[Closed] Our country in 10yrs time - what will it be like?

To lighten things up a bit:

Orange will still be making single pivot alloy bikes.
Maxxis will eventually release the High Roller 3.
Ebikes will have an option of an onboard methane-powered recharging system.
People will still be trying to spend the old pound coins they found down the sofa.
Bottom bracket standard no. 30456v7 will be released.
Sales of baked beans will dramatically increase.
I'll eventually find that long-lost thingamygig when I move the freezer.
The generation of kids in school won't know what a CD or a bank card is or how to use it.

Apart from that it'll be business as usual.

I'll add in Pension Crisis and at least a decent property market correction.

But the U.K., along with most of Europe will be desolate after the first dirty bomb has been shot out of the US, with Korea and Russia zapping Nukes overhead and we’re caught in the outfall.

Doubt it. The only way we would be on the receiving end of any battle is as collateral damage. We're not relevant or important enough to be a target for anyone. Unless we start it, of course.

anagallis_arvensis - Member
If its anything like the last 10 years we'll almost all be slightly poorer, slightly more inward looking and fearful and will have poorer public services.

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Probably this. ^^

Oh, and THM will still be trolling on here. Obvs.

Chris Grayling will be half way through his sentence.

One thing I hope for is a switch to Satellites for mobile phone coverage so that if you can see the sky you can have a full 5G or better signal. Does away with all the phone and internet Not-Spots in one fowl swoop.

As far as agriculture goes I predict that almost all cattle will be kept indoors as it will be the only way to protect from TB and also help drive down the production costs to levels similar to the non-EU competition. Cattle in fields will be a thing of the past. Sheep will only be kept in Mega flocks owned by a few people prepared to farm on the huge scale needed to be profitable. In any case, the family farm as we know it will be confined to the history books. Animal welfare will suffer all around as the only people who will be happy to farm under the prevailing conditions are the very people you don't really wish to do so (a bit like politicians I guess).

(Nice irony Danny 😯 )

teamhurtmore - Member - Quote
(Nice irony Danny )

It wasn't irony, Alanis

One thing I hope for is a switch to Satellites for mobile phone coverage so that if you can see the sky you can have a full 5G or better signal. Does away with all the phone and internet Not-Spots in one fowl swoop.

It would have to be better than current satphone tech, as these are very poor in vehicles, nut much use in trees, and awful in buildings or steep-sided valleys, so there's still be plenty to grouse about.

That’s was quick zokes. Well done. Nice derail BTW

The world will have much greater information but much less knowledge

teamhurtmore - Member - Quote
The world will have much greater information but much less knowledge

Now that [i]is[/i] ironic

I hate to break it to you guys but....

"Mobiles phones/wifi" etc recognised as the tobacco of our generation

can you expand on this one for me please?

Really interesting thread. I especially enjoyed Ben H post. Not much to add really apart from certain pension crisis and the further split of wealth.

I also hope that we all get more lesuire time.

The shift from class to identity politics has encouraged greater ethnic differentiation and segregation. Combined with increasing numbers of recently arrived people I see England becoming even more of what Lord Parekh described as 'a community of communities'.
The broken housing market will mean that in many areas, as in New York, people begin to see it as an achievement that they manage to pay the rent rather than ever own a property. The will be an increasing gulf between the haves and have-nots with the latter group gaining in size as the middle class are forced down by austerity.
Brexit will allow for the deregulation of the labour market and many many people will be in insecure jobs without holidays and sick pay. European travel will become a pita with new barriers, long queues and blue passports.
All of this depends, ofcourse, on whether people are prepared to fight their corner.

can you expand on this one for me please?

Compulsory high vis, helmets and registration and compulsory low power radio trackers for the dwindling numbers of cyclists. Jaywalking legislation to remove people from urban streets to make it easier for Robot car and robot van delivery to function. Large congestion busting road schemes costing hundreds of billions funded through general taxation. Withdrawal of NHS support for many lifelong conditions as too expensive. A general scorned ignorant response to anyone pointing to connections between these things.

