One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) | RetroFocus
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- In this ABC interview from 1974, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke makes the bold claim that one day computers will allow people to work from home and access their banking records.
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"In 2001, your son will post a comment and people will like it" - Clark
@Stephan Kargel myspace, lol
I didn’t say that
@Stephan Kargel fb was invented 2 and a half to 3 years later, wtf are you talking about?
@Stephan Kargel what are you talking about?
Or he'll be a "first" troll
this guy died 2008, so he was able to see his prediction come true!
Edit: 17k likes? y'all crazy
Which guy? The dad, the old fella or the kid?
No Productions rlly? Dammm
No Productions nah, the kid didnt die
@@sorianomayflor yooo a recent comment
@@korewatori another recent comment
The man explained future internet like social media, online shopping, etc nearly 20 years before its existence. I'm so glad he lived to 2008 to see his words come true.
There were interconnected networks back then. Mainly arpanet. Used to connect universities mainly.
@@sgtcreasegrease There was also the Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) and UseNet that started in the early 80s. Some still exist to this day. The coolest thing ever was replying to a UseNet comment from 1984, and the OP replied 36 years later!
not really weird as the whole idea already existed for years before this came out. you can read it in 1969 already. read the first rfc.
@@vincentkrYet there was no prediction that people would still be writing without using capital letters.😱🙀
ARPANET (the first workable prototype of the internet) delivered its first message on October 29, 1969, from one computer located at the University of California Los Angeles to another at Stanford.
I expected to laugh at how outdated this is.
Instead im utterly shocked by how accurate he was and even how keen the reporter was to ask about a dependant society
The reporter already saw people wasting away watching Gilligan’s Island and The Brady Bunch so it wasn’t that much of a stretch.
@@jedijones What is that? Can you explain?
@@paulo0651television
@@jedijonesSpot on ! - just sit right and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip…
@@paulo0651Gilligan's island and the Brady bunch were tv shows, tho I don't know much about them beside that.
Arthur C. Clarke died on 19 March 2008, he saw his prediction become a reality
@@SFG92K how... is it scary?
@@SFG92K How do i do it ?....oh yeah ! Report !
Yeah, he lived through about 20 years of it ;)
Can I Get Subs? DUDE!! you know that the technology we have in today’s world seems like magic those who came centuries before us.
Author.C. Clarke said that “as technology advances it will become indistinguishable from magic.”
Ye he saw the iPhone a year before he died
And no i wont sub
"One day, computer will fit on a desk"
Little did they know that in 2020, schools are fit in computers
GG
_this comment_
😂😂😂
Bruh, that’s genius
TRUTH
"Everything that human can imagine is a possiblity in reality"
The greatman.
Pablo Picasso
except a god lol
@@MsDudette21Thats also a possibility
Back in the 1970s, we thought that. Now we know there are limits when it comes to technology. Computers, cameras, TVs, batteries, cars, aviation and space travel have leveled off in technology.
this is true, look at all the sci-fi things in star trek, most of them are in some shape or form a reality.
We have talking computers, autonomous vehicles, even 3d printers that can print food, a basic form of replicator.
who else got this randomly recommended 10 years later?
edit: where the likes cone from
Dude me, like rn
Me
I did as well
Yeah what the heck.
I was scrolling, trying to look for this comment haha
Little did he know that I would be watching him 46 years later on a computer that can fit in my pocket.
Little do we now too. Holograms and implants are just a matter of time. We ll probably have a PC in our head that u ll control just by thinking...oh shit wait a minute...
@@traktor321 wouldn’t recommend getting that shit when it comes out. All the elites want is control and this is the perfect way for them
@@keithcoen7667 do the elites drink blood asell
@@RANDOMGUY-yz3nk adrenachrome
@@traktor321 yes brains are definitely computers and if you r/woooosh me you are stupid
And now it fits in your pocket.
Even inside your brain
Thx for the likes
An soon it will control us
@@Xx32123 Literally, not yet.
But it has controlled some people's behavior, habits, etc...
@@lumi5056 no.
Crystalanims and soon it will kill us
Wow this conversation was word-for-word exactly what happened. Talk about vision...
