People Predict Which Practices Will Likely Become Obsolete In The Next Decade

The world changes so quickly. Technology advancing, social and political landscapes shifting, climate and evolutionary changes impact our way of life and sometimes only in a matter of a few years.
Sometimes those advancements and changes are for the better. We can see the way the world is making our lives easier to live.
At the same time, we could also see the passing phases take a huge hit on our societies.
We went to Ask Reddit to find out what parts of the world we know today our future generations wont even know existed.
Redditor thatCuriousSelectron asked:
"What will be obsolete in 10-15 years?"
There's so many ways this could go.
Poor kids, they'll never know the joy.
"Some public schools have begun to send class assignments to students through the internet."
"Snow Days are no longer with us."
"As a teacher I hate this. Kids need unstructured time, and snow days are a fun surprise that provide this."
"I grew up in California. I went through my entire time in school without one day where something unexpectedly required our school to close. My senior year of high school we finished our finals a week ahead of the rest of the school because of graduation. That meant that I did not have to go to school but my younger Brother and Sister did. I was still in bed when my Brother came busting into my room at 10am with the biggest sh*t eating grin on his face. I asked him why he was home and he responded through his smile 'power outage.'"
- aguy21
"I grew up in California and had exactly 1 snow day: 1/25/99. We had maaaaaaybe 1 inch of snow and it was gone by lunch, but the entire city (and I think most of the southern Central Valley) shut down for the day. It was wondrous!"
"Hah, I grew up in the Canadian prairies. 'Snow Day' just means I gotta help mom dig the car out before leaving for school. I was truly shocked (and jealous) the first time I heard that some regions cancel school if it snows."
This one we are hoping for.
"Hopefully printers that don't need an advanced degree to get working."
- sugaratc
"You funny, funny person. The only thing more certain than death is that printers continue to get more frustrating to use."
"Still waiting for a printer that don't need to move the paper so much, why cant it take a flat paper and just print, really need all these wheels and rollers."
- OldMork
Crypto will go, but for some reason we still fax?
"The other 99% of trash crypto currencies and ICOs. I also want to say fax machines but...I'm sure someone will still use them."
"Law offices and insurance companies will likely be the holdouts. Even though "digital fax" is a thing some just refuse."
"The medical field loves them too."
- Jamileem
"The other 99% of trash crypto currencies and ICOs."
"This is why I can't invest in crypto. I don't know what will still be around in 5 or 10 years time. At least with blue chip companies and S&P 500 funds, I know my money is safe for a while. As boring as it may sound."
- guruj0sh
"What most people don't realize is that stocks are becoming as volatile as crypto because the wealthiest elite treat it all like their own personal playground using wealth that doesn't exist."
NFTs.
"NFTs, they're like digital Beanie Babies."
- kkehoe5
"What the f*ck even is an NFT? I've tried googling it but strangely I haven't actually found any useful information."
"Imagine you are buying 'ownership' of a digital thing like a picture. So you 'own' it. It doesn't stop anyone from accessing it or anything because you have no real control, but you get your name in a special book that says its 'yours.'"
- Hickspy
"ELI5 version: remember buying naming rights to a star? Same thing only a star actually exists in reality."
"More importantly: it is a money sink that rich people use to avoid paying taxes, much like fine art."
"If you have ever wondered why painting that could be done purely by throwing a jar of jam at them are sold for millions, that's why."
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Data limits have got to stop.
"Limited data plans for phones. I remember when minutes and texting costed money, I think data is gonna be next to go. Its ridiculous to have limits."
"I was listening to a song yesterday with the lyrics 'I'm completely out of daytime minutes, so I guess I'll have to wait a lot until 8 o'clock comes around,' in reference to cell phones."
"That seems so antiquated, but it was only about 20 years ago! Also bizarre to remember when text messages were limited, somewhat expensive, and pretty much text only!"
Smart phones.
"Every single phone that's gonna come out in the next 5 years."
- bayygel
"iPhone 6 user here. Works great still."
"Yet my 7 has had damaged hardware from the start."
They grow up so fast.
"Babies. They all will have evolved into larger and more devastating teenagers who can feed themselves."
"At that point they'll be able to feed themselves and self-replicate. What will we do?"
