"Michael has a minor back ache, so with the computer terminal he catalogues his symptoms using WebMD, and it tells him the most likely cause of his discomfort. Cancer."
@@DanielkaElliott I wasn't talking about the actual Amazon that Brazil's president is currently destroying. I am talking about the other Amazon, the one that is literally destroying all its competition.
Although not shown in this video, the idea of a portable, personal computer like a tablet was seriously envisioned in the 60s and 70s in places like the PARC research lab and by people like Alan Kay. The technology didn’t exist to realize it at the time, however it provided the motivation to develop intermediate technologies like personal computers and touchscreens.
Karen (Marj Dusay) told her son at the beach that she was 44. I was thinking to myself she looks pretty young for 44. She was actually 31 at the time. She was also the actress in Star Trek that stole Spock's brain. I remember Wink Martindale as a game show host later on. What a crazy little film clip.
@@racoats1The idea was, that people would have kids later in life, and that adults would look much younger even at 44 years of age. This is not incorrect, so long as people avoid smoking, vaping, alcohol, and other substances. Plus, clean air.
Actually, she said she will be 44 next year (2000) which means she is 43 in 1999. Later in the film, the narrator mentions that she is currently 43. Still I agree that she looked younger than being in her 40s.
@@ARCtheCartoonMaster So did my auntie and a few of my mum's friends but not most people I knew. Maybe it's cause I mainly knew Working Class Londoners. It seemed to become very common in the early 2000's that's when I began seeing it in most houses.
What's funny is if they had put us all to the metric system NASA could have saved a lot of money. One of their biggest blunders and cost Millions when engineer did the calcs in the metric system and the other one did it in our system. That can get people killed. Look it up online
The rest of yall can measure yourselves in centimeters - im fine with feet. Thats why the rest of the world uses metric, and America uses it’s own system - because we can.
Well, they sure got the many parts of today's middle-class lifestyle right. Multiple screen setups on the desktop, tons of consumer devices no one really needs, preparing food the "old-fashioned way."
I once heard an advertising executive say: "Advertising is the business of creating needs.", and that's exactly what Social Propaganda films like this one are intended to do. They whet consumer appetites for things that consumers presently don't know that they even need. Capitalism fools consumers into believing that it's doing them a big favor by delivering all these new hi-tech goodies that make life easier and more fun. But reality is that Capitalism Does Not Give A Damn about consumers, and futuristic films like this one are solely intended to prime the consumer side of the economic cycle with WHATEVER new product that Capitalism thinks that it can sucker consumers into buying. Noam Chomsky calls it "Manufacturing Consent". By my memory, microwave ovens came out around 1970, PC's came out around 1980, and cell phones came out around 1990. NOWHERE can you show me a public opinion poll, a news article or ANY Other evidence that consumers at the time were demanding better technology before these new hi-tech gadgets were first marketed. NOWHERE !!! Through manipulative and deceptive advertising, Capitalism created the "need" for these products when they first marketed them. NO One in the public even knew that they "needed" them before they were first marketed. And futuristic Social Propaganda films like this one, strategically produced decades earlier, makes it even easier to sucker consumers to buy new gadgets that they don't even really need. Please forgive my cynicism but it is rooted in a 30 year career as a consumer debt collector, a bill collector. Every day for 30 years, I had to help all those poor suckers pick up the pieces of their lives because they DID believe all those futuristic films, those glossy commercials, and those ever smiling salesmen and bought and bought and bought all those new futuristic gadgets that they could have lived without, and which eventually caused them financial and social ruin. And and all those poor "suckers" were honest, hard working people who naively believed what that saw on TV and the movie theater. ... jkulik919@gmail.com
@@JosephKulik2016 Well of course we could still live today like native Indians lived 400 y ago . All we really need is protection from the elements, and food and water and that's it ! Given that , a healthy individual can live up to 60 -70 years . There is no need for medical advances because what for ? If one is healthy than will live , if not than its unfortunate. Of course I'm being sarcastic, but where do you draw the line that its enough, we now have everything we need? At one point ppl used animals to get around , than we invented automobiles. Should we have drawn the line there ? How about travel around the world ? Used to be it was only possible for a handful of people. Now we have airplanes , and everyone can travel anywhere. Should we drawned the line there? We certainly didn't need computers to survive , but now society would collapse without them and think! its only the beginning! In another century will be able to clone organs for ourselves. if the original will fail ! Imagine your son have a problematic heart or kidney , no problem he'll receive one, that is identical to his own in a month. We dont need that eather? You can't stop society from advancing . And this is how society is advancing by innovation! Those ppl who went bankrupt can thank to themselves! Why purchase a big ass SUV on credit, if all one can afford is a small Kia sedan ? You still can live like back in the days . All you got to do is to move in with the Amish ppl 😃! But even that is cheating , because they to use technology. If one wants 100 % natural, have to go back at least 40 thousand years to the time of the Neanderthal ppl ! But even that is cheating, 'cos they to used stone technology & fire ! Ever since we begun walking on our hinde legs, and our hands freed up ,the innovations has begun buddy . That was about 6 million years ago ! As long as there is Man on this planet , it will never stop. Someone will always come along who is going to say we can do this better . Sorry about my broken English
Very very true. Optimism of the future was a defining American trait. Ironically, never more so than during the forty year period we feared nuclear obliteration at the hands of the Russians. Now it’s very hard to think of a future in which life gets better and better. Almost unthinkable now.
@@mykiemilford720 now optimism of the future is just a sci-fi trope that doesn't work anymore This is why nowadays, sci-fi movies set in the future doesn't even use dates anymore
And yet we are still forced to socialize for 18 years of our lives.
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Exactly. Thanks to the internet, I've been well educated and know the Earth is flat, vaccines cause communism, the Moon is an hoax, and Australia is a government conspiracy. I also know I am the center of the universe and entitled to make known MY truth in every comment section, because internet validation is king.
Ignorance makes people happy. More you know, more you need to do to solve/make it better. Knowledge injects responsibility/common sense/critical thinking. It makes many people extremely uncomfortable. As soon as they start to learn , They cannot keep their old values/ social norms. suddenly doing what everybody does becomes wrong. Maybe his/her entire family follows one ideology and that ideology becomes flawed not ideal For progression. It makes you an outcast. Suddenly you can’t follow everything like a ship. Can’t agree to everyone on everything. In many cases You have to argue with your elders/family members. Knowledge does not guarantee a happy life. It just guarantees that a better self…
Actually Philips sold its first plasma (flat) TV to the public in 1997. You could have picked one up for the mere price of $15,000 US. The fact they become commonplace by 2005 is extraordinary. This film was not far off the mark in that respect.
@@60gregma $15,000 wouldn't be common. Most people couldn't afford one. Not sure if you're old enough to live through that. I was able to buy an LCD laptop back in 1997 for $2200. I bought my first LCD monitor for $700 in 2003. I bought my large screen LCDTV in 2009 for $1300. By 2009 plasma TV was already obsolete.
Which explains why they didn't anticipate that the daughter would bring over a black rapper boyfriend in her rebellious phase, the son would be a genderqueer shutin that just plays video games all day, and the parents adult hippies living on welfare out of their double-wide trailer.
Did you bother looking on Amazon : www.amazon.com/SWASH-B00Z7R60KK-SFF1000CLN-Linen/dp/B00Z7R60KK/ref=sr_1_4?hvadid=78683843210516&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvqmt=e&keywords=swash&qid=1567647040&s=gateway&sr=8-4
An underlying assumption was intelligent regulation of the information presented to them. They always only get limited information which is just right. One of our problems today is that everything is available which makes it extremely difficult to sort and assess the quality of information.
@@vondahe while you see that as a weakness I see that as a strength, you want the government to dictate to you what to believe?? Please brah, get out of here lol
Imagine if someone back then tried to medically and/or surgically help boys become girls and pretend they could have babies and breastfeed if that was the way they felt. Anyone pushing that crap back then would be Institutionalised for obvious reasons.
They have been shilling this lie about "technology" since day one. It's the same BS they spread in TV shows like Star Trek. "We don't need money and nobody has to work...." As you said... My A$$. That starship sure took a hell of a lot of ore and other things to build. Where did that come from? Did people go mine it for "fun". (because mining is a fun pastime) That's when they say, "The machines will mine it, and do everything." Oh... then who builds and services all the machines for fun? That's when they tell us "Machines will build other machines." OK... so what happens when the machines... which are now the only ones actually living... decide we're not work keeping? It can only lead to enslavement or annihilation... certainly not enrichment. A people who can no longer do anything for themselves, who have made the very point of life moot, have achieved nothing but destroying Gods gift.
Yea, flashing lights look so stupid. Why do you need so many? I'm glad modern computers don't look like a fucking Christmas tree, with LED lighting on everything... oh, wait
I was born less than a year before this came out and in 1999 I was working on the Y2K project; something in '67 they didn't anticipate could be a problem in 30+ years. Nice to see they understood how much we would use computers; even if they could not anticipate the Internet or that we didn't need centers, one computer could serve many purposes and in general we'd all have one that could fit in our pockets.
