What The Past Thought The Future Would Be Like.
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- Think Fact here:
It's one thing to predict the future, it's another to be living in someone else's. What did the people of the past predict the future would be like?
Links below:
The First One :
What The Past Predicted We'd Live Like Today?
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(Some videos had multiple clips in it, if you can't find a certain clip check the link before it)
-1920's
The Fugitive Futurist (1924) | BFI National Archive
• The Fugitive Futurist ...
-1940's
How people in the 1940s thought robots will be like
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Cars Of The Future from 1948
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-1950's
Schools for the future
• Schools for the future
The Future Kitchen in the 1950s
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From 1956: A future vision of driverless cars
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1960's-
AT&T Archives: Seeing the Digital Future (1961)
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Tomorrow's World: Home Computer Terminal 20 September 1967 - BBC
• Tomorrow's World: Home...
Tomorrow's World - Office of the Future 16 April 1969 - BBC
• Tomorrow's World - Off...
1960s Retro Futurism, Predicting Internet Shopping and Skype, Archive Footage
• 60s 70s Retro Futurism...
1960s Vintage Film: The Home Of The Future: Year 1999 A.D.
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When I was a kid, my father told me that when I was 20, we would be living like the Jetsons. Well, I'm 58 and I'm still waiting for my ding dang flying car.
+janet lavergne
Well if you ever get one, do you want to do some ding dang in the backseat of your flying car?
+stuckinthemud I may be 100 by then--but if you can, I can.
janet lavergne
Great, It's a date then!!!!!
+janet lavergne Flying cars and high-rise apartments are available -- it's just that they don't actually suit most people's needs (or budgets).
I'd rather have high-speed rail and a 20-hour work week than a flying car, though.
+janet lavergne My mom still wants a robot maid just so she can dress it like one and call it Rosie from the Jetsons and she to is pushing in her 50's
I was born in 1946 so I remember videos like this. In magazines they would predict flying cars and cities under the sea. Those never happened but others did like GPS and IPhones, Internet which I just love.
I forgot Amazon which is so cool.
+Francisco Gomez , I'd tell them it will seem like magic. Wireless will rule the world and the people on the other side of the earth will have conversations with you for free. Many of the social problems will still be here. You won't need to go to a store to go shopping even during Christmas. You will buy and own your own phone and not rent it from Ma Bell. Cars will have telephone connections, maps and directions and a voice can tell you where to go and where to eat. No more ice skating at the pond or sledding in the winter. To earn money you must have some sort of marketable skill. Both parents have to work and it is too expensive to have a lot of kids.
***** , Most of it except for the cities under the sea.
u still alive ? :v
Gerald O'Hare , And except for extraterrestrial cities on Luna Mars etc
2:05 "Robo, answer the door." "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that..."
FreeDoum
It's pretty clear that robit is evil just considering the fact that it breathes fire. Good guys almost and never breathe fire.
My friend knows a fire breather and he seems pretty chill. I'll take my internet points now.
Artificial intelligence is already dominant. Just look at our politicians. They've got an abundance of it.
@@thinkfact Yeah, but some politicians expel it from their butt holes.
Detroit : Become Human
"Efficient house wives" LMAO...Can almost see that one day in the future someone will be laughing at us about the things we find normal.
Like racism
You are from the past
Am I the only one who imagines going back in time and correcting the people watching these videos as to what actually happens?
it would be bad
You'd change the future as people would focus specifically on what you said.
Yeah, but the look on their faces would be worth it.
+DrDeathpwnsu I can relate to you so much
Nope, you're not. I was thinking of writing a letter to the past about what they got right and what they didn't, and of how impressed I am when they do get it right.
The "crystal lights" prediction was spot on, we call those liquid crystals and odds are the screen you are watching this on uses them.
Well, to be fair, it's pretty easy for someone to say "This useful looking new technology will likely be useful!"
That said, it's still pretty cool to see LCDs being first introduced.
