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  • @gaiuscaligula2229
    @gaiuscaligula2229 4 года назад +1336

    They're pretty accurate to be honest, the Dad even has 3 monitors set up for the ultimate gaming experience.

    • @farbodpirouz2457
      @farbodpirouz2457 4 года назад +27

      Give or take a few years

    • @karagdagangimpormasyon4736
      @karagdagangimpormasyon4736 3 года назад +4

      😂

    • @joeybaseball7352
      @joeybaseball7352 3 года назад +11

      Yeah but not in 1999

    • @trentonturner5820
      @trentonturner5820 3 года назад

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      I was dumb lost the account password. I appreciate any tricks you can give me

    • @asacase3545
      @asacase3545 3 года назад +1

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  • @trbd
    @trbd 4 года назад +562

    Impressive how they predicted online classes down to the crippling boredom as reflected in James' entire body language

  • @Real_Iron_Smith
    @Real_Iron_Smith 2 года назад +110

    Shockingly accurate, they got online shopping, online communication, banking, classes... about the only thing they didn't predict was that all of those things would use one unified system, the internet.

    • @kirdot2011
      @kirdot2011 Год назад +11

      And the fact that the bills would be sent to husband to pay LOL they sure got that wrong... everyone pays for themselves!

    • @promontorium
      @promontorium Год назад +8

      But it did predict that internet. All the internet is is computers plugged together. Inb4 networking, protocols, etc. yeah yeah I have degrees and certificates in the field. The internet is still just computers plugged together.

    • @TheAmericanCatholic
      @TheAmericanCatholic Год назад

      The internet was a thing in 1967 it just wasn’t public instead it for invented for military applications it was called ARPANET.

  • @arkady714
    @arkady714 Год назад +92

    In 1976, my 8th grade history teacher told us that one day our TV's would be like a framed a picture that we would actually hang on our walls to watch. Our families being owners of console TV's and Sony Trinotrons, we laughed. That said, this video is pretty darned accurate!

    • @Omgiamsotriggered
      @Omgiamsotriggered Год назад +13

      Not only that, theres a literal "frame tv" by Samsung which acts as a painting when its off. So your teacher was in a way 100% right

    • @arkady714
      @arkady714 Год назад +11

      @@Omgiamsotriggered It really was spot on. And I remember being one of those who laughed. Who ever heard of a TV that you hang on a wall like a painting? Who ever heard about doing your entire day job from a computer at home? Haaaa-ha-ha! Who ever heard of even OWNING a computer (unless, of course, you were a millionaire philanthropist and kept it in a cave deep beneath stately Wayne Manor)?

    • @konliner9286
      @konliner9286 7 месяцев назад

      In the 90s, my teacher said one day ppl would buy things online and I laughed at it, thinking its a nerd's fantasy.

    • @davidh9844
      @davidh9844 6 месяцев назад

      Mid 1950s, one of my science books spoke of hanging TVs. And the comic books had them on Krypton. It was just a matter of time. (About 50 years.)

    • @arkady714
      @arkady714 6 месяцев назад

      @@konliner9286And now, go figure, there are things that you need that you can ONLY buy online! I run a chess club…and now certain tournament supplies are only available on the wholesaler’s website! Jeez…

  • @davidbrown8303
    @davidbrown8303 6 лет назад +786

    I can't wait till 1999 gets here.

  • @theheavy4813
    @theheavy4813 4 года назад +324

    1:12 they even predicted online classes lol

  • @yanapompom
    @yanapompom 3 года назад +542

    It's funny how they imagined this type of life to be cool and we are now sick of isolation, processed foods, instant meals, and too much screen time.

  • @mmmike4544
    @mmmike4544 6 лет назад +328

    These predictions weren't even bad. Most of them were quite accurate.

    • @kriss3d
      @kriss3d 3 года назад +20

      They were amazingly spot on. Not even just close but REALLY close

  • @ModelosPR
    @ModelosPR 6 лет назад +493

    Narrator: "And here we see billy, hiding from his parents, watching shota manga on his mobile device."

  • @Usaminanako55
    @Usaminanako55 6 лет назад +491

    1960 : I bet there will be flying cars in the future
    2018: Eating tide pods challenge

    • @mensa517
      @mensa517 6 лет назад +1

      already here

    • @nickworster4627
      @nickworster4627 6 лет назад +5

      Falah Alifandi the new cool ranch Tide Pods are really good

    • @nja3224
      @nja3224 5 лет назад +2

      I like what you did there, lol. Sad but true.

    • @gochem3013
      @gochem3013 5 лет назад +2

      2019: You fool! There is no flying cars!

    • @TaruOwO
      @TaruOwO 4 года назад +3

      Wouln’t flyng ”cars” be called something else? I doubt they’d be cars anymore at that point.

