Imagine going back in time to the 1950's. Telling them you can hold in one hand a device that holds all of the information known to man. Then explain to them we just use it to harass strangers and look at pictures of cats.
my Grandmother likes to tell a story about her father. my grandmother was born in the 1920's and her father passed away while she was in her teens. at some point before he passed he sat her down and told her that before she died she would be able to hold the phone in her hand and see whoever she was speaking to. she is 90 years old and you can hold your cellphone in your hand and make video calls.......
anyabar1987 My uncle born in the 1930's has a similar story about the TV. When he was a teenager sitting in the car listening to a radio program he said "wouldn't it be great if there was a box we could watch so we could see what the people are laughing at? "
That would extremely hard to do... but by the late 1980s a system was available from Radio Shack called a Home Controller..the way it worked was you needed a modem and a computer (Tandy of course) and a handful of controller modules..you would plug the controller module into the wall then plug something into it i.e. a lamp..you would dial home from a touch phone the computer would pick it up... then you would enter a code for which device you wanted to turn on or off the software would send a signal to the controller module .. As far as cost you would be into it for at least $2000 (over $4500 in today's money)..
I showed my 92 Year old great-grandmother my iPhone and my iPad and she was like "Oh my, we are living in the future!" I also let her listen to some music and she liked some.
well maybe it'd be useful for old people. it's like those chairs for the stairs...it takes forever to get down but it's faster than picking yourself up if you fall xD
I was born in 1955. I have watched and experienced a lot of this come to pass and the changes they have brought. It is simply amazing to me but my adult children take it pretty much for granted. I love having such infinite information and communication in my hand. I remember the predictions and thought they were crazy.
I’m 18 but ever since I was a kid I wondered why people weren’t more impressed by the internet: being able to look up anything instead of searching for a long time in books at the library, playing online games with groups of friends, renting/ buying movies online and watching them in an instant, order things online and have them arrive in one to 5 days, and so on. It’s simply crazy and everyone born into these devices see it as a given and simply don’t care about how revolutionary modern technology is.
A lot of this seems like a matter of relative perspective. Generations can grow up well before or are born in periods of technological advancements and concepts. It may not be that long until future generations born are born in an era of common interstellar space flight between Earth, Luna and Mars may look at how we live today on only one planet as bizarre and limited.
As a computer operator in the 1980's - 90's I could not imagine a home computer or even a mobile phone would have more memory than the mainframe at the computer centre. We computer operators went to a computer expo. There they had the new IBM 386 computers. We were amazed about the 80 megs of hard drive.
And watching said videos on a near-limitless virtual domain of information, communication, trade, employment, arts, learning, and entertainment they never would have dreamed possible.
The one thing I’ve noticed is that they thought we would use different devices for everything. We’d have a device to use as a telephone, another device to email, another device to watch TV. Nowadays we can literally do everything we need on our phone if we wanted. The only reason we’d use a different device like a PC or TV is for a larger display / faster processing.
" The only reason we’d use a different device like a PC or TV is for a larger display / faster processing" Actually, that's starting to happen now with foldable phone/tablets and foldable tablet/laptop hybrids e.g. I have a Samsung Z Fold 3 that can turn into a "larger display" and has 'Dex' a "desktop" computer like interface. foldable, rollable displays and short throw projector technology that throw out 100" displays from a "smaller" display seems to be the current trend. "faster processing" is relative as today we have computers and mobile devices sharing having nearly the same level of processing power and speed e.g. M1 iPads and M1 MacBooks. Also...Augmented Reality glasses are a thing but still very niche.
@@misbinky2947 why do they have to? We can write on "digital paper" and electronically transfer them. Many students including myself haven't used actual paper nor had to print it out at Uni for some time. The only places I know that still need to use paper are at work , government institutions and anything that requires a level of official authentication/certification, other than that it is possible to be almost completely digital and in some cases it's more practical.
"No predictions by science fiction writers" he said, right after showing a prediction by Arthur C. Clark, who invented the world's first communications satellite and the 2001 and 2010 novels.
You misunderstand, it was in the context of their works. Like talking about the future directly how it is expresses in a fictional book set in the future, rather than flat out predictions within themselves.
When I was a kid during the 70's me and my friends said "Do you think we can see each other while talking on the phone in the future"?" Then we laughed and laughed.
@@ed93435 We did have phones but only at home😊 I spent my time in school, out with friends, ballet dancing 4 times/week (3 hours each lesson), horseback riding everyday. I was reading a lot too. Busy, my days where filled.
The last guy was even more spot on, he visualized the Singularity, which is yet to be reached, in the 60s! And seeing that such accurate predictions about the future were made 50 years ago, I think it's safe to say that when scientists say we'll reach the Singularity around 2060 they are not joking
Chris K theres quite a difference between predidicting that if the assets for a television would take up less space as they had been you could hang it up the wall, and that everybody is going to be an android
Lauren Opara yeah its funny, but people are acting like OMG THIS GUY IS BRILLIANT, THIS GUY IS JESUS because some guy just has the rational that if the assets for a television set would decrease in size as they had been, you could hang it up the wall at some point. anyone could think that up
+Michael Shultz - "no really. it was still a tube. like the inverted folded black & white sony watchman.another bad attempt at flat screen tv." What was still a tube? Who was this reply directed at?
Floating cities=Cruise ships, 'the people never looked up from the small screens they held in their hands'=people texting while sitting across the table from each other. The birth control pill, and leave us not forget Big Brother.
Crazy how the people from the past will NEVER know or confidently imagine what the future did become. And same with us!!! We will never be for certain what will happen to this earth in say 600 years makes me kind of sad like there is no way we will see
@@OpiaKitty Yes, I remember a guy on TV in the early-mid-80s saying that one day there would be no difference between one's computer, television, telephone, record player, VCR, Walkman, etc. I looked around back then, at the CRT TV, the Vic 20, the Rockford Files-style dial phone, the cabinet hi-fi with the 8 track/record player and the ghetto blaster, and laughed my butt off. Now my cell "phone" is the one laughing, I guess.
LaikaLycanthrope it’s true, i guess the cell phone is the one laughing now. but give it a few years and there will be something else replacing even that. technology is advancing quicker than i can accept. also i’m fairly young so i wasn’t alive in the 80s, but i was wondering if you would rather keep this society with advanced technology, (cell phones.. etc) or would you rather have it go back to what it was like in the 80’s?
All those things they thought were so amazing and marvelous back then... and here we are, present day, with our flat tiny phones with touchscreens that arent even just phones anymore, and ridiculously fast computers and such, and what do we do? We stand around complaining about these gizmos, saying "What a piece of junk!" and stuff. The impossible/incredible becomes so mundane. Kinda amazing to think about, really...
LOL!!! We have all the knowledge of the world at our fingertips and we argue with people we don't know and ooh and ahh over pictures of cats. Sigh ....
I picked up on that when they were talking about the dishwasher storage. "Plastic of course" 🤣 here we are banning the use of plastics right down to the straws.
