I believe the evolution of the smartphone is nearing its end. Aside from more powerful CPUs, smartphones haven't advanced that much in recent years. Because of this, I believe biohacking is going to greatly advance. I also believe that the pinnacle of cell phone evolution will leave the laptop in a museum with PC also being a possibility.
My grandfather was born in 1908 and died in 1991 and lived most of his life in northern NJ. I like to think about all the innovations he saw in his lifetime, from gas-powered lights and the ice-man delivering blocks of ice to homes by horse-drawn carriage, to electric lightbulbs, listening to radio shows, to TVs, washing machines, and microwaves. ATMs really blew his mind. ("You got money /from a robot?!/”) He saw the modern interstate highway system built. He saw two world wars. He saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon, The Beatles on Ed Sullivan, and eventually had cable TV, and marveled over watching my brother and me using our home computer. I'm barely scratching the surface of all the changes he saw. He was really freakin' cool, so very smart, and hilarious, too. I miss him so much. (I wrote this horribly and in no logical order. I hope you get the idea. 🙂)
That is very cool!! Being fortunate to hear the first hand accounts of the changes that occurred and how they influenced the lives of our parents and grandparents..🤗💖 An except from Grandpa's memorial: My Grandpa was born on July 10, 1906 on a homestead in Claresholm, Alberta Canada, and died November 6, 2003 after a life well lived. On the death of his mother, in 1907, he was brought to Indiana to be reared by his grandparents and two doting aunts, Grace and Florence. Early memories include being carried outside to see the 1910 passing of Haley's Comet, and listening to Civil War Veterans reminisce of their times with Generals Grant and Lee. Realizing the importance of this living history, he gifted to his family memories and first-hand accounts of times gone by. "Two big wars had not yet been fought which killed almost a hundred million people, and if you looked down from the dizzying height of a four story building, all the hats were so big that you couldn't see the women under them. And if you were me, you were a little boy who had been operated on for club feet and you had a thick leather strap around your waist and got taken to places where women wanted to go and you didn't. The whole top of the building was full of women, who, pretty or not, thought you were cute little boy, and you got kissed by every dressmaker in Indianapolis." At the age of nine - life changed. His father sent for him and he traveled west to join his father and brother on a homestead farm in Montana. Here he observed first hand the devastating affect that copper mining and it's resulting soil contamination had on farmers, ranchers, and livestock. Thousands of horses were killed, and the fallout suffered by the human population is still being tallied. Perhaps his lifelong support of unionization and worker rights stems from this early firsthand experience of corporate disregard for the safety of society. As a result, he concluded that while farming was in his family - it was not in his blood. He would make his contribution in a different way. In the late twenties he moved to Washington State where he found employment with the Carlisle Lumber Company in Onalaska. There he participated in the Unionization of the northwest lumber industry. During this time he was proud to have carried a banner in the last May Day Parade ever held in Seattle. During the depression years, he attended the University of Washington where he graduated with a Masters degree in English Literature. While attending graduate school he met my Grandma - a striking woman of strong beliefs. They married, had two children, and began creating a life and a legacy of which they could be proud. For more than twenty-five years, they opened their home to many foster children; three of those children were adopted into the family. His eldest daughter, my Mom, remembers a full and open home. He was a loving father who, even late in his sixties, would run alongside a child's bicycle while teaching his youngest daughter to ride. As a student of the world, He never waned in his love of learning. He enjoyed many trips throughout the United States, introducing his children and grandchildren to the places of his childhood. New memories and experiences were realized through trips to the Yukon, Alaska, and the Southwest. He retired from the Seattle School District after more than 25 years of service and began traveling to many of the lands he'd consumed through books; England, Ireland, Europe, Russia, Egypt, and Central Mexico to name a few. Prior to visiting each new land, he would educate himself on that country's historical, cultural and political background. Travel and education were always closely entwined. An ardent supporters of Labor and the Democratic Party, they remained active in politics until her death in 1986. He continued his working support of numerous organizations until a series of strokes in 2000 curtailed his participation. He remained an active member of Union Local 609, AF of L-CIO until his death. Thank you!!! Be Well!!! 😃
Some of these things pop into my head when I hear people complaining about trivial things, and hopefully, most of the time I think about taking things for granted!
My Dad was born in 1907 and died in 1986 at 80 years old. He was born on a houseboat 7 miles upriver from Shawnetown, Illinois(?). He went into the Navy around 1924 and sailed the sea's for the next 23 years of his life. He was in China for 6 years and was in Pearl Harbour when the Japanese attacked. Dad actually saved his ship in Pearl Harbour from rolling. Just one little thing actually kept it from rolling over. The Captain gave the ships flag when they got back to the west coast of America. I still have that 48 state flag. Dad had lots of stories about traveling around the world 7 times and crossing the equator 12 times. He saw many different things that were almost unbelievable as a child, but as I've aged myself and traveled the world trying to go to all those places Dad went to, I have learned how accurate his stories were. As we grow older, we tend to see these events our ancestors, be them close or distant, have given to us, as more precious than gold. For if we don't remember our past, we are bound to make the same mistakes again. My Mom was born in 1018 and died in 2016 at 98 years old. She, too, saw a lot of changes in her lifetime. She was born in Louisville, Kentucky, but lived with her Grandparents in Evansville, Indiana. She met my Dad, and they both fell in love with each other and they got married and had 3 children together, and I am the youngest and the only one left. I just lost my oldest brother by my Dad's first marriage, and a year before that, I lost my brother from my Mom's first marriage. So I am the last man standing. How much longer will I live? Only time will tell.
