15 Things That Won’t Be Around By 2040 (2 of 3)

Cable TV

Cable is slowly becoming a relic already and it’s tough to keep up with it. Cable packages are often higher priced and struggle to provide good service. These two reasons alone are why people aren’t excited about this anymore.

Instead, people are turning to subscription based products. There’s the new Disney+ along with Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu. There’s plenty of options and these companies seem to know what they’re doing.

Privacy

As much as people wish to have more privacy, our behaviours aren’t exactly reflecting that. In larger cities, we’ve got cameras that are monitoring every street corner. We’ve filled our homes with cameras and voice assistants who are extracting data and personal information.

Even the use of biometrics like facial recognition are growing in popularity despite the information those technologies take from us.

As much as we want to be private, we’re living in an age where digital profiling is the norm. Not only that, but people are thankful for the personalized engagement that technology and companies bring to them.

Because people want further connection, there’s going to be less and less privacy in the world.

Passwords

If privacy is completely abolished by 2040, there is good odds that passwords will be too. It sounds unusual now, since we use so many passwords for the sites we visit. However people are realizing the problem with passwords.

From people who are using passwords poorly, it makes sense people are pushing for other means of authentication. After all, passwords are powerful and the weak passwords are often the cause for the viruses and breaches we’ve had over the years.

Instead, people will be looking for other means and we are starting to see that already. Things like eye scans or face recognition or using a physical security authentication key are being looked at.

Remote Controls

Another thing that is likely to fade away is the remote. We’ve used these things for decades, but we can start to see subtle shifts in the technology. These days, up to date remotes have voice recognition to them.

It’s not going to take much time before we’re able to talk to our TV the same way we talk to our voice assistants and phones.

Charging Cables

With Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technology it’s easier for us to connect devices to one another and to the internet. This web of interconnectivity is one of the reasons for why people have less use for cables.

The only problem today with cords is that if you need to charge a device, you’re going to need those cables for charging. That being said, in 20 years there is good odds that we’ll create wireless chargers. We’ve already gone wireless for some of the common tech after all.