Not exactly.... The intel 8080 processor was already out, and talk of microcomputers was strong. Microsoft would be founded within a year of this and ship Microsoft BASIC, for personal computers. ARPANET, the progenitor of the internet was active for five years already and banking systems had already largely migrated to mainframes and were working on their own networks. This is more like being in 2006 and saying one day everyone is going to have a personal computer in their pocket.
@@user-db1iu2fw8z sure, but for every one person who has visions of the future there are ten who are blind to it. Without people who can see it clear as day like him, everyone is stuck without direction.
Rarely does someone so accurately summarize such detailed aspects of the future …
You should track down a short story called _A Logic Named Joe_ from 1946.
“Could we become a computer dependent society?” Wow that guy got it spot on...
Just like we got coal dependent society. Or horses dependent society. Shit's useful
@@MichaelGarrity computers havent replace faced to face interactions either, thats a tired argument.
Our society was and will always be dependant on something. That we depend on computers now isn’t something negative. It’s just how it is and like everything it has it’s downsides but the upsides outweigh all flaws.
he jinxed it
Kevin Nguyen yeah no shit teachers and students are using computers instead of doing face to face interactions. We’re in a pandemic.
If computers hadn't gotten smaller, we could just have built larger desks
SirChasm Your To Smart
Genius. This guy is probably not human. He's a superior life form.
Can anyone give this person a nobel prize?
This man is too intelligent to be kept alive
This is underrated
"He'll take it as much for granted as we take the telephone". . .
Could never have imagined it back then, but now, the 'desk sized computer' actually is the telephone.
brother predicted work from home nearly half a century in advanced.
"One day a computer will fall onto someone's nose because they're watching this interview at half past three in the morning."
Wrong........ you are so wrong. Its 20 min of 3.
That would've really hurt in 1974.
Under-rated comment 😁👏
Literally what I am doing at 3:13am
😂😂😂
He should’ve replied: ‘That’s amazing. You really think we’ll be able to make desks that big one day?’
Sam Townsend found the dad
@@theadtheogrekiller5629 found ur mom
My kind of humour 😁😁
Or maybe...
"Amazing! But have you tried DMT?"
Lmao
Arthur C. Clarke was a brilliant visionary. The author of "2001: A Space Odyssey". He predicted telecommunication satellites in the 50's.
And I predict, we ll be able to bend space/ time and control gravity and transverse the universe in an instant ! and in 100 yrs England will be a Muslim state - I know it, its coming - mark my words. Be blood on the streets first , just as Enoch Powel fore saw. MARK MY WORDS ! MARK MY WORDS ! You've all been warned !! ⚠️ The 3rd anti- christ ( ISLAM) is coming 🤬😡.GOD HELP US ALL ✝️
❤
In 2040 people have own space ship! And children will be inventors What u say.
And yet some people can no longer write coherent sentences that are grammatically correct and suitably punctuated.
@@UkOutreach Nobody cares lil bro
The Dad's question was so simple and yet Arthur couldn't even give him a straight answer because Arthur already knew the Dad was spot on! YES!!
EVERYBODY has a computer with them at all times. It is a part of the way society is today sadly.
*For better and for worse.*
Who else is watching this from a computer that fits into a pocket?
@@juliaawad9552 A smartphone or tablet/ipad is considered a computer. They are built on the same components in a different form factor- CPU, ram, GPU
Julia Awad Friend, a phone is a type of computer device. Having a keyboard and a big screen isn’t what makes something a computer.
Nope
Well I got it linked to my tv so I guess
I am watching on a Vidro-Crankulator 3800-D.
That's right, the D series. It's the size of a large commercial refrigerator and YOU and I know it's the smallest private computator and videocaster ever invented.
So stop supporting this rediculous science fiction nonsense!
Computer in your pocket indeed!
Are you on drugs you hippie?
"A man can be anywhere on earth and still do his business"
Me: Watching this video while on the toilet.
Damn boy not like that 😂😂😂😂
When you said "on the toilet".... I felt that
Also on the toilet atm 😂
You can even do business while doing business!
Free same
here
I'm impressed by the accuracy of the predictions, and I'm even more impressed by the question asked @ 0:49 where he actually happens to address the biggest issue we have with the dependence on today's information technology. Such an insightful interview.