  • @geoffk777
    @geoffk777 3 года назад +109

    All things considered, they didn't do too badly. Remember that the Internet was years away, and computer networking was in a primitive state. Having even a single computer in a home was science fiction, as they cost as much as an average house.
    Actually, the most amazing thing is that the "History Channel" showed some actual history, instead of nonsense about Ancient Astronauts and UFOs.

    • @BrandNew777
      @BrandNew777 Год назад +2

      I bet in 60 years time people will be laughing at 'nonsense Sci fi' comment as much as they laughed at 1960's people who said we would have computers in every home in 60 years

    • @promontorium
      @promontorium Год назад

      It fits History Channel just repackaged this video that's been on RUclips forever.

    • @nedludd7622
      @nedludd7622 Год назад

      There were no home machines in 1967.

    • @geoffk777
      @geoffk777 Год назад

      @@nedludd7622 Nope, there weren't. The first 8-bit home compters were almost a decade later. BUT this video is predicting the "future" world of 1999. And PCs and home internet were actually pretty common by then.

    • @nedludd7622
      @nedludd7622 Год назад

      @@geoffk777 In college, I used mainframes on FORTRAN in the late 60's. Boring. Then in '70 came in terminals with BASIC. So much better. I was introduced to those by an art teacher of all people. A few years later he quit to join something called Apple.
      After college, I dropped out of the field to do other things, otherwise I would be rich. I only got back into at the time of the terrible Windows 3 which I had to use for work. Just to give you a perspective.

  • @finnross4825
    @finnross4825 6 лет назад +164

    They got some stuff right

    • @kriss3d
      @kriss3d 3 года назад +6

      Some stuff ? If you see past the outdated specifics of the consoles. What you see is distance education via Teams, intelligent fridges that can order food when you run out, microwaves and portiion size frozen food, online shopping and paying bills as well as waste recycle and the idea of modular homes.
      We have EXACTLY that today. Its so spot on that its insane.

    • @NeilK37
      @NeilK37 2 года назад +1

      @@kriss3d Only microwave ovens/frozen food were in widespread use in 1999. Online shopping was in it's infancy then which hardly anybody did as their weren't many shops that offered it and the internet wasn't anywhere as easy to access as it is now, most people still paid bills via cheques. There was hardly any online learning in schools or homes either. No fridges that could order food in 99 either, even in 2022 hardly anyone has a fridge that can order food.

    • @kriss3d
      @kriss3d 2 года назад

      @@NeilK37 sure.. But they do exist. So it's quite accurate in terms of the technology. Just not if it became popular.

    • @johnp139
      @johnp139 6 месяцев назад

      @@kriss3dNo, we don’t.

    • @kriss3d
      @kriss3d 6 месяцев назад

      @@johnp139 Which of those things dont we have today ?

  • @rickrickrick5317
    @rickrickrick5317 3 года назад +68

    I wonder what these actors in this film thought when they actually experienced 1999 and remembered this film

  • @firefightervic
    @firefightervic 3 года назад +41

    We're living in the time people could only dream about and yet we can't stop fighting.

    • @mistycloud4455
      @mistycloud4455 3 года назад

      Trump

    • @LucasFernandez-fk8se
      @LucasFernandez-fk8se 3 года назад +4

      It’s rlly not that great. Literally we live BARELY differently then we did in 1970. We drive to work, we do jobs, we drive home, we go grocery shopping, we cut the grass, we cook dinner etc. the only thing is now we have social degeneracy (high rates of single motherhood, people are becoming nastier to one another, people are letting themselves go, people are becoming and acting dumber etc) otherwise we live very similar familial and chore lives as we did 50 years ago. Now we just stare at our phones and own McMansions rather then some dinky 1200 sqft ranch

    • @humanoid2545
      @humanoid2545 2 года назад +1

      we could change our fight to be grateful

    • @politicallyambiguous8424
      @politicallyambiguous8424 2 года назад

      @@LucasFernandez-fk8se And more and more wealth going to the rich while wages/salaries stagnate during the best of times and often effectively go down, with these economic elites being the overlords of an increasingly dysfunctional political system.
      People often have less economic stability than decades past, with the middle class becoming an empty husk of its former self.

    • @jamesc7286
      @jamesc7286 Год назад +1

      @@LucasFernandez-fk8se There are countless exceptions, but at least people are generally more tolerant. I am married to a woman of a different race. It's nothing now. Two generations ago it would have been a huge deal. We still have a VERY long way to go, though, but we have made net positive overall progress in this area.

  • @c0c0andc0
    @c0c0andc0 6 лет назад +406

    Thats how you realize how technological advances are much easier to predict than social ones 😂

    • @horminmangfi5653
      @horminmangfi5653 4 года назад +1

      Of course

    • @peka2478
      @peka2478 3 года назад +2

      well, most predictions were horribly wrong, even tech ones;
      Just these here were rather lucky.

