Which current behavior will be most unthinkable 100 years hence

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This question was posed in an article in the most recent Atlantic Monthly Magazine and so I pose it here.
One of the answers in the magazine I agreed with was manual driving.
 

Josiah said:
This question was posed in an article in the most recent Atlantic Monthly Magazine and so I pose it here.
One of the answers in the magazine I agreed with was manual driving.
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Smoking.
 

Josiah said:
I'll put Hollydolly in charge of making that determination when the time comes. She's just a young chick.
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LOL...thought my ears were burning...don't worry despite what Annie says..I'll still be around when I'm 160 years old...just so I can tell you all about it when I pop ma clogs and come up to whatever heaven;ly forum cloud you're all having the parties on.. ;)
 
hollydolly said:
LOL...thought my ears were burning...don't worry despite what Annie says..I'll still be around when I'm 160 years old...just so I can tell you all about it when I pop ma clogs and come up to whatever heaven;ly forum cloud you're all having the parties on.. ;)
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Really?! Wow! I guess if you can make it to 160 I can make it to 163. :D Love the idea of a forum party in heaven or wherever. Don't you love being called a chick at 60?
 
Wearing eyeglasses and contact lenses. They will perfect and implant accommodating lenses in your eyes as soon as they mature and everyone will have 20/20 vision, near and far. Probably much sooner than 100 years, at least for the wealthy.

In 100 years my guess is they will discover ways of genetic modification, and a lot of inherited diseases and propensities for diseases will be eliminated. Not sure if this counts as behavior.
 
Josiah said:
This would seem a certainty, the one hitch, suppose science discovers that various electro-magnetic wireless signals that modern technology depends on actually have a serious long term negative effect on human health.
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Now Josh, there you go borrowing trouble..lol, remember 'don't sit too close to the TV'?
 
Owning/driving cars. I think something will be invented that will allow people to float in the air to their destination for short trips. At the very least, mass transit will be improved to a level we can’t even imagine.
 
Wasting water. I am fortunate to live in one of the most water rich countries in the world, but the pundits are predicting severe water shortages leading to water refugees in many areas of the world.
 
applecruncher said:
Owning/driving cars. I think something will be invented that will allow people to float in the air to their destination for short trips. At the very least, mass transit will be improved to a level we can’t even imagine.
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Maybe it will be like The Jetsons where George's space car magically folds into a briefcase?

I don't know if this is what was meant by the question, but I hope prejudice in all it's forms will be unheard of by then. I think there's a good chance this will happen in a hundred years.
 
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