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It goes without saying, DVDs/BlueRays.

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[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'll be sad if DVD's and Blu-ray's go away.

[–] 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

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 12 points 1 week ago

No, we have a vaccine for that.

[–] koper@feddit.nl 51 points 1 week ago (2 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.

[–] huquad@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

As a homelabber, this makes me sad. Perhaps enshittification will push people back into home/local computing.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

homelabbing isnt even my gripe with it. its not ever interacting with computers on your own terms, only on theirs. smartphones are a black box.

i see ads, artificial annoyances, and human right violations by technology increasing in lockstep with the reduction of our collective control over computing.

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[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 36 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I'm going to be bold. The internal combustion engine car.

There will be a tipping point where nobody wants to maintain the highly intricate manufacturing for them, and they will stop very quickly. Electric motors are the future and the transition is accelerating. We're currently around 20% of new sales and I expect after 60-70% ICEs will just disappear from sale.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

we still see a lot of 20-40yr old cars around, many daily driven. if we suddenly stop making ice cars today, its still taking a while for them to truly go away in practical terms.

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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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[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 week ago

I feel like DVDs/Blurays already disappeared 10 years ago and are now making a comeback. Same for CDs. Streaming services don't let you own anything, and if they pull something down, you're SOL. Self hosting Plex and ripping my own disks has given me a level of freedom not possible with netflix et. al. Especially since DVDs are considered garbage to most people now, you can set up your own streaming service for you and your friends and family for cheap. No piracy necessary.

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Please be "ai"... Please be "ai"...

[–] 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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[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Hopefully fax machines, but these things seem incapable of dying.

[–] OADINC@feddit.nl 1 points 6 days ago

Fun? Fact, I'm in my mid twenties and have never used them.

[–] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago

Unless you're trying to use one. Then they're always broken.

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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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[–] _AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All of it, humanity will be wiped out in the Second Emu War, and birds don't need phones.

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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.

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[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 15 points 1 week ago (16 children)

If anything I think DVDs and Blu-rays are going to rise. All across the media landscape people seem to be getting annoyed with the "own nothing" society we're in. The thrift stores are full of thousands of DVDs for barely any cost. Last week I bought the Matrix 2 and 3 and Der Untergang in DVD for like 3 bucks. Way easier than figuring out in which streaming service to watch them and what OS and browser will let it play at HD resolution. Once "the youth" picks up on this like they did with CDs and digicams the DVD will be back.

Recently In bought a Blu-ray of Star Wars Andor because I love the series and want to support it, but Disney+ wouldn't play beyond 480p on my setup. My trusty old PS3 plays it like a dream and the resulting image is ridiculously sharp compared to streaming.

CDs, cassettes, and vinyl are already booming or in the rise again. And the streaming audio landscape is arguably way nicer than the streaming video lanschape. In photography there's also a wave of film and early digital camera hype.

I hope that the next 10 years brings the resurgence of the physical medium and ownership. And if not that, the resurgence of the high seas.

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[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (4 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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[–] feinstruktur@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago (22 children)

Cash, at least in europe. In my opinion that decision would mark one of the most epic political fails in recent history but I fear, that's what's going to happen.

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[–] appropriateghost@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have no idea but hopefully the 'Proprietary' branch of human technology is discontinued.

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[–] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Bluerays will still exist because of japanese laws. How am I supposed to get my anime without dimming if I don't pirate bluerays?

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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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