Andy Bernard from The Office hit us right in the feels when he said, “I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you left him.”
This quote hurt because it’s true. Time is slipping away and pretty soon, we’ll be looking back at the way things were.
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That’s precisely what inspired this list of 19 things people will be nostalgic for in 40 years.
Steering wheels
Pretty soon, we’ll be telling our grandkids, “when I was your age, I had to drive myself to work!”
Thanks to new technology that keeps advancing, we’re getting closer and closer to everyone owning cars that drive themselves.
Their childhoods
“Their childhoods. As always. Every generation always believes the decade of their upbringing was the ‘things were so much simpler and easier’ days.” – u/AcceptableAd7000.
Try to hold onto these memories as long as you can.
Marvel
There’s a very good chance that the MCU is currently in its glory days now. We don’t know if the universe will ever end or whether they will keep churning out content every year.
When it does end, many people will be nostalgic for the “OG marvel days.”
The place they are working at now
“Even though they do nothing but moan and complain about it. In the future they will think of it as happy days because nostalgia is a cognitive bias. People forget the boring mundane things, ignore or downplay the bad things, and exaggerate the good things.” – u/Scallywagstv2
Wallets
Hold on to your wallets, folks! Some believe that it will be irrelevant one day.
For instance, this Redditor states that everything will be digital in 40 years: credit cards, ID, business card information, coupons, and photos.
Safety and stability
“Nobody knows what happens in the future, but I wouldn’t be surprised if various conflicts makes our life more chaotic and unsafe. It could be economic, religious, political, results of sometimes entirely new etc.” – u/I_cuddle_armadillos
Certain video games
Ah, the virtual glory days. They’re coming!
This Redditor believes that video game fans will be longing one day for the feeling they got playing certain video games for the first time. This includes Zelda and Halo.
Owning a home
“Home prices continue to go up and it’s pricing everyone out. Eventually they will own most of the residential property in the country and we will all be renting.” – u/PoliSciNerd24
Local businesses
Ask anyone you know and they’ll tell you that many small, local businesses are closing in their area.
Sadly, these mom-and-pop stores are being put out of business by big-box chains.
Seafood
“Most crustaceans will of died out from climate change or be so full of plastic that they will no longer be safe to eat by humans.” – u/Sijora.
Uh oh. Seafood fans, you better eat them while you still can!
Pandas
Nooo! We don’t want to think of these cute animals no longer existing.
But this is a sad reality we’re facing. There are many other animals also very close to going extinct, like polar bears. The time to take action is now.
Cold winters with snow
“I live in New England, and read once once that by the end of the century skiing will no longer be economically viable in this part of the world, for example. Gotta enjoy what we have while we have it in that department.” – u/Andromeda321
Malls
You may have already noticed that many are going out of business and getting torn down. While it was fun to go to them as kids, it’s stressful as an adult. There are just too many people. and not enough store diversity.
Toys we have now
“For people who are kids now, I think they’ll be nostalgic for toys the same way adults are now. They’ll be nostalgic for slime, surprise toys, pop it’s, and those damn LED tape lights everyone under 20 has lining their bedroom walls.” – u/not2interesting
Movie DVDs
Let’s be real: they are already out the door.
With everything going digital, one Redditor believes that production houses will soon stop making DVDs and start streaming the movies on streaming platforms, like Netflix.
Privacy
This is a huge downside to so much of the world going digital: we don’t have privacy anymore. waves to the FBI person monitoring computer
This Redditor pointed out how private data collection by companies is already a huge issue.
Movie theatres
“Damn, the movie one hit hard. A small local theatre near me just shut down for good, and I can’t express how disappointed I’d be if the movie theater industry just never pops back up after this pandemic. Some of my best childhood memories are from the the movie theaters.” – u/DoctorDonut0
Their youth
It’s easy to feel nostalgic about your younger years when your hair is grey, your face is wrinkled, and you can’t quite move like you used to. This will make us reflect back on being young and free.
Human freedom
“If you escalate how we are being “dealt with” today. In 40 years we would be being treated like cattle. We have to straighten our backbones and vote for freedom and human dignity in the next elections! – u/Abe-The-Sapien
