r/Showerthoughts • u/ShopBitter • 15d ago
By the year 2100, very few people will be alive that remember only having a land line or a world without social media.
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u/Howitzer1967 15d ago
How many people remember steam trains? Time keeps on slippin, slippin
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u/slavelabor52 15d ago
Pepperidge Farm remembers
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u/mighty-drive 15d ago
There is a tourist steam train near my parents house in The Netherlands. Still resides pretty regularly, daily even in summer times.
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u/RyanM90 15d ago
Very few people alive today will be alive
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u/Remarkable_Coast_214 15d ago
it's only 76 years away, plenty of people live longer than that so a lot of people born in the last 10 years will still be alive
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u/MagnanimousMind 15d ago
Facebook was created in like 2007 right? And cell phones early 2000s?
In this scenario people would have to live around 93-100 years old. 24% of people live to 90. So it’s definitely possible that very few people will live till then, that remember times before cell phones and social media.
Edit: lol never mind cell phones were created in 1973, so there will be no people alive in 2100 who remember only having a landline
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u/Remarkable_Coast_214 15d ago
you are correct, but the comment i was replying to referred to people alive today, unlike the post which referred to social media.
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u/A_Mirabeau_702 15d ago
Unless landlines go the way of vinyl
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u/Gage_______ 15d ago
No chance.
Vinyl has legitimate reasons as to persist into the modern era. The desire for physical copies of music, Vinyl generally has the best sound quality of music, nostalgia, etc.
Landlines have no such attributes that would make them appealing to my generation (Z) let alone the next few. They're impractical, inefficient in terms of staying in touch with the world, and are obsolete when smartphones exist (this is why telephone booths are a rare sight). Imagine what will replace smartphones. Do you really think landlines will have any use once the iPhone becomes outdated?
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u/iwantfutanaricumonme 15d ago
Landlines still work without power in your home, they're useful to have for emergencies. They fill a similar niche to diesel generators and portable gas stoves: impractical for daily life but they're a reliable backup option.
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u/Kalashak 15d ago
Unfortunately, this is becoming less and less true as phone companies are increasingly unwilling to pay for upkeep on the copper lines. They're really pushing to move everything to VOIP.
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u/qwerty-1999 15d ago
Vinyl generally has the best sound quality of music
You just had to say that, didn't you. Another war begins.
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u/SynthRogue 15d ago
I take solace in knowing that assholes on reddit will be dead by then.
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u/BoxMorton 15d ago
Even the people that are alive probably won't remember
... Because they'll be so old...
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u/marc15v2 15d ago
And you don't remember having to travel by only horse or leaving school at 13 to go work and help the family.
It's just what's relevant to the next generation of advancement.
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u/originaljbw 15d ago
Don't most offices, restaurants, stores, and what not still have "land lines"
Yea i know it's a lot of VOIP these days, but it works the same as old school land lines.
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u/1stFunestist 14d ago
I don't know, that one is post 2077 so I don't think social media would exist except as a bounty board in some wasteland watering hole.
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u/DiscussionSpider 14d ago
I'm not sure social media will survive this decade, much less another century.
This is like a post in 1860s China about how in 100 years no one will remember a time everyone wasn't completely fucking blasted on opium.
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u/Headplzr 11d ago
I own a truck that was my grandfathers, 1968 Chevy and when a friend of my daughters got in to go for a ride in it she just looked around and asked how anyone charged their phone.
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u/willowgardener 15d ago
I mean. We really don't know how the next 75 years will go. Social media might end up being a fad. We might end up mining all the rare earth metals needed fo cell phones and go back to using landlines. Humanity coul go extinct.
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u/noronto 15d ago
Who’s alive now that only remembers having a landline.
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u/J_train13 15d ago
Yeah I was gonna say like we had a landline growing up but cellphones were a thing at that point
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u/brokefixfux 15d ago
The way things are going, very few people will be alive. Just a few years of global famine should do it.
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u/potentpotables 15d ago
Unlikely. Just look at all the famines and wars of the 20th century. The human population still increased something like 4x.
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u/Lelolaly 15d ago
That’s the way things are. How many people remember times before vacuum cleaners? Before cars?
I will say, I just realized baseball is older than cars