It is Arthur C Clarke after all….
Journalists were good in those days, did their research, knew their jobs, informed the people of the true facts, none of our Piers Morgan's or Dan Wootons tabloid Journalists back then. Sad.
@@hiwall4883 The thing is, there were bad journalists back in the day - but there were a lot more good ones than now.
I don't think the problem is that we're so dependent on it, the problem is that we suck at managing it.
He said this 50 years ago and today we are actually living it.🙏🙏🙏
We were living it 20+ years ago. How old are you?
@@BrickTextures-hm1uy Beat me to it, we're past this point now.
I don't believe this. This guy is talking science fiction.
What do you mean? Of course computers will fit on desks. I mean have you seen how big we can make desks?
Right? Plus make it too small and you might lose it somewhere. 😁
@@Dremag_Gaming Imagine losing a computer in your home, impossible.
@@Dragonspirit223 you ever lose your keys or remote?
Why would we need a computer on our desk? This guy is unbelievable. This thing doesn't make sense at all
This was 44 years ago
Now imagine 2062
Theoretical Physics
A more expensive IPhone
Elon Musk will prophesy the future.
The google lenses.. is one step..
Theoretical Physics 😨
If we make it that far. It's looking doubtful at the moment.
Wow!!! This man really saw the future with computers.
I love how he hesitates a bit. It strikes me as him clearly having a visionary insight of what will be, but at the same time not wanting it to sound too farfetched. Of course, everything he described would become reality and so much more.
Little did he know, little Timmy will get this video as a recommendation by the algorithm on his desktop computer.
upvote masterus so true LOL
Did that actually happen? I'd love to see his reaction
Wait until they fit computers in your hand.
Little Timmy's in his 50s
Unleashed apparently died in 2008
Little jimmy was smiling because he was gonna meet the local singles in his area a lot faster
Welsh Simon 'hey just what you see pal!'
'Der uzi 9mm'
Underrated
Boombox 5328 😂
and the not so singles.
Goat comment
It is 2024. I am from the UK. I have been living between Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Philippines for 9 years. I am Web developer living life as a 'digital nomad'. Sir Clarke was truely a visionary.
Why don't you just settle down?
@@Halcon_Sierreno it's a good question! I don't have am answer. Ha!
@@masti733 So you're just going to keep moving forever?
@Halcon_Sierreno well, most of that 9 years has been in Thailand. Phuket is a nice place to live!
@@Halcon_Sierreno There are many factors that we are probably not aware of
I'm glad this man got to see his prediction come true before his passing in 2008. He even got to see the first iPhone!
Sees little kid
Realizing he’s now as old as his dad
*Realizing 2001 was 19 years ago*
Lmao time flies lol
Time is relentless
The kid is approaching pensioner age
We don’t live very long at all :(
@@Mr.Obongo No we don't
now jonathan is in his 50s, not knowing that this video exists on youtube
40s
@@mustang8206 He looks about 5 years old. Which would put his birth in 1969. 2020 - 1969 = 51
ImABigBoi69 -- I just saw him too
@@dashl8880 Jonathan and i about the same age 50's
@@mustang8206 You really think this kid is 4 years old or younger?
Watching this on my mini computer in my hand , all I can say that this aged quite well !
this man predicted everything correctly
from computers at home for accesing information and logging into your bank over the internet, to work from home lifestyles and instant communication
I don’t think bank logins for customers were a thing yet in 2001, but I get the overall point he was making.
Back when the world was in black and white.
Fr good ol times 😔
@@Spottedhusky
but then god said bet,
then we all got tech,
and now we can see color
like it should have been
I just made that right now lmao uh I'm not gonna make it better or change it and just leave it like that xd ahha
@@dsi-films1264 you did good soldier 👌
I am done with you guys
sorry for whatever the helluva crisis I created in this comment section. Have a great day yall peace✌
Skinnyboyjan 😐
This is stupid, computers will never fit on a desk
Yeah absolutely preposterous ;D
Nor on a wrist
Pft, some people say they’ll be able to fit in pockets 😂. Surely that’ll never happen!
Next they’ll be saying we’ll have them in our cars and watches and glasses. Preposterous, precisely preposterous.
everytime you say “i don’t believe in computers” a computer dies ..