Jeff DeWitt nope amoled is the future lmao
Mines oled
Nope. Mine are leds . Lcds are displays of the past
TheOneGuy1111 I get that this is a 3 year comment but even so I have to say that I just love the way you put it. The simplicity of it but so very true "this useful looking new technology will likely be useful" lol
Most disappointing thing about the future: no Jaws 19.
This Exists
Agreed. The massive hologram shark was really top notch too. People really wanted the hover-board but it was Jaws 19 that was the true masterpiece of human creation in that movie.
this time its really personal 😅
And if you're interested in dust, here's an item from the 1980's called a dust buster.
Shark still looks fake
Yeah but Covid 19
craziest prediction 5:49 "hummingbird wings on toast"
Toby Ford
I would personally like eagle wings on my toast. ;)
It is a french toast recipe
buil in toaster was a bad idea how do you clean it ?
"Hummingbird wings with some toast" lol what
About 6:20
for reals though what did they think we would be eating xD
It is a recipe for French Toast
Robits
Think Fact Robits.
why not zoidberg?
you kill me with the robit counter, that make my day
Why no more robits?
Think Fact "Did you put down the Paté de boeuf a la bergère"...
2:13
I love how there's a button for "Get Hat"
SCRAM!
M'lady
Am I the only one who was shocked that there was a black kid in an advert in the 40's?! Also in the recent past I think either 60's or 70's a load of "future homes" were made and they're still up for sale today they look a bit like fat UFOs
Reece Swaby Racism in the 40's was mostly directed at germans (because all germans were nazis, of course) and the japanese, because of the WWII. It was during the 50's that the racism was re-directed once again at the african americans, just like during the 30's.
Adrian Fahrenheit Yeah I know it got pretty bad towards the Japanese and Germans giving rise to slurs like kraut, slant eye and strangely a nick name for the male urethra, even bugs bunny and pop eye had racist cartoons made. But I never realised it died down towards black people. Maybe if aliens invade homo sapiens will finally learn to accept each other
+Reece Swaby Yeah....only you. History is your friend.
+Reece Swaby I heard that Japanese people call it the German's Eye, because it never smiles.
Sorry Adrian, you have no idea what you are talking about.
FanTASTIC video! I actually collect books and other things from the past that predict the future. I've got a pamphlet from a World's Fair in the 1950s for example, and seeing how they were radically off in some predictions but super close in others is amazing to me. They basically predicted Internet shopping in the pamphlet.
One thing to consider about the 'misogyny' of the 'housewife' things from the early 1950s - World War 2 had just ended. Women worked tirelessly in factories producing weapons and other implements of war for years and years, while under rationing. No one was confused about the ability of women to be productive in the workplace. While there absolutely were a lot of antiquated ideas about the 'proper role' of women, not all of them were denigrating.
In the 1950s, people were also very aware of what the world was like before the implementation of the 40-hour work week. Prior to that, the entire family, including children, had to work long hours 6 days a week just to earn enough to keep the family fed. People had to fight hard to get a situation where 1 person working only 40 hours a week was paid so much money that they could raise a whole family comfortably.
They did not want to give that up! Unlike today, people actually thought workers should be paid well, and that the pay of the workers should come before any profit for the business or owners. They actively resisted attempts by employers to get more work out of workers without paying them anything more. It was seen as a despicable act for an employer. They also expected, and got, pensions to support them in retirement, more vacation time, and raises every year large enough that they could stay in one job for decades without having to change jobs every 3-4 years or constantly fight for promotions.
Their ideas about work were more different than ours now than their ideas of women were different from ours. Their predictions of the future bear this out. They predicted that improvements with automation would enable 1 person working 10 hours a week or less would be able to earn enough to raise an entire family on comfortably. They did not anticipate that society would change so absurdly that all the gigantic improvements in automation would be met with people adopting the idea that workers should be paid less and that employers should actively pursue paying as little as possible, giving every benefit from automation to executives or shareholders. They would be horrified by how much we have thrown away. We're already at the point where raising a family in similar comfort requires 2 full-time incomes, and work weeks longer than 40 hours are the average. Plus no pensions. And hardly any vacation. And raises, when they happen at all, are so anemic that a worker has to change jobs every 3-4 years just to be paid fairly for their growing experience.