    • @LucasFernandez-fk8se
      @LucasFernandez-fk8se 3 года назад

      Well to be fair if in 2010 if you told people we would be living in a quasi communist country where not calling someone by Zi or Zir could cause grown adults to have temper tantrums and get you fired from your job via Twitter mob they would look at you like your crazy

    • @glacierlegion9439
      @glacierlegion9439 3 года назад

      @@LucasFernandez-fk8se if in 2010 you were told that schizophrenics controlled 50% of america you would probably laugh

    • @Jocelyn_Jade
      @Jocelyn_Jade 3 года назад +1

      @@LucasFernandez-fk8se That’s actually not very common at all.

  • @reprovedcandy
    @reprovedcandy 2 года назад +11

    I love how the online store had absolutely no UI or even pricing information

    • @calebfuller4713
      @calebfuller4713 Год назад +7

      The wife doesn't need to worry about the prices. All the bills go to her husband to be paid! 😂

  • @lifegonewrm9445
    @lifegonewrm9445 2 года назад +15

    It's funny because even though they are talking about a digitalized world, they are still very connected to the real world. Take the "online shopping" for example, in their scenario, they are looking at a video of the real world, the physical store is still involved, whereas currently with online shopping, you don't even need a physical store.

  • @gianniiangianan4888
    @gianniiangianan4888 6 лет назад +256

    Most of their computers are all in our smartphones lmao

    • @PersonOfBook
      @PersonOfBook 4 года назад +18

      This was about 1999.

    • @arthurdsouza10
      @arthurdsouza10 4 года назад

      You are a few months further in the future.

    • @NightSprinter
      @NightSprinter 4 года назад +7

      We have dozens upon dozens of 1960s-1980s mainframes in our pockets now, that gets mainly used for phone calls, e-mails, texting, and social messaging.

    • @MrIreland4ever
      @MrIreland4ever 4 года назад +14

      The smartphone of now is more powerful then any computers of the eighties and probably half of the 90's

  • @Mike-pj1kv
    @Mike-pj1kv 3 года назад +80

    They forgot to show that dad had to change his password again due to a security breach, but forgot his pin code.

  • @Titus.21
    @Titus.21 3 года назад +57

    And hear you find Jimmy watching “the hub” on his family central computer

  • @MiguelAngel-dm9hx
    @MiguelAngel-dm9hx 3 года назад +34

    RIP to the actress that played the mom. Marj Dusay (1936-2020)

    • @josephgaviota
      @josephgaviota 3 года назад

      INTERESTING! Love the trivia!

    • @mel816
      @mel816 Год назад +3

      It must have been awesome for her to live to see the things they acted out in this video become real.

    • @uncletoby-
      @uncletoby- 11 месяцев назад +1

      The guy that played Dad ir Game Show Host Wink Martindale. He’s alive and well at 90 years old.

    • @clifftarrance
      @clifftarrance 5 месяцев назад

      @@uncletoby- I hope he’s forgiven his wife for buying clothes.

    • @uncletoby-
      @uncletoby- 5 месяцев назад

      @@clifftarrance He’s a Millionaire. I’m sure has.

  • @Barttoocool
    @Barttoocool 4 года назад +55

    1960s: By 2020, flying cars
    2020: Planes don't fly

  • @crystalelk
    @crystalelk 6 лет назад +23

    This was so insightful for the 60's. But as a child watching the Jetson's I seen all these thing's we have today! Very cool to see none the less!

    • @joestrike8537
      @joestrike8537 Год назад +2

      was JUST thinking about that show! (When are they going to make a live-action "Jetsons" movie?!)

    • @oirampeceda2409
      @oirampeceda2409 Год назад

      Yeah, but we still don't live like the Jetsons, Astro man 😂

  • @michaeldunahee4537
    @michaeldunahee4537 3 года назад +66

    Son: "Mom, I'm hungry!!!"
    Dad: "Yeah, how 'bout some lunch!!"
    Actual 2021 Mom: "F--- that! Get it yourself!"

    • @kainweir3794
      @kainweir3794 Год назад +7

      It was a simpler time when women were women and did the job

    • @abacab87
      @abacab87 Год назад +2

      That was true even in 1999.

    • @blackstep_dad2572
      @blackstep_dad2572 Год назад +6

      Now the Dad is Mom and Mom is Dad 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @sreyasdesai4865
      @sreyasdesai4865 Год назад +2

      @@blackstep_dad2572 funny binary stonewall

    • @novohispanox
      @novohispanox 3 месяца назад +2

      Now the Dad is mom and the Mom is They....or Zem o whatever nonsense...

  • @oliverbrown5674
    @oliverbrown5674 5 лет назад +14

    We actually have a lot of this stuff today. Home post offices, on line shopping, smart refrigerators.

  • @thomaswiseau2421
    @thomaswiseau2421 5 лет назад +114

    1960: I bet there will be flying cars in the future
    2019: egg

  • @User-cb4jm
    @User-cb4jm 2 года назад +5

    Me watching this in 2022, as I take meat and vegetables I previously bought from driving to the store, out of the fridge to cut up and cook the same way on the stove or in the oven as my grandmother did 60 years ago. Some things don’t change…

    • @User-cb4jm
      @User-cb4jm 2 года назад

      Clearly anything that can be accomplished with communication and a display - banking, communicating, studying, has been made possible by the Internet and hasn’t really changed much in 15 years even. The real issue is the prep work and labour that goes into making a meal, no amount of internet can fix that I guess!

