i’m talking about things we use without a second thought that might seem utterly ridiculous or inefficient in 50-100 years. like landlines or vhs players seemed to us. what’s your pick?
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like landlines or vhs players seemed to us.
Us? Us??
I’m pushing 40 and I’ve never owned my own VCR. When I was at university a landline was thrown in with our internet connection but we didn’t have a use for it. Landlines have been irrelevant my entire adult life.
That’s crazy to me. My parents still have a landline, and I used my VCR maybe two months ago to watch my copy of The Land Before Time. I’m almost 30. I know I could stream it online, but it just doesn’t hit the same
I’m in my 30s and we had a landline that we used primarily until like 2006
Nespresso pods.
This one of the products that have no rights to exist in this world. It should’ve stayed a fad where it died off silently because of how inadequate it is for long term production. It’s a product which solves no real world problem, and sold simply because the impulsiveness of capitalism told them to without questioning it.
And so the only reason this is so common is because they had deep pockets for the marketing budget.
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Net connected everything. The cracks are already showing but it’s going to get worse, and then it’ll swing back.
Phones, probably. At some point we’re not going to be carrying these things around. Whether replaced by an implant or some kind of wearable, I have no idea.
I think you need to think about the rate at which technology has advanced in the last hundred years in general, then look at how it changed in the 10 year increments in that period then extrapolate out what has plateaued vs ramped up.
Broadly speaking, there have been major changes but the telephone existed in 1925, so did refrigeration, powered flight, and cars.
Medical tech is really where I think the biggest difference has been, and where I think we will continue to see major changes. If you compare our medical knowledge of diseases, cancer, and genetics today vs 1925 it seems huge (to an outsider). The difference between a computer in 1950 and today is largely scale and computer power, yeah, its improved but it still fundamentally does math in the same basic manner. Quantum computers may change that some but its still essentially math.
Vapes - A shitty, ewaste laden, version of smoking. Where unknown chemicals are vaporized and inhaled. This took off under claims it was a healthier alternative to smoking. This is going to look like radioactive toothpaste in hindsight.
Cable boxes - 30 years after high speed Internet, 25 years after ffmpeg, and 20 years after streaming… millions of people still pay $150 a month for a shittier, curated version of television that mostly required specialized hardware and drilling holes in your house.
high speed, stable, reliable internet also needs those holes, so that’s not really a problem. sure, today it’s better to build the house so that there are tubes in the walls for the cables
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Holding a thing to your face to talk to another human will seem like cave-men aping for a mate in the future. If I forget my bluetooth headset in the morning my day is shot - I’m sure the future is much brighter.
Everything connected to your phone. In less than 50 years they’re gonna laugh about how we had apps for our washing machines and dishwashers.
I think you’re partially right, but only about everything having a separate app.
The reality is connected devices will be so ubiquitous and commonplace that the interface will become standarfized and totally tansparent. Connecting to any arbitrary device will be as simple as connecting to an arbitray web server through a browser.
Every device needing its own app is temporary and unsustainable.
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I 100% read landmines and got really confused