Just sixty three, our family were the last people to get home delivery of block ice for our fridge. So many things I've done for a living don't exist anymore. Started my career in one of the last belt driven machine shops, eventually became prototype maker worked on Canada arm. 😮😅🤓😽🦜🖖
After seen this video I can't avoid feeling impotent with my self, how much time I have said "I'm boring" or "I have nothing interesting to do" when in reality there are all these things I don't know about and could learn from reading. Next five years I'm gonna be someone like You Neil, someone who can call other people's attention by relating facts. ❤
There are people who speak ill of Neil and his work of bringing us this content. I can’t imagine having such a flawed view of life that I fail to recognise greatness. I love this!
I find myself utterly engrossed in this kind of videos where informational graphics are paired with Neil’s pleasing voice. StarTalk is great, love Chuck and his humor but I love this tad bit more. Thank you!
Fantastic short documentary on the rate of change, thanks Neil! One novella I would like to highlight, published in 1909 (6 years after the first flight), is The Machine Stops by EM Forster. It envisions airplane travel as obsolete, has people living in hive like buildings and video communications by tablets. It also envisions that the outside world becomes toxic to life. Pretty amazing when you think about the world in which it was written!
This does seem to maybe be our future... from letting the machine do certain repetitive tasks to letting the machine take over... to a point where humans do not understand the machine and when the machine stops... everything stops.
This is exactly the video we needed right now. With war and conflict that has engulfed the world in some shape or form, setting how far we've come is a great reminder that a a species we are only getting better.
That was beautiful Mister Degrassi! The only thing that I would change, is when the video stopped is said the end. I would have to say you should have had it's say the end and then cross out the end, and and write the word beginning. Thank you mister Degrassi, and all those involved.
Times are super struggly and tough for me right now so thanks for sharing a conceivable view of future predictions that gave me thoughts and feelings of hope - really appreciate that Neil! That's why you're my guy! Grateful I live in a world I can access your thoughts on things :)
There is a tourist attraction near me that replicates 1860's Canada. There are working water and horse powered wheat mills, lumber yards with saws powered the same way, household servants cooking on large stones in the kitchen with an open fire, etc. The last time I went, the moon was visible during that day and it dawned on me that we went from what I was experiencing in the 1860s to landing on the moon in just one hundred years time. It made me realize at just how fast humanity was evolving.
Wow! This was just incredible! I have long thought that the 20th century would stand alone as the most productive century of humanity. I still believe it, but in these past 23 years, I now realize all the advances that just crept up on us as we lived through it. I knew as a kid growing up in the 1960s that we were experiencing some special things in history as I was embraced by the space program, wondering when the next flight would actually land a man on the Moon. Even though I was a young child, I felt as though I had waited centuries for this event to happen. This 21st century just seemed to have whizzed by for me. I took many of the new advancements for granted, but now I see that we have come a long way since 2000, despite all the political BS, racism, and wars that seem to be a constant throughout history.
30 years is an excellent measuring period. It's interesting how some things have completely changed over the past 60 years, while some things - like lawnmowers - are almost identical. I could have said the same thing about light bulbs, but then they completely changed over the past decade, not once, but twice. I remember working in a lumberyard in winter where we would all gather around a bare lightbulb in the shed to warm our hands. Just try that with a LED lightbulb!
The channel with the greatest perspectives to me. No man is a saint. But Mr Neil Degrasse Tyson is among the greatest sage of all time. Thank you sir 🙏
10:40 Everyone forgets that the first home computers were introduced in 1977, NOT in the '80s Thats because many people mistakenly thinks that the IBM PC and the Apple Macintosh were the first "persnal computers" , which is not true The Apple II , Commodore PET and TRS-80 , were the first , launching almost at the same time , towards the end of 1977
This was awesome! I love this sort of thing, being optimistic about the future! 🙂I remember very well how drastically technology and many other things have changed in the past 30 years. I also noticed how each decade's progress has been more significant than the one before! Recently, I've even been able to notice how much has changed from one YEAR to the next! So, to me, this exponential growth is obvious and I'm VERY excited about the future! I'm glad I'm still young enough (41) to be able to witness many more decades of progress!
A boss of mine (an awesome boss!) once told me that “the one thing you can always count on in life is change”…. Never forgot that sage advice. Thanks Max!! (Best Boss!)
Excellent presentation - as usual. Thank you for the synoptic perspective that exceeds a lifespan. Very enlightening. I think you nailed several of your predictions Dr. I had the distinct privilage of attending a lecture regarding culture that you gave in Denver several years ago. Dr. Sagan would rejoice in your success as a science communicator, and be so gratified for his influence on that young man all those years ago. I sure wish he had lived to see the HDF images!
I think the greatest achievement of future science would be the ability to transfer human consciousness to new bodies, to machines or to simulated worlds. For millenia people believed in religions and mythologies that promised some sort of immortality or afterlife. It would be the ultimate irony if science managed to actually give it to us. The only possible heaven is the one we build for ourselves.
Dispite our personal experience, things are getting better and are better than they use to be. It is easy (and profitable for news sources) to focus on the bad parts of a tradeoff of advancement, but in general we gain more than what we lose.
"Progress" is the myth of high school history textbooks as outlined by _Lies My Teachers Told Me._ Americans like to believe that things always get better. But 1900 was not better than 1870 for Blacks in this country.
