What things will die out in the next 10 years?

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I think people tend to overestimate the speed of progress. Most of the things listed here will still be around in 10 years time. They will just be less common and perhaps somewhat changed. CDs may completely give way to DVDs, Blu-Ray or whatever, but from the user point of view they're basically the same thing. Even porn shops - they may not sell much porn any more, but will still be around to sell sex toys.' Even landline phones will still exist, they'll just use VOIP rather than PSTN.

As for downloading music - the quality doesn't have to be worse, it depends on the compression level. You can even download uncompressed music. A CD is only about 700 MB, which is nothing with today's Internet speeds.

And a chip implanted in our heads? Maybe some day, but not in 10 years. The really cool thing would be adding digital memory to your brain, not GPS location - then you'd never have to worry about forgetting anything! But that's a long way away yet.

I'm trying to think of things that disappeared over the last 10 years, but can't really come up with any.

pete1061, try the Lazarus browser extension (see sig link) or just copy to clipboard manually, as already suggested (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C).

Give it a hundred years and virtually everything may be done online for some people. I saw a sci-fi film a little while ago similar to the Matrix where people just plugged their brain into their computer and got into their "avatar" and went out and about in an artificial world using that. Perhaps like the game "second life" becoming "first life".

Please, go into detail as to why you say there is no wage slavery, and how you define wage slavery.

-- brick and mortar retail (they will always exist, but the big box stores will be dinosaurs)
-- shopping malls, particularly lower-end ones
-- suburban sprawl (it'll exist, but only the poorest will move into suburbs)
-- cheap fresh water
-- dozens of languages
-- truck drivers (the driverless car's dominance will occur in the space of years)
-- my extra weight
-- the integrity of the dollar?

Most of the changes I can see have something to do with climate change. It's time we shift focus away from halting or reducing climate change, and instead adapt to it.

I think the driver-less car will take more like 20 or so years to get all the bugs out of the concept and be trustworthy enough for mass adoption.

That's what U.S. prison labor is in my opinion where the inmates often make like 2 cents per hour. lol

Oh. I thought they asked to predict what happens in ten to twenty years. My bad.

Yeah, it'll still be a while before it's mainstream. The main issue, I think, is not technical. Driver-less cars may already be as safe as human drivers (who are not all that safe). The issue is liability: insurance companies don't want to insure driver-less cars and people are reluctant to drive (err... ride?) without insurance. Who is going to be liable if a driver-less car causes damage, anyway? Presumably the owner, who may not even be in the car at the time. But little by little it will happen, somehow.

Prisons is another thing entirely. Among non convicts those who are employed are employed of their own free will to the employer who pays their wage. No one has a put a gun to their heads or put them in chains.

ruveyn

Also, select and copy your work before hitting "Submit." Then, if you have to do it over, you can just past it back into a new post.

So you are thinking of a more literal, chattle type slavery.

What many refer to "wage slavery" are low income blue collar jobs that pay so little that one basically only has enough to obtain the basics and keep returning to work. Oh yeah, one has the choice to leave the job, but most likely just get another on the same income level. I agree it's not really "slavery". But it's a very futile cycle of life. But people do have the choice in that cycle if they only apply enough determination and focus to achieve a more rewarding career.

Then there's the factories in less developed countries, FOXCONN for example, near slave conditions. Something isn't right there if workers are seeing suicide as the only way to quit their job.
Those abuses are something I'd like to see disappear soon. I think it's close enough to call slavery, not old-style chattle slavery, but slavery none the less.

Extremely low wage jobs in american prisons? I do believe the inamates do have the choice to not work and just hang out in their cell & yard. But the social structure of prison may apply force to the inmate choice of getting a prison job, then they could be a slave, just a slave of another inmate.


Magneto would have to explain what was meant by "wage slavery".

Cursive handwriting / Calligraphy

Poetry that rhymes and has regular metre.

The shock induced upon others by "coming out" to them as LGBT or Q.

The videotape. Who uses a VCR now?

Vinyls also have superior quality to CDs, but ultimately yielded to CDs because of portability issues. The very same thing happened to CDs in favour of streaming and MP3s. Given that Spotify Premium allows 320 kbps, you no longer notice much of a difference compared to CDs.

Stuff that will die out within the next decade:

- Phones with buttons
- Landline telephones
- Hard drives
- "Regular" TV channels
- Boomboxes

I am a Proud Aspie. I take EVERYTHING literally. I do not bend, mutilate or fold words and meanings to suite my argument de jour.

ruveyn

Hopefully religion being one of those 10 things, particularly the Abrahamic religions so i dont have to be hated for not believing in some invisible imaginary make believe being from a book of fairy tales that contradicts itself time and time again and provides no physical evidence of any existence. The whole worship this being or burn for an eternity doesnt sound very nice not to mention people blowing themselves up for an imaginary friend doesnt help things with society either not to mention forbidding science advancements like stem cell research and cloning and such which could help the human race progress by far. I just notice most of the advanced countries are mainly athiest take a look at Shanghai Tokyo etc mostly athiest populous heh. If religion is done away with there would be a lot less wars and crap.

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