One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) | RetroFocus
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- Опубликовано: 9 дек 2013
- In this ABC interview from 1974, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke makes the bold claim that one day computers will allow people to work from home and access their banking records.
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And now it fits in your pocket.
Even inside your brain
Thx for the likes
An soon it will control us
@@Xx32123 Literally, not yet.
But it has controlled some people's behavior, habits, etc...
@@lumi5056 no.
Crystalanims and soon it will kill us
Arthur C. Clarke died on 19 March 2008, he saw his prediction become a reality
@@SFG92K how... is it scary?
@@SFG92K How do i do it ?....oh yeah ! Report !
Yeah, he lived through about 20 years of it ;)
Can I Get Subs? DUDE!! you know that the technology we have in today’s world seems like magic those who came centuries before us.
Author.C. Clarke said that “as technology advances it will become indistinguishable from magic.”
Ye he saw the iPhone a year before he died
And no i wont sub
The man explained future internet like social media, online shopping, etc nearly 20 years before its existence. I'm so glad he lived to 2008 to see his words come true.
There were interconnected networks back then. Mainly arpanet. Used to connect universities mainly.
@@sgtcreasegrease There was also the Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) and UseNet that started in the early 80s. Some still exist to this day. The coolest thing ever was replying to a UseNet comment from 1984, and the OP replied 36 years later!
not really weird as the whole idea already existed for years before this came out. you can read it in 1969 already. read the first rfc.
@@vincentkrYet there was no prediction that people would still be writing without using capital letters.😱🙀
ARPANET (the first workable prototype of the internet) delivered its first message on October 29, 1969, from one computer located at the University of California Los Angeles to another at Stanford.
I expected to laugh at how outdated this is.
Instead im utterly shocked by how accurate he was and even how keen the reporter was to ask about a dependant society
The reporter already saw people wasting away watching Gilligan’s Island and The Brady Bunch so it wasn’t that much of a stretch.
@@jedijones What is that? Can you explain?
@@paulo0651television
@@jedijonesSpot on ! - just sit right and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip…
@@paulo0651Gilligan's island and the Brady bunch were tv shows, tho I don't know much about them beside that.
Little did he know that I would be watching him 46 years later on a computer that can fit in my pocket.
Little do we now too. Holograms and implants are just a matter of time. We ll probably have a PC in our head that u ll control just by thinking...oh shit wait a minute...
@@traktor321 wouldn’t recommend getting that shit when it comes out. All the elites want is control and this is the perfect way for them
@@keithcoen7667 do the elites drink blood asell
@@RANDOMGUY-yz3nk adrenachrome
@@traktor321 yes brains are definitely computers and if you r/woooosh me you are stupid
Sees little kid
Realizing he’s now as old as his dad
*Realizing 2001 was 19 years ago*
Lmao time flies lol
Time is relentless
The kid is approaching pensioner age
We don’t live very long at all :(
@@Mr.Obongo No we don't
"Everything that human can imagine is a possiblity in reality"
The greatman.
Pablo Picasso
except a god lol
@@MsDudette21Thats also a possibility
Back in the 1970s, we thought that. Now we know there are limits when it comes to technology. Computers, cameras, TVs, batteries, cars, aviation and space travel have leveled off in technology.
this is true, look at all the sci-fi things in star trek, most of them are in some shape or form a reality.
We have talking computers, autonomous vehicles, even 3d printers that can print food, a basic form of replicator.
who else got this randomly recommended 10 years later?
edit: where the likes cone from
Dude me, like rn
Me
I did as well
Yeah what the heck.
I was scrolling, trying to look for this comment haha
This was 44 years ago
Now imagine 2062
Theoretical Physics
A more expensive IPhone
Elon Musk will prophesy the future.
The google lenses.. is one step..
Theoretical Physics 😨
If we make it that far. It's looking doubtful at the moment.
He should’ve replied: ‘That’s amazing. You really think we’ll be able to make desks that big one day?’
Sam Townsend found the dad
@@theadtheogrekiller5629 found ur mom
My kind of humour 😁😁
Or maybe...
"Amazing! But have you tried DMT?"
Lmao
Arthur C. Clarke was a brilliant visionary. The author of "2001: A Space Odyssey". He predicted telecommunication satellites in the 50's.