A quick update for the TL;DR crowd

Like it is now but sh1ter

Well for sure most Brexit voters will be dead, or dying.
So a return to the EU is highly likely (should the U.K. ever leave)
I reckon MPs will be brought in line with current Laws on both Criminal and Civil prosecutions, lying will see MPs loose both constituencies representation and governmental position. Current political parish boundaries will have been reorganised to reflect number of voters rather than seat/political makeup of the constituencies.
Millennials will finally find liberalism and coalition governments, accountable by PR a far better and representation system than is currently in place.
The refurbishment of Parliment and Big Ben will have gone over budget by £400bn and the new bunkers underneath will be the main cost, HS2 will be downgraded to a South West shuttle train running twice a day on diesel power only up a single line with pull ins every 22miles to let the oncoming train past.. it will take 19hrs to get from London to Manchester.

The BBC will have moved south, caused by staff revolt once “rocket salad and hummus” was deemed “European” and cut from the menus. Also, Southern RP accents failed to integrate into Northern Monkey Tongue thereby deep class rifts occurred and the Media Center was turned into a flat roof pub selling brown ale only and weatherspoons all day breakfasts.

There will cease to be a middle class, you’ll be either “poor” or “Cheshire Orange”. University applications will have plummeted due to the exorbitant costs of £50k per term, NHS will only offer care if backed up with a credit card or private insurance.

That’s all from me for now, I’m bathroom fittings hunting 😆

THM and Jamba will be superciliously running down the leaders of the Yorkshire Independence Movement, but unable to come up with anything for the Cornish Freedom Party because all their pronouncements will be in Cornish.

The Welsh will be celebrating the completion of the Great Offa's Canal separating them from England and refusing to accept further refugees from England.

The survivors of Grenfell will be about to be provided with housing.

The Royal Navy will finally get an aeroplane for the Queen Elizabeth.

The first post EU trade deal will be struck with the new country Little England (formerly Isle of Wight).

Intel will grow to become the largest corporation in the world, based on sales of new CPUs needed to process the workload of ads served by a UK based mountainbiking website.

Bathroom suppliers will have gone bust!

Have you ever seen the cost of a sliding shower door??

😯

McDonalds will open “up market” restaurants, move into fine dining and candlelight suppers for extended families.. iPads and TV booths will occupy the young and soft play areas will occupy the parents. A BigMac will be renamed McSourdoughBeef and a large Coke will be replaced with an OrganicFruit juice. The enterprise will fail and McDonalds will pull out of the U.K.

teamhurtmore - Member
Older [b]Correct[/b]
More prosperous [b]Not a ****ing chance, and certainly not for the majority[/b]
Greener [b]Are you on drugs? When the Tories have stopped selling off every scrap of land to their developer mates to 'provide more affordable housing' (ha ha ha, bullshit), there will be no green space left outside of protected national parks and even they will have been eroded.[/b]
Well educated and skilled will have better opportunities than before [b]Probably, but only because there'll be less of them due to a failing state education system and more government loopholes for private schools[/b]
Poorly edukated and unskilled will have significantly fewer opportunities than before [b]See above. BTW loving the misspelling of 'educated'[/b]
Petrol/diesel cars? Really ??? [b]No. Due to alt right ripping up of climate change legislation, we won't have got rid of fossil fuelled cars. Eventually the oil will run out and do this for us, but not before we've made a few dodgy people very rich, speeded up the already irreversible global warming and flattened whatever green space hasn't been used for housing to build more roads[/b]
"Mobiles phones/wifi" etc recognised as the tobacco of our generation [b]Not likely. I'm hoping for connectivity to become the major weapon against the attempted alt right takeover. Tobacco will be the tobacco of the current generation as government colludes (already are) with the likes of BAT to circumvent legislation, taxation etc as part of their drive for to be 'competitive' globally (aka a race to the bottom with a few spivs getting rich and the devil take the hindmost)[/b]

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I had my doubts before, THM, but I'm afraid I'm just going to have file you under 'bad person' from now on.

I’m honoured. Just in time for NY too. Thank you Danny.

For most people things will probably be much the same as they are now. Just as things mostly are the same as 10 years ago. Just odd changes around the edges and a few things that were completely unforseen.

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"Attention all counties of the Brit federation
Attention all counties of the Brit federation
Attention all counties of the Brit federation
We have assumed control, we have assumed control, we have assumed control."

anagallis_arvensis - Member

can you expand on this one for me please?

