What things that are ludicrous now, will become culturally acceptable in the future.

[sm1]

 Dating robots/humanoids.

[VLC86]

Felching. In the future you will have bars where instead of a glass you will have arseholes.

[Guest the fox]

having bad dialogue mannerisms in public when talking to strangers and saying your last goodbyes to a sick relative using facetime or whatever while being physically capable of being there

Edited 24 January 2018 by the fox

[Rogstanley]

I think naturally grown food whether meat or veg will be consigned to the history books within a few decades. As will anybody but enthusiasts driving cars or even owning their own car.

 

I think automation of jobs is being overplayed. Not because jobs won’t be automated but because new and different types of work will replace them. People always want more than they’ve got and that basic fact will continue to drive demand for services technology can’t provide.

 

The concept of a career for life will likely go the same way as the concept of a job for life, but people who are agile and adaptable will be fine. I think we’ll also see the infiltration of the gig economy into traditional 9-5 work as well, which has good and bad sides.

 

As always though it’ll be the presently unforeseen applications of new technology that really change the game. Predicting the future based on logical extensions to what we know now is notoriously innaccurate. What will actually happen is that we’ll get blindsided by things we can’t even imagine in the present day.

Edited 24 January 2018 by Rogstanley

[Mike Oxlong]

27 minutes ago, Costock_Fox said:

Felching. In the future you will have bars where instead of a glass you will have arseholes.

My local is full of arseholes

[VLC86]

1 minute ago, Mike Oxlong said:

My local is full of arseholes

Most are to be fair.

[Mike Oxlong]

I think a Men’s Equality movement will gather force as men look to be able to leave the toilet seat up and be allowed to put the milk back in the fridge in the wrong place 

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

Can definitely see eating meat and using petrol becoming properly frowned on in 20 or 30 years time. They'll still technically be legal, but people who do it will be viewed upon like smokers (which will still be legal)

 

1 hour ago, grobyfox1990 said:

Marrying other species

 

I don't think this is out of the question. All it takes is a handful of "don't judge me" type freaks marrying cows etc. and a few influential bloggers on side and bestiality is suddenly given a cute new name and gets its own awareness day

[Jon the Hat]

54 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

They won't do it out of the goodness out of their hearts, but as I said I think the day will come where they have to do it or risk so much societal unrest that things collapse and they lose everything anyway. The decision will be out of their hands.

More to the point they need consumers

[leicsmac]

6 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

More to the point they need consumers

Right.

 

I think the societal/economic game will change pretty radically as automation does its thing, but there are so many different ways it could go.

[Wymsey]

The death penalty, due to the rate of over-crowded prisons..

[Tuna]

Leeds United's new badge.

 

 

[Stadt]

The population will be divided between super fit gym freaks and fat vauxhall zafira drivers

 

 

 

 

or whatever a zafira will be called then

Edited 24 January 2018 by Wookie

[Steven]

11 hours ago, leicsmac said:

Edit: Thanks for the interesting topic - the future is so much more interesting than the past IMO.

For me the future ain't what it used to be.

[TiffToff88]

The use of toilet roll will be replaced by a system involving 3 Seashells

[Finnegan]

Well, there's a lot of alt right paranoid rubbish in here isn't there? 

[mancunianfox]

12 hours ago, Harry - LCFC said:

With there being a fair few speculations about what new innovations we may witness, I think I'll post this talk which I found fascinating. It goes into detail about the future and what change it will likely bring.

 

Talk starts at 45s.

Steve Davies was my dissertation supervisor!!!! Fascinating guy, had no idea what he was upto now. Thank you for posting.

[Beliall]

Dating an australian pakistani muslim,  gender fluid transexual

[grobyfox1990]

Not being in a family or having kids. Before it was a norm to settle down in your late-20s, get married and have kids. Now people are getting married and having kids later and later, some not at all. The concept of loneliness will be completely normal in the future as people put less reliance on family life.

 

There's now a minister for loneliness, horror stories of people dying alone and not being discovered for weeks. Modern Western life has completely eroded the concept of looking out for one another, all the generations living together and being close to your family. We will rely on the latest Apple product to solve all our problems soon.

[TiffToff88]

12 minutes ago, grobyfox1990 said:

Not being in a family or having kids. Before it was a norm to settle down in your late-20s, get married and have kids. Now people are getting married and having kids later and later, some not at all. The concept of loneliness will be completely normal in the future as people put less reliance on family life.

 

There's now a minister for loneliness, horror stories of people dying alone and not being discovered for weeks. Modern Western life has completely eroded the concept of looking out for one another, all the generations living together and being close to your family. We will rely on the latest Apple product to solve all our problems soon.

You could argue that some people already live their lives in a way that technology tells them to

[VLC86]

1 hour ago, TiffToff88 said:

The use of toilet roll will be replaced by a system involving 3 Seashells

"Dad, I can smell Blackpool pleasure beach"

"I said can you hear the sea you daft t**t"

[Jon the Hat]

People will realise that technology and society has moved them away from the real life connections they need to be happy, and a movement will come to help us leverage the robotic revolution to ensure we spend more time with out family and friends, and our wider communities, redefining home from our four walls to our village, suburb or community.

[Guest seanfox778]

27 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

People will realise that technology and society has moved them away from the real life connections they need to be happy, and a movement will come to help us leverage the robotic revolution to ensure we spend more time with out family and friends, and our wider communities, redefining home from our four walls to our village, suburb or community.

 

Edited 25 January 2018 by seanfox778

[Dan]

To accept Pearson did a good job 

[lcfc sheff]

I certainly agree it'll be most likely everyone becomes Vegetarian, research seems to suggesting its far healthier for the human body although I feel this is more to do with financial interests of Veg/Vegan based companies. 

 

Slight issue is how do they deal with the livestock? can't just release them into the wild and certainly can't just kill them all off if suddenly everyone is angry about the death of animals.