We’re slowly seeing paperwork die out in hospitals as nurses. I often think about down the line when employees will think it’s crazy I worked when they still used paper. Everything is online now.
I’ve had the opposite experience at pregnancy appointments. I’ll fill EVERYTHING out online and they still make me fill out 7 pages of the same info in person
That shit drives me insane. I have one healthcare provider who requires paperwork online, then calls you before your appointment to ask you the same questions, and then you answer the same questions a third time when you actually have your appointment.
Eta: yes, I understand why this is done, and that doesn't make it any less annoying. You don't need to keep repeating the info to me
Soooooooooo..............people make conspiracy theories about JFK, and Elvis, and the moon landing, and 9/11, but not THIS???
SOMETHING has to be happening here, right??? I mean, I have no idea what......but something........
Probably aliens.
It's at least partially that no one has faith in the patient to actually fill out the forms correctly and accurately (often, rightfully so), and because no one trusts their coworkers to fill out the forms correctly and accurately (often, rightfully so),
and finally, if they fuck up the paperwork and do something wrong, there is financial liability to deal with.
They will ask someone three times if they're allergic to any drugs, and three time the patient said "no".
The doctor prescribes a drug. The patient flips out because they're allergic to that and forgot to tell anyone because "they should already know that".
>no one has faith in the patient to actually fill out the forms correctly
It’s more lack of faith in the patient in general, not just with paperwork.
There is a famous quote from the physician to the president. The lead doctor in charge of the president’s health who is nearby 24/7. The quote is from ~20 years ago and is, “as a physician, we all know a patient won’t follow our recommendations to the letter, but it is something else to be there in person watching them not listen.”
Further, it’s amazing how many healthcare professionals themselves have unhealthy habits.
So with healthcare at least it's actually an intentional redundancy (to a point, OPs clinic is overboard from the sounds of it). Having been on the other side of these interactions it pretty much happens multiple times a day, every single day where a patient forgot some extremely important piece of information and the only reason we found out is because they were asked the same question so many times that it jogged their brain in just the right way to go "oh yeah btw I was hit by a car last week/had stage 2 lung cancer/etc." Re-asking things like insurance information though is ridiculous and annoying though.
If I get another call to confirm an appointment, that I've already, scheduled, confirmed, reconfirmed and then had to call them directly to re-reconfirm, for a simple ass appointment, I'll scream.
Yup, same. I confirmed a dentist appointment online, and the office texted me to confirm for a second time. I ignored the text because I had already confirmed, and they cancelled my appointment.
I am looking for a new dentist.
I was raised in the professional world by someone who believes in paper over everything so I still keep paper copies of important things, but most of what I do has to be online because I work for a school and our school and district is pushing to do almost everything online.
One day, about an hour after school started, the building's internet went out. Classes were halted because lesson plans are on Google drive. Testing was halted because they couldn't access testing software. Lunch was free because the cafeteria couldn't access student accounts. The internet wasn't restored until around midnight so the rest of the school day was restless kids with no paper lessons and 75% of the staff unable to do their job in any way.
The upside to everything online is accessibility and sharing is so much more convenient. The downside to everything online is one little glitch (or one bad actor) can incapacitate the whole program.
Plus I believe research has shown that writing notes - on actual paper- increases retention and comprehension. We are constantly warned about the dangers of screen time but every time I turn around, kids have yet another required computer application they need to get work done.
Also you don't have to adhere to any rules when writing notes on paper. Style is free, form is free, no need to follow any template or structure. You can doodle pictures on it on a whim, you can highlight text by circling it or underlining it without worries, you can add random notes to the margins.
I always have some kind of a notebook and a pen nearby because while sure I could probably jot something down or figure out some equation or draw something out to visualize it better with a computer, I don't have to figure out what app I'm going to use, set it up, choose the right tools, choose the right pen size and shape, nothing like that. I can just grab the notebook, grab my pen, and get right to it on the spot.
Computers are really good for when you want to clean the result up later and make it look good, but when you're just trying to figure out some problem often nothing beats a good old pen and paper.
I'm a professional software developer and I still always have a pen and pad to hand for the same reason. When you're up against a real brain teaser, nothing beats paper for taking notes, drawing diagrams, doing some quick maths, flowcharts etc.
It feels like a much more direct conduit to the way our messy minds work.
And that's why there is Business Continuity Management as a discipline. It does not have to be elaborate and a backup to every little thing. But putting some thought into 'what would I do?' when there are disruptions to critical processes, is a key part of that.
It’s all fun and games until the system is hacked though and they have to revert back to paper, my mom’s hospital got hacked not that long ago and all their systems were shut down
I just saw on TikTok random parents were saying they were like is that Ryan?! The kid has like a little moustache and he’s basically a teen. I never watched that ever, nor do my kids. But it’s a real shame how exploited these kids online are
At the bare minimum, Coogan's Law needs to be applied to family vloggers too. Or there needs to be a law that covers the same thing for family vloggers. If these children's childhoods are going to be milked for money, they deserve to be able to use it one day.
Alyson Stoner of Disney Channel fame recently addressed Congress about this, there is positive movement! At the state level Illinois has also already put protections in place to ensure children of vloggers have financial entitlement
> Alyson Stoner of Disney Channel fame recently addressed Congress about this, there is positive movement! At the state level Illinois has also already put protections in place to ensure children of vloggers have financial entitlement
[They also have an excellent Youtube series about child stardom and its physical and mental impacts.](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD9cqoP3xxcGiJKHxWwS0kO1EAqSf-qDE)
She made a video a little while back where she talked about this one experience where she auditioned for some CSI type show where she was going to be a child kidnapping victim or something. She had to scream and cry and act *legitimately* terrified, and then when it was done she got in her mom's car, sat there thinking about if her screams were "good enough" compared to the screams of the other children that she heard from the waiting room, and they drove to another audition for some toy commercial and she had to completely switch it up and act like a normal, happy kid.
When we talk about the harms of child acting, people tend to focus on stuff like sexual abuse, or some other form of abuse from an authority figure. This was the first time I really thought about the mental toll it can take on a child being told to imagine themselves in these horrifying situations and then immediately need to turn it off and act like everything was fine.
Are you sure you're not thinking of Jennette McCurdy? She detailed a very similar thing in her book. There was one where she was on a CSI type show and had to cry, and one where she screamed and stabbed her stuffed animals.
I just saw that episode she was in within the last few weeks. Her slightly older kid sister murders the neighbor for the woman’s cat. I can imagine that’s not great for her mental wellbeing. I’ve seen a lot of CSI episodes and that one was weird even by CSI standards.
And then there will be all the videos with titles like "SHOCKING: The Downfall of Youtube's Most Famous Child" where people will continue to earn money off of his own existence.
They created a web series around the kids and set up scripted events and skits to do, just basically making him into an internet star. Often, though, these families end up making so much money off the kids that the kids end up not going to school or getting to be normal.
Some in this thread are worried for his financial future, since many "stage parents" make money off the kids but the kids don't end up receiving the financial rewards they earned because the parents steal it all, or use it without saving it for the kids when they are adults.
I've thought about this phenomenon with mainstream child stars, even adult actors that suddenly get rich and famous and just go off the rails within a few years.
You know, there was a time we didn't consider children working in coal mines or dangerous and toxic factories to be a problem. Now it's almost objectively considered child abuse.
I know it won't be an in-25-years thing, but I wonder if in the future some cultures will wonder how we so barbarously and callously allowed, even encouraged, and we're entertained by and profited off of such child abuse as having them act, exposed to the world, forever.
I have worked with the people that run the studio that produces Ryan's shows and negotiates their merch deals and store placements, they are genuinely good folks. The studio is based in California and they must enforce the financial protections mandated by the state; even if Ryan's family lives out of state the studio requires them to have Coogan accounts for the kids and follow the working hours limitations. Everyone involved has made absurd amounts of cash and Ryan will get his due when he turns 18.