+Franck Langsfeld Esq my grandpa used to yell to my dad "WARREN YOU GOTTA COME SEE THIS!!" And my dad would run into the living room all excited just to have my grandpa say "good you're here now you can change the channel for me"
You have got to be kidding! When I was a kid in the 50’s food was packaged in paper, cellophane, cardboard, or glass bottles or jars. Clothing was cotton, wool, linen, silk. The furniture was made of wood, fabric, leather and metal as were the toys and sporting goods. Shoes were leather or canvas. We are being buried alive in a world of plastic now. Almost everything we eat is packaged in plastic. I bought a cucumber recently that was individually sealed in shrink-wrap plastic. Apples are being sold in styrofoam trays, jacketed in more plastic foam and covered with a plastic dome. One can buy a mouthful of pudding or yogurt or juice in its own damned plastic mini-container. Candy is wrapped in Mylar that will last millenia. Orange juice is sold in plastic jugs that is so ridiculously rugged one could store paint in them for centuries. We eat or drink something and the containers it comes in are not recycled and do not safely degrade. When I was a kid the thought of anyone buying water as a beverage in a plastic bottle would have been completely laughable. Our appliances, cars, furniture, computers, clothing, shoes, tools,- plastic, plastic,plastic... I am typing this rant on a plastic keyboard. There are continents of plastic clogging the oceans of the world. Sea creatures and ocean going birds are dying because they are jammed full of plastic. There are beaches that consist of more plastic particles than sand! It is an orgy of plastic today. It is fucking insane. We are endangering ourselves and the entire ecosystem with this run-a-way thoughtless plastic nightmare.
What about being able to call home to turn on the air conditioning or the sprinkler? I use an app on my phone to set my aircon to a temperature, or turn on the sprinkler. We are living in the future.
They were already being built into walls so why not hung there? Everybody knew from a half century of technological changes that tech always gets smaller, lighter, and more user friendly, so you don't have to know how things work to use them. Everything today can be predicted on that principal. And human reaction has always been predictable, awe and excitement, becoming lazier and reliant on the tech, finding the tech has taken over their lives, trying to regain a measure of independence and control, coming to a compromise with tech use.
I'm not sure that's what they had in mind. But yes, we have robots in grocery stores to pay for our selections, and robots on our trains that run through the city (you didn't think that little chick with the attitude was actually driving, did you?) The tech giants in Silicon Valley have gone past the physical robot to the virtual one; in fact, we will soon see holograms interacting with humans. We already have androids, just not the ones with super computerized brains yet. It's not that far away.
Can you imagine if you could bring someone from the 1950s to the year 2020? They would be amazed by the technology and medicine, but horrified by everyone’s informal clothing and bad manners
@@653j521 that's kinda funny I'm pretty sure just decades earlier; people would have said, "you watch to many movies." and decades before that " you read too many comic books."
I am from the 50's, and I'm here in 2022 and I think people treat each other badly compared to the past, and no we didn't go about town in our pajamas or with our pants below our butt. We dressed proper when out in the public. We wore our good clothes to church outta respect. Things have changed and not all for the better.
Sometimes I feel the same. If it wasn't for my curiosity as a child (back in the 70's), I would be lost with things like computers, tablets etc as we have it today. From the late 70's until today there has been a giant leap regarding electronics and high tech available for "normal" people. Computers were things that governments and very large companies had back then, no one would have dreamt of ordinary people having such a thing in their home....let alone internet .
Habrid O'Young Even if time machine was invented, the creators would destroy it after a few tests. People who can invent a time machine are smart enough to know how dangerous it si
The needed to predict memes. "In the 2000s, people will start making jokes out of kids shows, recent news, and even terror attacks. They will be absolutely hilarious."
Wow they predicted Computers being in every home turning on Appliance’s and utilities Wirelessly, FaceTime and call waiting and a flat screen tv hung up on the wall wow
the dish washer is a place to hold your dishes i have an asian family so the dish washer just does hold the dishes for us. we dont actually use it we wash the dish by hand.
I'm not Asian, but I also use the dishwasher as a drying rack. I'd rather wash dishes by hand because that's how I was taught growing up. I never cared for learning how to use a dish washer.
speaking of interent did you know interent was invented /used in 1950's for emails/ black white photos and MP4 music sharing in the 60's they got this right the future of interent/phone you can controll turn air con at home by using your 2000 cell phone they got CD player kind of right in 2000's we now CD's on dask top computer to listen to music they got mircowave part right in 150s-60's in about 2030 we stil use it just coneted to a cell phone we put food in waite about use our phone in a different room turn it on to cook for for dinner time
Yes, the internet is actually very old. Well over a half century. But it took until the 90's for it to come into use by the average person (which also, of course, led to its use by the, er, below-average person!).
***** New technology, once it is commercially available, is always more expensive at first because the market is small and the initial manufacturing costs are high. Once the early adopters have all bought theirs (sometimes the rich, sometimes people who have a special interest in whatever it is and splurge), the market expands, improvements in manufacturing are made, and the price falls a little bit. Eventually the price falls a lot. You are right, however, in that most of this technology was developed first by the government, either for military applications or for NASA, and then later used commercially.
The futuristic view of a city was from 1927, in the movie "Metropolis". The "Jetsons" predicted "push-button-itis", which we now call carpel tunnel. The Walter Cronkite series, "The 21st Century", was from the early 70s, and it was riveting. I recently found that episode and was able to compare it to reality. Some of it was spot on. Some was way off. All of it was fun.
it actually is the same universe till 1945, then the universe diverges from ours. they focus on nuclear technology, and the transistor isn't invented in the 50s like our universe. they keep the 50s style up until the nuclear war, and the transistor is not invented till like 2 or 3 years before the war in 2070 (if I remember correctly)
@@shanegulley1997 That would be pretty complicated due to the way rotary dial worked... but by the late 1980s a system was available from Radio Shack called a Home Controller..the way it worked was you needed a modem and a computer (Tandy of course) and a handful of controller modules..you would plug the controller module into the wall then plug something into it i.e. a lamp..you would dial home from a touch phone the computer would pick it up... then you would enter a code for which device you wanted to turn on or off the software would send a signal to the controller module .. As far as cost you would be into it for at least $2000 (over $4500 in today's money)..
"When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket." -Nikola Tesla, 1926
+williamsrhyn Well, Nikola Tesla would be proud but speaking of Nikola, why don't we move onto Elon Musk? I think Elon should make a phone company to compete with Apple because we surely know that Elon would do WAY BETTER THAN iCrap!
NEARest Galaxy Communications Don’t forget George Westinghouse. Tesla gave Westinghouse many lucrative patents to save George's business. Once saved, Westinghouse forgot Tesla.
T.C. McQueen honestly these predictions are probably the reasons we have the technology they're talking about today - a lot of innovative science is only possible after we observe the ideas in the limitless space of science fiction literature
That would be Melamine. Not healthy for you. The dust is what the Chinese use to FAKE protein content in baby formula and dog food. Killed them BOTH. And if anyone says we can't get by without China and their games, look at what happened with dog food. Nobody buys dog food or treats made in China now. So, penny wise, and (dumbass) pound foolish.
Those horrible soggy paper straws! They won’t stop me, I keep a few plastic straws in my purse! I used to take my metal ones until I left one in a glass at the airport restaurant. 🥴
Fascinating vid. What really stands out for me is that, although they got some of the technological advances right, they were completely unable to predict potential changes in traditional gender roles. Early John Wyndham books (writing as John Beynon Harris) had male characters of the future dashing off in personal rocket ships, yet women only made an appearance when wives and girlfriends turned up with home baked cakes to wave them goodbye.
Natalia I seen a video the other day about future predictions, they were pretty insane!! Some that I can remember were, Ocean Farming, as the world population will be a lot bigger. A car the 100% drives itself and everything. Robots ( of course lol ) We will have technology to be able to hook our brains up to a computer and upgrade ourselves.
My dishwasher was built in the 1960s, so they forgot to predict that some of us would still be using 1960s technology in the 21st century. The funny thing about it is that I start it by slamming the door shut.
