What comes to your mind?
I can think of single use plastic, fossil fuels, social media, AI usage as some areas where future generations will take a much different strategy/view.
What do we accept today that future generations might reject, and what do we reject today that future generations might accept?
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Vaping. I think future generations will find it absolutely staggering that single use vapes have been allowed to flourish like they have.
Social media algorithms being basically unregulated
accept today; Kids on social media. reject today; any schooling method that isn’t state/private.
I would hope in the next decade or so there are laws around kids on socials – anyone less than 13 (arguably 16) definitely shouldn’t be on them. A lot of kids cannot thrive in the typical school setting so i would hope that “unconventional” methods such as home education, forest school etc will be greeted with better reactions both from the public and from organisations; eg the government.
Putting Quavers up your bum
Religion isn’t going away any time soon, if ever-but there will always be people reflecting on and criticizing what we believed and how we did it. There will probably be waxing and waning eras of belief in different parts of the world.
Ownership of individual cars.
Eating meat.
I think in a couple of decades we’ll look upon eating meat as completely barbaric and I say that as a meat eater.
I think we’ll reject social media more in the future.
I’m not sure about AI. I find it terrifying already.
We accept certain religions being allowed to literally get away with murder because it’s rude or something to stop them. That will be fixed within the next 100 years. Imagine if someone entered your country, started building their own religious buildings in your home town, then go back home and stone women and gay people to death because of whatever deluded reason they’ve came to.
We reject forced vaccines nowadays. I do think within the next 100 years there will be an event that will make people wake up and start forcing vaccines, at least certain ones. I’m not sure how I feel about this (from a free will point of view) and hope that doesn’t happen, but I do think this will be a thing in certain countries in the future.
I think psychiatric drugs will be looked at differently in the future as older psychiatric treatment has been
Eating meat. Hopefully the tech algorithms that are like genetically personalised heroin.
Jailing people for being mean on the internet.
I think future generations will either be horrified that we let so much of our personal information and pictures etc be freely available on the internet or amazed that we were allowed to retain ownership of it for so long.
With any luck they’ll be amazed at how long we held onto cars as a means of mass transit given how terrible they are in terms of space and consumption and how happy we were to drive about inside a cloud of carcinogens.
I think bits of urban planning will seem very antiquated, how much space we wasted on roads and single family homes. Not so much here (depending on how the climate changes) but the sprawling suburbs that exacerbate things like wildfires.
Not to go full Malthus but unless we develop new agricultural methods the amount of meat we consume may seem kind of ridiculous.
Eh?
Gas hobs. I love cooking on gas but it is objectively awful for air quality in the home.
The mass slaughter of animals and mass scale industrial animal farming
More of a hope of anything.
What we all turn a blind eye too is truly horrible.
Invading your kids right to privacy online for content/a few quid
I think in person shopping will become a thing of the past in the future and be seen as antiquated. It’s already happening now with the rise of online shopping and so many malls and stores have closed down.
Not advocating for it at all, in fact completely the opposite, but I could see future generations leaning more into things like relationships with AI, genetic modification, spending more time in VR worlds etc.
Nice to have would be society moving away from the 45+ work week when there won’t be anywhere near enough jobs available for the population in 20 or so years.
With all the current debate around benefits, PIP, employment figures it just all seems more and more we should get rid of everything and just move towards a UBI system