People in the 80s Making Fun of Predictions From The 60s
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I like seeing people in the past try and make predictions about the future. I also like seeing people in the past make fun of people who, in the past, tried making predictions before them, before proceeding to make predictions about the future, expecting that eventually people will make of them for……you get the point.
Back in 1965 BBC’s Tomorrow’s World made predictions for the future, in the 80s the same show revisited the topic, and now today, many years later, I will revisit both of their predictions.
Part of me was tempted to just make my own guesses for 2043, but they mostly included ‘smart cats’ and ‘smart hats’ and ‘smart rats’.
Consumer electronics, predictions, 1980s, 1960s, technology, futurism
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So, where are your predictions for 2043?
I find the radio earings from the 60s prediction fascinating as that is essentially what wireless earbuds are now. Were not tuning into our favorite AM/FM stations on them but they still are just radios in our ears just paired to our personal devices. About 30 years off the mark but still neat
I mean you can get a radio in your phone it's not that hard. Though it'd just be easier and simpler to do the Spotify or Pandora or just RUclips.
Yeah that was the best prediction but they weren't ambitious enough. When you pair it with a phone we don't just have radio earings. You can choose from nearly any song or album ever made, books that talk to you and actually anyone can make their own radio show now (podcasts) that you can listen to whenever you want, not to mention talking with friends and family. It would've blown their minds
@@cathalmp now I’m imagining a plummy 60s voiceover saying “its a portable telephone, personal phonograph, radio, intercom to your (virtual) assistant, and more. Technology is amazing isn’t it?”
I have had headsets with radio on actually, they exiqted briefly and never caught on really
You should have made predictions for the next 20 years for the next guy to analyse
Yeah comon Husk, do us proud.
@DoubleNN Did you read the description? The man shed some light on that possibility being limited.
@@osvaldolemus653 I want to know about smart rats
I second this idea
@@osvaldolemus653i think you overestimate the amount of people who would check the description without being promoted by someone else
I love how some of them just took longer than 20 years (like the smartwatch) and some of them were just too anachronistic (portable printers? Try paperless world)
I think that's what's facinating about predictions from the past, they were often wrong but not the same way and realizing what was a completely ridiculous idea vs what wasn't even scratching the surface of the way things actually turned out is really cool
I think the biosensor was too optimistic. It seems possible, but it would take some serious tech to create an automated lab to detect any possible ailment, shrink it to be comfortable under the tongue, prevent it from being destroyed or giving off any taste, and power it by biological magic.
@@JB52520 Theranos has entered the chat 💀
they never thought corporate management and bureaucracy would not be something people deal with 4 hours a day.
look at the boomers now. They STILL think life primarily revolved around powerpoints, reports and getting various documents signed. That was what they did. That was the job that slowly 70% of western people came to have.
Lol, that's why the economy declined.
portable printers did happen though they are used in restaurants to print receipts... well they were like 6 years ago
These videos looking back at old predictions being stupid are so entertaining
Absolutely!
especially if they are real now
Seeing bad predictions of the future will never stop being entertaining. Literally.
I predict it will never stop being entertaining.
weve been doing this since language evolved because that led to oral histories. so its been a human tradition for at least 100k years to make fun of old predictions
We did it.
We made a prediction that will be correct!
Bro I see you in the Shadiversity discord all the time, what are the chances of seeing your comment here lmao.
compared to your other "bad prediction" videos, these guys were actually pretty good. I mean sure they were off on the times these thing would be available, and maybe not quite right on how/ what the tech would be, but there is a comparable device that we use every day in 2023. well played tech nerds of the 60's and 80's.
The portable printer is actually a brilliant and obvious prediction.
As someone who's only ever worked in an office, there's a bit of an arms race to make fax machines, scanners, and printers better and better.
If your main machine goes down, your business goes down. Having a backup portable one is really freaking handy, and at my last job, EVERYONE had their own little fax/print/scanner that increased productivity by tenfold.
Those radio earrings are actually a thing now. I guess wireless earphones sorta count, you need to connect them to another device tho.
Earbuds are really close espacly to Apple fans who think they go with thusend dollar suits.
I think headphones that connected to the radio was around since the 80s or earlier though, ive seen them.