I'm old, but a lot of technology has come and gone. Ironically, I was just telling my daughter and teenaged grandson about Walter Cronkite last week. I said he was considered the most trustworthy man in America. Then explaining there was no CNN or Fox. THEN explaining news just reported facts, not opinions.
Nah, Cronkite lied to us a lot, we just disn't have the ability fact check him. New media hasn't gotten worse, it's just not adjusted to the social media age.
jonny pepperston not that off the prediction that pants would almost entirely replace skirts,also those weird ass shoes without the heel were a trend for a while
It's not too far off. Women dont wear dresses or skirts nearly as much. Men wear cargo shorts with extra pockets for all the stuff they talked about. They said people would have built in phones on their clothes which is basically a cell phone.
@@petitcactusamer right. And it is making the males to commit son and think evil in his heart, they show their buttocks and legs. They should wear skirts that passes their knee, that doesn't show the shape of their buttocks, thighs, etc...
Here we are with ripped skinny jeans, air mags, and bubbly jackets (bomber jackets). Listening to rap about pandas, screaming about a gorilla, and debating about being a weird animal called Arthur for halloween.!
3:33 what they are filming is a house of the future in Disneyland. This attraction was built in the early 60's and you walk throughout it and see and use, at the time incredible advanced technology
Baller Walruses I remember taking the tour through that house it was like right next to Space Mountain. The whole thing was sponsored buy plastic company so yeah they really like plastic
That is because it was sponsored by Monsanto. And plastics was their bread and butter back then before they became the EvilCorp(tm) we love to hate today.
I was born in 63, by the time I was a young kid many many things came from Japan but most of it was junk in the beginning. Made in Japan was synonymous with cheap.
+TheKidWhoLovesDisney AndDreamworks I don't remember exactly, but it had something to do with them making less money. The guy who invented them won't sell the plans to car companies, and do the government won't let him sell them. Also, the government says it would be dangerous because they aren't regulated.
My mom has an old encyclopedia and i think it was made around 1970s and there's this that i had read and that they think that maybe in the year 2000s homes will be run by computers...
gongju gippeum, they're right look at the technology, we can switch lights and flush toilets with one push. Humans are being run by technology already, just look how someone is always looking down on that phone, feeding off its power to live. We are zombies feasting on phones and screens
It reminds me of the terminator movie where eventually skynet becomes self aware. Ironically, there is presently a skynet building robots. Now thats scary!
Well now Humans have created the flying car but the FAA won't approve it, so we can't have or use them. Careful Big brother is out there and is still watching. Remember the prediction that we would have cars that ran on "WATER"? Look what happened to the man that invented it!
@@nigelnightmare4160 Google what killed the inventor of the microwave oven? Yeah, I looked for an hour+ and I couldn't find it, either. Hum. Interesting.
Shanaree Hamrick you didn’t get the joke. The joke is basically everyone knows that every planet and stars are spherical. There are just some small percent of dumbasses who thinks the Earth is flat..
I work from home as a software engineer. I only go to customer sites on a few days each year. I have a CCTV camera on my doorbell which gives me live video on my phone. Incidentally Heinlein's 1951 novel "Between Planets" opens with someone using a cellphone while on horseback, something that my wife now does regularly. Brunner in Shockwave Rider predicted computer viruses. That was a good video, make some more.
Stuff like that makes me wonder how much science fiction technology we have today will be a reality in the next 20 to 50 years. Thanks for the comment! I do have a sequel to this one, but I haven't made any others as of recent. Take care and have a good one!
@@thinkfact you are welcome. As a paying hobby I write SF myself. I've had a few successful predictions. I was writing about colonising exoplanets back in the 80s. My major one that hasn't happened yet is that there is one major discovery in physics which will unify gravity and electroweak forces, thereby giving us cheap fusion power, teleportation and faster than light drives. Most of the novels turn on the social and economic effects of FTL. Unfortunately I also predicted 9/11 about a year before it happened.
I like how people back then is predicting our future creations , now it's 2020 we are not predicting future anymore instead we are creating future right on the spot.
You know your living in the future when diesel semi trucks give off barely any visible smoke if not none while starting up. Meanwhile back not so long ago all you would see was black smoke
Imagine going back in time to the 1950's. Telling them you can hold in one hand a device that holds all of the information known to man. Then explain to them we just use it to harass strangers and look at pictures of cats.
Bwaahaaahaaaa! Boy have you hit the nail on the head!
That’s not what everyone uses the internet for haha
I look at dogs thank you very much!
LMAO
David Ashenbrener , to see how many people have similar last names, lol!!
my Grandmother likes to tell a story about her father. my grandmother was born in the 1920's and her father passed away while she was in her teens. at some point before he passed he sat her down and told her that before she died she would be able to hold the phone in her hand and see whoever she was speaking to. she is 90 years old and you can hold your cellphone in your hand and make video calls.......
anyabar1987 fake and gay
Ranezia sad excuse for a human , person maybe but human no.........
anyabar1987 thats so dope
that's so rad
anyabar1987 My uncle born in the 1930's has a similar story about the TV. When he was a teenager sitting in the car listening to a radio program he said "wouldn't it be great if there was a box we could watch so we could see what the people are laughing at? "
I really dont think they predicted the future. But rather created the future. We create what we think up
Ooo someone read science of getting rich
Yeah that is what was thinking
deep
Skynet here we come
We can only create what we think up
I love how they turn on the air conditioner at home using a rotary telephone.
That would extremely hard to do...
but by the late 1980s a system was available from Radio Shack called a Home Controller..the way it worked was you needed a modem and a computer (Tandy of course) and a handful of controller modules..you would plug the controller module into the wall then plug something into it i.e. a lamp..you would dial home from a touch phone the computer would pick it up... then you would enter a code for which device you wanted to turn on or off the software would send a signal to the controller module ..
As far as cost you would be into it for at least $2000 (over $4500 in today's money)..
I guess first Bluetooth connection or wifi
rotary phone would be a good punishment for your little brats.😁
And a window unit comes on.😅🤣😂
Isn't that how you turn your ac on?
I showed my 92 Year old great-grandmother my iPhone and my iPad and she was like "Oh my, we are living in the future!" I also let her listen to some music and she liked some.
You are so sweet to your great grandma.
Sean Andrei Antonio 😁
Sean Andrei Antonio I let my grandma listen to some Eminem on my iPhone and she said that it was 10x better than any of the stuff from her time
+Harambe things that never happened
Harambe untrue asf
my grandma is born in 1933. Witnessed every war in the Philippines and is now addicted to facebook.
forgot to mention she just turned 83 this july.
Kokoro Pororo well she has been prepared.
Fuck you.
Kokoro Pororo My grandma is from the PHILIPPINES also!¡
kevin_kevinthe he said every war in the Philippines, the Philippines was not part of WW1
The fact that I'm watching this on a smart phone is BLOWING MY MIND
Catherine Miner ME TOO! HOW DOES IT WORK? HOW AM I JUST TOUCHING THE SCREEN AND LETTERS APPEAR?!?!?
Qut 😂😂😂
c.m. lol
c.m. OMG 707 I'll likes you would get what I'm talking about if you played a "certain" video game
c.m. same
From a book called prophecy 2000 written in 1964; "you will be able to watch a motion picture in the palm of your hand."
Cellphones...
As we are.. watching this video in the palms of our hands...
Yeah, but they didn't include hot chicks with dicks did they? It's ironic how there's more than one side to how technology changes culture.
Shiet dawg. Time travel. Illumination confirmed
Sent me amazon link
I don't get how a electric cabinet that takes 10 minutes to open is more convenient that just opening a door xD
its so they save space, something close to those mini fridges built into the wall.