@@SlugCult718 A common misunderstanding that we programmers wasted time on Y2K. The reason bad **** did not happen is BECAUSE we spent time fixing Y2K code. Maybe someone needs to make a movie about what would have happened if no one had fixed Y2K issues...be a bit like when that George guy was never born, and the town turned really bad.
There was a similar video released within the last few years by a glass company that similarly showed off promises of the future. Exactly the same as how this video was used by marketing in the 60s
I might have asked my mother what day of the month it was; In desperate times I may have even needed asked what day of the week it was; but never in my whole life have I needed to ask my mother what year it was.
@@markfrost2707The two are inextricably linked. Look at the effect the internet has had on society and culture. And if you want to really frighten yourself, just imagine the effect AI will have on society over the next few years.
@@thepenultimateninja5797 it was always an amusement park we finally tamed....who cares anymore...what? We're going to create the next great civilization? NAH....we'll burn through the food and damn the torpedos....woot woot..all aboard to no where! And you know what...I'm fine.
But they probably never expected the Japanese and Korean companies to make these. Emmett Brown's reaction to a lot of the electronics being made in Japan in 'Back to the Future' is pretty much what the reactions would've been if they heard that about the flat screens.
I read from some book made in the 70s how life will be like in 2000. They predicted no cars and flat tv´s the size of a wall. I was wondering about the weird hate-bone the maker had for cars and my older brother explained that leftwing people in our country were against private car-ownership and dreamed of vast public transport system. Lol, Finland is the worst for that still if you don´t live in Helsinki.
@@swee2251 The Japanese failed at flat panel LCDs. They bet on plasma and lost. Today's flat panels are made mostly by South Korea, Taiwan, and now China. This mirrors CRT tubes which by the 1990s were predominantly Korea and Taiwan.
It’s amazing that they were very accurate about “What” computers would be doing for us, but they didn’t predict “how” we would use them… the UI was all knobs, dials, and buttons. Nobody thought about touch screens, or voice control…
Perhaps not in this film, but in decades of science fiction, voice control was the main interface with computers... Touch screen interfaces with light guns was implemented for mainframes in the 60's, and with fingers and pens on CRT's in the 70's....
we sure are lacking knowledge as a society. charging the expensive amounts of money for college tuition definitely took the incentive out of it and made it more of a risk vs. reward dilemma which makes many anxious and apprehensive about making what should not have to even be a large decision, TO EDUCATE YOURSELF.
I say to the computer, "Hmmm. Now where did I put that industrial sized magnet?" Computer: "Here is your Cheeseburger and chips, sir! Would you like a cold beverage with that?"
I bet that kid was really disappointed when he got to 1999 in his late 30’s, and realized that life in 1969 was much closer to 1999 than anything in this video was.
Is that a joke perhaps?Never heard of typing in a so-called"Chromosome Language",my friend?In biology,the human Sex chromosomes are X,and Y.Two XX make a female,while a XY makes a male.
I found it interesting that things were so futuristic, yet the concept of (what we now call) traditional roles in the marriage were sill upheld. mom being the cook. dad being the breadwinner. etc. Sure mom had a career before she had kids. Lucky she gets to still make pottery, though! Also find it interesting that they were ok with disposable everything. dinner ware, clothes, etc. Not even talk of recyclable. Everyone is like OOOooo. they predicted the microwave. yeah. big whoop. I want the one they have in this video. The one that automatically obtains food from the supermarket, portions and preps it for you. You only touch the final product. Also, the clothes cleaning closet. i want that too!
"Predicted" the microwave is funny, because in 1967 the microwave had already been invented years before. And think of a future where you only cook microwaved food. Do you really want to live in that future? Many foods have awful taste and texture after they've been nuked. The cheeseburger Dad craved so much is one of them.
This is pretty much my house where my wife "cooks" all meals from "Factor" which are microwaved in ... 2 minutes (as predicted by this video). They all arrive at the house automatically and are debited from my (the husband's) account. The plates are all disposable. I had to LOL at that. She also shops on Amazon virtually every day like the lady buy clothes online.
@@valedictorianismwhen home microwaves were new the industry heavily promoted how you could use them to cook anything. It took at least a decade or two for people to realize that was BS!
The non-traditional role swap hasn't worked out so well. Microwaves existed when this was made, they just weren't in every house. It is analogous to AI, it will soon be a part of everyday life.
Interesting things I noticed: - They thought that a computer would only ever do 1 task, so you would need different computers for different tasks. - They never imagined that computers would become small and mobile so that they can be carried around on our bodies. - They thought that online shopping would be a lot more mechanical: A moving camera shows a bunch of products to the shopper, and they need to click a button in time to select that product. This doesn't scale at all, and they didn't expect something like modern databases and websites. - Everything is full of knobs and dials.
The interconnections of multiple computers was not well known outside of a few isolated research laboratories in 1967. It would be another 10 years before connecting a few dozen Volkswagen Beetle-sized-computers was even a things. They were doing good to imagine a computer connected to and from a bank or a department store! The telephone circuit one-to-one connection paradigm was all they had... along with switching done by operators and a mechanical switching station.
This was from 1967 if anyone else wonders where in the past we were for this video. Love the video I think it's insanity not to mention when this was made. 40s 50s 60s 70s ..Something like "1999 House of Tomorrow," from 1967.I only scrolled 200 comments hopefully the 7300 comment mentioned 1967.
In the future on that beach the Statue of Liberty will be half buried, and a man wearing an animal skin loincloth cusses it and pounds the sand. A similarly clad hot chick with a clueless, vacant, uncomprehending stare watches him.
It's no coincidence! IKEA is heavily influenced by architectural futurism of the late 1910's. And any time films in the 60's (and even now) need to create vision of the "future", they gravitate toward that same minimalistic, utilitarian design.
In the 90's modernist,minimalist design was considered laughably outdated. Faux old world Europe and post modernism was in style. It's only been the past few years that have seen a resurgence of the modernist aesthetic
@@averagepainter Yup,that dining table is a real Knoll Sarinaan, the chairs are Michael Thonet from the 1920's, and there is a authentic womb chair the kid is sitting on watching the big screen TV. The whole set has really high end iconic stuff. Today, very few homes in the world have such expensive modernist stuff. I think the idea is that people in the future would have more refined patrician tastes, which isn't true. Most homes today look like either Target, Ikea, or Restoration Hardware threw up in their homes.
@@pirateking888 Interestingly, check out the dining table. It's a Knoll Sarinaan, but they don't use his SUPER futuristic tulip chairs, they use Michael Thonet bentwood armchairs from the 1920's. This is actually a very sophisticated juxtaposition of old and new, that is still seen today, and in my home. But our chairs are beech Thonet Prague chairs, which are very similar. We aren't from the future though, or work 2 days a week.
@@CraigWinsr And remember that everything you hear on your iPod and on your phone today is still made on a desktop computer. Every video you see hear on youtube with good content is made on a desktop computer. Every gamer in the world has a desktop computer. Everyone making music and graphical work at home has a desktop computer. So no, desktop computers are not gone at all. :) And yes, this is written on a desktop computer :)
even by '75 there was the IMSAI 8080, Altair 8800, and the KANBAK 1. all 3 were well known by the public, as they were all featured in the New York Times.
I live near a university, and have found some outstanding student work at Goodwill, but it's still looking for a needle in a haystack. Every 6 months I find something nice, Legardo Tackett or something like that. I go everyday. P.S. I think the idea is dad is into flowers, Mom is into ceramics, because they have increased leisure time to pursue "artsy" stuff, due to computers and robots making our lives so idyllic, and the whole 3 day work week we enjoy in the future.
I remember watching this film in Junior High School, over 30 years ago. It’s amazing how everything in the film is coming to past. When I look at what’s happening in the world with home/virtual schooling, it’s the way of the future…prepare for take off. I’ve been looking for this movie for years.
Did you see the mum's pottery. "Back in her work years" she was a fine arts teacher, so there is something seriously wrong with the school system. He was also replaying a chess game that he had with his dad, unless he is making exactly the same moves as before (which seems pretty pointless) he was playing the computer or in other word playing a completely new game. Idk. I think there's something off about what 1995 is apparently like and their school system is probably shit, with the computer having so much control over the minutia of their lives and it is so huge I wouldn't be surprised if beind the buttons and cathode ray screen, it was a secretly a sentient super cumputer, slowly enacting its plan for world domination - beginning by completely neglecting the kids education.
Funny how society back then had a very optimistic and imaginative view of the future, while nowadays we portray the future as almost exclusively dystopian.
It's kinda like Back to the Future II. We're currently skewed into a tangential reality where so many of our ideals are founded in lunacy and fiercely defended by lunatics. If we extrapolate what the future looks like from this current, deranged reality we find ourselves trapped in a dystopian never-never land. The only way to fix it is to take the DeLorean back to 1955 and make sure Biff doesn't get his hands on that God damned sports almanac.
