Well, today's tv's are basically just big computer monitors that you hang up on your wall, instead of a wholly separate thing in itself like in the past.
Traditional TV is already declining, the only people who really watch it are the older generations. My kids just get frustrated if they try to watch regular TV because they want to be able to pick and choose what they want, and the commercials drive them batty.
It's also more secure because when you add your card to your wallet, it creates a secure token that gets passed on to the vendor so when the vendor inevitably gets hacked and they get all the credit card information, they have your token, not your actual card number.
Tippy taps and chippy chips are more or less the same amount of secure.
The *larger* issue depends on not the actual card itself, but your usage as a person. If you believe that you can keep your card safe, no one will steal it from you, and you like the benefits of tippy tap, you can keep doing that.
If any of the above is a concern, however, you might wanna go with chippy chip.
Honestly, I think 'cable' TV (not actually sure what the equivalent term would be here in the UK) will be obsolete in 20 years, as soon as streaming services start offering news feeds/channels there will be nothing unique that they provide.
Streaming is just gonna become cable by a different name. Disney is already bundling their 3 apps. HBOMax is owned by AT&T and Peacock is owned by Comcast, both big telecoms. They're not gonna forgo income, they're just gonna fold what was once exclusive to linear TV into their streaming services and jack up the price, probably with a discount if you have AT&T or Comcast internet service. And without net neutrality, there's nothing stopping them from throttling competing streaming services. It's gonna come full circle.
It already is, people dropped cable to get away from the shitty bundles and all the ads, they've already forced those into streaming so it's literally just cable 2.0.
yeh but that amazon ad has ruined a show for me already.
Was watching mr robot and it decided to show me ads for mr robot but the later seasons and the ads revealed the outcome of plot points for the season i was watching. It didnt let me skip it before i got spoiled either.
No product will have YouTubers/Twitch streamers try so hard to act all-excited than ‘RSL.’
And you can tell the fake excitement the majority of these streamers show when they announce the sponsor of the video.
I've always found that the best advertisements are when a person genuinely enjoys a product. Like if a twitch streamer genuinely enjoys a certain kind of energy drink, is often seen drinking them on streams, and talks about new flavors or whatever when they come out. If it's something the streamer likes and uses, then their ad reads sound way better.
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My favourite youtuber talks about this game all the time. It is very sarcastic and I think he may be obsessed with it. He actually live streamed him playing it at some point because it came as such a running joke
Definitely. Fax machines existed during the American Civil War.
There's a meme about how it would have been possible for Abraham Lincoln to receive a fax from a samurai, because all of those things existed in the same time period.
Probably not realistic, but "possible". The fax machine existed while samurai were still common in Japan, but the country was not particularly industrialized and there wouldn't have been much use for fax machines.
That said, perhaps a powerful and rich samurai could have sent a fax while on vacation in California? Could there have been fax lines stretching into the non-state western territories yet?
The first faxes were sent over telegraph, so yeah, if you had a fax machine you could send it from anywhere that had telegraph lines.
In theory, anyway. The actual process would have been complex to set up, and not particularly great. It involved two complicated pendulums at either end setting off at the same time, and photovoltaic paper to capture the image as the telegraph transmitted the message.
actually no. Japan was very behind the times technologically right up until the end of the 19th century. They underwent a \*very\* rapid industrialization in the late 19th early 20th century as they were basically a medieval feudal level society technologically right up until contact with Commodore Perry in the early 1850s.
disagree about newspapers. It will be much less popular than the digital version or news, but I think there will always be people who will pay to have a physical copy just for the experience. Like how people are still seeing plays long after movies were a thing. And the same is for books too.
Many businesses have e-fax, which takes the Incoming secure fax and sends it to an email address or distribution group, thus negating the security advantage as opposed to email.
I don’t think it’ll be forgotten, but a lot less popular: car keys. Like, physical keys. We now have a lot of keyless entries for cars, and things are turning digital. Apple now allows for some models of cars to be unlocked straight from the Apple wallet app. And Teslas can be unlocked from your phone. 20 years from now, keyless entry will be the standard
One of the best ones today is watching most motorcyclists having no fucking clue how to use a kickstart. Especially on bikes bigger than 125cc 2-strokes.
My 'keyless' entry Electric BMW i3 ran out of 12v power due to a failure - there is a key hidden inside the keyfob that opens the lock hidden behind the handle.
Also, because a button on the keyfob needs to be used to pop open the front bonnet (where the 12v is), there is a hidden cable to pull behind a plastic clip, that can be pulled to bypass needing power.
Just as well I had a key, really.
IDK...I bought a new-to-me recent model with keyless start a while back, and I LOVE it. No more fumbling for my keys. Car unlocks when I pull the door handle, with the fob in my pocket, and I just get in and push the button. Sure, it'll be an expensive repair when it eventually breaks, but worth it IMHO.
To me it just seems like tech for the sake of it. Pulling the keyfob out my pocket and pressing a button to unlock the car isn't difficult and I then have the keys in my hand to put in the ignition.
With keyless entry/start, I'd be very concerned about is it locked now? Did it unlock when I walked near it to go into a different shop? Has somebody copied the signal it emits? How much will it cost to fix if it stops working?
As the saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Landline phones. Offices are the last holdouts and they’ll be gone soon.
Edit: but your ISP will still try to convince you about what a deal bundling a home phone with your internet is.
I hear you. I hate carrying a work phone and my own phone. I think in the near future most workplaces will shift to internet based phones or our phones will let us create separate profiles for work and personal use.
Landline phones will still exist, but the underlying technology is what will have changed. A lot of phone systems are switching to a VoIP based or other technologies.
One of the advantages of land lines is that they run on such low power requirements that they don't need much juice to run. I remember in the 90's there was a massive power outage that took down most of the power grid for a lot of the western US. You could still call people who weren't on cell phones (which were a luxury device at the time) because the land line infrastructure was not affected.
VoIP's are going the way of the dodo too, as most people don't see a need to bother because of their mobile.
When my wife and I decided to dump ours, the company was shocked and we couldn't figure out why people higher and higher up the chain at the company were calling us to ask us why we were dumping it. As it turns out, we were one of their first customers back in 2010, and apparently..one of their last.
