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Putting margarine or spread if you will, on your knife flat to the tub, and longways. Difficult as the product diminishes.
In the future, all intelligent life will adopt my approach of upending the tub, knife in at right angles and taking a full depth spread across the width of the tub working one end to the other as the margarine is used.
Much better, except for when using brands with round tub ends.
Margerine ? is it 1995 ?
Imprisoning animals in our homes.
Admittedly I’ve never had kids but I’d even baulk at calling my mates little bastards animals
fox hunting
driven grouse shooting
Heather burning
raptor killing
Owning more than one property.
If thats a dig at me I am selling it to the tenant 🙂
No just a general view. I don't particularly have an issue with landlording if its done ethically and i have absolutely no doubt you are a good and fair landlord.
I do have an issue with second and holiday homers who buy out communities and make them ghost towns. This is in part
I just can't see either remaining that viable either through taxing or just cost of everything making it harder and harder to own just one.
Car clubs already exist - as do other community managed transport schemes. they work really well. I know folk for whom a car club car is their only car. You pay a fee per hour and/or per mile.
In a city perhaps but rural towns and villages etc it just becomes impractical.
In a city perhaps but rural towns and villages etc it just becomes impractical.
Not impractical, impossible. The whole public transport / car sharing / car club thing is only going to work when we have robots doing ALL of the jobs required outside of cities and we've relocated the population into conurbations. It's amazing that, time after time, we have to keep reiterating the fact that there are simply no options for those living outside cities.
I'm going to stop procrastinating. Starting tomorrow. Or, if that fails, some time after that.
Not impractical, impossible. The whole public transport / car sharing / car club thing is only going to work when we have robots doing ALL of the jobs required outside of cities and we've relocated the population into conurbations. It's amazing that, time after time, we have to keep reiterating the fact that there are simply no options for those living outside cities.
simply not true. Jeepers the lack of imagination. You can have a pool of short and longer term hire vehicles in every town, you can order one on the app and it drives itself to your house at the time you specify. You can increase train and buses for those who do not drive
The only part of the UK this would be difficult ( not impossible) Is the highlands due to low population density once north of the great glen
many folk in rural areas do not have access to cars at the moment. This sort of thing would make life so much easier for them
this is already happening.
https://www.gov.wales/car-club-network-will-connect-rural-communities-thanks-1-million-boost
Getting paid by insurance companies with a cheque
Getting paid by insurance companies with a cheque
Good point. They'll find a way to make it more awkward and difficult before too long
Still it's another good reason not to waste time on social media...
How long did it take you to write all that, on social media?
Get married.
Have kids. Clearly some will, but I do wonder/fear how far the birth rates will fall. Purely anecdotal, but in my group of friends a good chunk have chosen not to have kids and those that have had 1.
Cremation.
Take one of the biggest carbon stores of the biosphere (humans), and use even more stored carbon (hydrocarbons) to reduce them to ash that doesn't even get used as a fertiliser or as a feed for soil organisms. A criminal waste of resources.
Owning anything - it'll all be on subscription.
It's what the rich have always strove for - to own the poor completely.
Cremation.
Take one of the biggest carbon stores of the biosphere (humans), and use even more stored carbon (hydrocarbons) to reduce them to ash that doesn't even get used as a fertiliser or as a feed for soil organisms. A criminal waste of resources.
Mrs TJ is in a few folks veg plots 🙂
(edit - her ashes that is 🙂 )
I'd be surprised if boxing remains a sport. I absolutely love watching the big fights, but will be amazed if at some point people don't realise that paying to watch two people thump each other is just madness and a bit barbaric.
It's probably still a way off, but I do think that Alcohol will eventually go the way of smoking. The majority of people will realise that it's ridiculous we drink something that is poisonous to our body and has a hugely detrimental impact on health (physical and mental) and society.
I expect I also wont exist by then, so in the meantime will continue to enjoy a few beers whilst watching the fight 😀
I'm not religious, not against the concept of it either. I think it'll remain though, for the reasons it has existed in some form or another for so long. Even if we did get beyond a society where some abuse power systems like religion or business for personal gains, I think enough people will still have a sense of wonder or a question that only something like a spiritual faith can answer.
Religion today is what your parents told you.
Spiritual faith has no answers beyond "we don't know, so here's some crap we made up instead to make you feel better."
Jeepers the lack of imagination. You can have a pool of short and longer term hire vehicles in every town, you can order one on the app and it drives itself to your house at the time you specify.
Why bother when "taxis" exist? Seems awfully inefficient when you could have a big long vehicle which you could stuff a load of people into, someone should invent that.
The whole point of car ownership is immediacy, it is HERE and it is NOW. You want to reduce car ownership, stick double yellows absolutely everywhere that isn't a car park and have a 15 minute timer on the 'go' button.
Of course, then local economies would collapse countrywide, but here we are. My lifetime home was in a former mill town, that all went to shit when the cotton industry died and nothing replaced it. Some time later the borough council introduced a free - FREE mind you - disc parking system on the streets and car parks, the already-on-its-knees town centre imploded so rapidly that they abandoned the idea within weeks.
