r/accelerate • u/dental_danylle • 4d ago

Discussion What everyday technology do you think will disappear completely within the next 20 years?

Tech shifts often feel gradual, but then suddenly something just vanishes. Fax machines, landlines, VHS tapes — all were normal and then gone.

Looking ahead 20 years, what’s around us now that you think will completely disappear? Cars as we know them? Physical cash? Plastic credit cards? Traditional universities?

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u/Ill_Reindeer_5046 4d ago

Photoshop

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u/Alive_Awareness4075 Singularity by 2045 3d ago

What makes you say that?

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u/Ill_Reindeer_5046 3d ago

New image models like Google’s recently published “Banana” model show how powerful AI has become at manipulating and redesigning real photos. Soon, you’ll just tell the AI what you want instead of doing it manually in Photoshop or similar tools, making much of that software obsolete

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u/Alive_Awareness4075 Singularity by 2045 3d ago

Yeah, but hand made stuff is still always gonna be around, even with AGI.

Some people just like to draw.

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u/Ill_Reindeer_5046 3d ago

Yes but it will likely not be done with Photoshop ;)