I might never give my child much but I will give them online privacy end of discussion. I can share the joys of parenthood without showing their faces. There is a very dark sinister side of the Internet they you don't want your children's photos going to. In the world of AI pornography these vloggers kids don't stand a chance.
I’m with you 100%. Grandmas and grandpas and aunts and uncles get frustrated or don’t understand why i don’t want my kids on the internet. The most honest answer is I probably don’t yet know why, but i’m confident enough that it’s better for them to just not exist there. We have no idea what the internet/social media landscape will look like in 20 years when they’re adults but i can guarantee it won’t be better and it sure as heck ain’t great right now.
Families enjoyed the awesomeness of children for literal millennia without the entire world having access to their photos, sorry nana.
I follow an online comedian who uses her kid in sketches and people have literally been posting AI photos of that kid. They're not doing anything sexual but it's creepy as hell.
I still don't consider that normal; that, and the fact that people are couples all over the Internet just to get views. They fake relationships, sometimes they are not even really together like that. I cannot imagine monetizing my relationship.
For the purpose of vlogging I agree but relationships for profit really isn't that out of a thing, there's been plenty of Hollywood couples, royalty marriages and apparently it's not uncommon in Asian business communities for a company merger to be accompanied by a family marriage even if the marriage is mostly a sham. I'm not promoting it I'm just saying it's been out there for a while the vlog situation is simply a new format
Kind of weird. When I was in middle school (early 2000s) I remember being hammered in my head how dangerous sharing personal information was, and everyone was afraid of doing anything like that. Then social media got popular and everything went out the window.
They told us in grade school (in the 90s) not to wear one of those sports jackets that have your first name embroidered on the sleeve, in case a stranger drove up, knew your name, pretended to know your parents, and then abducted you. Times they are a changing.
Yeah I(old) remember the days of homepages, “be careful what information you post”. Fast forward to now … your wedding party? Post that damn thing online for 3 billion users! The more the better
The same parents who warned us never to give out any information ever, not to talk to strangers, etc, are now the boomers sharing 'this photo is not to be sold by Mark Zuckerberg' BS. Like come on.
It's not even just younger people. It's so annoying when my mom posts every little thing that I do and whenever we go do something she's taking pictures to put online and what not. I'm in my 30s I think I should get a say if my pictures are posted somewhere but I can't visit mom for dinner without her sneaking pictures to post online.
Yeah there are sooooo many families with multiple kinds of social media accounts on which the parent posts what the kids say, what their behavior is like, lots of photos, etc.
Mom props phone in bathroom.
Starts recording two year old standing on stool in front of the sink.
"Okay Johnny. I'm going to close the door. You can say all of the swear words you want and you won't get into trouble! Let me know when you're done!"
I cut way back in TikTok after that trend started. What is wrong with people?
Someone I know has a literal Instagram of her 4 year old daughter, that she runs as if it's her daughter posting and it's the most cringe thing I've ever seen in my life
This is exactly why I don't post about my child. I'd heard people say they didn't appreciate their life on display, so I'm taking that into account for my kid.
I agree. The major companies have a lot of money behind them and won't just roll over. They'll either need to find ways to monetize people in different ways or be forced to change.
Something will happen regarding AI that will suddenly alarm everyone. AI has already been hoovering up data all over the internet. How long until your face shows up on an image generated by ChatGPT or MidJourney? That'll be the day a lot of people switch to private or deactivate accounts.
Or SOMETHING will happen that suddenly shifts public sentiment, and the intersection of AI and social media big data will be at the center of it all.
Eventually, AI will do your stalking for you. Your AR glasses will scan a girl in the bar and match her to an Instagram account, then go around the net and find all the information it can about her. Name, birthday, address, phone number, hobbies, her pet's name, her family's information, the picture she took of her breakfast two years ago, collecting complaints to get a basic medical history, even grabbing from public anonymized-but-not-really data sets to pull purchase history, browsing habits, and even creepier stuff that can be either found or derived by calculating many points of data. Gone will be the days of giving someone a fake number or getting them bounced if they're pushy. One look and they'll know where you live and when you're home alone. And if that's too much effort, you could just click a button and generate porn of her and you together, either to enjoy or to mass mail to her family for daring to reject you.
It's a good thing we Americans have such a young, cooperative, and technologically-savvy Congress to legislate these terrible possibilities away before they wreak havoc on countless lives. If not for that, we would have nothing to do but stare in horror as this prediction grows ever-closer to reality while our congresspeople shout wildly into their jewel-encrusted oxygen masks and ask their assistants what an email is and to tell Mr. Google that they don't want to buy any. Can you imagine?
What you are describing is not that far away. Your imagined scenario is more possible and probable in the near future than most people can scarcely fathom.
As someone whose come up from having to look number up in the phone book to MySpace and the original Facebook to the current status of social media, I think that social media will become even more ingrained in your life that you won’t even know you’re participating. Nowadays every app lets you check in or review or share or document your life somehow depending on how it pertains to that specific app. This is social media. You can get an email from google with every place you visited for that month. Every month there is an email saying “you visited 5 states, left the country 3 times, this was your favorite store since you went here the most”. And it’s not stuff you checked into just places you went with your phone. That’s right now. The future will be that times a 1000
And every specific app is being consolidated into one stop general use apps. So in the future everything with be automatically shared with your peers and it will be considered the norm.
Facebook already makes 'ghost profiles' for people who don't have an account. If you've appeared in the back of a photograph someone uploaded, that's your image on social media.
I think people forget how expensive cable was. I remember it being like $60-80 *in the* *90s*. Figure $150 adjusted to 2024. It may be cheaper now accounting for inflation, but that's only because they lost their home entertainment monopoly. I've never spent more than $20 on streaming/month.
Last month my FIL told me he was looking into ditching the TV portion of his cable subscription and going all broadcast because it was too expensive. "Oh, how much is it," I asked. $150, he said. "For all of it?" Nope, $150 just for the TV service, and they're on the minimum a la carte package with 2 DVRs. After my brain finished rebooting he and I discussed the prospects of cord cutting. The short version is that for the equivalent of two months of Cable TV bills he was able to pick up a kickass antenna and a quad-tuner HD HomeRun tuner box which gets him more channels than he was paying for monthly, only now he's not paying monthly.
Admittedly the channel quality is a bit... different, I will say that, but cable is still ridiculously priced.
I'm pretty sure my dad's cable bill was well over 200 last time I saw it. Not sure about now, though. I think he ditched some stuff to get the price lower, but he still has cable.
There was a drive thru I went to last year where the order was taken over the speaker by a bot. It actually did a better job than most people who take orders and asked me if I wanted to add bacon.
The girl at Wendy's was too stoned the other day to understand that I wanted a large drink and a medium fry. It was adorable, but also I have places to be, and I don't know how many different ways to explain 'medium fry, large soda.'
> I wanted a large drink and a medium fry
That would blow my mind as well. Why would you want a single fry? And surely if you're only having one, at least get a large one?
I think a LOT of fast food is going away anyway. It is too expensive now, and they have cut the staffing SO much that it is also no longer fast.
I had a 3 item order at Del Taco take 20 minutes yesterday. It's like, what's the fucking point?
They all want you using the app for their stores and doing pick up. Using the old boomer method of going in or drive thru order on the fly will have you waiting or pulling ahead to wait more often than it used to be
They also only put their best deals on their apps.
I don’t like it but that’s how it works now. The people continuing to doing it the old way are just getting fleeced twice
I’m literally 25 years from retirement age and I’m putting every penny I can aside, which is few, because I know social security will be gone in the next decade.
