Nothing lasts forever, but it sure is going to be sad to see some of these things go. Here are a list of 35 predictions of things people think will not be around for long.
1. Goodbye Little Ones
Native species of Ladybugs in the US. There are more than 500 different species of Ladybugs native to the US, but have been declining in population most noticeably since around 1997 or so. The effects of their disappearance, should they go extinct, can be significant, as they play a critical role in controlling the populations of agricultural pests such as aphids, scale, white flies and spider mites. This would affect forage crops like alfalfa and clover, or food crops like wheat and potatoes.
One theory is that they may be getting displaced over time by other non-native species, like the Asian ladybug Harmonia axyridis, or the 7-spotted ladybug from Europe, Coccinella septempunctata, though that is not something all scientists agree on.
Tmthrow
2. Shop ‘Til You Drop
Why deal with a line to check out? Why deal with people at all? I can buy what I want in seconds online. People are increasingly shopping online, soon it will take over our lives!
slickeddie
3. Small Town Life
This isn’t 100%, but I grew up in Southern Iowa. People in/around my generation went to college in other places, and now work in other places. So these towns are like retirement communities now. I think small towns will die out, because most people who live in them commute to the cities, and will tire of that and move. The farmers in small towns will lose there jobs because of big corporation take over.
lovespunstoomuch
4. Hold The Line
Landlines, at least where I live nobody who moves into a new place wants to have a land line anymore, it has been replaced by cellphones.
PrimeCronus
5. Goodbye Boob Tube
Television subscribers. I know very few people in my age group who still watch TV, and it’s usually only because they live somewhere that already had it. Between internet streaming sites, Netflix, and downloads, there are just so many better, cheaper options.
ThisGamesStupid
6. Pretty Handwriting
Cursive. I remember them telling us we’d have to write everything like this, but hardly anyone does. Especially since computers can along.
najing_ftw
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7. Entry Level Jobs
Be nice to your machine overlords and the lonely engineers that program them.
b8le
8. Midnight Drive
Driving around just for the sake of it.
Thomasrdotorg
9. Privacy
People are totally okay with the government/corporations having access to all their personal thoughts and preferences.
“Hello is this facebook? I’d like to put up everything about me for anyone to see, thank you!”
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10. Don’t Drink The Water
The number of non polluted lakes/rivers/forests. I cant go fishing or hunting anymore without seeing someones garbage on the trail or shore or even underwater.
Jnut1377
11. End-User Control
More devices are coming standard with whatever software the higher-ups decide are best for the consumer (often bloatware/spyware/etc) and many hardware manufacturers are making it more and more difficult for the end user to have control over what their devices do, or the data that is collected.
Jehovacoin
12. Reach For The Sky
Astronomer here! Skies that are dark enough to see the Milky Way come to mind- the great majority of people live now in places where you’ll never know what it looks like. Which doesn’t sound like a huge detail until you remember all our ancestors until a century or so ago would have known that view intimately well.
Andromeda321
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13. Don’t Speak
Languages, entire languages are being lost due to globalization and the spread of current technology, due to things like the formal adoption of English as the second language for many European countries. Children are therefore encouraged to focus on English skills with the hopes of better work abroad, and other languages are being left behind.
Other languages such as ancient dialects that are known to only a few select people or stored in books are also becoming less known due to a lack of interest.
Maddogs1
14. No One Talks Like That
People that say YOLO. They’ve either stopped saying it or died.
MTK13
16. Biodiversity
We’re currently in the middle of the biggest extinction event since the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago and we are the cause.
The worst areas for this are those we do not yet understand or are remote and therefore less studied. We don’t know about the majority of the species on the earth and these species fit together to make up those ecosystems. This goes doubly so for remote areas like rain forest, ocean, or especially deep ocean ecosystems. We’ve studied humans more than any other species and we’re just now figuring out about the importance of the bacterial ecosystem in our guts. What of all the other crucial ecosystems in the world? We’re killing this stuff off because we’re not even aware of the harm we’re causing and because we don’t understand it there’s no putting this egg back together if it breaks.
Why should we even care? Well, first we’re making a lot of our new technology right out of nature’s playbook. Millions of years of evolution have made millions of amazing solutions that solve problems humans face too. From disease to energy to materials, you name it nature has answers for us. Or had. We’re ripping pages from nature’s playbook as fast as we can and before we’ve learned to read them. At what cost, we will never know.