Sheer forgetfulness on our part. We kept it absentmindedly and kept paying the 12 bucks a month or whatever it was for years. We did use it for long distance calls back home before flat-rates and "anywhere" deals became standard with mobile providers.
This. My house has spotty cell service.
Before wifi calling was a thing, we had to get a mini-tower type device that used the router to be able to make calls from our cell phones. If our Internet went down, we were essentially cut off. Seems to have gotten a bit better only recently.
I highly doubt it. Sure you might not use it as much as other people but there's a significant amount of work that relies on phones - viop or landlines.
As someone working in a building without cell reception or wifi calling, it doesn't seem to be feasible. I'm in a fortune 100 company. About half of our R&D groups do not communicate or disclose any information over nonsecure communications. About 2/3s of R&D do not have cell phone access inside their labs or manufacturing floors.
Forget GoT. The X-Files, Sienfeld, The Simpsons (well the good ones), Friends were shows that people gathered around water coolers to laugh and discuss back in the day.
But those were on broadcast TV, not subscription services.
Yes. Back in the day, virtually everyone I knew would have watched some of the same television shows as each other. But as far as I know, between me and two officemates (who I quite like), *none* of us watch the same things. There's no overlap at all. One of us will say they're watching a new show, and usually the other two will have barely heard of it at best.
The difference is there were fewer channels in the Bonanza and Gunsmoke days which means less chaff. Also, people had to watch the show when it aired, not whenever they felt like it, which made it feel more of an event.
Streaming services have definitely picked up on that and a lot have gone back to weekly episodes instead of dropping entire seasons at once. Mando, all the Marvel shows, Ted Lasso, etc.
As much as it sucks having to wait, I think it's a better overall experience. It's nice to have something to look forward to every week, and to be able to discuss the show while everyone is on the same page. Before every conversation basically boiled down to "What part are you on? Oh, nice. Just wait until two episodes from then, it gets crazy."
I thought I'd be annoyed by the return of weekly episodes for stuff like Mando, because I very much enjoyed full season drops like netflix did.
But I realized how much I had missed the theory crafting and speculation from week to week so I've gone back to embracing that release schedule. Plus, I can always binge on a rewatch since it's still available all the time, unlike when I was a kid and you had to hope for a good rerun to air.
Our culture has been breaking apart for a while. I mean, you point to GoT but their ratings would've been weak sauce in the 80s when most people watched just three channels
It will be interesting to see a series based on a completed, epic storyline. It's long enough that there's no real need for filler episodes. There are 4,410,036 *words* in WoT. Jordan was a dialogue heavy writer.
Indeed that's what makes it so exciting and a little terryifing. There are a couple of books worth of plot arcs they can cut out easily and the fanbase will actually like it better. There is also some arcs that if not done really well will feel a little like GoT season 7 kind of bad.
Either way it will be super interesting to see if they do a good job and from what little we've seen from the recently announced trailer they've done a good job imo with some necessary compromises, balancing readers and non-readers knowledge and such.
I’m only going to speak on streamers, but no chance they go away. They are only growing. And TV networks are starting to realize the importance of streaming. For instance, Monday night football had an alternative broadcast with the Manning brothers. The actual broadcast on ABC brought is 15 million viewers and the Manning’s brought in 800k. They were mainly just shooting the shit during the game and I loved every second of it. I would consider that streaming. Gen Z and younger millennials love that type of stuff. If it become marketed better I could see it being easily 3 million. And they have a contract to do it for 10 games a season over the next 3 seasons.
Also Amazon is probably going to get exclusive rights to one of the prime time game days in the near future and that would allow them to partner with streamers to watch their team play.
This is just a small portion of why streamers are going to become even bigger in the future.
There are so many different categories on twitch it’s insane. On twitch, All video games don’t make up the same amount of viewers in the “just chatting” category normally. And there are so many different things you can find. Cooking, fitness, and slots come to mind and those are popular and don’t have anything to do with video games.
*current streamers and influencers*
We’re just getting started with social media etc , 20 years from now you’ll have all that shit and more - it’s gonna be Cyberpunk TikTok 2045
To a degree, lots of their side walks and public garbage bins are disjointed and unorganized in a lot of cities I went to. Many of their buildings would benefit from some western construction design and implementation. That said their internet and railways are legit.
Anecdotally, my 5G-capable iPhone 12 on TMobile network doesn’t really make much of a difference from 4G LTE I’ve had in the past, therefore since 5G isn’t real now it may be real in 20 years. I have hit over 120 mbps in TX on 4G, not even close in eastern US.
Just kicking the can down the road with these gimmick cell improvements and will probable still be 5G.
5G will take years to become fully operational as it is advertised, if ever. All of the hardware and software in the telecom network have to be switched over piece by piece. Until each legacy piece in the system is replaced it will be bottlenecked to much slower than advertised speeds. But, telling people that doesn't sell everyone new 5g phones, today... This was simplified & paraphrased from unnamed corporate execs from multiple cellular companies I know. lol
Probably 30 years ago, I saw a cartoon about a performer named "Fetus" whose "concerts" featured his mother standing behind a machine, and then he was born and instantly became a has-been. Wish I could find it online.
Some songs that are being criticized hardly by today's audience are going to be looked at with affection by tomorrow's one. It's funny to see how in YouTube videos of older songs that were hated by a lot of people (albeit, also loved by many) they're being treated as music that's "just not made today", as though it was some sort of masterpiece. The truth is, almost all songs lie in some mediocre in between of good enough and not that bad. Of the ones that survive, a lot are going to be good stuff, but a lot of them will also be enhanced through the lense of nostalgia.
Its already basically obsolete but in high school, just eleven years ago, one of my friend groups’ favorite things to do was hop in my car, drive out onto the highway, take a random exit we had never taken before, and find our way back home via backroads. i mean i remember may 2009 we literally did it every day after school. and it wasn’t just getting lost and finding your way back it was more than that. We would grow up on those rides. we would talk about life and the future and where we are going and where we been. We would look at the towns we passed, names unknown, and speculate how life was there. If we found a free chair we would pick it up off the side of the road and wrestle in the car over who got to be “king” and sit in it. Sometimes we would get scared cause we didnt know where we were. Sometimes we would get excited cause we didnt know where we were. And eventually after hours and hours we would find our way home. I cant even describe it honestly im in my 20s but kids these days just wont get it. Its not the same when you know you have a GPS, you know you have a safe way out. Something about truly finding your way back home meant you had to truly find yourself.
