
It's when people see a bunny and go "Ooh look a bunny!", and you realise that it really shouldn't be that surprising to see a bunny. It's sad.
Birds used to dark in the sky. They were butterflies everywhere. So much is already gone. We don’t notice because of human life it’s just a little bit too short.
Insects too.
That one month when everyone was playing Pokemon Go
That PoGo summer was basically the opposite of the pandemic
July of 2016. A simpler time.
Well I am already nostalgic about it
I am still playing it 🥲
I remember going to popular pokestops near my apartment after my wife went to bed from like 10PM - 12AM to hunt for pokemon and they were always packed with people of all ages.
I still play it. It’s embarrassing. I am embarrassed. But my husband and I find quite a bit of joy out of it, we trade Pokémon, catch Poke at the beach or when we go somewhere unique. No one knows except our adult daughter and now… Reddit.
I’m convinced the world actually ended in 2016, that was our peak. Cubs won the World Series, I met my future fiancé, Pokémon go… the world was great and full of hope
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It really was 6 years ago???
That was such a good month
Water probably
"Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!"
Drinkable water. They'll be plenty of water in some parts from all the increased hurricanes due to climate change.
Tankgirl
But Brawndo’s what plants crave.
Clean air and water depending how things turn out for the planet.
Nah, the Simpsons will still be around in 50 years. They’ll out live us all.
I was gonna say available drinking water as well.
Everything about today's art, style, decor, culture, movies, shows, music and news events.
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Ah yes, the good old days when we had social media tracking our every move.
Privacy, there's barely any left now.
Coral reefs :(
Stable weather
Already nostalgic about that
My city is supposed to break a September heat record today and then beak it again tomorrow :(
Air and water.
Bearable summers that we looked forward to, instead of dreaded.
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Look at Mr Fancypants here who could afford a branded Slip N Slide. Back in my day we had to make due with a tarp and a running hose.
Slip 'N bleed from the aaaaaaaanus
Snow
My Mum speaks about how every winter in the 70s, there would always be massive amounts of snow that would stay around for days.
Sad but true. We used to have tons of snow every winter season. We haven't had snow since 5 years now. Only very occasionally but it melts right away and left nothing but water on the ground. It really hurts to see.
I was born in Russia. The Russian attitude to snow is literally “kill it with fire” as we have too much of it. However, everyone also seems nostalgic for the 19th century & time of the tsar when we could take sleds to work & towns were cut off from each other for months at a time. It’s a weird disconnect we have. Once the gas fields are depleted we might have more snow again but then we’ll also die so idk
The inbred senator from my home state in the US had a compelling argument. He brought a cooler onto the Senate floor. He reached into the cooler and pulled out a snowball. Basically “how can climate change be real if I have this snowball?”.
Net neutrality
Kind of already am
Wilderness spaces with little or no human settlement
The smell of petrol/diesel.
they can always buy dior fahrenheit
And to have a clutch in your car
I do legitimately love that smell. I was in the military for a decade and was usually around big ass Diesel engines. The smell takes me back
World of Warcaft Classic Classic
At this rate it'll be WoW: Classic Classic Redux VR
I'm convinced WoW is going to be the longest running mmorpg. It doesn't matter how much Blizzard screws up retail expansions. Players are addicted and will keep playing or coming back. The game is unique to others.
Driving.
In large cities it wouldn't be allowed. A human among many computers is unpredictable and too dangerous.
Rush captures this feeling pretty well:
We already had that it was called Trolley and Trains. The idea of the smart car has only hurt high speed rail and trolley cars.
I think driving is going to be one of the things people look back on and think is so dangerous and crazy that we done it at all.
Wired earbuds with an actual headphone jack. Not USB version 93 delta.
Or just earbuds. The chip implants in our brains will also play music
*USB version 94 delta 2.0
The abundance and availability of power, water, and food.
Come to South Africa. We already have planned powercuts multiple times a day called "loadshedding". We are all nostalgic for days where we had 24 hours straight with electricity.
Power revolution is coming in a huge way. Solar is cheaper and more efficient each year, and fusion breakthroughs happen all the time.
I sometimes walk through the grocery store and wonder if I’ll be telling future kids about what this time of hedonistic excess was, this era where no matter the season, every grocery store was full of every food you would want. How now expensive foods that are difficult to grow in the post climate change hellscape were once things an average person could have whenever they want.
Clean water, moderate climate, farmland, non-plague years
Retail shopping. There will be these cutesy, extremely expensive retro shops selling things you'd find at the convenience store.
snow
Nature
Physically hanging out with a group of friends
That will hopefully still be around in fifty years. Meeting up with friends feels different then being in a group chat, and I'm assuming VR still has a long time before recreating temperature and touch sensing.
I'd say people will miss being uncontactable. Like back in the day, you could just go to your bedroom, and block the rest of the world away for a couple of hours. Now we've got video calls, phone calls, texts, emails. Urgh.
Just log off :)
You can also do it today, there is a "power off" button on your phone. Takes 3 seconds and you can get to the magical land of "back-in-the-days-it-was-so-nice"
Being able to walk on the street without police drones flying around watching them.
Being able to afford to live (too high COL, high rent, low pay, inflation)
I own my home. I've already decided that since I have no heirs, when I die I'm going to give my home to a young family. It'll set them up for life. Imagine never having to pay rent or save for a home. You could save for retirement instead.
You can afford to live now?
The phones, appliances that we are using. Just like cd, dvd, nokia series, windows xp, retro kitchen appliances and such is very nostalgic to many people out there.
Man remember when people used Google?
Minecraft, modern games, battles royales, Reddit.
Minecraft will never die I'm convinced
Flash games
Already there
Clean water
Having sex with someone who isn't a robot
At least then I can stop disappointing humans
Jokes on you, that’s what I’m waiting for
Bold of you to assume they'll trust me with an expensive robot.
I find your slackjawed stare very attractive, PHILIP J FRY
Whatever stupid shit is popular 30 years from now.
Yeah I miss the world before social media too. Good times
Bearable temperatures, forests, bees, biodiversity...
Bees were everywhere this year in my area. Felt good to see, even tho I doubt it's representative of everywhere
Owning their own stuff
Congratulations on picking your new couch and loveseat! The reclining feature is available for $25 a month and the sleeper function on the couch is on special this week! It's either $50 a month or $100 per use. The couch and loveseat will need to be connected to the Internet at all times and we reserve the right to reclaim either one at any moment for any reason!
I really hate how much everything has moved to a subscription model.
Water
Probably movie theaters.
We had an awesome multiple movie theater in Revere Mass with like twenty theaters in it. It was nice and they did an awesome job with it. I went there my whole life and took my kids there.
Handwritten notes/letters.
Life before covid.
The kids 100 years from now are gonna be getting assigned DBQs and Presentations on the insanity of 2020 lmao
Before Covid- the new b.c.
Comfortable weather.
Trees. Fresh water. Air. I dunno.
Fresh water
Fresh cheap water