"That is so wholesome and dangerous at the same time."
The fact that we still use stickers is pretty wild.
"Vehicle registration stickers."
"I'm in the UK where we had a similar system where we would have to display our 'tax disc' on the vehicle. we did away with it in favor of an online system linked to the cars number plate, so no need to display the tax disc and you can pay for it all online, saving you the hassle of going to apply for it in person. its much better. you can also pay for it much more flexibly now - instead of paying one big fee every 6 months/1 year, you can set up a monthly direct debit."
"Careful now with that forward thinking.... That's how the craziness starts. First no stickers, then a fully online system, then the DMV becomes obsolete. WHAT WILL THE 3 PEOPLE WHO WORK AT THE DMV DO???"
Automation will take over.
"A lot of minimum wage jobs."
"And a lot of people currently in minimum wage jobs. Maybe not quite 15 years, but we're only a few decades away from most humans not having any skills which can't be performed by automation. When most people are unemployable, the economy is going to either implode or have to be completely reformed."
"They said similar decades ago 'all the secretaries will be unemployed' and before that telephonists."
Can someone invent this?
"Manual Flossing. Please."
"A device that looks like a mouth guard that brushes, flosses, and water picks your teeth would be amazing. It would need to be calibrated to x-rays of your teeth somehow so its not cutting your mouth to pieces."
"And while we're at it. A device that replaces my shower: a ring of high pressure water jets power washes me and my clothes from all directions as it moves from top to bottom. Then a second ring of warm air blowers, like at the car wash, dry me as they move top to bottom right behind the first ring."
"No time to shower and change? Just hop in the deathtrap and it will wash and dry you with your clothes on in 30 seconds."
"The amount of energy it would take to dry a sopping-wet you and clothing that quickly would almost certainly result in severe burns for you. So I wouldn't sell your washing machine just yet."
"(Source: I use a very powerful blower to dry out my Samoyed after bathing her and that process takes a solid hour)."
Cable has been replaced by streaming.
"Cable television."
"I think it might go full circle, already kinda happening with bundling, Hulu+ Disney Plus+ ESPN packages. they will all separate realize they are losing general base who might have stumbled across one of their shows if someone was just scrolling through."
"The amount of money spent on advertising reminding people where their favorite show is located is going end up costing more. eventually they'll all conglomerate again and same ol' circle."
"But I do realize people enjoy their freedom of choice so who knows."
Food delivery drivers.
"Food delivery jobs. Self driving robots are probably going to replace delivery drivers."
"Not just food but probably all types of delivery. Amazon will probably get to that point first and try to monopolize it somehow… Jeffreyyyy Jeffrey Bezoooos."
"Maybe the robots will get more use, but delivery drivers are still going to be a thing for more than 15 years."
"15 years does seem optimistic but it's hard to say with technology. I mean the little robots that travel on sidewalks and do delivery seem incredibly feasible to be deployed at a larger scale in 15 years."
"They already had coffee delivery drones in use in a town in Australia years ago."
We might not be too far from this reality.
"Truck drivers too. This is gonna be a huge paradigm shift."
For better or worse, some of these things may change in the next ten years. Make sure to write down your predictions so later you can say, "I told you so!"
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It's highly believed that it is important to learn history as a means to improve our future.
What is often overlooked is that what is taught in history class is going to be very different depending on where you went to school.
And this isn't just internationally, even different regions of the United states will likely have very different lessons on American history.
This frequently results in our learning fascinating, heartbreaking and horrifying historical facts which our middle or high school history teachers neglected to teach us.
Redditor Acherontia_atropos91 was curious to learn things people either wished they had learned, or believe they should have learned, in their school history class, leading them to ask:
What isn’t taught in history class but should be?
The Irish Troubles
"The troubles."
"Too many people in America do not understand why a wall straight through Ireland would be a BAD idea."
"I’m referring to the Brexit referendum and possible outcomes."
"If people were wondering why we were talking about walls through Ireland in the first place."- CLCVS.
Forgotten elements of World War II
"What the Japanese did to the Chinese during WW2."
"Unit 731."- CaptainMcBoogerJew.
"Japan gets off easy for their war crimes in WW2."
