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It goes without saying, DVDs/BlueRays.

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[โ€“] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 49 points 5 days ago (3 children)
[โ€“] Scrollone@feddit.it 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Shit. I've been waiting for IPv6 for 20 years.

[โ€“] zenforyen@feddit.org 7 points 4 days ago

Maybe eventually my kids will have IPv6 as the common sense default and will marvel at the ingenuity of their ancestors to keep using way too few addresses for way too many devices

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[โ€“] _AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

All of it, humanity will be wiped out in the Second Emu War, and birds don't need phones.

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[โ€“] Wazowski@lemmy.world 68 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The way shit is headed, probably vaccines.

[โ€“] wewbull@feddit.uk 36 points 5 days ago (7 children)

I'm going to be bold. The internal combustion engine car.

There will be a tipping point where nobody wants to maintain the highly intricate manufacturing for them, and they will stop very quickly. Electric motors are the future and the transition is accelerating. We're currently around 20% of new sales and I expect after 60-70% ICEs will just disappear from sale.

[โ€“] umbrella@lemmy.ml 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

we still see a lot of 20-40yr old cars around, many daily driven. if we suddenly stop making ice cars today, its still taking a while for them to truly go away in practical terms.

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[โ€“] nieminen@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Please be "ai"... Please be "ai"...

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[โ€“] appropriateghost@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I have no idea but hopefully the 'Proprietary' branch of human technology is discontinued.

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[โ€“] koper@feddit.nl 54 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Not disappear entirely, but most households won't own desktop computers or HDDs.

[โ€“] synapse1278@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago

Most people connected to the Internet today have never owned a desktop computer nor an HDD. A crazy amount of people have been introduced to computing with smartphones.

[โ€“] huquad@lemmy.ml 22 points 5 days ago (3 children)

As a homelabber, this makes me sad. Perhaps enshittification will push people back into home/local computing.

[โ€“] umbrella@lemmy.ml 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

homelabbing isnt even my gripe with it. its not ever interacting with computers on your own terms, only on theirs. smartphones are a black box.

i see ads, artificial annoyances, and human right violations by technology increasing in lockstep with the reduction of our collective control over computing.

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[โ€“] gerryflap@feddit.nl 15 points 4 days ago (11 children)

If anything I think DVDs and Blu-rays are going to rise. All across the media landscape people seem to be getting annoyed with the "own nothing" society we're in. The thrift stores are full of thousands of DVDs for barely any cost. Last week I bought the Matrix 2 and 3 and Der Untergang in DVD for like 3 bucks. Way easier than figuring out in which streaming service to watch them and what OS and browser will let it play at HD resolution. Once "the youth" picks up on this like they did with CDs and digicams the DVD will be back.

Recently In bought a Blu-ray of Star Wars Andor because I love the series and want to support it, but Disney+ wouldn't play beyond 480p on my setup. My trusty old PS3 plays it like a dream and the resulting image is ridiculously sharp compared to streaming.

CDs, cassettes, and vinyl are already booming or in the rise again. And the streaming audio landscape is arguably way nicer than the streaming video lanschape. In photography there's also a wave of film and early digital camera hype.

I hope that the next 10 years brings the resurgence of the physical medium and ownership. And if not that, the resurgence of the high seas.

[โ€“] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Apparently theres a rise in demand for "dumb TVs", to the point people are paying a premium...no sources, I read it on Lemmy.

[โ€“] zod000@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

I bought one last year and when I need to replace a TV, I will do it again.

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[โ€“] cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I mean flash drives, SD card and others are just as good as DVDs these days and are getting cheaper and cheaper by the day so I cannot really see why people would want DVDs and Blue Rays these days

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[โ€“] 3abas@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They'll never come back because studios will never release new movies on them.

Piracy is coming back strong, but I don't personally see myself going back to burning DVDs instead of buying HDD/SSDs.

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[โ€“] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 24 points 5 days ago

I feel like DVDs/Blurays already disappeared 10 years ago and are now making a comeback. Same for CDs. Streaming services don't let you own anything, and if they pull something down, you're SOL. Self hosting Plex and ripping my own disks has given me a level of freedom not possible with netflix et. al. Especially since DVDs are considered garbage to most people now, you can set up your own streaming service for you and your friends and family for cheap. No piracy necessary.

[โ€“] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 9 points 4 days ago

Windows for home consumers/home PCs hopefully.

[โ€“] narr1@lemmy.ml 35 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Social security and pensions I think.

[โ€“] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I don't know of any millennial or younger who assumes there will be a safety net for them at the end of the road. We just don't trust those in charge to keep it. I'll fight for it, I paid into it and I want others to have it, but I can't bank on it either

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[โ€“] DandomRude@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Hopefully fax machines, but these things seem incapable of dying.

[โ€“] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 18 points 5 days ago

Unless you're trying to use one. Then they're always broken.

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[โ€“] feinstruktur@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 days ago (22 children)

Cash, at least in europe. In my opinion that decision would mark one of the most epic political fails in recent history but I fear, that's what's going to happen.

[โ€“] balsoft@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

I just hope that something like GNU Taler (which keeps buyers' privacy and forces sellers to report their earnings properly) becomes the norm, as opposed to the proprietary plastic card transactions we have now. I myself am guilty of switching to that system because cash is just insanely inconvenient, but I also recognize it's pretty bad.

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[โ€“] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 25 points 5 days ago

3G networks

[โ€“] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 days ago

I don't know about DVDs, nearly 2 decades ago I thought optical media was dead and yet somehow it's still here.

[โ€“] inlandempire@jlai.lu 24 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I'd say consumer printers

We're running towards all digital, only a few edge cases will still require them

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 33 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

self-inflicted, if they played nice we would all be printing from home.

upside is less paper waste

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[โ€“] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 20 points 5 days ago (4 children)
[โ€“] BussyCat@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago

We call it AI now but machine learning algorithms have been around for 70 years now and basically run the world

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[โ€“] POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com 20 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I don't think we will be losing optical disks ever.

If burned properly they hold storage for a very long time without data loss. IIRC Facebook burns optical disks for old photographs and instead of having a hard drive array or tape library they had a RAID based optical disk system.

Optical disks are great, but not for the daily user since most media content is online and most storage is judged on being rewritable.

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[โ€“] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Tablets.

The market for them is very thin. With phones getting bigger and convertible laptops being more lightweight I don't see much market for tablets.

Which is a shame because it's s good format for comic reading and more durable than a convertible laptop (they always break by the hinges) but I think in ten years it will be quite hard to find a tablet for sale.

[โ€“] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 5 days ago

Honestly I would say it might go the other way with laptops disappearing and being replaced with tablets.

The operating systems and software on tablets is getting ever more capable even for productivity stuff. Add to that newer generations growing up while using mostly smartphones and maybe sometimes a computer and I believe if having to decide they would choose a tablet over a laptop. In general the line between laptops and tablets is getting a bit blurry with windows based tablet PC's and tablets that come with a keyboard cover.

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