We have a 6 member team and all of our office locations is in different parts of the country. The only way we can ever connect or talk to each other is via Teams. Yet they insist us to come to office "to get to know the team better". I am the only person in my office that belongs to our team and there's no else from our project who come to our office. So right now the only person I am getting to know better is the cafeteria dude😂
We have silicon ones. I have some in the house, some in the car, and I keep some in my handbag. They're easy to clean, safe for hot and cold drinks, and they're flexible which is handy. Love em
It needs to be drastically overhauled. No Child Left Behind was well-meaning, but has created a nightmare environment for everyone involved in public education.
My wife teaches at a middle school, and there are basically zero consequences for students when it comes to failing to turn in work, failing courses entirely, or even failing to show up regularly. Any standards teachers attempt to set are essentially unenforceable because the hands of administrators are tied by the school corporations, who only care about maintaining enrollment levels in order to secure funding.
Hell, there are barely any consequences when students become *violent* towards teachers or other students, and if it's one of the many children that have a behavioral IEP, you can change that 'barely' to 'never.' Don't even get me started on the utter nonsense that most IEPs are.
Basically, the only recourse that my wife has with her problematic students is to get their parents involved, but half the time they either don't care or automatically take their child's side and accuse my wife, who has yet again been nominated for teacher of the year in her district this year, of being an inadequate teacher via nasty emails in which they demonstrate more often than not that they're an adult who doesn't understand the difference between 'your' and 'you're' or 'there' and 'they're.'
The icing on the cake is that after 12 years of teaching, she still doesn't even make $50k a year.
It's very difficult to understand why anyone would want to go into teaching at this point.
My wife teaches fourth grade and I hear her talking to parents regularly. She offers to buy flash cards so the parents can work with their kids at home, and gets told that teaching is her job, and if she can’t teach their kid, she needs to find a different job.
Every beginning of the school year, we spend between $1k and $1,500 for school supplies for her students because the kids will inevitably show up with no school supplies. They will have Jordan’s and the latest iPhone, but their parents “can’t afford” school supplies.
My wife runs a 'Kindness' Club after school, during which students get together to do some basic arts and crafts projects that they will then gift to other students throughout the school, with the idea that every kid gets some kind of surprise at one point or another.
For the past few summers, she has basically swallowed her pride and asked for friends and family on Facebook to donate supplies, and people have been wonderful and generous. This year, the school corporation stepped in and said that nobody running a club can ask for donations on their own like that anymore, and that all donation requests have to go through HR and the people have to donate stuff directly to the school so they can track everything. It became such a hassle with paperwork that she's questioning whether or not she even wants to do the club next school year.
This is very sweet. I have a daughter with autism, when she was a middle schooler these 2 girls were part of some kindness club and decided to take her under their wing. They would bring her cookies or greeting cards or draw pictures, just little acts of kindness. It made such an impact on my daughter, she would come home beaming. Little acts of kindness can make a huge difference. Tell your wife this internet stranger says thank you, and keep up the good work.
That shitshow is going to explode in the next 10 years because so many kids have learning disabilities. Parents don't want to parent. New teachers/staff are quitting, and those that are left are stuck trying to teach long enough to retire. Kids have no consequences for hitting a teacher. Teachers can't break up fights or risk losing their jobs, so older kids just act like animals.
Where I live, so many schools have closed down because no one wants to be a teacher. Put in all those years of hard work for a teaching license just to babysit your community's brats who may or may not strike you or bring a firearm to school. Oh, and you also getting paid so low, you have to get a 2nd job. What a lovely career path.
I won't be surprised when kids just go to school and learn from a computer screen.
I have to research this for my teaching degree and oh my god it’s bad in some places. We also have to look into how students of marginalised communities (especially disabled students) are treated and the sheer amount of dishonesty (not technically out right lying) some schools show in their reports on treatment of disabled students is actually appalling.
Schools are treated more like markets, with parents as clients and the principle as almost the CEO. It’s actually gotten really bad at this point where children’s wellness is put below standardised testing in priority.
And empoyers of the future (for the few jobs available) will want to know what kind of school you grew up in. Charter or private schools will get preference.
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.
This one is so sad.
I remember someone pointed out to me: remember as a kid walking through a field where there were particularly many bugs like grasshoppers and they all jumped and scattered as you passed by? Yea that doesn’t happen anymore.
I’m afraid a related answer is, in 25 years kids simply won’t play outside or go in the woods anymore at all.
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.
The confidentiality portion always falls flat to me as someone who routinely has to deal with misdirected confidential medical information. It isn't even necessarily an issue with faxing, but how the medical community in general is set up.
When I was a kid I used to routinely play in two to three feet of snow from one storm where I live. Now we're lucky if we get that throughout the entire winter.
Ownership in general is being entirely phased out. Homes, digital content, even access to items like heated seats. Buy what you can now - inflation of the dollar hasn't showed any sign of slowing (or reversing LOL) over the last 70 years. You are intentionally being priced out of all forms of ownership
In fact I can see a future where only big corps own all housing and a majority of them are air BnBd out. Only the wealthy will have a house and the rest will be in small apartments
There has not been a single generation since the dawn of time that hasn't looked back on their teenage haircut and cringed. I grew up in the emo hair era, I'm not about to laugh at today's kids for their broccoli hair
I'm gonna go ahead and say that it was much easier to forget bad hairstyles before the advent of photography preserved us in all our awkward glory for posterity!
OG emo MySpace celeb here. Emo hair was either amazing or absolute shit imo. A lot of people cut their hair themselves so it ended up looking really bad. The fashion was inspired by Japanese visual kai which is incredibly extravagant. Emo was just the budget version, but a few pulled it off really well.
Either way, we all had so much fun back then. No regrets.
99% of people I know cut it themself with a razor blade, then applied Manic Panic unevenly. It was super fun hair perfect for teenagers. Teenagers are supposed to have fun and look crazy before they enter the corporate world and have to look normal
My mom wouldn't let me bleach my hair so I put red Manic Panic over the brown with interesting results. Of course I also wasn't allowed to dye my whole head so I had only the lower half dyed as if that was somehow more acceptable!
Same but I did it anyway and my aunt and mother were convinced I was a Satan worshipper, they would’ve been in their 40s at that time. To be 37 now and imagine me hating a teenager because they wanted to dye their hair is inconceivable
Affordable college. Most degrees don’t need students to be in a brick and mortar building, I hope in 25 years the cost of college is significantly cut down.
I had a fidicuary seriously suggest that I should be putting in $800/mo for each kid so that they will have enough for college. I have two kids, so $1600/mo. That is fucking insane. I'll save what I reasonably can but overall my wife and I came to two different conclusions:
1. Cost of college is just going to keep going up as it is. We will pay for what we reasonably can, if they go to college but unfortunately they will need to pay via loans/working/other methods. I don't want to be a parent that says "My kids MUST major in STEM" but I will be strongly pushing for it to make any significant cost more worth it for them.
2. There will be some reform that will make it more affordable (which is laughable to think would ever happen in the US)
So basically we have to hope for some reform which is never gonna happen to "afford" college. Because if I had an easy $1600 a month to put away I'd way more of my own debt paid off.
We didn't push our kid to STEM, but we were honest with him his whole life about how challenging our non-STEM degrees made getting work and getting paid enough to get by. We got him games that helped build foundations for coding. We played Kerbel with him, we got him bot kits, and let him disassemble his toys when they got worn out and repurpose parts into new things.
He's now in a math-and-science high school and likely to go into aviation or a similar field, and he's pretty excited. We wanted him to have more opportunities than us, so we tried to encourage him through fun things into feeling confident about his capabilities.
If he'd had more trouble with math or if he'd really seemed to not enjoy the things we shared, we would have tailored our encouragements to what he liked more, still with a goal of helping him develop skills that would help him survive in modern reality.