"They killed an estimated 16mil Chinese civilians and another 8mil soldiers"
"Also, Pol Pot."
"Didn't know who he was until I was like 25."
"Worst dictator all time (in terms of percentage of population he decimated)".
The truth about the American Revolution
"That the American Revolution was part of a wider cold war type of conflict with France."
"The American Revolution was basically the UK's equivalent of the US version of Vietnam."- vinsant7.
The Dark side of Swedish history.
"As a Swede, I'd like to know more of all the horrible sh*t my country has done throughout history."
"It's a damn shame we're trying to hide our history."
"For example, Swedes killed a metric sh*t ton of all Polish people when we were at our strongest."
"That's the kinda sh*t we don't get to learn."- mogwandayy.
Colonization
"Basically what Belgium did to the Congo."
"A lot of people are telling me that they are taught about this actually."
"I'm glad to hear it because I wasn't taught about this in the USA during my public school days (1995-2008)."- EconArch.
The truth about "heroes".
"While teaching about historical Heroes they should also tell students about the unspeakable things some of them did."
"Many famous figures throughout history who are pillars of morality actually did many terrible things." - User Deleted
Intolerance for Mental Illness
"The dark history of mental illness treatments."
"I think it's worth learning about."- 7dayexcerpt.
Slavic Mythology
"Slavic mythology in Slavic countries."
"Don't get me wrong, I love both Greek & Roman mythology and as a person from the Balkans both of those cultures are part of my country's history and had great influence over not only my region but the entirety of the continent & the western world but I wouldn't mind knowing more about Slavic mythology as well."- ShorsShezzarine.
The truth about the CIA
"How the CIA was made and all the shady things they did over the years."- ALargeChip.
There is a lot about the history of our world, not to mention our own country which shouldn't be ignored.
And it's from learning from our mistakes that we really improve our future.
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So apparently we are in the endemic phase of this nonsense.
We have light at the end of the tunnel.
So what now?
Where do we go from here?
Normal seems like an outdated word.
How do we get back to normal though?
Is it even possible?
What are reaching back to?
Life pre-Covid.
Those were the days.
If only we could bring them back.
Redditor hetravelingsong wanted to discuss our new normal in this hopeful "endemic" phase. So they asked:
"What’s something random you miss about pre-COVID times?"
I miss people being sane. Though that maybe election cycle issues not COVID. We'll never know.
I thought I was Alone...
"Being able to grocery shop after 11 pm."
Reading_Rainboner
"Hell yes. I miss the days where the Walmart across the street was open 24 hours."
Small_Tax_9432
let's just go...
"I miss spontaneity... everything now seems to have a barrier of difficulty."
iidosee
"I live very close to Disneyland so I have an annual pass. My friends and I would just go there after work and hang out and grab a bite to eat."
"Now, we have to reserve a day to go. And most of the time, the days are at 'full' capacity so we couldn't even reserve. I don't want to schedule to hang out at Disneyland for a couple hours for July. So yeah, I definitely miss the 'lets go eat at Disneyland tonight?' texts."
mymymissmai
Not til 24-25
"Functioning global supply chains. Ah, the product you want has got microchips in it? 9 month wait."
richard-king
"Minimum, I'd been saying for a while now that I wouldn't expect a true return to normalcy in terms of electronics prices till 2024-2025. Although Crypto crashing through the floor really took some of the pressure off graphics cards which I really appreciate."
statiiic
WTF?!?!
"How affordable everything was!"
Disastrous_Hour_6776
"Yep. Today I was bagging up my things at the grocery store and I heard the cashier say to the lady behind me 'thats $78.12.' She had -- 2 boxes of Kellogg's corn flakes, a carton of 12 eggs, milk, strawberries, raspberries, blue berries, a small cheese cake, English muffins, coffee, and a small whole frozen chicken that could maybe feed 3 people if the meat portioning was small."
SnowyInuk
Sushi
"My favorite sushi place. It was good quality, close by, kid-friendly, and not too expensive."
InannasPocket
All of this... it was a simpler time.
NASTY
"As a retail worker, just how f**king NASTY some people have gotten."
DmitriPetrov*itch
"They applauded you for being an essential worker but won’t vote for policies that’ll raise minimum wage while insisting a wage cap for heavily paid employees."
sketchysketchist
CHANGES your DNA...
