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What will we be nostalgic about in 20-30 years time?

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  • #32
    Echoes675
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 256 ✭✭Echoes675


    Oil and oil based products.


  • #33
    Rocky Bay
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 276 ✭✭Rocky Bay


    ...metal biscuit tins. As opposed to the plastic ones.


  • #34
    mackg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    Immaculate Pasta wrote: »
    Nostalgia is a yearning for the past often in idealised form. A lot of people do it and they portray previous decades better than what they actually were.

    What do you think people will be nostalgic about in the next generation? So what changes do you think will happen in the next 20-30 years and what will people fondly remember from this generation?

    My predictions

    1. I reckon people will be nostalgic about being in a recession. Criticising frivolous spending and saying it was great having to live within your means as it made us all less materialistic. Basically there will be a repeat of Celtic Tiger style spending.

    2. We were able to make fun of Travellers without being done for breach of the peace and being accused of being racist. People will look fondly upon people being less sensitive to other minority groups.

    3. We could drink as much as we like in the pub without getting arrested for drink walking. The Guards will breathalise you if they suspect that you were drunk in a public place.

    4. We were able to eat whatever we like without the government monitoring us saying we must eat healthily. There will be much less choice in unhealthy foods and unhealthy foods could only be bought behind the counter and was heavily taxed and advertised against

    5. Smoking will be illegal and then become nostalgic. There will be pop culture phenomenon of buying memorabilia of old celebrities smoking. People will look favourably on people’s chance to smoke and yearn for the choice again.

    6. We will look fondly on independent shops such as a local bakers, chemist, corner shop. This will all have largely been replaced by international chains.

    So I’m predicting greater government intervention on social issues and interference on how we live our lives and greater effects of globalisation. There will be greater domination of international corporations.

    What do the rest of After Hours think? :cool:

    I don't like the sound of your vision of the future.

    Think I'll get nostalgic about the smell of petrol and The Simpsons.


  • #35
    kieranfitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭kieranfitz


    Actual shops, paper books, what the world was like before china nuked itself off the map in a civil war, a world without zombies.


  • #36
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Snowie wrote: »
    • Petrol
    • touch screen mobile devices
    • Playstations
    • Tvs
    • driving cars?
    • travel
    • ear phones
    • world as we know it
    • secual contact :eek:
    • pregenaceys with out a license
    I recon half the world will live on under mural stimulation devices they live, most of there daily lives threw them therele be no head phone for music youle be able to hear in your head :pac: driving cars will give ay to ai
    gaming will be virtual with nural stimulation
    travel will be done bye god knows what?

    granddad whats an i phone, :pac:

    Spell checkers and literacy....ah bless but they were great;)


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  • #37
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Your surroundings.

    I'd love to go back 20 or 30 years ago and simply walk around Cork City to see how much it's changed in the intervening years.

    The shops, streets, pubs and neighbourhoods we have today will be radically different in 30 years time.


  • #38
    Kev_2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 976 ✭✭✭Kev_2012


    Being able to swear without being fined one credit for violation of the Verbal Morality Statute.


  • #39
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,244 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    What will I miss? Privacy. We're turning in to groups of virtual tribes who live their lives in public. The technology is already available, or will be soon, to track and tie together everything we do to form a single picture of our activities.

    Some authors see this as a good thing e.g. Cory Doctorow, in books such as Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. He describes a "reputation economy" where money has been replaced by "whuffie", a virtual currency that you earn by doing "good" things.

    But if you dare to complain about this, you start to sound old-fashioned - like Ayn Rand, who saw privacy as essential to the development of society.
    Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
    You might say "well, Facebook only knows what I tell it", but Facebook is only one service. Imagine a situation in which the government created a single file on you that tied all that together, used it for its own purposes (tax, social benefits) ... then sold that service to anyone who wanted it, because they need the money.

    So, in the future, if you go out of an evening and have a few drinks, don't call in sick the next day. Your boss will be able to check up on what you did the evening before, and what you drank. It may even happen automatically without him lifting a finger; just a pop-up on his screen a few seconds after you call in sick. Your insurance company will be able to bump up your health and car insurance costs, because having a few drinks is a risky activity.

    I'm assuming that everyone will have stopped smoking by then, since you will not get health insurance if you do - and they will know. Put those Pringles back on the shelf, you don't want them on your bill. What do you mean, "pay cash"? What is cash? I have this smart card ... :rolleyes:

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • #40
    Mickey H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    I reckon these people.


  • #41
    fishy fishy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭fishy fishy


    country schoolhouses
    bog cutters
    hay makers
    fishing


    basically, anything that makes us "irish" - they are getting rid of our tradition one by one. Soon people will only know about these in song or story, not reality - in reality, we will be living in a generic environment, uniform and boring.