You could logically argue that Arthur C. Clarke had already lived the future and had returned to the past in a time machine. He was spot on!
It’s interesting how he predicted talking to a main frame, which we did back in 70’s but now we have the cloud.
1974: One day a computer will fit in our desks
2020: One day a computer will fit inside our eyes
They're working on turning your clothing into a computer as we speak.
2018: IBM can fit computers inside grains of rice
One day computers will fit in your blood vessels
@@ChickentNug nanomachines son
Azax Science yo
Plot twist: The old man is actually the kid but from the future explaining computers to his dad.
SnakeJaxon my brain exploded
you want to watch: time masters.
LOL
the old man is arthur c clarke. the guy that wrote 2001: odyssey in space before we went to space. that is the power of science. no need for timetravel or such nonsense when we have intelligent brains to predict the future. too bad intelligence seems rare in humans these days...
Based on his pupil dialation and speech patterns, i assumed the old man was just another cybernetic organism. Cyberdine systems, model 101 living human tissue over metal endoskeleton.
And yet, who would go back to the days we had in the '70's in a heartbeat if they could, raise your hand 🙋
Talk to the hand!
I'd go back to mid forties to grow up and live back then
I will go way before that like BC or something just to see how everything was and how it progressed.
In a minute. Nobody knew where you were or what you were up to. Awesome!
This has got to be the most spot on prediction from this time period I've ever seen. HE LITERALLY GOT EVERYTHING RIGHT.
**looks at the size of phone**
**looks at the size of desk**
he’s right, that could fit
No way! The desk needs to be smaller
What are you doing here you little rascal?
Swept up by the algorithm too it would seem
He said 2001 tho,if he was talking about 2020 he would've obviously said that it would fit in your pocket.
If he had said 2069
It would fit up your ass
I like how no one acknowledged that you’re a youtuber
Some people thought we would have flying cars, but this guy is thinking realistically.
agreed
Well, if whoever is ruling the world would want you to have a flying car right now, you would have one. We're sending spacecrafts to the space and we cannot build flying cars?
@@pogimtz9910 there are flying cars tho but nobody uses them
Flying cars are highly unrealistic. You know how dangerous that can be?
@@samc7381 very true. I recommend the video that Joe Rogan has on his podcast
This is truly the most intelligent, most prophetic conversation I've ever heard between two extremely smart people.
Clarke was known in the 40's for predicting that one day we would have artificial satellites in orbit that we would use for weather forecasting, communication, spying, etc. And he wrote _2001: A Space Odyssey._ So this is just another example of what a visionary he truly was.
We haven’t gotten to the point where computers try to kill us yet but I’m sure it’s coming.
2020: Going to school while in bed
Jokes on you, us Europeans have to suffer and go back to work/school.
@@cinnamonbun1361 so do people in the us
@@cinnamonbun1361 Some people who are too weak to attend school can do so through computers.
@@marvinavelar6746do you mean "so do we" not "so do in us" or whatever
2060: everyone dead
This guy wasn’t predicting phones, he was predicting computers in 2001, he’s spot on.
yes
He was only off by nearly 20 years...by 1980 everything he predicted was already a fact.
I like how specifically he mentioned 2001. Which was for me the golden era of the personal computers before the smartphone took over
Well, modern day smart phones are technically computers.
@@jdfleo8140 Not really. Home computers were just coming around by 1980, but you couldn't handle your bank statements or theatre reservations with them. They were not networked to do so and there was hardly appropriate software available on them. What he describes takes a desktop PC-like computer and internet in the home, which would be 1990s.
At this point in time im working at home and clicked this video, Im amazed by how Arthur was so visionary
wow this aged really well. You need to be a next level smart to predict something while being old and at the same time living way ahead of your time
Scientists: one day, computers will be able to fit on a desk
2020: 1000 chickens vs 1000 dinosaurs full hd battle simulation
Which was made on a desktop computer
Jane Doe I think that’s the point of the comment?
@@LogsMaggot lol some people
😂😂😂
Finally here's a good use of this joke.
Finally a prediction that was actually 100% accurate, no exaggeration/analogies required.