And I predict, we ll be able to bend space/ time and control gravity and transverse the universe in an instant ! and in 100 yrs England will be a Muslim state - I know it, its coming - mark my words. Be blood on the streets first , just as Enoch Powel fore saw. MARK MY WORDS ! MARK MY WORDS ! You've all been warned !! ⚠️ The 3rd anti- christ ( ISLAM) is coming 🤬😡.GOD HELP US ALL ✝️
❤
In 2040 people have own space ship! And children will be inventors What u say.
Wow this conversation was word-for-word exactly what happened. Talk about vision...
"A console with which he can talk to his friendly local computer" baby internet
Not really. He is talking about mainframes and consoles. It's more like connecting a bunch of monitors/keyboard/mice to the same computer. But, that obviously grew into networks and later internet, so
@@sauercrowder Right, so even this guy in his prescience isn't actually going far enough!
@@AdvancePlays Exactly. He predicted maybe 10 years in the future, thinking it would take 30. Beyond his wildest dreams
@@sauercrowder Kinda like cloud computing... Crazy.
@@che3se1495 or, you know, like a mainframe
2020: Going to school while in bed
Jokes on you, us Europeans have to suffer and go back to work/school.
@@cinnamonbun1361 so do people in the us
@@cinnamonbun1361 Some people who are too weak to attend school can do so through computers.
@@marvinavelar6746do you mean "so do we" not "so do in us" or whatever
2060: everyone dead
brother predicted work from home nearly half a century in advanced.
Rarely does someone so accurately summarize such detailed aspects of the future …
You should track down a short story called _A Logic Named Joe_ from 1946.
"In 2001, your son will post a comment and people will like it" - Clark
@Stephan Kargel myspace, lol
I didn’t say that
@Stephan Kargel fb was invented 2 and a half to 3 years later, wtf are you talking about?
@Stephan Kargel what are you talking about?
Or he'll be a "first" troll
"One day a computer will fall onto someone's nose because they're watching this interview at half past three in the morning."
Wrong........ you are so wrong. Its 20 min of 3.
That would've really hurt in 1974.
Under-rated comment 😁👏
Literally what I am doing at 3:13am
😂😂😂
I'm impressed by the accuracy of the predictions, and I'm even more impressed by the question asked @ 0:49 where he actually happens to address the biggest issue we have with the dependence on today's information technology. Such an insightful interview.
It is Arthur C Clarke after all….
Journalists were good in those days, did their research, knew their jobs, informed the people of the true facts, none of our Piers Morgan's or Dan Wootons tabloid Journalists back then. Sad.
@@hiwall4883 The thing is, there were bad journalists back in the day - but there were a lot more good ones than now.
I don't think the problem is that we're so dependent on it, the problem is that we suck at managing it.
The Dad's question was so simple and yet Arthur couldn't even give him a straight answer because Arthur already knew the Dad was spot on! YES!!
EVERYBODY has a computer with them at all times. It is a part of the way society is today sadly.
*For better and for worse.*
He passed in 2008. RIP. I hope he was able to tell people, “told you so!”
Turtle3000 I need a weapon
@@PlasmaStrider Wingman here
PlasmaStrider 7777 Mozambique here
PlasmaStrider 7777 P2020 here
(Got em Titanfall fans)
I think he must have said it between 1997/98-2002.
“Could we become a computer dependent society?” Wow that guy got it spot on...
Just like we got coal dependent society. Or horses dependent society. Shit's useful
@@MichaelGarrity computers havent replace faced to face interactions either, thats a tired argument.
Our society was and will always be dependant on something. That we depend on computers now isn’t something negative. It’s just how it is and like everything it has it’s downsides but the upsides outweigh all flaws.
he jinxed it
Kevin Nguyen yeah no shit teachers and students are using computers instead of doing face to face interactions. We’re in a pandemic.
"He'll take it as much for granted as we take the telephone". . .
Could never have imagined it back then, but now, the 'desk sized computer' actually is the telephone.
Wow!!! This man really saw the future with computers.
"A man can be anywhere on earth and still do his business"
Me: Watching this video while on the toilet.
Damn boy not like that 😂😂😂😂
When you said "on the toilet".... I felt that
Also on the toilet atm 😂
You can even do business while doing business!
