Things will levitate.  As a result, hardwood floors will have fewer scuff marks and you will never again get a shopping cart with the wobble wheel, the latter consequence ending the careers of many stand-up comics who never updated their material.

 

People will only listen to only electronic music.  It will be considered taboo to make air vibrate if it doesn't originate from something that tickles electrons.

 

There will no longer be any such thing as a laptop, PDA, iPod, cell phone, or digital camera.  All these things will be contained in a cranial implant at the base of your skull where your primitive visual cortex used to be (which has been upgraded as well, of course).

 

Furniture won't have drawers.  We no longer have need of things that must be stored since all books and music and movies and photo albums are digital and are stored in the form of light that bounces around invisibly in an alternate dimension.  Most other physical posessions will follow suit as they can be created by replicators that have libraries of millions of objects and substances.  Clothing itself is created each morning and disintegrated each night to save water otherwise wasted on laundry that is better used in powering spacetime travel (Don't ask; you're not ready for this information yet).

 

Speaking of which, no clothing will feature stripes.  Pockets will be elimated as well.

 

By the way, all furniture will be made of glass and steel.  We need our trees to scrub your residual CO2 from the atmosphere, not to decorate our homes.

 

Guys will cut off all their hair except for a goatee.  Ladies will not have curls.  They aren't very aerodynamic and they scramble the signal in the transporters.  Aerodynamics may not mean much to you at the moment because you drive around in clunky fossil fuel-buring hollow blocks of metal, but our flying glass rods are the most respectable mode of transportation for getting around town, especially to the skysaucer clubs.

 

Everything in your house will be operated by remote control including the wall colors and the amount of light allowed in by the ceilings as well as what they project.  The height, temperature, and texture of the shag carpeting can be adjusted as well.

 

You won't have a garbage can because you recycle everything.  If it's organic, then it's fertilizer for your commune's lawn.  Everything else goes back into the replicator for raw nuclei.

 

Since humans will be practically immortal, it will now be feasable to have pen pals among the Gamma and Delta Vegans.  Even though the round-trip duration for a conventional EM communication is a little over fifty years, it will take about that long for anything interesting to happen between them and the Betas anyway.

 

No one will have any use for umbrellas anymore since rain will scheduled for early hours in the morning when only the robots wil be out doing their jobs.  Old umbrellas will be recycled into robots, of course.

 

Rich people will vacation on Venus during the winter since it will be only slightly warmer than Earth thanks to all the greenhouse effects making Earth toasty by 21st century standards and orbital repositioning and revolution enhancements making Venus cool by Mercurian colonial standards.  The poor will still be drawn more to Luna, however, since it's a cheaper flight and there's all the low-brow, low-grav rides and such.  Dumbasses.

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