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Humans are interesting creatures. Looking from the outside, it might seem that we accept many weird things as absolutely normal. In fact, we don’t even have to look from the outside, just look at our past and see what kind of today’s oddities we consider to be normal.
In this list, you’ll find plenty of today’s normal things that people think will lose their normality in 10+ years.
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#1
"Influencers" Which is a stupid name for them what do they influence? and are they a Good/Bad influence? (I've seen mostly bad)
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#2
Hopefully family vlog-style social media content. I think we’ll have a wave of kids who grew up being featured on popular family YouTube channels (or TikTok, or any other platform) reach adulthood and speak out about how unhealthy it was. We already have some who were filmed on family reality shows that aired on TV channels like TLC, but the proliferation of these on social media is so much more widespread.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
I hope OP is right. No child needs to be brought up as entertainment.
#3
The 5-day work week. 4 days is better and just as productive.
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
Also universal basic income. Our society won't be able to move forward without that.
#5
Hopefully we'll have a biodegradable replacement for all of the single-use plastics that we're creating.
Microplastics have now found their way into virtually every ecosystem on Earth.
#6
Owning things outright without having to pay a subscription.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
You know, that was how it USED to be - when you bought a physical DVD or VHS tape, you owned it outright. Interesting (and heartening) to see that people want to go back to “ownership” instead of “subscription” - even if the products are all digital now.
#8
Politicians being a minimum age of 500, hopefully.
Craftsman 64 1 year ago
Term limits and maximum age for all 3 US branches of government including the Supreme Court.
#9
Unregulated phone use for minors. It’s already starting to change.
Craftsman 64 1 year ago
Call me old fashioned but that's not something that needs to be regulated - it's part of a parent's job, not the government's. Personal responsibility.
Meowzers! 1 year ago (edited)
A parent can regulate their childs access. An individual can regulate themselves, i.e., regulate food intake. Regulation doesn't only mean government control.
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RamiRudolph 1 year ago
Hopefully less of it. No toddler in a baby carriage needs to look at videos on a phone or tablet.
Rostit. . 1 year ago
parents need to parent. Im sick of seeing people saying " this needs to protect the children" How about they actually being a parent for a change?
Casey 1 year ago
I didn't have a phone until I was 15 and at the time I hated it so much cos everyone else seemed to have one. Now I'm thankful my parents didn't get me one at a young age. I had an iPod and secretly got social media as a kid and it was very very bad for me. Lucky my parents found out and I had to delete it. Kids should not have phones and should not be on social media
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
I don't mind kids having phones since they come in handy for rides and emergencies. The answer is giving them *basic* flip-phones that can only make calls/texts. There's also something called Gabb phones that are supposedly safer than a smart phone that kids can access harmful sites.
David 1 year ago
Yeah, NO THANK YOU. This is a parental thing, not a governmental thing. Possibly OP is talking about regulations on the companies at the other end. The ones harvesting data / marketing to minors. I do agree there is a need for more of that and it is easy to say there will be since these changes are already happening. But the actual control of the minor using a phone (or not) should be up to the family, same as it is for most things.
#10
If social media history is any indication, TikTok won’t be the most popular app among teens in 10 years.
#13
Drawing on giant eyebrows.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
Look, if it makes people happy, who am I to judge? Yes I think they look a bit stupid but it doesn’t affect you.
#14
The way we treat addiction. The disease model will go out of style (thank god) and we will treat it as a behavioral disorder (because that’s what it is). And we will be able to mitigate this behavior BEFORE it gets so out of hand and treatment centers will stop outsourcing their actual f*****g treatment to twelve step programs!! The future is bright in this area.
Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago
12 step programs feel like a cult to me. It does NOT help to list every f*****g wrong you ever made, go flipping rocks with 10 year old dumpster fires underneath by apologizing for them and sharing all of it with someone else. Not one bit of it does anything but bring all your trauma to the forefront and reignite it instead of moving on into the future
#15
At some point, maybe 20 years away, cash will become an oddity and we will all just spend money electronically.