One of my predictions is for the aero industry. WE will fly farther and faster in a more efficient manner by supersonic commerical flight. Significantly reducing the time it takes to visit other parts of the world. Thus reducing wasted time on flights and further progressing growth. I am currently studying to become an aerospace engineer and I am very optimistic about this idea. I hope to innovative on this concept!
My great grandmother was born on a farm in Nebraska in 1888. She passed away in California in 1978. I was 8 years old at the time. I do sometimes wish that I had been a little bit older so I could have engaged her on all the things that she saw change in her lifetime. I mean literally she went from the horse and buggy era to men walking on the moon. And that to me is just mind-blowing 🤯🤯🤯
"There's no new things under the sun but now it is. " - Neil (What a masterpiece statement you just said) (!Remindme in 2050 / 27 years from now where I will be turning 55 YO)
you can experience these changes while playing the game "Mafia 2" whenever the main character returns from jail or from serving in the country after 10-20 years, you can feel the change in radio playing, looks of the buildings, vehicles, clothings people are wearing, words they are saying, its a work of art and truly worth experiencing yourself
My dad was born in 1919 and died in 2013. It always astonishes me all the changes he saw in his lifetime. The one thing I'd like to see in my lifetime is the end of war and belief systems that separate us.
I think the former can only come through One-World Government to eliminate nuclear weapons and step in to fight and prevent ethnic cleansing and genocide. Similar to the national government sending in the National Guard to halt riots and unrest. For the latter, somehow Islam needs to step away from its fundamentalism supported and funded by Arabian and Iranian religious groups, which probably requires a Reformation. Some have suggested removing non-profit status from churches in this country due to a vocal minority of extremist fundamentalist/evangelical denominations getting political. But wouldn't that backfire?
Small correction: The De Havilland Comet, which flew first on July 27th 1949, predates the Boeing 707 by nearly a decade. The Sud Aviation Caravelle flew a few years earlier, but wasn't introduced into commercial fleets until 1959. Even the Russian Tupolev Tu-104 flew earlier on commercial flights than the Boeing 707. What the Boeing 707 to commercial airflight was similar to what the Ford T did to the automobile: It turned it from a privilege for a rich elite to the mass phenomen which it is today.
The Comet was first, but it was a colossal failure b/c they didnt fully understand what pressurization does at the microscopic level. The Boeing 707 was the first “successful”commercial airline that drove world adoption and killed propeller flight, similar to what the iPhone did in 2007. Smartphones existed a decade earlier, but all failed to fully understand what the smartphone should be to be successful
Muchas gracias Sr. Tyson, es una mirada increíble al camino que hemos recorrido, que no es mas que un pequeño segundo en el calendario universal. Solo me da un poco de envidia hacia las nuevas generaciones, que podrán experimentar todos estos cambios.
Curious if others feel the same, but it feels like 1960 to 1990 would be the most familiar change. Maybe because I lived much of that time, so I don't see a fundamental change in way of life compared to the massive shifts in the other 3 decade spans referenced. What do you folks think is the least significant change to daily life among the 30 year spans presented? I love Star Talk
The 1960 color TV some at 10-11pm, a mobile radio worn on a wrist. Airconditioning in some theaters, in the 1970's I got a super 8 camera. Learned math with a slide-ruler, a lot changed in those 30 years.
@@duaanekobe2773 Yeah, a ton changed for sure. Just feels like looking at the average daily life, I'm not sure 1960-90 has the impact that 1900-30, or 90-2020 had. But yeah, a ton of tech changes to be sure
Really? Traveling to the Moon nine times. Air travel becomes cheap and routine. We go from a few to thousands of orbiting satellites. GPS. The Personal Computer. The birth of cell phones. The birth of the internet. Video movie rentals. Oh, and the Cold War is over. I'm thinking it would all blow the mind of anyone from 1960.
Life for Blacks changed positively in those times. I've asked myself, Was 1965 better for Blacks than 1955? Yes. Was 1975 better for them than 1965? Yes. Was 1985 better for them than 1975? I don't know. Same answers for Women.
Thanks for this, Dr. Tyson. Things have been looking bleak of late both personally and for humanity as a whole. Hope needs to underscore more in today's media to combat the daily doomscroll.
I can't speak to your personal situation, but the bleak outlook on humanity in general is largely a construct of instant global 24-hour news media. I'm a little over one-quarter the age of the United States, and while many things are inarguably effed and need to be better, most of the decades of my life have been objectively worse than this one for more people. Yet the perception of many people in this decade is exactly the opposite of that reality. As I said, we have a lot of things to improve on, but despair, especially false despair, is not going to get the job done - a little optimism can go a long way in terms of being able to visualize, then create, the world as it should be.
Great video. I just think that ppl of developed nations in 1960 and 1990 over predicted what was possible, living on the moon for example, longer life span, and there’s at least one sci fi writer that predicted we’d be further ahead than we currently are. What’s holding us back is landlording, renting, lack of owner-occupation of pples own homes and no gold standard???
Who knew 30 years ago that a political faction that criticized the honest mainstream media for being "liberal" would successfully create an alt-right media to trap their die-hard followers with propaganda, such that they don't know where or how to fact-find independently of that and their social "media" network?
No, the accelerating pace of advancement in several areas has made it clear that predicting the next 30 years is going to be even more challenging, which is a little concerning, because we really need a crystal ball now, perhaps more than ever...
@@oscar_sheen Good points. We could have had an outpost on the moon like Antarctica (but then there'd be a list of astronauts who died in the effort) or just an Apollo trip once a year. Your other points suggest bad economics, which I agree with. But the end of the video says this chapter was "Exploration and Discovery" which he meant for technology, instead of other aspects of social studies.