  • @danr2652
    @danr2652 3 года назад +4

    1960 : By the year 2000 and beyond people will flying cars and wearing space suits.
    2021: Some dude riding a scooter in flip flops

  • @jakep1979
    @jakep1979 6 лет назад +71

    The car at the beginning looks like "The Homer".

    • @tinyboi_
      @tinyboi_ 4 года назад +1

      The only thing that is missing is the dome in the back seat

    • @damntuff62
      @damntuff62 3 года назад +1

      It actually looks better

    • @johnp139
      @johnp139 6 месяцев назад

      Right, pretty STUPID! Why would you need 4front tires???

  • @christopherlucas4620
    @christopherlucas4620 Год назад +3

    The dad was played by later game show host Wink Martindale, who is still with is as of October 2023.

  • @tomatoself7825
    @tomatoself7825 5 лет назад +23

    1:50
    oh boy this wont be okay today.
    3:13
    lol, no

  • @roberthoward9500
    @roberthoward9500 6 лет назад +307

    The predictions were quite good from a technological point of view, the casual sexism was sort of funny (in an ironic way, as they made all these predictions of the future, but assumed that women would still be housewives and their husbands would earn the money and approve purchases)

    • @mensa517
      @mensa517 6 лет назад +22

      yet no one noticed that the tech is reminiscent of today's although ours is more advanced

    • @mufasaiam7794
      @mufasaiam7794 6 лет назад +18

      They didn't show either the parents working. The woman could have a job even though the husband was paying the bills.

    • @cameroncordova5786
      @cameroncordova5786 4 года назад +34

      They didn’t say that the women was a housewife smh. All that they said was she can order clothes from home. I hate ppl that try to make a problem out of everything

    • @retro4747
      @retro4747 4 года назад +11

      @@cameroncordova5786 welcome to 2020 lmao

    • @matthiasaarts1
      @matthiasaarts1 4 года назад +26

      @@cameroncordova5786 You’re making a problem out of this, he’s just pointing out how it’s funny. And if she did have work she could’ve paid for the clothes herself, why would the guy need to pay for all of it?

  • @lindaeasley4336
    @lindaeasley4336 4 года назад +31

    "Master James" lived a rather sheltered , isolated life

    • @reglook1
      @reglook1 9 месяцев назад

      Yes, this has happened to many kids.

  • @nikoc8968
    @nikoc8968 3 года назад +3

    the subtle humor in this is great. they really werent far off in many concepts...and downright dead-on in others.

  • @lukeswan2316
    @lukeswan2316 5 лет назад +113

    What the wife selects on her console the man will pay for on his console 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @theatomicpunkkid
      @theatomicpunkkid 4 года назад +6

      Yeah that actually sounds about right. Quote honey I hope you like it because it cost a bomb"

    • @danielkim7841
      @danielkim7841 3 года назад +6

      The way the husband had that pained look of disapproval and shook his head at the bill.....

    • @hellasboy900
      @hellasboy900 3 года назад +6

      Bahahahahaha they didnt take into account feminism, she don't need no man now lol

  • @eastmanwebb5477
    @eastmanwebb5477 2 года назад +1

    My goodness…this is great. I was smiling during the entire video while watching this on my iPad.

  • @uncletoby-
    @uncletoby- 11 месяцев назад +2

    Live long and prosper to the Dad, Game Show Host Wink Martindale now in his 90’s.

  • @AerisShenlin
    @AerisShenlin 2 года назад +5

    wildest off the mark is the assumption that the traditional family will still exist, with Mum dutifully providing the dinner and the son and Dad lording it up.

    • @johnp139
      @johnp139 6 месяцев назад

      Not to mention fashion.

  • @teejay3272
    @teejay3272 4 года назад +9

    That was AWESOME. Come on History Channel. Ya' gotta' produce "The Home of 2050."

  • @thgerasd
    @thgerasd 6 лет назад +33

    Some say he is still counting for lunch

  • @scifibri2376
    @scifibri2376 2 года назад +2

    Pretty spot on.... at first I thought the boy sitting in front of what looked like a huge flat-screen was going to be the computer or smart-tv equivalent but it wasn't

  • @dennisdeal3323
    @dennisdeal3323 Год назад +4

    That was pretty much accurate. I always have wondered. What the fascination with gull wing doors and a car that looked like it was an oversized Buick with a plexiglass dome was.

  • @the_truth_seeker334
    @the_truth_seeker334 3 года назад +30

    Reality is more spectacular than imagination. I wonder how someone watched this as a kid feels, if he's alive today.