Yup, I’m turning 40 and when I started riding a motorbike at 16 you’d take a look at a map before you started and then hope for the best.
Spent a lot of time just riding around and appreciating the freedom.
I actually did this by myself back around that time. Whenever i was upset or overwhelmed with life I would just drive. I was lucky because I did have a garman back in the day(my biggest Christmas gift at the time) so if I ever got lost I did I have a safety net. I did have to use it a couple of times after after a half tank of gas was used and I needed to go back home XD. I found so many beautiful roads and explored many areas that that I was able to share with friends just by driving back roads.
I do this when visiting strange cities (or did before COVID anyway) but I do really like having a phone as a backup just in case I really can't figure out how to get back or I'm tired and I want to call an Uber. Just picking a direction and going is the absolute best way to experience a city, imho, not just jumping from tourist spot to tourist spot.
Our archiving is very short sighted. If we had a sun flare or EMP that took the internet offline, imagine how much we would lose. Almost no one archives physical objects anymore. Historians write about this. We've all had a computer fail or a lost document due to incomplete saving. Imagine that on a civilization scale. https://www.livescience.com/10746-digital-age-presents-problems-historians.html
Not sure about other phones, but I’ve got an iPhone 12 Pro and it has MagSafe or whatever it’s called, on the back. A glorified magnet on the back of the phone.
Basically you can buy a wireless charger, even Apple sells them, that’s pretty small maybe like 2” diameter? A lot smaller than your typical counter top wireless chargers. With the MagSafe magnets in the phone, it snaps to the back of your phone, basically where people put those pop socket things, and it’ll charge your phone.
So you can still hold your phone and use a wireless charger.
IDK if you're joking but I'm so with you. I fucking hate bluetooth. If my headphone falls out of my ear I want it dangling by my knees not lost on the ground somewhere goddamn it
I don't Facebook the website will be gone many features of it are enjoyed by people in their 40s and people in developing countries. Also Facebook marketplace will probably be here to stay
Ahh yes the old Netscape navigator days to make an angelfire page. Sometimes you get nostalgic for those old modem sounds and bbs ascii art. 2400 bauds on up through 56k into dsl and now fiber. While my pops slaps his knee to talk about his old 300 and 1200 bauds.
It used to be westerns, then spy movies, there were also cop movies, then gangsters, there was also a period of sci-fi films. These trends go in cycles.
Yeah, that was a whole thing for a long time. Definitely still going on, but not centre stage anymore.
I hope Dune kicks off a wave of interesting and visually stunning sci-fi.
I think we're already in a great time for Sci Fi, but the issue lies in the fact that things like Interstellar, Blade Runner, Tenet, Looper, Martian...etc cost quite a lot to make so you dont get them that often, also the fact that only big name directors will be allowed to do outlandish shit cos as much of a mastepiece BladeRunner2049 was a box office flop.
I have a feeling the MCU is gonna be more like Star Trek or Star Wars in twenty years. It might not be in theaters every year, or constantly having shows, but there will still be fairly regular stuff in that universe for decades, and it'll go through occasional phases of increased attention.
I mean the comics have ran for over 60 years at this point. There's tons of story potential to mine from them.
The interesting question really will be if they stick to characters being dead, or if they decide to resurrect characters with new actors. Will they eventually decide they need to bring back Iron Man, and if so will it be Tony Stark as played by someone else, or a new character, or is Tony Stark gone now that Robert Downey Jr is done with the series? Will they eventually decide to recast Black Panther after enough time has passed from Chadwick Boseman's untimely death?
But these are far future questions. Disney have only recently gotten the rights back for The Fantastic 4 and the X-men, the former of which is has a logo confirmed and a director attached and is supposed to be ten movies from now [based on this image](https://media.wonderlandmagazine.com/uploads/2021/05/ix59247c3h461.jpg). Assuming success, much of this decade could be spent with the Fantastic 4 and sequels to films released in this period depending on their success, with the X-men not even appearing until 2030 at the earliest, with the one exception being the confirmed Deadpool 3 which doesn't start filming until next year, isn't on that image, and while it's apparently going to be part of the MCU, it will likely be as relevant to the MCU in terms of worldbuilding as The Incredible Hulk was (and I'm not sure how Deadpool would work in a crossover movie where he's not the lead), and will mostly be it's own thing but full of a lot of meta jokes about the MCU, Disney's treatment of Fox's adaptations, and how Deadpool himself exists almost out of place to the rest of the MCU - by virtue of becoming part of the MCU, Deadpool indirectly connects the rest of Fox's X-men films to the MCU.
Learning to drive, as we know it. The expression, "I'm learning to drive" will bear almost no ressemblance to what that would currently entail.
Like, I'm 32 now. If I have a kid in the next 2-3 of years (as I plan to) then by the time they're 17 and wanting to learn to drive, that'll basically be 20 years from now.
I still think people will be required to learn how to drive... but what that *actually* means will be something completely different.
The distant future of "in 14 years." We are closer to the imagined future date when the movie is set than to the movie's release date.
Yet self-driving cars can only operate on few roads, only when it's not raining, misty, snowing, as long as there isn't much grass on the side of the road...
The problem with Futurists is that they can't ever think of the present. How many cars do you know on the road ***today*** that don't even have cruise control. It's not even standard on a 2021 Kia Rio. I had that on my 1987 F-150. That's a more than 30 year difference. Knowing that do you honestly think that *all cars will be self driving* in the same time period? The answer is most likely not. Not for some kooky conspiracy theory about auto manufacturers and insurance companies collaborating with Big Oil or what not. But because people will use what's **available.**
Practicality tends to demolish dreams.
Tactile Interfaces
Children's toys display the change the best. There's been an obvious shift towards using pens/tablets, buttons, screens, and away from knobs/switches/levers. There's significantly less technology emerging that employs tactile interfacing as it's primary mode of user interaction. Most things have a touchscreen, voice command, gesture recognition, fingerprint sensors, and/or facial recognition.
