Retrofuturism: Another Night, Another Tomorrow | Sleepcore

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  • Sleepcore returns with another night of better tomorrows! We once again look at retrofuturism from the 1920s to the early 2000s!
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 177

  • @chimpinaneckbrace
    @chimpinaneckbrace 3 роки тому +7

    I’m currently watching this on my CD ROM shoulder pads.

  • @jsherck
    @jsherck 3 роки тому +7

    That prune ad with Ray Bradbury is one of the finest advertisements I've ever seen.

  • @dave3657
    @dave3657 3 роки тому +56

    "The future ain't what it used to be." Sums it pretty nicely. 🚀

  • @ShiftingFlesh
    @ShiftingFlesh 3 роки тому +122

    I really don't say this enough at all. But you make extremely radically dope content man.

    • @ZLAKOZILLA
      @ZLAKOZILLA 3 роки тому +7

      "Radically dope content" best description ever :-) ha ha ha

    • @Cracktaculus
      @Cracktaculus 3 роки тому

      Indeed.

    • @tri55555
      @tri55555 3 роки тому +1

      For sure

    • @thedaggonator
      @thedaggonator 3 роки тому +1

      I cant tell weather your a boomer, or a sarcastic gen z, but either way, that's a great description xD

    • @ShiftingFlesh
      @ShiftingFlesh 3 роки тому +3

      @@thedaggonator Thanks lol. I'm Gen X.

  • @Oblivionbolt1
    @Oblivionbolt1 3 роки тому +11

    going to refer to my phone as a personal data terminal now.

    • @tolfan4438
      @tolfan4438 3 роки тому

      You should. The 'phone app is the least used app

  • @cosmiccivic2124
    @cosmiccivic2124 Рік тому +4

    Imagine living in a world that the future looks bright

  • @AK.__
    @AK.__ Рік тому +3

    "wearable computers" part - we watched in the office. it was lol, like good comedy movie. Instead of thinking about developing new tech, people thought, how to attach all the existing devices to the clothes. Good that they used CD-ROM and not Vinyl.

  • @WeeWeeJumbo
    @WeeWeeJumbo 3 роки тому +8

    This channel is the strongest argument I've seen so far for a second monitor.
    I've worked from home since 2014.

  • @railgap
    @railgap Рік тому +3

    if you're gonna start thinking of "retro" after just 30 years (LOL) ya may as well start pushing for the world of Logan's Run!

  • @martinvenegas748
    @martinvenegas748 Рік тому +2

    Dude the Pontiac Stinger looks sick

  • @JetJockey87
    @JetJockey87 3 роки тому +13

    Just browsing late at night looking for inspiration for a retro dystopian game I'm working on and good god man this channel is a gift

    • @packers12to80
      @packers12to80 11 місяців тому

      How's the game coming along?

  • @ohem
    @ohem Рік тому

    Your celebration of the medium of TV is one of the highlights of UA-cam. You're inspired.

  • @ferociousgumby
    @ferociousgumby 3 роки тому +3

    I think absolutely everything in that "wearable computer" line was replaced by the cellphone.

  • @michaelascerno3813
    @michaelascerno3813 3 роки тому +7

    Love everything about your channel. Content, editing, storylines...Thanks!

  • @JohnFrancis66
    @JohnFrancis66 3 роки тому +26

    Man, it's _always_ the central diode.

    • @chimpinaneckbrace
      @chimpinaneckbrace 3 роки тому

      For a second I thought Future Cop Michael Shannon was the Boardwalk Empire Michael Shannon.

    • @kiwitrainguy
      @kiwitrainguy 2 роки тому

      Whoever wrote that script didn't have a clue about electronics.

  • @ShoutItFromTheHousetops
    @ShoutItFromTheHousetops 3 роки тому +9

    Great content for comparison from past to present. Crazy how long ago the technologies of today were conceived. Not always advances for the good of mankind...