  • @imperialguard28
    @imperialguard28 6 лет назад +37

    Heck, The Jetsons cartoon series in the 60s predicted we'd have video chat. We were off to such a good start. What happened?

    • @Ash_Howl
      @Ash_Howl 6 лет назад +8

      We do have video chat.

    • @user2C47
      @user2C47 5 лет назад +2

      @@Ash_Howl Only in some places. You can't use video chat if you have a terrible ISP. Today, I got 405Kb/s download, and the upload timed out.

    • @oldtwinsna8347
      @oldtwinsna8347 5 лет назад +5

      Most folks realized they don't want to have their face transmitted to strangers. Video chat usually kept to just family/friends, and sometimes not even that either, intentionally.

    • @matthiasaarts1
      @matthiasaarts1 4 года назад +4

      Well boy must you be happy with the current developments and video chat literally everywhere thanks to corona.

    • @DazedGhost
      @DazedGhost 4 года назад +3

      Thanks you jinxed it

  • @Zoomer30
    @Zoomer30 Год назад +6

    If they only knew that everything in that home office was going be shrunk down into something that it's in a pocket.

  • @Randolph_
    @Randolph_ 2 года назад +1

    Narrator guy sounds like the original voice of KITT, only with a lower pitch/tone

  • @lindaeasley5606
    @lindaeasley5606 3 года назад +14

    If you watch the entire feature , this family lives a very rigid , controlled life and " master James" seems rather sheltered

  • @nagatv8399
    @nagatv8399 4 года назад +5

    Feel sad watching this, how time flies and these people never got to see how 21st century looks like

    • @magicslave3066
      @magicslave3066 2 года назад

      What are talking I'm sure they did 🙄

    • @WestinsChannel
      @WestinsChannel 2 года назад +2

      Yeah, they sure missed out on all the divisiveness, higher % living near poverty line, riots, neighbor fighting neighbor, etc.

  • @anonymousmobster2444
    @anonymousmobster2444 3 года назад +9

    They just predicted online learning 20 years too early...
    And it hasn't turned out so well...

  • @joshuatraffanstedt2695
    @joshuatraffanstedt2695 6 лет назад +31

    Well just think.. This is the generation that put man on the moon. If we'd have stayed with the same way of thinking, there's no telling what life would be like now.

    • @honkhonk8009
      @honkhonk8009 4 года назад +13

      To be fair, the moon landing was all a political move to prove to developing 3rd world countries to be capitlist and to resist communism as capitlism is the superior system along with developing missile and sattelite tech.
      Still our society works similar today as it did that time.

    • @TheGuyThatEveryoneIgnores
      @TheGuyThatEveryoneIgnores 3 года назад +1

      @@honkhonk8009 The moon landing also accelerated rocket research which was needed to improve missile technology.

    • @CH-zp2rh
      @CH-zp2rh 3 года назад

      The man on the moon is all bs

  • @iwilltellyou..6958
    @iwilltellyou..6958 3 года назад +10

    I predict 2099 we'll be having computers in our heads

  • @dancepiglover
    @dancepiglover 2 года назад +18

    It’s funny that in this film the wife/mother is still the one in charge of meals and the husband is the one in charge of paying for her clothing selections. They didn’t imagine that she might be able to make the payment herself through the computer.

    • @abacab87
      @abacab87 Год назад +7

      At this time, women weren't even allowed to have a credit card.

  • @adriandapat1206
    @adriandapat1206 3 года назад +5

    1:34
    Results of your test:
    3 Wrong: You F L U N K

  • @bobsilver3983
    @bobsilver3983 6 лет назад +37

    One thing about the 60's, some of the coolest car were made...GTO Chevelle Cuda Roadrunner Firebird 442 Cutlass Lemans GS Charger Challenger Mustang Nova LeMans Tempest etc etc

  • @larrybruce4856
    @larrybruce4856 6 месяцев назад +1

    In most cases, all this is true today. Remote learning, microwave cooking, prepackaged individual meals in minutes, telecommunicating via cellphone and zoom, auto pay and auto billing, flat screen TV, remote payments. I can hardlt wait to se what our future holds in store in the next 20-plus years.

  • @rayoflight62
    @rayoflight62 Год назад +2

    Incredible how they show flat video monitors everywhere, when the concept of liquid crystals hadn't been developed yet, and neither LEDs hadn't been invented yet. The first flat screen in a movie was the display of a tablet computer in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" which premiered in 1968, when Cathode Ray Tubes where the only technology available for a decent display...

    • @johnp139
      @johnp139 6 месяцев назад

      Right, even in Star Trek they had bulky monitors.

