Rip Van Winkle style, I mean. For me, it’s this confounded eyes-screen interface. STAY STILL, DAMMIT! If I wanted to scroll down I would have used my MOUSE to scroll down, as God intended!
Where’s the mouse?
Alarm clocks - obviously.
How to get my flying car out of second gear.
The slave-chains tethering me to my iPhone 37-assembly worktable in the WalMart Opportunity Center just outside Phoenix.
(Yes, that’s right: in just five short years a combination of forces, enabled by US Supreme Court decisions, will have brought Romney’s Dream* to the USA: giant living-and-working compounds, “sponsored” by the corporate giants that will now be openly ruling our society.
(And yes: they DO chain comotose people to worktables…because if they do wake up, they need to start being Productive right away! :eek:)
*LEAKED VID ROMNEY CHINA BAIN CAPITAL video cam camera tape secret hidden mitt fundraiser - YouTube
I for one will welcome our ant overlords.
I’ll never get used to the idea that replicants look exactly like people.
There’s a refreshing mix of optimism and deeply-cynical pessimism in this thread. 
The Windows 12 interface.
Camera drones, printed camera stickers, camera dust. Everywhere. Privacy still exists as a technical legal concept, just not in the real world.
The Great Baby Boomer Rebellion triggered by the 2016 presidential election is really devastating and unprecedented although not completely unexpected in hindsight. It is like Woodstock all over again except the free love is a whole lot more inappropriate this time around, that brown stuff all over them isn’t just mud and it is hard to tell who is on hard drugs versus those who just have dementia. Arm yourselves now and trust no one over 65.
Goose stepping at polling places.
My BMW 328 Autodrive insists on taking the scenic routes instead of the highway.
I would argue, but her seductive voice always cons me into going along for the ride.
People walking into things, and into me, because they are using their portable heads-up displays to interface with the internet, i.e. surf porn and make Twitter posts. Delays in transit routes because the users of heads-up displays keep walking in front of buses and getting run over.
The iPhone 27 with holographic lifesize Siri.
The desk-top computer as we know it, even the laptop, has ceased to exist. The iPhone 9s and Samsung S6s have so much computing power in them, to say nothing of the new tablets, that only hard-core gaming nerds bother with what I’d call a ‘real computer’ anymore. Damn it, a computer is loud, it’s heavy, and it can heat your home on a cold winter night!
That I was able to predict what technology would be like five years into the future.
Other than that, it’s hard to comment on a future that hasn’t happened yet.
It’s a good thing nobody will ever have to write anything in the future, because composing a novel on an ipadiPad touchscreen is gonna suck.
I, for one, am gonna have trouble syncing my daily food-and-medicine runs to when Skynet’s Hunter-Killers are down for refueling.
5 years from now? I’m sure nothing major; I mean, if you took 2008 me and dropped me today, I’d think “Wow, iPhones sure have gotten popular… and someone came out with some competition.” and maybe “Big TVs are a bunch cheaper.”
I suspect most everything that will be commonplace in 5 years is already commercially available in some form already.
I imagine I’d have to get used to an Xbox One 5 years from now, and maybe a different car, assuming that my current one didn’t make it to 13 years old, but otherwise, I’m sure 99% of the stuff I use daily would be exactly the same as it is today, and most of it would be the exact same stuff I use today.
PCs in the home would be in the technical equivalent of hospice care, or at least not too commonly sold anymore, with multi-function appliances vying for the role of PC/DVR/cable box/game console. I don’t see PCs going anywhere in the workplace for a long time though.
The mandatory pharmaceuticals to ensure societal normalcy. Oh, and Coke Three.
Wasn’t 1997 only about five years ago? I don’t see five years being a revolutionary time span. Unless the cell phone network goes sentient and bootstraps itself past the inevitable robot uprising and straight to the Singularity. Then all bets are off.