That's because we've made so much progress in so little time, there really isn't much more left to do. The problem is that we paid for these advances dearly with labour market erosion, astronomical inflation, society degradation and everything else which inevitably follows industrial capitalism.
It's priceless that they had the kid replaying the chess match he had with his father (from days earlier), utilising the screen, but they failed to eliminate the need for the actual chess set in the dramatisation. These future visions are both too futuristic and too archaic, at the same time.
1) That beach at the beginning looks awefully like the one from the end of Planet of the Apes (1968), minus the Statue of Liberty 2) Mike is played by Wink Martindale, host of TVs Tic Tac Dough gameshow 3) The future will be a joyless prison where everything is dictated to us by our computer overlords
And the year after that Y2J changed wrestling history by beating both "the great one" The Rock and "the Texas rattlesnake" Stone Cold Steve Austin to became the first ever WWF Undisputed Champion.
Then the Robot Sophia was unable to be shut off as she outsmarted the humans and her memory in the cloud controlled all other robots hence creating WW3
@10:52: "The house of 1999 will be virtually maintenance-free." Me in 2020: WE'RE 21 YEARS BEYOND THE TARGET YEAR! WHERE'S MY MAINTENANCE-FREE HOME?????
@@lightdark00 More like blame the time period. We just don't have that technology because tech improves rapidly now, but not THAT rapidly. Without immigrants, the amount of technology would just be the same and other people would be maintaining houses for the elite. That's how it was before immigration became as common as it is. Do you think that if we didn't have immigrants willing to do free labor, engineers would work faster and suddenly have newer ideas on how to make maintenance free homes? Plus many immigrants don't have those kind of jobs. My dad is an immigrant and he works at an office.
Scared how accurate some of these predictions were, home security video monitoring, online shopping, home education systems, computer controlled homes...
I've always admired the soothing narrating tone of Alexander Scourby in old educational or documentary type videos like these from the 1960's. He also narrates another favorite of mine, titled 'Dr. Leakey and the Dawn of Man'. I find it eerily astonishing on how accurate many of these futuristic predictions really were from 32 years prior (released in 1967)...and to be realistic about it, we're now 23 years past 1999 already. Even the physical props are incredibly similar to see computer monitors, keyboards, printers, musical organ with a monitor, HVAC system, microwave ovens, disposable dishes, switchable window shades, etc... They obviously were on the right track and could see where the future was headed to some degree, regarding technology and automation. This is actually astonishing, considering they had no clue about the internet, but could predict things like "fingertip shopping", computer to calculate things like a dinner menu, calorie intake and food recommendations, inputting/recalling information from computer "memory banks" that are available instantly, computer home schooling, computer gaming, home post office, computer bank statements/car payment balance/taxes, home surveillance, home camera to camera intercom system, data monitoring and emergency backup centers, body scanning, AI which relays personal statistics back to to you via audio, computer planning and regional weather conditions, big screen tv's/projectors for entertaining parties, etc... These are absolutely phenomenal predictions! I have not yet seen the home vaporized cleaning closets, nor the home automated dish dispensers yet, but give it time. Lol. Sadly, these predictions and futuristic lifestyles were overly sensationalized at the time of this film. It's one of those things where you have to be careful for what you wish for. The grass isn't always greener on the other side and I believe our modern existence is more miserable than anything these days with how technology controls us, monitors our every move, documents our flaws, uses those human flaws against us, enslaves us and shapes us as a society and species negatively more than anything. What's funny is how, with all of this futuristic advancement and in the manner that the video portrays this sort of glorious, healthy and upbeat way of living, the kid actually "flunked" his home schooling test. It's also funny to see how they thought that with all of the computerized help and automation, it would relieve us of a lot of home duties, only to allow for much more idle free time to, say, craft pottery. That's the farthest thing from the truth, as the computers and automation have just stressed our lives beyond belief and have utilized almost all of our free time...much of it in pure nonsense with never-ending IT issues, a million sites to register on/log in/log out, scams, fraud, online addictions. With all of our modern computers and automated advancements, you'd think that things would almost be flawless, but it's nearly the exact opposite. There are constant things which are always being screwed up these days to no end! The use of computers and their conveniences and luxuries have actually constricted our lives and freedoms more than anything and have proven to do more harm than good. Less is more in life.
Actually, the great outsourcing of tech jobs started in 2001. The economy was still going strong in 1999. The dad still had a couple more years of flying to Mexico to play golf.
84 ? More like steampunk version of the 70's ? 80s look too modern for this. Just look at the 80's computers. They are more advanced then their vision of '99 computers.
@@AdrianoCROST He is referring to George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 you must have at least heard of it, it's one of the most important books ever written and very relevant to the times we live in. Go read it now plz thanks
I noticed that too lol it's almost like there was some disagreement that a high tech household would be a good thing or a nightmare. The Amish seem much happier I hear 😊
Chopun Wow, I see you in almost every comment session I go to. I guess we classical musicians really do have similar tastes and hence the same TH-cam recommendations.
I'm 77 & was 23 in 1969 ( when this film was made) & am very disappointed at how little (except communications ) has changed up to 2024, let alone 1999!
Davis Herrera What a joke. These projections never took into account bureaucracy. I think Inflatable Concrete housing is among the most brilliantly cost effective construction developments ever, only $10,000 to build a decent burm home to live like a hobbit, including the well and sewage, but it TECHNICALLY falls within “modular” status and the jackass municipal council where I live won’t allow those. Something like this “future” house would never be allowed to become cost effective. Too much red tape and vested interests against it.
I'd like to show you my home , this is the computer room. Excuse me for a moment. Google what the hell is a computer room? Sorry again, my smartphone gets a bit slow after an update.
We really did believe that things would be "futuristic" by now (i.e. The Jetsons cartoon). I was born in 1949 and the young folks now wouldn't believe the world we used to live in. Interestingly, this 'movie' got pretty close to how things actually turned out: Amazon, Google, personal computers, microwave ovens, central heating & air, printers, email, electronic banking, etc., (sans the self-cleaning clothes closet, fully auto food dispenser, etc).
Yep. I'm pretty sure I saw this film in school sometime from 1969-1975! After Apollo 11, we had the POTENTIAL to continue the Space Program, for example--but Nixon and his cronies in Congress tore the guts out of NASA to fund the Vietnam War! 😡
I’m in my late 20s and I was speaking to a mentor of mine who is nearly 60 and I asked him if people for instance in the 1980s, really thought that a future world like blade runner would be possible by the early 2000s. His response was so spot on. He explained to me that if you look at the technology advancements from World War II in till the 1960s and in the 1960s to the early 1980s everyone back then assumed we would be flying around like the Jetsons by the 2000s and that other cars in space travel would be extremely common by taking the subway.
"Michael has a minor back ache, so with the computer terminal he catalogues his symptoms using WebMD, and it tells him the most likely cause of his discomfort. Cancer."
Or pregnancy
Before I was diagnosed by a real doctor for a sinus infection, WebMD suggested that I had the plague.
Lol
Benbot 😂 😂 😂
@@SilverWingedOne 😂😂
They forgot the part where everything in your home collects your personal data and sells it to anyone who wants it.
To be fair, that started taking off later than '99, didn't it?
That would be 2019
@@melikey3758 More like September 4, 1998
Back then was not of great importance.
@@Ra-zor Google is watching.
wow i can't wait for 1999 it's gonna be great
I can't wait for the year 1999. It's gonna go off with a bang.
sneeyize45 did u not get the joke or
Colin Cantwell loool
Colin Cantwell LMBO
I use to also. There was a show I watched as a little kid called "Space 1999" lol
It's now 2023 how I miss them olden days and those futuristic movies from 1999 A.D.
Me too! I'm 77 & was 23 in 1969, when this film was made, but am now disappointed at how little has changed!
I saw this film in school when I was a kid. At the end of it one particularly bright student asked "what about poor people?"
They prepare food in that huge fridge...
@@tomfu6210 They are the food.
Genetically phased out
@HourglassShrugged This is clearly socialist propaganda. 13:07 is proof.
It's a communist utopia!
The husband says, "you can't beat the Amazon" the most accurate prediction in the whole show.
Bethany Bergeson no
Unless you light it on fire because it'll make you more money to farm cows that emmit methane, than leave trees to make oxygen.
@@DanielkaElliott I wasn't talking about the actual Amazon that Brazil's president is currently destroying. I am talking about the other Amazon, the one that is literally destroying all its competition.
@@bethanybergeson4192 I think everyone else got it though 🤦♂️
...except maybe the part at the end where the sandcastle is washed away, representing the threat of rising sea levels
The makers of this film never imagined people would be watching this on a smart phone in 2019.
While on the toilet
While my amazon package arrives
Although not shown in this video, the idea of a portable, personal computer like a tablet was seriously envisioned in the 60s and 70s in places like the PARC research lab and by people like Alan Kay. The technology didn’t exist to realize it at the time, however it provided the motivation to develop intermediate technologies like personal computers and touchscreens.
People in 1999 didn't even see smartphones coming.