  • @RM-yw6xe
    @RM-yw6xe Рік тому

    I love how these are all geared toward working more

  • @Libikuroi
    @Libikuroi 3 роки тому +3

    Dude your videos are too awesome and far too interesting to sleep to. Find myself always watching the whole thing. You create this time travel feeling. Like I'm sitting in the past watching tv.

  • @michaelascerno3813
    @michaelascerno3813 3 роки тому +14

    This stuff is beyond reality for sure. Computer cloths is the funniest thing I've seen in awhile. Keep up your channel please. It's original mind numbness...love it!

  • @lopiklop
    @lopiklop 2 роки тому +1

    trackballs are the future! Literally everything will have trackballs!

  • @edeggermont
    @edeggermont 3 роки тому +5

    Super nice compilation again. I like your editing style

  • @berighteous
    @berighteous 3 роки тому +33

    nobody will ever wear a laptop. Funny that nobody thought of just small touch screen computers

    • @adamnelson4428
      @adamnelson4428 3 роки тому +4

      Arthur C Clark did in 1968 for 2001 a space odyssey

    • @Y2Kr4SHM4N
      @Y2Kr4SHM4N 3 роки тому +4

      They did. The Knightridder tablet was prototyped in 94.

    • @durrcodurr
      @durrcodurr 3 роки тому +3

      Star Trek TNG had PADD tablet computers (conceptually -- for filming they had to print out the screen content onto foil).

    • @Y2Kr4SHM4N
      @Y2Kr4SHM4N 3 роки тому +2

      @@durrcodurr Also, around about 2000 I had an Ipaq 5550 which was effectively a smartphone without the phone.
      Biometric fingerprint access ✅
      News apps ✅
      GPS ✅ (GPS sleeve accessory)
      Full length movies on SD card ✅
      Games (Doom, Tomb Raider etc) ✅
      So society had thought of that long before I was using it. I used it, because I knew it was futuristic due to seeing the tech in media. I knew it’s what phones would become. Others didn’t understand what it was, nor would they believe me. “I won’t watch a movie on something that fits in my palm.”
      “Im not reading news on something that small.”
      “I’m not taking directions from a talking machine!”
      Oh yeah?

  • @iplaymytele
    @iplaymytele 3 роки тому +2

    This is my new favorite channel.....!!!

  • @radcheckinski6300
    @radcheckinski6300 3 роки тому +19

    cd rom shoulder pads lmfaoooo

  • @captainarcher2
    @captainarcher2 3 роки тому +6

    The Pontiac Stinger looks so cool !! I wish I had one. Then I can be the ultimate Beach Douche Bag that all the ladies can love.

    • @rush1er
      @rush1er 2 роки тому

      Hell yeah you'd be makin them basic bitches moist af! As long as you also gots this drip here @3:05

  • @JoshTheBassist
    @JoshTheBassist 3 роки тому +5

    I found your channel about a week ago. I really really enjoy it.

  • @zmoore5555
    @zmoore5555 2 роки тому +3

    Amazing how the smartphone made all the computer clothes completely irrelevant

  • @oneeyewanders
    @oneeyewanders 3 роки тому +3

    Another killer set. I am addicted

  • @rayceeya8659
    @rayceeya8659 3 роки тому +16

    Me in 1990: That Pontiac Stinger looks pretty cool
    GMC in 2000: We now debut the Pontiac Aztec
    Me: ummmmmm

    • @markjeffels3327
      @markjeffels3327 3 роки тому +1

      The Aztec was so ugly and cost so much, it is what killed the Pontiac label.

    • @OhioScot
      @OhioScot 3 роки тому +2

      @@markjeffels3327 the road to a car brand going out of business are paved with good intentions! lol

    • @cookiecat1234
      @cookiecat1234 3 роки тому +1

      If they just made the stinger it probably would’ve sold well considering everything built in, as long as it wasn’t crazy expensive

    • @cookiecat1234
      @cookiecat1234 3 роки тому +1

      Also call me weird but I don’t mind the look.... don’t get me wrong it is ugly and I wouldn’t buy it but there are ways they could’ve made it look better

    • @chimpinaneckbrace
      @chimpinaneckbrace 3 роки тому +1

      The Stinger sort of reminds me of those weird Polaris Slingshots.

