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SerenityNigh
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The second one is not happening
Ants mate, ants will rule the world, there's Trillions of em
Alanbileysfeathercut
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No Decs?
the will finally managed the dog/cat hybrid
SerenityNigh
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What's changed since 1982? The internet has changed how we communicate (but what else?) and we now have pocket computer/phones, but can't think of many other huge changes for personal life. (The internet is 40+ years old, and the iPhone borrows from the Walkman idea, so not a huge revolution in 34 or so years.)
The bigger changes will be in how industries and systems adapt to current technology; the future of news/information sharing will be interested (though itself is a product of 24-hour news channels as much as the internet), plus the idea of States without traditional borders and how that affects politics and power struggles going forward (again, the EU is as much this as ISIS, an old(er) idea than we might often think).
Put me in the camp of 2050 being surprisingly boring, save the death and destruction from Trump's legacy of war.
The Cowboy
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Not that I've researched this, per se, but not sure we're very far away from this at the moment.
The Cowboy
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So you don't think internet shopping, and it's impact on the high streets, on the subsequent impact of communities as high streets turn into dust bowls, has had any great impact?
Aside from the internet, what about the impact of low cost air travel (I know package holidays were around in the 70s, but easyjet/ryanair fundamentally changed the industry and our leisure habits)? The future might be something like the holodeck on Star Trek, giving a 'synthetic holiday' without leaving your own home.
There's so much that the internet could offer, over and above improvements on existing products.
digital dissrpuption that will be the main thing.
when I was a kid Cinema was big and TV was new...and we all know video killed the radio star...now video has gone the way of magic lanterns.
your big desk top PC is now your phone.
newspapers, dead men walking. The Daily Mail online has the biggest circulation and it looses money even on the web.
you want a house car job do you look in a newspaper...no
Taxi for Martinez...oops sorry, Uber for Martinez
This and many more as @The Cowboy says, shops
#Luxury! when I was a lad we....
god no
LocalNative
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SerenityNigh
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Not yet impressed with internet shopping. It was supposed to be big in 1998-1999, but nothing came of that. Amazon is impressive (of sorts), but it's essentially Walmart online. High Street shops decimated by the interwebs? You probably have more to thank Thatcher for the decline of city centres than the interwebs, bro.
Neither am I impressed with low-cost air travel. Southwest has been around since the 1970s, and while it's a fascinating business model, low-cost air travel is dependent on the price of labor, price of fuel, and SWA's efficiency in beating the Hub-and-Spoke model (which is still superior for long-haul flights)*.
*Also, the regulatory cost
Synthetic holiday? I'll believe it when I see it. We've been talking about VR and the related techonology for ages.
SerenityNigh
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Many things are different/better, but still much the same. We don't get newsprint on our fingers, but we still get our news from the major news organizations. Movies are still produced by the big Hollywood studios, even if we watch them on Netflix. Bobby still rides a taxi, even if he hails it digitally (and regardless whether it's Delta or Uber, it's still a taxi). Houses are still bought and sold the same way.
The real losers in the digital age are information brokers. Newspapers (and newsstands), real estate brokers, street corners. But we will still have journalists, brokers, and street corners, even if their industries are changing.
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