And here we are in 2020s, it is weird to imagine that 100 years have passed. Watching this feels like a time machine because you hear a voice of a man in the 1920s explaining something to you while you listen to him from 2020s.
@@ty-re9or some countries especially in Asia don't provide better public transport like in US and Europe that it not so safe and so many pickpocket in public transport. that's why private vehicle is more safe
That would never happen, who would be so crazy as to wear them.And besides, no decent place of entertainment would allow it. I hope parents in the future would have the judgment to teach their children to dress properly and according to the rules of civilized society.
1918 was the Spanish Flue, by 1920 they had learned hand washing & handkerchiefs, passed to their children till the 1980s when the kids learned to ignore their parents
But the internet and smart phones are far more ground breaking and revolutionary than flying cars. I guess no one had imagined that. Since the industrial revolution predicting the future has become very hard we don't know what in the world next consumers will buy and so that the technology will go in that way
2:38 I'm fairly sure that is the Burj Khalifa silhouette😀. Really fascinating video and very accurate in parts, such imaginative and intelligent people, we have a lot to thank them for.
To be fair though, the city prediction was pretty accurate - a tad exaggerated: the buildings a bit too tall, the flyovers a bit too high - but our cities today are abundant with tall buildings, urban sprawl and far too many cars.
@Banned Fortimes You can say that again, Banned Fortimes! Personally, being someone who was born in the mid-1950s -- I turned 64 in February of this year -- I see and hear things on an almost daily basis, which remind me of how annoying any sort of "robotic" things can be. Anything from ATM machines to pre-recorded phone messages or cashiers at a store. (And when it comes to calling a doctor's office or a hospital, people are FORCED to endure the very boring and monotonous rigmaroll.) I pray that I 'll live to see the day when all robots are... that's right. The day when they are banned!
All the films of various eras predicting the future are always so optimistic. Humans have a forever desire for things to 'get better' or 'be better'. Sometimes they are and sometimes they are more horrific than anyone in the past could imagine.
Is because it's the work of the Ying and yang...when there's good there's shall be evil.. when's there's light..there shall allways be shadow...and is not like we are to be punished for our actions...is what order dictated
Yes we could go back and tell them, "You know that whole Spanish Flu pandemic you just went through? We have another one in 2020 just as bad." Which now makes one wonder what 2120 will look like.
covid was not the first one that surprised us, ww2, the cold war, all that bullshit just been fucking us up over and over again and we will never learn a damn thing
The internet is far more practical and easier to use. If driving an automobile now is too daunting and impractical for billions of people it would be impossible to expect the masses to successfully pilot a flying car.
It looks like a cyberpunk city. Definitely seems to be the inspiration of Blade Runner with all of those gigantic neon signs, enormous buildings, highways on top of highways so high into the air. Only difference is the cars aren’t flying.
Few things to learn maybe, if we wanted to predict 2120: Its damn hard to try to foresee the future Buts it’s a pretty good thing to do, and nice to record it for the ones who comes to live in that time People now would probably have more pessimistic views on 2120 than 1920 people had on 2020 But the view like in 1978 was often that mankind would have disappeared 2000 in a nuclear war You never know. Well, I predict most stuff thats annoying now will be annoying 2120. But hopefully fewer will be poor. And that there will be a lot of contraptions around that we even couldn’t dream of. An IPAD would probably have been seen as pretty cool by the 1920ers. As a Radio would have been seen as cool by the 1820’ers.
I have a terrific book about future predictions, from the 18th & 19th century mainly. Very few got even close. Big surprise was from H.G.Wells, in 1909. He predicted that all wars by 1950, would be fought in the air---FROM AIR BALLOONS. YET, the Wright Bros had flown heavier than air motorised Planes in 1903, AND, frenchman Louis Bleriot had flown the English Channel, that very year ????
i love how extremely optimistic the 1920s are but when we *finally* reached the future (2020, a year ago), everything is now a depressing totalitarian dictatorship with corporate characteristics and a fine mix of technocracy 😂
@@290198Nicholas It's not because climate change, it's mainly because economical inequality, which affects our lives far more than climate change (which is also bad of course, but we can't stop climate change when capitalism is world's system.)
@@astrocatsoft economical inequality are happened more than centuries ago that same in past, present and future, but idk in future are inequality gap become wide?