  • @Angelcat710
    @Angelcat710 4 года назад +26

    They predicted zoom lol

  • @DL-kc8fc
    @DL-kc8fc 3 года назад +13

    It was a good estimate of the future, because he worked with the fact at the time that the technological platform of things would remain the same (luck was not taken into account). For example, if you want to predict the development of light bulbs in the age of light bulbs, it will still be a light bulb of various designs and many improvements. It was not taken into account that by chance we can discover a semiconductor junction PN, which will emit light, which immediately leaves the concept of light bulbs and creates a completely different development path of the luminaires. It's the same today, because development always turns to different tracks thanks to some new findings, and that's why we still don't have what we promised fantastically in the 1960s and we have something we couldn't come up with at the time. Some people who do not understand futurology may argue that, for example, when there was no television, people were able to predict it. Yes, but only when Nipka's disk and Baird's experiments appeared. This only stimulated the imagination of various technical solutions, because it was feasible. This is how Julius Verne "predicted", because his publisher supplied him with the latest news and experiments of the time from all over the world, and Verne only "improved" it. That's why Verne's novels with technical descriptions are "realistic" and that's why we liked these books very much.

  • @Ninten110dogs
    @Ninten110dogs 5 лет назад +22

    Most of this didn't exist in '99 in everyday homes, but instead in 2019.

    • @maxkho00
      @maxkho00 3 года назад +8

      No, most of it did exist in 1999. Personal computers, online learning resources, microwaves, superhuman chess engines, online shopping, emails, online transactions, rudimentary video-calling etc. All of these things existed at the time.
      In 2019, most of that technology has been streamlined or replaced by more efficient technology, such as social media and texting for communication and smartphones replacing all of those chunky computers and combining pretty much all of the functions described in the video into one portable device.
      I think this was one of the most accurate predictions of the future that I've seen yet. The timing of the prediction is perfect, too ─ go 10 years forward, and the prediction looks outdated, while go 10 years backwards, and the described tech doesn't yet exist. 1999 was the perfect year for such a prediction. Very impressive stuff.

    • @Ninten110dogs
      @Ninten110dogs 3 года назад +1

      @@maxkho00 ah, you do have a point there.

    • @RetronicBruh
      @RetronicBruh 2 года назад +1

      @@maxkho00 the 90s didn’t have Wireless headphones, Drones, Cyber Truck/Teslas/self driving cars, Virtual reality, touch screen menus/item showcase at fast food restaurants/stores, and most importantly the 90s don’t have Smartphones.

    • @maxkho00
      @maxkho00 2 года назад +3

      @@RetronicBruh All of that is true, but how does any of it relate to my comment? None of the things that you described actually featured in the video.

    • @omeganinjaboy
      @omeganinjaboy 2 года назад +3

      ​@@RetronicBruh but... the 90s did have Wireless headphones (1960s), Virtual reality (late 1960s), touch screen menus (1960s again), item showcase at fast food restaurants/stores (when has this not been the case?), AND smartphones (PDAs which, by the way, used touch screens and could even run windows if you so desired). In fact, VR was more popular and in the public eye in the 90s than it was just a few years ago! Full 6dof VR headsets with hand and head positional tracking were in arcades and could be purchased if you had the money (the company called Virtuality and their VR headsets come to mind). Nintendo's VR headset (which isn't a good VR headset due to having no tracking) is what killed VR. They launched an unfinished product and everyone dismissed the idea of VR thinking that the Nintendo Virtual Boy product was real VR.

  • @fite-4-ever876
    @fite-4-ever876 6 месяцев назад +2

    "hey mom I'm hunr-"
    "Did you just Zoom call me from another room to ask for a snack!? Sweetie please just walk 10 feet to the kitchen."

    • @johnp139
      @johnp139 6 месяцев назад

      It should have been a text.

  • @ivangeorgiev1714
    @ivangeorgiev1714 2 года назад +3

    That's actually just online classes and modern smart housing into one. How accurate

  • @damienleroy6894
    @damienleroy6894 3 года назад +2

    So funny I watch this video on my smartphone

  • @toyotatacoma1616
    @toyotatacoma1616 5 лет назад +3

    >watches this instead of doing schoolwork on my computer.
    It’s an abstract kinda feel

  • @asepsandi8302
    @asepsandi8302 2 года назад

    One of the most big blast masterplan for the future,it's being created in the past. Of course certainly in 1960s. Wonderfull......wooonderfull.......!! 👏👏👏👏👏

  • @bratticuss
    @bratticuss 3 года назад +5

    Internet shopping was a thing in 1999, along with home schooling too. It wasn't as fancy as it was today but we got by. What it doesnt show you is that wife decided to get her own career and the kids and husband had to learn to fend for themselves.

    • @TV6NY
      @TV6NY 3 года назад +1

      And still HSN was on every TV station since the late 80s.

    • @LucasSantos-ss6ou
      @LucasSantos-ss6ou 2 года назад +3

      "Fend for themselves" As in taking basic care of themselves and their homes?

    • @woodykusaki9970
      @woodykusaki9970 Год назад +2

      Try the wife not working and sitting in the house/partying all day while the husband and kids learned to fend for themselves.

  • @anthonyx9481
    @anthonyx9481 2 года назад +3

    I remember watching Knight Rider in the 80's and thinking a car with a tv monitor was the coolest thing ever, but I'll never own one.