  • @LouisLeeKH
    @LouisLeeKH 3 роки тому +1

    The green future car is wonderful.

  • @xtalvt
    @xtalvt 3 роки тому +1

    WOW ... memories !!!!!!!! I still have the original article about the Pontiac Stinger! I had never seen the video .... still dream of building one of these. Another great video !!!!!!!!!

  • @picard714
    @picard714 3 роки тому +4

    Lol Never knew that the great Ray Bradbury did an ad for prunes!

  • @CallMeMrRook
    @CallMeMrRook 3 роки тому +2

    That corvette... just take my money!!!!

    • @PhilipKaskela
      @PhilipKaskela 3 роки тому

      Do it, you can get a nice c4 vette for 5k now

  • @orgenoburt8988
    @orgenoburt8988 3 роки тому +3

    No better channel on UA-cam IMO!!

  • @francescaa8331
    @francescaa8331 Рік тому

    These videos are oddly relaxing. Thank you.

  • @bratfett
    @bratfett 3 роки тому +5

    in the past, even the old times were better.
    a prima channel. _ TanX and cheers.

  • @geraldtrudeau3223
    @geraldtrudeau3223 3 роки тому +14

    "You can work even when you've left the office". How very Japanese. Work like a drone non- stop, till the day you die.

    • @accidentalpatient4152
      @accidentalpatient4152 3 роки тому +1

      More Chinese

    • @pinkkam
      @pinkkam 3 роки тому +2

      nah, thats the entire 1st world, people continue to work on laptops at home n stuff

    • @johnbockelie3899
      @johnbockelie3899 3 роки тому

      In Japan it is an honor to die on the job. A dishonor to die doing nothing.

    • @lindaeasley5606
      @lindaeasley5606 3 роки тому +1

      Some people have lives outside of their job .This whole presentation for combining the human body with the computer is so creepy and wrong,not to mention at this particular time,incredibly uncomfortable for the body making it less mobile

    • @vernonpaigejr.1517
      @vernonpaigejr.1517 Рік тому

      @@pinkkam which I'm doing right now. LOL

  • @ZCKaiju
    @ZCKaiju 3 роки тому +3

    "I didn't mention prunes in any of my stories, never. I'm sorry to be so candid..." @10:10

  • @j.d.4697
    @j.d.4697 Рік тому

    That Corvette still looks great today.

  • @jamielacourse7578
    @jamielacourse7578 2 дні тому

    As a DEVO fan i'm loving this....

  • @claudiacann
    @claudiacann 3 роки тому +3

    please don’t stop posting retro

  • @drdean9913
    @drdean9913 3 роки тому +4

    Can't wait. The future looks bright.

  • @fiercecamaross
    @fiercecamaross 7 місяців тому

    That Pontiac Stinger was way ahead of it's time without a doubt.

  • @gregwilson825
    @gregwilson825 3 роки тому +1

    Excellent work here. This material so obscure.

  • @carbonunit3191
    @carbonunit3191 3 роки тому

    I absolutely adore these videos. You must have put so much effort in. Just to help me sleep. Problem is, it’s just so interesting that I often don’t! Please keep up the good work!

  • @TheInfinitySystem
    @TheInfinitySystem 3 роки тому +3

    Okay, not gonna lie... if they sold the Stinger in Cherry Red- totally get one.

  • @Agustin_Leal
    @Agustin_Leal Рік тому +1

    The wearable computer segment was so cursed 💀

  • @TheGuyThatEveryoneIgnores
    @TheGuyThatEveryoneIgnores 3 роки тому +1

    19:40 "First, let me get a snack from the vending machine."

  • @j.d.4697
    @j.d.4697 Рік тому

    "Hmmm which computer am I gonna wear today??" 🤔
    "No need to stop work, just because you left the office!" A dream come true for all humans!