WackyDaWaccoon I was thinking the same thing. Would drive me crazy waiting for that to open every time I needed something from the fridge.
I believe they expected it to be more quick and to save space because who wants a giant freeze box covering 15-20% of their kitchen
thats why we still have doors. :D
well maybe it'd be useful for old people. it's like those chairs for the stairs...it takes forever to get down but it's faster than picking yourself up if you fall xD
most of what they're describing is basically all in a cell phone.
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I was born in 1955. I have watched and experienced a lot of this come to pass and the changes they have brought. It is simply amazing to me but my adult children take it pretty much for granted. I love having such infinite information and communication in my hand. I remember the predictions and thought they were crazy.
I’m 18 but ever since I was a kid I wondered why people weren’t more impressed by the internet: being able to look up anything instead of searching for a long time in books at the library, playing online games with groups of friends, renting/ buying movies online and watching them in an instant, order things online and have them arrive in one to 5 days, and so on. It’s simply crazy and everyone born into these devices see it as a given and simply don’t care about how revolutionary modern technology is.
agreed 100%
what other predictions are there ?
A lot of this seems like a matter of relative perspective.
Generations can grow up well before or are born in periods of technological advancements and concepts.
It may not be that long until future generations born are born in an era of common interstellar space flight between Earth, Luna and Mars may look at how we live today on only one planet as bizarre and limited.
Funny how we watch these people predict the future on devices smaller then they ever imagined
Yet these devices are getting bigger and bigger
he making the safe move
As a computer operator in the 1980's - 90's I could not imagine a home computer or even a mobile phone would have more memory than the mainframe at the computer centre.
We computer operators went to a computer expo. There they had the new IBM 386 computers. We were amazed about the 80 megs of hard drive.
And watching said videos on a near-limitless virtual domain of information, communication, trade, employment, arts, learning, and entertainment they never would have dreamed possible.
The one thing I’ve noticed is that they thought we would use different devices for everything. We’d have a device to use as a telephone, another device to email, another device to watch TV. Nowadays we can literally do everything we need on our phone if we wanted. The only reason we’d use a different device like a PC or TV is for a larger display / faster processing.
Out phones can't print anything
" The only reason we’d use a different device like a PC or TV is for a larger display / faster processing"
Actually, that's starting to happen now with foldable phone/tablets and foldable tablet/laptop hybrids e.g. I have a Samsung Z Fold 3 that can turn into a "larger display" and has 'Dex' a "desktop" computer like interface.
foldable, rollable displays and short throw projector technology that throw out 100" displays from a "smaller" display seems to be the current trend.
"faster processing" is relative as today we have computers and mobile devices sharing having nearly the same level of processing power and speed e.g. M1 iPads and M1 MacBooks.
Also...Augmented Reality glasses are a thing but still very niche.
@@misbinky2947 why do they have to?
We can write on "digital paper" and electronically transfer them.
Many students including myself haven't used actual paper nor had to print it out at Uni for some time.
The only places I know that still need to use paper are at work , government institutions and anything that requires a level of official authentication/certification, other than that it is possible to be almost completely digital and in some cases it's more practical.
"No predictions by science fiction writers" he said, right after showing a prediction by Arthur C. Clark, who invented the world's first communications satellite and the 2001 and 2010 novels.
You misunderstand, it was in the context of their works. Like talking about the future directly how it is expresses in a fictional book set in the future, rather than flat out predictions within themselves.
Think Fact He verbally made predictions at the beginning of this video!!!
I'm not reading all that. Just admit you fucked up and move on.
Think Fact Now you're being a blatant TROLL. Good luck with that.
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When they said slim tvs that can go on the wall I looked at my tv on the wall and I was like ayyyyyyyyyy
hiddenpower 6 ayyyyyyyyyeee "Marvellous "
hiddenpower 6 I know, it's crazy our TVs are about as thin as a children's book now
hiddenpower 6 lol
Lol I did that too 😁
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When I was a kid during the 70's me and my friends said "Do you think we can see each other while talking on the phone in the future"?" Then we laughed and laughed.
imagine not growing up without a phone or a computer like im really curious to know what kids did back then.... you can't be outside 24/7??!
@@ed93435 We did have phones but only at home😊 I spent my time in school, out with friends, ballet dancing 4 times/week (3 hours each lesson), horseback riding everyday. I was reading a lot too. Busy, my days where filled.
@@olivia6063 fun! Back when kids used to read haha.
Then.. You laughed and laughed... Lol.. And... It actually happened. 😆 lol
@@shanareehamrick2123 Yes lol 😆
"So slim that it could be hung on the wall."
This guy can see into the future. Like wow. Spot on.
Lauren Opara He literally visualized the flat screen TV!
Lauren Opara As soon as I heard that I turned around and looked at my 50" tv mounted on the wall. lol
The last guy was even more spot on, he visualized the Singularity, which is yet to be reached, in the 60s! And seeing that such accurate predictions about the future were made 50 years ago, I think it's safe to say that when scientists say we'll reach the Singularity around 2060 they are not joking
Chris K theres quite a difference between predidicting that if the assets for a television would take up less space as they had been you could hang it up the wall, and that everybody is going to be an android
Lauren Opara yeah its funny, but people are acting like OMG THIS GUY IS BRILLIANT, THIS GUY IS JESUS because some guy just has the rational that if the assets for a television set would decrease in size as they had been, you could hang it up the wall at some point. anyone could think that up
"an electric headlight to help her find an honest man"
asseater007 Everyone's dream machine
Angler fish....about right, lure you in and devour you.
Spoken Faith you lucky, lucky man!!! Lol!👩🏼🍳
It was created but failed. Every time a woman went out with a man, the light went out.
+clare bridge LOL lucky,lucky.
One thing they didn't predict:
Bottled water
Yeah, bottled water in plastic containers that aren't biodegradable and litter oceans and streets.
They thought we'd be smarter than that.
I remember my parents telling me that when bottled water first came out, people thought it was a crazy idea and nobody would buy it
@@esquilax5563 Bottled water has been out for around 100 years. Please Google.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 "please Google"?? Fuck off 😂😂
The guy being able to see the guy outside the door was super accurate, like spot on
(4:54)
Ring doorbell lol
so am I the only one who keeps a compartment to carry my keys, coins and candies for cuties?
Who Else But Zane ? no, I'm sure other people have fanny packs
Who Else But Zane ? Who else but Zane? ;)
Caden Jarrosiak fanny pack? Never heard of it. I'm talking about my cyborg chest compartment. THIS IS THE FUTURE, BRO
For cuties?
Who Else But Zane ? Puts on 100 layers of photoshop and filters Hello!
the prediction about flat screen TVs is spot on.
"It may even be able to hang on walls!"
+ttkjv16112011 thats Zvorykin's son. He invented HD tv partially.
no really. it was still a tube. like the inverted folded black & white sony watchman.another bad attempt at flat screen tv.
no really. it was still a tube. like the inverted folded black & white sony watchman.another bad attempt at flat screen tv.
+Michael Shultz - "no really. it was still a tube. like the inverted folded black & white sony watchman.another bad attempt at flat screen tv."
What was still a tube? Who was this reply directed at?
George Orwell 1984 predicted a lot of things we have these days. The headphones. That is pretty crazy. He called them tiny seashells
yeah thats exactly why im eating myself to death
They've had headphones since like the 20's...
paula enriquez he also predicted much more relevant things
Floating cities=Cruise ships, 'the people never looked up from the small screens they held in their hands'=people texting while sitting across the table from each other. The birth control pill, and leave us not forget Big Brother.
paula enriquez I think they had headphones in 1984 just they were the size of beats
Crazy how the people from the past will NEVER know or confidently imagine what the future did become. And same with us!!! We will never be for certain what will happen to this earth in say 600 years makes me kind of sad like there is no way we will see
Future nostalgia? Maybe it's better that we don't know and live the best way can in the present.