  • @NorthernWisconsinandStuff
    @NorthernWisconsinandStuff 4 месяца назад +1

    Made in 1967. Prediction for 1999. Pretty accurate for 2024. Just 25 years off. Not bad.

  • @cochiselol1232
    @cochiselol1232 6 лет назад +13

    Mr Brown and I got along famously...

  • @quentinmoreau8687
    @quentinmoreau8687 2 года назад +2

    You will need a big house for all that!

  • @markrich7693
    @markrich7693 Год назад +1

    That’s amazing technology

  • @robert.dexter
    @robert.dexter 5 лет назад +26

    1960 : cars in the future be like 0:15
    2019 : tesla cybertruck

  • @scottbaxendale323
    @scottbaxendale323 Год назад +2

    They totally missed the greed factor baked into the internet and into home smart devices.

  • @kohakkanuva3224
    @kohakkanuva3224 Год назад +3

    the dad looks so disappointed in his wife's spending lmao

  • @carl7382
    @carl7382 2 года назад +2

    I always like the way they put an extra set of tires on cars

    • @johnp139
      @johnp139 6 месяцев назад

      Right, not only USELESS, but also extra expenses for something totally useless.

  • @michaelhalsall5684
    @michaelhalsall5684 3 года назад +6

    They almost got it right in this film! Most films predicting the future were usually amusingly wrong (jet cars, robot servants etc.) The only obvious omission here is any mention of recycling or home energy efficiency.

    • @TheGuyThatEveryoneIgnores
      @TheGuyThatEveryoneIgnores 3 года назад +2

      Instead of recycling they predicted disposable dishes.

    • @WestinsChannel
      @WestinsChannel 2 года назад

      Many people already have robot servants... from automated vacuums, to voice activated concierge service (Alexa, Google, etc), ring cameras, smart thermostats...

    • @johnp139
      @johnp139 6 месяцев назад

      Four separate computers so that they can do separate things??? Cars with 4 front tires? Husbands needing to approve wife’s purchases??? Pictorial displays rather than digital??? They didn’t get ANYTHING RIGHT!!!

  • @eddiesuarez5160
    @eddiesuarez5160 6 лет назад +7

    I regret not going to the army back in 2010

  • @Rayrockny
    @Rayrockny 3 года назад +8

    The Simpsons predicted we would be watching this video predicting the future.

  • @UwU-fo6ju
    @UwU-fo6ju 2 года назад +10

    They predicted small microwaves, flat screen TVs, computers, online classes, online shopping, emails, and fax machines all in one go. They even predicted Skype.

  • @youknowwhyimhere756
    @youknowwhyimhere756 Год назад +1

    The mom name is marj dusay she actually bragged to us that she was an actor for 1 of these but never could find it

  • @joeanthony9162
    @joeanthony9162 6 лет назад +47

    seems we should have stayed bounded in the 60s

    • @nickworster4627
      @nickworster4627 6 лет назад +2

      Joe Anthony why?

    • @joeanthony9162
      @joeanthony9162 6 лет назад +11

      Nick Worster , good morning. Why? Because of less worry, crime rate not high, education meant something, children listen, good ol fashion discipline, children had morals, sane as adults back then. Everything has diminished to the point that there's no other form of fixing this unless it was started all over again.

    • @nickworster4627
      @nickworster4627 6 лет назад +21

      Joe Anthony 1960s they were great if you were a white man. Black people didn't have the best time in the 60s even white women didn't have a lot of say or authority in the 1960s.

    • @gonk4509
      @gonk4509 5 лет назад

      Nick Worster
      50s yeah. But the 60s was a time of progress. The civil rights movement happens during that time.

    • @TheDeepState2001
      @TheDeepState2001 4 года назад

      Nah

  • @weathermansam2
    @weathermansam2 2 года назад +4

    Anybody here from Danny's new video?

  • @3eeeDee
    @3eeeDee 4 года назад +6

    I would feel depressed as the narrator, knowing that I wouldn’t be around to see this come to fruition :(

    • @whocares2465
      @whocares2465 3 года назад

      Well actually only the narrator really didn't get to see that but he died in 85 so I guess he saw the birth of technology

  • @musickfreek
    @musickfreek Год назад +7

    2:57 “What the wife selects on her console would be paid for by the husband on his counterpart console”😂 I guess they didn’t see a future world where women would be able to pay for their own stuff using their own money

    • @dennisdeal3323
      @dennisdeal3323 Год назад +1

      Until the late 1970's women were not allowed to have credit card in their name. Unless their husband or father were willing to sign a document giving that wife or daughter permission. Also some banks either were reluctant to or would not allow a woman to be on the mortgage or have one in their name alone. Yeah, it was that backwards..

  • @seetheforest
    @seetheforest Год назад +3

    The computers show pictures of paper invoices.. lol

    • @johnp139
      @johnp139 6 месяцев назад +2

      EXACTLY!!!! Not digital! How ignorant!

