Vox surveyed several experts on what they think would be a modern practice that we do today that might become obsolete in the future and they gathered those ideas.
Some may be quite shocking answers considering their widespread appeal and influence today. But then again, we are talking about five decades in the future.
Fifty years ago, people thought smoking was an innocuous pastime or habit. Now, the dangers of smoking are plastered all over. So what are these 15 things and would you agree with them? -via Kottke
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Bosses - Never going to happen. The only people who think this don't understand things like bell curves of IQ/Physique/Emotional Stability/etc. As humans, we are a collective, but we are extremely different and unique at the same time.
Eating Meat - Nope. There are 7 essential nutrients you can only get from eating meat.
Drug War - The drug war ends when humanity ends. You can make every drug on earth cost a penny and legal, and humans will still sabotage themselves. Whether it's drugs, alchohol, cigarettes, koolaid and coca cola, war, UFC/Football injuries, physical harm from breakups, prison, extreme sports, etc. Every human has his own poison.
Facebook and Google - Seems highly unlikely. Unless something else climbs to the top and takes over. I know this is a hard pill to swallow but - humans aren't treated like cattle. Humans are cattle. Which is why we love facebook and google and smartphones so much. It is what it is.
Abandoning public education - This is so dumb its hilarious. There's nearly 7.6 billion people right now, We net-gain a person every 14 seconds. Public everything will always exist, because rich people will never trickle everything back into the economy. Its not in the nature of humans, or rich people, to not syphon everything from the public then go "here, some free cheese and public education, you're welcome".
Anyway ill stop there.