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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    People - robots took over the world by then.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭Nomis21


    BeerWolf wrote: »
    People - robots took over the world by then.

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    electric typewriters
    typewriters for that matter

    video recorders
    cameras that take film
    cine projectors
    slide projectors


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭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!


  • Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭gugleguy


    Wired joysticks / gamepads
    HG Duo cards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,195 ✭✭✭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.


  • Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Swatch make good watches.

    If you like them, then you like them.

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭bop1977


    Swatch make good watches.

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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,164 ✭✭✭Savage Tyrant


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


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,254 ✭✭✭Yawns


    hardCopy wrote: »
    Laptops and Desktops

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭gugleguy


    Present day ful size SD cards


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,436 ✭✭✭Merrion


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23 _taytothief


    Spectacles. Replaced by Google Glass type eyewear.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 700 ✭✭✭mikeyjames9


    footballs







    hopefully


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Nomis21 wrote: »
    Porn will be 3D and interactive. We won't need to just watch it.

    eh, prostitutes?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,909 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    Wireless electricity will probably be the standard in homes.

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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Sliced bread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,655 ✭✭✭Faith+1


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    Sliced bread.

    :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,710 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    I do look forward to the day when my car can drive me to work while I sleep or home from the pub would be nice too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 896 ✭✭✭Fuzzytrooper


    Toilet Paper. Seen a documentary where they suggested the use of three sea shells. Salutations!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭wonderfulname


    ScumLord wrote: »
    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.

    On this point, I read recently that in the states Verizon are attempting to upgrade all copper landlines to fiber, but they're meeting with opposition from people in areas prone to natural disaster, as copper landlines keep phones powered when the electricity goes down, but fiber doesn't, so people aren't putting all their eggs in one basket when it comes to communication in the event of an emergency. I would imagine people in these situations will try to keep other supposedly defunct technologies alive, even people in rural ireland would be very shortsighted to rely on a smartphone for communication, timekeeping or a torch.

    Modern conveniences won't bury proven technology anytime soon for those who need reliability.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭gugleguy


    Laser printer copier toner (dry ink) as we know it now. Messy and don't get it in your cloths never mind your skin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Antar Bolaeisk


    Merrion wrote: »
    Churches - in 100 years they will be as quaint and alien as castles are.

    We'll all be heading to the Mosques by then.

    Current HIDs, a hundred years from now (assuming there's anyone left) it'll be direct mental link to hyrbid biotech devices.

    This will be after the Second Automata Rights War.

    The human body might also be obsolete at this stage.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    Merrion wrote: »
    Churches - in 100 years they will be as quaint and alien as castles are.

    Churches do serve an important social function, funerals, weddings etc., they'll be around in some form or another.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    iguana wrote: »
    Wireless electricity will probably be the standard in homes.

    We've had that for decades. Batteries.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Churches do serve an important social function, funerals, weddings etc., they'll be around in some form or another.

    The edifice will be still around, whether there'll be priests around to do stuff is a moot point. Probably end up eventually having all lay people brought in.


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