Free same
here
Little did he know, little Timmy will get this video as a recommendation by the algorithm on his desktop computer.
upvote masterus so true LOL
Did that actually happen? I'd love to see his reaction
Wait until they fit computers in your hand.
Little Timmy's in his 50s
Unleashed apparently died in 2008
It is 2024. I am from the UK. I have been living between Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Philippines for 9 years. I am Web developer living life as a 'digital nomad'. Sir Clarke was truely a visionary.
Why don't you just settle down?
@@Halcon_Sierreno it's a good question! I don't have am answer. Ha!
@@masti733 So you're just going to keep moving forever?
@Halcon_Sierreno well, most of that 9 years has been in Thailand. Phuket is a nice place to live!
@@Halcon_Sierreno There are many factors that we are probably not aware of
He said this 50 years ago and today we are actually living it.🙏🙏🙏
We were living it 20+ years ago. How old are you?
@@BrickTextures-hm1uy Beat me to it, we're past this point now.
he's like a time traveler trying not to give away everything of the future
This made me laugh so hard
yes
He speaks as if he knows something, strange
Stop just stop it
I've just watched the Netflix series Dark. Gtfo. Now! I want to sleep tonight!
This guy: "Hey you wanna know EXACTLY what the future is going to be like?"
Living in quarantine
It’s creepy how accurate this is
Nikola Tesla predicted smartphones in 1926.
He was 100% spot on correct! Imagine what this older fellow would think of a smartphone. It went from desk size to mere handheld size!
I love how he hesitates a bit. It strikes me as him clearly having a visionary insight of what will be, but at the same time not wanting it to sound too farfetched. Of course, everything he described would become reality and so much more.
this man predicted everything correctly
from computers at home for accesing information and logging into your bank over the internet, to work from home lifestyles and instant communication
I don’t think bank logins for customers were a thing yet in 2001, but I get the overall point he was making.
I don't believe this. This guy is talking science fiction.
What do you mean? Of course computers will fit on desks. I mean have you seen how big we can make desks?
Right? Plus make it too small and you might lose it somewhere. 😁
@@Dremag_Gaming Imagine losing a computer in your home, impossible.
@@Dragonspirit223 you ever lose your keys or remote?
Why would we need a computer on our desk? This guy is unbelievable. This thing doesn't make sense at all
His bank statements, theater reservations, and arguing with people he’ll never meet over pointless crap, and memes.
elmagnificodep hahaha
All the important stuff
The internet has never been summed up better lol
elmagnificodep i hate memes i don’t think they are funny, and i don’t get why people are so Obsessed with it it’s just stupid
The two kittens Entertainment inc Clearly u don’t know about reddit
Watching this on my mini computer in my hand , all I can say that this aged quite well !
I'm glad this man got to see his prediction come true before his passing in 2008. He even got to see the first iPhone!
“he’ll take it as much for granted as we take the telephone” kinda deep.
Then we go full circle and take our smartphones for granted. Both a phone and computer at the same time
Y Tho what’s a telephone
what's the next big thing we'll take for granted?
Barry Richards space cruises around the galaxy
@@dinkyvirgin3656 its sounds crazy, but before we had iPhones, telephones where big hunky machines that where only used to call people. Sounds crazy! And it wasn't mobile! Imagine living in a world with that
Little jimmy was smiling because he was gonna meet the local singles in his area a lot faster
Welsh Simon 'hey just what you see pal!'
'Der uzi 9mm'
Underrated
Boombox 5328 😂
and the not so singles.
Goat comment
This is truly the most intelligent, most prophetic conversation I've ever heard between two extremely smart people.
And yet, who would go back to the days we had in the '70's in a heartbeat if they could, raise your hand 🙋
Talk to the hand!
I'd go back to mid forties to grow up and live back then
I will go way before that like BC or something just to see how everything was and how it progressed.
"One day, computer will fit on a desk"
Little did they know that in 2020, schools are fit in computers
GG
_this comment_
😂😂😂
Bruh, that’s genius
TRUTH
Some people thought we would have flying cars, but this guy is thinking realistically.
agreed
Well, if whoever is ruling the world would want you to have a flying car right now, you would have one. We're sending spacecrafts to the space and we cannot build flying cars?
@@pogimtz9910 there are flying cars tho but nobody uses them
Flying cars are highly unrealistic. You know how dangerous that can be?