To save the busy THM a job (he has so many already)
Do your own research thicko the information is easily available.

as it goes i have some understanding of radio theory, and in my experience people who write things like 'mobiles/wifi recognised as the tobacco of our generation' ( para. ), tend not to understand inverse-square law, so i'm curious as to what has given rise to this line of thinking. i'm hoping i might learn something.

The top 5% will be significantly richer and increasingly alienated from the rest of the country.
Burbclaves will start becoming much more popular.
We will be tagged with responsive devices under the skin, probably in the left forearm. These will be used to restrict access to certain areas.
The 'freedom of the Internet' will be something referred to in school teaching video clips.
London will be richer still and access restricted to those from outside its borders.
Devon, Cornwall, Wales and the North West will be the new Wild West with unrestricted industrial development, fracking, materials processing and reprocessing facilities.
The former Honda, Nissan and Mini production plants will be converted into asylum seekers hostels.
There will be ship breaking on the beaches of the English Riviera and Morecombe Bay.
The technological elite will be fine, this doesn't really include IT because this will be done in Russia, India and the reunited Korea.
Eton will be mostly teaching English as a Second Language.
British Passports will be Blue!!!!! But useless.

There will be ship breaking on the beaches of the English Riviera

i'm curious as to what has given rise to this line of thinking. i'm hoping i might learn something.

Good luck with getting an answer!

teamhurtmore - Member
I’m honoured. Just in time for NY too. Thank you Danny.

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Any time.

Speaking of New Year, I've got a resolution that will fix any lingering bad feeling (or at least not exacerbate it).

Seeing as commenting on or even reading any political (or even nominally political) thread on here is a total waste of time as no one ever changes their minds or admits their errors or behaves in any other way than just reverting to type, I'm not going to bother any more.

Being involved in any way on any political thread on here is basically like picking up some kind of parasite that just saps your energy, so I'm not going to do it.

I feel better already.

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Seeing as commenting on or even reading any political (or even nominally political) thread on here is a total waste of time as no one ever changes their minds or admits their errors or behaves in any other way than just reverting to type, I'm not going to bother any more.

Being involved in any way on any political thread on here is basically like picking up some kind of parasite that just saps your energy, so I'm not going to do it.

I feel better already.

See also any thread involving demented tribalism. Not worth the aggro, let the idiots have their fun and move on...

Trying to keep this one a bit light hearted, chaps. Just interested in views of how things may change without getting too heavy about it. Some really interesting observations, but not a lot to get too excited about.
Still waiting for the optimists to join the fray, though 😉
Biking-wise, are we going to see yet another wheel size change? I hope so. You can’t stockpile enough different sizes of tyres in the garage.

Serious question - does anyone really think that we won’t be here at all in 10yrs?
You’re entitled to your opinion if you do and I’m not looking to criticise, just interested to see if the generally negative outlook dips that low for some.

(Which - at a stroke - offsets my lighthearted theme! Ho hum. Back to the drawing board)

Seeing as commenting on or even reading any political (or even nominally political) thread on here is a total waste of time as no one ever changes their minds or admits their errors or behaves in any other way than just reverting to type, I'm not going to bother any more.
Being involved in any way on any political thread on here is basically like picking up some kind of parasite that just saps your energy, so I'm not going to do it.

I feel better already.

*Applauds*

(Those threads will still be rumbling on in ten years, mind you!)

Biking-wise, are we going to see yet another wheel size change?

[b][i]NEW! NIMBLE! 66.04cm wheels are the thrill seeking wheels you've been looking for! [/i][/b]

Being involved in any way on any political thread on here is basically like picking up some kind of parasite that just saps your energy, so I'm not going to do it.

Screwed as everyone will be able to live out their little fantasies with no thought for the ret of us. There will be a bloody MTB trail every 50 yards, a tea shack at the end and nowhere left to play without a sodding mobile phone signal. Everyone will be so up their own orifices about being "fair" that we will have half the place shouting about giving things away but "not mine" and most of the rest will be taking what they can. A few people will realise that they are picked on because they want to have their own say and will be shouted down because fair doesn't apply if you disagree with fashion.
Mobiles will become immobile as they are bigger than ghetto blasters, bikes won't need pedals as the battery will do it all and STW will become a TUC affiliated organisation and everyones Audi will be stolen by the state.