@Dustin Rodriguez sources???
Back in the 1950s it wasn't misongyny, it was the way labor was divided. Both parties had their duties to run the household and to provide for the family. I was born in the mid 1950s and while my parents had traditional roles, my mom wasn't looked at as less than or disliked or under valued by my dad. My parents were partners trying to raise their children. I wish we had flying cars, though.
If we had flying cars a bunch of phycos would keep crashing into more buildings
I wish it was still like the 50s today
I was born in 1950. Things were different then. All the modern conveniences have made things so common now, that to have to be without them, a lot of people would not know how to survive.
People seem to be missing you main point. I couldn't agree more. I blame men mostly. If they had truly TRULY appreciate and respected women, I don't think we would have had quite the backlash. Women who choose to be a homemaker should be lauded, still in today's day and age it is very difficult to pull off financially. Sad.
it was “misogyny “ men made sure they held more important roles so they could feel superior
ROFL! When it started about kids being educated via a computer in their home, it made me think about how many people whine that online and correspondence courses are NOT "real" education, a college or university education only counts if you have to go to the building.
Lmao at that 1950s video.
"We'll never get 'er outta the kitchen, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there." xD
yowza234 I lost it with the start of housewives part xD
Lmao 😄😂
Buying stuff in the computer they pretty much predicted Amazon
Or Wal-Mart's online shopping.
That prediction was 100% correct, except for physical card with online shopping.
Fugitive is not pronounced 'figurative'.
*****
Good catch, for some reason when I was writing my script I put it in the wrong name. That may be because it made more sense in my head when I was writing it, I don't now. At least it's not that big of a deal. Thank you for the comment.
Think Fact You're welcome! :D
Think Fact you can always make comedic corrections as annotations.
That prediction from 1968 was spot on. I am socially inept and prefer isolation, but I have not gone bonkers yet only thanks to online communication.
The Past never calculated how politically incorrect they would be in year 2020.
The main thing they got wrong is that we don't have dumb terminals attached to a main central city computer, instead we have desktop computers more sophisticated than the main frames of the 60s and 70s. Of course we also have laptops and tablets. Guess we are kind of spoiled, like that tween girl who didn't know how to hang up a standard phone.
at 13:02 they correctly predicted that today's students would be just as dumb as the school's of their day :)
+John Alan Elson But if you think about it, it is the computers elsewhere that do much of the work. Most uses of computers these days take advantage of internet functionality, such as cloud storage (or the trend is in that direction).
Our computers still do a lot of things on their own and they aren't connected to a central city computer. The internet is decidedly decentralized.
my grandpa have been waiting for the future
but when i show him my tablet he always asks me how to use it 😂
BuahGaming 1245 It's nice that your grandpa is open minded. My grandma doesn't know how to read messages on her ancient Nokia, doesn't want to touch a smartphone and hasn't used a computer in her life... she doesn't know what UA-cam or Facebook is. I don't know what to do....
Many people in the 60's actually thought that by the 80's we would have flying cars like the Jetsons did in that cartoon series.
Good damn robits
SpatsirkSpart
They are coming to take your jibs. Literally.
+Think Fact oh ni, our jibs!
Your comments were witty, thank you.
The first comprehensives in some of the UK were horrendous. I should know I was forced to go to one in 1972, I missed the 11+ by one year. Needlework was a nightmare. During the first few year of some comprehensives girls didn’t do any science, except domestic science. (Mostly cookery). My father bought our first computer when I was in sixth form collage, so my children grew up with computers, while my grandchildren are growing up with phones and tablets.
Thanks for showing respect for the originating videos by linking them. Great Video. We live in the future of our past!
+Herr Inkognito
I feel it's important to give credit where credit is due, when possible! Thanks for taking the time to watch!
+Herr Inkognito Great statement, couldn't have said it better myself, Dale has done a GREAT job here.
Aww... The 80's... The time when 2015 was all about Flying Cars and Evangelions...
