Expanding on the notion, Reddit user Every_Cartoonist3965 made a post on the platform, asking everyone, “What is normal now but won’t be in 25 years?” and people immediately started sending in their answers. Continue scrolling to check out the most popular ones and set a reminder to come back here after a quarter of a century — we’ll know if there are any Nostradamus successors among us.
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“I had seen multiple posts asking ‘What was normal 25 years ago but isn’t now?’ and began wondering how people would answer a similar question in 25 years, so I asked it ‘in reverse,’” the Redditor explained its roots to Bored Panda.
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“Also, I saw the answer ‘being heterosexual’ very often. I have to say that I disagree with this; I have absolutely no problem with non-heterosexual people, but I don’t think heterosexual people won’t be normal in 25 years, simply because, biologically speaking, they’re the majority.”
“Many other popular comments revolved around fears of AI, including people losing their jobs because of the technology.”
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But if there’s anything that the publication has proved, it’s that humans are really bad at seeing the future. “All of the predictions are wrong,” writer Paul Ford highlighted in his review of the book.
“Every now and then someone writes something like ‘By 2000 you’ll be able to listen to any album in a record store through a data service,’ and you can squint and see Spotify. Or someone else describes wrist phones … [But] when you aggregate hundreds of predictions, the result is a special, concentrated kind of wrong. Everyone was trying their best, and everyone missed. And these 40-year-old predictions don’t seem wrong in the fun, steampunk way that, say, late Victorian predictions of personal blimps or hot-air-ballooning robots might seem wrong. They’re just saggy middle-aged predictions.”
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