Amazing video, we take so much for granted. As for the next 30 years it's even harder to predict than previous decades due to being close to general AI, future is and will be wild.
Yes we'll just have to see if AI will have the role as we think and imagine it right now, or will it be something compeletly different that we can't currently comprehend. A lot of people are panicking and being against it, but in the end like other previous big inventions that were met with negativity, it may not be that doom and gloomy. We'll have to see with time.
The biggest jump I believe is access to knowledge. In the 1980s I remember ask teachers and parents how things work, and they often didn't know. Now with the internet internet you have instant access to everything. You can learn so much faster. This has massively increased human productivity.
I'm so grateful that I have seen so many changes. It means that I can explain to my kiddo that life in this world will change, and their job is to help advance that change. I have high hopes, knowing the brain that exists in said kiddo.
Great video, exponential growth is so difficult to grasp for the average human. Even since 2020 when this narration was created, the emergence of AI has had a huge impact.
Wow you actually mentioned Starley, he started off with bicycles and then moved onto motor cars with a company called Swift Motor company. And that all happened in my city Coventry. Birthplace of the jet engine too.
Literally the bright side of the future and future predictions is one of those things that contributes that doesn’t make me fall to any kind of depression, because whenever I just start to even imagine about the bright side of the future, it overwhelms we with joy and excitement that there isn’t any room for depression to come in or any kind of mental health issue so far at least!
Neil, you got me thinking on how old is the technology I am working with at our company…and what is the current state of things in our industry. Will our products exist in 10 years? Time for a full tech revolution, right away. Thank you!
I’ve heard that my great grandfather was a brilliant futurist. Back in the 60s he foresaw the creation of portable devices that could storage large amounts of data like videos, music and documents. Funny enough, the thing that blew his mind the most was the popularity of bottled water, from his perspective it was inconceivable that people would pay for something that used to be free for everyone. It reminds me of the Indians having a hard time processing the fact that the English could “own” lands. They just assumed the land was something everyone shared.
My father was born in 1906…delivered ice with wagons as a kid. He died in 1995. Served in WW2 as a field surgeon. It’s hard to imagine the things that he saw and did.
Innovation doesn't just happen. It happens by action of questioning the norm and also grows out of failure and perseverance from pursuing an idea or building upon existing concepts, to make them more capable and efficient.
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I would like the narration more if it was grammatically correct.
loved it, great job
@22:40... makes think of a cartoon... 2 guys in lab coats, blackboard full of equations, in the middle ... GOD.
...works for me..🙏🙏🙏
there's only 2 ways it could have been better:
1) Morgan freeman narrates it
2) Metric units are used
Other than that I'd say you hit a high bar ;)
I believe the evolution of the smartphone is nearing its end. Aside from more powerful CPUs, smartphones haven't advanced that much in recent years.
Because of this, I believe biohacking is going to greatly advance.
I also believe that the pinnacle of cell phone evolution will leave the laptop in a museum with PC also being a possibility.
My grandfather was born in 1908 and died in 1991 and lived most of his life in northern NJ. I like to think about all the innovations he saw in his lifetime, from gas-powered lights and the ice-man delivering blocks of ice to homes by horse-drawn carriage, to electric lightbulbs, listening to radio shows, to TVs, washing machines, and microwaves. ATMs really blew his mind. ("You got money /from a robot?!/”) He saw the modern interstate highway system built. He saw two world wars. He saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon, The Beatles on Ed Sullivan, and eventually had cable TV, and marveled over watching my brother and me using our home computer. I'm barely scratching the surface of all the changes he saw. He was really freakin' cool, so very smart, and hilarious, too. I miss him so much.
(I wrote this horribly and in no logical order. I hope you get the idea. 🙂)
We get it, don't sweat it
That is very cool!! Being fortunate to hear the first hand accounts of the changes that occurred and how they influenced the lives of our parents and grandparents..🤗💖
An except from Grandpa's memorial:
My Grandpa was born on July 10, 1906 on a homestead in Claresholm, Alberta Canada, and died November 6, 2003 after a life well lived. On the death of his mother, in 1907, he was brought to Indiana to be reared by his grandparents and two doting aunts, Grace and Florence. Early memories include being carried outside to see the 1910 passing of Haley's Comet, and listening to Civil War Veterans reminisce of their times with Generals Grant and Lee. Realizing the importance of this living history, he gifted to his family memories and first-hand accounts of times gone by. "Two big wars had not yet been fought which killed almost a hundred million people, and if you looked down from the dizzying height of a four story building, all the hats were so big that you couldn't see the women under them. And if you were me, you were a little boy who had been operated on for club feet and you had a thick leather strap around your waist and got taken to places where women wanted to go and you didn't. The whole top of the building was full of women, who, pretty or not, thought you were cute little boy, and you got kissed by every dressmaker in Indianapolis." At the age of nine - life changed. His father sent for him and he traveled west to join his father and brother on a homestead farm in Montana. Here he observed first hand the devastating affect that copper mining and it's resulting soil contamination had on farmers, ranchers, and livestock. Thousands of horses were killed, and the fallout suffered by the human population is still being tallied. Perhaps his lifelong support of unionization and worker rights stems from this early firsthand experience of corporate disregard for the safety of society. As a result, he concluded that while farming was in his family - it was not in his blood. He would make his contribution in a different way. In the late twenties he moved to Washington State where he found employment with the Carlisle Lumber Company in Onalaska. There he participated in the Unionization of the northwest lumber industry. During this time he was proud to have carried a banner in the last May Day Parade ever held in Seattle. During the depression years, he attended the University of Washington where he graduated with a Masters degree in English Literature. While attending graduate school he met my Grandma - a striking woman of strong beliefs. They married, had two children, and began creating a life and a legacy of which they could be proud. For more than twenty-five years, they opened their home to many foster children; three of those children were adopted into the family. His eldest daughter, my Mom, remembers a full and open home. He was a loving father who, even late in his sixties, would run alongside a child's bicycle while teaching his youngest daughter to ride. As a student of the world, He never waned in his love of learning. He enjoyed many trips throughout the United States, introducing his children and grandchildren to the places of his childhood. New memories and experiences were realized through trips to the Yukon, Alaska, and the Southwest. He retired from the Seattle School District after more than 25 years of service and began traveling to many of the lands he'd consumed through books; England, Ireland, Europe, Russia, Egypt, and Central Mexico to name a few. Prior to visiting each new land, he would educate himself on that country's historical, cultural and political background. Travel and education were always closely entwined. An ardent supporters of Labor and the Democratic Party, they remained active in politics until her death in 1986. He continued his working support of numerous organizations until a series of strokes in 2000 curtailed his participation. He remained an active member of Union Local 609, AF of L-CIO until his death.
