What will our grandchildren laugh at?

[srebbe64]

I was chatting to my kids the other day about milk. I explained that in the 1970's (and earlier) a milk-float and milkman drive round at 5am and drop off glass bottles of milk (including gold top, silver top, etc). The milkman would then take away the empty bottles from the day before. Sometimes the birds would peck at the aluminium foil and often some of the milk would be consumed by said birds (although it wouldn't stop us pouring the rest of it on our corn flakes).

Now at the time, the above seemed the most normal thing in the world. However, my kids thought that whole concept was totally weird. It made me think; what things are we doing today, which we take for granted, that in 30 years time will seem almost hysterical. A few thoughts came to my mind:

The slow speed of the internet.
The huge size of computers.
The MPG of cars.
The cost of international travel.
The simplicity of today's telephones.
The idea of walking round a supermarket, queuing to pay, and loading up the car.
Credit cards.

I'm sure there are many more and that in the year 2035 our grandchildren will be laughing about how our their parents went about their daily business.

[WWESTY]

Us............!!

[timmy30]

The idea that you could get into a car and drive off, or catch a plane out of the country without first applying to the Department of Mobility and Travel for a permit.

[Plotloss]

Grandad weeing himself...

[speedychrissie]

srebbe64 said:

I'm sure there are many more and that in the year 2035 our grandchildren will be laughing about how our their parents went about their daily business.

i severly hope that i dont have grandchildren by then. that will severly F up my car budget plans

chris

[alexkp]

Worryingly it could well be how much time we spent interacting in the real world rather than in a cyber one..

There will probably be an amazement at how we did so many manual chores ourselves rather than leaving them to house robots.

[scorp]

timmy30 said:

The idea that you could get into a car and drive off, or catch a plane out of the country without first applying to the Department of Mobility and Travel for a permit.

How about the idea that you can freely drive into towns and cities without paying a congestion charge

[gt]

Plotloss said:

Grandad weeing himself...

.....

[nonegreen]

The notion that governments spent money investigating man made climate change.
Wind farms
NVQs
The University of East Anglia
The idea that we once had a queen
Public transport
tollerance
god
allah
Birkahs

On the other hand if we allow the sandalist to win there will be no laughter for anyone.

[wanty1974]

srebbe64 said:

I was chatting to my kids the other day about milk. I explained that in the 1970's (and earlier) a milk-float and milkman drive round at 5am and drop off glass bottles of milk (including gold top, silver top, etc). The milkman would then take away the empty bottles from the day before. Sometimes the birds would peck at the aluminium foil and often some of the milk would be consumed by said birds (although it wouldn't stop us pouring the rest of it on our corn flakes).

...erm we have this today! Pint of silver top & pint of semi each day, plus bread and potatoes when we run out.

My 6-year-old son found a couple of LPs in our attic and wanted to know how they worked.

I think that my grandchildren will probably have the following conversation with me -

"But Grandad, why did you struggle through blocked roads to sit in an office all day at a pc when you could have worked from your Sky Comms Hub at home..?"

[Jaglover]

anonymous said:

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There's a world outside PH's

[JonRB]

I reckon our grandchildren (or possibily great-grandchildren) will laugh at the concept of
1) The theory that Mankind has anything to do with global warming
2) Using physical money (coins and notes)
3) Buying physical media (CDs, DVDs, etc.) rather than merely renting / downloading / using on-demand

Number (3) will be a real pity as I like having shelves full of books, DVDs, CDs, etc.

[blindswelledrat]

You post as though the milkman was some extinct neanderthal species. That being the case it must be a fossil that delivers my 3 silvertop each morning!

[FourWheelDrift]

that the country ever voted Labour.

[superlightr]

that people were 'innocent' unless proven guilty in a court of law.

that the government actually had the nerve and balls to give themselves final salary pensions when making the other real world workers pay for it.

That the police were not another arm of the Inland Revenue.

[superlightr]

we were not bar coded at birth or had satalite tracking installed in our arses.

>> Edited by superlightr on Wednesday 16th November 14:07

[mybrainhurts]

Bloody rap....

grrrrrrrrr..................

[julianhj]

The rates of death from disease across the globe (particularly 3rd world)
Travelling for hours each day to work simply to sit at a desk in front of a computer
How damn ugly, inefficient and poorly designed the large majority of late C20th early C21st cars were.
Ravers/clubbers - even ten years down the line I have to laugh at myself: glowsticks/silly clothes/standing in fields of flashing lights and repetitive beats, grinning and jumping about like a man possessed. What was I thinking?

[Twincam16]

'Pre-worn' clothes. I reckon they'll have future generations in stitches as neon green shell-suits and mullets do to us now.

I mean, whose idea of 'fashion' was it to bring out jeans with stains on them and pockets missing to be bought new? Even now I don't understand them.

And having a separate TV, computer, music system, phone etc - I reckon they'll all merge one day, and mobile phones will just become portable versions.

[L81]

The paltry value of the B-Day presents we give them as our pensions will be worthless?