Retrofuturism: Past Predictions of the Future | Sleepcore

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  • @MikePuorro
    @MikePuorro 3 роки тому +72

    So happy you're still at it. These videos help ground people who are losing their minds. I say this from experience.

    • @rosssmith8481
      @rosssmith8481 3 роки тому +4

      Seems to be a recent trend.
      With the decline in western culture, people are giving up on the 21st century and only watching stuff from the 20th century.
      They're called bunkhouse people or "BUNKERS".

    • @pathevermore3683
      @pathevermore3683 3 роки тому +5

      @@rosssmith8481 is the "decline of western culture" responsible for you making up this story about "Bunkhouse people"?

    • @kerrbear1980
      @kerrbear1980 2 роки тому +2

      Be well Mikey ☺☺

  • @Lepidopray
    @Lepidopray 2 роки тому +12

    The electric home video they love to say "at the touch of a button." Fortunately, I was able to watch that video on my totally electronic smartphone....at the touch of a button.

  • @DisasterxUs
    @DisasterxUs 3 роки тому +28

    Westinghouse really nailed it. As a man, the weather control center is definitely my favorite part of my Total Electric Home.

  • @lindaeasley5606
    @lindaeasley5606 3 роки тому +32

    Every aspect of your home powered by electricity .They forgot to bring up
    1. Electric bill
    2.what happens when the power goes out

    • @brianarbenz7206
      @brianarbenz7206 3 роки тому +3

      I can't wait for those planetariums in each house, and the bar-b-que pit in each living room.

    • @kehreazerith3016
      @kehreazerith3016 2 роки тому +3

      Well, I bet you 99% of your home is already powered by electricity anyways

  • @TuneTamasha
    @TuneTamasha 3 роки тому +25

    That last part about remote surgeries is already here. Whoa.

  • @morenofranco9235
    @morenofranco9235 2 роки тому +23

    Life was SO CHEESY and delusional. Now we are on the brink of STUPID. Thanks, Sleepcore, for the fun!

    • @MIck-M
      @MIck-M 2 роки тому +3

      For every 'easy' solution they give us, that part of our brain shuts down until we are just a platform for instructions given to us by Fearless Leader :D

    • @Joedirt3349
      @Joedirt3349 2 роки тому +2

      WALL-E

  • @blakesejarma
    @blakesejarma 2 роки тому +4

    Wow. Love the 50s era ring doorbell.

  • @connie1wilson
    @connie1wilson 3 роки тому +33

    The long range thermometer would’ve been handy in 2020!

    • @DisasterxUs
      @DisasterxUs 3 роки тому +4

      A lot of countries that actually embrace 21st century technology use thermal imaging scanners

  • @diracflux
    @diracflux 3 роки тому +6

    The ad @2:10 where she caresses the applicator head with a finger and some cream spurts out. Nice.

  • @GeekFilter
    @GeekFilter 3 роки тому +8

    “And the wonder of it is, the total electric home is NOT expensive!“
    Really? Tell that to the electric company! I need the electric smelling salts after seeing the bill for trying to only occasionally cool my home with air-conditioning during the summer!

  • @citykids
    @citykids 3 роки тому +19

    The Real deodorant ad 2:37 , features Jennifer Hetrick, who played Vash the archeologist girlfriend of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek TNG! Oh my God, I'm such a nerd

  • @hoppyandhisholidayhelpers1714
    @hoppyandhisholidayhelpers1714 2 роки тому +6

    1:15 - "the parts you sit down on"
    some Seats don't identify with being 'parts you sit down on', but some non-Seat surfaces do.
    in the future, we won't call benches or chairs Seats anymore because that may offend window ledges and upside-down buckets.

  • @WalterBurton
    @WalterBurton 2 роки тому +4

    Like watching Night Flight on USA in the 80s.

  • @JamesBrown-gv1vg
    @JamesBrown-gv1vg Рік тому +2

    Funnily enough the movement detecting lights are one household innovation that actually did come to pass. In the front & back of the home we now own my late grandparents installed security lights way back in the 90s. They still work to this day.