@@ThePaperKhan Yeah those definitely existed. But I mean headphones that have a built in radio in them. So no need to connect them to anything. Which I think is what's being depicted in that 60s video.
They definitely had them in 2007. I remember McDonalds had a Spy Kids promotion that for like $15 you could get a wearable FM radio
paper will never die. some times, it's genuinely more secure to keep confidential shit on paper in an office, than on a computer.
true. electronic data is annoyingly ephemeral for certain use cases
Yeah, electronic data is vulnerable to breaches of any software that it relies on, which can happen from anywhere on Earth with next-to-zero evidence left behind. To get papers from an office, they have to _get into_ the office, (hopefully) bypass some security measures, copy/take pictures of the files, and leave without leaving any evidence.
Is that doable for entities that really want to do so? Sure. Is it harder to do? Yeah. They can try guessing a password a million times, but not breaking into an office a million times.
If I need to read plans or drawings, I have to print it out
@@bane2201 That's why you're advised to have long passwords with different character types.
They can go ahead and guess a million times when the number of possibilities for a 16 character password is so large it would take like a billion years of computer speed guessing to get it right.
Far easier for them to just ask to be let in under false pretenses.
Seriously, just WRITE DOWN YOUR PASSWORDS.
Don't we make predictions anymore for like 2050? Or are we just collectively that cynic about the future?
If there is, I hope there's something fun in there. Not just A.I and Cloud Computing.
@@ericsparrow6286 In 2050, cloud computed AI will have fun (without you).
Wireless charging becomes so normal it’s regulated as a national utility.
Self driving cars are just 2 more years away still.
People wear phones like fanny packs and control them with their mind.
Wearable tech includes sexual enhancing devices.
AI disinfo is so common local news makes a comeback from Facebook neighborhood groups. They eventually become AI disinfo.
VR gaming is extremely immersive but the infrastructure behind it requires an arcade business to provide it.
Everyone works physical labor jobs because AI replaced expensive office workers in most professions. Min wage is still cheaper than building a robot to flip a hamburger.
Air travel is dead after the events of 2028. Everyone travels by supersonic ekranoplane or rail.
Thermonuclear warheads are discovered to be a very safe and reliable power source. It’s not our idea of a fusion reactor, but it just works.
AI is so good at predictive marketing that you don’t even notice the ads, you already pay for everything you want.
Fallout 3 soon.
They make predictions about the future all the time, just only about the climate. And you will be surprised to learn that previous predictions have been about as accurate as portable printers
Most people just accepted that there won't be any real radical advancement in a lifetime, The only major advancement that changed the world in the last 20 years is probably the smartphone
Here is a use of transparent pockets, it does remind me that in italy (mostly in the southern part) during the 80s women used to bring transparent bags because the criminality was so high that by bringing a transparent bag thieves would see that there was nothing worthy to steal and leave you alone
I was thinking of something similar, but for the present. In the US, some public events (like concerts) require clear purses and bags so security can see there isn't a gun in anyone's bag.
@@gabrielhermesson9926where do you get clear Sanrio purses?
No wait that's it, I GET IT
The reason he has all his cards in his pockets and not in a wallet is so no one can grab his wallet while he watches 3D TV in the bus.
Quite the stroke of genius, really.
Not if one has transparent pockets.
We did have smart cards in 2007. I was using them in college to get around the MTA (charliecard) and had my Uni Card for badging in to buildings and keeping a balance of my coogcash on hand.
The charliecard website probably hasnt been updated since 2007 lol
I totally forgot about those. I remember like half the time it never wanted to work for me
@@Dunmerdog def lol
Even as early as 2000, schools in the UK were using them as payment cards for cafeterias (can't steal a kid's lunch money if it's on a card with their name written on it).
And honestly, I'd rather carry a dozen smartcards than have to install a dozen different godawful mobile apps to access basic services.
@@Dunmerdog Just saw this comment. you're probably right!
I still am waiting for Smellevision to replace television! Oh wait. Wrong decade. It was about the 2000s. 😂
Smell-o-vision is one of those things that sounds better than it would be in reality. If it really existed it would suck!
If I recall correctly, they're trying to make it a thing again because they don't have much imagination. It's enough I already saw an outdoor tv when getting myself a new computer to replace my old one
@@randomtinypotatocriedOmg, really!? How the hell would that even work, lol?
