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[–] juliebean@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

my answer varies quite a bit depending on whether we mean tech that will be relegated to specific niche use cases and markets, tech that will no longer be produced at all, or tech that can't be found any more, even used.

the first category could include a lot of things, like most of the other suggestions that have already been suggested here, but i don't think there's any chance of blu-ray discs or desktop computers being totally gone in that time frame. the second category will probably include small gasoline powered cars, at least in some countries. and the third category will probably include most standard incandescent or CFL light bulbs, but they might still exist in some niche applications.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I imagine incandescent will remain if for no other reason than lava lamps. They've got just enough fans and the incandescent is perfect for them. If their manufacture goes away some niche uses company will probably pick them up.

Period focused lighting may also use them. And, now I'm remembering the monthly or so task of having to replace light bulbs back when I was a kid. It feels like a ridiculous old timey thing these days, like milkmen.

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[–] Coding4Fun@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Social media as we know.

[–] Wazowski@lemmy.world 67 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The way shit is headed, probably vaccines.

[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] grranibal@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I believe it’s propagating outside of the US

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[–] koper@feddit.nl 51 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Not disappear entirely, but most households won't own desktop computers or HDDs.

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

Most people connected to the Internet today have never owned a desktop computer nor an HDD. A crazy amount of people have been introduced to computing with smartphones.

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[–] narr1@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Social security and pensions I think.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't know of any millennial or younger who assumes there will be a safety net for them at the end of the road. We just don't trust those in charge to keep it. I'll fight for it, I paid into it and I want others to have it, but I can't bank on it either

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[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 25 points 1 week ago

3G networks

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'd say consumer printers

We're running towards all digital, only a few edge cases will still require them

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

self-inflicted, if they played nice we would all be printing from home.

upside is less paper waste

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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] BussyCat@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

We call it AI now but machine learning algorithms have been around for 70 years now and basically run the world

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

AI technologie could be nice. LLM and Diffusion models ruining the Internet with fake information and Fake art, being over hyped as AI that will change the world, all while burning up unimaginable amounts of energy? Yeah, I also hope it goes away.

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[–] POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 week ago

Honestly I would say it might go the other way with laptops disappearing and being replaced with tablets.

The operating systems and software on tablets is getting ever more capable even for productivity stuff. Add to that newer generations growing up while using mostly smartphones and maybe sometimes a computer and I believe if having to decide they would choose a tablet over a laptop. In general the line between laptops and tablets is getting a bit blurry with windows based tablet PC's and tablets that come with a keyboard cover.

RIP PDAs with keyboard. Another form factor I miss

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[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't expect it so quickly, but hopefully lithium ion batteries (and variants like Li-poly, LiFePO4, etc)

[–] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] iii@mander.xyz 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can you explain why and how? Do you imagine other (better?) batteries, or the disappearance of the need for batteries?

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

It's definitely the former.

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[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Search engines, I guess. No I won't elaborate, mostly because I have no confidence.

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