We are dependant for our existence on these ecosystems for our survival. The whole of human evolution has occurred in this period of relative stability. Remember how I said we don’t yet understand these ecosystems? That means we don’t understand what will fully break them either, yet we seem to be doing our level best to harm them all we can. Remember when I said ocean ecosystems were the ones we least understand? Over half the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean ecosystems.
We have played with fire for a long time. We may soon get burned.
techniforus
17. Civil Debate
It seems no one is capable of talking with someone that holds a different opinion.
Dicktremain
18. I Like Sports
Sports uniforms without advertising.
oxenchunk
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19. You Can Drive My Car
Manual transmission cars.
loJohn
20. Goodbye Oranges
The state of Florida is slowly disappearing into the ocean. Due to climate change, the sea level has been steadily rising over the years, albeit very, very slowly. We won’t be around to see the day when most of Florida is completely under water, and that’s probably not for another hundreds of years, but it is happening.
Omnipotent_Goose
21. “I’m Melting”
Glacier National Park. It is truly one of the most beautiful national parks in the US. In 1850, we surveyed 150 glaciers. As of 2010, only 35 remain, and only 25 are active. If current warming trends continue, there will be no more glaciers in Glacier National Park by 2030.
lolzfeminism
22. I Will Survive
Low tech survival skills. A lot of people (including myself) don’t know how to grow, preserve, or hunt food nor do they know foraging skills. We’re completely dependent on the grid and as you can see in Venezuela, this is a dangerous dependence to have.
We should all know how to take care of ourselves.
RabbitRobotica
23. I Want To Live Forever
People from the 19th century. The final person from the 1800s was Emma Murano who died over the weekend. There are only two people left now both from 1900 (the 20th century started in 1901). Imagine all the things that happened in the 19th century, all the people who lived and the monumental changes that happened. Soon there’ll be nobody left from that time.
zerbey
24. Our House… In The Middle Of The Street
Affordable housing.
Midnight_Morning
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25. Enjoy Your Movie
From 1909 until around 2009, almost all movie theatres used 35mm film projection systems.
Due to increasing costs, there was a huge push for major theatre chains to convert entirely to digital. This occurred from 2005-2015.
As of now, almost all movie theatres are entirely digital, and only a few remain.
Since film distributors are now sending films in almost exclusively digital format, it is highly likely that you’ll never see a 35mm film in a movie theatre for the rest of your life.
gronke
26. Human Patience
Remember how we would patiently wait for the dial up internet to connect, now we refresh a page if it does not load within a second. Bus doesn’t arrive on time? Better refresh my app. Technology has shaped us to expect things to appear in front of us in an instant. Improved technology definitely has its benefits but our patience to wait for something is slowly disappearing.
PuPuNanDerrs
28. Someone To Talk To
Meaningful and deep conversations among people with dedicated time, even if it is with some stranger you met.
i_am_infinity
29. Listen To The Music
Classical music and Orchestras. Sad that one day I might see/be a homeless classical musician who can’t afford to perform at concerts or maintain instruments or have a living wage.
Very little classical is being written nowadays too.
Thepowersss
30. Learn From History
History departments, at least in the US. Most universities are cutting them down slowly but surely. They don’t bring in enough money or students to justify the expense in most places, sadly.
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31. Picture Perfect
I think photo albums are slowly disappearing what with everything being digital and online nowadays. I absolutely love looking through my grandparents old photo albums and I have a feeling that when I’m a grandparent my grandkids will be looking online rather then through a big thick photo album full of photos that had been developed.
Ticklemypricklypear
32. Shopping malls
I live near a dying mall that was once so popular it was a tourist destination from neighboring states. Now barely a third of it is occupied. As the big anchor stores like Sears go under, so goes the mall.
Scrappy_Larue
33. Stranger Danger
Starting up conversations with random strangers is pretty rare nowadays. On buses, trains, planes, etc., people are so absorbed in their phones or technology that they don’t even take the time to exchange a greeting with the person they’re seated next to.
Sanniku
34. What’s Your Number?
Knowing people’s phone numbers.
applesaucemaster