MarieL 1 year ago
Digital currency removes all privacy from purchases. The government doesn't need to know what I buy, where I buy it, or how frequently I buy something. Not to mention that the gov't will have complete control over you finances > they can turn off your credit cards, close your bank accounts, and leave you with nothing INSTANTLY. I'll hold onto MY cash, thank you very much.
#19
Letting children have unfettered access to all information all the time and specifically giving them tacit permission and encouragement to use social media
Zoey Rayne 1 year ago
And to watch whatever junk they want on youtube. Even out of the less problematic videos on youtube kids, half of them are still just extended toy commercials.
#20
Paying for all our electricity from a power company. The future is and always has been on-site generation for EVERYTHING. Most cities are putting "solar-readiness" clauses in their building codes so new homes are being built ready to fit it on already and get great efficiency.
And I live in Houston, the oil/energy capital of the country. Happened 7 years ago. Solar has always been the future. Just a matter of people learning about it without a pitch.
Edit: to clarify, for the places that undeniably get more than enough sun to provide solar for homes it's the future. It just makes sense. Places that don't have sun are an example of what oil/gas electricity is good for. On-demand/emergency electricity generation when better means won't work. Oil and gas isn't the best solution but it is pretty damn good in places where it's cold and cloudy
The Doom Song 1 year ago
Solar power in Western Australia is great! We "sell" back to the grid and coz it's always sunny here we "sell" a lot.
#22
Having screens everywhere.
I know I know. Seems like we are going the opposite way.
But I could see a world where we have so much tech integrated into phones and so much screen time that it becomes unclassy to have TVs in every room of the house or a computer sitting out.
Centering your entire living room around a TV will be considered kinda trashy. Screens will be looked at as something to simplify or reduce.
SweetCheesySpaghetti 1 year ago
You can kind of already see this, with projectors and retractable screens becoming more popular, and those TVs that look like art when not turned on. I can definitely see TVs becoming more hidden, and used less.
#23
I’m probably being too hopeful here but I hope it’s shopping on Amazon.
They’re horrible now and with all the better options (even eBay is better), they don’t deserve their success anymore. They mostly sell fake Chinese c**p now, have unreliable delivery times, bad packaging, worse customer service than before, etc. Don’t even get me started on getting returned, open items as ‘new’ and having to wait 2 weeks for the refund.
RamiRudolph 1 year ago
Speak for yourself. For me as a customer, Amazon is the best and most reliable online shop right now.
#24
Life without pandemics: the 21st century will have more, some likely worse than COVID.
There's a number of reasons for this. Zoonotic spillover, e.g. from pathogens originating in Amazonian bats. More broadly because travel, urbanization, climate change, increased contact with animals, and healthcare worker shortages are a powderkeg for crises like this.
This and other societal pressures — e.g. the need for compression of morbidity as rising numbers of retirees become an untenable burden on younger workers — will lead to a jobs shift toward medical science and care, just as some jobs are being replaced by AI and various forms of automation.
In coming decades we may not cure, but will do a much better job treating, many types of cancer as well as Alzheimers, diabetes, etc. Cases where these are debilitating or fatal will be unusual.
WindySwede 1 year ago
That's why animals needs better treatment, and all sorts of things here. Eat less meat, I eat meat but you can always lower the amount. I'm greatfull for new technology, minimising the side effects is always important. But antivaxers or those oppose governments/leadership can't see any good with medical breakthroughs? Hopefully many cures from m-RNA vaccines can be produced!
#26
Stable weather conditions that aren't dominated by extreme weather events
#27
I hope Reels (please God)
#28
Excessive phone screentime, I hope.
WindySwede 1 year ago
the only thing that phones will go away, and replaced by inplant, VR, AR, or alike?
#29
Hating on boomers.