"Some of the people closest to me became very bitter and petty over the last 2 years. So many people have the 'crazy eyes' now."
__--__7
"So true and holidays with the family is like who has the biggest tinfoil hat building contest. How many jumps does your brain have to go through to think that the Covid vaccine CHANGES your DNA into the patented DNA so that the government now controls your body."
"So like vaccinated people now have a singular DNA set. I feel like I still have a chunk of my brain just broken off due to that comment alone. I was also told by same family member that I could never donate blood again due to the vaccine. I guess it is so my patented DNA doesn't affect people?? FYI my vaccinated butt just donated today fine and multiple other times after the vaccine."
tyreka13
Homeward Bound
"House prices."
adrianinked
"I'm resigned to never thinking I have a chance on owning property where I live. I'm 30 and just can't imagine it anymore. And I don't want to live anywhere else so, whatever."
Osdab2daf
"That didn’t happen because of the pandemic. That was already happening regardless."
CH11DW
Oh Mickey
"All Day Breakfast at McDonalds."
hutch2522
"It was honestly hell to do, and not very popular. ITs margins aren't anywhere dinner and lunch specials. ON top of that, the temperatures are such that They require its own grill, meaning that if you have 2 grills in shop, you are down 50% of lunch capacity."
Freyas_Follower
Way back when...
"Hanging out with friends. And I mean waaaaaay before Covid. Like 2006 back when I had some friends."
LoocsinatasYT
I miss the old days. Maybe we'll get back there.
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What do you believe?
Is there a GOD in the sky?
Is he guiding us and helping us?
Life is really hard. Why is that is a big entity is up there loving us?
Atheists have taken a lot of heat for what feels like shunning GOD.
What if they've been right all along?
Maybe let's take a listen and see what they really think.
Redditor __Jacob______ wanted to hear from the people who don't really believe all that "God" stuff. They asked:
"Atheists, what do you believe in?"
I'm waffling between G-O-D and nothing. So please give me some education.
911
"We need to look out for each other because help isn't coming."
cknipe
Peace Out
"More than 2 decades ago, a priest was giving a sermon in my church and he said 'our faith requires you to believe without question. Why call it faith if you have to ask questions?' I haven't returned to church. Not until my wedding day but you know what I mean."
asiangontear
Delusion
"When I was young I used to think that after death you would have access to a PC that you could see absolutely anything about your life. Stats, any question you had no matter how obscure, replays of moments, perspectives of others in relation to you. No matter what you wanted to know, if it was relatable to you, you could see it. I know it's silly, but as time goes on I just want it to be real, and I don't think I'd have any issue allowing myself to fall into that delusion."
eggwardpenisglands
I think nothing happens...
"Realistically, I think nothing happens. We literally experience nothing after death. Same thing that we experience before birth. We don't exist, so it's nothing. I think the tenant that we should follow while living is to try to be happy and healthy while minimizing the damage we do to each other."
"What I would LIKE to happen after death is whatever you believe in, exists. I think Christians should get to go to heaven if they truly believe in it, Hindus and Buddhists get reincarnated, and everyone else also gets to experience what they believe they will experience."
"'I would still experience Nothing. Maybe it's one of those things where at the moment of death their brain makes them experience what feels like an infinitely long moment in time where they experience their afterlife. I just think it would be neat for everybody."
Better_Meat_
Shrug
"Best advice I received from a dear senior on their way out. 'You win some, you lose some' shrug. Nothing divine, life is that simple and wonderful, accept it and move on."
Tune_Kindly
It all sounds pretty simple. Why are people so up in arms about Atheists?
Whatever
"I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do."
imCIK
Cool with Empty
"Nothing. [Serious]."
rumblingtummy29
"I feel this way about death. When I was 5, my grandfather died and my cousin simple said, he is dead, that means you are gone forever. Everything ends up dying, even plants and animals. I'm now in my 40's and still have this simplistic view of life and death. People think I'm ambivalent to life and death but it's just what it is."
thepigfish82
puppet-masters...
