Possibly US specific: Artificial Red/Yellow/Blue dyes in food. I hope..
this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2025
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In 20 years we will be shocked that we lived with all of the unnecessary fossil fuel usage while the world was slowly boiling. Oops, we fucked up the biosphere, guess we'll just move to mars and eat fucking solar rays ffs.
Hopefully, single use plastics would be a ridiculous thing in the future, maybe they will look back at it like we look back at asbestos.
Here is a funny asbestos ad from the past
God, I wonder how many people got those and used them regularly who are now having issues because of them?
Probably not many. Asbestos is bad when it gets into the air. If it's within an oven mitt, even if cut, how would it get into the air?
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What the hell, I misread the OP's title and thought it was about stuff that was common 20 years ago which is no longer normal... I was very confused with everybody else's answers lmao.
Sadly I can't think of an answer for the thread, so downvote/upvote at your will 😂
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Teflon
I'm not a doctor.
But possibly there will be a better way to treat/cure cancer, and thus chemotherapy will be seen as similar to how we today see bloodletting or lobotomy.
Poison the cancer slightly faster than the whole organism! My dad cancer treatment gave him liver disease that eventually turned into a cancer that was way more deadly than his original cancer.
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porn was freely available and could be purchased at stores in many parts of the US.
sex toys were widely available and could be purchased from the comfort of your own sex swing.
now we have Qualuviagra which not only increases the size of your penis* but also makes you forget all about your low-T*
*studies shown that penis size temporarily increases but long-term use will actually shrink it. prolonged use can induce Baby-Dick Syndrome (BDS). Abuse of the product is considered a class 1 felony and you will be registered as a sex offender unless you're a registered Republican.
*low T is a myth falsified by global warming scientists in order to confuse and belittle Republicans with BDS. If you are taking Qualuviagra to treat low-T, reach out to your nearest MediRogan for details about having low-T.
Gasoline-only cars, most likely
20 years though? That's incredibly generous and unlikely imo.
People are refusing to tackle the infrastructure issue of people charging their cars who do not own single family detached homes. It's a significant population of people for which owning an electric vehicle is a huge inconvenience. Public charging stations exist, but take significantly longer than the 2 minutes it takes to pump gas.
The second big thing is that people simply don't replace their cars that often. Might be pulling this out of my ass, but I had read recently that the average person replaces their vehicle every 7-12 years...and it is often not with a brand new vehicle. Considering how electric cars still make a very small percentage of those on the road, I can't see 100% removal of gas vehicles in 20 years in only a few generations of vehicle ownership change.
The Nissan Leaf came out around 15 years ago as the first big name, somewhat popularish electric vehicle. Yet in 2025 electric vehicles are nowhere close to even 50% of vehicles on the road.
In the more distant future? Sure. 20 years ain't happening tho.
But we'll see!
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Allowing Israel to get away with shit.
Lol, were you alive 20 years ago? same shit
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Using plastic to contain food. I'm always a little turned off when a takeout place uses plastic containers as opposed to the paper or foil ones. Plus it's terrible to animals, especially marine life such as dolphins.
Most of the paper ones are plastic coated.
Single-use plastic, yeah. Things like Tupperware will stick around unless we go back to using asphalt for food preservation.
I think we're going to see single use wax-paper or similar displace the plastic and Styrofoam for your delivery order.
People probably wouldn't believe we sold water in plastic water bottles or shopped with disposable plastic bags.
Disposable vapes...
I legitimately do not understand why so many people refuse to drink tap water. I get that an occasional bottle of water is convenient when traveling or something, but some of my neighbors seem to only drink bottled water even at home. The city will literally test your water for free if you don't trust it for some reason.
Tap in many places has a distinctive 'taste' to it. A cheap filter is WAY more useful (and way cheaper) than bottled water though.
I think it might take a lot longer than 20 years for plastic to fully die down
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20 years is a bit short but... Eating animals will be regarded as highly immoral, "but everyone knew those animals suffered, right?", on the same level as we now judge slavery
I'm vegetarian, but I don't see this happening
It's sadly impossible until we guarantee food for everyone. It's a luxury to choose where and what your next meal is.
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This is farfetched. People love meat, and we have for our entire history. Even India only has around 30% vegetarian population. The demand for not just protein but specifically meat will never go away.
The only way I see us avoiding animal slaughter is by mastering bioengineering to the point where we can grow a perfectly marbled brisket in a lab without actually cloning the whole cow.
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US health insurance industry... Either we get single payer or all of us will be in poverty.
Well, we've tallied the votes and...sigh
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I'd say traditional (linear) television. Still common enough, though even today it's clearly on the way out.
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