There has been some attempts to make stuff like this for VR, but most of it seems to be "in development" or just really obscure, unpopular (and unsupported). I'd like to write more, but youtube keeps deleting my comments.
@@MatthewTheWanderer Electrically melted tiny containers of scented wax. You can begin to see why it doesn't have much traction.
I think the funny thing about the 1987 Prediction was it was more on the nose than the 1965 prediction, even though you didn't see everyone use that kind of technology every piece existed except for the telephone watch and the color changing tie. the sensors for checking your health did exist and was made more for diabetics at the time. You could have clothes that allowed you to regulate your near field temperature to a comfortable level as long as it was between 40-105 degrees Fahrenheit looking mostly like the guy. you could have a digital picture frame to show pictures on an SD card, Chip and pin was indeed a thing mostly used in Europe at the time, and you could have NFC pass cards in the US if you wanted to implement the system as well as Finger print reader locks. You could also have a full office setup in your brief case if you wanted to carry a brief case. I think it's more amazing how close they got.
Type 1 diabetic here and the Minimed was the first diabetic implant. It came out just before the year 2000. There were no diabetic monitors in the 80s.
exactly @@hicknopunk
I only remember the fingerprint scanner being widely implemented on certain cars as a secondary unlock feature, but I don't actually remember when they did that. It doesn't look like they kept it a thing for very long.
Also, mag stripe cards were “smart cards” in the 80s (much like AI it’s a moving target), so it didn’t need extra chips to “count”. Definitely the average credit card of 1999 (or a MetroCard) would’ve qualified as a “smart card” for the purposes of that prediction.
People when predicting future technology always seem to be (somewhat) right but are often off by a few decades
Makes you think about how we view things like AI, people say it will do x y or z in 5 years but maybe it won’t or maybe it will take 30 years for that
Super interesting to think about
I enjoy that the best predictions were right but just 20 years early, both times.
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Where's his check?
Hello ground news any interesting ground events happening lately
Do you have any news about the ground?
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How's the weather down there?
7:31 on 2007 some of the public transport in Mexico City started to use prepaid cards to acces them, 3 or 4 years later almost every main transport system in Mexico City started to switch over to only one main card for all of them, so, yeah I used to have like 4 or 5 cards to access my University, the metro system and bus system on that past future
Loving the mix of content lately. A little light heartedness spliced in between with the more serious stuff is just... 🤌 Love the perspective and sense of humor
10:16 Your wallet? Remember in the future you don’t have a wallet for all his smart cards in your see through pockets though😂
This is genuinely the type of content I come to RUclips specifically for. Thank you.
The transparent pockets are a huge flex! How else will random people know you have a Gucci wallet?
While I enjoyed a hearty chuckle from this video, we're missing Mr. Husk's zany predictions for 2043. Gotta do a follow-up vid.
4:01 9-11 and other things made having a transparent bag not just fastion foward but required for going out to soft targets like sports ball games. So yeah they got it right kinda.
For some reason, the way the guy held those cards from his suit pocket was just weird to me lol odd thing to point out, I know, but the clip kept being shown in the edit and that’s all I kept thinking every time you played it
4:09 Ironically, some junior highschools in Mexico City are mandating the use of transparent backpacks, for safety reasons, understandably, but I think US students need them more
Lol the wig part was right, it just took longer 😂
Thank you for the video Mr. Knowledge Husk, very cool!
I haven’t been watching these videos for a while because I got a new account but they’re still just as good, I think the amateur 3d animation makes it better, too. It’s funny and it brightens my day
This guy's sense of humor appeals to me on a personal level
There has been wireless payment smart cards since the early 2000s. Cities in Asia has been using a single card for public transits, payment at chain restaurants and stores, unlocking lobby doors at apartment, and doing school attendance.
Very interesting! Love the video!
Gotta save this video for the next 20 years now.
i organize all of my things in transparent pockets, pouches, and bags, bc it makes it very easy to find things. if smth is private, i put it in a clear mesh or textured pouch or bag.
The thing about having no hair, it used to be a thing in ancient cultures where having hair was a bother and even made you ritually unclean.
It could happen again. Fashion & culture works in mysterious ways.
