Defunct objects

Nomis21

What objects which are in common use today will only be seen only as museum pieces by the year 2114, and why?

I am going to suggest the Residential Landline Telephone because already many people do not have a landline.

I also think that oil as a fuel will also be defunct. Even if America does find an excuse to invade more countries, there will be no oil left in the ground.

Birneybau

Loads of people have landlines, sure most companies allow free local-to-local calls.

I'm going to say word processors and calculators.

Nomis21

Birneybau wrote: »

Loads of people have landlines, sure most companies allow free local-to-local calls.

I agree but...


lots of people don't, that's my point. Mobiles are taking over the role as being more convenient.

Annasopra

CD players
Cars driven by people

Nomis21

Birneybau wrote: »

I'm going to say word processors and calculators.

I thought they'd gone already?

sebastianlieken

I actually think mobile phones will be a museum piece by 2114.

Already we're starting to see them integrated into watches and glasses. Give it a hundred years and I'd say there will be a totally new platform. 100 years for tech is a very long time!!

solomafioso

Vowels.

Nomis21

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

CD players
Cars driven by people

The CD is almost gone, so the player never had a chance really...

El Guapo!

This years calendar.

whisky_galore

Cameras, that function as just that. Maybe professionals might still have them.

hardCopy

Laptops and Desktops

EoghanIRL

Porn DVDs .
Everyone uses the internet nowadays .

The Backwards Man

City dwellers, which will be 99.9999999999% of the world population by 2100.

By 2100, they will all have been replaced with efficient robots.

Nomis21

EoghanIRL wrote: »

Porn DVDs .
Everyone uses the internet nowadays .

Porn will be 3D and interactive. We won't need to just watch it.

Nomis21

Human beings might be gone if the wrong virus turns up from Africa

preston johnny

All of us posting on here

o1s1n

sebastianlieken wrote: »

I actually think mobile phones will be a museum piece by 2114.

Already we're starting to see them integrated into watches and glasses. Give it a hundred years and I'd say there will be a totally new platform. 100 years for tech is a very long time!!

It comes down to convenience really though. It's a lot easier to have a phone you can take out in your hand and browse the internet etc then use it on a watch or a (ridiculous looking) pair of google glasses.

I reckon we'll still continue a tablet type design, but the tech itself will just continue to improve (thinner/bendable/indestructible etc)

whisky_galore wrote: »

Cameras, that function as just that. Maybe professionals might still have them.

Give me a decent SLR with a proper lens any day

The 'snap digital camera' has all but vanished and been replaced by phones, however if you still really want to take photography seriously you need a proper camera.

VCR's

FullblownRose

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

CD players
Cars driven by people

Cars driven by people will never cease to exist, not as long as there are people who enjoy driving.

Wibbs

Petrol stations. Most standalone computers. Stuff we need(tm) to do will be integrated into everything we engage with. Power and connectivity cables, or most of them anyway will fade out.

Rothko

Candie wrote: »

VCR's

They've been obsolete for a long time now.

catallus

El Guapo! wrote: »

This years calendar.

Actually you could use it for 2110.

oppenheimer1

Birneybau wrote: »

Loads of people have landlines, sure most companies allow free local-to-local calls.

I'm going to say word processors and calculators.

You obviously don't work in a scientific field. Hand held calculators are a must since soft calculators are less easy to use.

I would never use my PC or phone for simple calculations unless I was stuck.

Word processors are long obsolete and have been replaced by more functional software

conorhal

Nomis21 wrote: »

What objects which are in common use today will only be seen only as museum pieces by the year 2114, and why?

I am going to suggest the Residential Landline Telephone because already many people do not have a landline.

I also think that oil as a fuel will also be defunct. Even if America does find an excuse to invade more countries, there will be no oil left in the ground.

Tedious anti American 'blood for oi' posters. God I wish they would become defunct.

miezekatze

EoghanIRL wrote: »

Porn DVDs .
Everyone uses the internet nowadays .

DVDs or any other kinds of discs like that in general - games, movies, the lot. I'd say they will be gone within the next 10-15 years.

eviltimeban

Nomis21 wrote: »

Porn will be 3D and interactive. We won't need to just watch it.

Here's hoping!

Typewriters.