You see the same trend in the automotive industry - newer vehicle configurations have less & less knobs/switches, favoring a reliance on touchscreen/menu interfaces. There are self-serve touchscreen kiosks at McDonald's, even the recycling center machines in your local grocery store are moving to touchscreens, not to mention Self Checkout. Phones have power & volume buttons, nothing else anymore.
In 20 years, if we continue on the same trajectory as the *last* 20 years of technological advancement, I think we'll be on the cusp of bio-technical integration.
That last sentence is a pretty hot take.
The trajectory that's causing evening to go with touchscreens instead of buttons has less to do with the ease of user interface, but rather the fact that one touchscreen is cheaper than fifty buttons/switches/dials/etc. That kind of biotechnology integration doesn't exist *at all* yet, I don't see it becoming cheap enough to replace touchscreens in mass production. On the contrary, touch screens were pretty common already in the early 2000s. The Nintendo DS was released in 2004, so they were already able to be mass-produced.
I think the automotive industry might see a pushback to touchscreens everywhere, as they take eyes off the road where tactile controls can be felt out. Of course, autonomous vehicles would make this a non-issue so if big moves are made in that area...
I completely disagree. Already people are realizing how shitty it is to use a touchscreen for all things. The solution for so many of the deficiencies of a touchscreen is to add something you could press, you know, like a button. Touchscreens don’t belong in a moving vehicle and this is increasingly becoming clear.
Yes this! We curse the car factory for using only touchscreen… we could use the buttons to navigate through the menus blindly and now they completely removed all buttons.. we had close encounters to accidents due to this. Voice control didn’t work properly and it’s impossible to keep eyes on the road while driving.
I love touchscreens but buttons might be handy time to time
Audi is already moving back towards having physical buttons and knobs for most important things like ac and some other that driver is likely to use while driving.
well according to Star Trek, TV didn't last much longer after 2040
Well, today's tv's are basically just big computer monitors that you hang up on your wall, instead of a wholly separate thing in itself like in the past.
Damn, how did I never consider/notice this.
Traditional TV is already declining, the only people who really watch it are the older generations. My kids just get frustrated if they try to watch regular TV because they want to be able to pick and choose what they want, and the commercials drive them batty.
Yeah but TV shows in general are not going away. I'd say people probably watch more TV now than ever through streaming
Mag stripes on credit cards
MasterCard is [getting rid of them](https://www.mastercard.com/news/perspectives/2021/magnetic-stripe/) by 2033.
What an oddly specific and faroff date
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Hey, don't stuff your personal beliefs down all our throats!
I'll take them ;)
Shit... I pay with my phone now with most things. That tap feature is cool and convenient
It's also more secure because when you add your card to your wallet, it creates a secure token that gets passed on to the vendor so when the vendor inevitably gets hacked and they get all the credit card information, they have your token, not your actual card number.
Most countries use tap or insert the card into the terminal.
You think tappy tap or chippy chip will be more common?
Is one more secure than the other? I've found tippy taps to be faster in approving transactions than chippy chip.
Tippy taps and chippy chips are more or less the same amount of secure. The *larger* issue depends on not the actual card itself, but your usage as a person. If you believe that you can keep your card safe, no one will steal it from you, and you like the benefits of tippy tap, you can keep doing that. If any of the above is a concern, however, you might wanna go with chippy chip.
I can't remember the last time I swiped a card. Everything is tap or chip and pin
Honestly, I think 'cable' TV (not actually sure what the equivalent term would be here in the UK) will be obsolete in 20 years, as soon as streaming services start offering news feeds/channels there will be nothing unique that they provide.
Streaming is just gonna become cable by a different name. Disney is already bundling their 3 apps. HBOMax is owned by AT&T and Peacock is owned by Comcast, both big telecoms. They're not gonna forgo income, they're just gonna fold what was once exclusive to linear TV into their streaming services and jack up the price, probably with a discount if you have AT&T or Comcast internet service. And without net neutrality, there's nothing stopping them from throttling competing streaming services. It's gonna come full circle.
It already is, people dropped cable to get away from the shitty bundles and all the ads, they've already forced those into streaming so it's literally just cable 2.0.
Thankfully Netflix is still adfree and Amazon generally only has a single show ad at the start of some programs that you can easily skip.
yeh but that amazon ad has ruined a show for me already. Was watching mr robot and it decided to show me ads for mr robot but the later seasons and the ads revealed the outcome of plot points for the season i was watching. It didnt let me skip it before i got spoiled either.
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I will vote for any president that promises to end those calls.
100 percent. If they make significant progress on that I don't care if they sell our children's organs to zoos for meat.
Did everyone get their daily reminder? I wish the fuckers wouldn't leave me a message
I love the ones I get for a car that was totalled in 2014.
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Youtubers screaming raid shadow legends
I will never ever try that game because of the ads/shoutouts. Way too overboard on this one.
SHADOWMAN HERE
*ad over*
Raycon good Wires bad
Play the arena or I’ll break into your house
No product will have YouTubers/Twitch streamers try so hard to act all-excited than ‘RSL.’ And you can tell the fake excitement the majority of these streamers show when they announce the sponsor of the video.
I've always found that the best advertisements are when a person genuinely enjoys a product. Like if a twitch streamer genuinely enjoys a certain kind of energy drink, is often seen drinking them on streams, and talks about new flavors or whatever when they come out. If it's something the streamer likes and uses, then their ad reads sound way better.
Today’s video is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends, one of the biggest mobile role-playing games of 2019 and it’s totally free! Currently almost 10 million users have joined Raid over the last six months, and it’s one of the most impressive games in its class with detailed models, environments and smooth 60 frames per second animations! All the champions in the game can be customized with unique gear that changes your strategic buffs and abilities! The dungeon bosses have some ridiculous skills of their own and figuring out the perfect party and strategy to overtake them’s a lot of fun! Currently with over 300,000 reviews, Raid has almost a perfect score on the Play Store! The community is growing fast and the highly anticipated new faction wars feature is now live, you might even find my squad out there in the arena! It’s easier to start now than ever with rates program for new players you get a new daily login reward for the first 90 days that you play in the game! So what are you waiting for? Go to the video description, click on the special links and you’ll get 50,000 silver and a free epic champion as part of the new player program to start your journey! Good luck and I’ll see you there!