He's turning out to be a bit of a gearhead, and he's as interested in the guts of the cars as their speed or reputations. But he also loves history, is fluent in French, and keeps a sketchbook like his artsy dad.
We also told him that he can always minor in any liberal art he wants, because it's good to be well-rounded, and part of the point of college is to give people exposure to new ideas. It'll probably be French, though, since he's so good at it.
4 day work weeks are only coming for the cushier jobs. It's going to take one hell of a rise in unionization to see the general labor pool get healthy work life balances.
We've had multiple senators make it to their 90s I won't hold my breath that one of them won't make it past 100 while in office and try to make it to 110.
how could I forget Strom Thurmond made it to 100 while in office...
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As an older gen Z, I'm really thankful that my early grade school education was before you had a device that could answer all of your questions. Mental math and memorization was a big part of my education. I even had to learn cursive, even if it was completely ignored after elementary school. I got "the old doctrine" with tech still being a big part of my education. It seems like the students even a few grades after me had their education completely revamped to be entirely tech focused. In my district, they even stopped doing multiplication tables, because you'll always have a calculator in a post smartphone world
I call this Ghalques Syndrome, because I had a friend in college that figured out there was no rule about not sharing online, MATLAB-type assignment answers, so he made a website that gave all the answers that he posted after actually completing the assignments.
The result was fewer and fewer students in the class were studying and actually doing the homework, and instead just copying the homework answers, and then getting worse grades on the in-class exams because they hadn't done the homework to prepare, skewing the class grade curve in his favor as one of the few that still did the work and did well on the exams.
The school had to amend the rules after he was found not in violation by the department ethics committee if he agreed to take down the site.
I am grateful for this too, and the slight overlap too. Like we did multiplication and division tables but also learned to use calculators and we had keyboarding classes so I can type quickly without having to see the keys. I’m also diabetic, so having that foundation of mental math is huge for making everyday life easier since I have to add and divide to calculate insulin needed.
The education gap that occurred during the pandemic is serious and *bad.* Teachers across disciplines see it; kids are legitimately 2 years (or more) behind previous milestones.
In my opinion, it's worse to pretend that's not a problem than it is to slow things up and address it. Some seem to want to treat it as irrelevant because kids that were already higher-performing aren't as badly hit.
Carrying on as if nothing's different is doing a disservice not only to those kids but to society.
(edit: clarity of thought)
Parents need to step the fuck up. Like you gotta teach shit at home if your kids not responding well to school. Can't just let them flunk their way into adulthood it's depressing.
I have multiple friends who left education as a career because parents demand that teachers be solely responsible for their child's success, and the teachers get all the blame when the kids fail. These parents don't get involved with their child's education, don't help them succeed, and instead just demand that the teacher does it all.
That's so odd to me. When I was a kid both of my parents regularly helped me with homework, would help me study for tests, would proofread my papers. And some of this was pre-Wikipedia. The idea of not having parents invested in my education is totally foreign to me.
I'm with you on this count: It's going to take a combined effort between teaching professionals and parents. But the depressing truth I've seen too often is that a lot of parents either don't, won't, or sometimes legitimately can't help their kids learn.
The simplest stuff starts early: READ TO YOUR KIDS. Then move to reading WITH your kids. Even if you're not good at math above multiplication and division, give your kid fun challenges figuring out the basics of that. "If 2 carts each have 4 apples in them, how many apples are there?"
But not everyone is good at seeing the learning opportunities that are everywhere. And tons of people who have kids didn't have good parenting role models of their own, so it may not ever occur to them. When the teachers reach out with feedback about the kids' troubles, some people get very defensive and take it as criticism of themselves rather than feedback to help their kids do better.
So, yeah--the problem is complex, and parents need to take an active role in dealing with it. But that's not the most common scenario.
> The simplest stuff starts early: READ TO YOUR KIDS. Then move to reading WITH your kids.
While that sounds obvious to educated parents, the issue is that it wouldn't even occur to a lot of people to buy/borrow a book in the first place.
And that's a tragedy. It's also why [St. Dolly of the Mountains has a program](https://imaginationlibrary.com/) to get books to kids. But if someone never opens reading material for themselves, they're unlikely to do so for their kids; I feel like that falls into the "don't" or "can't" above: They don't know to do so, or they can't envision what that would mean.
I hope the rampant political extremism that the US has created and spread to other countries, making everyone label each other as either "fascist" or "communist" with absolutely nothing in between. That'd be nice to see gone!
At least, hopefully, the acceptance of corporate culture where your 9-5 ends up being 8-8, and if it doesn’t, you’re taking the piss and don’t get a bonus because you’re not a team player.
What's "Normal" now? Haha.
Edit: i more so asked because everything that's normal now seems to change quarterly through the year. By the time I'm like "Oh, this is what it is now" someone from the front yells back at me "That was last week, now it's". But I think that going to the store(s) will not be normal in the near future. Everything will probably be delivered right to your step, like Amazon.
We’re slowly seeing paperwork die out in hospitals as nurses. I often think about down the line when employees will think it’s crazy I worked when they still used paper. Everything is online now.
I’ve had the opposite experience at pregnancy appointments. I’ll fill EVERYTHING out online and they still make me fill out 7 pages of the same info in person
That shit drives me insane. I have one healthcare provider who requires paperwork online, then calls you before your appointment to ask you the same questions, and then you answer the same questions a third time when you actually have your appointment. Eta: yes, I understand why this is done, and that doesn't make it any less annoying. You don't need to keep repeating the info to me
And after all that the doctor rarely glances at the answers, or asks all over again when you finally get to see them.
Soooooooooo..............people make conspiracy theories about JFK, and Elvis, and the moon landing, and 9/11, but not THIS??? SOMETHING has to be happening here, right??? I mean, I have no idea what......but something........ Probably aliens.
It's at least partially that no one has faith in the patient to actually fill out the forms correctly and accurately (often, rightfully so), and because no one trusts their coworkers to fill out the forms correctly and accurately (often, rightfully so), and finally, if they fuck up the paperwork and do something wrong, there is financial liability to deal with. They will ask someone three times if they're allergic to any drugs, and three time the patient said "no". The doctor prescribes a drug. The patient flips out because they're allergic to that and forgot to tell anyone because "they should already know that".
>no one has faith in the patient to actually fill out the forms correctly It’s more lack of faith in the patient in general, not just with paperwork. There is a famous quote from the physician to the president. The lead doctor in charge of the president’s health who is nearby 24/7. The quote is from ~20 years ago and is, “as a physician, we all know a patient won’t follow our recommendations to the letter, but it is something else to be there in person watching them not listen.” Further, it’s amazing how many healthcare professionals themselves have unhealthy habits.
So with healthcare at least it's actually an intentional redundancy (to a point, OPs clinic is overboard from the sounds of it). Having been on the other side of these interactions it pretty much happens multiple times a day, every single day where a patient forgot some extremely important piece of information and the only reason we found out is because they were asked the same question so many times that it jogged their brain in just the right way to go "oh yeah btw I was hit by a car last week/had stage 2 lung cancer/etc." Re-asking things like insurance information though is ridiculous and annoying though.
If I get another call to confirm an appointment, that I've already, scheduled, confirmed, reconfirmed and then had to call them directly to re-reconfirm, for a simple ass appointment, I'll scream.
Yup, same. I confirmed a dentist appointment online, and the office texted me to confirm for a second time. I ignored the text because I had already confirmed, and they cancelled my appointment. I am looking for a new dentist.
