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I don't think we will be losing optical disks ever.
If burned properly they hold storage for a very long time without data loss. IIRC Facebook burns optical disks for old photographs and instead of having a hard drive array or tape library they had a RAID based optical disk system.
Optical disks are great, but not for the daily user since most media content is online and most storage is judged on being rewritable.
Tablets.
The market for them is very thin. With phones getting bigger and convertible laptops being more lightweight I don't see much market for tablets.
Which is a shame because it's s good format for comic reading and more durable than a convertible laptop (they always break by the hinges) but I think in ten years it will be quite hard to find a tablet for sale.
RIP PDAs with keyboard. Another form factor I miss
Voting machines
YES, In the USA (United Slaves of America.)
Bluerays will still exist because of japanese laws. How am I supposed to get my anime without dimming if I don't pirate bluerays?
anime without dimming
So that's the secret! When I first noticed this happening I thought I was a little bit crazy lol.
I don't expect it so quickly, but hopefully lithium ion batteries (and variants like Li-poly, LiFePO4, etc)
Sodium batteries are already commercially available and although their volumetric energy density and round trip efficiency is lower than lithium I think they are a promising alternative to lead acid and some lithium applications.
Can you explain why and how? Do you imagine other (better?) batteries, or the disappearance of the need for batteries?
It's definitely the former.
Commercial TV
Search engines, I guess. No I won't elaborate, mostly because I have no confidence.