But we can't even ride a hoverboard, a shame indeed
*****
Well if anything, the video games are far more advance than what was assumed in most 80s predictions. As well as the efficiency of computer technology and phones. So we got that going for us. Haha
Think Fact Yeah, and we have the Internet too, but I would give up almost everything for a hoverboard, I mean, who wouldn't?
Yeah but one thing most people dont and didnt consider is the price of doing these things. The price of making just one flying car would be insane let alone how much it would cost to purchase and to fuel it with whatever fuel it would take. It would be too costly to make a flying car to have them as a norm. And same with a hover board tbh. It would just cost too much. I mean look at how much “hover boards” (the ones with wheels) cost today. Its not cheap. Now imagine how much one that actually had the power to levitate and hover like back to the futures hover board. It would be so costly that u probably would never actually see one because the average person would never be able to afford it. Same with all the fancy kitchen appliances in this video. They make it seem like when this stuff comes along that every average family with have one in their homes. In reality you would probably only see this in a millionaires home and maybe not even then. Alot of this stuff is good ideas and fun to think of, but when it comes down to it they would never actually be implemented or invented in general because of how costly they would be. I dont think anyone alive right now will ever see flying cars like some of their predictions simply because it would cost too much to make let alone the research u would have to put into it to see how to make it hover and safe.
The robits where actually quite accurate. There was an automatic tap (or a flush) which you can find in some public places or offices. A Roomba (or whatever it's called). “Smart” offices where light and shades are controlled automatically. And security sensors in factories.
mina86
It definitely seems like they we're let so trying to be innovative but rather capitalize on the ideas that the technology would most likely be used for. The actual robot one was rather innovative though I would claim to be highly impractical, especially considering how slow and clunky it is. Haha
Thank you very much for the comment!
This computer nonsense will never catch on.
The extra leisure, I don't think that is really working out.
I love paleo-future stuff! Thanks for putting this together. I think the most accurate prediction is how our tvs would be flat and bigger than your bed.
weskos
I have definitely seen massive TVs similar to the one shown, it's pretty fascinating how we not only made it possible but making large TVs very affordable. Paleo-future stuff is very fascinating, I love thinking about what the world could've been. Or at least assumed to potentially be like. Thanks for sharing!
I really like when you put some humor in your videos like in this one!
Antoine Richermoz
I make a lot of serious videos so I think it can sometimes be forgotten that I can be a funny guy, so it's nice to change things up once in a blue moon. Happy you liked it!
Totally agree with you
7:41 eBay or Amazon the early years.
It's interesting to me that it was really only a few years after that prediction about the proliferation of LEDs that it began to happen. At the time, it just came out of nowhere. By the mid-1970s, quite a few of us geeks were abandoning our much-revered slide rules for the total awesomeness of the Texas Instruments SR-70 and SR-71.
The visual graphical displays depicted in "2001: A Space Odyssey" did not come along nearly as quickly, though (the scenes of computers displaying spaceship navigation-related visuals were entirely animations). We were still using deck cards and getting print-outs for more than a decade before real graphical representations started showing up in earnest. The computers in the videos you featured produced only text, pictures, and television-like shows... oh, wait, that's what people use their computers for these days, anyway: Facebook, LOLcats, and Netflix. I guess those old predictions got it right, after all.
Love this video, it brought back some fond memories. Thank you, Dale. BTW I like your hair too. Remember never quit learning and teaching! You're so interesting.
The "Robit" predictions are mostly things we do have but would never consider a robot.
My prediction - We will create AGI(Artificial General Intelligence/Strong AI) by 2035.
No we won't
I visited the House of Tomorrow in 1965 at Disneyland (I think it was sponsored by Dow) and it was amazing because, even at age 10, one was fully aware that it was heavily promoting 'better living through chemistry' (which was actually its 'tag line'.) I wish the dishwasher (first video) actually existed (though it would need TWO racks - one for clean, one for dirty because even melamine dishes won't hold up to repeated cleanings, even sonic ones!) You can tell it was designed by men (for example, the dishwasher's single rack and the lack of a window!) Please be aware that your little comments pass too quickly to be read and the longer ones require multiple rewinds (or whatever the digital equivalent is!) I liked the 'joke wright themselves!' I bet you got lots of corrections but it is actually good as is. Wright means 'maker' as in playwright or wheelwright. ( I put this for the folks who didn't understand my comment.)
