Fathers Of Tomorrow: What Will Dads Be Like In 2030?

April 13, 2017

As we’ve mentioned before, your dad “dads out” a bit differently than, say, his dad did before him. Dads change with each generation, which of course got us thinking. What should we expect from future dads? And no, we don’t mean currently expecting soon-to-be dads. We mean future dads. Like, in the future.

If we had to guess, here’s what we’d expect of dads from 2030.

They Will Be Really Into 1990s and 2000s Music

Current children are being aggressively introduced to 80s music because that’s what their dads listened to growing up. So it only stands to reason that dads in 2030 will be rocking all the top radio hits from the late 90s through the 00s. Kids in the 2030s are going to be rolling their eyes every time they hear Rihanna, basically.

They Will Be Even More Slow Than Current Dads With Technology

This one might be surprising. Sure, it’s almost comical to watch dads today try to really “figure out” their smart phone or universal remote, but as bad as it is now, it’s going to be worse for dads in 2030. Why? Because their kids will have spent their whole lives completely immersed in the smartphone era, while dads in 2030 can sit back and wax poetic to their teenage children about what it was like to access the Internet using a landline.

Technology for dads in 2030 will be a second language that they’ve spent decades learning, while their kids have already been born into it. It’s going to lead to dads being even more dependent on their kids making their “doohickeys” work again. (Dads will still use the word “doohickey” in 2030, by the way).

They Will Grill Less, Cook More

The percentage of Americans who own homes is currently at the lowest level in five decades, and it is likely to keep dropping. This means that, especially in urban areas, more people are opting for condos and apartments, which also means that you will have a lot of dads who won’t have yards for them to grill. There will still be grill dads, of course, but there’s going to be more work in the kitchen. And with the growing popularity of companies like Blue Apron, more dads are going to try to hone their inner Iron Chef while they’re at it.

So expect less grilled meats, but more gourmet(ish) meals from dads in 2030. And yes, they will talk your ear off about how they made the fancy meals. They’re still dads, after all.

They Will Stalk Their Kids On Snapchat (Or Another Platform)

As Facebook and Twitter increasingly lose out to younger generations, all that time your dad spends stalking you on those two platforms will likely shift over to Snapchat and Instagram. That’s assuming that those haven’t gotten old by 2030. Hell, he’ll probably be using some social media platform that hasn’t even been invented yet. But he’ll still do it with no attempt to be grammatically correct.

And our final prediction for dads in 2030 is…

They Will Still Make Dad Jokes