There may be as they find out more on genetics and how to stop or slow down the aging process.
well, some of the younger ones from the past are still around today
@@OpiaKitty Yes, I remember a guy on TV in the early-mid-80s saying that one day there would be no difference between one's computer, television, telephone, record player, VCR, Walkman, etc. I looked around back then, at the CRT TV, the Vic 20, the Rockford Files-style dial phone, the cabinet hi-fi with the 8 track/record player and the ghetto blaster, and laughed my butt off.
Now my cell "phone" is the one laughing, I guess.
LaikaLycanthrope it’s true, i guess the cell phone is the one laughing now. but give it a few years and there will be something else replacing even that. technology is advancing quicker than i can accept.
also i’m fairly young so i wasn’t alive in the 80s, but i was wondering if you would rather keep this society with advanced technology, (cell phones.. etc) or would you rather have it go back to what it was like in the 80’s?
All those things they thought were so amazing and marvelous back then... and here we are, present day, with our flat tiny phones with touchscreens that arent even just phones anymore, and ridiculously fast computers and such, and what do we do? We stand around complaining about these gizmos, saying "What a piece of junk!" and stuff. The impossible/incredible becomes so mundane. Kinda amazing to think about, really...
...and then these mental children complaining about their generation! Get rid of them!
LOL!!! We have all the knowledge of the world at our fingertips and we argue with people we don't know and ooh and ahh over pictures of cats. Sigh ....
kimdkus Cats drive technology. Cats are in the tubes! They power the internet! Lolol 😸
Emily Baxendale LOL!!!
Misery Or people drop them and dont care
And our vision of the future? Crumbled cities and wastelands.
Professor Pasta I drink opium tea
Marshingo Drugs are great aren't they?
***** Quiet so my good sir
Now we are gonna make that happen...
Professor Pasta K but this almost made me cry
9:57 “make the television set much smaller that it can be hung on the wall” *looks at the wall mounted TV*
Lol
1950s: everything in the 20th century will be plastic
2019: say no to single use plastics, hashtag save the turtles
Plastic is illegal in California. Who would have guessed?
I picked up on that when they were talking about the dishwasher storage. "Plastic of course"
🤣 here we are banning the use of plastics right down to the straws.
21st dumbass
Im glad plastic is being used less. We do have to save the turtles, and many, many more things lmao
@buzzclick500 Lmao.
A TV on the wall?! OMG that's futuristic!
They where right.
FYSA, people use to have kids so they can go change the channel on the TV...
+Franck Langsfeld Esq my grandpa used to yell to my dad "WARREN YOU GOTTA COME SEE THIS!!" And my dad would run into the living room all excited just to have my grandpa say "good you're here now you can change the channel for me"
Meghan Schaefer AHAHAH😂
Meghan Schaefer hahahahaha what??!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The 50's sure loved plastic... A lot
It was the new shiny. That is probably the biggest reason why.
We do, too. It just doesn't show as much.
Stainless steel is 21st century
@@jesuschristhomeslice9492 and probably nano ceramics/metal in the 22nd-23rd century
You have got to be kidding! When I was a kid in the 50’s food was packaged in paper, cellophane, cardboard, or glass bottles or jars. Clothing was cotton, wool, linen, silk. The furniture was made of wood, fabric, leather and metal as were the toys and sporting goods. Shoes were leather or canvas.
We are being buried alive in a world of plastic now. Almost everything we eat is packaged in plastic. I bought a cucumber recently that was individually sealed in shrink-wrap plastic. Apples are being sold in styrofoam trays, jacketed in more plastic foam and covered with a plastic dome. One can buy a mouthful of pudding or yogurt or juice in its own damned plastic mini-container. Candy is wrapped in Mylar that will last millenia. Orange juice is sold in plastic jugs that is so ridiculously rugged one could store paint in them for centuries. We eat or drink something and the containers it comes in are not recycled and do not safely degrade. When I was a kid the thought of anyone buying water as a beverage in a plastic bottle would have been completely laughable. Our appliances, cars, furniture, computers, clothing, shoes, tools,- plastic, plastic,plastic... I am typing this rant on a plastic keyboard. There are continents of plastic clogging the oceans of the world. Sea creatures and ocean going birds are dying because they are jammed full of plastic. There are beaches that consist of more plastic particles than sand!
It is an orgy of plastic today. It is fucking insane. We are endangering ourselves and the entire ecosystem with this run-a-way thoughtless plastic nightmare.
T.V. Screens will be getting bigger and even become so slim they can even be hung on the wall. 😂😂😂
What about being able to call home to turn on the air conditioning or the sprinkler?
I use an app on my phone to set my aircon to a temperature, or turn on the sprinkler.
We are living in the future.
😂😂😂😂
Projectors??
They got that right
did you notice that the TV screen was closer to a 16 x 9 ratio? it wasn't square like the old ones.
Watchin this in 2019 from a tv hung on a wall while a man from the 1970’s on ur tv talks about how 1 day TVs will be hung on walls... CHILLS!!!
Wydia Becton common sense
Whats even more scarier is that the people showcasing these future technologies already had the prototypes and could have already made them back then.
I really wanna like but those 100 likes look so good
They were already being built into walls so why not hung there? Everybody knew from a half century of technological changes that tech always gets smaller, lighter, and more user friendly, so you don't have to know how things work to use them. Everything today can be predicted on that principal. And human reaction has always been predictable, awe and excitement, becoming lazier and reliant on the tech, finding the tech has taken over their lives, trying to regain a measure of independence and control, coming to a compromise with tech use.
1960s: We will have robots in the future!
2018: Alexa play Despacito...
Close enough
Please Dont take my nuggers she is just a annoying narrator
Please Dont take my nuggers Ask this question again in 5 years when drones deliver you coffee.
they had robots in the 1980s
I'm not sure that's what they had in mind. But yes, we have robots in grocery stores to pay for our selections, and robots on our trains that run through the city (you didn't think that little chick with the attitude was actually driving, did you?) The tech giants in Silicon Valley have gone past the physical robot to the virtual one; in fact, we will soon see holograms interacting with humans. We already have androids, just not the ones with super computerized brains yet. It's not that far away.
Did they just predict the induction stove in the 1957 one!?
budmeister yes, yes they did
I believe the technology was there at the time, or at least the theory of its working was there, but not a viable way of mass production.
budmeister yep... and mentioned the microwave in the 1967 one.
2:42 That *"Ohh, swish"* kills me everytime lmao
same! and "candies for cuties".
wonAWAY Lol I love that part too xD
I laughed too!
Can you imagine if you could bring someone from the 1950s to the year 2020? They would be amazed by the technology and medicine, but horrified by everyone’s informal clothing and bad manners
You think people didn't dress down in the 1950s? You watch too many videos.
@@653j521 that's kinda funny I'm pretty sure just decades earlier; people would have said, "you watch to many movies." and decades before that " you read too many comic books."
I am from the 50's, and I'm here in 2022 and I think people treat each other badly compared to the past, and no we didn't go about town in our pajamas or with our pants below our butt. We dressed proper when out in the public. We wore our good clothes to church outta respect. Things have changed and not all for the better.
@@hots7134 In the past people treated each other even worse. Sexism & Racism were too much.
And reduction of morals and increased selfishness. They would be disgusted.
An electric razor AND an electric toothbrush!? These are the fantasies of mad men!
