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/freeman_joe 4d ago

Cable tv and paper newspaper.

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u/jschall2 3d ago

Aren't those gone already?

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u/freeman_joe 3d ago

No in many parts of our world. I mean complete non existence that kids will be though they existed in past in schools.