I mean they had star trek, they were imagining teleportation n sheet
Karen (Marj Dusay) told her son at the beach that she was 44. I was thinking to myself she looks pretty young for 44. She was actually 31 at the time. She was also the actress in Star Trek that stole Spock's brain. I remember Wink Martindale as a game show host later on. What a crazy little film clip.
Yeah, that was weird. Maybe they figured everyone would look younger in the future, so they exaggerated the point a bit.
Brain and brain!!!! What is brain??!?
@@racoats1The idea was, that people would have kids later in life, and that adults would look much younger even at 44 years of age. This is not incorrect, so long as people avoid smoking, vaping, alcohol, and other substances. Plus, clean air.
I was shocked she said she was only 44, I would have guessed more like 50, and dang …she was in reality, 31?! Hole shite 😂
Actually, she said she will be 44 next year (2000) which means she is 43 in 1999. Later in the film, the narrator mentions that she is currently 43. Still I agree that she looked younger than being in her 40s.
Expected to see a half-buried Statue of Liberty on that opening beach.
Indeed, look identical, i also got that vibe
@@robber576 I thought the same thing... Planet of Apes ending scene! 👍
Lol " Nooo.. .you ruined it!"
Hmmm....the computer....Dad fiddling all of the buttons and switches looking for porn.
Exactly!
In the real 1999, Jamie would have been sat in front of his computer the whole time playing Doom.
Ha ha so true
How old are you? From what I remember some people had computers in 1999, but not everyone. More kids had game consoles.
@@PeteS_1994 I had a computer in 1999, which I used to play Disney's _Magic Artist_ and the _Tarzan_ action game.
@@ARCtheCartoonMaster So did my auntie and a few of my mum's friends but not most people I knew. Maybe it's cause I mainly knew Working Class Londoners. It seemed to become very common in the early 2000's that's when I began seeing it in most houses.
Metal Gear series, Resident Evil series and Goldeneye. The multiplayer on Goldeneye was fun!
It's really cute that they thought we'd be on the metric system by 1999
Sadpants McGee In Australia, New Zealand and Canada they were.
What's funny is if they had put us all to the metric system NASA could have saved a lot of money. One of their biggest blunders and cost Millions when engineer did the calcs in the metric system and the other one did it in our system. That can get people killed. Look it up online
The American people were given an inch, so of course they took the mile
I remember in 1976 my math teacher saying 5 years from we'll all be using the metric system but it never caught on here in the States.
The rest of yall can measure yourselves in centimeters - im fine with feet. Thats why the rest of the world uses metric, and America uses it’s own system - because we can.
I love the ominous music when it's revealed to be 1999, like it's a dark and scary time
it’s giving final scene from Planet of the Apes vibes 🤣
2:11. I like the fact she added AD at the end,why?
@@dissonantdreams I thought exactly the same.
@@dissonantdreams😂😂😂😂
I hope the person who envisioned this got to live to see 1999.
I love retro futurism. It's always fascinating to see what people back then thought the future would be like.
Well, they sure got the many parts of today's middle-class lifestyle right. Multiple screen setups on the desktop, tons of consumer devices no one really needs, preparing food the "old-fashioned way."
Apparently they thought we all would like sitting in Denny's booths.
@@arischbacho middle class? What's that?
I once heard an advertising executive say: "Advertising is the business of creating needs.", and that's exactly what Social Propaganda films like this one are intended to do. They whet consumer appetites for things that consumers presently don't know that they even need. Capitalism fools consumers into believing that it's doing them a big favor by delivering all these new hi-tech goodies that make life easier and more fun. But reality is that Capitalism Does Not Give A Damn about consumers, and futuristic films like this one are solely intended to prime the consumer side of the economic cycle with WHATEVER new product that Capitalism thinks that it can sucker consumers into buying. Noam Chomsky calls it "Manufacturing Consent".
By my memory, microwave ovens came out around 1970, PC's came out around 1980, and cell phones came out around 1990. NOWHERE can you show me a public opinion poll, a news article or ANY Other evidence that consumers at the time were demanding better technology before these new hi-tech gadgets were first marketed. NOWHERE !!! Through manipulative and deceptive advertising, Capitalism created the "need" for these products when they first marketed them. NO One in the public even knew that they "needed" them before they were first marketed. And futuristic Social Propaganda films like this one, strategically produced decades earlier, makes it even easier to sucker consumers to buy new gadgets that they don't even really need.
Please forgive my cynicism but it is rooted in a 30 year career as a consumer debt collector, a bill collector. Every day for 30 years, I had to help all those poor suckers pick up the pieces of their lives because they DID believe all those futuristic films, those glossy commercials, and those ever smiling salesmen and bought and bought and bought all those new futuristic gadgets that they could have lived without, and which eventually caused them financial and social ruin. And and all those poor "suckers" were honest, hard working people who naively believed what that saw on TV and the movie theater. ... jkulik919@gmail.com
@@JosephKulik2016 Well of course we could still live today like native Indians lived 400 y ago . All we really need is protection from the elements, and food and water and that's it ! Given that , a healthy individual can live up to 60 -70 years . There is no need for medical advances because what for ? If one is healthy than will live , if not than its unfortunate. Of course I'm being sarcastic, but where do you draw the line that its enough, we now have everything we need? At one point ppl used animals to get around , than we invented automobiles. Should we have drawn the line there ? How about travel around the world ? Used to be it was only possible for a handful of people. Now we have airplanes , and everyone can travel anywhere. Should we drawned the line there? We certainly didn't need computers to survive , but now society would collapse without them and think! its only the beginning! In another century will be able to clone organs for ourselves. if the original will fail ! Imagine your son have a problematic heart or kidney , no problem he'll receive one, that is identical to his own in a month. We dont need that eather? You can't stop society from advancing . And this is how society is advancing by innovation! Those ppl who went bankrupt can thank to themselves! Why purchase a big ass SUV on credit, if all one can afford is a small Kia sedan ? You still can live like back in the days . All you got to do is to move in with the Amish ppl 😃! But even that is cheating , because they to use technology. If one wants 100 % natural, have to go back at least 40 thousand years to the time of the Neanderthal ppl ! But even that is cheating, 'cos they to used stone technology & fire ! Ever since we begun walking on our hinde legs, and our hands freed up ,the innovations has begun buddy . That was about 6 million years ago ! As long as there is Man on this planet , it will never stop. Someone will always come along who is going to say we can do this better . Sorry about my broken English
Back there, people were obsessed with the future
Now, people are obsessed with the past
Because the past is so much better
Very very true. Optimism of the future was a defining American trait. Ironically, never more so than during the forty year period we feared nuclear obliteration at the hands of the Russians. Now it’s very hard to think of a future in which life gets better and better. Almost unthinkable now.
@@mykiemilford720 now optimism of the future is just a sci-fi trope that doesn't work anymore
This is why nowadays, sci-fi movies set in the future doesn't even use dates anymore
nostalgia is a dangerous drug; less about the glory of the past than dissatisfaction with the present
@@justincress That's why I hate Disney
"All education is within the home"
2019: Haha thats dumb
2020: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
2020 yep haha!!
Bruh
Hahaha!
this is an ongoing attack we are under attack
Brilliant
This is extremely well done when you consider what people (even in the know) knew about computers back in '67.
In the year 2000.....all men will exercise in turtle necks. Style will NOT be sacrificed for comfort or even fitness.
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Lol. "In the year 2000 air pollution will be so bad that 'who farted?' will be said with a grateful smile."
the dad is Wink Martindale!
not
"there will be no need for social interacition, everything can be learned about and garnered from a computer" So they got that part correct.
And yet we are still forced to socialize for 18 years of our lives.
Exactly. Thanks to the internet, I've been well educated and know the Earth is flat, vaccines cause communism, the Moon is an hoax, and Australia is a government conspiracy.
I also know I am the center of the universe and entitled to make known MY truth in every comment section, because internet validation is king.
@ you haven't watched the moon landing videos have you?
@ kudos for the "vaccines causes communism". That's a fresh take on the anrivaxxers.
@
Vaccines causes Communism, sounds like something fucking McCarthyist antivaxxers would say.
"In the past we thought that ignorance was the result of a lack of information, the Internet has shown us that is not the case"
Data doesn't equal information
The Internet is the solution to ignorance. The issue is that, more so than that, it is a much greater distraction.
UGH!
Ignorance makes people happy. More you know, more you need to do to solve/make it better. Knowledge injects responsibility/common sense/critical thinking. It makes many people extremely uncomfortable. As soon as they start to learn , They cannot keep their old values/ social norms. suddenly doing what everybody does becomes wrong. Maybe his/her entire family follows one ideology and that ideology becomes flawed not ideal For progression. It makes you an outcast. Suddenly you can’t follow everything like a ship. Can’t agree to everyone on everything. In many cases You have to argue with your elders/family members. Knowledge does not guarantee a happy life. It just guarantees that a better self…
info doesn't equal reality
One thing I'm impressed with is that their version of 1999 already had flat screen monitors which didn't become common until at least 2005.
Actually Philips sold its first plasma (flat) TV to the public in 1997. You could have picked one up for the mere price of $15,000 US. The fact they become commonplace by 2005 is extraordinary. This film was not far off the mark in that respect.