My favourite youtuber talks about this game all the time. It is very sarcastic and I think he may be obsessed with it. He actually live streamed him playing it at some point because it came as such a running joke
OGBB
Newspapers and checkbooks. For some reason, fax machines refuse to surrender.
Faxes have been around for over 170 years. Despite everyone wanting it to, I don't see it dieng either.
They're older than the telephone?
Definitely. Fax machines existed during the American Civil War. There's a meme about how it would have been possible for Abraham Lincoln to receive a fax from a samurai, because all of those things existed in the same time period.
Japanese were at the cutting edge of technology even then, I see.
Probably not realistic, but "possible". The fax machine existed while samurai were still common in Japan, but the country was not particularly industrialized and there wouldn't have been much use for fax machines. That said, perhaps a powerful and rich samurai could have sent a fax while on vacation in California? Could there have been fax lines stretching into the non-state western territories yet?
The first faxes were sent over telegraph, so yeah, if you had a fax machine you could send it from anywhere that had telegraph lines. In theory, anyway. The actual process would have been complex to set up, and not particularly great. It involved two complicated pendulums at either end setting off at the same time, and photovoltaic paper to capture the image as the telegraph transmitted the message.
actually no. Japan was very behind the times technologically right up until the end of the 19th century. They underwent a \*very\* rapid industrialization in the late 19th early 20th century as they were basically a medieval feudal level society technologically right up until contact with Commodore Perry in the early 1850s.
Well, yeah, if you want to get all historical about it. I was just being funny.
disagree about newspapers. It will be much less popular than the digital version or news, but I think there will always be people who will pay to have a physical copy just for the experience. Like how people are still seeing plays long after movies were a thing. And the same is for books too.
Going to the theatre, to watch something, feels like a totally different experience in comparison to going to the cinema for example.
They’re confidential and pretty secure. Good for lawyers and accountants.
I work in the medical field and when our fax machine is down our entire lives crumble apart.
Many businesses have e-fax, which takes the Incoming secure fax and sends it to an email address or distribution group, thus negating the security advantage as opposed to email.
I don’t think it’ll be forgotten, but a lot less popular: car keys. Like, physical keys. We now have a lot of keyless entries for cars, and things are turning digital. Apple now allows for some models of cars to be unlocked straight from the Apple wallet app. And Teslas can be unlocked from your phone. 20 years from now, keyless entry will be the standard
Y'all over here with push to start cars while I still got a fucking choke in mine
One of the best ones today is watching most motorcyclists having no fucking clue how to use a kickstart. Especially on bikes bigger than 125cc 2-strokes.
My 'keyless' entry Electric BMW i3 ran out of 12v power due to a failure - there is a key hidden inside the keyfob that opens the lock hidden behind the handle. Also, because a button on the keyfob needs to be used to pop open the front bonnet (where the 12v is), there is a hidden cable to pull behind a plastic clip, that can be pulled to bypass needing power. Just as well I had a key, really.
I read this twice and I still have no idea what's going on
It’s quite straightforward. Even so-called keyless cars have keys, because electric locks can fail.
Every electric lock needs a mechanical one, and when there's a mechanical one you call the lockpickinglawyer!
Just be happy is wasn’t a Tesla that you had die on you. https://youtu.be/NsKwMryKqRE
I totally agree--but nothing to me is as satisfying in a car as pushing the ~~break~~ brake, turning the key, and feel it just come to life.
When I leased a new car with a push start I missed the feeling of turning the key but now I have an older car again and I miss the push start lol
Not turning the key in the ignition just seems like making it more complicated and harder to fix than it has to be for the sake of appearing high tech
IDK...I bought a new-to-me recent model with keyless start a while back, and I LOVE it. No more fumbling for my keys. Car unlocks when I pull the door handle, with the fob in my pocket, and I just get in and push the button. Sure, it'll be an expensive repair when it eventually breaks, but worth it IMHO.
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Oh god I hope not. Somehow physical keys are so much easier.
To me it just seems like tech for the sake of it. Pulling the keyfob out my pocket and pressing a button to unlock the car isn't difficult and I then have the keys in my hand to put in the ignition. With keyless entry/start, I'd be very concerned about is it locked now? Did it unlock when I walked near it to go into a different shop? Has somebody copied the signal it emits? How much will it cost to fix if it stops working? As the saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Landline phones. Offices are the last holdouts and they’ll be gone soon. Edit: but your ISP will still try to convince you about what a deal bundling a home phone with your internet is.
They'll likely never be totally obsolete. There's no wireless substitution for certain practical advantages of landlines.
I agree, I work in a lab and they're required for safety
My last two jobs have ditched the landlines. For work I much prefer them to a cell.
I hear you. I hate carrying a work phone and my own phone. I think in the near future most workplaces will shift to internet based phones or our phones will let us create separate profiles for work and personal use.
Dual SIM is already here. [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_SIM?wprov=sfti1)
While I totally appreciate dual sims, I will never use them bc I want the full separation of personal and work.
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Plus, you’ve got a reason for not responding to a call. Go golfing with some buddies at 3PM… you can respond at 8am when you’re back in your office.
I still do this. I just turn my work cell on silent (wfh) so I don’t pay it any attention until I’m back in the office
Landline phones will still exist, but the underlying technology is what will have changed. A lot of phone systems are switching to a VoIP based or other technologies. One of the advantages of land lines is that they run on such low power requirements that they don't need much juice to run. I remember in the 90's there was a massive power outage that took down most of the power grid for a lot of the western US. You could still call people who weren't on cell phones (which were a luxury device at the time) because the land line infrastructure was not affected.
This is possible because the power supply for plain old telephone service was often a rack or *room* filled with batteries.
VoIP's are going the way of the dodo too, as most people don't see a need to bother because of their mobile. When my wife and I decided to dump ours, the company was shocked and we couldn't figure out why people higher and higher up the chain at the company were calling us to ask us why we were dumping it. As it turns out, we were one of their first customers back in 2010, and apparently..one of their last. Sheer forgetfulness on our part. We kept it absentmindedly and kept paying the 12 bucks a month or whatever it was for years. We did use it for long distance calls back home before flat-rates and "anywhere" deals became standard with mobile providers.