Kill the car, kill the town, we don't all live in an affluent captial city. Shall I have a walk around the block from my front door and take a tally of formerly thriving but now empty storefronts after Renovations slung some yellow paint about? No-one is going to use an app to rent a car which will hopefully arrive at some point if visiting sodding Burnley is a more attractive prospect than going into Accrington because that required a bit of cardboard.
The drive to my closest train station is 10-15 minutes. The bus there is maybe three quarters of an hour and of course, services stop when it goes dark so good luck getting home. Walking would be an hour and a half even at my pace. A taxi is a £15 round trip. Cycling is theoretically plausible but I'm ****ed if I'm leaving a four-figure bike at Burnley train station. And that's just to get to a train before I've started a journey proper.
Cycling is theoretically plausible but I'm ****ed if I'm leaving a four-figure bike at Burnley train station.
I forgot to add "assuming your bike will still be there if you leave it at a train station", by future I mean, you really should be doing this now.
I'd be surprised if boxing remains a sport.
I couldn't be less interested in it, but I debated this at college and was lumped into the 'in favour of' team. It was enlightening.
The problem is, if it's not permitted then it goes underground. No more rules, no regulations, no control, no PPE, just two blokes who failed GCSE Art knocking bells out of each other for the entertainment of a braying mob prepping for an evening's roundabout vandalism.
Boxing has to exist as a sport for this reason alone, the alternative is far worse. It won't just stop, look at drugs.
Cougar - this is already happening - read the links above. I have used a car club. NO looking for parking, a new car available anytime I want it from city runabouts to vans.
We are NOT talking about the situation NOW - we are talking about the future.
Self driving cars and car club cars and the like are far cheaper than taxis because you are not paying a driver
Again - this is already happening
No-one is going to use an app to rent a car which will hopefully arrive at some point if visiting sodding Burnley is a more attractive prospect than going into Accrington because that required a bit of cardboard.
This tech is being used now and is highly successful Whats not to like about having cheaper, more convenient ( no hunting for parking etc) individualised transport?
A huge boon to to the poor, the elderly, the disabled etc
I'd be surprised if boxing remains a sport. I absolutely love watching the big fights, but will be amazed if at some point people don't realise that paying to watch two people thump each other is just madness and a bit barbaric.
With the money involved in worldwide pay-per-view revenues, theres about as much chance of banning it as there is in banning Premier League football
Again - this is already happening
Where?
"Again" - you live in a relatively affluent capital city.
You do have a singularly hyper-focused monocular view, which can be of great value to discussions but it blinkers you. The rest of the country doesn't function like Jeremyworld (though I kinda wish it did), good luck finding a self-driving long term hire car in Padiham.
Whats not to like about having cheaper, more convenient ( no hunting for parking etc) individualised transport?
Cost? Environment? Infrastructure? Rock up on a rickshaw and we'll talk, why cars?
We already have these things. It's written into my house deeds (in a weird bluish ink like a crap tattoo) that I have legally enshrined right of passage for my horse. Despite being born on a farm I'm no expert in such matters, but I think they do self-park to some degree.
With the money involved in worldwide pay-per-view revenues, theres about as much chance of banning it as there is in banning Premier League football
Too right.
I am sure a (not quite to the death) Hunger Games or Rollerball is coming to a streaming service soon 😉 🤣
In the future nobody will attempt to predict the future.
My daughters (both 16) do a mix of the two – lots of Shein stuff, but almost equal amount of buying (and selling) on Vinted, which is a start.
3 daughters all in their 20's and working so could buy new but mostly don't and get used stuff off Vinted/eBay.
Even MrsSB is buying a bit off Vinted and I have no issue with buying used clothes if good quality.
Car/driving disappearing: never going to happen [in the next 30 years... esp car ownership.
Where?
Read the links I put abo0ve
Self driving instant hire cars - san fransico. In its infancy but a huge success. Its only been going a decade or less. Imagine how it will be in 25 years.
Car clubs - all over the place including rural wales and Scotland. I looked - there are some in tiny places in rural scotland.
dockless electric scooters - all over the place ditto bikes and electric mopeds
Now extrapolate this into the future. When all these modes are in place countrywide then there will be no need to own a car - why own your own car when the alternatives are cheaper, easier, more convenient? When it allows disabled, poor and elderly to be able to move around
Again - we are talking about the future. Not the situation that exists now but what is going to happen in the future. Its not me that has the blinkers here. This has the potential to totally revolutionize the way we travel
Again I ask - why would anyone own a car when these schemes are cheaper and more convenient? NO hunting fo0r a parking space, no servicing to arrange, no unexpected big repair bills, a car at your beck and call anytime you want it.
What's more convenient than walking 10 m to your car getting in and driving off?
I live 1 and 1/2 miles away from a little village that will very likely never have a car rental place. How do I get to these magical car rental places??
You seem to think that we all live in cities, a lot of people don't. You have a number of views that are formed because you live in a city... Those are your blinkers.
This is the future. You don't go to the car rental place, you order one to arrive at your house. It's an Uber without a driver. And they're everywhere with more than a few houses.