This is still my favorite video of yours, Dale.
Also the light sensitive sensors that know when to turn on when the room gets dark. Isn't that how most street lights work?
Rochelle E Scorgie
Indeed it is! Good call.
Cough. Back to the Future. Cough.
Sulthan14 Cough. He not using science fiction, only predictions about technology. Cough.
Михаил Щербатых Cough. T'was a joke. Cough.
Cough ok cough
Sulthan14
Y'all need some cough drops up in here.
Think Fact Yeah man I think I'm gonna fain
The one where you could talk to co workers via a computer, it is already happening right now so they got that one right.
kwadwo baidoo
Indeed, and it is funny how crazy futuristic they thought that was!
Hi, youtube just suggest me this video, and I see another videos from your channel.. It's very good! You have some awesome work!
+Eric P. Alvaro
Thank you, I appreciate your comment and you taking the time to check out my other stuff! I hope to see you around! Take care. ;)
It's scary how accurate the 1960s were.
9:57
Has flying cars everywhere, and a typewriter
interesting upload Dale, thank you. damned robits.
SEFD Show
I am happy to hear you thought so, and you're darn right!
I have been alive for a fair bit, and yet you -- somehow -- managed to show me things I had not seen before. This seems to be a regular occurrence on this channel. Kudos!
this is one of m fav's. good job dale!
The 60s got the wall to wall t.v right.
I mean the bloody size of it!
That's the earliest footage of James Burke. Pretty accurate too.
Isaac Asimov was no slouch either.
Another excellent video, Dale! Keep up the good work.
M Chibana
I'm happy to hear, I appreciate you taking the time to let me know! Thank you. :)
I'm glad that this channel is growing this fast. I remember when Dale had less than 1k subs and I was like "why is nobody subscribed to this??"
Timtheguy123
It has its spurts, but I just try to keep at it. Unlike a lot of big UA-camrs it can be a bit of a challenge balancing UA-cam with my everyday life considering this isn't a job it's still a hobby. But I'm very thankful for how far it has come, and I definitely plan on taking it more seriously as I go through college. I appreciate the comment, have a good one!
1:32, that fountain drink that they thought we'd have since 1940? we have that actually... it's that fountain that fills up your water bottle. You put your waterbottle in front of the eye and it automatically fills it up . you pull it away and it stops on its own!
the Robits are attacking
one thing i noticed about future predictions is that the future always ends up looking like whatever time period the prediction was made.
Great videos! I think ull channel will grow alot! Keep those videos coming!
What are these "computers" you speak of? They seem to resemble the porn machines from my home planet.
Nice dig at Comcast.
Love watching your videos Dale. Keep it up. I have subscribed. Great channel.
This was a tremendously fascinating video, Dale. I remember many of those predictions, myself, because I grew up in the 1950s. Having worked as a dispatcher for a nearby police department, I used to use one of those terminals shown in the video when running license plate numbers, drivers' license numbers, and other information. I could both send and receive messages from the same terminal. Being an Amateur (Ham) Radio operator, I has one of those machines to send and receive messages via radio, too; but, I never got it hooked-up. I also remember as kid seeing a regular weekly feature in the newspaper which showed a drawing and an explanation of "things to come." The article was aptly called, "Closer Than You Think!" Wish I could have saved all those articles! Thanks for posting this "blast from the past." I'm anxiously awaiting your next installment! Hope you're doing well, Dale!
I want ice cream in my car.
Comments about how in the future they are going to laugh at our current day's predictions have been made over and over, so i am just going to say, remember that in the past, a lot of predictions came true at the end, so, some of our current day predictions may come true as well... and i think this balance between positivism and realism is what should fuel the advance of human inventions... so long as we don't say things like "with this new invention, girls will be da perfect housewives!!" or stuff like that.