Thank you!!!
Be Well!!! 😃
Some of these things pop into my head when I hear people complaining about trivial things, and hopefully, most of the time I think about taking things for granted!
Reading this was amazing! Thank you so much for sharing
Perspective is everything! It was well written enough to get your point across, which was awesome
What are your predictions for 2050?
Better health care
Nuclear Armageddon.
a new age of peace and prosperity enabled by further technological advances and more enlightened ideologies.😊🙏😄
Many of us will be dead. The rest will be 27 years older.
Severe winter of disease and death
My Dad was born in 1907 and died in 1986 at 80 years old. He was born on a houseboat 7 miles upriver from Shawnetown, Illinois(?). He went into the Navy around 1924 and sailed the sea's for the next 23 years of his life. He was in China for 6 years and was in Pearl Harbour when the Japanese attacked. Dad actually saved his ship in Pearl Harbour from rolling. Just one little thing actually kept it from rolling over. The Captain gave the ships flag when they got back to the west coast of America. I still have that 48 state flag.
Dad had lots of stories about traveling around the world 7 times and crossing the equator 12 times. He saw many different things that were almost unbelievable as a child, but as I've aged myself and traveled the world trying to go to all those places Dad went to, I have learned how accurate his stories were. As we grow older, we tend to see these events our ancestors, be them close or distant, have given to us, as more precious than gold. For if we don't remember our past, we are bound to make the same mistakes again.
My Mom was born in 1018 and died in 2016 at 98 years old. She, too, saw a lot of changes in her lifetime. She was born in Louisville, Kentucky, but lived with her Grandparents in Evansville, Indiana. She met my Dad, and they both fell in love with each other and they got married and had 3 children together, and I am the youngest and the only one left. I just lost my oldest brother by my Dad's first marriage, and a year before that, I lost my brother from my Mom's first marriage. So I am the last man standing. How much longer will I live? Only time will tell.
My grandmother was born in 1918 and lived until 2014. She literally watched the world go from horse and buggy to smartphones
Just sixty three, our family were the last people to get home delivery of block ice for our fridge.
So many things I've done for a living don't exist anymore.
Started my career in one of the last belt driven machine shops, eventually became prototype maker worked on Canada arm. 😮😅🤓😽🦜🖖
After seen this video I can't avoid feeling impotent with my self, how much time I have said "I'm boring" or "I have nothing interesting to do" when in reality there are all these things I don't know about and could learn from reading.
Next five years I'm gonna be someone like You Neil, someone who can call other people's attention by relating facts. ❤
In 5 years no way maybe in 30 years time
There are people who speak ill of Neil and his work of bringing us this content. I can’t imagine having such a flawed view of life that I fail to recognise greatness. I love this!
Love Neil's narration, what a great storyteller.
Sounds like ChatGPT or AI
@@bravo_01 I'm surprised his list didn't include the rise of hate comments.
@@sicfxmusicThat was actually a compliment
@@sicfxmusicYou can have AI generate and narrate a program with your own voice and sound just like you right now!
@@bravo_01 LOL you learned a lot from watching UA-cam lately.
Life may be understood backwards, but it can only be lived forwards. That’s what makes this gift we call life so special. Cheers to the future !
I find myself utterly engrossed in this kind of videos where informational graphics are paired with Neil’s pleasing voice. StarTalk is great, love Chuck and his humor but I love this tad bit more. Thank you!
Fantastic short documentary on the rate of change, thanks Neil!
One novella I would like to highlight, published in 1909 (6 years after the first flight), is The Machine Stops by EM Forster. It envisions airplane travel as obsolete, has people living in hive like buildings and video communications by tablets. It also envisions that the outside world becomes toxic to life. Pretty amazing when you think about the world in which it was written!
This does seem to maybe be our future... from letting the machine do certain repetitive tasks to letting the machine take over... to a point where humans do not understand the machine and when the machine stops... everything stops.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is a fake guru scientist
thanks for the rec! am totally going to read that now
Thanks!
I love this episode! I would like to see it parsed into a series of decade by decade shorts. Well done, StarTalk!
Thx!