They missed the main use, pornhub
Robert it wasn’t a thing or never thought of probably actually nvm it was but it wasn’t a thing
Arthur C Clarke was a physicist and mathematician and a science fiction writer
It actually is not though. I'm nitpicking but he said we will have a console in our homes that allow you to talk to your local computer.
He didn't realize how small and powerful we would be able to make computing. He thought the brain would still be a big machine taking up the floor of a library or university.
@@ericbartha6313 Well I mean this contradicts my "no exaggeration/analogies required", but internet servers could be seen as a computer our desk consoles communicate with.
Arthur C. Clarke. Not a lot of people know this, but the C stands for Computer.
And now it fits on my palm😳😊
We take so much for granted. Good point!
Back when adults knew more about technology than kids
Still do you just don’t see those adults
@@sardinesinacan4248 kids generally know more about technology than adults. I know allot more than my parents I worked in automation for a decade and built automated machines even installed electrical systems but my kid schools me in how to use some devices drives me nuts because I'm slowly becoming the old person.
I know right
@@sardinesinacan4248 typically, the older you are, the less you know about newer technology. That's not to say that all young people are better than all adults at tech, obviously. If that were the case, IT departments would be ran by 10 year olds. It's a byproduct of having a young, still developing brain during a technological boom. A kid who grew up with a smartphone will be able to navigate newer tech easier because they didn't have to really learn a new way of life. 50 years from now, we're gonna see the same thing (possibly to a lesser extent), older people who aren't as tech savvy with new hardware.
@@johnedward2580 today's kids don't know anything about computers. The only thing they know is TikTok
1970: Massive Computers
2010: Portable Laptops
2015: Computers built into Watches
2020: Fridge Computers
Portable laptops are way before 2010... More like the 90s.
I’ve actually got a Ipad type thing on my fridge loooool
2030: AI becomes a new species on the earth.
@@michaeldeng1981 2040: AI becomes only species on earth
2025: phones with dual film cinema projectors allowing full home entertainment projected on your wall/1 terapixel cameras so you can zoom in on the moon to see neil armstrong's footprints.
*For those not old enough to remember, the first desk top computer that wasn't a kit or a prototype was the Xerox Alto released in early 1973, a year before this video was made. The ACTUAL prediction was what Clarke speculated the computer could do. When they came out in the 70's, we were like cool, but what on earth could you possibly use it for? We had no idea, but Clarke did. That's the real and far more impressive prediction.*
This guy was a true visionary
1974: “Computers will be able to fit on a Desk”
2020: *Ill be able to leave my house*
2020 and leave ur house more like 2050
I think you might have wait another 10 years just to be on the safe side
Covid-19 no one is going anywhere!! 😋
@@gamingwithnicko1942 guys, its called smart phones. Smart phones are computers. They are not phones. They just can be a phone. We don't use lan lines for celluar devices and for global connectivity we do not use lan lines for computers.
2050 will be more like : I am your appendage now.
Lmao
Little did he know that people would be watching this while sitting on the toilet
Sounds like me
Can confirm, doing a #2
I never take my phone to the toilet. I don’t know why
how did u know
Can't predict everything can ya nostradamus
He nailed computer miniaturizing, speech communication with computers, and work from home in barely a minute in 1974. "And for my next trick...."
One of the few predictions from the past that actually came true. Erie how spot on it was 😂.
*“Because in the future, we will have bigger desks”*
Lol
Ancient problem requires modern solutions
Oh yes of course! I enjoy this solution
Legend
😂
He passed in 2008. RIP. I hope he was able to tell people, “told you so!”
Turtle3000 I need a weapon
@@PlasmaStrider Wingman here
PlasmaStrider 7777 Mozambique here
PlasmaStrider 7777 P2020 here
(Got em Titanfall fans)
I think he must have said it between 1997/98-2002.
He didn’t dream big enough. I watched this on a computer far more powerful than the one in that room, with an integrated screen, small enough to fit in my pocket, while sitting on the toilet.
Back in the day, school teachers would say, "Learn your math facts. You aren't going to be walking around with a calculator in your pocket." Well, teachers were right in that we should all learn our math facts, but wrong about carrying a calculator in our pocket. If we knew then the technology and smart phones of today, we'd be blown away.