Also, i've never heard of robots being called 'robits' but i read in TV tropes that Isaac Asimov used the word 'robotics' in his early Robot stories, assuming it to be a logical extension of the word 'robot'... it wasn't, but it stick nonetheless, and the word comes from 'robota' the Czech word for "forced labor".
Thank you so much for the video, i always get excited when i see one of your new videos in my newsfeed
Adrian Fahrenheit
That's definitely a good thing to bring up. We will have predictions that will be right and will be wrong, but so long as we do have that balance we may very well surpass it or at the very least not be discouraged if we don't get to it.
I had absolutely no idea of the origins "robot" that is very fascinating and thank you very much for sharing that, I will never forget that now. It's kind of a weird word now that I think about it.
And I'm really happy to hear, if you're interested in Vine I have just started up my account and will be posting little information, thought-provoking, and fun videos from time to time. On UA-cam I want to see if I can bring back Minute Fact Monday without it being too much to handle. But if not I'll be posting videos every other week to the best of my ability. Thank you very much for your comment, I really appreciate it! Have a good one.
that profile pic tho (that face)
One big difference tho is the rate of technological advancement in our era. Computer processing power grows exponentially, doubling every 16 months or so. So it's easier to see large leaps in our technology in the not so distant future. Once we reach a level even close to a true A.i. things are going to change DRASTICALLY
Awesome video! Always love your videos no matter what you talk about :)
Lillie Hill
Thank you very much, I appreciate that!
Dale you're improving a lot! Both speaking and video skills! Keep going on with the good work!
Cheers
What if someone hacks your refrigerator's computer to send out spam?
Easy enough, you just keep the spam in the drop down cabinet. It doesn't need refrigerated until the can is opened.
2:00 When the mixtape about to drop but it's too fire
Young ReeZy
And that's how robits are going to take over the world. One mixtape at a time.
Damn, that's a deep thought. But who knows? Maybe the revolution has already begun....
This video was a really funny video and a great sequel for What The Past Predicted We'd Live Like Today?
I'll say the most spot on is the last short and the craziest was the aluminium automobile. I wonder if even back then they think that car was ugly or maybe they only liked the "futuristic" look of the car.
Hey Dale i'm finally going to live in USA; i'm going to land there 1 of September and study my senior year of school in New York.
Wish me luck!
And also hope everything is cool in your college.
Roney Andrade
Thank you very much, I'm happy you thought so!
I definitely thought the "alumimobile" was extremely tacky. I'm very happy our vehicles ended up not looking like that!
That's really awesome, good for you! I hope you have a blast and wish you the best of luck in your studies!
I'm looking forward to college, I can't wait to get back!
Thank you for the comment and keeping me up-to-date! Take care and have a good one, Roney!
oh my god this video was hilarious with all the notes added. Shots fired at comcast, pc master race, and ribbits everywhere. Not as educational as your regular work, but seeing as you were very busy lately its understandable :P
TheEvilVargon
I'm happy you thought so, I thought all of those little notes would be a great way to keep the video interesting as well as introduce a bit of humor into something that would potentially be a bit dry. It's nice to do something a little bit different from time to time, but I'm excited for my next video which will be very informative! Thank you for the comment, have a good one!
11:30 in the video was pretty spot on accurate like buying something online except there is no need to put a credit card in a reader.I am 57 years of age so I grew up in the 1960's.
While it's interesting to look at past predictions of the future from the past,the next 50 years will transform into a world that is a lot bleaker than today with the collapse of the fossil fuel based economy,a energy poor future and a world with extreme global warming and the Holocene 6th extinction of life on Earth.Most nations will face collapse.
"Luncheon " ?!?! I haven't heard that term since 1939. Wow.
Oh and the tv ? See !? It WAS mounted on the wall.
Accurate ? Homeschooling done on conputers.
The wall-mounted tv.
Crazy ? Frozen food in individual portions. ha !! Oh and that car, premaking food ! I want !