22:37 When Neil DeGrasse unabashed quotes from the Bible, you know we're Living in Times of Exponential Growth!!!💯💥💥💥
This is exactly the video we needed right now. With war and conflict that has engulfed the world in some shape or form, setting how far we've come is a great reminder that a a species we are only getting better.
these are the kind of videos you love to see from Neil...very thoughtful
That was beautiful Mister Degrassi! The only thing that I would change, is when the video stopped is said the end. I would have to say you should have had it's say the end and then cross out the end, and and write the word beginning. Thank you mister Degrassi, and all those involved.
Times are super struggly and tough for me right now so thanks for sharing a conceivable view of future predictions that gave me thoughts and feelings of hope - really appreciate that Neil! That's why you're my guy! Grateful I live in a world I can access your thoughts on things :)
I get the same from the show. Glad I found it
I have never been able to relate to something so much in my life like this comment
Hang in there. We've got your back.
His voice is soothing as well
We're headed for a 500 year Golden Age.
There is a tourist attraction near me that replicates 1860's Canada. There are working water and horse powered wheat mills, lumber yards with saws powered the same way, household servants cooking on large stones in the kitchen with an open fire, etc. The last time I went, the moon was visible during that day and it dawned on me that we went from what I was experiencing in the 1860s to landing on the moon in just one hundred years time. It made me realize at just how fast humanity was evolving.
Wow! This was just incredible! I have long thought that the 20th century would stand alone as the most productive century of humanity. I still believe it, but in these past 23 years, I now realize all the advances that just crept up on us as we lived through it. I knew as a kid growing up in the 1960s that we were experiencing some special things in history as I was embraced by the space program, wondering when the next flight would actually land a man on the Moon. Even though I was a young child, I felt as though I had waited centuries for this event to happen. This 21st century just seemed to have whizzed by for me. I took many of the new advancements for granted, but now I see that we have come a long way since 2000, despite all the political BS, racism, and wars that seem to be a constant throughout history.
30 years is an excellent measuring period. It's interesting how some things have completely changed over the past 60 years, while some things - like lawnmowers - are almost identical. I could have said the same thing about light bulbs, but then they completely changed over the past decade, not once, but twice. I remember working in a lumberyard in winter where we would all gather around a bare lightbulb in the shed to warm our hands. Just try that with a LED lightbulb!
Well we do have battery powered lawn mowers that are improving.
@rph8704 We also have lawn mowers that mow the lawn for you.
The channel with the greatest perspectives to me. No man is a saint. But Mr Neil Degrasse Tyson is among the greatest sage of all time. Thank you sir 🙏
Let's all rewatch this video in 2050. I wonder how we will be doing that.
I watched on 10-22-2023
Yeah time capsule if planet stays livable by then
On a pair of TV glasses I assume lol
10:40 Everyone forgets that the first home computers were introduced in 1977, NOT in the '80s
Thats because many people mistakenly thinks that the IBM PC and the Apple Macintosh were the first "persnal computers" , which is not true
The Apple II , Commodore PET and TRS-80 , were the first , launching almost at the same time , towards the end of 1977
This was awesome! I love this sort of thing, being optimistic about the future! 🙂I remember very well how drastically technology and many other things have changed in the past 30 years. I also noticed how each decade's progress has been more significant than the one before! Recently, I've even been able to notice how much has changed from one YEAR to the next! So, to me, this exponential growth is obvious and I'm VERY excited about the future! I'm glad I'm still young enough (41) to be able to witness many more decades of progress!
A boss of mine (an awesome boss!) once told me that “the one thing you can always count on in life is change”…. Never forgot that sage advice. Thanks Max!! (Best Boss!)
That description of flying on modern airlines must be Neil’s first class experience lol
Inspirational, this is why we follow you
Excellent presentation - as usual. Thank you for the synoptic perspective that exceeds a lifespan. Very enlightening. I think you nailed several of your predictions Dr.
I had the distinct privilage of attending a lecture regarding culture that you gave in Denver several years ago. Dr. Sagan would rejoice in your success as a science communicator, and be so gratified for his influence on that young man all those years ago.
I sure wish he had lived to see the HDF images!
I think the greatest achievement of future science would be the ability to transfer human consciousness to new bodies, to machines or to simulated worlds. For millenia people believed in religions and mythologies that promised some sort of immortality or afterlife. It would be the ultimate irony if science managed to actually give it to us. The only possible heaven is the one we build for ourselves.
Dispite our personal experience, things are getting better and are better than they use to be. It is easy (and profitable for news sources) to focus on the bad parts of a tradeoff of advancement, but in general we gain more than what we lose.
"Progress" is the myth of high school history textbooks as outlined by _Lies My Teachers Told Me._ Americans like to believe that things always get better. But 1900 was not better than 1870 for Blacks in this country.
One of my predictions is for the aero industry. WE will fly farther and faster in a more efficient manner by supersonic commerical flight. Significantly reducing the time it takes to visit other parts of the world. Thus reducing wasted time on flights and further progressing growth.
I am currently studying to become an aerospace engineer and I am very optimistic about this idea. I hope to innovative on this concept!