@@60gregma $15,000 wouldn't be common. Most people couldn't afford one. Not sure if you're old enough to live through that. I was able to buy an LCD laptop back in 1997 for $2200. I bought my first LCD monitor for $700 in 2003. I bought my large screen LCDTV in 2009 for $1300. By 2009 plasma TV was already obsolete.
I also thought same about the big screen
I was thinking the same thing! Usually older depictions of the future still had people still using big bulky CRT monitors.
Wow, six years. Big whoops there.
No mention of when this film was made, and the link is broken, so hopefully this can be pinned...
This came out in 1967.
Thank you very much. I was looking for this information :)
I was wondering as well, thanks!
Thanks, but the woman's looks scream "Sixties" anyway! :)
such basic information left out. ty
Which explains why they didn't anticipate that the daughter would bring over a black rapper boyfriend in her rebellious phase, the son would be a genderqueer shutin that just plays video games all day, and the parents adult hippies living on welfare out of their double-wide trailer.
20 years later and i still dont have one of those chemical vapour/ultasonic vibrating cleaning closets for my non disposable clothing
Andrew James bro for real wtf
Did you bother looking on Amazon : www.amazon.com/SWASH-B00Z7R60KK-SFF1000CLN-Linen/dp/B00Z7R60KK/ref=sr_1_4?hvadid=78683843210516&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvqmt=e&keywords=swash&qid=1567647040&s=gateway&sr=8-4
Modular home. Remember the sand sculpture at the beginning?
I do. It’s called an autoclave. Custom fit for a closet
And I'm not sure I've had as smooth a video chat as he did with his golfing buddy.
They did get some things right like Internet shopping, and banking.
But these things just started to be more common in the 00s. They weren‘t common or fast for everyone in 1999.
An underlying assumption was intelligent regulation of the information presented to them. They always only get limited information which is just right.
One of our problems today is that everything is available which makes it extremely difficult to sort and assess the quality of information.
flat screens too, and the fax machine
@@vondahe while you see that as a weakness I see that as a strength, you want the government to dictate to you what to believe?? Please brah, get out of here lol
and prepped meals
This was produced in 1967. Well made and love that many
of the predictions came true.😀
I thought it must be before the moon landing but close enough to include it.
But from 1999 to 2023 there is increasingly no father in the house.
@@seanys There is also the element the screen comunication, something that was popularized by Star Trek a year prior
Imagine if someone back then tried to medically and/or surgically help boys become girls and pretend they could have babies and breastfeed if that was the way they felt.
Anyone pushing that crap back then would be
Institutionalised for obvious reasons.
The images of the prototype lunar module kind of gave a clue on when this program was made.
"The house of 1999 will be maintenance free". My A##.
As someone about to get down on my knees to scrub my bathtub, your comment made me shriek with laughter!
They have been shilling this lie about "technology" since day one. It's the same BS they spread in TV shows like Star Trek. "We don't need money and nobody has to work...." As you said... My A$$. That starship sure took a hell of a lot of ore and other things to build. Where did that come from? Did people go mine it for "fun". (because mining is a fun pastime) That's when they say, "The machines will mine it, and do everything." Oh... then who builds and services all the machines for fun? That's when they tell us "Machines will build other machines." OK... so what happens when the machines... which are now the only ones actually living... decide we're not work keeping? It can only lead to enslavement or annihilation... certainly not enrichment. A people who can no longer do anything for themselves, who have made the very point of life moot, have achieved nothing but destroying Gods gift.
We failed that one so hard.
@@56squadron The point of 5G is to implement AI robots to hassle the fvck out of humans and lower the population numbers
Just like the maintenance free Tesla
Remember kids, if it doesn't have 6000 flashing lights, it's not a computer!
Yea, flashing lights look so stupid. Why do you need so many? I'm glad modern computers don't look like a fucking Christmas tree, with LED lighting on everything... oh, wait
brotherbosco, yes and they MUST flash out of sequence
*looks at my PC*
Oh thank God, I have a computer.
And it needs to be covered in dials and take up a whole room (though it may have several terminals connected to it)
Gotta have that RGB baby!
How quickly do you think the "home health center" would turn into a "large storage area"?
I wonder if there are special "shoving all my crap in there until I can be bothered to sort it out (never)" hexagonal modules
it takes about one month for "treadmill" to turn into "place to hang pants until i wear them again"
Considering how uncomfortable he looked in there, I'd give it 2 weeks.
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I was born less than a year before this came out and in 1999 I was working on the Y2K project; something in '67 they didn't anticipate could be a problem in 30+ years. Nice to see they understood how much we would use computers; even if they could not anticipate the Internet or that we didn't need centers, one computer could serve many purposes and in general we'd all have one that could fit in our pockets.
Also nice to see them "get right" the 8 year old being taught by his home computer... alone and depressed.
So you wasted all that time dealing with Y2K? The apocalypse that never was? I was disappointed. I love chaos.
@@SlugCult718 That was the beginning of the end of this age for humanity, mark my words and get ready for something huge in 2026.
@@SlugCult718 A common misunderstanding that we programmers wasted time on Y2K. The reason bad **** did not happen is BECAUSE we spent time fixing Y2K code. Maybe someone needs to make a movie about what would have happened if no one had fixed Y2K issues...be a bit like when that George guy was never born, and the town turned really bad.
millennium
Ever notice how no one ever makes a video about the future now? Makes me wonder whether maybe we don't want to know.
There was a similar video released within the last few years by a glass company that similarly showed off promises of the future. Exactly the same as how this video was used by marketing in the 60s
@Jon Seymour You forgot not buying into 'Climate change'..
@Jon Seymoureuicide booths
@@actionau well that one is true tho so lel
Futurama??
I might have asked my mother what day of the month it was; In desperate times I may have even needed asked what day of the week it was; but never in my whole life have I needed to ask my mother what year it was.
Especially considering this kid is supposed to be some kind of genius.
i sure have
The boy will someday grow up and get elected to Congress!
I like that the mum adds "A.D." to the year, like the kid might have thought it was B.C. or something
He is homeschooled. 🤭
There’s only one reasonable point in time to choose as the start point for you calendar, and that’s the Big Bang.
Welcome to ≈ 13,700,000,000 A.B.!
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 I prefer 12020 AGT (After Göbekli-Tepe)
@@jenwombatexcelsior yep, looks like his "home" is doing the schooling. Not the parents. Just the home computer, lol!
TortureBot ie; zoom classrooms in quarantine
Its always amazing that these types of films never can predict the social change that might happen in the future
is that their goal? to show social things or what they thought TECHNOLOGY could/will bring us?
@@markfrost2707The two are inextricably linked.
Look at the effect the internet has had on society and culture.
And if you want to really frighten yourself, just imagine the effect AI will have on society over the next few years.
@@thepenultimateninja5797 yeah
@@markfrost2707 calm down there
@@thepenultimateninja5797 it was always an amusement park we finally tamed....who cares anymore...what? We're going to create the next great civilization? NAH....we'll burn through the food and damn the torpedos....woot woot..all aboard to no where!
And you know what...I'm fine.
I kept waiting for Charleton Heston to ride up and start screaming "You Maniacs!!!"
Damn you all to hell !!!!!!!!
I know! I swear that's the same beach where the Statue of Liberty head stood. Hey, don't waste a good set.
@@E.L.RipleyAtNostromo It was.
Instead of Planet of the Apes, we have Planet of the Dummy Trumpturds
@@mcnudde Same beach in California. : )
I bet there's a massive job market for IT technicians in 1999.
All those bulbs and buttons to replace.....
All the knobs and switches
CaveMonster Not to mention all those vacuum tubes.....
This was made in 1967. I like that they use flat screen monitors.
Thanks for pointing out the year this was made. I was looking for that 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
But they probably never expected the Japanese and Korean companies to make these. Emmett Brown's reaction to a lot of the electronics being made in Japan in 'Back to the Future' is pretty much what the reactions would've been if they heard that about the flat screens.
I read from some book made in the 70s how life will be like in 2000. They predicted no cars and flat tv´s the size of a wall. I was wondering about the weird hate-bone the maker had for cars and my older brother explained that leftwing people in our country were against private car-ownership and dreamed of vast public transport system. Lol, Finland is the worst for that still if you don´t live in Helsinki.
In 4:3 AR. We don't use it anymore. 16:9!!!
@@swee2251 The Japanese failed at flat panel LCDs. They bet on plasma and lost. Today's flat panels are made mostly by South Korea, Taiwan, and now China. This mirrors CRT tubes which by the 1990s were predominantly Korea and Taiwan.
It’s amazing that they were very accurate about “What” computers would be doing for us, but they didn’t predict “how” we would use them… the UI was all knobs, dials, and buttons. Nobody thought about touch screens, or voice control…
Perhaps not in this film, but in decades of science fiction, voice control was the main interface with computers... Touch screen interfaces with light guns was implemented for mainframes in the 60's, and with fingers and pens on CRT's in the 70's....
