MY PREDICTIONS FOR THE FUTURE:
- All canned-goods will have pull tabs, and can-openers will no longer be sold or used.
- Neckties will fall completely out of fashion.
- Non-Jewish/non-Muslims will no longer get circumcised.
- CDs will stop being manufactured, and all new music will be available only in MP3 or vinyl.
- Pole-dancing will be a commonly accepted form of performance art, and no longer associated with strip clubs.
- Weddings will be replaced with small informal gatherings of friends for drinks to celebrate having just moved in together.
- Newer and better robots will be capable of performing more jobs, causing unemployment rates to skyrocket.
- Youth culture and generation labels will fall out of use, as society settles into a steady cultural routine.
- Remote work will make offices and cubicles obsolete, as well as seriously reducing the traffic problem.
- Superhero movies will fall out of fashion for a while, then make a comeback as a period genre set in an alternate version of the 20th century.
- Television broadcasting will come to an end as all programs switch to streaming apps.
- Sexual preference and gender identity will no longer be seen as important.
- Ranked-choice voting will become standard in most or all states.
- We will STILL not have flying cars.
- Daylight savings time will be discontinued, and standard clock apps will show both local and Greenwich time, so as to have a standard for international broadcasts.
- Improved efficiency in green technologies will cause environmentally-friendly energy sources to become cheaper than fossil fuels.
- It will become socially acceptable to dress in costume in public for no special occasion.
- Filmmakers will set movies in the twentieth century, but mix up the sequence of historic events (for example, depicting Richard Nixon as president during the Korean War).
- Virtual education will make conventional classrooms obsolete.
- Intentional communities based on economic and sociological ideologies will lead to the formation of secular cults.
- All dresses will have pockets.
- Increased use of vertical farming, and possibly the development of synthetic meats, will cause real estate values to plummet in agricultural regions.
- Genetically modified chestnut trees will reshape the North American landscape.
- Standard over-the-counter shampoos will contain newly-developed hair-restoration chemicals, making baldness extremely rare.
- Most people's living rooms will have chairs and couches facing the middle of the room, as opposed to facing any sort of entertainment center.
- Fast food places will continue to phase out fatty and sugary foods in favor of healthy meals.
- All transactions will be digital, and physical money will be of interest only to numismatists.
More predictions to follow.
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