In the video, the guy was talking about having a dumb monitor on a desk, connected to a mainframe. He didn't realize we would have an actual stand alone computer on our desk, as well as internet, and no need to connect directly to a mainframe.
His bank statements, theater reservations, and arguing with people he’ll never meet over pointless crap, and memes.
elmagnificodep hahaha
All the important stuff
The internet has never been summed up better lol
elmagnificodep i hate memes i don’t think they are funny, and i don’t get why people are so Obsessed with it it’s just stupid
The two kittens Entertainment inc Clearly u don’t know about reddit
That Older gentleman understand more about computers in 1974 than a lot of people his age in 2021
Yea, and thats sad
My teacher .....
Ps: i come from Germany. We dont use PC or Tablets in school.
@@stickmananimations2297 he literally studies computers for a living although outdated its still alot of knowledge.
@@marcraft0077 Also wir haben PC‘s, iPad‘s und Smart Boards in unserer Schule😅🤣
One mindblowing thing is:
We carry around little computers (smartphones) with us every day which are exponentially more capable than the computers shown in this clip
I'm not an expert but my friend (aerospace engineer) is. He told me that a Nokia 3310 has more computing power than they used to put man on the moon!
I mean sure, they are much more powerful, but it's 2023 and I still can't do half of things on my phone that I do on a computer without headache. Multitasking is especially bad, just trying to read a book and use a dictionary at the same time is a pain.
Your phone is insanely more powerful than a supercomputer was. I've sat on a Cray computer (they have a ring seat around it). One article says your phone is about 5000 times faster than the Cray 2 from the 80's. The Apollo 11 guidance computer was 12.3K FLOPS, and the Cray 2 was 1.9 GigaFlops. Another place says the PS4 gpu is 4.2 teraflops. That's pretty wild.
@@yrysroda8592he's right that nasa com. Was potatoes
That's absolutely incredible insight for 1974. That said, futurists tend to be a little too optimistic.
he's like a time traveler trying not to give away everything of the future
This made me laugh so hard
yes
He speaks as if he knows something, strange
Stop just stop it
I've just watched the Netflix series Dark. Gtfo. Now! I want to sleep tonight!
"One day a computer will fit on a desk"
Me: * watches video from a computer that fits in the palm of my hand *
his prediction was for 2001. Smartphones weren't there yet, so this prediction is really astonishing
So can your palm computer can play GTA 5
If it isn't it not a computer
It's a damn phone and for a reason it's called phone
@ The Nokia 9000 had a weight of half a kilo but it included telephone, fax, email and internet connections it sounds like you had smarphone before 1996 unless you mean fully tactile the revolution started with the IBM Simon in 1994 and still evolve today with bending display.
@@test-em9ge We dont judge what a computer is by looking if it can play GTA 5
"A mobile device (or handheld computer) is a computer small enough to hold and operate in the hand." Straight outta wikipedia
@@test-em9ge computers couldn't play gta for a long time they could only do very simple things saying something isnt a computer because it cant play GTA is ridiculous you obviously dont know what a computer is 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
this aged like a fine wine
The best place to place a "this aged so well" quote, so here;
"This aged so well..."
It’s crazy how some people are watching this video with a small but powerful device that fits in their hand.
And it runs all day long on a 3 volt battery
A small AND more powerfull device than the one shown in the video
it is called smartphone😘
@@themooncow2644 Tens of thousands of times more powerful
@@sean5028 even a clock is ten times more powerful than this
Now Jonathan uses the computer to tell everyone that the earth is flat.
No! He'll say 5G towers are causing the spread of the COVID-19. But I won't lie, it fast doe-
😂
Karith yes it does spread pretty fast doe ;)
The earth may be flat 🤔 can you prove its not 😂
@@Rachie-nj3oi we have photo with him
The question is... who are we NOT paying attention to now, yet with such foresight they are telling us what will be?
I don’t think he even imagined a computer we could carry in our hands.
Damn Arthur C. Clarke died in 2008, that means he got to see his prediction come true
😃😃😃😃made my day.