Molon Labe I own an electric toothbrush
+pierce yu he was being sarcastic.
pierce yu Boi it was sarcasm
electric toothbrush is real today
+RocketheReptile I own one
1970's : I wonder what the future will be like
2017: MEMES
mOm0
I'm glad at our world XD
mOm0 you do not kno de wae
Email was predicted in 1969.
Less judgement (less racism less homophobia less racism less other things)
I'm still breathing a actual reality
Well people back then didn't think that woman would be working as doctors, lawyers etc
Weird_girl 143 ticci tobyyyy XD
IzzyOnFire let me guess, ur a CREEPYPASTA fan and a baptismonfire fan? If yes u are my new favorite person 😂
Weird_girl 143 yesssss XD do u like timburton movies?
IzzyOnFire YES!
Yup definitely my new favourite person 😂
“Candies for cuties” omg yes everybody needs that
Almost as much as I could use a bunghole shaver on my Swiss Army knife.
jimcarreyonline I used this and now I’m in prison!!!!
I WAS BORN IN 1955 SO I GREW UP IN THE NON TECH ERA. IVE WATCHED IT DEVELOP INTO UNREAL HEIGHTS OF ACHIEVEMENTS. SOMETIMES SCARY FOR US.
Sometimes I feel the same. If it wasn't for my curiosity as a child (back in the 70's), I would be lost with things like computers, tablets etc as we have it today. From the late 70's until today there has been a giant leap regarding electronics and high tech available for "normal" people. Computers were things that governments and very large companies had back then, no one would have dreamt of ordinary people having such a thing in their home....let alone internet .
michael lennon im born 95 and i wish i was born in da 70s... The tec has made this Gen like idiot zombies
RIP 90s Hip Hop agreed, just look at your spelling.
airsofttrooper08 i dont really care how i spell, as long as u can understand. And u must be born 08 if u cant
RIP 90s Hip Hop I was born in 96..... awk
Wouldn't it be cool if time travel was real and we can show one of these guys around
Habrid O'Young Right..Lol
Habrid O'Young or just watch elders react to tecnology
Habrid O'Young I used to like fantasize about this when I was little... (mostly rose characters from the American girl doll books)
Habrid O'Young Even if time machine was invented, the creators would destroy it after a few tests. People who can invent a time machine are smart enough to know how dangerous it si
Rokka a time machine wouldn't be dangerous if we somehow made it so when we came back, it was like we were never there.
The needed to predict memes. "In the 2000s, people will start making jokes out of kids shows, recent news, and even terror attacks. They will be absolutely hilarious."
They had political cartoons in newspapers back then didn't they?
Wow they predicted Computers being in every home turning on Appliance’s and utilities Wirelessly, FaceTime and call waiting and a flat screen tv hung up on the wall wow
the dish washer is a place to hold your dishes
i have an asian family
so the dish washer just does hold the dishes for us. we dont actually use it we wash the dish by hand.
Lelouch The Coffee Guy
We don't waste duh water
Lmao you stole this joke.
Lelouch The Coffee Guy exactly
my asian family washes dishes by hand and uses the dishwasher as a huge drying rack
I'm not Asian, but I also use the dishwasher as a drying rack. I'd rather wash dishes by hand because that's how I was taught growing up. I never cared for learning how to use a dish washer.
omg I wish someone would invent an electric toothbrush already
AllThingsNJ Are you joking?
Aku Jo Yes 😂
Nya Johnson I even have one lol
Katia Lucky that was her joke
Nya Johnson really nigga *derp spiderman*
Well it actually turned out far better than the productions for the most part
Predictions
Ya, for the one about the phone on the computer, we now have Skype and wechat!
+ThatXoneXguy It's like Skype just for wee little people.
No one saw the internet coming, which blindsided everyone.
speaking of interent
did you know interent was invented /used in 1950's
for emails/ black white photos and MP4 music sharing
in the 60's they got this right the future of interent/phone you can controll turn air con at home by using your 2000 cell phone
they got CD player kind of right in 2000's we now CD's on dask top computer to listen to music
they got mircowave part right in 150s-60's in about 2030 we stil use it just coneted to a cell phone we put food in waite about use our phone in a different room turn it on to cook for for dinner time
Al Gore did ,he invented it !remember that?
😆😅😄😃🤣😂😂😁
Yes, the internet is actually very old. Well over a half century. But it took until the 90's for it to come into use by the average person (which also, of course, led to its use by the, er, below-average person!).
@@annamariapiotrowicz511
The internet was invented in 1960's not the 50's.
Not really. Plenty of people in the 1950's and 1960's predicted shopping for things in front of a screen without having to leave home.
Wow. Hanging a slim TV in the wall seemed almost impossible 60 years ago. Think about why will happen in the future
holograms
+MIC2077 "Church Windows" in the 1993 show "Wild Palms".
+MIC2077 we already have holograms but they are crazy expensive and impractical
***** You are mistaken. All of those things came much later than the 1940s.
***** New technology, once it is commercially available, is always more expensive at first because the market is small and the initial manufacturing costs are high. Once the early adopters have all bought theirs (sometimes the rich, sometimes people who have a special interest in whatever it is and splurge), the market expands, improvements in manufacturing are made, and the price falls a little bit. Eventually the price falls a lot. You are right, however, in that most of this technology was developed first by the government, either for military applications or for NASA, and then later used commercially.
"candy for cuties" lmaooo
Pills for dope whores.
Well better then saying candy for the kiddies or something
And if the cuties take it they may wake up in a basement :P
Or in a new Hollywood movie.
3:00 In reality guys who carry containers full of "candy for cuties" is likely going to have conversations with the police!
hahahaha
+Eric Taylor This must be where bill cosby got his idea from
TheAhlivia
He wasn't giving candy to cuties.
+Eric Taylor i see what you did there =)
+Eric Taylor Dressed like Ali Baba
The futuristic view of a city was from 1927, in the movie "Metropolis". The "Jetsons" predicted "push-button-itis", which we now call carpel tunnel. The Walter Cronkite series, "The 21st Century", was from the early 70s, and it was riveting. I recently found that episode and was able to compare it to reality. Some of it was spot on. Some was way off. All of it was fun.
A lot of the 50s-60s stuff reminds me of Fallout.
Edit: 130 likes what the hell
Fallout follows a different universe where we focused on nuclear engineering rather that branching out
Coltallic it's because the technological revolution never happened in fallout
Fallout is a *Retro Futuristic*.
It gives me those vibes too.
it actually is the same universe till 1945, then the universe diverges from ours. they focus on nuclear technology, and the transistor isn't invented in the 50s like our universe. they keep the 50s style up until the nuclear war, and the transistor is not invented till like 2 or 3 years before the war in 2070 (if I remember correctly)
Coltallic yeah and its pretty cool tbh.
That office in the 1960s does practically what a smartphone can do and fit in you pocket
incredible, isnt it?
Moses Huf-Tirfe and even more!! That's just amazing!!
The control of the appliances through the phone. So true now
I wonder how it would work threw a pay phone tho?!?!?!
@@shanegulley1997 maybe a certain code?
like amazon microwave... the lg clothes washer you control with your phone app...
@@shanegulley1997 That would be pretty complicated due to the way rotary dial worked...
but by the late 1980s a system was available from Radio Shack called a Home Controller..the way it worked was you needed a modem and a computer (Tandy of course) and a handful of controller modules..you would plug the controller module into the wall then plug something into it i.e. a lamp..you would dial home from a touch phone the computer would pick it up... then you would enter a code for which device you wanted to turn on or off the software would send a signal to the controller module ..
