We are the last generation that will...

Harry Palmr

What is that thing we all take for granted that our children and certainly grandchildren will not know other than through history?

I'll start with - consume a diet which largely consists of food and drink not developed in a laboratory/giant vats of liquid-based mush made of CO2 and water. By the mid century we'll be consuming product that looks and tastes plausibly like "real food" once processed and packaged but is no such thing.

https://www.labiotech.eu/biotech-of-the-week/solar-foods-space-mission-finland/

salmocab

Able to read a clock

elefant

Maybe- consider smoking a normal habit.

onrail

Remember a time before the internet and smartphones were invented.

Truly a defining point in human history.

ancapailldorcha

I can easily see handwriting dying out which would be a shame. Along with several species.

EmmetSpiceland

...not be shocked by a church abuse or celebrity paedophile “scandal”.

o1s1n

Have a cathode ray tube firing electrons at our face.

is_that_so

Harry Palmr wrote: »

What is that thing we all take for granted that our children and certainly grandchildren will not know other than through history?

I'll start with - consume a diet which largely consists of food and drink not developed in a laboratory/giant vats of liquid-based mush made of CO2 and water. By the mid century we'll be consuming product that looks and tastes plausibly like "real food" once processed and packaged but is no such thing.

https://www.labiotech.eu/biotech-of-the-week/solar-foods-space-mission-finland/

They should be putting more effort into technologies and methods that can stop the food supply chain wasting 30% of food before we even get it. It's inevitable though that we'll be eating space rations sooner rather than later.

TheValeyard

Remember the original Monster Munch

Winning_Stroke

There are handful of photos of my parents when they were young. Future generations will have a massive amount of media and other online traces of their ancestors to go through, if they're bothered.

CrankyHaus

Have had any regard for RTE. When I was young it still put out quality programming and the likes of Gay Byrne were nearly universally respecred. Nowadays hardly anyone under 40 even pretends to find it worthwhile and Tubbs gets abuse all over.

greenttc

salmocab wrote: »

Able to read a clock

I think this is frighteningly accurate, in dealing with teenagers recently I am beyond shocked at their complete inability to read a clock, I am asked the time over and over despite there being a clock over my head, which I point to, only to be told that they don't understand that yoke and can I please just tell them what time it is.

Peatys

Harry Palmr wrote: »

What is that thing we all take for granted that our children and certainly grandchildren will not know other than through history?

Be comfortable being bored.

dinorebel

Be able to check gender on a document without going through a hundred options.

JohnnyFlash

CrankyHaus wrote: »

Have had any regard for RTE. When I was young it still put out quality programming and the likes of Gay Byrne were nearly universally respecred. Nowadays hardly anyone under 40 even pretends to find it worthwhile and Tubbs gets abuse all over.

Is there any thread on this godforsaken site that isn’t hijacked by some tedious old bore having a rant about RTÉ?

Sleepy

onrail wrote: »

Remember a time before the internet and smartphones were invented.

Truly a defining point in human history.

First thing that came to my mind. My kids can't imagine a world without the internet and find it as shocking as I did as a child when my parents described getting their families getting their first televisions during their childhoods.

ednwireland

Winning_Stroke wrote: »

There are handful of photos of my parents when they were young. Future generations will have a massive amount of media and other online traces of their ancestors to go through, if they're bothered.

hmm not so sure about this, considering no one prints anything and vast amounts of data can be wiped at the press of a button i can see this been a new dark ages in a 100 years time.

CrankyHaus

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Is there any thread on this godforsaken site that isn’t hijacked by some tedious old bore having a rant about RTÉ?

Sorry Flash, you might find yourself happier if you stick to your scat threads. Got anything relevant to the thread to contribute yourself?

El Tarangu

greenttc wrote: »

I think this is frighteningly accurate, in dealing with teenagers recently I am beyond shocked at their complete inability to read a clock

Being able to read a clock will soon (if not already) be about as useful as being able to use a rotary telephone or read a sundial.

Ipso

salmocab wrote: »

Able to read a clock

Read a map. Send a fax.

CrankyHaus

El Tarangu wrote: »

Being able to read a clock will soon (if not already) be about as useful as being able to use a rotary telephone or read a sundial.

It provides a reasonable directional frame of reference :

Eg "if exciting roundabout at a point after 12 o clock enter in the right lane"

realdanbreen

Being able to work away without a condom.

freshpopcorn

Celebrate Christmas for a few days after Christmas!

donegal_man

Remember making hay, threshing corn, going to the bog to save turf. The above all mean nothing to my own children who are growing up in an urban environment. When I talk to them of walking to the village shop/post office to make a telephone call to my auntie in England for Christmas they look at me as if a character from Dickens has taken my place. The horror when I told them our school had outside toilets and we used to spend a day unloading a load of turf for the open fires was something to behold and as for the idea that we had only two television stations!

Winning_Stroke

CrankyHaus wrote: »

It provides a reasonable directional frame of reference :

Eg "if exciting roundabout at a point after 12 o clock enter in the right lane"

"I've got two boogeys on my six o clock. Requesting help!"

"Roger that Yard-Dawg, I'm coming in hot."

"Homerun, is that you? You son of a bicth! Now LET'S SMOKE THESE RUSKIES"

izzyflusky

greenttc wrote: »

I think this is frighteningly accurate, in dealing with teenagers recently I am beyond shocked at their complete inability to read a clock, I am asked the time over and over despite there being a clock over my head, which I point to, only to be told that they don't understand that yoke and can I please just tell them what time it is.