I don't believe private car ownership will disappear, but it'll be the exception.
This is the future.
I'm really quite surprised that when it comes to cars, so many people appear to flatly reject the idea that anything other than the 2025 status quo will ever be possible
What's more convenient than walking 10 m to your car getting in and driving off?
Not having to find a parking space either at your destination or near home. Not having to organise servicing and repairs, not having to pay for the repairs. Having the correct vehicle for your needs every time. ie a small runabout if its just you and a big van when you need one to move furniture
There are already a variety of car share schemes all over the UK including in rural areas and we are late adopters to this. Its not just for cities and it will increase mobility for the poor the old and the disabled
What's more convenient than walking 10 m to your car getting in and driving off?
One big advantage of cycling over driving is that commuting always takes the same amount of time. I don't have to make allowances for traffic jams or finding a parking space.
Admin work, office jobs, warehouse and inventory.
Replaced by a combination of software systems, AI, machines and part-time contractors to do the only bits that require any form of human intervention, occasional oversite and maintenance.
Typing. I think typing won’t exist.
Work. Either by design or by accident. Almost everything is going to be automated, probably much faster than we think. If by design we (or rather our kids) can look forward to a life of leisure and/or voluntary activity, if by accident a life of grinding poverty and financial insecurity awaits. I think we can probably guess which one is more likely.
Not having to find a parking space either at your destination or near home. Not having to organise servicing and repairs, not having to pay for the repairs. Having the correct vehicle for your needs every time. ie a small runabout if its just you and a big van when you need one to move furniture
There are already a variety of car share schemes all over the UK including in rural areas and we are late adopters to this. Its not just for cities and it will increase mobility for the poor the old and the disabled
You've never rented a car, have you.
"There's a minor scuff on the wing mirror housing which we've already charged 47 previous customers for yet never actually fixed, are you using both of those kidneys?"
I rent cars all the time and that has never happened to me. I have used car clubs and that has never happened to me - indeed it cannot with car clubs.
Admin work, office jobs, warehouse and inventory.
Replaced by a combination of software systems, AI, machines and part-time contractors to do the only bits that require any form of human intervention, occasional oversite and maintenance.
With warehouses were already there. I was doing some design work for one of the big interweb shopping places and they asked if I fancied a tour of their state of the art warehousing operation, which they’d just spent an absolute fortune on.
It was gobsmacking! An enormous warehouse, automated to the point where they don’t bother putting the lights on in the place, apart from the area where they’re doing any maintenance, because there’s nobody in there, just robots. As stock goes out, the inventory is checked and updated and low stock is ordered automatically on their systems.
Instead of people on forklifts and pallet trucks, with pickers lugging boxes around, there were about ten staff, monitoring the equipment on screens and a maintenance crew to keep the machines running.
It’s a very, very long way from my warehouse summer jobs I had when I was a student. If any of those jobs still exist, they won’t do for long
(Apologies to MrSparkle)
Exist. Once the AI driven killer robots realise they don’t need us anymore we’ll be toast.
Contribute to and utilise the internet anonymously.
You will have a single identity, facilitated by a central identity provider - like Microsoft Entra, Octa or Meta. Everything you do will be linked to that: your banking, email, social media, forum participation, media subscription, travel tickets, passport application, tax returns, NHS login, even VPN login. All centrally provisioned, logged, audited, cross referenced, sold, mined and exploited.
We’re seeing trends towards centralisation in the industry, the way society is heading, I don’t think it’ll be long before governments cotton onto its advantages for general control.
Scary $hit.
There's no car club, how could that even work with insurance, tax, MOT, servicing etc etc
Well there are already plenty of car clubs around that prove the concept works for those who only occasionally need a car for short periods. The thread isn’t asking what will change overnight it’s asking what will future generations look back on and find quaint. I don’t expect that car clubs will actually be the long term solution - Uber style services where you tap in your requirements and a car appears will be much more likely to succeed.
Will we get there? Perhaps if a political party manages to find a way to tax people for storing their cars on the road.
My list, so far:
- Over the counter fireworks. Yep, lets sell actual rockets to the public
- Vaping
- Splitting up older couples when one of them goes into residential care
- Phones / Social media for kids
- Religion, all forms
- Driven grouse moors
What else have you got?
That feels like a list of things you disapprove of rather than things that will be necessarily become extinct and then seem bizarre to future generations.
The idea that we force people to keep living regardless of their prognosis will almost certainly seem bizzare in 100 years. The idea that it took so long to change because of religious influence even more so. I don’t think Religion will disappear like you suggest but its involvement in anyway with the state, schools etc will become something unthinkable… eventually.
your care home point is interesting - given the costs involved it may actually be that care homes themselves no longer exist in the way that we know today.
I’m not convinced about phones / social media for kids going away. If Social Media is going to die out - why just for kids - it probably does more harm in the world amongst adults! Phones bring too many advantages to children, they and those who look after them need to learn who to manage them not remove them.
so just to throw an alternative thought into your future “utopia” — the riding of bicycles on the public highway! And I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that individuals can simply walk up a mountain free of charge.