As far as cost you would be into it for at least $2000 (over $4500 in today's money)..
Funny how they thought were gonna spend that much time in the kitchen.
i do
"When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted
into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a
real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one
another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through
television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly
as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of
thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able
to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A
man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket." -Nikola Tesla, 1926
+williamsrhyn Well, Nikola Tesla would be proud but speaking of Nikola, why don't we move onto Elon Musk? I think Elon should make a phone company to compete with Apple because we surely know that Elon would do WAY BETTER THAN iCrap!
+Josh Bray Android phones exist. Problem solved.
I'm in 9th grade and learned who Nikola Tesla was three weeks ago.
NEARest Galaxy Communications Don’t forget George Westinghouse. Tesla gave Westinghouse many lucrative patents to save George's business. Once saved, Westinghouse forgot Tesla.
They got the electromagnetic induction stovetops correct.
T.C. McQueen honestly these predictions are probably the reasons we have the technology they're talking about today - a lot of innovative science is only possible after we observe the ideas in the limitless space of science fiction literature
what if people in the 50s predicted the fidget spinner
__Getalife13__ Oh yeah one day they said oh we will make an spinny toy for autistic ADHD children that does.... nothing
They probably had them, but called them something else. And they were made from cereal boxes.
Wouldn't have been hard. Fidget spinners were invented in the 60s.
1950: and the plates will be made of plastic of course!
2019: paper straws
That would be Melamine. Not healthy for you. The dust is what the Chinese use to FAKE protein content in baby formula and dog food. Killed them BOTH.
And if anyone says we can't get by without China and their games, look at what happened with dog food. Nobody buys dog food or treats made in China now. So, penny wise, and (dumbass) pound foolish.
Those horrible soggy paper straws! They won’t stop me, I keep a few plastic straws in my purse! I used to take my metal ones until I left one in a glass at the airport restaurant. 🥴
I never use straws anyway, I don't need it
Fascinating vid. What really stands out for me is that, although they got some of the technological advances right, they were completely unable to predict potential changes in traditional gender roles.
Early John Wyndham books (writing as John Beynon Harris) had male characters of the future dashing off in personal rocket ships, yet women only made an appearance when wives and girlfriends turned up with home baked cakes to wave them goodbye.
They got most of the things right. But at least they don't have to choose between Trump or Hiliary.
The Obsidian Dagger lol
The Obsidian Dagger lol
lol😂😂
lol
we cant say we had it worse , especially if youre black lol
Some of these are amazingly correct
Svízel přítula the man speaking at the beginning had it spot on 👌🏻
Everything they said is correct?
10:22 “Hey Siri, thank you for doing an excellent job”
“Sorry, I couldn’t find Martha in your contact list”
vandan agrawal hahaha Ha!
I predict that in the future no one will spell "etc" correctly.
+greyeyed123
eheh, whoops.
+greyeyed123
that really grinds my gears
I predict that most people will still say eccetera!
***** Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
And even less will know how to pronounce it correctly: "et ketera"
Hahaha, and what do WE predict for the future? Barren apocalyptic wastelands and the end of civilization. That or war with an alien species.
Natalia Your life is probably one hell of a wasteland
Natalia You forgot the zombie apocalypse with the virus and stuff
Rokka
AKA: College application season
END OF THE WORLD!!😈😈
Natalia I seen a video the other day about future predictions, they were pretty insane!!
Some that I can remember were,
Ocean Farming, as the world population will be a lot bigger.
A car the 100% drives itself and everything.
Robots ( of course lol )
We will have technology to be able to hook our brains up to a computer and upgrade ourselves.
Yeh I suppose sometimes I use my dishwasher as storage 😄
Holly Adamou My daughter has a dishwasher in her kitchen but has a sign on it not to use because " dishwashing is an assigned chore" for her kids.
Glenn Lego haha! 😄👍
My dishwasher was built in the 1960s, so they forgot to predict that some of us would still be using 1960s technology in the 21st century. The funny thing about it is that I start it by slamming the door shut.
I would love that!
jeepster4u2003 done you watch the middle? Ovens are for bulk storage like quilts
I'm old, but a lot of technology has come and gone.
Ironically, I was just telling my daughter and teenaged grandson about Walter Cronkite last week. I said he was considered the most trustworthy man in America. Then explaining there was no CNN or Fox. THEN explaining news just reported facts, not opinions.
Nah, Cronkite lied to us a lot, we just disn't have the ability fact check him. New media hasn't gotten worse, it's just not adjusted to the social media age.
Well people from my generation don't have to worry about that since no one watches TV.
@@maizenn925 Welcome to the future! tvs r no longer a thing! (There's probably at least 1 person that will use a tv)
Did they look at you like you had 3 heads?
Wow your a grandma/pa
*back then* we will have amazing city's and flying airplanes!
2017: Fidget spinners.
Byzantine Mapper That's the point ;) its a mind fuck
flying what ??
Chief Tooth A flying airplane? What humbug! Airplanes will never be able to fly.
Insurance companies killed flying cars.
6.35 : the boy and the girl who look each other are definitely time travellers.
lmaooooo
no, they're just horny
Riccardo Polidoro ..agreed all the other kids were opened mouth *shock and Awe*
6:35
Candy for Cuties. I think the fashion one was way off unless you're talking about Lady Gaga. OMG maybe Lady Gaga is from an alternate future
jonny pepperston not that off the prediction that pants would almost entirely replace skirts,also those weird ass shoes without the heel were a trend for a while
No not even lady Gaga would put a lantern in her hair
It's not too far off. Women dont wear dresses or skirts nearly as much. Men wear cargo shorts with extra pockets for all the stuff they talked about. They said people would have built in phones on their clothes which is basically a cell phone.
@@petitcactusamer right. And it is making the males to commit son and think evil in his heart, they show their buttocks and legs. They should wear skirts that passes their knee, that doesn't show the shape of their buttocks, thighs, etc...
It's funny how in the 50s when they predicted the future they figured that women would still be classy.
far opposite from that...
Two words: human nature.
50s were truly a sexist time. thats what i was thinking about.
So true
@@deliri0um well I'd rather Ankle length skirts and a blouse instead of a fully clothed artificial animal that yiffs instead of using human speech
Here we are with ripped skinny jeans, air mags, and bubbly jackets (bomber jackets).
Listening to rap about pandas, screaming about a gorilla,
and debating about being a weird animal called Arthur for halloween.!
•/ Izzi \• and having Cringy Snapchat filters like your profile pic.
No, you're talking about the ghetto part of our generation.
•/ Izzi \• And fidget spinners
where the hell is my flying car?
Steven C omg where is my "floating board"?!!
You know they actually exist... Its called an Airplane
Eqxus hendo hoverboard that is
Carltoons. XD
ayy i got u, dubai is gonna be where the first flying car will be released/tested
Idk why but his 'ooh swish' at 2:42 had me going for so long AHAHAHAH wtf
He was just predicting George Takei's "oh myyyyyyy!"
"The man of the future might spend most of his time here."
Oh, you mean on the computer? Yeah, that's accurate.
But instead of work, it's PornHub!
It's really scary to think that a device that you could fit in your pocket could do things that devices in the past could do, but it filled up rooms.
Jordan Lucero
the device you wrote that comment on could have probably sent Neil and Buzz to the moon and back
tacos mexicanstyle Yep
3:33 what they are filming is a house of the future in Disneyland. This attraction was built in the early 60's and you walk throughout it and see and use, at the time incredible advanced technology
Baller Walruses Oh they said Tomorrow Land but I didn't know they meant Tomorrow Land in Disneyland!
They certainly seemed to like plastic.
