Reading glasses
We’ll all be lasered up, you’ll never again go into a restaurant and have to bring the menu backwards and forwards to your face/fumble in your handbag for your glasses/ask the nice waiter to read it for you…
Video games
No more frantically pressing buttons on a games console – you’ll just wave your arm at the holographic images being beamed all around you. TV? Computer screen? What’s a screen?
Postage stamps
Dying out already as we all turn to emails and social media to catch up, send greetings and stay in touch. We do miss the nice feel of stationery, however – which will be going the same way as the postage stamp we reckon.
Batteries
You won’t need them. Everything will be powered by ‘magic’, i.e. ‘wireless technology’ – which means the same thing in many circles.
Keys
Who needs a key when your door will open at the touch of your fingertip or sound of your voice?
Telephone poles and wires
Wires? We’ll all be wireless by then.
Sticking plaster
No doubt there’ll be some crafty way of seamlessly fusing flesh if any cuts or scratches occur in the future. Blood – so retro!
Wallets and purses
Why would you want a wallet? There’ll be no cash to carry around in 2115, we’ll all be paying for stuff by having our eyeballs scanned or something. Photos you might have kept in your wallet will be obsolete, too – they will all be uploaded to your cornea, so you can browse the family album from the comfort of your own eyes whenever you like.
Screwdrivers
If there are screws in the future – and their existence is also somewhat in doubt – they will no doubt be able to unscrew themselves at the touch of a laser. And this will be a very, very good thing.
Snow tires
Okay, the people at Popular Mechanics obviously live in a way more hostile environment than us because we don’t need snow tires now. See how ahead of the game we are.
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