  • @IAmJKey
    @IAmJKey 2 роки тому +2

    Conan's in the year 2000 sketch has this as a firm grounding in a late night inspiration

  • @jacobnash1759
    @jacobnash1759 3 роки тому +12

    By the time General Electric gets their brand back from Haier we’ll have Retro-retrofuturism

    • @jhonsiders6077
      @jhonsiders6077 2 роки тому

      Sad how Louisville’s appliance park is a shell of what it once was and now it’s owned by the Chinese.

  • @thefacelessmannn
    @thefacelessmannn 2 роки тому +2

    The double sided fridge is a good idea

  • @webdevinhouston4402
    @webdevinhouston4402 3 роки тому +2

    My new favorite channel trust that!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @kolbytard
    @kolbytard 3 роки тому +3

    The god of all thermostats

  • @brotherb8933
    @brotherb8933 3 роки тому +15

    Need that long range thermometer NOW with the ‘rona!😆

  • @FurthermoreJack
    @FurthermoreJack 3 роки тому +3

    Oh man in the begining those designs are spectacular !

  • @jsherck
    @jsherck 3 роки тому +2

    There's channels I watch every day, and never subscribe. So how is it I watched 10 minutes of this and knew I must never let youtube's algorithm hide this from me ever again.

  • @GizmoRob176
    @GizmoRob176 3 роки тому +3

    You can keep both hands on the wheel! Except when smartphones come out. Then you don't even keep your eyes on the road. 25:48

  • @johnsavard7583
    @johnsavard7583 3 роки тому +10

    Not only do we have long-range thermometers, but I remember seeing a DNA experiment kit for children for sale in an educational toy store. Some of that future is not so far-fetched...

  • @precursors
    @precursors 3 роки тому +10

    In the future, food will be electric!

    • @sanityassassin8161
      @sanityassassin8161 3 роки тому +1

      Dear, did you remember to put the *banana* on the charger?

    • @jlsxs
      @jlsxs 3 роки тому +2

      Yes, from a toilet to a 3D molecule printer to produce food

  • @blakesejarma
    @blakesejarma 2 роки тому +1

    The massive thermostat is hilarious.

  • @orgenoburt8988
    @orgenoburt8988 3 роки тому +3

    The last guy nailed it.

  • @thunderousapplause
    @thunderousapplause 3 роки тому +2

    we do have lots of those informational things- they’re just in one computer

  • @moosefactory133
    @moosefactory133 2 роки тому +3

    I like to see what people of the past thought the future would be like. Now that we are in their future, I wonder what the future from this point in time will be like.

  • @thedaggonator
    @thedaggonator 2 роки тому +1

    I know that the first clip was comedy, BUT THE SENSORY TANK PERFECTLY PREDICTED THE PROBLEMS OF THE FUTUE (or present)

  • @joelellis7035
    @joelellis7035 3 роки тому +3

    Long-range thermometer happened, kinda. Laser thermometers.

  • @burgermind802
    @burgermind802 3 роки тому +2

    I love your channel!

  • @michaelisaacson9735
    @michaelisaacson9735 2 роки тому +2

    Wow...8:15 to 9:35...nothing right. Such blindness, predictions based upon only upgraded versions of what already existed. There were lights so in the future...automated lights! (which all need a "buttnnn" to activate. Vinyl LP's in a rack instead of, what? A refrigerator that, instead of being placed vertically in an outcome, is instead strewn across the available kitchen space. A television that...oh boy!...swivels. What a world!!!!

  • @maxi-me
    @maxi-me 3 роки тому +2

    @13:00 ish. That entertainment center is on your phone now.

  • @connie1wilson
    @connie1wilson 3 роки тому +3

    Westinghouse - You offer your kids food before the guests??? No wonder the world is so screwed up.
    If they had only known about digital!
    The Oldsmobile with camera mounted on it, with a camera man! Lol! Surprised the car didn’t tip over!
    The last bit though was proper foresight!