@@290198Nicholas Yes, economical inequality existed since slavery times. But in last years this gap is really becoming much bigger. For example, in Russia 1% of people owns 56% of wealth... Obviously, it's very unfair and wrong.
I'd love to keep watching but I have an appointment at the pleasure dome and my Turboglide 2000 has to go in the shop for new metapolar refractive pilfrometers.
@@kevinaguilar7541 we had many upon many safety measures to make sure our citizens were safe if threat of nuclear attack ever become a sprawling truth. There have been advertisments for nuclear bunkers since 1951.
نحن متأخرين بعقد او عقدين من الزمن جراء الحروب والأوبئة لأن أجدادنا تكهنو ان تكون السيارات تطير في زماننا غير أنها ليس كذلك حد اللحظة وهي قيد الدراسة والتجريب
Well they got part of the fashion statement right of wearing less.. If only they could see exactly HOW much less! And I don't know about planes storing all that extra stuff but some boats/cruise ships certainly do...
They also got airco and central heating predicted. Pretty cool. And I actually have dresses that look similar to the breezy dress in this video. They really did a great job
It's really hard to predict the future because history is multifactorial and not linear. For example in 1920 people imagined for 2020 rocket trains, but they couldn't imagine that trains would be replaced by the car. Or they would imagine housewives having robot assistants but they couldn't imagine emancipation or that even the term housewife would become obsolete. Basically, people exclude from future predictions things that oppose their current progress or values. Now we imagine for 2120 a fully democratic united digital world, because we don't want to admit that our tendency for centralisation and digitalisation can lead to a global dictatorship. Or we won't predict a world devastated by sin and crime, because we don't want to admit that abandoning religion and family values can lead to decadence. The most difficult part about future predictions is looking into the present without superstition
You know these would’ve been some insane and cool ideas for our future. But since WW2 and the Great Depression came around, it was like many dreams screeching to a halt. Would’ve been good though.
This last narrator makes me sad. No one on earth still speaks English so beautifully.( Eim naught heppe enne mohw! Or I'm not happy anymore.) At least we have the wax cylinders as a record. English was the only real victim of the rise of the common man.
1920s: this is the standards of 2000s Also 2000s: a sk8er boi just doin' things. So sweet, they thought in 2000s to now we built more Car Infrastructure, the future? B I K E S and trains. Something than NOBODY would predict is the Internet itself. And yet some things they actually got on point.
Technologies change the conveyance of human beings, that's the main changes, but the reality is we're just the same humans, many little details change but not us, we get wrapped up in imagining a fantastical future, when actually we don't change.
We’re just the same humans? Goodness gracious 😂 That is so distanced from the truth. Back then, the suicide rate was nowhere near what it is like today. Mental health, homosexuality, etc. were non-existent to the masses’ knowledge. People were mentally significantly healthier. People had stronger morals, they valued communities and they valued families. Very different on so many counts!
Yes, it was silly. Especially the transatlantic plane with passengers in the wings. I wonder where they planned to store fuel.That aside at least they had hope for the future.
I cant remember the prototype name but this plane actually was designed but as I remember they never finished the prototype because of the huge fuel consumption it would have needed. That would make it super expensive to run and thus economically it made no sense. It can be built though.
@@jurgenkoks9142 Are you referring to Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose?" Hughes flew it during a taxi test. It rose off of the water and flew a short distance. It was proof of concept, but it never flew again.
And here we are in 2020s, it is weird to imagine that 100 years have passed. Watching this feels like a time machine because you hear a voice of a man in the 1920s explaining something to you while you listen to him from 2020s.
yes, that's beautiful
I like your profile
@@HEINRICH000 thanks
Couldn't agree more with your pfp
That haas to be the most epic pfp I have ever seen...
'Speed from London to New York in a day'..wow! Can't wait for that to happen
Now that's funny.
90 minutes from NY to Paris
But 6 days from NYC to Miami on Amtrak
Back in the 20s trains went from NYC to Miami in just 24 hours
A 12 hour flight is one day…..a 5 hour Concord flight was under a day….they were spot on.
@@KK-pq6lu when I fly from LHR to Florida it's about 7-8 hours. Going is easy but coming back is a bit jet-laggy.. Worth the gig though
Actually, anywhere on the planet in 90 minutes is right around the corner. Ask Elon.