Wow, great video! The commentary made me laugh a lot xD
Huh, the online shopping really surprised me. And all I can say is I really want to be able to make ice cream in my car. Dx
Xiao Mei
I'm happy you liked it, I like making comedy stuff from time to time. I think sometimes people forget I can be a funny guy. haha
It was interesting how often that comes up, there was another video I ended up not using that also covered shopping by means of something very similar to how you would do it online. It's pretty fascinating.
Having ice cream dispensers in the car would be an amazing, the only part that would stink is having to refill it. Haha
Thank you for sharing, always nice to hear from you and have a good one!
Think Fact Yeah, sure thing man! Nahh, your videos always have a kind of refreshing, classy humor to them. Your humor is strewn in very nicely with the factual material you present. Just because it's not constantly in one's face (like most humorous videos on the internet lol) doesn't mean it's not funny! I really appreciate the work you put into your videos to make them both interesting and entertaining. You have a good one too, and take it easy!
Ha those crazy old timers. computers will never become a common household item that everyone has easy access to
Today, the future is always sleek things or mechanical looking things and efficiency. Our perception of the future seems to always be a mirror of today.
RandomExplosions
That is something I totally agree with! It does seem that the future tends to mimic a lot of modern-day society, and that's what makes it's very hard to predict the future. Though I can say I expect our future to be a lot more tolerant, I do see that play a lot into modern-day predictions. Great comment, thank you for sharing!
At the 4:39 mark it seemed odd that the students using a metal lathe was not wearing protective eye wear Even by 19590's standards that seemed sort of dangerous!.
Fun fact: the word robotics was coined by Isaac aimov
Sorry for the double post, but thank you for a amazing video (as usual)
MrDeadBlade
No worries at all, thank you very much for taking the time to let me know! I appreciate it. :)
5:20 What if she wants to be an engineer, or a doctor, or a scientist or (god forbid) an airline pilot?
+Eric Taylor Oh, there already were a number of females in each of those professions (hey, there'd even been female fighter pilots in WWII!), but I think people wanted to go back from the "Rosie the Riveter" days because they were still a bit uneasy about leaving family matters, such as the raising of the children, to people outside the family. The "housewife image" that society at that time accepted was, in my view, due to a desire specifically to avoid anything like a modern daycare.
That, and the fact that such duties were considered a part of society, rather than a retreat or confinement from it as many see them today.
(Not that I think it's right for girls to be denied opportunities to become engineers, doctors, or fighter pilots--it's just that seeing such dreams as "bigger" or "higher" than that of the full-time wife and mother is an indicator of messed-up priorities.)
Philip McNiel
There were female pilots, sure. But no female AIRLINE pilots. The first one wasn't hired until the 1970's. My dad encountered her and was very pleased when he heard a female voice from an airliner.
We had a plane when I was a kid, Dad was loading the plane but there were no ramp lights. A 727 parked near by turned on its landing lights so he could see better. My dad called on the radio to thank the 727 pilot and was surprised but pleased to hear a female voice say "you're welcome"
But you see in those days one person made enough money at work to cover all the family bills, so the wife would usually take the domestic work on. Husband's and wives were teams back then, the husband brought his pay home and the wife usually handled the money. Most of your ideas about traditional families are heavily distorted by Hollywood and the feminist activists.
I dunno, man, don't make fun of Robits. They seem like the future, in fact, we need a robit in every household!
Anyways, to answer your comment question, the one I found to be the most accurate was the one in which the girl buys items off of an online store, and the one I found to be the creepiest/scariest were the robits. I mean, they don't sleep, they watch over you when YOU'RE sleeping, and they can breathe fire if they want to. Having a pet robit certainly doesn't seem ideal.
Urbfilms
We don't want to make the robits mad, that's for sure. Haha.
I feel like those are very good answers, and only further provides a reason for me to no one does 1940s robots in my house. They actually seem a very useless, not going to lie, they don't even have fingers. Haha
Thank you for the comment, always nice to hear from you!
Nice video as always :)
Félicien Schiltz
Thank you, and I appreciate your taking the time to watch!