  • @rayceeya8659
    @rayceeya8659 3 роки тому +5

    "All updated 16 times every second"
    LOL 16hz display would give me a headache.

  • @brokkrep
    @brokkrep 2 роки тому +1

    Great video again! You help me sleep. Quick question: What is the music called on the Leisure 2000?

  • @weeue
    @weeue 3 роки тому +1

    Lesson for companies is never showcase your products not ready for sale.

  • @marcblack1
    @marcblack1 Рік тому

    I love this guy.!. He could pass for Jerry Louise so funny

  • @Chas4Sale
    @Chas4Sale 3 роки тому

    They're running the future!

  • @Halflife2-y2m
    @Halflife2-y2m 3 роки тому +1

    Every time I hear " in the not too distant future", I start singing the MST3K theme.

  • @sandrosantos3622
    @sandrosantos3622 Рік тому

    8:11 The Corvette add is so daft punk!

  • @sithlordbok420
    @sithlordbok420 Рік тому +1

    If only they knew about the Internet and micro processor boom of the 90's.

  • @jaredwblack
    @jaredwblack 3 роки тому +2

    That first film is Retro-Retro Futurism

  • @packers12to80
    @packers12to80 11 місяців тому

    Cell phones said check mate to the whole pc body segment 😂

  • @diddykong7354
    @diddykong7354 Рік тому +1

    lol those computers like geez man what we have now is way better than what they imaged. smartphones and ipads

  • @pentizel
    @pentizel 2 роки тому

    The spherical spaceship was one designed by Ulinski and was propelled by electricity.

  • @duplicarus
    @duplicarus 3 роки тому

    1:58 … watching this on my computer that fits in my pocket and more advanced than anything they had at the time

  • @HiroNguy
    @HiroNguy 3 роки тому +1

    That patient is already a cyborg.

  • @garywilloughby6893
    @garywilloughby6893 3 роки тому

    Steel Industry, in Gary and Detroit? When was this recorded?

  • @ZCKaiju
    @ZCKaiju 3 роки тому +1

    21:15 This song slaps

  • @TheInfinitySystem
    @TheInfinitySystem 3 роки тому +2

    1:57 You mean the cell phone?

  • @jahimjauh-hey5653
    @jahimjauh-hey5653 3 роки тому

    Robert Lee needs its own video. The discussion in the comments would be interesting.

  • @pedazodeboludo
    @pedazodeboludo 3 роки тому +4

    I love that the old concept is waaaay cooler than the crappy car they show in the "present."

  • @Sebastian-xh4cc
    @Sebastian-xh4cc 3 роки тому +1

    90s Lady - Bulky computers are a thing of the past, you gotta wear this sh*t!
    2021 - Bulky computer goes brrrrrrrrrrr....

  • @sterlinsilver
    @sterlinsilver 3 роки тому +1

    1:45 not sure If that fashion is what i'd call fabulous!

  • @Lazarett
    @Lazarett 2 роки тому

    Parquer , Marquer et mis au travail !!! ...

  • @mybluemars
    @mybluemars 3 роки тому +2

    28:13 it's 2021 and where is this "Sleep Machine"?

  • @ericsuarez834
    @ericsuarez834 Рік тому

    11:30 my favorite part

  • @artinniasti946
    @artinniasti946 3 роки тому +1

    Can you please give me the source/link of original cover pic of this video?

    • @picsnportraits
      @picsnportraits  3 роки тому +3

      i.etsystatic.com/21132545/d/il/7a82a8/2216271910/il_340x270.2216271910_ba58.jpg?version=0

    • @artinniasti946
      @artinniasti946 3 роки тому +1

      @@picsnportraits some unbelievable, superb contents here. Thanks🌹

  • @CC-fn4ch
    @CC-fn4ch 3 роки тому +6

    20 to 25 hour work weeks 🤣

  • @AckzaTV
    @AckzaTV 2 роки тому +1

    i want a pontiac stinger!

  • @richardnottelmann58
    @richardnottelmann58 3 роки тому

    NEO would love this 😀 🤣.