1:16 Well? They predicted traffic jams quite accurately.
Looks like my everyday drive to work! 😅
@@avalondreaming1433 why not use public transport
@@ty-re9or Too dangerous
@@ty-re9or some countries especially in Asia don't provide better public transport like in US and Europe that it not so safe and so many pickpocket in public transport. that's why private vehicle is more safe
That's what I thought...
Imagine predicting worn-out and ripped jeans.
That cost a fortune! Bet they never saw that coming, lol
Or leggings
That's a brilliant comment.
That would never happen, who would be so crazy as to wear them.And besides, no decent place of entertainment would allow it.
I hope parents in the future would have the judgment to teach their children to dress properly and according to the rules of civilized society.
@@VieleSpiele4Fun hello from two weeks into the future.
Such imaginative people! Many of those things came to pass.
Read Jules Verne. He imagined submarines, airplanes, telephones, fax machines, nuclear power, and much more in the 19th century.
I can't believe they actually predicted men having smartphones and boomboxes with them!
people in 1920 : in 100 years time, there will be flying cars
people in 2020 : just learnt how to wash hands properly with soap....
people in 2020: the world is flat.
They already have it area 51 not for public
@@dashaalisaforesthillsbriga5046 you mean the yoga teacher with the horrible monotone voice? ahahahaha. Please don't learn science from Eric
1918 was the Spanish Flue, by 1920 they had learned hand washing & handkerchiefs, passed to their children till the 1980s when the kids learned to ignore their parents
@@brackcycle9056 the history repeats....
1920: future is about flying cars
2021: future is still about flying cars
LOL 😂
Already built lol
@@NOBODY-vn6ni Already built but not a common every day means of transport
Nah in 2022 you get climate folks who will complain about the radiation
But the internet and smart phones are far more ground breaking and revolutionary than flying cars. I guess no one had imagined that.
Since the industrial revolution predicting the future has become very hard we don't know what in the world next consumers will buy and so that the technology will go in that way
The headlight on the woman to 'help her find a good man' 🤣🤣🤣
Yes, Instagram is a thing.
tinder i guess
This had me weak 😂
“Another designer goes so far as to believe skirts will disappear entirely in 2000”
That designer’s prediction was so accurate it’s scary.
Women: beauty, elegance, grace
Men: P H O N E B O O T H
Not incorrect either. That telephone is our smartphone and other things can fit perfectly in our universe-sized pockets.
Boy, would they be disappointed in the future…
2:38 I'm fairly sure that is the Burj Khalifa silhouette😀. Really fascinating video and very accurate in parts, such imaginative and intelligent people, we have a lot to thank them for.
That does look a lot like the burj!
Exactly.
To be fair though, the city prediction was pretty accurate - a tad exaggerated: the buildings a bit too tall, the flyovers a bit too high - but our cities today are abundant with tall buildings, urban sprawl and far too many cars.
Animation taken from real footage of the skyscraper cities of the recent past, cloaked in the genre of Futurism. .
Well the robots are a bit more advanced than was they predicted
Yes they predicted that in 2000. But in 2000 we already have asimo
@Banned Fortimes You can say that again, Banned Fortimes! Personally, being someone who was born
in the mid-1950s -- I turned 64 in February of this year -- I see and hear things on an almost daily basis,
which remind me of how annoying any sort of "robotic" things can be. Anything from ATM machines to
pre-recorded phone messages or cashiers at a store. (And when it comes to calling a doctor's office or
a hospital, people are FORCED to endure the very boring and monotonous rigmaroll.) I pray that I 'll live
to see the day when all robots are... that's right. The day when they are banned!
All the films of various eras predicting the future are always so optimistic. Humans have a forever desire for things to 'get better' or 'be better'. Sometimes they are and sometimes they are more horrific than anyone in the past could imagine.
Is because it's the work of the Ying and yang...when there's good there's shall be evil.. when's there's light..there shall allways be shadow...and is not like we are to be punished for our actions...is what order dictated
Look into Hauntology if the you think that is the case, but be warned it can cause depression in some.
Sometimes you eat the bar and sometimes the bar eats you.