Baller Walruses I remember taking the tour through that house it was like right next to Space Mountain. The whole thing was sponsored buy plastic company so yeah they really like plastic
That is because it was sponsored by Monsanto. And plastics was their bread and butter back then before they became the EvilCorp(tm) we love to hate today.
Nobody predicted the Made in China sticker!
+Green Silver I wonder if the "Made in America" sticker...is made in China?
MrGchiasson or how about "The made in China" sticker is made in America
+Green Silver back then everything was made in Japan.
+FoxtrotCharlie2 I would have thought everything back then was still either British or American made
I was born in 63, by the time I was a young kid many many things came from Japan but most of it was junk in the beginning. Made in Japan was synonymous with cheap.
2019 generation : we've reached the future
3018 generation : hold my beer
"we've reached the future." So, where do we go from here?
you know in the end well never reach the future cause some day the future wouldn't be the future the future would be today
Idk if thats gonna happen i mean they world could end right now or tomorrow
And now that i think about it, thats kinda scary
overused and boring comment
@@flimishere9075 yh maybe a asteroid is going to hit my coutry in 10 seconds and we are all going to die
Edit: we are safe phew
maybe so slim that we might be able to hang it (television) on the wall.
that's spot on
also the infrared glass oven is kinda like a microwave
Pasta Hobo probably a microwave oven because it cooks it and doesn't just heat it up
"a phone that defies imagination push buttons" ROFL!
yeah. but they never predicted a touch screen though
Dat electric head light
the man's outfit is so stylish
yes - with candies for cuties ?
Where in the hell is my flying car? When I was 6 (1964), they said we'd all have flying cars by now.
We do, I think, but they're 200,000 dollars
They exist, but car companies aren't selling them.
+Breanna May Why is that?
+TheKidWhoLovesDisney AndDreamworks I don't remember exactly, but it had something to do with them making less money. The guy who invented them won't sell the plans to car companies, and do the government won't let him sell them. Also, the government says it would be dangerous because they aren't regulated.
One person drone is in development. (if you have 300k plus you may be able to get one!)
So glad my home is "complete" because I have a computer! :)
I just realised I have 6 all with different OS. Does the iPhone and iPad count? That’s 8. 🤦♀️
I know it's complete and all that but you got to think about adding a roof.
@@kdrapertrucker I love this comment
Aww... they're so cute.... They think you'll need separate computers for all that.
and they couldn't wrap their head around that any of the technologies could be portable
Sydney McKissack they were obsessed with plastic and synthetic materials in 1950?
Sydney McKissack and they think that it's gonna be that big "points at phone"
Sydney McKissack
+Julian Jacobs
Yeah, "and of course the dishes will be plastic!" 😝
My mom has an old encyclopedia and i think it was made around 1970s and there's this that i had read and that they think that maybe in the year 2000s homes will be run by computers...
ugh i made a stupid comment
gongju gippeum no you didn't.
jetr alfonga, okay. Thanks.
gongju gippeum, they're right look at the technology, we can switch lights and flush toilets with one push. Humans are being run by technology already, just look how someone is always looking down on that phone, feeding off its power to live. We are zombies feasting on phones and screens
Shazam Shizzy like..we are doing today
Robots outsmarting their maker seems freaky
Jessika Maughan computers?
Jessika Maughan That's already happening... :P
every time I play chess with the computer 😠
It reminds me of the terminator movie where eventually skynet becomes self aware. Ironically, there is presently a skynet building robots. Now thats scary!
your cellphone is smarter than you
"No Sci-Fi writers ..."
Wasn't that Arthur C. Clark discussing communications satellites and artificial intelligence?
Yes and he was partially right about the monkeys too. Google helping hands.
Yes
This kid has no idea who Clarke is.
And Isaac Asimov too, who literally invented the word robot and the ethics about them.
1930: Humans will create flying cars
2018: Earth is flat
Well now Humans have created the flying car but the FAA won't approve it, so we can't have or use them.
Careful Big brother is out there and is still watching.
Remember the prediction that we would have cars that ran on "WATER"?
Look what happened to the man that invented it!
2020: people are morons.
@@nigelnightmare4160 Google what killed the inventor of the microwave oven? Yeah, I looked for an hour+ and I couldn't find it, either. Hum. Interesting.
Earth is not flat.
Shanaree Hamrick you didn’t get the joke. The joke is basically everyone knows that every planet and stars are spherical. There are just some small percent of dumbasses who thinks the Earth is flat..
that 70s guy knows exactly what's gonna happen lol
Some of these predictions, like cooking with electromagnetic induction, is quite startling.
That's actually true. There are stove tops like that. They cost a fortune!
Why startling?
@@dawncheriewoodworth3449 Fortune? We own one and we are not rich
We got one and it wasn't any more expensive than the alternatives, and it's great.
@@dawncheriewoodworth3449 It's called microwave...
I work from home as a software engineer. I only go to customer sites on a few days each year. I have a CCTV camera on my doorbell which gives me live video on my phone. Incidentally Heinlein's 1951 novel "Between Planets" opens with someone using a cellphone while on horseback, something that my wife now does regularly. Brunner in Shockwave Rider predicted computer viruses. That was a good video, make some more.
Stuff like that makes me wonder how much science fiction technology we have today will be a reality in the next 20 to 50 years. Thanks for the comment! I do have a sequel to this one, but I haven't made any others as of recent. Take care and have a good one!
@@thinkfact you are welcome. As a paying hobby I write SF myself. I've had a few successful predictions. I was writing about colonising exoplanets back in the 80s. My major one that hasn't happened yet is that there is one major discovery in physics which will unify gravity and electroweak forces, thereby giving us cheap fusion power, teleportation and faster than light drives. Most of the novels turn on the social and economic effects of FTL.
Unfortunately I also predicted 9/11 about a year before it happened.
Irradiated foods? By all means help yourself 50's. I sure as hell won't try those.
Bradknightable microwaves...
Matias Sandoval microwave ovens do not irradiate food
Bradknightable why don't you just Google it?
Matias Sandoval if microwaves irradiated food with gamma radiation you would die microwave ovens do not irradiate food in that way
Nah, microwaves are fine. Instead they pump our food dull of horrendous stuff to make it last, taste, and look better.
many miles away on vacation but your dogs are outside in your yard lol
bANDZdaLOC^ well observed lol!
bANDZdaLOC^ Those were the neighbor's dogs! LOL (notice how they ran back home)
bandz Next-gen decorations
Instead we get fidget spinners
sidget finners*
J.l D.m do you live under a bridge or what
J.l D.m its a little cancerus machine
It was the soviets
Theyellowknight123 thank you. God they have been so annoying.
I like how people back then is predicting our future creations , now it's 2020 we are not predicting future anymore instead we are creating future right on the spot.
You know your living in the future when diesel semi trucks give off barely any visible smoke if not none while starting up. Meanwhile back not so long ago all you would see was black smoke
10:32 Yes, Yes indeed. Televisions so slim that they can be hung on the wall, Flat screen TV
Lily Cannon Now also know as a T.V
Lily Cannon I laughed at that😂😂
They actually predicted flat screen L.E.D tv's back in the 70's
And can be broken 10 times easier since its HUGE
Oh this is hilarious Lmaooo "candy for cuties" "Headlight to help her find an honest man"
Want a sweetie little girl?
1950: "We will have flying cars in the future."
2019: MEMES
MEMES EVERYWHERE
Look up boeing air taxi 😍
I dont see anything wrong
Flying bathroom :D
We will b marrying animals and that’s no joke.
we have enough problems with texting and drunk drivers as it is.