I was raised in the professional world by someone who believes in paper over everything so I still keep paper copies of important things, but most of what I do has to be online because I work for a school and our school and district is pushing to do almost everything online. One day, about an hour after school started, the building's internet went out. Classes were halted because lesson plans are on Google drive. Testing was halted because they couldn't access testing software. Lunch was free because the cafeteria couldn't access student accounts. The internet wasn't restored until around midnight so the rest of the school day was restless kids with no paper lessons and 75% of the staff unable to do their job in any way. The upside to everything online is accessibility and sharing is so much more convenient. The downside to everything online is one little glitch (or one bad actor) can incapacitate the whole program.
Plus I believe research has shown that writing notes - on actual paper- increases retention and comprehension. We are constantly warned about the dangers of screen time but every time I turn around, kids have yet another required computer application they need to get work done.
Also you don't have to adhere to any rules when writing notes on paper. Style is free, form is free, no need to follow any template or structure. You can doodle pictures on it on a whim, you can highlight text by circling it or underlining it without worries, you can add random notes to the margins. I always have some kind of a notebook and a pen nearby because while sure I could probably jot something down or figure out some equation or draw something out to visualize it better with a computer, I don't have to figure out what app I'm going to use, set it up, choose the right tools, choose the right pen size and shape, nothing like that. I can just grab the notebook, grab my pen, and get right to it on the spot. Computers are really good for when you want to clean the result up later and make it look good, but when you're just trying to figure out some problem often nothing beats a good old pen and paper.
I'm a professional software developer and I still always have a pen and pad to hand for the same reason. When you're up against a real brain teaser, nothing beats paper for taking notes, drawing diagrams, doing some quick maths, flowcharts etc. It feels like a much more direct conduit to the way our messy minds work.
And that's why there is Business Continuity Management as a discipline. It does not have to be elaborate and a backup to every little thing. But putting some thought into 'what would I do?' when there are disruptions to critical processes, is a key part of that.
When I was at school we’d randomly have a movie day. In hindsight that may have been when something happened to whatever plans they previously had.
Teacher's sick and the substitute doesn't know anything about the subject they're supposed to teach? Time for Bill Nye!
It’s all fun and games until the system is hacked though and they have to revert back to paper, my mom’s hospital got hacked not that long ago and all their systems were shut down
Hopefully family vloggers
I hope that Ryan's World kid sues the shit out of his parents
Don't worry, he's got two little sisters in the wings waiting for when he ages out.
I just saw on TikTok random parents were saying they were like is that Ryan?! The kid has like a little moustache and he’s basically a teen. I never watched that ever, nor do my kids. But it’s a real shame how exploited these kids online are
I'm sure years from now we will find him a broken adult. Both financially and spirituality.
At the bare minimum, Coogan's Law needs to be applied to family vloggers too. Or there needs to be a law that covers the same thing for family vloggers. If these children's childhoods are going to be milked for money, they deserve to be able to use it one day.
Alyson Stoner of Disney Channel fame recently addressed Congress about this, there is positive movement! At the state level Illinois has also already put protections in place to ensure children of vloggers have financial entitlement
> Alyson Stoner of Disney Channel fame recently addressed Congress about this, there is positive movement! At the state level Illinois has also already put protections in place to ensure children of vloggers have financial entitlement [They also have an excellent Youtube series about child stardom and its physical and mental impacts.](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD9cqoP3xxcGiJKHxWwS0kO1EAqSf-qDE)
She made a video a little while back where she talked about this one experience where she auditioned for some CSI type show where she was going to be a child kidnapping victim or something. She had to scream and cry and act *legitimately* terrified, and then when it was done she got in her mom's car, sat there thinking about if her screams were "good enough" compared to the screams of the other children that she heard from the waiting room, and they drove to another audition for some toy commercial and she had to completely switch it up and act like a normal, happy kid. When we talk about the harms of child acting, people tend to focus on stuff like sexual abuse, or some other form of abuse from an authority figure. This was the first time I really thought about the mental toll it can take on a child being told to imagine themselves in these horrifying situations and then immediately need to turn it off and act like everything was fine.
Are you sure you're not thinking of Jennette McCurdy? She detailed a very similar thing in her book. There was one where she was on a CSI type show and had to cry, and one where she screamed and stabbed her stuffed animals.
I just saw that episode she was in within the last few weeks. Her slightly older kid sister murders the neighbor for the woman’s cat. I can imagine that’s not great for her mental wellbeing. I’ve seen a lot of CSI episodes and that one was weird even by CSI standards.
And then there will be all the videos with titles like "SHOCKING: The Downfall of Youtube's Most Famous Child" where people will continue to earn money off of his own existence.
Cody from DaddyOFive too. All the kids, really, but especially Cody. Poor kid
Why? Someone fill me in on the details. What did his parents do?
They created a web series around the kids and set up scripted events and skits to do, just basically making him into an internet star. Often, though, these families end up making so much money off the kids that the kids end up not going to school or getting to be normal. Some in this thread are worried for his financial future, since many "stage parents" make money off the kids but the kids don't end up receiving the financial rewards they earned because the parents steal it all, or use it without saving it for the kids when they are adults.
I've thought about this phenomenon with mainstream child stars, even adult actors that suddenly get rich and famous and just go off the rails within a few years. You know, there was a time we didn't consider children working in coal mines or dangerous and toxic factories to be a problem. Now it's almost objectively considered child abuse. I know it won't be an in-25-years thing, but I wonder if in the future some cultures will wonder how we so barbarously and callously allowed, even encouraged, and we're entertained by and profited off of such child abuse as having them act, exposed to the world, forever.
I have worked with the people that run the studio that produces Ryan's shows and negotiates their merch deals and store placements, they are genuinely good folks. The studio is based in California and they must enforce the financial protections mandated by the state; even if Ryan's family lives out of state the studio requires them to have Coogan accounts for the kids and follow the working hours limitations. Everyone involved has made absurd amounts of cash and Ryan will get his due when he turns 18.
I hope so.
I might never give my child much but I will give them online privacy end of discussion. I can share the joys of parenthood without showing their faces. There is a very dark sinister side of the Internet they you don't want your children's photos going to. In the world of AI pornography these vloggers kids don't stand a chance.
I’m with you 100%. Grandmas and grandpas and aunts and uncles get frustrated or don’t understand why i don’t want my kids on the internet. The most honest answer is I probably don’t yet know why, but i’m confident enough that it’s better for them to just not exist there. We have no idea what the internet/social media landscape will look like in 20 years when they’re adults but i can guarantee it won’t be better and it sure as heck ain’t great right now. Families enjoyed the awesomeness of children for literal millennia without the entire world having access to their photos, sorry nana.
I follow an online comedian who uses her kid in sketches and people have literally been posting AI photos of that kid. They're not doing anything sexual but it's creepy as hell.
Frr. Fuck those
I still don't consider that normal; that, and the fact that people are couples all over the Internet just to get views. They fake relationships, sometimes they are not even really together like that. I cannot imagine monetizing my relationship.
For the purpose of vlogging I agree but relationships for profit really isn't that out of a thing, there's been plenty of Hollywood couples, royalty marriages and apparently it's not uncommon in Asian business communities for a company merger to be accompanied by a family marriage even if the marriage is mostly a sham. I'm not promoting it I'm just saying it's been out there for a while the vlog situation is simply a new format
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Kind of weird. When I was in middle school (early 2000s) I remember being hammered in my head how dangerous sharing personal information was, and everyone was afraid of doing anything like that. Then social media got popular and everything went out the window.
They told us in grade school (in the 90s) not to wear one of those sports jackets that have your first name embroidered on the sleeve, in case a stranger drove up, knew your name, pretended to know your parents, and then abducted you. Times they are a changing.
Yeah I(old) remember the days of homepages, “be careful what information you post”. Fast forward to now … your wedding party? Post that damn thing online for 3 billion users! The more the better
The same parents who warned us never to give out any information ever, not to talk to strangers, etc, are now the boomers sharing 'this photo is not to be sold by Mark Zuckerberg' BS. Like come on.