You really gotta appreciate how Bioshock Infinite puts these ‘predictions’ into perspective.
Well, they got the traffic right anyway 😁
To be fair, even back then there was a lot of traffic in big cities. It wasn’t hard at all to predict this.
Well, the dreams were certainly there!
"2000A.D." 😁😁😁😁
I wanna travel in that era and drive the streets with a Lambo, windows rolled over while playing the most mainstream modern music in 100% volume
Listen to Something Human by Muse. A time traveling Lambo is used in the Music video!
imagine these ppl reacting to dababy or sum
@@flor473 their racism would roar
@@flor473 their racism would roar
1920: I wonder what future holds.
2021 - - - corona: surprise bitch!
Yes we could go back and tell them, "You know that whole Spanish Flu pandemic you just went through? We have another one in 2020 just as bad." Which now makes one wonder what 2120 will look like.
1919: damn i wonder what future holds
1920: supraase modafucka
covid was not the first one that surprised us, ww2, the cold war, all that bullshit just been fucking us up over and over again and we will never learn a damn thing
Does anyone down the comment "thread" even recognize the "Metropolis" clip at about one minute?! Peace
0:59 - 1:22
I think they slipped in a few frames of Things To Come as well.
Good eye! 😎👍
At 2:20, Batman’s utility belt - 12 years before he first appeared.
2:11 the only prophecy that came completely true: everybody is carrying a radio, telephone, a device for payments: aka smartphone 😆
i think the internet is a way more mind boggling and surreal invention than flying cars
The internet is far more practical and easier to use. If driving an automobile now is too daunting and impractical for billions of people it would be impossible to expect the masses to successfully pilot a flying car.
Instead, they got a war,
nice going art professor!
1920: "The future will have flying cars!"
The Future: "Gender is a social construct, still no flying cars."
Normie
They forgot the Social Media, CP, tablets, youtube, video calls and of course Zoom meetings😅
I mean Club Penguin isnt something any person could think up, it was a genius game.
@@cometaHavoc LMAO
cheese pizza
The hell is CP doing in that list?
This looks more futuristic than today lol.
Right 👍
It looks like a cyberpunk city. Definitely seems to be the inspiration of Blade Runner with all of those gigantic neon signs, enormous buildings, highways on top of highways so high into the air. Only difference is the cars aren’t flying.
Almost, getting there on most points. Bettered 24 hr flights, London to New York takes currently 7hrs 30 min non stop and 853 passengers in one plan
Few things to learn maybe, if we wanted to predict 2120:
Its damn hard to try to foresee the future
Buts it’s a pretty good thing to do, and nice to record it for the ones who comes to live in that time
People now would probably have more pessimistic views on 2120 than 1920 people had on 2020
But the view like in 1978 was often that mankind would have disappeared 2000 in a nuclear war
You never know.
Well, I predict most stuff thats annoying now will be annoying 2120. But hopefully fewer will be poor. And that there will be a lot of contraptions around that we even couldn’t dream of. An IPAD would probably have been seen as pretty cool by the 1920ers. As a Radio would have been seen as cool by the 1820’ers.
commenting on this so that people a century from now are more likely to see it
@@silvaskiproductions3937 maybe
we all will become gods in this century.
I have a terrific book about future predictions, from the 18th & 19th century mainly. Very few got even close. Big surprise was from H.G.Wells, in 1909. He predicted that all wars by 1950, would be fought in the air---FROM AIR BALLOONS. YET, the Wright Bros had flown heavier than air motorised Planes in 1903, AND, frenchman Louis Bleriot had flown the English Channel, that very year ????
Perhaps the world by 2120 will be able to finally agree in something
"Will speed from London to New York in a day"??? A day??
"90 minutes from New York to Paris"
They didn't envision jet speed! My aunt flew to Germany from NY in 1960, by four engine prop plane & it took 18 hours!
… “what the groom will wear-apart from a worried look-isn’t mentioned”… LOL!!
1:33 "It's the sleeves what does it."
They were right about everybody having the radio and a phone on them.
one thing predicted correctly for 2000's : traffic jams
Funny how everything is super over-the-top but then they severely underestimated modern aircraft
1:17 traffic looks pretty close to the mark...
