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Dinosaurs. Latin. Smallpox. Writing machines. Telephone directories. Audio cassettes. Parachute pants. NEWERDERS. These are just a few of the innumerable things that was formerly commonplace, but have sincedecreased, diminished, or quite disappeared. While it was, at some point, hard to imagine a world without them, they were relegated to relics. With a new decade on the horizon, one can only wonder what will be next to the slide of ubiquity in oblivion. Here are the 15 predictions of things that will probably disappear by the year 2040, if not earlier.

Next to your driver's license, your credit and debit cards are probably the most important things in your portfolio. Soon, however, the plastic you use to buy all gas and grocery with clothes and concert tickets could bedefinitely diminished. Instead, expectDigital payments dominate. Not only are they faster and more practical than physical payments, there is nothing to transport, lose, insert or swipe, but they are alsosaferDigital payments have integrated authentication, control and encryption of data that physical payments do not do it. If you have already used Apple Pay, Venmo, Paypal, Google Pay or Zelle, you knowthe transition is already in progress.

Eight on ten American adults now own nowsmartphones. If you are one of them, you probably consider your phone your life buoy. You can use it to stay connected to your friends and family, to capture memories with photos, consume news, food of the order, and even so far. But if you think about it, smartphones are not really practical as they seem. They are big, for example, clumsy and hard on both fingers and your eyes. For this reason,The smart phones of tomorrow Maybe not at all the phones.

"Trimballer a mobile device can be a rare show," predictsAndrew Moore Crispin, Director of Content to the Mobile Service ProviderTing Mobile. "Instead, users can be equipped with small devices connected on their head, wrist, etc., which allows them to stay connected and perform all the tasks imaginable without having to press a button. »

Although there is a lotdebate When, exactly, they will ride in our lives, it is clear to see:autonomous vehicles are coming. Ford, for his part, plans to throw auto-driving cars in 2021. We go from Volvo. Tesla, meanwhile, says it will have a completely autonomous vehicle at the end of 2020. BMW and Daimler want to release their driverless vehicles by 2024. Although it will probably take decades for self-catering vehicles to completely replace cars completely conventional roads, it is possible that drivers, including not only the average, everyday motorists, but alsoprofessional Like taxi drivers, driver drivers and limousine will feel dilapidered in 2040 as shown in 2019.

Drivers are not the only things that go to the Dodo path because of the autonomous vehicles. He is leavingtraffic jams, The frequency and severity of what could be greatlyreduced by the cars that move continuously without driver and at a constant speed. Because humans are the main cause of traffic accidents, autonomous vehicles could even eliminatefatal accidents in traffic.

They are heavy, cumbersome, little practical to copy, and easy to misde. That's why more and more people installelectronic locks who allow them to gave their keys. With aSmart lockYou can lock and unlock your door using your smartphone everywhere. The cars are goingkeyless, too much.You're hereFor example, has an application that allows you to unlock your car and start using your mobile device instead of a traditional key or keychain. These days (rather or key cards), you do not even need to needhotel rooms. It seems likely that by 2040, you will be able to lose your keys and never worth looking for them again.

In his dystopic novel1984, George Orwell predicts the rise ofstate of supervision, Where citizens each movement is controlled. Seventy years after the publication of the book, his predictions feel accurately. In large cities, for example,cameras Monitor all street corners. In smart homes, cameras and voice assistants keep an just as vigilant watch. (Although their manufacturers promise that they are safe, there isreason of doubt.) Biometry, meanwhile, includingFacial recognition-Is on the rise.

"We live at a time when digital profiling is a norm and customers appreciate the hyper-personalized commitment. For this purpose, constant monitoring compromises the behavioral data sensitive on a daily basis, whether in the form of biometric identifications or digital tracking, "explainsDamien Martin, A marketer managerShufti Pro, A London-based provider of identity verification services based on artificial intelligence. "I believe this level of connectivity will end the anonymity of the public as we know. »

If there is any trace of left private life in 2040, here are good news: you will probably not have to memorize another password to protect it, becausepasswords become something from the past.

