These are all familiar items, close to us – but only two decades from now, they will disappear.
Surely you will notice that quite a few things that we used to love, crazy to own such as walkman players, CDs, flip phones … have gradually become a thing of the past. Now they have been replaced by more convenient, sophisticated devices.
With the growing scientific technology, do you wonder what devices and objects will follow the same fate in the future?
Audi recently introduced the Audi E-tron electric car without a rearview mirror, observed by cameras and screens in the cabin.
It is expected that in about 20 years, car manufacturers will use cameras in the cabin and intelligent systems to warn drivers of possible danger. In addition, manual transmission cars and gasoline-powered cars will soon disappear, aiming for more environmentally friendly means of transport.
In recent decades, smart technology, remote control devices have become a part of life.
But in the future, this habit will disappear, replaced by a smartphone or tablet with integrated control functions. That means that today’s conventional remote control devices will no longer be needed.
In 2017, credit card transaction processing company TSYS conducted a survey to determine the most popular payment method in the US.
As a result, only 120/1,000 survey respondents prefer to use cash, the rest choose credit cards.
However, in the current smartphone boom, credit cards are also about to be forgotten because we can completely pay via e-wallets from smartphones and other devices.
In just 20 years, we will completely forget about the image of a house key, a regular car key.
Because then, you can unlock the house with a phone app, voice commands or retina scan.
With the development of world medicine, needles will be replaced by technology – painless injection of microjet or pill form .
With painless injections, the microjets inject lasers that push the drug deep under the skin at the speed of light and painlessly. Meanwhile, the pill will contain tiny needles, which are absorbed by the digestive system and push the drug into the bloodstream.
The role of paper and pen will be replaced by smartphones and tablets on a day-to-day basis.
In the future, signatures will disappear – people will also use facial recognition software, irises, fingerprints to confirm bill payments, activities that require identification…