How is that possible? They are thought in primary school. My 6 year old can tell the time on a regular clock and I would say all his classmates.

joe40

Depending how automated cars become, but maybe the skill of driving will become obsolete for majority and just become a niche activity like horse-riding is now.

WrenBoy

Harry Palmr wrote: »

What is that thing we all take for granted that our children and certainly grandchildren will not know other than through history?
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That it was a bit odd for a woman to have a willy.

JupiterKid

Remember using a public telephone box or a dial telephone.

Buying music to listen to on CD or cassette tape.

Remember when chart pop music, and music in general was actually decent and original in our youth.

Remember the insane all-enveloping power of the church on Irish society.

Silent Running

Hear the lonely cry of a Curlew passing overhead.

Andrewf20

Remember what is like to not have central heating. A freezing cold house apart from the living room, the kitchen and maybe a bedroom where the fan heater on the ground would be whizzing away.

Tacitus Kilgore

I think remembering life pre-internet & smartphone/tech is probably the biggest for me.


Then - remembering having lots of wildlife & flies etc. about the place.

I know every self-aware generation has said the same, and rose tinted glasses are the best - but to me, the world is a much sadder place to live in now than it was when I was a kid at the end of the last century.

Wibbs

have privacy.

Sorry about that

Chew gum, picked off the ground.

realdanbreen

donegal_man wrote: »

Remember making hay, threshing corn, going to the bog to save turf. The above all mean nothing to my own children who are growing up in an urban environment. When I talk to them of walking to the village shop/post office to make a telephone call to my auntie in England for Christmas they look at me as if a character from Dickens has taken my place. The horror when I told them our school had outside toilets and we used to spend a day unloading a load of turf for the open fires was something to behold and as for the idea that we had only two television stations!

And of course when you got to school there was every chance of getting a hiding from the teacher, unless of course you came from a well off family.

donegal_man

Silent Running wrote: »

Hear the lonely cry of a Curlew passing overhead.

Add to that the cuckoo and corncrake

astrofool

know how to drive stick (in Ireland at least, already obsolete in other countries, however much Wibbs may cry about it ).

El Tarangu

White dog sh*te

Know the sweet agony of anticipation of hoping that your song would be the next one played on the radio (and later on, on a music television station) - now they can play anything they want on demand.

Similarly, feeling the small joy of admiring your collection of records/cassettes/videos/CDs/DVDs

greenttc

El Tarangu wrote: »

Being able to read a clock will soon (if not already) be about as useful as being able to use a rotary telephone or read a sundial.

Have to disagree with that, clocks are everywhere and still widely used, its an important skill to have

izzyflusky wrote: »

How is that possible? They are thought in primary school. My 6 year old can tell the time on a regular clock and I would say all his classmates.

I am guessing it is a skill that they don't use enough (as they rely on phones) and if you don't use a skill you use it, either that or the very large cohort of teenagers I am with did not pay attention in school

realdanbreen

WrenBoy wrote: »

That it was a bit odd for a woman to have a willy.

Agreed . A beard perhaps but not a willy.

treade1

have access to affordable air travel for the masses.

I says

Be able to think for ourselves.
Most idiots get their opinions from the internet these days.

The_Conductor

See cameras or calculators as separate devices to our omnipresent mobile phones.

El Tarangu

donegal_man wrote: »

Remember making hay, threshing corn, going to the bog to save turf. The above all mean nothing to my own children who are growing up in an urban environment. When I talk to them of walking to the village shop/post office to make a telephone call to my auntie in England for Christmas they look at me as if a character from Dickens has taken my place. The horror when I told them our school had outside toilets and we used to spend a day unloading a load of turf for the open fires was something to behold and as for the idea that we had only two television stations!

These are all great developments, surely - that as a society we are wealthy enough that children are no longer required to hew wood and draw water.

Better Than Christ

Winning_Stroke wrote: »

There are handful of photos of my parents when they were young. Future generations will have a massive amount of media and other online traces of their ancestors to go through, if they're bothered.

"Nana, why aren't you smiling? What's wrong with your lips?"

MoashoaM

life without instant-gratification

AlekSmart

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

I can easily see handwriting dying out which would be a shame. Along with several species.

A +1 to this.

Last year I visited my late mothers old school in the midlands,shortly to close down.
In the course of my visit one of the older ex teaching sisters was able to get the Official School Ledger ( a VERY big book) in which the details of all pupils were recorded. The book spanned some 40 years from mid 1930's.

The individual class registers (clár) were then transcribed from this master list.

What struck me was the steady decline of the handwriting through the decades,as the Pen & Ink of the 30's and 40's gave way to biro in the 1950's.
The entries for my Mothers era were absolutely crystal clear,with bold copperplate strokes and fully legible to any reader....sadly towards the end of the book,the readibility was average at best.

Also of interest were the red-inked notations of the Inspector,who usually arrived from Dublin to check these records and would pick-up on any discrepencies in spelling or grammar in the ledgers.

Definitely a dying art....we may yet end up painting images on cave walls.....again !!

galwayllm

take a dump without a phone

El Tarangu

greenttc wrote: »

Have to disagree with that, clocks are everywhere and still widely used, its an important skill to have

They're still everywhere now, for sure. But I can't see them building many new ones that are only analog.

mountai

..... Allow the Clergy to abuse us .

Boredstiff666

I blame Trump and Brexit.