Damn you've been spoiling us
In the early days of fast fashion in the 60s festival scene, paper clothes were actually a bit of a fad. They were insanely cheap and could have some really cool pattens and colours, at a time when printed fabrics were quite expensive and hard to find.
If you were a young person looking for an affordable way to look decent for an event, it wasn’t the worst thing ever. In a way, it’s no different to cheap polyester clothing nowadays, meant to be worn just a few times to keep up with trends without breaking the bank
probably might be even better than the current way in terms of ecofriendlyness. Paper degrades quickly, and wastes a lot less resources in the manufacturing and distribution.
MP3 players, mobile devices, and wireless headphones did eventually become a thing. Heck, sunglasses too.
The portable TV glasses are 100% a thing now and quite cheap, and being made by several companies. It just looks like a pair of regular shades though. Look up the NReal Air glasses.
I like stereoscopic visors. Heck, I use my Oculus as one. I don’t need head tracking to get fully immersed in RE7 or Halo. The brain can’t tell the difference between real and fake with 3D.
Tyler. Buddy.
Make all the commercials. I’m also really excited for this video.
This video series is a lot of fun.
This is so measured and correct for a future prediction
I love your videos!❤❤❤❤
Every zoom on the weird hand wiggle when the guy held up the cards made me chuckle.
“Who would want to carry around a dozen or so smart cards?”
I feel attacked.
"Who would want to carry around a dozen or so smart cards?"
Well I've got my bank card with contactless. Then here there's meal passes but now you can get them on a card. Of course I've got my transit card. My health insurance card isn't a smart one but you do have to swipe it so it's getting there. My office badge is on my keychain but I know some use a card. If I go to the arcade Konami has those cards to scan your account. You know maybe we have too many cards.
I can't wait to see this in twenty years.
I can't wait to look back at this video in 20 years
lol you are obsessed this topic..... lol and i love it
Now we need a video of the host of the show reacting to you reacting to his reaction.
Those portable printers are absolutely real and I’ve been using one since like 2007 that part feel like it was meant to attack my psyche personally
Now you gotta create your own prediction for the person of tomorrow.
Standing by a large fire when you are freezing cold might be one of the greatest feelings in the world. Just did it and mmm so good.
It's easy to predict future tech. It's difficult to predict how people will use it.
There needs to be a rule or something though. If it's possible to pirate music using an emerging technology, then that's what it will be primarily used for. Applies to radio, cassette tapes, the Internet, Bittorrent...
This is a good video!
Ooooo I *Love* these 😄
Oh man, I'd completely forgotten the disposable paper clothes thing. Was a HUGE prediction for a few years, right up there with picture phones.
Funny how picture phones went from "lol who would want that, what if you're half undressed?" to "hey Skype me"
6:20
"This is ze time on _Sprokets_ where we dance!"
"You could just use your finger prints"
Because I want those on file with some company to do who knows what with, just like retina scans.
I want to say you can use cryptography to make sure they don't get your actual fingerprints but I'm not sure if that actually works with fingerprints or anything else that needs to be fuzzy matched, or just with passwords that need to be matched exactly...
So absolutely no audio with those clips, would’ve been interesting to hear the conversation
I feel like the transparent pockets would be a requirement in a future dystopian US, especially in schools.
Apparently it's already a requirement for backpacks and bags in some schools in the _current_ dystopian USA, given they're still generally heavily armed, there's a lot of deep resentment, zero-sum competitiveness, and conspiratorial thinking stoked between working-class citizens to keep them distracted from the corporations and politicians picking their collective pockets, they still don't have proper physical health care, much less mental health care and the lack of stigma required to actually make use of it, and going violently postal (even without a clear strategic target) to "make someone pay" is still seen as a common and virtuous way to lash out against perceived injustice. Grim.
Though not pockets specifically yet, as far as I know.
We're tired of liberating folks. Can someone please liberate us?
Already is in some schools, for bags not pants/shirts though
whats wild is it is almost 20 years since that video would have been aired.....
Transparent pockets...thueves would LOVE that.
10:34 A better way is with AR glasses as they have non of the eyeTV flaws just limited function to as Quest 3 but to be far nothing has the amount of functions of that device.
The mobile print could be something with like Paranoid camera tech, maybe
Can't wait for someone to make fun of this video in sixty years.