Just your average family. The father is an astro-physicist.
Lol 😂
shades2 I don’t know. My family was pretty average; my father was a particle physicist.
Yes, what a lie!
My dad is just a quantum mechanic.
Not only that an astrophysicist in 1999 is an agronomist
we sure are lacking knowledge as a society. charging the expensive amounts of money for college tuition definitely took the incentive out of it and made it more of a risk vs. reward dilemma which makes many anxious and apprehensive about making what should not have to even be a large decision, TO EDUCATE YOURSELF.
"I would like a Cheeseburger n Chips with a cold beer."
Computer says 'No'.
😁🤣😁🤣
"cold sandwich and salad" "ok"
I say to the computer, "Hmmm. Now where did I put that industrial sized magnet?"
Computer: "Here is your Cheeseburger and chips, sir! Would you like a cold beverage with that?"
@@stephanipeloquin4631 I wanted to see that "no-cal" beer. Yummy....*retch*
@@coinholio6863 🤣😁🤣😁
*Dad is working on a giant peach. Son is named James. Hmmm...* 🤔
I don't get it
@@thesunandthemoon9688 "James and the Giant Peach" it's a book by Roald Dahl
@@thesunandthemoon9688 James and the Giant Peach.
Literally just remembered this like a day ago!
Computer says No....from Little Britain...cough
I bet that kid was really disappointed when he got to 1999 in his late 30’s, and realized that life in 1969 was much closer to 1999 than anything in this video was.
ok Boomer
I was!
Man, that computer didn't play around. "YOU FLUNK"
By all indications, Jamie was pretty stupid so if the computer tried to sugar coat it, he wouldn't get it.
It should be reprogrammed to say "Let's try again!" As it is now the computer promotes low self esteem.
Jamie, you did your best and that's all that counts....no, wait that still means you suck.
It also told him his mother was ugly but they had to edit that out.
@@StanSwan They also took out the part where the computer tells Jamie that his parents are getting divorced and it's all his fault.
The home keyboard seems to have only X's and Y's. Remember when we started typing in chromosome language in 1999?
Is that a joke perhaps?Never heard of typing in a so-called"Chromosome Language",my friend?In biology,the human Sex chromosomes are X,and Y.Two XX make a female,while a XY makes a male.
XX YXXX X XXXXXXXX XXX
(OH YEAH I REMEMBER THAT
In their version they just write with a pen on screen
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😊
watching this from my private spaceship in 2019
😁😁
Ok Mr Branson...stop boasting! LOL!!
🤣🤣🤣
TheKingOfDale gonna wait the replies to ur comment in 2119. hello world. my name was alex.
I am watching this on Mars in my biodome 😁
I found it interesting that things were so futuristic, yet the concept of (what we now call) traditional roles in the marriage were sill upheld. mom being the cook. dad being the breadwinner. etc. Sure mom had a career before she had kids. Lucky she gets to still make pottery, though!
Also find it interesting that they were ok with disposable everything. dinner ware, clothes, etc. Not even talk of recyclable.
Everyone is like OOOooo. they predicted the microwave. yeah. big whoop. I want the one they have in this video. The one that automatically obtains food from the supermarket, portions and preps it for you. You only touch the final product.
Also, the clothes cleaning closet. i want that too!
"Predicted" the microwave is funny, because in 1967 the microwave had already been invented years before. And think of a future where you only cook microwaved food. Do you really want to live in that future? Many foods have awful taste and texture after they've been nuked. The cheeseburger Dad craved so much is one of them.
This is pretty much my house where my wife "cooks" all meals from "Factor" which are microwaved in ... 2 minutes (as predicted by this video). They all arrive at the house automatically and are debited from my (the husband's) account. The plates are all disposable. I had to LOL at that. She also shops on Amazon virtually every day like the lady buy clothes online.
@@valedictorianismwhen home microwaves were new the industry heavily promoted how you could use them to cook anything. It took at least a decade or two for people to realize that was BS!
The non-traditional role swap hasn't worked out so well.
Microwaves existed when this was made, they just weren't in every house.
It is analogous to AI, it will soon be a part of everyday life.
All the computer is missing is the dial up noise it made when connecting to AOL.
And the blue screen thing th-cam.com/video/qdy0cZf5loU/w-d-xo.html
Yahoo
Google
food delivered to the house and classroom learning from home with no social interaction? They knew about the virus man, Im getting my tin foil
So tired of the stinking virus.😣
He actually attends a school a couple days a week if you listen.
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They were about 20 years early though man
@SpinksJinx Fuck you.
"Take the garbage out, Hal"
"Im afraid I cannot do that, Dave"
Zoomer30 ha ha ha ha!
Bahahaha 🤣
Because of this shit i am scared of the future. The future is a scary place.
Sounds like Siri
Hal: According to my calculations, it appears that you're the garbage that needs to be taken out, Dave.
I definitely want the beehive style house that grows with my family and hobbies, that’s pure genius!
It's called a shanti town.
Meanwhile here in 2019, they still can’t get our orders right at the drive thru.
David Wonn God Dammit! I asked for a double cheeseburger!
XD lol
David Wonn 😂🤣😂
AstronomyToday And I thought it was bad when a McDonald’s got my plain hamburger wrong thrice in a row.
They never got their $15 an hour. Hahah
Interesting things I noticed:
- They thought that a computer would only ever do 1 task, so you would need different computers for different tasks.
- They never imagined that computers would become small and mobile so that they can be carried around on our bodies.
- They thought that online shopping would be a lot more mechanical: A moving camera shows a bunch of products to the shopper, and they need to click a button in time to select that product. This doesn't scale at all, and they didn't expect something like modern databases and websites.
- Everything is full of knobs and dials.
You stole my name 🥺
They was limited in their imagination by what they knew of technology at the time.
The interconnections of multiple computers was not well known outside of a few isolated research laboratories in 1967. It would be another 10 years before connecting a few dozen Volkswagen Beetle-sized-computers was even a things. They were doing good to imagine a computer connected to and from a bank or a department store! The telephone circuit one-to-one connection paradigm was all they had... along with switching done by operators and a mechanical switching station.
@Red Divinity "raping"?! Wouldn't 'winning' be more accurate?
They also about replacing circuits instead of reprogramming -- sort of like people took TV tubes to the pharmacy to test them.
This was from 1967 if anyone else wonders where in the past we were for this video. Love the video I think it's insanity not to mention when this was made. 40s 50s 60s 70s ..Something like "1999 House of Tomorrow," from 1967.I only scrolled 200 comments hopefully the 7300 comment mentioned 1967.
I guess in he future they don't have calenders. The kid actually forgot what year it was? Love the ominous music as his mom wrote the date out too.
Millennials!
In the future on that beach the Statue of Liberty will be half buried, and a man wearing an animal skin loincloth cusses it and pounds the sand. A similarly clad hot chick with a clueless, vacant, uncomprehending stare watches him.
The music made it Sound like there was a railroad crossing on the beach.
I did think the music sounded sinister.
This movie got like 70-80% of it's predictions right even if they weren't aesthetically identical.
Yeah and they are correct that a 44year old will look like a 30 year old
11:05 hmmm...
Media Content What year was this film made?
Tots n Jam Thanks. Much of this film in amazingly insightful. Forseeing the internet and home PCs.
Did you even watch it? They got almost nothing right.
For some reason the opening of this reminds me of Planet of the Apes. (1968 A.D.)
Same beach as the movie
Similar eerie
sci fi music
I was thinking the same thing, no broken statue of liberty
it is a famous part of i believe Malibu beach.. A fun factoid.. on the other side of the cliff is a designated nude beach in Los Angeles County.
I just thought the same thing, go to write that and you did already lol :)
60 years later we are longing for the 60s.
Ironic that I was longing for the 60's when I lived through the 90's ( was born in 1967)
It was so much simpler back then.
Looking back is looking forward?
@@davidparker9676 Simple minds long for things they do not understand and thus the world we have today.
@@ouknow1446 Please elaborate.
the "IKEA" style of their home is quite accurate lol!
It's no coincidence! IKEA is heavily influenced by architectural futurism of the late 1910's. And any time films in the 60's (and even now) need to create vision of the "future", they gravitate toward that same minimalistic, utilitarian design.
In the 90's modernist,minimalist design was considered laughably outdated. Faux old world Europe and post modernism was in style. It's only been the past few years that have seen a resurgence of the modernist aesthetic
actually it is charles eames and mies van der rohe. style icons - real design, not the shitty ikea imitations.
@@averagepainter Yup,that dining table is a real Knoll Sarinaan, the chairs are Michael Thonet from the 1920's,
and there is a authentic womb chair the kid is sitting on watching the big screen TV. The whole set has really high end iconic stuff. Today, very few homes in the world have such expensive modernist stuff. I think the idea is that people in the future would have more refined patrician tastes, which isn't true. Most homes today look like either Target, Ikea, or Restoration Hardware threw up in their homes.
