Researcher Roy Amara was an American futurist who famously coined the following adage, which eventually became Amara's Law: "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run."
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.
#22
Probably a lot of the insects and wildlife around you, basically anything that doesn’t thrive by eating trash the way raccoons and crows do.
Even if not every species goes extinct, we may soon live in a world where few have ever actually seen a butterfly, dragonfly, ladybug, toad, firefly, etc. simply existing outside. Just like how many of us today have never actually looked up and seen a sky full of stars and the Milky Way, thanks to light pollution.
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#23
The current shorelines. The beachfront is going to be moving inland a ways
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#26
Single family homes in major cities owned by the middle class.
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#28
I hope that loot boxes in video games will become obsolete after several countries change the laws so that a customer should always be able to know what they are buying. So microtransactions would still be a thing but no more buying random items without knowing what you will get.
I also wish that getting punished by police because you used cannabis will become rare in 25 years. I live in Finland and here using cannabis without doctor's prescription can ruin your life in many ways.
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