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  • #42
    hooradiation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    bnt wrote: »
    What will I miss? Privacy. We're turning in to groups of virtual tribes who live their lives in public. The technology is already available, or will be soon, to track and tie together everything we do to form a single picture of our activities.

    Some authors see this as a good thing e.g. Cory Doctorow, in books such as Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. He describes a "reputation economy" where money has been replaced by "whuffie", a virtual currency that you earn by doing "good" things.

    But if you dare to complain about this, you start to sound old-fashioned - like Ayn Rand, who saw privacy as essential to the development of society.
    You might say "well, Facebook only knows what I tell it", but Facebook is only one service. Imagine a situation in which the government created a single file on you that tied all that together, used it for its own purposes (tax, social benefits) ... then sold that service to anyone who wanted it, because they need the money.

    So, in the future, if you go out of an evening and have a few drinks, don't call in sick the next day. Your boss will be able to check up on what you did the evening before, and what you drank. It may even happen automatically without him lifting a finger; just a pop-up on his screen a few seconds after you call in sick. Your insurance company will be able to bump up your health and car insurance costs, because having a few drinks is a risky activity.

    I'm assuming that everyone will have stopped smoking by then, since you will not get health insurance if you do - and they will know. Put those Pringles back on the shelf, you don't want them on your bill. What do you mean, "pay cash"? What is cash? I have this smart card ... :rolleyes:

    But no matter how much things change, we'll always have people with a gift for rambling bullshit.


  • #43
    Orim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Orim


    The English language.

    We're at a turning point for the language and I imagine that in 30 years we'll see the language become more influenced by text speak. This text speak evolution will become the norm.


  • #44
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Voting for corrupt politicans.



    I live in hope...... :rolleyes:


  • #45
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Orim wrote: »
    The English language.

    We're at a turning point for the language and I imagine that in 30 years we'll see the language become more influenced by text speak. This text speak evolution will become the norm.

    :confused:

    What's the opposite of evolution? :pac:


  • #46
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    The 20th century. There'll come a time when you'll be ashamed to tell someone you born in a year that begins with 19. :pac:


  • #47
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    foxyboxer wrote: »
    :confused:

    What's the opposite of evolution? :pac:

    Regression maybe?


  • #48
    hooradiation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,922 ✭✭✭hooradiation


    Orim wrote: »
    The English language.

    We're at a turning point for the language and I imagine that in 30 years we'll see the language become more influenced by text speak. This text speak evolution will become the norm.

    Well, that's pretty much how languages work.....


  • #49
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    County councillors, How we will laugh at there antics.


  • #50
    DarkJager
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    foxyboxer wrote: »
    Orim wrote: »
    The English language.

    We're at a turning point for the language and I imagine that in 30 years we'll see the language become more influenced by text speak. This text speak evolution will become the norm.

    :confused:

    What's the opposite of evolution? :pac:

    Devolution.


  • #51
    Orim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Orim


    hooradiation wrote: »
    Well, that's pretty much how languages work.....

    I'm aware which is why I stated that it's going to happen. And when it happens people will be nostalgic about the times when people used proper English.

    You can already see both the evolution and the nostalgia with people who constantly use text speak and the people who bemoan the use of text speak.


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  • #52
    gubbie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭gubbie


    Parents making their kids go to mass

    Buttons on phones

    A packet of Taytos costing 80c (because everyone is already nostalgic about them costing 24p)


  • #53
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    We'll be nostalgic about all pre-Solanum outbreak times


  • #54
    wp_rathead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,114 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    nostalgia will be nostalgic-- timemachines b!tches:cool:


  • #55
    forfuxsake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 829 ✭✭✭forfuxsake


    foxyboxer wrote: »
    :confused:

    What's the opposite of evolution? :pac:

    gingerism?


  • #56
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    gubbie wrote: »
    Parents making their kids go to mass

    Surely that's already at the retro stage? :confused:


  • #57
    HazDanz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,300 ✭✭✭HazDanz


    David Attenborough Wildlife Programmes :(


  • #58
    Mindkiller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,200 ✭✭✭Mindkiller


    Free internet porn and piracy.


  • #59
    flanders1979
    Closed Accounts Posts: 638 ✭✭✭flanders1979


    Unprotected sex and cheap alcohol


  • #60
    Feeona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,632 ✭✭✭Feeona


    I don't believe we'll be that much further along :mad:. I remember watching a documentary called 'Back to the Future (Part 2) circa 1985 and the scientist in it went forward to the year 2015. They had hoverboards and automatic drying machines in the street! FFS no sign of them yet.

    Ditto Beyond 2000
    Ditto Tomorrow's World

    Lies. It's all lies :mad:


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  • #61
    df1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭df1985


    affording petrol


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