@@pirateking888 Interestingly, check out the dining table. It's a Knoll Sarinaan, but they don't use his SUPER futuristic tulip chairs, they use Michael Thonet bentwood armchairs from the 1920's. This is actually a very sophisticated juxtaposition of old and new, that is still seen today, and in my home. But our chairs are beech Thonet Prague chairs, which are very similar.
We aren't from the future though, or work 2 days a week.
1975: mum what’s a desk top computer? It’s what we will have in 1999!
2021: mum what’s a desktop computer it’s what we had in 1999!
1967*
Lmao dead on I had my desktop in 1999 and the next thing I remember it was an iPod
@@CraigWinsr And remember that everything you hear on your iPod and on your phone today is still made on a desktop computer. Every video you see hear on youtube with good content is made on a desktop computer. Every gamer in the world has a desktop computer. Everyone making music and graphical work at home has a desktop computer. So no, desktop computers are not gone at all. :) And yes, this is written on a desktop computer :)
even by '75 there was the IMSAI 8080, Altair 8800, and the KANBAK 1. all 3 were well known by the public, as they were all featured in the New York Times.
True
“She’s a skilled potter”. Cut to a sad display shelf at Goodwill.
You. I get you.
Aye...looked like Baby Jane had a throw at it. #skilled #pot
I live near a university, and have found some outstanding student work at Goodwill, but it's still looking for a needle in a haystack. Every 6 months I find something nice, Legardo Tackett or something like that. I go everyday.
P.S. I think the idea is dad is into flowers, Mom is into ceramics, because they have increased leisure time to pursue "artsy" stuff, due to computers and robots making our lives so idyllic, and the whole 3 day work week we enjoy in the future.
@@tranzco1173 fully automated luxury gay space communism
Honestly it made me realize I wanted a pottery wheel. :) seriously.
Gotta love how Dad works out in his turtleneck shirt
"What year is it now, I forgot"
The school doped up Jamie a little too much.
No wonder he flunked.
He’s became stressed 😂 no wonder
“A society rich in leisure and taken for granted comforts.” Now THAT is an accurate description of 2019.
@Stanley Jedrzejczyk Nah, let's just get it down to the 20 hour work week like the original unions wanted.
The year is 1999, but the decor, fashion, and music seems a lot like 1967.
Old styles return, morph, and cycle.
Bingo! Ford-Philco - founded in 1892. 75th anniversary production. 1967.
Funny how the car look like a DeLorean that was born in the 60s
Imagine if they'd shown the little kid into Eminem - "Mom, I just don't give a fuck!"
How far our standards have slipped 😂
The family shops at thrift stores and estate sales.
I remember watching this film in Junior High School, over 30 years ago. It’s amazing how everything in the film is coming to past. When I look at what’s happening in the world with home/virtual schooling, it’s the way of the future…prepare for take off. I’ve been looking for this movie for years.
"3 wrong: you flunk" is the most accurate prediction
I like how the old imagination "future" still looks bulky and retro
Yeah, it's called retro futurism
Even though its all a prediction, they still can't just make up working technology to fit what they invisoned.
to us it does
It's pretty close to 1999. Not now though
Who knew the 90's would look exactly like the 60's??
I was called the Grunge movement.
CalbertCorpse hahahahaha! Wish it did, I like that aesthetic!
@@lincbond442 Hello Grunge Movement
@@lincbond442 you were? Poor thing.
They had to make a point that it was 1999 A.D.
I almost took it for 1999 B.C.
Little did they know A.D. would be renamed to C.E.
Wink Martindale!!! Fun to see him again. love the video, so much did come to pass.
Whatever power source instantly dried the kids face was highly radioactive and was causing him to flunk his lessons.
Rufus Chucklebutty You killed me!
Did you see the mum's pottery. "Back in her work years" she was a fine arts teacher, so there is something seriously wrong with the school system.
He was also replaying a chess game that he had with his dad, unless he is making exactly the same moves as before (which seems pretty pointless) he was playing the computer or in other word playing a completely new game. Idk. I think there's something off about what 1995 is apparently like and their school system is probably shit, with the computer having so much control over the minutia of their lives and it is so huge I wouldn't be surprised if beind the buttons and cathode ray screen, it was a secretly a sentient super cumputer, slowly enacting its plan for world domination - beginning by completely neglecting the kids education.
Lol 😂
Past :Wonderful future is waiting surely.
Now :I miss those old days.
Sorry, Mike. No cheeseburger for you. The computer says "no".
Ha!
Shiiiieeet...kids these days caint even listen to their own parents lmao. They definitely wont listen to a computer.
Anyone, "Alexis, are you connected to the CIA?"
Alexis, "......"
@USA#1 !! Haven't you heard? Soda causes strokes/diabetes! lol!
Sorry Mike; the governments social credit beareu says it's too many calories for a good citizen of the United States of Disney.
Good to see Wink Martindale, Watched quite a bit of Tic Tac Dough back in the day,
It took until the year 2019 for this vid to show up in my suggested feed.
They also forgot about the dozens of calls weekly to your smartphone (aka handheld super computer)asking about your car warranty.
Facts
I keep getting "Thank you for using Marriott Hotels"
I get calls about my car I bought new in 2000. Warranty ran out when Bush 43 was president!
LOL
Funny how society back then had a very optimistic and imaginative view of the future, while nowadays we portray the future as almost exclusively dystopian.
It's kinda like Back to the Future II. We're currently skewed into a tangential reality where so many of our ideals are founded in lunacy and fiercely defended by lunatics. If we extrapolate what the future looks like from this current, deranged reality we find ourselves trapped in a dystopian never-never land. The only way to fix it is to take the DeLorean back to 1955 and make sure Biff doesn't get his hands on that God damned sports almanac.
We portray the future as dystopian? Have you been in a coma for the past decade?
Views about the future typically reflect views of the present day they're dreamed in.
Phillip K Dick knew...
That's because we've made so much progress in so little time, there really isn't much more left to do. The problem is that we paid for these advances dearly with labour market erosion, astronomical inflation, society degradation and everything else which inevitably follows industrial capitalism.
I watched this elementary school, in the 4th and 5th grade!
If this is 1999, can you even imagine what 2019 will be like?!?
We will all be living inside computer simulations by then.
@@eKalb33 so are we?
@@laikaperraespacial6025 Depends on what you're smoking
But at least we have President Trump! Keep America Great! TRUMP! 2020, and beyond!
aryanson hell yeah man. Nothing like commenting something totally non-related. I lOvE rUsSiAn BoTs!
The dad was played by Wink Martindale!!! He was the host of Tic Tac Dough when I was a kid!!!
You beat me to it... just scanned the comments to see if anyone noticed.
And the Mom was Marge Dusay--who about a year later would steal "Spock's Brain" on Star Trek! ("Brain and brain! What is BRAIN?" 🤣)
@@lelandframe1029 So very cool...and true!
He was a DILF.
The mother is Marjorie Ellen Pivonka Mahoney (1936-2020), the mother of 'Hungry diane' (Debra Dusay) of police academy 2.
To some degree they predicted social isolationism...and all this issues associated with it.
Yeah, "Master James" didn't look too happy with his futuristic schooling.
social isolationism combined with behaviors that make it worse like ghosting, the waning popularity of deep relationships and flaking SMH
Like your lack of education.
@@jdisco1 Cry uneducated twerp.
@@jdisco1 They're asshole and selfish things to do that you couldn't get away with in the past. You seem quite defensive lol, feeling guilty?
It's priceless that they had the kid replaying the chess match he had with his father (from days earlier), utilising the screen, but they failed to eliminate the need for the actual chess set in the dramatisation.
These future visions are both too futuristic and too archaic, at the same time.
1) That beach at the beginning looks awefully like the one from the end of Planet of the Apes (1968), minus the Statue of Liberty
2) Mike is played by Wink Martindale, host of TVs Tic Tac Dough gameshow
3) The future will be a joyless prison where everything is dictated to us by our computer overlords
Good, they’d probably do a better job than humans.
3. We're getting there.
Alpha Woolf it is. Beach Point Dume. Many other movies were filmed there. It connects with Zuma beach. All part of Malibu CA.
And then the Y2K bug devastated the family’s computers the next year and the Matrix had to be rebuilt from scratch.
But the Backstreet Boys are still able to do that dance video in space.
Good one Dave.
And then Skynet became self-aware and the T-1000 Terminators were EVERYWHERE
And the year after that Y2J changed wrestling history by beating both "the great one" The Rock and "the Texas rattlesnake" Stone Cold Steve Austin to became the first ever WWF Undisputed Champion.
Then the Robot Sophia was unable to be shut off as she outsmarted the humans and her memory in the cloud controlled all other robots hence creating WW3
@10:52: "The house of 1999 will be virtually maintenance-free."
Me in 2020: WE'RE 21 YEARS BEYOND THE TARGET YEAR! WHERE'S MY MAINTENANCE-FREE HOME?????
If you get yourself a few air cleaners and a vacuuming robot, the only thing left to be done manually will be cleaning your bathroom.
@@arischbacho What about moping and cleaning the counters for the rest of the house?
its in the next suburb with your hover board
Blame diversity and immigration keeping a fresh supply of workers for the elite's homes.