But only because they'll mostly be dead by then.
elissa 1 year ago
Hopefully the generations will understand they can learn from each other. Older generations need to understand they are the ones who raised the younger ones - and younger generations will appreciate the knowledge of the older ones. The olders need to appreciate change - and encourage it because every generation has faults. The youngers need to understand the olders did what they could in their circumstances at the time. I'm gen x (1970) and I am so proud of the things gen z is trying to change. I can also appreciate the boomers did what they thought was right for the most part. And us gen Xers seem to always be stuck in the middle.
#31
Largely unrestricted travel through the developed world. I visited Europe this summer as an American and travelled effortlessly through six countries. The only even slight delays were England to EU and back. The rest didn’t even look at my passport, it was like traveling states in America.
Between increasing global migration, political splintering and tension, potential US drawback in world order-keeping role, likely increased terror incidents to come, economic turmoil, and yet unseen effects of climate change, I think we will see borders become harder to cross than today.
#32
Owning a house.
One absolute nightmare scenario for the future would be a company like Blackrock finagling the government into giving them the power of eminent domain seizure, then seizing whole neighborhoods and then renting them back to the former owners at a 500% markup.
Donkeywheel 1 year ago
Sweetie, that’s the US. Anywhere else there is no big corporations that own most of houses.
#34
Separate bathrooms for men and women
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago (edited)
Absolutely not, if OP means public communal bathrooms. Those who identify as female should NOT be forced into sharing bathroom spaces with those who identify as male. Children of either (or neither/no) gender should not be forced to share bathroom space with adults not of their gender (unless the child cannot use the restroom by themselves.) Non-binary and gender-neutral people should have a place where they feel comfortable. Private unisex/non-gendered bathrooms are a solution; unisex COMMUNAL bathrooms are not.
#35
Heavily praising people born in the early 2020s for successfully using a toilet.
What do you think ?
donnie supremacy (she/her) 1 year ago
ugh half of these were just "internet bad, delete every social media ever."
PixxelDust 1 year ago
Yup. I agree that the current social media standards are unhealthy, but many of these people fail to realise that social media is a crucial platform for artists and small businesses. I feel like social media should be a place to share and create, not gatekeep, be political, and create false standards about beauty and society, but that doesn't mean everyone should just delete everything and never use the internet. I mean, it's here for a reason. Why should everyone have to keep to their own little corner?
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Rostit. . 1 year ago
I'm hoping the habit of people posting the exact same answer as has already been posted when posts like this are generated. I mean you only have to look through 5 posts to see social media has been listed. Of a list of 40 answers, there are only about 17 unique ones and everything else is just a copy.
Jerry Mathers 1 year ago
I'm hoping the habit of people posting the exact same answer as has already been posted when posts like this are generated. I mean you only have to look through 5 posts to see social media has been listed. Of a list of 50 answers, there are only about 20 unique ones and everything else is just a copy.
donnie supremacy (she/her) 1 year ago
ugh half of these were just "internet bad, delete every social media ever."
PixxelDust 1 year ago
Yup. I agree that the current social media standards are unhealthy, but many of these people fail to realise that social media is a crucial platform for artists and small businesses. I feel like social media should be a place to share and create, not gatekeep, be political, and create false standards about beauty and society, but that doesn't mean everyone should just delete everything and never use the internet. I mean, it's here for a reason. Why should everyone have to keep to their own little corner?
Load More Replies... Rostit. . 1 year ago
I'm hoping the habit of people posting the exact same answer as has already been posted when posts like this are generated. I mean you only have to look through 5 posts to see social media has been listed. Of a list of 40 answers, there are only about 17 unique ones and everything else is just a copy.
Jerry Mathers 1 year ago
I'm hoping the habit of people posting the exact same answer as has already been posted when posts like this are generated. I mean you only have to look through 5 posts to see social media has been listed. Of a list of 50 answers, there are only about 20 unique ones and everything else is just a copy.
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