@@samc7381 very true. I recommend the video that Joe Rogan has on his podcast
Clarke was known in the 40's for predicting that one day we would have artificial satellites in orbit that we would use for weather forecasting, communication, spying, etc. And he wrote _2001: A Space Odyssey._ So this is just another example of what a visionary he truly was.
We haven’t gotten to the point where computers try to kill us yet but I’m sure it’s coming.
This has got to be the most spot on prediction from this time period I've ever seen. HE LITERALLY GOT EVERYTHING RIGHT.
this guy died 2008, so he was able to see his prediction come true!
Edit: 17k likes? y'all crazy
Which guy? The dad, the old fella or the kid?
No Productions rlly? Dammm
No Productions nah, the kid didnt die
@@sorianomayflor yooo a recent comment
@@korewatori another recent comment
It’s crazy how some people are watching this video with a small but powerful device that fits in their hand.
And it runs all day long on a 3 volt battery
A small AND more powerfull device than the one shown in the video
it is called smartphone😘
@@themooncow2644 Tens of thousands of times more powerful
@@sean5028 even a clock is ten times more powerful than this
*For those not old enough to remember, the first desk top computer that wasn't a kit or a prototype was the Xerox Alto released in early 1973, a year before this video was made. The ACTUAL prediction was what Clarke speculated the computer could do. When they came out in the 70's, we were like cool, but what on earth could you possibly use it for? We had no idea, but Clarke did. That's the real and far more impressive prediction.*
It’s interesting how he predicted talking to a main frame, which we did back in 70’s but now we have the cloud.
now jonathan is in his 50s, not knowing that this video exists on youtube
40s
@@mustang8206 He looks about 5 years old. Which would put his birth in 1969. 2020 - 1969 = 51
ImABigBoi69 -- I just saw him too
@@dashl8880 Jonathan and i about the same age 50's
@@mustang8206 You really think this kid is 4 years old or younger?
"One day a computer will fit on a desk"
Me: * watches video from a computer that fits in the palm of my hand *
his prediction was for 2001. Smartphones weren't there yet, so this prediction is really astonishing
So can your palm computer can play GTA 5
If it isn't it not a computer
It's a damn phone and for a reason it's called phone
@@MartinvonLowis The Nokia 9000 had a weight of half a kilo but it included telephone, fax, email and internet connections it sounds like you had smarphone before 1996 unless you mean fully tactile the revolution started with the IBM Simon in 1994 and still evolve today with bending display.
@@test-em9ge We dont judge what a computer is by looking if it can play GTA 5
"A mobile device (or handheld computer) is a computer small enough to hold and operate in the hand." Straight outta wikipedia
@@test-em9ge computers couldn't play gta for a long time they could only do very simple things saying something isnt a computer because it cant play GTA is ridiculous you obviously dont know what a computer is 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
One mindblowing thing is:
We carry around little computers (smartphones) with us every day which are exponentially more capable than the computers shown in this clip
I'm not an expert but my friend (aerospace engineer) is. He told me that a Nokia 3310 has more computing power than they used to put man on the moon!
I mean sure, they are much more powerful, but it's 2023 and I still can't do half of things on my phone that I do on a computer without headache. Multitasking is especially bad, just trying to read a book and use a dictionary at the same time is a pain.
Your phone is insanely more powerful than a supercomputer was. I've sat on a Cray computer (they have a ring seat around it). One article says your phone is about 5000 times faster than the Cray 2 from the 80's. The Apollo 11 guidance computer was 12.3K FLOPS, and the Cray 2 was 1.9 GigaFlops. Another place says the PS4 gpu is 4.2 teraflops. That's pretty wild.
@@yrysroda8592he's right that nasa com. Was potatoes
One of the few predictions from the past that actually came true. Erie how spot on it was 😂.
Now Jonathan is addicted to World of Warcraft.
and poopsocks
@@Jono1982 yum
Jonathan is actually a lawyer in Chicago! sadly, he gave up computers for law
🤣
He lost his shirt to online gambling and shuffles around hostels drinking fortified lager.
*“Because in the future, we will have bigger desks”*
Lol
Ancient problem requires modern solutions
Oh yes of course! I enjoy this solution
Legend
😂
And now it fits on my palm😳😊
We take so much for granted. Good point!