  • @Wildstar40
    @Wildstar40 2 роки тому +1

    The future was not so bright for the little guy he dropped into that drawer. He broke both his legs.

  • @mulelpi2151
    @mulelpi2151 3 роки тому +4

    That dude at 29:20 pretty much nailed it....

    • @Oldbmwr100rs
      @Oldbmwr100rs 3 роки тому +3

      I believe he's Arthur C. Clarke, scifi writer.

    • @GeekFilter
      @GeekFilter 3 роки тому +1

      @@Oldbmwr100rs yeah I was going to say ‘that dude’ invented the geosynchronous communication satellite in 1945 and wrote ‘2001 A Space Odyssey’ 😉

    • @Oldbmwr100rs
      @Oldbmwr100rs 3 роки тому +1

      @@GeekFilter He also wrote childhood's end a lot of other good works, interesting guy.

    • @GeekFilter
      @GeekFilter 3 роки тому

      @@Oldbmwr100rs oh yeah, I know-I just grabbed 2 well known facts. He even helped shape Star Trek through letters to Gene Roddenberry.

    • @TheGuyThatEveryoneIgnores
      @TheGuyThatEveryoneIgnores 3 роки тому

      @@Oldbmwr100rs His book "July 20, 2019 - Life in the 21st Century", published in 1986, is an interesting read. The date July 20th, 2019 is exactly 50 years after astronauts first landed on the moon. He died in 2008, so he would have seen his communication predictions come true with the advent of the internet.

  • @kerrbear1980
    @kerrbear1980 2 роки тому

    4:56, yo we need that thermometer like yesterday. Dave KNEW!

  • @marcberm
    @marcberm 3 роки тому +2

    The wall of light that also cools in summer and heats in winter... Can anybody fathom just how that was supposed to work? "Not on the market yet" indeed! 😂

  • @balthazzaarmontague8036
    @balthazzaarmontague8036 3 роки тому +1

    electric windows in 1948 car!! That was way ahead of its time.

  • @mybachhertzbaud3074
    @mybachhertzbaud3074 2 роки тому +1

    I thought that was a great representation of what companies do to "the little guy" when he tries to show how much better it could be. Poor McKey.😢

  • @tc-tm1my
    @tc-tm1my Рік тому

    Total electric home sounds like the hype around smart homes. Everything run by ai in your house

  • @CadetGriffin
    @CadetGriffin 2 роки тому +1

    3:48 "In the future, everyone will have special glass helmets stuck on their heads, and Donald Trump will be desperately trying to take his helmet off."

  • @mybachhertzbaud3074
    @mybachhertzbaud3074 2 роки тому

    I purchased the G.E. 2800 to add to my synthesizer setup but, it became a real pain to get water hookups on stage.😜🎵🎵🎹

  • @pertuk
    @pertuk 3 роки тому +2

    Is that Arthur C Clarke? I loved his Mysterious World show

  • @Saunakiuas06
    @Saunakiuas06 3 роки тому

    That tram cart in the start actually looks like something we could have in some city.

  • @nevildon6224
    @nevildon6224 3 роки тому +2

    I went to the future and I saw an alien.

  • @nektu5435
    @nektu5435 3 роки тому +1

    I wonder, has anybody tried calling the number at 22:00 to see if it's still customer support for a dishwasher or sex chat line by now? I'm too tired to be bothered to... 💤😴

  • @pdbsstudios7137
    @pdbsstudios7137 3 роки тому +1

    future will be fantastic
    *2020*

  • @ThisGuyFrritz
    @ThisGuyFrritz 2 роки тому +1

    8:06 When the voiceover said, "Pleasant dreams," it looked like they're about to fall sleep.
    What was futuristic then looks outdated today.

  • @donhammer186
    @donhammer186 3 роки тому +1

    I wonder if U.S. diplomats will be excited to hear about the new ccp long range rectal thermometer to accompany and enhance the effective diagnostics of the rectal swab...?