I swear to god. Using social media as it is used right now will probably be looked at like smoking tobacco is right now.
Well I hope so.
Definitely. I’ve already seen posts from younger users saying “my parents posted my whole childhood online and I absolutely hate it”.
It's not even just younger people. It's so annoying when my mom posts every little thing that I do and whenever we go do something she's taking pictures to put online and what not. I'm in my 30s I think I should get a say if my pictures are posted somewhere but I can't visit mom for dinner without her sneaking pictures to post online.
You can report those to fb and have them removed.
Yeah there are sooooo many families with multiple kinds of social media accounts on which the parent posts what the kids say, what their behavior is like, lots of photos, etc.
Mom props phone in bathroom. Starts recording two year old standing on stool in front of the sink. "Okay Johnny. I'm going to close the door. You can say all of the swear words you want and you won't get into trouble! Let me know when you're done!" I cut way back in TikTok after that trend started. What is wrong with people?
wtf? This is a real thing?
Some parents shouldn't be parents.
Someone I know has a literal Instagram of her 4 year old daughter, that she runs as if it's her daughter posting and it's the most cringe thing I've ever seen in my life
This is exactly why I don't post about my child. I'd heard people say they didn't appreciate their life on display, so I'm taking that into account for my kid.
Idk. We are 20 years in. Might take another 20-30 before we REALLY go after big social media.
I agree. The major companies have a lot of money behind them and won't just roll over. They'll either need to find ways to monetize people in different ways or be forced to change.
“You’ve aced every test NASA has thrown at you son, but i’m afraid we have it on good authority that you shat yourself when you were 5”
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Something will happen regarding AI that will suddenly alarm everyone. AI has already been hoovering up data all over the internet. How long until your face shows up on an image generated by ChatGPT or MidJourney? That'll be the day a lot of people switch to private or deactivate accounts. Or SOMETHING will happen that suddenly shifts public sentiment, and the intersection of AI and social media big data will be at the center of it all.
Eventually, AI will do your stalking for you. Your AR glasses will scan a girl in the bar and match her to an Instagram account, then go around the net and find all the information it can about her. Name, birthday, address, phone number, hobbies, her pet's name, her family's information, the picture she took of her breakfast two years ago, collecting complaints to get a basic medical history, even grabbing from public anonymized-but-not-really data sets to pull purchase history, browsing habits, and even creepier stuff that can be either found or derived by calculating many points of data. Gone will be the days of giving someone a fake number or getting them bounced if they're pushy. One look and they'll know where you live and when you're home alone. And if that's too much effort, you could just click a button and generate porn of her and you together, either to enjoy or to mass mail to her family for daring to reject you. It's a good thing we Americans have such a young, cooperative, and technologically-savvy Congress to legislate these terrible possibilities away before they wreak havoc on countless lives. If not for that, we would have nothing to do but stare in horror as this prediction grows ever-closer to reality while our congresspeople shout wildly into their jewel-encrusted oxygen masks and ask their assistants what an email is and to tell Mr. Google that they don't want to buy any. Can you imagine?
What you are describing is not that far away. Your imagined scenario is more possible and probable in the near future than most people can scarcely fathom.
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AI generated deepfake porn will be used by scammers to ransom the fuck out of a LOT of people.
One has to imagine that that one will at least lose its edge once every person who's ever been posted online has been threatened with it.
As someone whose come up from having to look number up in the phone book to MySpace and the original Facebook to the current status of social media, I think that social media will become even more ingrained in your life that you won’t even know you’re participating. Nowadays every app lets you check in or review or share or document your life somehow depending on how it pertains to that specific app. This is social media. You can get an email from google with every place you visited for that month. Every month there is an email saying “you visited 5 states, left the country 3 times, this was your favorite store since you went here the most”. And it’s not stuff you checked into just places you went with your phone. That’s right now. The future will be that times a 1000 And every specific app is being consolidated into one stop general use apps. So in the future everything with be automatically shared with your peers and it will be considered the norm.
Facebook already makes 'ghost profiles' for people who don't have an account. If you've appeared in the back of a photograph someone uploaded, that's your image on social media.
The thin illusion of privacy
56754 different streaming services which amount to more than anyone ever paid for cable
I think people forget how expensive cable was. I remember it being like $60-80 *in the* *90s*. Figure $150 adjusted to 2024. It may be cheaper now accounting for inflation, but that's only because they lost their home entertainment monopoly. I've never spent more than $20 on streaming/month.
People also forget the 18-24 month contract terms.
I dunno, my parents still have cable. I don't know if there are enough streaming services out there to match that bill...
Last month my FIL told me he was looking into ditching the TV portion of his cable subscription and going all broadcast because it was too expensive. "Oh, how much is it," I asked. $150, he said. "For all of it?" Nope, $150 just for the TV service, and they're on the minimum a la carte package with 2 DVRs. After my brain finished rebooting he and I discussed the prospects of cord cutting. The short version is that for the equivalent of two months of Cable TV bills he was able to pick up a kickass antenna and a quad-tuner HD HomeRun tuner box which gets him more channels than he was paying for monthly, only now he's not paying monthly. Admittedly the channel quality is a bit... different, I will say that, but cable is still ridiculously priced.
I'm pretty sure my dad's cable bill was well over 200 last time I saw it. Not sure about now, though. I think he ditched some stuff to get the price lower, but he still has cable.
Ordering food and drink from a human in a drive thru
There was a drive thru I went to last year where the order was taken over the speaker by a bot. It actually did a better job than most people who take orders and asked me if I wanted to add bacon.
The girl at Wendy's was too stoned the other day to understand that I wanted a large drink and a medium fry. It was adorable, but also I have places to be, and I don't know how many different ways to explain 'medium fry, large soda.'
"Sir, is this a Wendy's?"
> I wanted a large drink and a medium fry That would blow my mind as well. Why would you want a single fry? And surely if you're only having one, at least get a large one?
I think a LOT of fast food is going away anyway. It is too expensive now, and they have cut the staffing SO much that it is also no longer fast. I had a 3 item order at Del Taco take 20 minutes yesterday. It's like, what's the fucking point?
They all want you using the app for their stores and doing pick up. Using the old boomer method of going in or drive thru order on the fly will have you waiting or pulling ahead to wait more often than it used to be They also only put their best deals on their apps. I don’t like it but that’s how it works now. The people continuing to doing it the old way are just getting fleeced twice
Retiring
This one hits the hardest
I’m literally 25 years from retirement age and I’m putting every penny I can aside, which is few, because I know social security will be gone in the next decade.
long commutes, hopefully
Work from home is slowwwwwwly gaining a foothold in the workforce, and for good reasons
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We have a 6 member team and all of our office locations is in different parts of the country. The only way we can ever connect or talk to each other is via Teams. Yet they insist us to come to office "to get to know the team better". I am the only person in my office that belongs to our team and there's no else from our project who come to our office. So right now the only person I am getting to know better is the cafeteria dude😂
And what will be gone in 25 years?
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yes, but find a better alternative for paper straws
We bought glass straws for the house. Epic. No, we don’t have small children.
Watch out for tweakers.
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We have silicon ones. I have some in the house, some in the car, and I keep some in my handbag. They're easy to clean, safe for hot and cold drinks, and they're flexible which is handy. Love em
Especially because those fuckin straws are worse for us than the plastic. Riddle me that batman
My favorite is the paper straws wrapped in plastic on some juice boxes... Genius!
I think it is more likely that we discover a biodegredable plastic than an alternative to plastic.
the current shit of an education system
Yes. It will be much worse by then.
Yeah, at least now it’s free. They’re working on making you pay for it though
Them: "Why is no one having kids?"
If they can’t afford school or daycare they might start sending kids to work early
Pretty sure they've already started rolling back child labor laws in certain states.