At this point in time im working at home and clicked this video, Im amazed by how Arthur was so visionary
Kinda crazy to think how many people would have been like "nah, no way"
I doubt it, they wouldn’t have said it as a wild prediction, they said it because they were already working on it and knew it was possible
It would have been even more prophetic if he would have said that they would mostly be used to perpetuate pornography' conspiracies' Progressive Propaganda' & espouse Militant Secularism to the point of nauseam" Where if you want any grain of decency or truth you will have to fact check the supposed fact checkers or just go to your local library and knock the dust of an old Book.
@Forrest Mcgee hallelujah
Not really. They already had compact computers even in these days. I have an atari 2600 from 1976. It easily fits on a desk and was considered a powerful computer system back then.
@@alexsbikesandmotors but in the video he's talking about technology capable of the same things as that entire room-wide computer
Little do we know, Jonathan could’ve been one of the people who’d watched this video, right now!
@@ChristianBaleNutjob stfu
@@ChristianBaleNutjob okay.
he's middle aged by now, doubt he's checking youtube recommended lol
bro, he would be like beetween 50 or 60 now
@@kreuzritter4898 no he is 46
wow this aged really well. You need to be a next level smart to predict something while being old and at the same time living way ahead of your time
This guy was a true visionary
My high school business teacher said ‘in a few years instead of typewriters in front of you you’ll all have computers.” That was 1979 and we all thought he was nuts. .
Damn.
That's amazing. We are constantly taking our current technology for granted.
I remember playing on a computer in nursery school in 1985.
Who's nuts now?
Respect to the teacher.
I can’t tell if the kid’s actually interested in what he’s hearing or he’s just spacing tf out
I thought it was pretty obvious that it’s the latter
😂
mad ass *to
@@_shark can we get claps for this dude👏👏👏👏👏
Why’s that me tho- 💀👺
One day a desk will fit on a computer. I'm calling it right now.
One day a computer will be implanted inside your brain
Absolutely spot on insights 50 years ago. We have the smartphone today..in 50 years time in 2074, I wonder what will be in place ?
Crazy how that little kid on this video is now almost the same age as the old man in this video.
And probably working from home using a desk computer thinking about that guy.
That kid must be 55 years old now! It's bittersweet.
@One Billion Caring Mums lol
@One Billion Caring Mums I think you may be dumb
Kid was probably 10 so today maybe he's age 60 now
Finally a prediction that was actually 100% accurate, no exaggeration/analogies required.
They missed the main use, pornhub
Robert it wasn’t a thing or never thought of probably actually nvm it was but it wasn’t a thing
Arthur C Clarke was a physicist and mathematician and a science fiction writer
It actually is not though. I'm nitpicking but he said we will have a console in our homes that allow you to talk to your local computer.
He didn't realize how small and powerful we would be able to make computing. He thought the brain would still be a big machine taking up the floor of a library or university.
@@ericbartha6313 Well I mean this contradicts my "no exaggeration/analogies required", but internet servers could be seen as a computer our desk consoles communicate with.
I just finished watching the replay of Sarah’s morning stream. Thank you 🙏🏽
The question is... who are we NOT paying attention to now, yet with such foresight they are telling us what will be?
**looks at the size of phone**
**looks at the size of desk**
he’s right, that could fit
No way! The desk needs to be smaller
What are you doing here you little rascal?
Swept up by the algorithm too it would seem
He said 2001 tho,if he was talking about 2020 he would've obviously said that it would fit in your pocket.
If he had said 2069
It would fit up your ass
I like how no one acknowledged that you’re a youtuber
"will take it as much for granted as the telephone"
Plot twist: The computer *IS* the telephone
Charles Reinmuth Technically speaking our smartphones _are_ miniature computers, so that's right!
What's a computer :b
I clicked on this thinking it would be a George Gilder video.
@Shane McKenzie that computer in the video could do less than your phone. You're phone is a computer, even if we don't call it one, it literally is.
@Shane McKenzie Nah. It's just that ignorant people think only a PC is a computer. Computer is just the name for a wide range of varying devices that all have the ability to store and process data.
Back in the day, school teachers would say, "Learn your math facts. You aren't going to be walking around with a calculator in your pocket." Well, teachers were right in that we should all learn our math facts, but wrong about carrying a calculator in our pocket. If we knew then the technology and smart phones of today, we'd be blown away.
