‘What do you think people will be nostalgic about in 20 years?’ – 21 things we’ll be donning our rose-tinted specs to look at in 2045
12.
‘Mobile smartphones as we know them now. In 20 years the iPhone 17 will be like the old Motorola flip phones we had in 2001. We might not even have phones in 20 years. Might be something completely new.’
–Forever_a_Kumquat
13.
‘The fresh food choices in supermarkets. What we have now isn’t sustainable as the costs of importing increases. Out of season foods will return to being a luxury rather than cheap snack pot of pre washed/cut strawberries.’
–MiddleAgeCool
14.
‘I’ll remember when a bottle of olive oil was only an hour’s wage, not like in the future where olive oil investment will require a second mortgage.’
–ChonkHole
15.
‘Greggs.’
–seadoubleyou73
16.
‘People are saying pre-AI, but I also think current AI itself.
‘Remember when AI just made pictures, videos and could answer questions? I miss that. Now it controls literally everything on Earth and we can’t even drive on public roads anymore without an AI pilot having to do the driving.”
–Neurionz
17.
‘Video games, today’s kids will be nostalgic over Roblox and Fortnite the way 90s kids are over Runescrape and Goldeneye.’
–Nuthetes
18.
‘The size of Cadbury Crème Eggs.’
–philff1973
19.
‘2045: ‘Hey, remember when a small fish and chips (from the chippy) only cost £15?’
Also 2045: ‘What even is ‘fish’?”
–CarpetGripperRod
20.
‘A packet of crisps. In 20 years it will be a ‘crisp in a packet’.’
–pop-pop-corn
21.
‘Probably right now, in the same way that people who lived through WW2 were nostalgic about The War and blackout and such.
Everybody is being very pessimistic but honestly, these things come in waves and the pendulum will swing back down again soon enough. In 20 years, things will be so much better. And we will all be nostalgic for the bad times, because that’s how the human brain works.’
–KelpFox05
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