Transparent pockets, because contemporary venues require them.
Well, backpacks now, but they were close.
i want u to know i listen to ur music on spotify all the time
0:10 OMG a young James Burke!
20 to 35 Years later: People in the 20s Making fun of people form the 1980s Making fun of prediction from the 1960's
Tbh the earrings aren't that far off from wireless earbuds. Also yhe head TV thing isnt that far off from AR glasses that are becoming somewhat mainstream now as portable TV alternatives whole traveling. Used Xreal Airs on a plane with my steamdeck for big screen gaming si they arent totally far off, albeit very different (much better) form factir for what we have currently.
The green tie isn't to inform its wearer that they are sick, because users can be dishonest and withold that information. Your tie turns green to warn everybody else that you are sick. At which point a dishonest person could just simply choose to wear a different tie.
Yo those first gen air pods look sweet
You got a new sub in me
I recently traded in my Galaxy Sport 3 (running Tizen)for credit to Samsung for a Galaxy Watch5 Pro (running Google) and lost my ability to play YT video from my watch.
Progress? Idunno...
Imagine talking to someone from the 80s and just casually going “oh yeah we don’t really use cash anymore, you can just tap with your smartphone and it transfers the money from your bank account automatically. There’s a cap to how much you can spend that way, although they have upped it since the pandemic.”
Man, you were hilarious in this one
"Steal my wallet? From my transparent pockets?"
I love when videos sneakily self reference
They were pretty spot on, actually.
Stupid watch tethered to a charging cable... The prediction that watch technology would go backwards in terms of battery life was spot on...
The transparent pockets sounds like something that my school would make us wear to make sure we don’t have a gun in there
Functional clothing exists so technically they're correct there too. It's just.. not suits. People wearing suits tend to care about the fabric their suit is made of, that camel or whatnot. :D So no thermosensitiveness there but they're not that far off. The 60's girls got the transistor radio in the ear right, except it's not a radio it's a tiny supercomputer output stuck in your ear providing so much more than just a radio.
are there like
more of these?
I was wondering the same
9:20 WELL in Germany Fax is still mostly used in offices everywhere :')
Offices still live like in the digital 80s here lol
I'm just taking a guess here, but I'm assuming the smart cards were there as a backup in case maybe the fingerprint scanner didn't work or you couldn't scan your fingerprints cuz your hands were dirty. Which I guess makes sense, but then again you would be better off just using the smart card as your primary key and your fingerprints as your backup. Which I wouldn't be surprised if that's already a thing provided by some sort of security system service.
I have about half a dozen cards in my phone case. I live in Melbourne, theyre very popular.
Debit card (I dont even carry cash), myki, student card, kingpin membership, so on.
Cool. Ty
About smart cards, I like the idea that they didn't predict the concept of a smart card, but rather the "smartification" of everything. ¿Remember when everytging was "smart" something?
We should do these predictions again
Outside of techbros, it does look like most predictions nowadays are about doom and gloom lol
@timelessdays that's what sucks, because we can make a lot of progress
The "sensitive" part of Thermosensitive is a but stupid, but Milwaukee (power tool company) makes coats and jackets that are both heated and cooled, powered by their standard m12 batteries
It's funny how a lot of these 1960s predictions that got made fun of in the 80s and 90s were actually not completely wrong. Like transistor radio earrings; now we have true wireless earbuds.
It seems like people who were around during JFK's and Macmillan's administrations dared to dream bigger than during Reagan and Thatcher. Shock horror.
I really hope they did another sequel 20 years later to make more dumb predictions about the 2020s.
Tomorrow's World was taken off the air in 2003. Unfortunately they never made it to 2007. It was such a good show as well.
@@gcooper642dang
I feel like people have ceased wanting to know, anymore. Don't know if that's because of doomsayers, or because all the most famous predictions are the bad ones that never happened.
Interesting... 🤔
0:29 That's ok, they were late too!
did they do an update in 2007?
What is the outro music plsss
I’m one step ahead and I’m making fun of predictions from the 2050s.
My work uses an eye scanner, and my house can be unlocked with my phone.
My car lacks even a fob, so it's full key action there. Do you know how many times I've locked it in there? I have a spare in my wallet now, that many times.