Almost of all these prediction are reality that we live in today.. But as a human, we never be grateful for whatever we have now
I am.
i love how extremely optimistic the 1920s are but when we *finally* reached the future (2020, a year ago), everything is now a depressing totalitarian dictatorship with corporate characteristics and a fine mix of technocracy 😂
As we now we see pesimistic vision about future. Because of climate change in front of your eyes now
@@290198Nicholas It's not because climate change, it's mainly because economical inequality, which affects our lives far more than climate change (which is also bad of course, but we can't stop climate change when capitalism is world's system.)
Are you 12?
@@astrocatsoft economical inequality are happened more than centuries ago that same in past, present and future, but idk in future are inequality gap become wide?
@@290198Nicholas Yes, economical inequality existed since slavery times. But in last years this gap is really becoming much bigger. For example, in Russia 1% of people owns 56% of wealth... Obviously, it's very unfair and wrong.
So it's safe to assume that 100 years from now will look more or less like a slightly more technologically advance version of now.
They predicted the solar path lights, even the design ( 2:08 )
A movie which inspired Werner Von Brsun was "Woman in the Moon".
It could be an interesting subject of discussion
A Nő Holdoban
From London to NY in a day !
I can't believe that is achievable with a flying machine.
“Things in the future will be laid out in a master plan”…well here we are in 2021. Right on schedule. 😵💫
That plane was insane impossible to make and how can u make it Stand
like imagine how heavy it would be
I'd love to keep watching but I have an appointment at the pleasure dome and my Turboglide 2000 has to go in the shop for new metapolar refractive pilfrometers.
The 1920’s predictions for AD 2000 seems to be the earliest concept of a cyberpunk city.
I appreciate modern tech but the past is so interesting life was a totally different meaning and you’re decisions mattered every time.
Yesterday was a much nicer place….kids today have no idea what freedom and privacy feels like.
@@KK-pq6lu I agree
@Nope we made sure it didn't happen.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar it still wasn't a guarantee.
@@kevinaguilar7541 we had many upon many safety measures to make sure our citizens were safe if threat of nuclear attack ever become a sprawling truth. There have been advertisments for nuclear bunkers since 1951.
They were so forward thinking that they had a depression within a decade
Some of the famous fashion designers decided to F&$k us 1:24
I love how the way they made 2000
The hipster dandy with the cellphone holder, PDA, drink bottle etc.! Right on.
This's way more futuristic.
Film name is Metropolis
The only thing they predicted right about 2000 is the bumper to bumper traffic
1:10 and they predicted chicago
“As for him, if he matters at all he’ll wear a telephone.” 😂 well they weren’t wrong.
McDonalds everywhere
I don’t think anyone in 1920 was diabolical enough to envision fast food restaurants everywhere…..
The prediction of clothes for the 2000’s was the funniest. If only they knew 😂😂
They were right about the traffic though.
We were so close to greatness.
Some of these things look so good why haven't they been made
We could have got those very futuristic 2020 prediction of them if we never had world wars
Well some of thwm had it right this most likely our future will become retro futurism in the year 2050
"Men wearing phones" they got that right. Still waiting for the candy caddy for cuties. 😄
Looks like we are still in twenties... somebody stole our future
1:09 this is very accurate to Chicago.
Owww the sweetest idea of the future in the 20's lol
نحن متأخرين بعقد او عقدين من الزمن جراء الحروب والأوبئة لأن أجدادنا تكهنو ان تكون السيارات تطير في زماننا غير أنها ليس كذلك حد اللحظة وهي قيد الدراسة والتجريب
Allah will have automobiles in Heaven!
Well they got part of the fashion statement right of wearing less..
If only they could see exactly HOW much less!
And I don't know about planes storing all that extra stuff but some boats/cruise ships certainly do...
They also got airco and central heating predicted. Pretty cool. And I actually have dresses that look similar to the breezy dress in this video. They really did a great job
This means that 2120 most probably will be just like today with some damn few changes. Cool.