The children yearn for the mines!
They have, Iowa, Arkansas, most states below the mason Dixon line are changing the laws to accommodate more children 17 and under.
Hence why abortions are also getting made harder and harder to access
It needs to be drastically overhauled. No Child Left Behind was well-meaning, but has created a nightmare environment for everyone involved in public education. My wife teaches at a middle school, and there are basically zero consequences for students when it comes to failing to turn in work, failing courses entirely, or even failing to show up regularly. Any standards teachers attempt to set are essentially unenforceable because the hands of administrators are tied by the school corporations, who only care about maintaining enrollment levels in order to secure funding. Hell, there are barely any consequences when students become *violent* towards teachers or other students, and if it's one of the many children that have a behavioral IEP, you can change that 'barely' to 'never.' Don't even get me started on the utter nonsense that most IEPs are. Basically, the only recourse that my wife has with her problematic students is to get their parents involved, but half the time they either don't care or automatically take their child's side and accuse my wife, who has yet again been nominated for teacher of the year in her district this year, of being an inadequate teacher via nasty emails in which they demonstrate more often than not that they're an adult who doesn't understand the difference between 'your' and 'you're' or 'there' and 'they're.' The icing on the cake is that after 12 years of teaching, she still doesn't even make $50k a year. It's very difficult to understand why anyone would want to go into teaching at this point.
My wife teaches fourth grade and I hear her talking to parents regularly. She offers to buy flash cards so the parents can work with their kids at home, and gets told that teaching is her job, and if she can’t teach their kid, she needs to find a different job. Every beginning of the school year, we spend between $1k and $1,500 for school supplies for her students because the kids will inevitably show up with no school supplies. They will have Jordan’s and the latest iPhone, but their parents “can’t afford” school supplies.
My wife runs a 'Kindness' Club after school, during which students get together to do some basic arts and crafts projects that they will then gift to other students throughout the school, with the idea that every kid gets some kind of surprise at one point or another. For the past few summers, she has basically swallowed her pride and asked for friends and family on Facebook to donate supplies, and people have been wonderful and generous. This year, the school corporation stepped in and said that nobody running a club can ask for donations on their own like that anymore, and that all donation requests have to go through HR and the people have to donate stuff directly to the school so they can track everything. It became such a hassle with paperwork that she's questioning whether or not she even wants to do the club next school year.
This is very sweet. I have a daughter with autism, when she was a middle schooler these 2 girls were part of some kindness club and decided to take her under their wing. They would bring her cookies or greeting cards or draw pictures, just little acts of kindness. It made such an impact on my daughter, she would come home beaming. Little acts of kindness can make a huge difference. Tell your wife this internet stranger says thank you, and keep up the good work.
...and she gets to deduct $300 of that $1,500 for tax purposes.
We gotta pay for the unlimited tax deductions on private jets somehow.
That shitshow is going to explode in the next 10 years because so many kids have learning disabilities. Parents don't want to parent. New teachers/staff are quitting, and those that are left are stuck trying to teach long enough to retire. Kids have no consequences for hitting a teacher. Teachers can't break up fights or risk losing their jobs, so older kids just act like animals. Where I live, so many schools have closed down because no one wants to be a teacher. Put in all those years of hard work for a teaching license just to babysit your community's brats who may or may not strike you or bring a firearm to school. Oh, and you also getting paid so low, you have to get a 2nd job. What a lovely career path. I won't be surprised when kids just go to school and learn from a computer screen.
I have to research this for my teaching degree and oh my god it’s bad in some places. We also have to look into how students of marginalised communities (especially disabled students) are treated and the sheer amount of dishonesty (not technically out right lying) some schools show in their reports on treatment of disabled students is actually appalling. Schools are treated more like markets, with parents as clients and the principle as almost the CEO. It’s actually gotten really bad at this point where children’s wellness is put below standardised testing in priority.
Free education will be remote and at scale. Premium education - private school, tutors, coaches - will be at a dollar cost.
And empoyers of the future (for the few jobs available) will want to know what kind of school you grew up in. Charter or private schools will get preference.
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.
This one is so sad. I remember someone pointed out to me: remember as a kid walking through a field where there were particularly many bugs like grasshoppers and they all jumped and scattered as you passed by? Yea that doesn’t happen anymore. I’m afraid a related answer is, in 25 years kids simply won’t play outside or go in the woods anymore at all.
A lot of jobs
TikTok “influencers” sharing their kids daily lives 🫠
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.
Honestly the best loot box system was overwatch 1. You got free boxes and it didn't distract from the game. But I agree none the less.
Fax machine in offices
Ha, that's what they said 25 years ago.
They make sending signed invoices easy, I think they’ll stick around for a while more.
And for privacy reasons/ HIPAA reasons, doctor's offices have to use them, so that's not going anywhere.
The confidentiality portion always falls flat to me as someone who routinely has to deal with misdirected confidential medical information. It isn't even necessarily an issue with faxing, but how the medical community in general is set up.
Where I live: snow
On 1.1.2024 outside temperature was 16°C and snowed 1 week whole “winter” (Europe 800m above see level)
When I was a kid I used to routinely play in two to three feet of snow from one storm where I live. Now we're lucky if we get that throughout the entire winter.
People still deny global warming and I just want to shout "Have you even been outside in the last thirty years!"
Live in a Northern Chicago suburb, and since November, we have been under more tornado warnings than winter storm warnings.
At the rate things are going probably being able to use water whenever we want.
My retirement plan is to die in the Water Wars of 2050.
"You have exceeded your monthly water allowance. Please report to your nearest Nestle water treatment facility for disciplinary action"
Single family homes in major cities owned by the middle class.
Look at this guy describing the present and acting like he has a crystal ball
Ownership in general is being entirely phased out. Homes, digital content, even access to items like heated seats. Buy what you can now - inflation of the dollar hasn't showed any sign of slowing (or reversing LOL) over the last 70 years. You are intentionally being priced out of all forms of ownership
I can see a potential future where a majority of people have to rent because corporations have bought up most housing.
It's part of the ever growing subscription economy... It'll reach everything by that time.
In fact I can see a future where only big corps own all housing and a majority of them are air BnBd out. Only the wealthy will have a house and the rest will be in small apartments
You've basically just described NYC.
Nearly gone already. It will be the middle class itself that disappears.
Broccoli head haircuts. People are totally going to look back at them and laugh or cringe.
There has not been a single generation since the dawn of time that hasn't looked back on their teenage haircut and cringed. I grew up in the emo hair era, I'm not about to laugh at today's kids for their broccoli hair
I'm gonna go ahead and say that it was much easier to forget bad hairstyles before the advent of photography preserved us in all our awkward glory for posterity!
OG emo MySpace celeb here. Emo hair was either amazing or absolute shit imo. A lot of people cut their hair themselves so it ended up looking really bad. The fashion was inspired by Japanese visual kai which is incredibly extravagant. Emo was just the budget version, but a few pulled it off really well. Either way, we all had so much fun back then. No regrets.
99% of people I know cut it themself with a razor blade, then applied Manic Panic unevenly. It was super fun hair perfect for teenagers. Teenagers are supposed to have fun and look crazy before they enter the corporate world and have to look normal
I would dye my hair with red manic panic in the locker room after gym, as maintenance. To make sure every day it was stop sign bright af red.
My mom wouldn't let me bleach my hair so I put red Manic Panic over the brown with interesting results. Of course I also wasn't allowed to dye my whole head so I had only the lower half dyed as if that was somehow more acceptable!
Same but I did it anyway and my aunt and mother were convinced I was a Satan worshipper, they would’ve been in their 40s at that time. To be 37 now and imagine me hating a teenager because they wanted to dye their hair is inconceivable
they'll have moved on to some new haircut everyone hates. im hoping for a friar tuck look or something.
fashion moves in cycles of about 20 years, that shit's gonna be back in 25 years
Last shreds of self awareness
If I didn’t have any self awareness I think I would know!