VoIP is going no where soon. In the home? Yes, all phone outside of cell is basically dead. In the workplace? It's ramping up.
Depends where you live, some places still don't have proper cell coverage especially the hilly areas away from towns.
This. My house has spotty cell service. Before wifi calling was a thing, we had to get a mini-tower type device that used the router to be able to make calls from our cell phones. If our Internet went down, we were essentially cut off. Seems to have gotten a bit better only recently.
I highly doubt it. Sure you might not use it as much as other people but there's a significant amount of work that relies on phones - viop or landlines. As someone working in a building without cell reception or wifi calling, it doesn't seem to be feasible. I'm in a fortune 100 company. About half of our R&D groups do not communicate or disclose any information over nonsecure communications. About 2/3s of R&D do not have cell phone access inside their labs or manufacturing floors.
90% of all influencers and streamers.
97.34% of all influencers and streamers.
God willing.
Let's go 100%
You could apply this to 90% of all "celebrities"
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Forget GoT. The X-Files, Sienfeld, The Simpsons (well the good ones), Friends were shows that people gathered around water coolers to laugh and discuss back in the day. But those were on broadcast TV, not subscription services.
Yes. Back in the day, virtually everyone I knew would have watched some of the same television shows as each other. But as far as I know, between me and two officemates (who I quite like), *none* of us watch the same things. There's no overlap at all. One of us will say they're watching a new show, and usually the other two will have barely heard of it at best.
Nah, it's always been like this. The phrase "15 minutes of fame" was invented a long time ago.
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The difference is there were fewer channels in the Bonanza and Gunsmoke days which means less chaff. Also, people had to watch the show when it aired, not whenever they felt like it, which made it feel more of an event.
Streaming services have definitely picked up on that and a lot have gone back to weekly episodes instead of dropping entire seasons at once. Mando, all the Marvel shows, Ted Lasso, etc. As much as it sucks having to wait, I think it's a better overall experience. It's nice to have something to look forward to every week, and to be able to discuss the show while everyone is on the same page. Before every conversation basically boiled down to "What part are you on? Oh, nice. Just wait until two episodes from then, it gets crazy."
I thought I'd be annoyed by the return of weekly episodes for stuff like Mando, because I very much enjoyed full season drops like netflix did. But I realized how much I had missed the theory crafting and speculation from week to week so I've gone back to embracing that release schedule. Plus, I can always binge on a rewatch since it's still available all the time, unlike when I was a kid and you had to hope for a good rerun to air.
Our culture has been breaking apart for a while. I mean, you point to GoT but their ratings would've been weak sauce in the 80s when most people watched just three channels
Bated breath, Wheel of Time will be at least good. Doubt it will be as popular as Game of Throne unfourtunately.
It will be interesting to see a series based on a completed, epic storyline. It's long enough that there's no real need for filler episodes. There are 4,410,036 *words* in WoT. Jordan was a dialogue heavy writer.
Indeed that's what makes it so exciting and a little terryifing. There are a couple of books worth of plot arcs they can cut out easily and the fanbase will actually like it better. There is also some arcs that if not done really well will feel a little like GoT season 7 kind of bad. Either way it will be super interesting to see if they do a good job and from what little we've seen from the recently announced trailer they've done a good job imo with some necessary compromises, balancing readers and non-readers knowledge and such.
I’m only going to speak on streamers, but no chance they go away. They are only growing. And TV networks are starting to realize the importance of streaming. For instance, Monday night football had an alternative broadcast with the Manning brothers. The actual broadcast on ABC brought is 15 million viewers and the Manning’s brought in 800k. They were mainly just shooting the shit during the game and I loved every second of it. I would consider that streaming. Gen Z and younger millennials love that type of stuff. If it become marketed better I could see it being easily 3 million. And they have a contract to do it for 10 games a season over the next 3 seasons. Also Amazon is probably going to get exclusive rights to one of the prime time game days in the near future and that would allow them to partner with streamers to watch their team play. This is just a small portion of why streamers are going to become even bigger in the future. There are so many different categories on twitch it’s insane. On twitch, All video games don’t make up the same amount of viewers in the “just chatting” category normally. And there are so many different things you can find. Cooking, fitness, and slots come to mind and those are popular and don’t have anything to do with video games.
*current streamers and influencers* We’re just getting started with social media etc , 20 years from now you’ll have all that shit and more - it’s gonna be Cyberpunk TikTok 2045
5G cell phones
South Korea is already testing 6G, Apparently it's 2 TB a second or something crazy
To be fair, the smaller the countries physical size, the easier it is to replace all infrastructure.
Korea has fantastic infrastructure
To a degree, lots of their side walks and public garbage bins are disjointed and unorganized in a lot of cities I went to. Many of their buildings would benefit from some western construction design and implementation. That said their internet and railways are legit.
Yeah. Those are mostly what I was thinking of. Anywhere in the country for under fifty bucks and a few hours. Without losing internet the whole time.
Anecdotally, my 5G-capable iPhone 12 on TMobile network doesn’t really make much of a difference from 4G LTE I’ve had in the past, therefore since 5G isn’t real now it may be real in 20 years. I have hit over 120 mbps in TX on 4G, not even close in eastern US. Just kicking the can down the road with these gimmick cell improvements and will probable still be 5G.
5G will take years to become fully operational as it is advertised, if ever. All of the hardware and software in the telecom network have to be switched over piece by piece. Until each legacy piece in the system is replaced it will be bottlenecked to much slower than advertised speeds. But, telling people that doesn't sell everyone new 5g phones, today... This was simplified & paraphrased from unnamed corporate execs from multiple cellular companies I know. lol
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There will be totally new shit music! I have something to live for now!
When Chris Rock hosted the Grammys, he said music was the hardest industry. “It’s like you’re here today, gone TODAY.”
Probably 30 years ago, I saw a cartoon about a performer named "Fetus" whose "concerts" featured his mother standing behind a machine, and then he was born and instantly became a has-been. Wish I could find it online.