It's really hard to predict the future because history is multifactorial and not linear. For example in 1920 people imagined for 2020 rocket trains, but they couldn't imagine that trains would be replaced by the car. Or they would imagine housewives having robot assistants but they couldn't imagine emancipation or that even the term housewife would become obsolete. Basically, people exclude from future predictions things that oppose their current progress or values. Now we imagine for 2120 a fully democratic united digital world, because we don't want to admit that our tendency for centralisation and digitalisation can lead to a global dictatorship. Or we won't predict a world devastated by sin and crime, because we don't want to admit that abandoning religion and family values can lead to decadence. The most difficult part about future predictions is looking into the present without superstition
Oldee generation expecting flying cars
Also older generation seeing self popping pop corn:
The devils work
Nothing beyond 2000!!!
"Candy for cuties"
Dude started to eat the candy by himself
Somewhere put there in the multiverse there's a future exactly as depicted 😮
Seems their optimism was not fulfilled by us, as far as travel goes. Still, medicine has exploded.
1:11 leaked footage of cyberpunk 2077
So much optimism for abundance and prosperity for all, after such a horrific war. Yet, somehow like a bad addiction, they got more war.
Yes, notice how the theme was abundance, not green frugality and no mention of social services or getting rid of anything….
@@KK-pq6lu It was the roaring 20s. The economy was on an uphill trajectory.
The multilayer society, close to the parallel universes.
I guess women been looking for honest man throughout history and men been equipped with coins,keys and candy for cuties
im all for the suspension bridge apartments
Multiple radios in a phone at that.
The only accurate point on that prediction was the amount of traffic that would be in cities.
The heavy traffic they've got right.
Forecast what Eve would look like in 2018! “skirts will disappear entirely”
2018: 🗣IM TALKIN WAP WAP WAP…. WITH THAT 💦 🍑😾
You know these would’ve been some insane and cool ideas for our future. But since WW2 and the Great Depression came around, it was like many dreams screeching to a halt. Would’ve been good though.
It was pretty obvious that WW2 will start. And economical crisyses are systematic things in capitalism!
Адаптация моды 30-х под "будущее" выглядит как костюмы инопланетян из звёздного пути.
This last narrator makes me sad. No one on earth still speaks English so beautifully.( Eim naught heppe enne mohw! Or I'm not happy anymore.) At least we have the wax cylinders as a record. English was the only real victim of the rise of the common man.
Learn the history of English before making stupid comments.
@@davidhoward4715 how exactly would I do that, there's so many wrong sources to read that by the end, you've heard 600 variants off of one topic.
2:40 - an actual picture of Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
pretty accurate
1920s: this is the standards of 2000s
Also 2000s: a sk8er boi just doin' things.
So sweet, they thought in 2000s to now we built more Car Infrastructure, the future? B I K E S and trains. Something than NOBODY would predict is the Internet itself. And yet some things they actually got on point.
In AD 2000 I was wearing hair glitter and hair clips that were shaped like butterflies
1920: Future so bright. 2020: Yeah Na Mate.
Notice how your choice of government dictates the National attitude?
@@KK-pq6lu Bollocks.
This will get recommend to y'all sooner or later.😂
Technologies change the conveyance of human beings, that's the main changes, but the reality is we're just the same humans, many little details change but not us, we get wrapped up in imagining a fantastical future, when actually we don't change.
We’re just the same humans? Goodness gracious 😂 That is so distanced from the truth. Back then, the suicide rate was nowhere near what it is like today. Mental health, homosexuality, etc. were non-existent to the masses’ knowledge. People were mentally significantly healthier. People had stronger morals, they valued communities and they valued families. Very different on so many counts!
Yes, it was silly. Especially the transatlantic plane with passengers in the wings. I wonder where they planned to store fuel.That aside at least they had hope for the future.
600 passengers….they were spot on….
@@KK-pq6lu
Sure if they could hold their breath for 24hours. Don't forget they were allowed to smoke on planes.
I cant remember the prototype name but this plane actually was designed but as I remember they never finished the prototype because of the huge fuel consumption it would have needed. That would make it super expensive to run and thus economically it made no sense. It can be built though.
@@jurgenkoks9142
Are you referring to Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose?" Hughes flew it during a taxi test. It rose off of the water and flew a short distance. It was proof of concept, but it never flew again.
man, they really had it all figured out didnt they?
People predict future all about transportation. In reality: it is about communication: internet and smartphone
Yup! They predicted it to a “T”👌😂👍
He'll be fitted with a telephone, a radio and containers for coins, keys and candy for cuties.
All we hear is radio gaga
Modern for that period