My great grandmother was born on a farm in Nebraska in 1888. She passed away in California in 1978. I was 8 years old at the time. I do sometimes wish that I had been a little bit older so I could have engaged her on all the things that she saw change in her lifetime. I mean literally she went from the horse and buggy era to men walking on the moon. And that to me is just mind-blowing 🤯🤯🤯
"There's no new things under the sun but now it is. " - Neil
(What a masterpiece statement you just said)
(!Remindme in 2050 / 27 years from now where I will be turning 55 YO)
More than ever, we need science.... thak you!!! ❤❤❤
Damn right. If only science haters felt that way as well
One of the best videos I’ve ever watched 👏
Just lovely. More of these please 😊
you can experience these changes while playing the game "Mafia 2" whenever the main character returns from jail or from serving in the country after 10-20 years, you can feel the change in radio playing, looks of the buildings, vehicles, clothings people are wearing, words they are saying, its a work of art and truly worth experiencing yourself
My dad was born in 1919 and died in 2013. It always astonishes me all the changes he saw in his lifetime. The one thing I'd like to see in my lifetime is the end of war and belief systems that separate us.
I think the former can only come through One-World Government to eliminate nuclear weapons and step in to fight and prevent ethnic cleansing and genocide. Similar to the national government sending in the National Guard to halt riots and unrest.
For the latter, somehow Islam needs to step away from its fundamentalism supported and funded by Arabian and Iranian religious groups, which probably requires a Reformation. Some have suggested removing non-profit status from churches in this country due to a vocal minority of extremist fundamentalist/evangelical denominations getting political. But wouldn't that backfire?
Yes! 💯💯💯
the 'flying saucer' at 5:04 is the Evoluon in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, now a national monument. Blink and you would've missed it 🙂
This is a phenomenal video Mr. Tyson. You inspire and motivate me to learn things in all subjects more than anybody else I can think of!
This video was awesome!!
I love these! Please keep going!
Amazing video Neil, in the time of war and virus it can be overshadowed a lot. We will continue achieving more
It has been so long since I heard a well thought out message of hope and inspiration for the future to come.
I’ve got a lot going on and holding on as best I can, this video gave me some hope. Thank you Neil and team!
Great video. I think about these things all the time
This was Epic Neil, thank you for this. You are a true American treasure👍🏿
#NEIL❤❤
LOVE YOUR TEACHINGS I NEVER FINISH SCHOOL LISTENING TO YOU IS CALM🙏🏾✌🏾
Small correction: The De Havilland Comet, which flew first on July 27th 1949, predates the Boeing 707 by nearly a decade. The Sud Aviation Caravelle flew a few years earlier, but wasn't introduced into commercial fleets until 1959. Even the Russian Tupolev Tu-104 flew earlier on commercial flights than the Boeing 707.
What the Boeing 707 to commercial airflight was similar to what the Ford T did to the automobile: It turned it from a privilege for a rich elite to the mass phenomen which it is today.
The Comet was first, but it was a colossal failure b/c they didnt fully understand what pressurization does at the microscopic level. The Boeing 707 was the first “successful”commercial airline that drove world adoption and killed propeller flight, similar to what the iPhone did in 2007. Smartphones existed a decade earlier, but all failed to fully understand what the smartphone should be to be successful
I really love this format
Muchas gracias Sr. Tyson, es una mirada increíble al camino que hemos recorrido, que no es mas que un pequeño segundo en el calendario universal. Solo me da un poco de envidia hacia las nuevas generaciones, que podrán experimentar todos estos cambios.
wow this was amazing keep it up! i love videos like this in this style!!!!!
Curious if others feel the same, but it feels like 1960 to 1990 would be the most familiar change. Maybe because I lived much of that time, so I don't see a fundamental change in way of life compared to the massive shifts in the other 3 decade spans referenced.
What do you folks think is the least significant change to daily life among the 30 year spans presented?
I love Star Talk
The 1960 color TV some at 10-11pm, a mobile radio worn on a wrist. Airconditioning in some theaters, in the 1970's I got a super 8 camera. Learned math with a slide-ruler, a lot changed in those 30 years.
@@duaanekobe2773 Yeah, a ton changed for sure. Just feels like looking at the average daily life, I'm not sure 1960-90 has the impact that 1900-30, or 90-2020 had. But yeah, a ton of tech changes to be sure
Really? Traveling to the Moon nine times. Air travel becomes cheap and routine. We go from a few to thousands of orbiting satellites. GPS. The Personal Computer. The birth of cell phones. The birth of the internet. Video movie rentals. Oh, and the Cold War is over. I'm thinking it would all blow the mind of anyone from 1960.
Life for Blacks changed positively in those times. I've asked myself, Was 1965 better for Blacks than 1955? Yes. Was 1975 better for them than 1965? Yes. Was 1985 better for them than 1975? I don't know. Same answers for Women.
Neil's depiction of flying in 2023 really spits in the face of every single airline experience I've had in the last 5 years
Two questions:
1. Is there a limit to knowledge?
2. If so, how much closer are we compared to 1000 years ago?
Knowledge is derived from reality/environment. If so, there can only be a limit on knowledge if there is a limit on reality.
StarTalk becomes Cosmos! MORE of that Mr. Tyson!!! More of that please! 👍🏼😎👍🏼
Thanks for this, Dr. Tyson. Things have been looking bleak of late both personally and for humanity as a whole. Hope needs to underscore more in today's media to combat the daily doomscroll.
I can't speak to your personal situation, but the bleak outlook on humanity in general is largely a construct of instant global 24-hour news media. I'm a little over one-quarter the age of the United States, and while many things are inarguably effed and need to be better, most of the decades of my life have been objectively worse than this one for more people. Yet the perception of many people in this decade is exactly the opposite of that reality.
As I said, we have a lot of things to improve on, but despair, especially false despair, is not going to get the job done - a little optimism can go a long way in terms of being able to visualize, then create, the world as it should be.
Very Sagan-esque, and meant is high praise. Written in Sagan's style as well, replete with the cadenced repeats. You are on to something here, Neil.