More likely is that Trump and the fat Korean chap will have drawn swords and we are all in some nuclear wasteland.
Hurries off to block up the windows and doors.

Mattsscm - Don’t ask me how I know this, but you’ve been taken out all day, shopping in the sales with the Mrs, haven’t you? There’s a certain je ne sais quoi to that first post that hints at “one of those days”.
Take off your boots, pour yourself a beer and settle down by the fire. You’ve earned it 😉

Some really interesting observations, but not a lot to get too excited about.

Tinners - Member
Trying to keep this one a bit light hearted, chaps. Just interested in views of how things may change without getting too heavy about it. Some really interesting observations, but not a lot to get too excited about.
Still waiting for the optimists to join the fray, though...

I reckon the UK will be split up - for the better of all concerned.

If a hard Brexit has happened, then the woes will be long gone.

This island has recovered from worse and its greatest asset will prove to be an educated and technologically competent population who will adjust to whatever gets thrown at them. New grass always crops up in Spring.

That and hover boards... 🙂

I think every possible bit of land not owned by the gentry will be used for ultra efficient 'affordable' housing for the plebs

Basically the entire country will look like this:

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Except the insides will be full of screens showing ads 24/7.

Sex robots on hoverboards or an economic post nuclear waste land, I know what my fingers are crossed for.

I'm thinking a cross between Blade Runner and The Hunger Games.

When asked again in ten years time, the response will be “more the way it is now than it’s ever been”.

Can't see it changing much as not much ever changes in just 10 years. I can see a trend for racism, sexism going backwards a bit so that may get a but worse and would also think that the bottom 95% will be no better off at all (just like the last 10 years)

Make it 80 years and it will be a whole different gloomy scenario of over population, lack of resources, uprising against the 0.001% of people who own and run everything.

Footwear manufacturers will all agree on how to size a ****ing shoe! Oh wait maybe in the year 3000!

beige or magnolia. Slowly the colour is draining for our society. Look at our buildings and cars.

On a serious note we are likely to rely on ai to make decision and remind us what to do. No longer do we need to rely on our memory for things. We need therapy to regain short term memory. The computer will suggest and propose what we need to do in the next minute, hour, day and month. A new way of indirect marketing and the internet will we be a relic like tapes and cds.

There will be off grid groups and a war on tech countries.

err btw happy new everyone. Hope 2018 is a good vintage

Can't see it changing much as not much ever changes in just 10 years.

As NHS is eroded beyond recognition (will it still be here even? ) AI will replace most GP appointments.
When an AI gets a diagnosis wrong it will still get the same get out of jail free card as current institutions. "Lessons shall be learnt". Ditto driverless cars.

Augmented reality and virtual reality will be massive creating a new golden age of online porn.

As said by someone else, crash helmets will be compulsory but more cyclists will still die as we can't hear the electric cars approaching.

We will be buying back old steam locos from other third world countries as we can't generate enough electricity for current network.

Opening up old coal mines shut down in the 80's.

Most current Tories (and Farage, obvs) will have retired to Europe.

Massive deregulation on house building but most new homes will be bought by wealthy landlords with already huge portfolios.

ISIS will have another name.

A new Warm War will be ongoing with Russia and China for which we will be Ill prepared.

Virtually no new trade deals as we can't build **** in this country that anyone else wants. Even if it's blue in colour.

Everybody swears blind that they didn't vote Leave but had a "mate that did."

I'm still angry over Brexit.

Trump will have a younger wife. From Mexico,obvs.

He never did build that wall...

BMW builds cars with working indicator stalks just as we all go driverless and can't afford them about anyway. Apart from Farage on his MEP pension.

Other than that, the same. 😀

Go back a page and see the what happened in 2007 link.

Still don't see it changing much (speaking personally almost nothing has changed for me in the last 10 years - I am even still riding the same sort of bike but a bit slower on it)
Politically things change very slowly (actual changes that most people would notice) and financially it will be about the same as now.

The most worrying aspect to me is the change of attitudes which are getting worse (accelerated and backed up by populist nonsense)