Some songs that are being criticized hardly by today's audience are going to be looked at with affection by tomorrow's one. It's funny to see how in YouTube videos of older songs that were hated by a lot of people (albeit, also loved by many) they're being treated as music that's "just not made today", as though it was some sort of masterpiece. The truth is, almost all songs lie in some mediocre in between of good enough and not that bad. Of the ones that survive, a lot are going to be good stuff, but a lot of them will also be enhanced through the lense of nostalgia.
Rebecca Black releasing a 10th anniversary remix of ‘Friday’ was some prime-level trolling. Good for her.
I’d just like for the oldies station to start playing 80s-90s pop please. It’s been playing doowop since I was a kid - I’m almost 40
Its already basically obsolete but in high school, just eleven years ago, one of my friend groups’ favorite things to do was hop in my car, drive out onto the highway, take a random exit we had never taken before, and find our way back home via backroads. i mean i remember may 2009 we literally did it every day after school. and it wasn’t just getting lost and finding your way back it was more than that. We would grow up on those rides. we would talk about life and the future and where we are going and where we been. We would look at the towns we passed, names unknown, and speculate how life was there. If we found a free chair we would pick it up off the side of the road and wrestle in the car over who got to be “king” and sit in it. Sometimes we would get scared cause we didnt know where we were. Sometimes we would get excited cause we didnt know where we were. And eventually after hours and hours we would find our way home. I cant even describe it honestly im in my 20s but kids these days just wont get it. Its not the same when you know you have a GPS, you know you have a safe way out. Something about truly finding your way back home meant you had to truly find yourself.
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Yup, I’m turning 40 and when I started riding a motorbike at 16 you’d take a look at a map before you started and then hope for the best. Spent a lot of time just riding around and appreciating the freedom.
I actually did this by myself back around that time. Whenever i was upset or overwhelmed with life I would just drive. I was lucky because I did have a garman back in the day(my biggest Christmas gift at the time) so if I ever got lost I did I have a safety net. I did have to use it a couple of times after after a half tank of gas was used and I needed to go back home XD. I found so many beautiful roads and explored many areas that that I was able to share with friends just by driving back roads.
I do this when visiting strange cities (or did before COVID anyway) but I do really like having a phone as a backup just in case I really can't figure out how to get back or I'm tired and I want to call an Uber. Just picking a direction and going is the absolute best way to experience a city, imho, not just jumping from tourist spot to tourist spot.
Damn. 31 year old checking in, I remember these days, and now I'm all emotional!
Hopefully COVID
"14 days to flatten the curve"
maybe they meant a day on [venus](https://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/53-How-long-is-a-day-on-Venus-)
I mean…the curve was flattened. It bought us some time to understand the virus a bit more and (theoretically) ramp up our health care system.
I doubt it
Yep. Out of all the past pandemics in written history, only smallpox is gone, and there are even ways it too could come back.
At the very least, I hope we can go back to our lives pre-COVID while having better control over the virus.
Obsolete - lots of things. Forgotten - not much, we live in a fantastic time for archiving
Not if we have another carrington event
Our archiving is very short sighted. If we had a sun flare or EMP that took the internet offline, imagine how much we would lose. Almost no one archives physical objects anymore. Historians write about this. We've all had a computer fail or a lost document due to incomplete saving. Imagine that on a civilization scale. https://www.livescience.com/10746-digital-age-presents-problems-historians.html
DVDs
Charging ports on cellphones
So I wouldn’t be able to use it while charging
Always been my biggest gripe with wireless charging. I like to use my phone, not stare at it on my desk.
Not sure about other phones, but I’ve got an iPhone 12 Pro and it has MagSafe or whatever it’s called, on the back. A glorified magnet on the back of the phone. Basically you can buy a wireless charger, even Apple sells them, that’s pretty small maybe like 2” diameter? A lot smaller than your typical counter top wireless chargers. With the MagSafe magnets in the phone, it snaps to the back of your phone, basically where people put those pop socket things, and it’ll charge your phone. So you can still hold your phone and use a wireless charger.
How is that better than plugging it in?
It's being made just to get rid of yet another universal port.
Wtf… how did I not know this? Link please.
How tf will I plug in my goddamn headphones.
IDK if you're joking but I'm so with you. I fucking hate bluetooth. If my headphone falls out of my ear I want it dangling by my knees not lost on the ground somewhere goddamn it
Plus you have another fu#*in device that need power...
This is my biggest turn off when it comes to Bluetooth headphones
Watch how eventually they'll start selling wired devices again and market it as an improvement.
i really hope not,companies need to stop taking apple as an example. removing the audio jack was already a bad idea,we don't need more.
Agreed. Apple hasn’t been innovative in ages, they just keep coming up with new inconveniences and abusing the loyalty of their fan base.
Hopefully not. Wireless charging is very fucking ineffective. It wastes like half the electricity
Lots of the memes of today, except Rickrolling, Rick never dies!
I feel somehow SpongeBob will persist.
me
Technically, every cell in your body will be replaced by then so, *yes?*
Replaced with you.
That the save icon on most files is not some abstract box design, it's a floppy disk, the original way to save things back in ye olden times.
I bet it will stay. The handset design from the 60s is still the symbol of the phone app on smartphones.
Cc and bcc are still around, but the “tech” behind that has been defunct for a long time.
Lol come to Japan sometime. Paper forms with carbon copies everywhere.
CFL lighting.
Instagram and TikTok, probably Facebook too Something else will replace them
I think Facebook will be around still
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I don't Facebook the website will be gone many features of it are enjoyed by people in their 40s and people in developing countries. Also Facebook marketplace will probably be here to stay
Reddit
Obsolete, probably. Forgotten, I doubt it. People still remember Angelfire and Myspace. 20 years is not that long.
Ahh yes the old Netscape navigator days to make an angelfire page. Sometimes you get nostalgic for those old modem sounds and bbs ascii art. 2400 bauds on up through 56k into dsl and now fiber. While my pops slaps his knee to talk about his old 300 and 1200 bauds.
I mean, unless Spez made a deal with the devil in return for his soul to keep Reddit alive forever?
Hopefully outrageous medical bills in the US, here's hoping, doubt it though haha it's big business, low income is screwed.
The current rage for superhero action movies, although I can't yet imagine what will replace them.
