Inventions least likely to survive this century

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I read some time back that the mechanical watch was probably the least likely thing to survive this century. There was a time when every adult needed a mechanical watch, but now they are nothing more than jewelry (mostly for us men). So here is my proposed list in no special order:

Mechanical watches

Fountain pens

Cars with internal combustion engines

Cars period (no need when you can call up an autonomous vehicle in seconds)

On the audio side we could add:

Turntables of course (almost extinct already) followed quickly by

CD players

Class AB amplifiers (class D will be less expensive and just as good or better)

Just about all separate components (DAC, Pre-amp, etc)

Florida (Not an “invention” per se, but it has a good chance of becoming just an uninhabited swamp by 2100 “imho” as they say).

What did I miss? Just my thought of course, so I hope no one gets offended, and please disagree or add some more. And remember we are talking about 75 years from now, so who knows?

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Nations, as we know them now. They’ll be replaced by whatever corporations will be by then. There are now a few private companies in existence with more money than some States or small nations. As soon as there is no need anymore for an army, and cultural and religious heritages along with ethnic ones are forgotten, there will be only a language and a source of earning to identify a human. And it can well be Apple or Tesla or whatever.

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Democracy.

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My point exactly, in a single word.

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We had to register my father’s death recently, we were given a fountain pen, and a piece of paper to practice my signature. I mentioned i had not used one in years this to the recorder of deaths, births and marriages……..oh the stories of abuse she had, very sad.

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Mankind

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Here, it’s called an organ and does not make sense at all:

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Just fling a few loudspeakers against the wall and play a cd. Cd? What’s that?

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I’d better sell my house now. Beat the rush…

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Somehow I got my father’s geography book which dated back to the sixties. It described the year 2000 as a time that Barbican styled flats were going to be connected via monorails and where people also are going to move via flying ‘cars’.

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Anniversary reissues of the Pink Floyd back catalogue :grinning_face:

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A coupke to add: Cash. New music written by humans.

And unfortunately I fear a few other things will disappear like tolerance, peace,

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I like Pink Floyd. But 20 years from now, people are going to say ‘huh?”

And I get it

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:rofl:

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Predicting the future of what will be big or disappear is very tricky indeed. So much so any prediction is almost certainly wrong.

I do not see why an autonomous vehicle can’t be called a car.

I have a sneaking suspicion that turntables will carry on and still be with us. I agree about CD.

If the politicians of the world and the rest of us do not get a grip on climate change there will be massive extinctions in wildlife and much more than just Florida that could become uninhabitable for humans. In North America alone, several of the Western states will run out of fresh water and be too hot for living in.

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Democracy.

You could be right of course, but I live in hope.

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Thinking about it, I wonder if keyboards are doomed as means of accessing computer devices

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Land line telephones

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Sex

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In the animal kingdom as a whole? Or just humans? And do you mean reproductive sex, or all varieties including between humans and the inevitable new generation of AI driven humanoid or other machines?

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Doesn’t really matter which variety you pick if all of them mean that humanity does not get to survive this century! This is another one where I have to live in hope – not that I’ll get to find out!