What's something common that in 20 years from now people won't believe we used to live this way?

Probably wrapping and cooking our food in volatile plastics.

Allowing Israel to get away with shit.

Using plastic to contain food. I'm always a little turned off when a takeout place uses plastic containers as opposed to the paper or foil ones. Plus it's terrible to animals, especially marine life such as dolphins.

I'm not a doctor.

But possibly there will be a better way to treat/cure cancer, and thus chemotherapy will be seen as similar to how we today see bloodletting or lobotomy.

Gasoline-only cars, most likely

People probably wouldn't believe we sold water in plastic water bottles or shopped with disposable plastic bags.

Wiping our asses with PAPER.

US health insurance industry... Either we get single payer or all of us will be in poverty.

Hopefully, single use plastics would be a ridiculous thing in the future, maybe they will look back at it like we look back at asbestos.

Here is a funny asbestos ad from the past

Antibiotics

Social media, at least in the current form.

Teflon

I'm afraid the answer will be air conditioning and indoor plumbing.

The state of the air we breathe indoors.

I'm hoping the answer is money.

It won't be, but I can hope.

20 years is a bit short but... Eating animals will be regarded as highly immoral, "but everyone knew those animals suffered, right?", on the same level as we now judge slavery

Car centric infrastructure 🤣 lol back in the 2020s they had to travel in slow ass crowds of cars 🤣🤣🤣 nobody liked driving but they settled for it because it was the best they had! Although I wish I could have bought Tears of the Kingdom when it was new, I don't even want to know what cars were like.

As someone who has grown up watching Card Catalogs lose to electronic search, Internet Directories lose to electronic search, photo albums lose to electronic search, Curated Network Televisions lose out to ellectronic search, large-scale advertising lose out to electronic search...

I don't know. But whatever it is, 20 years from now, we'd say "Why didn't you have a search engine that could do that for you?"

Food industry in current form

For most of us in the US: Having an endless supply of cheap, clean fresh water

In 20 years we will be shocked that we lived with all of the unnecessary fossil fuel usage while the world was slowly boiling. Oops, we fucked up the biosphere, guess we'll just move to mars and eat fucking solar rays ffs.

I wonder if more people will go back to flip phones. Some of my younger church friends are tired of smartphones and the amount of time and energy they suck out of your life and negative energy social media puts into it, and are switching back to flip phones. It's surprising to see young people using them.

Probably Snow with global warming and all

Possibly US specific: Artificial Red/Yellow/Blue dyes in food. I hope..

I'd say traditional (linear) television. Still common enough, though even today it's clearly on the way out.

What the hell, I misread the OP's title and thought it was about stuff that was common 20 years ago which is no longer normal... I was very confused with everybody else's answers lmao.

Sadly I can't think of an answer for the thread, so downvote/upvote at your will 😂

porn was freely available and could be purchased at stores in many parts of the US.

sex toys were widely available and could be purchased from the comfort of your own sex swing.

now we have Qualuviagra which not only increases the size of your penis* but also makes you forget all about your low-T*

*studies shown that penis size temporarily increases but long-term use will actually shrink it. prolonged use can induce Baby-Dick Syndrome (BDS). Abuse of the product is considered a class 1 felony and you will be registered as a sex offender unless you're a registered Republican.

*low T is a myth falsified by global warming scientists in order to confuse and belittle Republicans with BDS. If you are taking Qualuviagra to treat low-T, reach out to your nearest MediRogan for details about having low-T.

freedom to leave our houses

With the advancement in technology, I'm sure in 20 years augmented reality will really kick off. I'm sure they will wonder why people used to play with controllers and not a VR headset... I might be watching too much SAO and I don't even watch that anime.