"I think a lot of religious people struggle with the fact that we are all just swirling units of chaos. There is no grand plan or great orchestrator. I think that’s why people who are prone to religion are also susceptible to things like Q anon and the Cabal and all that. They REALLY want to believe that there is some almighty puppet-master who determines all of humanity’s fate."
Lngtmelrker
“we’re living in a society!”
"Just be a kind and empathetic person not because you’re worried about some cosmic justice, but because it’s the right thing to do. If there is some being that created us there’s no way they actually care about believing in it or adhering to some rules from over 2000 years ago."
"Also a big thing for me is that I find the idea that you need religion or the Bible in order to have morals and ethics pretty dumb. It’s pretty f**king clear that most evangelicals have neither. But my main thing is being a good person simply because, as George Costanza once said we’re living in a society!' If you’re only a good person in order to make it to heaven you probably aren’t actually a good and moral person."
conservative_genius
That's All
"You're born. You live. You die. That's it. After you die you cease to exist, the same as before you were born."
serefina
Believe what you want. We're all here together. So let's focus there.
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The list of what irritates me is endless.
I mean... breathing too loud or dust can set me off.
I'm a bit unstable, yes.
But I'm not alone.
So let's discuss.
Redditor Aburntbagel6 wanted to hear about all the times many of us just couldn't control our disdain. They asked:
"What never fails to piss you off?"
I feel like this article can go on forever. Let's get some highlights.
Wasted Time
"Meetings that could and should have been an email."
Sirena609
Lotto People
"Getting stuck behind people playing the lottery at a corner store."
thenuggetlover
"I also used to work in a gas station and you’re SO right. I f**king hated the lottery people. Especially since my store had a small staff and there was usually only one of us working at a time, which meant that I couldn’t get any of my other work done as long as they were there."
"And you’re right, it’s also pretty sad to watch. I had one lady who used to come in every day and spent hundreds and HUNDREDS of dollars on scratch tickets. One day, she won $200 after spending probably around $600 and she was so excited and saying she can 'finally pay her bills.'"
i-am-your-god-now
Aware...
"No situational awareness. Job, home, shopping, driving. Think for one minute and go about. OBSERVE!!"
Dizzy-Foundation8122
"My mom is one of those people who leave the shopping cart in the middle of the damn aisle and proceed to walk twenty feet away. After correcting her a million times to no effect I just walk away now so people don’t know I’m with her."
OutrageousEvent
Shut Up!
"Endless barking in the middle of the night, I love animals but that sh*t I can't stand."
Acceptable-Lemon2924
"Endless barking in general drives me up a wall. One of my friends dogs was barking almost an entire gaming session the other day. I wanted to reach through the computer and smack him for letting it go on."
bangersnmash13
Kindness
"People being mean to service workers, especially if the workers are very young."'
scaryboilednoodles
All of these things. I hate them all.
Admit It
"People who never accept fault when they mess something up. Like, why blame a million people when it was clearly you who did it???"
Quirky-Area-8978
From Above
"My upstairs neighbors."
lutzow89
"I had terrible neighbors at my previous apartment. It was a one person studio for students, but her boyfriend was clearly living with her illegally and he was loud."
"One night we knocked n the door at 3 AM because of the loud music and an unknown girl opened the door. I just thought they were having a little party. But the next door I saw the girl living there come home with a suitcase after having been away for the weekend... Her BF was cheating on her in her own apartment."
Th3_Accountant
Move Away
"People who sit directly next to me at the airport, movie theater, any other place where you can choose a seat when there is PLENTY of other seating."
BacardiPardy33
"I can’t YES this enough and the ones who can’t park for crap so they park so close you can’t open doors on one side of the car or the ones who park directly behind when you pulled through so the door won’t open to load groceries."
BacardiPardy33
It's Over
"People who try to restart old drama. Like I'm done with you, just leave me alone."
Tired_Potatos
"Yep, half the reason I've basically quit playing one of my favorite online video games. People keep bringing old crap up or sh*tting on on someone who used to be our friend. I got tired of it so I just ejected the game out of me."
CaucasianHumus
AHHHHH!!!
"People walking too slow in front of me with no way to get around them. It’s even worse if it’s a couple or group taking up the whole sidewalk. HAVE SOME SPATIAL AWARENESS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!"
_-v0x-_
Life in general pisses me off. I'm easy.
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