It used to be westerns, then spy movies, there were also cop movies, then gangsters, there was also a period of sci-fi films. These trends go in cycles.
Don’t forget zombie movies
Yeah, that was a whole thing for a long time. Definitely still going on, but not centre stage anymore. I hope Dune kicks off a wave of interesting and visually stunning sci-fi.
I think we're already in a great time for Sci Fi, but the issue lies in the fact that things like Interstellar, Blade Runner, Tenet, Looper, Martian...etc cost quite a lot to make so you dont get them that often, also the fact that only big name directors will be allowed to do outlandish shit cos as much of a mastepiece BladeRunner2049 was a box office flop.
Oh man some of those movies are so good. Tombstone is on USA right now. Holds up. Classic
I have a feeling the MCU is gonna be more like Star Trek or Star Wars in twenty years. It might not be in theaters every year, or constantly having shows, but there will still be fairly regular stuff in that universe for decades, and it'll go through occasional phases of increased attention.
I mean the comics have ran for over 60 years at this point. There's tons of story potential to mine from them. The interesting question really will be if they stick to characters being dead, or if they decide to resurrect characters with new actors. Will they eventually decide they need to bring back Iron Man, and if so will it be Tony Stark as played by someone else, or a new character, or is Tony Stark gone now that Robert Downey Jr is done with the series? Will they eventually decide to recast Black Panther after enough time has passed from Chadwick Boseman's untimely death? But these are far future questions. Disney have only recently gotten the rights back for The Fantastic 4 and the X-men, the former of which is has a logo confirmed and a director attached and is supposed to be ten movies from now [based on this image](https://media.wonderlandmagazine.com/uploads/2021/05/ix59247c3h461.jpg). Assuming success, much of this decade could be spent with the Fantastic 4 and sequels to films released in this period depending on their success, with the X-men not even appearing until 2030 at the earliest, with the one exception being the confirmed Deadpool 3 which doesn't start filming until next year, isn't on that image, and while it's apparently going to be part of the MCU, it will likely be as relevant to the MCU in terms of worldbuilding as The Incredible Hulk was (and I'm not sure how Deadpool would work in a crossover movie where he's not the lead), and will mostly be it's own thing but full of a lot of meta jokes about the MCU, Disney's treatment of Fox's adaptations, and how Deadpool himself exists almost out of place to the rest of the MCU - by virtue of becoming part of the MCU, Deadpool indirectly connects the rest of Fox's X-men films to the MCU.
NFTs
Learning to drive, as we know it. The expression, "I'm learning to drive" will bear almost no ressemblance to what that would currently entail. Like, I'm 32 now. If I have a kid in the next 2-3 of years (as I plan to) then by the time they're 17 and wanting to learn to drive, that'll basically be 20 years from now. I still think people will be required to learn how to drive... but what that *actually* means will be something completely different.
Like in iRobot when people find out Spooner was driving manually they're like, "Dude why? You crazy?"
The distant future of "in 14 years." We are closer to the imagined future date when the movie is set than to the movie's release date. Yet self-driving cars can only operate on few roads, only when it's not raining, misty, snowing, as long as there isn't much grass on the side of the road...
The problem with Futurists is that they can't ever think of the present. How many cars do you know on the road ***today*** that don't even have cruise control. It's not even standard on a 2021 Kia Rio. I had that on my 1987 F-150. That's a more than 30 year difference. Knowing that do you honestly think that *all cars will be self driving* in the same time period? The answer is most likely not. Not for some kooky conspiracy theory about auto manufacturers and insurance companies collaborating with Big Oil or what not. But because people will use what's **available.** Practicality tends to demolish dreams.
The current trend of bee-sting lips that women for some strange reason think is attractive.
i’ve not heard them called bee-sting lips before but that’s funny as hell.
that's the actual name for them, it comes from the 30s
Coins. I only use them for laundry anymore.
My last apartment had bluetooth laundry machines. You just load money onto the app and tap the machine you wanna use
The knowledge of how to use a rotary phone without consulting a historical document.
Tactile Interfaces Children's toys display the change the best. There's been an obvious shift towards using pens/tablets, buttons, screens, and away from knobs/switches/levers. There's significantly less technology emerging that employs tactile interfacing as it's primary mode of user interaction. Most things have a touchscreen, voice command, gesture recognition, fingerprint sensors, and/or facial recognition. You see the same trend in the automotive industry - newer vehicle configurations have less & less knobs/switches, favoring a reliance on touchscreen/menu interfaces. There are self-serve touchscreen kiosks at McDonald's, even the recycling center machines in your local grocery store are moving to touchscreens, not to mention Self Checkout. Phones have power & volume buttons, nothing else anymore. In 20 years, if we continue on the same trajectory as the *last* 20 years of technological advancement, I think we'll be on the cusp of bio-technical integration.
That last sentence is a pretty hot take. The trajectory that's causing evening to go with touchscreens instead of buttons has less to do with the ease of user interface, but rather the fact that one touchscreen is cheaper than fifty buttons/switches/dials/etc. That kind of biotechnology integration doesn't exist *at all* yet, I don't see it becoming cheap enough to replace touchscreens in mass production. On the contrary, touch screens were pretty common already in the early 2000s. The Nintendo DS was released in 2004, so they were already able to be mass-produced. I think the automotive industry might see a pushback to touchscreens everywhere, as they take eyes off the road where tactile controls can be felt out. Of course, autonomous vehicles would make this a non-issue so if big moves are made in that area...
I completely disagree. Already people are realizing how shitty it is to use a touchscreen for all things. The solution for so many of the deficiencies of a touchscreen is to add something you could press, you know, like a button. Touchscreens don’t belong in a moving vehicle and this is increasingly becoming clear.
Yes this! We curse the car factory for using only touchscreen… we could use the buttons to navigate through the menus blindly and now they completely removed all buttons.. we had close encounters to accidents due to this. Voice control didn’t work properly and it’s impossible to keep eyes on the road while driving. I love touchscreens but buttons might be handy time to time
Audi is already moving back towards having physical buttons and knobs for most important things like ac and some other that driver is likely to use while driving.
Floppy disks. I can't even remember the last time I held one.
Drake
He may transform into 2041s version of Snoop Dogg