In the video, the guy was talking about having a dumb monitor on a desk, connected to a mainframe. He didn't realize we would have an actual stand alone computer on our desk, as well as internet, and no need to connect directly to a mainframe.
"One day you would be replaced by a Software engineer named Devin , who would do everything himself"
I would be back after 10 years
Who else is watching this from a computer that fits into a pocket?
@@juliaawad9552 A smartphone or tablet/ipad is considered a computer. They are built on the same components in a different form factor- CPU, ram, GPU
Julia Awad Friend, a phone is a type of computer device. Having a keyboard and a big screen isn’t what makes something a computer.
Nope
Well I got it linked to my tv so I guess
I am watching on a Vidro-Crankulator 3800-D.
That's right, the D series. It's the size of a large commercial refrigerator and YOU and I know it's the smallest private computator and videocaster ever invented.
So stop supporting this rediculous science fiction nonsense!
Computer in your pocket indeed!
Are you on drugs you hippie?
The best thing is Arthur C. Clarke lived well into the 2000's, and lived to see his own words come true :)
Millions of families suffer every year.
Béarnaise sauce
MICHAEL!
this reply section has some of the shallowest attempts at humor i have ever seen
Aiden Akeson Isn’t it so great?
He didn’t dream big enough. I watched this on a computer far more powerful than the one in that room, with an integrated screen, small enough to fit in my pocket, while sitting on the toilet.
He nailed it. And 20 years after that we we'll be carrying them with us everywhere we go and staring at them all day like hypnotized zombies.
He would’ve said that but the reporter didn’t ask him to look that far ahead.
Plot twist: The old man is actually the kid but from the future explaining computers to his dad.
SnakeJaxon my brain exploded
you want to watch: time masters.
LOL
the old man is arthur c clarke. the guy that wrote 2001: odyssey in space before we went to space. that is the power of science. no need for timetravel or such nonsense when we have intelligent brains to predict the future. too bad intelligence seems rare in humans these days...
Based on his pupil dialation and speech patterns, i assumed the old man was just another cybernetic organism. Cyberdine systems, model 101 living human tissue over metal endoskeleton.
This guy wasn’t predicting phones, he was predicting computers in 2001, he’s spot on.
yes
He was only off by nearly 20 years...by 1980 everything he predicted was already a fact.
I like how specifically he mentioned 2001. Which was for me the golden era of the personal computers before the smartphone took over
Well, modern day smart phones are technically computers.
@@jdfleo8140 Not really. Home computers were just coming around by 1980, but you couldn't handle your bank statements or theatre reservations with them. They were not networked to do so and there was hardly appropriate software available on them. What he describes takes a desktop PC-like computer and internet in the home, which would be 1990s.
You could logically argue that Arthur C. Clarke had already lived the future and had returned to the past in a time machine. He was spot on!
We're so mesmerized with our pocket computers ( smartphones) to the extent that most of the time we live in our own,separate, imaginary worlds and in the process we've become alienated from one another. These things are supposed to be our tools but the tools have become our masters.
Exactly.
Interviewer afterwards to his colleagues: "listened to this crazy old dude harping on about..."
He was probably like.. Get a load of this simp
Subhadip Sengupta I don’t think you understand what simp means...
E H He 100% doesn't know, he just heard it said a lot and now he says it about everything
@@eh9737 The Google says "simp" means "a silly or foolish person". Is that what it means? I'm asking because I'm not a native english speaker
Igor Sírius it’s someone who’s unnecessarily nice to girls. Kind of like a white knight.
someone needs to find this kid now
@@michaelmyers492 what??
Michael Myers 🤔 mmmh... I’m wondering what happened to the Native American when “the beautiful white man” came on his lands... Raped? Mass murdered? Or maybe both?? I dunno maybe u can give the answer to this question too
Michael Myers was it “social progress” back then too, mass murdering people or killing them from the inside, killing their customs, their habits, their culture... and imposing yours it was all “social progress” in your words
And after that the Slavery, the Jim Crow laws, the segregation they were all “social progress” I guess
@@ninjaseals Wtf are you talking about
Belarus-chan what do Muslims have to do with anything??
That's amazing, how much foresight he had.
Usually you aren't as forward looking in advanced age.