  • @davidrodgersNJ
    @davidrodgersNJ 2 роки тому +3

    Instead, we got jetliners, with the TSA and mask mandates

  • @GarryReyom
    @GarryReyom 3 роки тому +3

    I watch these because I’m sad with life

  • @piperbard
    @piperbard 3 роки тому +1

    good stuff

  • @mikeyzero2439
    @mikeyzero2439 3 роки тому +1

    The future looks like a nightmare factory.

  • @Nudnik1
    @Nudnik1 3 роки тому +2

    In 50s it was the Nuclear craze..

  • @gnappibr
    @gnappibr Рік тому

    From 23:00 Parts of the Brazilian Anthem!!!

  • @jsl151850b
    @jsl151850b 3 роки тому

    I was surprised by the Ring(tm) doorbell.
    The producer didn't even try to make it B&W.

  • @kawaiidemon5157
    @kawaiidemon5157 3 роки тому +1

    All this stuff that people thought was gonna happen in the future but no one thought about smart phones

  • @eti313
    @eti313 3 роки тому +1

    You know, the Letterman segment was a parody of predictions about the future. Not to be taken seriously even though we do have long range thermometers now, in the world of the future.

  • @13orrax
    @13orrax 11 місяців тому

    4:45 do they mean a FLIR camera?

  • @rishibeauty8889
    @rishibeauty8889 3 роки тому +1

    10:10 Looks like the Brady Bunch house

  • @cristianmontenegro9954
    @cristianmontenegro9954 3 роки тому +1

    La época de oro de Estados Unidos, mientras el mundo apenas tenia para sobrevivir. 2021, han cambiado mucho las cosas.

  • @valerieannrumpf4151
    @valerieannrumpf4151 3 роки тому +2

    Nowdays, the total electric home is run by google.😂

  • @ajs3994
    @ajs3994 4 місяці тому

    Electricity supplied by coal and nuclear.
    Monthly cost may vary according to location.

  • @brianarbenz7206
    @brianarbenz7206 3 роки тому

    At 21:10 so much half-truth in that seemingly amazing ad. It says the robot-made dishwasher was made in the most advanced dishwasher plant in the world. Truth: the factory was built in the 1950s, but rapidly retooled with robots, using the recession of 1982 while the workers were absent. The robot method's advent meant workers at that plant lost hundreds of jobs in the next few months and years. It was the first step in GE "Neutron Jack" Welch's policy of ending opportunities and turning cities into rust belts. But the ad frames this as the hope of the future. Never believe a corporate image ad.

  • @BackWordsJane
    @BackWordsJane 7 місяців тому

    The future of bus and train design looks alot like 1930s streamline

  • @davidlong1786
    @davidlong1786 3 роки тому +3

    Home movies!?............arghhhhhhhhhh get me another highball Martha.

  • @jhonsiders6077
    @jhonsiders6077 2 роки тому

    We d not even have a late night show any more miss them Carson letterman Leno .

  • @mikesavad
    @mikesavad Рік тому

    Did that lady just pull strawberries out of the oven?

  • @philipjoseph3244
    @philipjoseph3244 3 роки тому +1

    better times

  • @ZacharyCusanelli
    @ZacharyCusanelli 3 роки тому +5

    The art from the Letterman World of the Future segment was pretty cool...too bad the humor went over Dave's head.

    • @RedSiegfried
      @RedSiegfried 3 роки тому +1

      To be fair, most jokes go over Dave's head these days unless it's about some conservative politician's teenage daughter. I remember when he used to have GOOD writers.

    • @Joedirt3349
      @Joedirt3349 2 роки тому

      Or through the gap in his teethu

  • @Tony-qd1if
    @Tony-qd1if 3 роки тому

    Keep it up!!!👍🏼

  • @Eric-qo8vv
    @Eric-qo8vv 3 місяці тому

    People looked so much older back when. The children would be my parents age

  • @gerardooviedo4145
    @gerardooviedo4145 Рік тому

    Tengo 65 años cuando tenía 30 en el IPN escuela superior de México, hicieron una formula homeopatíca para rejuvenecer a gente de 60 a 70 años quedaban en todo en 40,0😊

  • @rishibeauty8889
    @rishibeauty8889 3 роки тому +1

    Can you imagine the BILL for the total electric Home???