Paper, and related items like books, newspapers, etc.

Money (if sci-fi has taught us anything, we'll have "credits").

catallus

Nomis21 wrote: »

Porn will be 3D and interactive. We won't need to just watch it.

Not if Jimmy Carter has anything to do with it!!!:D

http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0901/640568-jimmy-carter-letter/

Adamantium

I have to laugh at people thinking we're going to have any of the things we see in 2114 without oil.

All electronics, plastics, kitchen utensils, cars require it just to be manufactured, hell we need oil to the manufacture the components for solar panels and windmills, nuclear energy.

And nobody has an answer to it, or even wants to think about it.

Irish Guitarist

I was surprised to see blank cassette tapes a few months ago in Tesco.

Cassette tapes will probably be museum pieces in years to come. Not just the tapes themselves but the things people recorded on them, especially demo tapes made by big name bands or musicians.

Pinch Flat

Txt spk

nelly17

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I was surprised to see blank cassette tapes a few months ago in Tesco.

Cassette tapes will probably be museum pieces in years to come. Not just the tapes themselves but the things people recorded on them, especially demo tapes made by big name bands or musicians.

Actually they kind of have been onsolete for the last 20 years because a lot of demos were on DAT

BeerWolf

People - robots took over the world by then.

Nomis21

BeerWolf wrote: »

People - robots took over the world by then.

I agree. Machines will operate the machines, No Pilots, no drivers.

BBDBB

electric typewriters
typewriters for that matter

video recorders
cameras that take film
cine projectors
slide projectors

Nomis21

BBDBB wrote: »

electric typewriters
typewriters for that matter

video recorders
cameras that take film
cine projectors
slide projectors

Are you living in a 1999 time warp? They all already gone!

I think Windows XP will just about be gone by then though!

Suas11

Suas11 wrote: »

They've been obsolete for a long time now.

True.

I'll say 90% + of wristwatches. Most people get the time off their phones.

I like a nice watch myself and I predict that there will always be a hard core of timepiece fans that continue to wear them. The Swatch wearers of the world will lose interest and cheap nasty watches will go by the wayside. That's the hope anyway.

gugleguy

Wired joysticks / gamepads
HG Duo cards.

BBDBB

Nomis21 wrote: »

Are you living in a 1999 time warp? They all already gone!

I think Windows XP will just about be gone by then though!

no, Im just indifferent to reading fully the original post before replying

eviltimeban

Candie wrote: »

The Swatch wearers of the world will lose interest and cheap nasty watches will go by the wayside. That's the hope anyway.

Swatch make good watches.

eviltimeban

eviltimeban wrote: »

Swatch make good watches.

If you like them, then you like them.

I wouldn't rate them personally, but we're all different.

bop1977

eviltimeban wrote: »

Swatch make good watches.

Yes seeing as they own omega and longines as well as the cheaper brands.

Savage Tyrant

Nobody has paged me on my pager for quite some time.... Im starting to think it might become obsolete soon.

Yawns

hardCopy wrote: »

Laptops and Desktops

But without Desktops then how can the master gaming race continue?

ScumLord

Nomis21 wrote: »

lots of people don't, that's my point. Mobiles are taking over the role as being more convenient.

Until they can do high speed, with unlimited downloads I don't see how mobile can defunct landline. Landline will always be more secure and less prone to breakdown.

I could see all physical computing devices disappearing over time, computing would become an add on for your imagination, all the physical devices would be is a way of bringing the stuff you imagine in your head into the real world.

Instead of making a phone call you'd imagine the person you want to talk to and they would appear in your world as a part of your imagination which you could share with other peoples imagination.

gugleguy

Present day ful size SD cards

Merrion

Churches - in 100 years they will be as quaint and alien as castles are.

Tail Docker

Houses. Whoever's around will be living in caves and eating berries, cos by then, we'll have fecked it up totally.

_taytothief

Spectacles. Replaced by Google Glass type eyewear.

mikeyjames9

footballs







hopefully

Guy:Incognito

Nomis21 wrote: »

Porn will be 3D and interactive. We won't need to just watch it.

eh, prostitutes?

iguana

Wireless electricity will probably be the standard in homes.

(The Order of Draco can't stop Dracula for ever.)