    • @seetheforest
      @seetheforest 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@johnp139 at least they didn't have a stack of punch cards.. lol

  • @wisemonkey9858
    @wisemonkey9858 2 года назад +3

    The turn of the millennium seemed so far away back in the 60s didn’t it. Yet it’s also ironic to think that the 60s were as far away from the 90s as the 80s were from the 2010s

  • @skipstalforce
    @skipstalforce 6 лет назад +3

    "All the information about this family is stored in the central home computer" LOL!

    • @19seventy97
      @19seventy97 6 лет назад

      Its true. Social media is on computers.

    • @user2C47
      @user2C47 5 лет назад +2

      @@19seventy97 But there is no central computer. Information is viewed on very small computers, which get the information from another computer. The consoles in the video appear to basically be television sets with a few buttons.

    • @oldtwinsna8347
      @oldtwinsna8347 5 лет назад

      Well, I have a NAS with RAID where i store all my files, including photos, videos, etc. I can access that info from any computing device, even remotely. Doesn't this count?

    • @the_truth_seeker334
      @the_truth_seeker334 3 года назад +1

      And sent to the government agencies.

  • @youtubevideo8820
    @youtubevideo8820 4 года назад

    This is a dream project. Ito ang tinutupad natin ngayon.

  • @isaivoid4935
    @isaivoid4935 4 года назад +4

    I really wish I could show the producers of this film what we have in the early 21st century

    • @floridanews8786
      @floridanews8786 2 года назад +1

      Massive amounts of debt and forced isolation?

  • @BMFstudiosNYC
    @BMFstudiosNYC Год назад +2

    1960s video about 1999: "8 year old Jamie calls his mother on a video phone. He's hungry and wants food while he studies."
    Actual 1999: "8 year old Jamie hides away from his mother and ignores her calls for lunch because he's too busy viewing pornography."
    🤣🤣🤣

  • @carl7382
    @carl7382 2 года назад +1

    The honey comb hideout. It's real big. Yayaya It's not small nonono

  • @annast3370
    @annast3370 3 года назад +3

    Most future predictions I've seen were wildly off, but these are surprisingly accurate.
    Edit: Yes, not for 1999, but it's still not WILDLY off.

  • @cyndexmagieus9054
    @cyndexmagieus9054 4 года назад +3

    Alot of this is pretty true, but most families are still not on board the microwave every meal train. And they said the dishes were disposable, which we are trying to get rid of. Its interesting to see what people of the past thought of computers. Im sure they would be slightly disappointed but extremely happy with what we have computer wise

  • @rizmid
    @rizmid 2 года назад +3

    I presume this sort of concept is lifted from Britain on film series from BBC Scotland. Where the subtitles were used to highlight the contrast between the past and present related to the subject matter of the presentation! That too is an excellent series to watch. This happens to be the American on film series a good mockery but with a positive outcome! A fan and an admirer from Pakistan.

  • @deztroyer76
    @deztroyer76 3 года назад +1

    Is that Wink Martindale paying those bills?

  • @thomasblokhuis6354
    @thomasblokhuis6354 2 года назад +1

    so cool that they imagined all these diffrent computers for diffrent uses but now its just 1 computer for EVERYTHING and WAY more!

    • @johnp139
      @johnp139 6 месяцев назад

      EXACTLY!!! How so shortsighted!!!!

  • @SlackJones1
    @SlackJones1 11 месяцев назад +1

    At least they got the car right.

  • @josephgaviota
    @josephgaviota 3 года назад +2

    Ah, when computers had dip switches and lights ...
    And, the Nixie Tubes ... classic.

  • @paulkile9998
    @paulkile9998 9 месяцев назад +1

    The worst prediction (and it is actually a throwback) is the continuation of the horrid condition that the husband controls all the finances. This was reflective of the time when the husband had to countersign all loans and bank transactions for the wife.

  • @collegeman1988
    @collegeman1988 4 года назад +5

    I’ve made fun of this film in other postings, but this video is the closest to being accurate about the way computers would be used in homes in the future. Sure, there was no Internet available to the public and HTML had not been invented yet, but this video accurately predicted online shopping today.

    • @TheGuyThatEveryoneIgnores
      @TheGuyThatEveryoneIgnores 3 года назад +2

      Cameras do not scan store displays in real time.

    • @josephgaviota
      @josephgaviota 3 года назад

      Before HTML, does anyone else remember dBASE "@, SAY" commands?
      It was really amazing how much well formatted data you could stuff into a 23 line, 80 column screen.

    • @johnp139
      @johnp139 6 месяцев назад

      @@josephgaviotaHow about basic text mixed with images versus just pictures of everything? FAIL!

    • @josephgaviota
      @josephgaviota 6 месяцев назад

      @@johnp139 I'm guessing you're not a dBASE user, am I right?

  • @weaverron3751
    @weaverron3751 Год назад +2

    wonder what the future looks like for us ?