Did anyone feel that ever since 1960 to 90 to 2020 it’s become more and more recognisable what life’ll be like in 30 years ???
Great video. I just think that ppl of developed nations in 1960 and 1990 over predicted what was possible, living on the moon for example, longer life span, and there’s at least one sci fi writer that predicted we’d be further ahead than we currently are. What’s holding us back is landlording, renting, lack of owner-occupation of pples own homes and no gold standard???
Every generation says that. But the point is they've all been wrong. You are probably wrong too. There will be changes coming that no one can predict.
Who knew 30 years ago that a political faction that criticized the honest mainstream media for being "liberal" would successfully create an alt-right media to trap their die-hard followers with propaganda, such that they don't know where or how to fact-find independently of that and their social "media" network?
No, the accelerating pace of advancement in several areas has made it clear that predicting the next 30 years is going to be even more challenging, which is a little concerning, because we really need a crystal ball now, perhaps more than ever...
@@oscar_sheen Good points. We could have had an outpost on the moon like Antarctica (but then there'd be a list of astronauts who died in the effort) or just an Apollo trip once a year.
Your other points suggest bad economics, which I agree with. But the end of the video says this chapter was "Exploration and Discovery" which he meant for technology, instead of other aspects of social studies.
Well done!!!! Love that deep, calm voice. So easy on the ears. When you get worked up, your voice is not pleasant.
Amazing video, we take so much for granted. As for the next 30 years it's even harder to predict than previous decades due to being close to general AI, future is and will be wild.
Yes we'll just have to see if AI will have the role as we think and imagine it right now, or will it be something compeletly different that we can't currently comprehend. A lot of people are panicking and being against it, but in the end like other previous big inventions that were met with negativity, it may not be that doom and gloomy. We'll have to see with time.
Thanks for being a light in our world of darkness.
Loving these videos Neil ❤
The biggest jump I believe is access to knowledge. In the 1980s I remember ask teachers and parents how things work, and they often didn't know. Now with the internet internet you have instant access to everything. You can learn so much faster. This has massively increased human productivity.
Access to information is more accurate way to say.
My prediction for 2050 is like, I will become a scientist like dr Tyson but not a astrophysicist , just a physicist
I'm so grateful that I have seen so many changes. It means that I can explain to my kiddo that life in this world will change, and their job is to help advance that change. I have high hopes, knowing the brain that exists in said kiddo.
By 2050 we will have hyperloop complete
Lmao no
great video, great narration
Great video, exponential growth is so difficult to grasp for the average human. Even since 2020 when this narration was created, the emergence of AI has had a huge impact.
It's not hard to grasp. What do you mean?
@@pnut3844ablefor the AVERAGE human.
What a narration: eloquent and educative.
Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
What a great video!!! Thank you!!
Masterfully done!
Wow you actually mentioned Starley, he started off with bicycles and then moved onto motor cars with a company called Swift Motor company. And that all happened in my city Coventry. Birthplace of the jet engine too.
but i love that its not a podcast format and is edited like this. dont lose the cohost tho
This is absolutely fantastic!
Literally the bright side of the future and future predictions is one of those things that contributes that doesn’t make me fall to any kind of depression, because whenever I just start to even imagine about the bright side of the future, it overwhelms we with joy and excitement that there isn’t any room for depression to come in or any kind of mental health issue so far at least!
I am about 3.5 minutes in Neil, and I have to say that this feels like back on point. Keep more of this style video coming, please!
This video has me so hyped for the future
Wowweeee star talk team! That was incredible ❤👏
Neil, you got me thinking on how old is the technology I am working with at our company…and what is the current state of things in our industry. Will our products exist in 10 years? Time for a full tech revolution, right away. Thank you!
what a wonderful historical trip!
Wow this is good.. Getting those Cosmos feels...❤
I really hope Neil is with us in 2050 and can do an update video to this.
He'll be in his 90s if he's still alive then
I'm very exciting about the upcoming inventions 😊
I’ve heard that my great grandfather was a brilliant futurist. Back in the 60s he foresaw the creation of portable devices that could storage large amounts of data like videos, music and documents.
Funny enough, the thing that blew his mind the most was the popularity of bottled water, from his perspective it was inconceivable that people would pay for something that used to be free for everyone.
It reminds me of the Indians having a hard time processing the fact that the English could “own” lands. They just assumed the land was something everyone shared.
My father was born in 1906…delivered ice with wagons as a kid. He died in 1995. Served in WW2 as a field surgeon. It’s hard to imagine the things that he saw and did.
omg this was so good, it made me tear up a few times. been really depressed and hopeless about the future lately, this helped a lot
This is such a good video. Thanks for the hopeful encouraging message. Excited to see what’s coming next
Innovation doesn't just happen. It happens by action of questioning the norm and also grows out of failure and perseverance from pursuing an idea or building upon existing concepts, to make them more capable and efficient.
Wow, what a great movie. Thank you so much 😊
We had a lesson in my class about liquid modernity and how rapid changes affect us on an individual scale
Dr Tyson, what an awesome and inspiring narration...
There is hope...
Thank you...
Beautiful video, thank you so much Dr. Tyson!
I have Epilepsy and you truly brought me to tears when you said your future predictions. Neil I'm so dedicated to your mind set!
WOW!! This was a treat! Thanks Neil!
I'm innovating with technology i didn't even think of years ago, the stream is becoming very organic.
Neil knows how to make the seemingly difficult to teach or understand easy to consume, great teach