What are we doing wrong now that will be painfully obvious in 100 years?

> What are we doing wrong now, which the general public isn't aware of currently?

Industrial animal farming. Deforestation and greenhouse gases from it are destroying the planet when you don't need meat to be healthy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_p...

> "The livestock sector is also the primary driver of deforestation in the Amazon, with around 80% of all converted land being used to rear cattle.[37][38] 91% of land deforested since 1970 has been converted to cattle ranching.[39][40]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_p...

> At a global scale, the FAO has recently estimated that livestock (including poultry) accounts for about 14.5 percent of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions estimated as 100-year CO2 equivalents.[57] A previous widely cited FAO report using somewhat more comprehensive analysis had estimated 18 percent.[8]

That's not even getting into the cruelty of slaughtering 70 billion a year (vegetarians are not exempt from this - farm animals are slaughtered when they can't produce any more milk or eggs). Most western countries would be appalled at eating dogs and cats but because it's cultural to eat cows, pigs and chickens for example, the cruelty of slaughtering them is normalised, ignored and casually joked about.

The existence of the military and state sanctioned murder squads. https://www.radford.edu/gmartin/Immoral%20to%20serve%20in%20...

At the moment, it seems that the vast majority of people carve out a special ethical exception for the military but I suspect this will change over time. Many futurist/sci-fi dystopian scenarios have the general shape of the Terminator movies with autonomous killing machines roaming the planet. If these proliferate, perhaps the terror of that reality will bring into focus the immorality of using force to achieve geopolitical goals. And it feels like we're getting uncomfortably close to that future.

https://twitter.com/DocBunker/status/1270390796978536450

https://www.ausa.org/publications/mission-command-and-armed-...

The disintegration of the nuclear family due to sociological and technological forces.

For a preview, look at the black community where over 7/10 kids are born to single moms (for comparison, this number was below 3/10 in 1965).

> bloodletting was a popular medical procedure up to 19th century

You know a funny story about this, is that bloodletting (phlebotomy) is the standard medical treatment for iron overload and hemochromatosis. A hereditary condition that affects as many as 1% of Northern Europeans.

Even for those without hereditary hemochromatosis, there's evidence of pernicious health impact from iron levels even on the high-end of normal.[1] Regular blood donors have much lower incidence rates of disease as varied from Alzheimers to colon cancer. This is especially true for those who are carriers of the hemochromatosis mutation, which is as much as 10% of Northern Europeans.

[1] http://nautil.us/issue/67/reboot/iron-is-the-new-cholesterol

We are not teaching our children Philosophy; most importantly, Epistemology. We are teaching children to know things, to judge others on what they "know" and think because of what they think they know, and giving them the false confidence of true belief without the caution of self-doubt.

For interest, bloodletting might have some good health benefits and be due for a comeback... or encourage blood donation.

https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/the-potential-benefi...

making schooling not about actually useful information and skills, and maybe focused based on aptitude early on

this might depend on the country, with some being better, or a lot better than others

for example, in school, my teachers taught me useless trivia about Historical figures (some of which I later learned could be fictitious), I was also "taught" how to use sandpaper on an ornamental piece of wood (instead of learning how to use the tools to cut wood to make something useful, like a chair or a table)

wasting time on those useless things, instead of first aid, handling money (basic financial information, like savings accounts, how interests can work for you, or agains you, loans, etc.), laws (as in, what's legal, and illegal, and why), knowledge that should be universal, like the declaration of human rights

I also think shielding children from "bad language", and the knowledge of sex, and death does them a disservice, but I don't have an alternative that could be at least seen as reasonable

also, religion, at least the way it's "introduced" on chilren (forced on them, really)

Infant circumcision (common in the US).

I think disconnecting will be a considerable part of the future when AR and VR or whatever will be around is a huge thing. It is already a thing now. Some people assume you write them back in Whatsapp in minutes.

With health, I think the gut will play a significant role and also psychology. So many symptoms people develop have their roots in psychological problems.

Would like to point out that we're still allowing 18 year olds to pick up smoking, and we're still emitting greenhouse gases.

I think driving is one thing humans will clearly not be doing in 100 years and it will be considered incredible that we put up with the human toll (injuries & deaths) that it caused.

Working 8 hour days, 5 days a week.

Putting sketchy fire retardant materials in everything. In the broader historical context we're still coming out total fire safety negligence. The last century has been a battle to get fire codes up to a reasonable standard, but now that momentum has brought us into overcompensation where novel hazards are being created.

Bitcoin. And even using any form of currency for basic needs.

Imagine if there were 'stores' that had all the basic product needs for free.

There would be no point for anyone to have extra and the open market value would be 0.

Travel visas based on country of origin - which is really a proxy for race.

Usage of Oil and Gas Which feeds religious fundamentalists

Incredibly high debt to cash ratios.

Putting profits over people.

too many tools, too much politics! like other animals we should have kept it simple, KISS.

Today, the location of your birth is the dominating factor in what life you will be able to enjoy and how much will you be able to contribute, ethnicity, religion, and other common bases for discrimination pale in comparison.

The current citizenship system makes no sense, economically or morally. Why should the place of your birth or the citizenship of your parents should mandate which countries you are allowed to visit and in which markets you are allowed to participate?

If the trajectory of liberalism continuous its march (a consistent trend for hundreds of years, but not a certain one), then the citizenship system that we as a world have crafted will be either replaced by a more sensical one or entirely scratched (i.e. open borders). I hope that this happens within my lifetime.

monetary policy

Trash, literally waste processing

We’re starting to see some big cracks in the armor of democracy (polarization and entropy) and capitalism (inequality) so perhaps iterations or complete substitution of these pillars of modern life should be expected sooner than later