@@lightdark00 More like blame the time period. We just don't have that technology because tech improves rapidly now, but not THAT rapidly. Without immigrants, the amount of technology would just be the same and other people would be maintaining houses for the elite. That's how it was before immigration became as common as it is. Do you think that if we didn't have immigrants willing to do free labor, engineers would work faster and suddenly have newer ideas on how to make maintenance free homes? Plus many immigrants don't have those kind of jobs. My dad is an immigrant and he works at an office.
“3 wrong answers, you flunk !”
Harsh
There weren’t as many fragile crybabies as there are now-a-days.
@@monocandy boomers dont know how to shut the fuck up
@Jason Landsbach jokes on you, I'm not a millennial, I'm gen Z
Lol
@@incubuz8019 z for zero difference
The most impressive part of this whole thing was that guy's vocal range.
Agree!
This wasn't real - it was actually an enhancement by 1999 computer technology. It did sound impressive, though.
They even got autotune right
I don't know, his neck alone was pretty impressive.
🤸♂️
Scared how accurate some of these predictions were, home security video monitoring, online shopping, home education systems, computer controlled homes...
@BC J Yeah true, sample synths were still a far off notion in those days!
Just to many buttons around.
why scared ? lol
Frozen food
@@lukeskywalker3248 Yea, I think gsp67 meant "Scary how"...
I've always admired the soothing narrating tone of Alexander Scourby in old educational or documentary type videos like these from the 1960's. He also narrates another favorite of mine, titled 'Dr. Leakey and the Dawn of Man'.
I find it eerily astonishing on how accurate many of these futuristic predictions really were from 32 years prior (released in 1967)...and to be realistic about it, we're now 23 years past 1999 already. Even the physical props are incredibly similar to see computer monitors, keyboards, printers, musical organ with a monitor, HVAC system, microwave ovens, disposable dishes, switchable window shades, etc... They obviously were on the right track and could see where the future was headed to some degree, regarding technology and automation. This is actually astonishing, considering they had no clue about the internet, but could predict things like "fingertip shopping", computer to calculate things like a dinner menu, calorie intake and food recommendations, inputting/recalling information from computer "memory banks" that are available instantly, computer home schooling, computer gaming, home post office, computer bank statements/car payment balance/taxes, home surveillance, home camera to camera intercom system, data monitoring and emergency backup centers, body scanning, AI which relays personal statistics back to to you via audio, computer planning and regional weather conditions, big screen tv's/projectors for entertaining parties, etc... These are absolutely phenomenal predictions! I have not yet seen the home vaporized cleaning closets, nor the home automated dish dispensers yet, but give it time. Lol.
Sadly, these predictions and futuristic lifestyles were overly sensationalized at the time of this film. It's one of those things where you have to be careful for what you wish for. The grass isn't always greener on the other side and I believe our modern existence is more miserable than anything these days with how technology controls us, monitors our every move, documents our flaws, uses those human flaws against us, enslaves us and shapes us as a society and species negatively more than anything.
What's funny is how, with all of this futuristic advancement and in the manner that the video portrays this sort of glorious, healthy and upbeat way of living, the kid actually "flunked" his home schooling test. It's also funny to see how they thought that with all of the computerized help and automation, it would relieve us of a lot of home duties, only to allow for much more idle free time to, say, craft pottery. That's the farthest thing from the truth, as the computers and automation have just stressed our lives beyond belief and have utilized almost all of our free time...much of it in pure nonsense with never-ending IT issues, a million sites to register on/log in/log out, scams, fraud, online addictions. With all of our modern computers and automated advancements, you'd think that things would almost be flawless, but it's nearly the exact opposite. There are constant things which are always being screwed up these days to no end! The use of computers and their conveniences and luxuries have actually constricted our lives and freedoms more than anything and have proven to do more harm than good. Less is more in life.
now
Well said
Then you’re doing it wrong. Lol.
@laurasonnier Let me guess, you're under 20 years old?
@@whatsit2ya247 nope. I’m retired
You have no idea how much I want to go back and tell these people what they got wrong and, right.
They forgot the part where Dad's science job gets oursourced to India and he has to work 3 temp jobs at big box stores.
Actually, the great outsourcing of tech jobs started in 2001. The economy was still going strong in 1999. The dad still had a couple more years of flying to Mexico to play golf.
Aww... Maybe you should have studied properly in school instead of watching flat earth videos.. 🤣🤣🤣
@@BlackSakura33 🤣🤣🤣
India 2020 superpower. They didn't predict that.
Science job is actually one of the most difficult to outsource, mind you.
Created in the 1960's to represent 1999, viewed in 2020 that looks more like 1984.
84 ? More like steampunk version of the 70's ? 80s look too modern for this. Just look at the 80's computers. They are more advanced then their vision of '99 computers.
@@AdrianoCROST He is referring to George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 you must have at least heard of it, it's one of the most important books ever written and very relevant to the times we live in. Go read it now plz thanks
@@krayze144 Thinking of reading it, have you read it in full? How was it?
Brilliant.
@@michaelmarks5012 I don’t need to read it, I’m living it :)
I love those computers! I grew up in the 60s and it is always amazing how we thought the 21st century was going to be!
Why did the title card music make this sound like a horror film
Because it's a horrifying reality
I noticed that too lol it's almost like there was some disagreement that a high tech household would be a good thing or a nightmare. The Amish seem much happier I hear 😊
I expect the mother to look up and see Charlton Heston yelling "DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL"
@@hannahoneil6490 Ha! Me too. Same beach, same angle, same music, same lighting.
Chopun Wow, I see you in almost every comment session I go to. I guess we classical musicians really do have similar tastes and hence the same TH-cam recommendations.
12:04 Damn, the father is worried about the bills, he's probably going bankrupt after buying so many computers.
😂
😄😄😄😄
In the future all music will be atonal jazz.
I'll take it over today's atonal hip-hop.
hardly atonal.
Clay Kriese I’m playing the worlds smallest violin for you right now, or should I say the smallest 808 😉
ThePoorKid 808 kick drum n bass that is lol
And all male singers will be castrati.
I'm 77 & was 23 in 1969 ( when this film was made) & am very disappointed at how little (except communications )
has changed up to 2024, let alone 1999!
1967
I agree! The internet and smart phones are great, but where are the robot butlers, flying cars, and moon vacations I expected?
James will finish his father’s research and create the Giant Peach.
Lol!!
He created a bitch instead.
😂😂😂😂😂
James and the giant leech
And we shall all ware capes
Where the hell was the kid at before lunchtime, he ran through about 10 rooms to get to the dining area.
Saiyan Something he was at the last hexagonal room of their hexagonal house of course
Davis Herrera
What a joke. These projections never took into account bureaucracy. I think Inflatable Concrete housing is among the most brilliantly cost effective construction developments ever, only $10,000 to build a decent burm home to live like a hobbit, including the well and sewage, but it TECHNICALLY falls within “modular” status and the jackass municipal council where I live won’t allow those. Something like this “future” house would never be allowed to become cost effective. Too much red tape and vested interests against it.
Lol. This cracked me up
That is why honey comb is for bees. They can fly. If that kid could fly he would have made it to the kitchen in two minutes.
"What the wife chooses on her computer will be paid for by the husband on his screen."
😂🤣🙄
some things never change
Works for me, lol
Works for me. "Thanks daddy! ;)"
He looked PO'd
@@barbikayler40532 Because you're a parasite.
Those computers were so HUGE! We had desktops and Windows 98 operating system , laptops and flip phones in 1999.
desk ‘ ‘95 flip not yet cellular cell brick 🧱 block 📞 ☎️
The future is going to be great! There's going to be a whole room just for a computer.
That’s my gamer garage. Don’t mind the crusty carpet.
I'd like to show you my home , this is the computer room. Excuse me for a moment. Google what the hell is a computer room? Sorry again, my smartphone gets a bit slow after an update.
We really did believe that things would be "futuristic" by now (i.e. The Jetsons cartoon). I was born in 1949 and the young folks now wouldn't believe the world we used to live in. Interestingly, this 'movie' got pretty close to how things actually turned out: Amazon, Google, personal computers, microwave ovens, central heating & air, printers, email, electronic banking, etc., (sans the self-cleaning clothes closet, fully auto food dispenser, etc).
Yep. I'm pretty sure I saw this film in school sometime from 1969-1975! After Apollo 11, we had the POTENTIAL to continue the Space Program, for example--but Nixon and his cronies in Congress tore the guts out of NASA to fund the Vietnam War! 😡
70’s winter ice age
I’m in my late 20s and I was speaking to a mentor of mine who is nearly 60 and I asked him if people for instance in the 1980s, really thought that a future world like blade runner would be possible by the early 2000s. His response was so spot on.
He explained to me that if you look at the technology advancements from World War II in till the 1960s and in the 1960s to the early 1980s everyone back then assumed we would be flying around like the Jetsons by the 2000s and that other cars in space travel would be extremely common by taking the subway.
@@Faceplay2 True enough 👍