Awesome. I am always saddened by great people not living to see their creations or predictions come to reality.
and my prediction is that we see soon the WW 3
@@Patttiat ;0
@@Patttiat People have been saying that for many, many years. Lol
Dang it’s crazy to think that the world was black and white back then, thank god the scientists invented color
It was even worse back in the 1910s. You couldn't even make sounds with your mouth, and what you said would be on a dialogue card from out of nowhere.
Man, have you seen how grainy the world used to be?
I thought it was bad in the 90's when everything was standard definition.
Nah man, It was even worse before the invention of the gravity, a nightmare at the coffee breaks
@@XeryuzRouge You foolish youth! You apparently don't remember back in the day when we didn't even see at all? How do you think Newton would have come up with his luxurious inventions, had Plato and Aristotle not developed sight?
Today it not only fits on a desk, but on a child's palm, a smartphone
"One day you would be replaced by a Software engineer named Devin , who would do everything himself"
I would be back after 10 years
Back when the world was black and white.
i actually used to think that as a kid
@@t6amygdala me too lmao
@@t6amygdala same XD
@@t6amygdala same but i had proved theory lmao
tHe CamErAs wErE iN bLacK aNd WhITe nOt ThE WorlD
"Computers will one day fit on a desk"
Me watching on my phone: "that's ridiculous!"
Well, he did say 2001, not 2020.
@@jetuber the joke is, s/he is watching it on a even smaller computer.
Immortality
Aishik Ashraf r/whoooosh
@@ClipCrew well said
One day a desk will fit on a computer. I'm calling it right now.
One day a computer will be implanted inside your brain
Arthur C. Clarke rocking it again. The best futurist we've had so far. So many of his predictions were spot on.
He's being way too careful with words, suspicious time traveler...
Yes, but about that profile picture...
@@Todija yes lets talk about that
@@z-chan946 nothing wrong with it
@@johannjohannsen What's wrong is that I'm not in it with those two.
I swear he was about to say "there will be great culture only found through computers, memes for example...
(⌐■_■)⌐ *dabs
Now Jonathan is addicted to World of Warcraft.
and poopsocks
@@Jono1982 yum
Jonathan is actually a lawyer in Chicago! sadly, he gave up computers for law
🤣
He lost his shirt to online gambling and shuffles around hostels drinking fortified lager.
Who else got this randomly recommended 50 years later?
33 years later, all of this became possible while also being able to fit into your pocket anywhere you go.
back then: adults teaching kids about technology
now: kids teaching adults about technology
How the turntables
@@SL_RivviN I want a gift, and only if its MONEY
Those kids become adult but they never learnt a single thing
oh how the mighty have fallen!!
So so true lol
“One day a computer will fit on a desk. And in the year 2020, people will all be stuck inside their homes watching us talk about it.”
"isn't that right? *Stares at the camera*"
it's... so depressing
When this guy sees it: *I SWEAR IT WAS ON MY MIND BUT I DIDN'T SAY IT”*
Imagine if he say that lmao
Not in Europe
He said ecommerce will also come into it. What a visionary.
This is an astoundingly accurate prediction from the 70s about the future. The ability to "talk" to the computer wasn't really developed until years later, but speech interpretation was still possible in a rudimentary sense in 2001.
"And many years from now, computers will randomly recommend this video to everybody on youtube."
Kid: "What's a UA-cam?"
@@RinJackson *magicly fading out*
Not randomly, based on an algorithm which determines which content people would be interested in, with increasing accuracy despite people's criticisms I might add.
"the ability to go on Reddit and influence stock prices."
Seriously imagine if we went back in times to add that to the conversation. One day, bunch of average Joe’s will meet on the computer and mess the hell out of Wall Street.
i KNEW I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE HERE AFTER THAT!
Oh boy, hello people in the year 2040 that don't understand the joke.
@@KGhaleon it is 2021 and I don't understand it. Pls help me
“He has the ability to create an alternative account on Twitter to conceal his identity and troll the Vice President of the United States.”
He nailed it. And 20 years after that we we'll be carrying them with us everywhere we go and staring at them all day like hypnotized zombies.
He would’ve said that but the reporter didn’t ask him to look that far ahead.
The video is from 1974, so it was published in 2014 and then recommended in 2024. Hello to you, viewers from 2034!