  • @acasual9923
    @acasual9923 2 роки тому

    3:55 hilarious how they thought faxing would still be used in the future

  • @oliversmith9200
    @oliversmith9200 3 роки тому +2

    Per the last segment's interview forecasts. Time has shown that under the persisting situation, enabling people to be more human turns out to be incompatible with 21st Century market economy elite driven political criteria...
    And of course, what happened to the national influence of organized labor? What orchestrative money-property elite political block subsequently dominates unfettered? Oh yes... Sleep.

  • @tc-tm1my
    @tc-tm1my 7 місяців тому

    Stinger is a good way to get robbed pretty quick.

  • @BillOweninOttawa
    @BillOweninOttawa Рік тому

    So many keyboards. Futurists did not see much future in voice recog as at the time it seemed almost impossible. That was the case right up until a few years ago. Even today Assistant and Siri will fail, but the day will come, and soon, when AI's are better at understanding spoken language better then we do.

  • @martyndyson9501
    @martyndyson9501 2 роки тому +1

    Id almost feel sorry for them if i could stop laughing for long enough!!

  • @WalterBurton
    @WalterBurton Рік тому

    👍👍👍

  • @shemmac4700
    @shemmac4700 Рік тому

    Wow so many of these things have happens or are happening.

  • @BluetheRaccoon
    @BluetheRaccoon Рік тому

    5:00 The inventors got so caught up in making a wearable tech, they forgot to consider *who* it would be for. It looks more "movie prop" than plausible idea.

  • @SashkoBljad
    @SashkoBljad 3 роки тому +1

    5:55 postmodern ambulance officer)

  • @franciscobarraza1744
    @franciscobarraza1744 2 місяці тому

    Love the content of your channel.
    However, it is a shame that someone finds these videos boring and uses them to sleep.

  • @GlassSuperstar
    @GlassSuperstar 3 роки тому +1

    Cyberpunk 2077 medic team wear

  • @GhostMacross01
    @GhostMacross01 3 роки тому

    Tracey Curro is one gorgeous gall from next door.

  • @balthazzaarmontague8036
    @balthazzaarmontague8036 3 роки тому +2

    wait wait wait...why TF would you need to have TWO portable vacuum cleaners in your car?? And why would they include a take-anywhere GARDEN HOSE with the car?? this world is very strange...

  • @krebsomaticfourtwenty
    @krebsomaticfourtwenty 3 роки тому +6

    27:31 WTF?

  • @markjeffels3327
    @markjeffels3327 3 роки тому +1

    LMAO!! Corvette, English or metric. Metric is English but yanks use imperial! Great content in your videos!!

    • @JaredConnell
      @JaredConnell 3 роки тому +1

      Imperial units were invented in england and are still used there for cars although most other applications in the uk have since switched to metric

  • @adamnelson4428
    @adamnelson4428 3 роки тому

    The stinger everything except for a roof

  • @notmyfault29
    @notmyfault29 Рік тому

    Lots of leisure time is right because no one has a job.

  • @cdev2117
    @cdev2117 3 роки тому

    12:27 Perry Rhodan bist du es?

  • @vernonpaigejr.1517
    @vernonpaigejr.1517 Рік тому

    Damn, good thing smart phones exist. LOL

  • @goldplatnium
    @goldplatnium 3 роки тому +7

    That’s way to much shit to have in one car, I could see all of those panels falling off within a year.

    • @morbidmanmusic
      @morbidmanmusic 3 роки тому +1

      stolen in a day... that is an ice cooler door!!!

    • @harmanx.
      @harmanx. 3 роки тому +3

      I have one hand-vac for my whole house -- but this car has two of them.

  • @vladimirvilliani6732
    @vladimirvilliani6732 3 роки тому +1

    27:49???

  • @paulbauer8256
    @paulbauer8256 3 роки тому +1

    2:49 haha among us funny

  • @maverickfox4102
    @maverickfox4102 3 роки тому

    Before Robo Cop there was Future Cop.