RIP
Arthur C. Clarke. Not a lot of people know this, but the C stands for Computer.
"If our whole life is built around a computer will we become a computer dependent society?"
*BOI you have no idea...*
its such an eerie question because of how correct it is. computer dependent society and computer dependent people with their social lives revolved around computers and internet. thats hundreds of millions if not billions of people now. and it just keeps evolving, kids are getting into it younger and younger etc.
very interesting that they saw the good and the bad of it instantly as soon as this.
Piker simpson or homachu
But what's wrong with that?
Like "If our whole life is built around a pipe system of clean water will we become a pipe system of clean water dependent society?". Of course yes, as with all good technology starting with the controlled fire.
One day, it's either we are the computers or computers are ruling us
Back when the world was in black and white.
Fr good ol times 😔
@@Spottedhusky
but then god said bet,
then we all got tech,
and now we can see color
like it should have been
I just made that right now lmao uh I'm not gonna make it better or change it and just leave it like that xd ahha
@@dsi-films1264 you did good soldier 👌
I am done with you guys
sorry for whatever the helluva crisis I created in this comment section. Have a great day yall peace✌
Skinnyboyjan 😐
"What will it be like in social terms? If our whole life is built around a computer, do we become a computer dependent society and computer dependent individuals?".
That question has aged extremely well. We're still trying to figure that one out.
How positive he describes it and how negative it became with Smartphoes and all other sedating devices.
So my RUclips recommendations want me to feel nostalgic now?
Lol
Better than what it is living in the here and now and they know it.
Current year - 2018
Year uploaded - 2013
Something happned in - 1972
Year upload was Dec 10, 2013 not 2014.
MINE TOO
Damn Arthur C. Clarke died in 2008, that means he got to see his prediction come true
😃😃😃😃made my day.
Awesome. I am always saddened by great people not living to see their creations or predictions come to reality.
and my prediction is that we see soon the WW 3
@@Patttiat ;0
@@Patttiat People have been saying that for many, many years. Lol
Now I understand how visionary this man was!
At the time this was filmed, it must have been the most important recording in the world
"Will we become a computer dependent society?"
LOL
you dont need computers in the fishin life
Nobody will ever need more than 64k
What a understatement
man..., this is exactly what he didn't want us to become
let that sink in...
I am your 1000th like
1974: One day a computer will fit in our desks
2020: One day a computer will fit inside our eyes
They're working on turning your clothing into a computer as we speak.
2018: IBM can fit computers inside grains of rice
One day computers will fit in your blood vessels
@@ChickentNug nanomachines son
Azax Science yo
Today it not only fits on a desk, but on a child's palm, a smartphone
He describes it as a console that could connect to "your local friendly computer". His idea was that real computers would always be big, like the one in the video, but that you would only need a real computer for every handful of people, maybe a small neighborhood, town, city, and everyone would have their own personal client that could connect to this host. He didn't realize computers would get small and cheap enough that we would all have our own, but he did realize the network possibilities, and basically described how the Internet works today
Exactly! Not to criticise the guy, but the title of the video and many of the comments here think that he was saying that a computer would sit on your desk, when he was actually talking about connecting to a mainframe from home. Thinking very much grounded in the time of the 70's where consoles already were almost small enough to fit on a desk.
Well, consider this: How much of your screen time do you spend without accessing some server over the internet? Yes, your computer is powerful in its own right, but when you think of how much computing is done in giant computing centers/server farms, he is not too far off.
"And many years from now, computers will randomly recommend this video to everybody on youtube."
Kid: "What's a RUclips?"
@@RinJackson *magicly fading out*
Not randomly, based on an algorithm which determines which content people would be interested in, with increasing accuracy despite people's criticisms I might add.
That Older gentleman understand more about computers in 1974 than a lot of people his age in 2021
Yea, and thats sad
My teacher .....
Ps: i come from Germany. We dont use PC or Tablets in school.
@@stickmananimations2297 he literally studies computers for a living although outdated its still alot of knowledge.
@@marcraft0077 Also wir haben PC‘s, iPad‘s und Smart Boards in unserer Schule😅🤣
Always looked forward to watching and listening to the great man
I respect all those involved in the creation of the computer from the beginning till today.. The computer is the most beautiful thing born in this world.☺♥