Seventy five years from now, what things we have today that they will call primitive?

I’m hoping criminals. I hope in 75 years doctors will be able to fix people with mental defects that cause them to kill or rape or torture other people.
Mental illness will be a thing of the past and prisons will become musiums or be converted to dorm rooms.

conservative positions on race, sexuality, and economy.
religion
who am I kidding?

Cash

Surgery for cancer treatment.

“Imagine. They used to surgically remove the offending tumors. Unfortunately they had take healthy tissue with it to increase the odds they got it all. Back then they didn’t know about TVP, Targeted Viral Payloads, that is so common today. Everything changed when Sonas Jalk invented the process in 2047.”

I am betting cell phones as we know them now will be archaic. People will communicate with each other in some other way that is unimaginable to us at this time. Look at how much communication has changed in the previous 75 years.

Organizations that claim to be researching a cure for cancer.

Climate change deniers.

Burning coal/natural gas for energy.

Cars with steering wheels.

Smart phones

Airplanes.

Vertical elevators

‘Natural’ foods

Sex (and related: birth control, abortion, etc.)

But one thing will never go out of style: DONUTS.

Probably everything

Hand-held devices.

human intelligence

Petroleum fueled engines will exist primarily as museum displays.

Current laptop computers will be seen as archaic as manual typewriters are today.

Conventional paper checks as a means of making payments.

Tipping in restaurants.

Cracking ribs to have surgery on the heart.

Drilling teeth to repair dental caries (cavities); in fact, I expect “cavities” to be a thing of the past by then, anyway. Along the same lines, I expect that “dental work” will be generally unnecessary except in extreme cases of injury or deformation, as most teeth will be regenerated or 3D printed as required for implant.

Vehicle bodies made of steel, aluminum and other metals, since I expect we’ll be using stronger, lighter, cheaper materials that resist corrosion better, such as carbon fiber and graphene, to name two. (For that matter, I expect this to apply to ships and aircraft, too.)

Non-hypersonic planes will probably be as quaint as biplanes are today.

On the other hand… “free speech” may be a thing of the past by then, and “armed self-defense” may be considered a crime even more universally than it already seems to be in some quarters. When that happens, then “politicians without armed bodyguards” will also be a seldom-seen sight.

@flutherother How can cash really be done away with totally? Flea markets and garage sales will go away? If they did not, how will people sell off their late uncle’s golf clubs if they can’t receive the cash for it? Does that mean everyone will have to have some type pf an account somewhere? I know people who would hate that as they believe anyone with the right knowledge can track them by the digital trail they will have to leave.

@Pachy Climate change deniers.
What if the climate hasn’t changed to the degree that the talking heads said today? What do the climatologist and volcanologist say? Given which you listen to, they say the Earth goes through cool and warm cycles just as real estate goes up and down.

@elbanditoroso Airplanes;. Vertical elevators
What do you see replacing conventional aircraft? How would people get from floor to floor in a building without vertical elevators?

@Hypocrisy_Central – Diagonal elevators that go up and across at the same time.

Airplanes will be replaced with one-or-two-person travel pods that can land on your front lawn,

@LuckyGuy

I am with you. In 75 years it will be about cancer treatment
In 200 years it will be about explosive chemicals driving rockets.
In 1000 years, they will see various religions as a tribal phenomenon
Etc.

@elbanditoroso Airplanes will be replaced with one-or-two-person travel pods that can land on your front lawn,
These pods will fly? What safeguards are they going to have against stupid and self-medicaters the will end up putting their pod in the side of a skyscraper, bridge, or school gym?

@Hypocrisy_Central – we’re talking about 75 years in the future. Are you going to saddle me with quaint 2015 rules about air traffic control?

If we’re smart enough to dream up travel pods, we’ll be smart enough to figure out how to deal with traffic.

Fully developed language. It will have been replaced by some hybrid of textspeak and newspeak.

“sry cant tlk have 2 go 2 wrk at minitrue”

Hackers!!!

@Hypocrisy_Central You can already install a digital wallet to a mobile phone to make payments direct to retailers. Who knows how advanced the technology will be in another 75 years. Being able to make electronic payments phone to phone doesn’t seem too far fetched.

My son has an app on his phone that will do phone too phone transfers now. He puts in an amount and password and bumps the phone of the recipient. The two phones IDs, accelerometers, and location info are perfectly time stamped and the transaction is recorded on both phones.

Hospitals. There will be so many antibiotic super bugs around that going to a hospital, if there was anyone there to treat you, would mean certain death, even for the most minor injuries.

Uh, if anything hackers will become more prevalent.

@flutherother No cash?? Seriously?? The banks would just love that, ya know. Making all of that interest off of every transaction? Do you work for or own a bank???

Chemotherapy

@kritiper

Does one have to work at a bank to surmise that our society will most likely be cashless eventually? We’re headed well in that direction already.

The way we transmit data will be considered very primitive and slow. Several generations of technology will improve even on optical fiber to the user. I see very exciting times and envy my grandchildren that I don’t have yet.

@Darth_Algar The concept of a cashless society where there is no cash but only credit that banks profit from sickens me!

Computerized devices of all kinds will be obsolete because of the prevalent hacking that takes place continuously. The more electronically advanced we might become, the more archaic we will be.