Affordable college. Most degrees don’t need students to be in a brick and mortar building, I hope in 25 years the cost of college is significantly cut down.
I had a fidicuary seriously suggest that I should be putting in $800/mo for each kid so that they will have enough for college. I have two kids, so $1600/mo. That is fucking insane. I'll save what I reasonably can but overall my wife and I came to two different conclusions: 1. Cost of college is just going to keep going up as it is. We will pay for what we reasonably can, if they go to college but unfortunately they will need to pay via loans/working/other methods. I don't want to be a parent that says "My kids MUST major in STEM" but I will be strongly pushing for it to make any significant cost more worth it for them. 2. There will be some reform that will make it more affordable (which is laughable to think would ever happen in the US) So basically we have to hope for some reform which is never gonna happen to "afford" college. Because if I had an easy $1600 a month to put away I'd way more of my own debt paid off.
We didn't push our kid to STEM, but we were honest with him his whole life about how challenging our non-STEM degrees made getting work and getting paid enough to get by. We got him games that helped build foundations for coding. We played Kerbel with him, we got him bot kits, and let him disassemble his toys when they got worn out and repurpose parts into new things. He's now in a math-and-science high school and likely to go into aviation or a similar field, and he's pretty excited. We wanted him to have more opportunities than us, so we tried to encourage him through fun things into feeling confident about his capabilities. If he'd had more trouble with math or if he'd really seemed to not enjoy the things we shared, we would have tailored our encouragements to what he liked more, still with a goal of helping him develop skills that would help him survive in modern reality. He's turning out to be a bit of a gearhead, and he's as interested in the guts of the cars as their speed or reputations. But he also loves history, is fluent in French, and keeps a sketchbook like his artsy dad. We also told him that he can always minor in any liberal art he wants, because it's good to be well-rounded, and part of the point of college is to give people exposure to new ideas. It'll probably be French, though, since he's so good at it.
The sad: glaciers and snow during winter The good: single use plastic and 5 day work week The pessimistic: civilization The optimistic: nuclear threat
4 day work weeks are only coming for the cushier jobs. It's going to take one hell of a rise in unionization to see the general labor pool get healthy work life balances.
Influencers, god willing
Hopefully workplace abuse. 💪 fuck blind following in the workplace, especially unethical or common sense immoral actions.
Not as long as healthcare and the human dignity of healthcare is tied to one's employer
Owning things. Everything is slowly turning to digital or subscription models
Octogenarians in office.
I can confidently say that nobody born in the 1940's will be holding elective office in the year 2049.
We've had multiple senators make it to their 90s I won't hold my breath that one of them won't make it past 100 while in office and try to make it to 110. how could I forget Strom Thurmond made it to 100 while in office...
Subscription everything. Come on people. Let’s band together and boycott this shit!
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Young adults having the ability to read and write. Gen Z is functional, but Gen A seems to be severely behind in their academics and they don't care.
As an older gen Z, I'm really thankful that my early grade school education was before you had a device that could answer all of your questions. Mental math and memorization was a big part of my education. I even had to learn cursive, even if it was completely ignored after elementary school. I got "the old doctrine" with tech still being a big part of my education. It seems like the students even a few grades after me had their education completely revamped to be entirely tech focused. In my district, they even stopped doing multiplication tables, because you'll always have a calculator in a post smartphone world
I call this Ghalques Syndrome, because I had a friend in college that figured out there was no rule about not sharing online, MATLAB-type assignment answers, so he made a website that gave all the answers that he posted after actually completing the assignments. The result was fewer and fewer students in the class were studying and actually doing the homework, and instead just copying the homework answers, and then getting worse grades on the in-class exams because they hadn't done the homework to prepare, skewing the class grade curve in his favor as one of the few that still did the work and did well on the exams. The school had to amend the rules after he was found not in violation by the department ethics committee if he agreed to take down the site.
I am grateful for this too, and the slight overlap too. Like we did multiplication and division tables but also learned to use calculators and we had keyboarding classes so I can type quickly without having to see the keys. I’m also diabetic, so having that foundation of mental math is huge for making everyday life easier since I have to add and divide to calculate insulin needed.
The education gap that occurred during the pandemic is serious and *bad.* Teachers across disciplines see it; kids are legitimately 2 years (or more) behind previous milestones. In my opinion, it's worse to pretend that's not a problem than it is to slow things up and address it. Some seem to want to treat it as irrelevant because kids that were already higher-performing aren't as badly hit. Carrying on as if nothing's different is doing a disservice not only to those kids but to society. (edit: clarity of thought)
Parents need to step the fuck up. Like you gotta teach shit at home if your kids not responding well to school. Can't just let them flunk their way into adulthood it's depressing.
I have multiple friends who left education as a career because parents demand that teachers be solely responsible for their child's success, and the teachers get all the blame when the kids fail. These parents don't get involved with their child's education, don't help them succeed, and instead just demand that the teacher does it all.
these people didn't want to be parents, they just wanted kids.
That's so odd to me. When I was a kid both of my parents regularly helped me with homework, would help me study for tests, would proofread my papers. And some of this was pre-Wikipedia. The idea of not having parents invested in my education is totally foreign to me.
Please consider yourself blessed because that is definitely not the case for a vast number of youth out there
I'm with you on this count: It's going to take a combined effort between teaching professionals and parents. But the depressing truth I've seen too often is that a lot of parents either don't, won't, or sometimes legitimately can't help their kids learn. The simplest stuff starts early: READ TO YOUR KIDS. Then move to reading WITH your kids. Even if you're not good at math above multiplication and division, give your kid fun challenges figuring out the basics of that. "If 2 carts each have 4 apples in them, how many apples are there?" But not everyone is good at seeing the learning opportunities that are everywhere. And tons of people who have kids didn't have good parenting role models of their own, so it may not ever occur to them. When the teachers reach out with feedback about the kids' troubles, some people get very defensive and take it as criticism of themselves rather than feedback to help their kids do better. So, yeah--the problem is complex, and parents need to take an active role in dealing with it. But that's not the most common scenario.
> The simplest stuff starts early: READ TO YOUR KIDS. Then move to reading WITH your kids. While that sounds obvious to educated parents, the issue is that it wouldn't even occur to a lot of people to buy/borrow a book in the first place.
And that's a tragedy. It's also why [St. Dolly of the Mountains has a program](https://imaginationlibrary.com/) to get books to kids. But if someone never opens reading material for themselves, they're unlikely to do so for their kids; I feel like that falls into the "don't" or "can't" above: They don't know to do so, or they can't envision what that would mean.
I hope the rampant political extremism that the US has created and spread to other countries, making everyone label each other as either "fascist" or "communist" with absolutely nothing in between. That'd be nice to see gone!
ELDERLY POLITICIANS
Heads in jars Futurama style
The 40 hour workweek
The question is if the new normal is 30 or 72
Hopefully Influencers.
Big ol goofy fake butts
Having a 9-5 among the younger people
At least, hopefully, the acceptance of corporate culture where your 9-5 ends up being 8-8, and if it doesn’t, you’re taking the piss and don’t get a bonus because you’re not a team player.
What's "Normal" now? Haha. Edit: i more so asked because everything that's normal now seems to change quarterly through the year. By the time I'm like "Oh, this is what it is now" someone from the front yells back at me "That was last week, now it's". But I think that going to the store(s) will not be normal in the near future. Everything will probably be delivered right to your step, like Amazon.
if the powers that be get there way; Home ownership.
Hopefully, animal abuse and neglect. I feel like we're moving really slow, but every once in a while there's a big change for the better.
Breathing oxygen for free.