I really loved your clip Mrnes :) nice
"We may not be able to get her out of the kitchen, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there"
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Yeah, because God forbid that there be a situation where both parents do not have to work 40+ hours/week to make ends meet so that one of them can concentrate on maintaining the home & giving the children a stable, well adjusted home. How awful!
The film said "Fugitive Futurist", not "Figurative Futurist".
Ha ha, the robits thing is so funny. Love the addition of the frogs.
The 1969 guy (@~6:11), where you noted "wright", is James Burke. He has a phenomenal scientific mind and was interim in sparking my childhood love of science that has continued to this day. This is a great video; thanks for creating and posting.
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For the last video, why did the wife look so busy if the future "will be based on leisure", or whatever they said to that effect? Also, would anyone really want a cupboard that drops down at the speed of slides on a camper?
BLAH!-EvanFulton The whole video still plays off this concept of having a stay-at-home mother, so she was more busy simply because you're witnessing her in her personal workspace. Good question!
When I was a kid in the 70s, everything in science fiction presumed a central computer. People needing to do research from home would access the central library. The home office consisted of a built-in computer console & screens connected to the city (or colony) central computer!
The biggest fail, in this prediction, is the failure to understand that computing power didn't HAVE to be centralized! But, since the internet was, as yet, unimagined, everything followed the centralized model, including the home office with built-in computer terminal. In the 70s, it was assumed all anyone would own was a terminal!
Compare that with the reality that the internet & DECENTRALIZED computing opened up! The popularity of videogame arcades naturally bled over into the new medium, which software designers quickly realized meant entirely new markets! Initially, PCs were used primarily for bookkeeping, research, & games.
When consumers demanded more practicality & flexibility, the laptop was introduced, allowing you to take a PC-type device on the go. When people complained the limits of laptops, especially for watching videos in the backyard or in bed, the new generation of smaller devices were developed. And, as the technology was added to cellphones, we now live in a world the futurists of the 1970s would have found unbelievable.
I live in an age of wonders!
By the way, I'm in bed enjoying UA-cam videos on my handheld tablet: held easily by my left hand, typing this with my right.
I find the 1968 to be most accurate about computers connecting people to friends and workmates and about most food being stored in containers and being able to find nutrition suggestions on a computer(internet).
If you enjoy this stuff, I recommend the blog paleofuture
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Thank you very much, and I did check that out. Very interesting, a 1950s fifties like future! I feel like that would be a great basis for a video game that is not necessarily like Fallout. Thank you for the recommendation!
Think Fact Would absolutely love a new retrofuture videogame. Glad to share it :)
+Vlad Vol (Although you've hidden behind a no-reply wall)
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+weskos
I have done all steps but the last part, I cannot find a thick enough carrot, what do I do?
+Radi0he4d1 Sir, this is why science invented rutabagas.
Your hair smelly
Those shelves are too slow and I bet that toaster is easy to clean lol.
That was pretty cool. I kind of want to watch more.
I just want a future like futurama
vivian james
I feel like that would be the craziest feature ever. Haha
that may be so but its just about the most awesome one ive ever seen
I'm a boy and I can crochet (at 5:02). What does that say about me? My dad does most of the cooking my family (at 5:34). What does that say about my family?
If u can crochet. Good for you. People should b able to whatever they like (long as its not harming anyone) ur Dad cooks. So does mine. My mum actually complains about it cuz she loves cooking....
Limerence That's cool. You have a great point. I agree with you.
The eerie music over the different machines flying through space gave me a chill! I was half expecting the Twilight Zone theme to start!
-Answer the door, Codsworth.
-I'm sorry, Mum. I'm afraid I can't do that.
7:46 Miley Cyrus anyone?
Ryanator
She's aged horribly. hehe
Reminds me of Fallout
Of course, because Fallout lore is based on what people thought technology would be in the 50s and never evolved from that form of style and thinking.
Yup lol
Adam Burgess
I was thinking the same thing.
Robits? I didn't know Zoidberg was in this video.
Green screen game on point
also appreciate the quality film. I think it's great using video examples of that stuff. By the way, have you ever read the blog waitbutwhy? It has some great articles on AI that I think you'd like.