"Today's users' authentication methods are more archaic and unconstusted for consumers and businesses," saysShawn KEVE, Director of turnoverSIMEIO SOLUTIONS, A provider based in Atlanta of Identity Identity and Access Management Solutions. "New technologies without password begin to appear ... which will help facilitate the management of authentication and access while ensuring better protection of personal data and businesses. »

High prices and bad service are only two of the many reasons that people hate their cable TV providers. In fact, people hate cable television as long as only two-thirds of US households currently subscribe, what isdown 10 percent two years ago. Among those who have cable TV, one in five say they are likely toCut the rope next year. Meanwhile, nearly 60 percent of the Americans nowsubscribe to some kind of streaming service. With Netflix, Amazon and Hulu, there are newcomers likeApple TV + andDisney +; The first should have 100 million subscribers during his first year, while the latter attracted 10 million subscribers in one day. At this rate, the cable cord could be definitely well cut before 2040.

"With the possibility of choosing the television services that interest you and then choose exactly the shows and movies you want to watch-pay for a dear, which encompasses the whole plan of television will not be meaning," saysor Goren, Editor ofBusters Cord. "Netflix, Disney + and the other Grands will become" new "cable companies, but with different technologies, and much less expensive than we used to pay" traditional "cable companies. »

Speaking of television: yourremote control could end up in the trash next to your cable box thanks tovoteship. After all, you can already use your voice to change channels on your TV using the cable providerwithin a voice; It is only a matter of time before placing the remote control completely and talking to your TV and everything you control directly by distance.

Single-use plastic bags are obstructed streets, sidewalks, streams, andoceans like hair in a stopped shower drain. In response, cities, counties, and evenStates have prohibitions enacted to rid the world of thisenvironmental scourge. Though there isdebate on the merits of these prohibitions, the growing urgency of global climate action and the rapid development ofPlastic alternatives Feeding a future in which plastic is prehistoric.

Thanks to Wireless Internet and Bluetooth, you can connect all your devices your favorite computer, smartphone, printer, speaker smart, and fitness followed, to name just some to the Internet and the other without the need for cumbersome cables. If you want to load the same devices, however, you will find yourself swimming in the ropes. In 2040, the disorder tangled in your bag, on your counter, and under your office could finallyunravel Thanks to Ubiquitawireless loading.

"In 20 years, or less, the charging cables will be a distant souvenir," predictsChris Chuang, Founder and CEO of Mobile Service ProviderWireless Republic. "Everything will be all wireless. No need to search missing phone chargers. In addition, we are likely to look back at this time and laugh at the battery life brevity was for electronic devices. I predict a significant breakthrough with a lasting load plus one day or two ".

Amazon is the equivalent of enterprise of a crystal ball. His online bookstore gave the rise of e-commerce, his premium service helped popularize the Streaming Media, and his home assistant Echo marked the beginning of a new era of intelligent home technology. Amazon once again threaded his Devin hat in 2018, when he made his debut of hisAmazon GoChain of free convenience stores. Instead of waiting in the payment lines and pay cashiers, customers scan their smartphones when entering, choose their desired items, then leave the store, how much Amazon-who uses in-store sensors to follow the Purchasing, automatically charge their Amazon account. If the rest of the retail industryFollows Amazon's advance, cash meters, cash registers and cashiers could all befaded away by 2040.

Nearly three-quarters (73%) of the Americans access their bank accounts most often via online or mobile channels, depending on theAmerican banker association, who says only one in six (17%) accesses them most often via a branch of physical bank. It should not be surprising, while banks areClosing branches In a fast clip. Although this does not mean that banks will disappear, it could be a sign that their physical premises go. Of course, some innovative banks can be able to save their branches byreinvent them. It seems equally likely that, by 2040, the only banks left will bedigital.

The United States was covered with family farms. Now, it is paved with urban development and suburban spread. Between 1992 and 2012 alone, the irreversibly lost nationnearly 31 million acres Agricultural land development. It's like losing the biggest part of Iowa or New York. Since then, of course, the bulldozers have kept on the bulldozing - so ironically, have farmers, whose work has so eroded that it hasimpoverished One-third of the world's arable land over the last 40 years. If development and agriculture continue to cannibalize agricultural land, the farms we know it could stop existing. Instead of tentacular fields with rows of crops picked by hand, imagine the giantwarehouses filled with food that is grownvertically Under artificial lights and harvested by robots. If you askInterior farmersit is not only possible; It's possible.

Just this year, Iceland declared goodbye toOkjökullHis first glacier lost to the global climate crisis. Simultaneously, hot temperatures caused Greenland to lose12.5 billion tons of ice in one day. If climate change continues at its current rate, scientists predict the summers of the Arctic could be practically infatuential by 2040.