  • @sadeness
    @sadeness Рік тому

    Funny some of this stuff was not that far off from what we got

  • @Eric-qo8vv
    @Eric-qo8vv 3 місяці тому

    The all electric home light bill 6 g a month. Imagine a sidewalk melter. Cheap

  • @mikesavad
    @mikesavad Рік тому

    letterman got that thermometer right.

  • @mementovivere9852
    @mementovivere9852 3 роки тому

    where do you find this footage?

  • @lelandfranklin3487
    @lelandfranklin3487 2 роки тому

    Wow! Electric home with electric chair! Uh...maybe not.

  • @thefacelessmannn
    @thefacelessmannn 2 роки тому

    The DNA kit for kids is kinda real, you can buy a DNA kit online for not very much money

  • @ralphjohnson8973
    @ralphjohnson8973 2 роки тому

    The electric grill comes with an electric starter. If it didn't, people would try to light it. Humanity is doomed.

  • @WalterBurton
    @WalterBurton 2 роки тому

    👍👍👍

  • @blakesejarma
    @blakesejarma 2 роки тому

    Fallout wants it kitchen back

  • @glennso47
    @glennso47 Рік тому

    Too bad that Westinghouse isn’t around anymore.

  • @adinocc2042
    @adinocc2042 2 роки тому

    Letterman rules!

  • @Nudnik1
    @Nudnik1 3 роки тому +1

    Ending prophetic ..

  • @aguilacalva2625
    @aguilacalva2625 Рік тому

    👍👏👏

  • @hydrolito
    @hydrolito 2 роки тому

    Scissors, electic clippers and trim comb invented so don't need to wear a laser helmet on your head. Most of these were bad jokes.

  • @stormgirl09
    @stormgirl09 2 роки тому +1

    wait whats the point of an OUTDOOR exercise bike?? when you can just ride a real bike at that point! or even just run,jog,or walk??🤣

  • @keathrhymer5449
    @keathrhymer5449 2 роки тому

    and now we do animal dna

  • @georgebloshchitsin2377
    @georgebloshchitsin2377 Рік тому

    You might think that the dreams of today's idiots are very different from the dreams of idiots of the past. The idiots of the future will also laugh at us.

  • @FurthermoreJack
    @FurthermoreJack 3 роки тому +1

    We outsourced all our future plans to China lol

  • @ernestomercado4479
    @ernestomercado4479 3 роки тому

    You can bore your friends with home movies...

  • @Eric-qo8vv
    @Eric-qo8vv 3 місяці тому

    Tea will always be. Your crappy brand of tea. Not sooo much

  • @TheBeteljuice
    @TheBeteljuice 3 роки тому +2

    Morely safer is great. Have you met his wife lessley safer?

  • @dinklehimerschlitz9111
    @dinklehimerschlitz9111 2 роки тому

    All was well and good until spray paint was invented.

  • @gerardooviedo4145
    @gerardooviedo4145 Рік тому

    Eso porque somos esclavos de los EU

  • @odarn8911
    @odarn8911 3 роки тому +1

    That's enough! David Letterman was never funny, EVER! How he managed to keep a job has always alluded me! He was tacky and crass and just plain stupid. His writers were even worse. Maybe he was part of the beginning of the Great Decline which has befallen us now.
    It's too bad that Westinghouse never created a sidewalk or other system that would turn unwelcome people into a french fry!
    NO HONEY! NOT THOSE MOVIES! THOSE ARE FROM OUR FIRST NIGHT ON OUR HONEYMOON!!!!!
    Totally electric houses would be possible if each house had its own fusion reactor! Otherwise, uh, NO!
    In 1948 that hydromatic transmission was an expensive option. Now, manual transmissions are an expensive option. Weird!