A child from the 60's with the most accurate quote on TH-cam. Its quite depressing to see how many of these children saw their predictions become facts and just how much they've been let down.
The kid who predicted factory farming and the treatment of farm animals got it exactly right. Did the BBC only take the most dystopian answers? Or were British children that pessimistic about the future? There were one or two that had positive views of the future, but the vast majority envisioned quite a horrible state of affairs.
The Cold War was still on and the Cuban Missile Crisis was only four years earlier. There was a very real possibility of all-out nuclear war and those children knew it as well as anybody. The world was a seriously scary place in the sixties.
Garurumon. With respect, bbc machine picking posh public school children. But your right, the future is looking rather bleak for them. Also bbc indoctrinated to think it’s all their fault, the children that is..
if these kids were not brought up so well, and warned of the dangers, perhaps we would all be living in a post nulcear war world right now. the few of us that remain.
Kids of the 60's lived in the wrong era because those atomic bombs they're talking is much more dangerous now and it can detonate now if Russia and Putin lose his mind. And kids nowadays still taking selfies on TikTok and explaining their preferred pronouns like wtf??? 🤦
Remember when I was 12/13 in 1966 - it was less than twenty years since they had dropped two bombs. The Russians invaded Hungary the British army was fighting so called police actions all over the world the Cuban Missile Crises was four yaers past, along with the French Algerian War and French soldiers trying to oust the French government. The Veitnam War etc Two years later we got two see Russian tanks in Prague on tele, Aden on tele,Notthern Ireland after that. Yes we had a lot to be opptomistic about !
I lived most of my secondary education in fear of nuclear war and although not as dark as some interviewed here it was very central in my teen years. Along with others here, I have to say how eloquent most of these children were.
I would have been around their age then. But more importantly, these kids were amazing. They were so on target. One of them spoke about diseases, computers and the people having a hard time getting jobs. These children from England were absolutely inspiring. I would love to hear their stories now.
They'd have to be at least 70 years old now. It would be fascinating to do a follow up 62 years after these were done. Plus it's been 22 years since 2000 as well. I'd like to see how they feel about seeing their younger selves. Their kind sci-fi predictions. Or how they feel about the world now, for better or worse.
Many of their parents would have been of the " silent generation " born in the late 30s and early 40s, whose lives growing up were affected by the great depression and WWll. Those parents taught their kids not to complain, not to feel sorry for themselves and to just quietly get on with what they needed to do and to do their very best. Bad manners were not tolerated and they were taught that their behavior reflected on the whole family. Most kids raised by the " silent generation" would never be loud or obnoxious in public or talk back to their parents, I am the child of "the silent" generation. My how attitudes have changed, listening to those kids made me miss how people used to speak and be respectful with each other when I was young.
It's amazing how accurate those kid's were. "People will be seen as nothing more than statistics instead of real People". How accurate was that prediction. Totally spot on
Better still, less meat or no meat at all. An entire planet full of people all raising animals specifically to eat them is really damaging in a plethora of ways even if it was somehow possible to meet current demand without using battery farming methods.
@@JulieWallis1963 Free range is better than battery, but by no means is it ethical. The marketing material for free range products tends to lean on the idea that animals are completely free, in open fields and the likes, when the reality is usually much different.
@@PM2022"Except that" That isn't relevant to the OG statement. Besides, regular people have zero computer knowledge. They only understand how to get tasks done on software/apps.
Who is OG? Besides, that kid did not specify whether 'knowledge' meant writing code (leave aside what kind); you are projecting your own thinking (as vague, misguided as even that is) on to his statement. Meanwhile, of course people have jobs and make money using just the applications anyway, even as there remain many jobs that do not require even that (even if those people may know how to use smartphones--which are, of course, computers). And yet, it is granted that computer literacy is an educational prerequisite now in most parts of the world--but that also means getting a job demands many other things on top of that.@@YtuserSumone-rl6sw
@@PM2022we are still animals first and foremost, one of our greatest problems was when we started to prioritise technology over manpower, creating a very nice gap between those knowledgeable and those that are not
@@flexiblepaper7389 or we can hunt and grow our dinner, build our own fires to light and warm our homes, weave our clothes and use pigeons to send messages. We’ve been automating for almost 200 years and we’re not stopping. Embrace it.
@@jamiealisson8298 The comment is only a month old now, and at the time of your comment it was about a week old. You misused the "this comment did not age well" line because you only know how to repeat things and not how to think for yourself.
I was 6 in 1966 and can well remember the overwhelming confidence and optimism Americans had for the future. Shockingly, contrasted by how dismal the future looked to these well-mannered English youngsters.
@@rexfreeman4981 What difference does that make; my point was that the two nations had widely different mindsets. England's national mood was horizontally opposed to that of America.
@Daniel Larkins Not true: check your listening ears, dear: these were some of those kids’ predictions: Factory Farming Automation in manufacturing, etc, taking jobs. Sea levels rising. Overpopulation Increased racial and socioeconomic integration and leveling. There were more than just those, too, lol.
They looked like maybe middle to early high school aged, to me. That one boy sounded like a very serious and wise 50+ year old man and looked 11, lol. 🧐🤓 @@christianmendoza3655
According to what I could find, Marlborough College was/is an English public school that was established in 1843 by Church of England clergy for students aged 13-18.
These children will all be 13 or older. You didn't enter public school until you took the common entrance exam and possibly an additional exam for some super academic schools at age 13. To be fair Marlborough and Roedean are still some of the top Public (in UK Private) schools in the country. For context. I'm pretty sure if you interviewed boys at Phillips Andover or Exeter in 1966 you'd get similar answers.
I don’t know why so many people are saying these are privately educated children. I was raised in a small village of mostly council houses back in the 60s, was schooled in a two classroom School and if we didn’t speak proper English we were ‘clipped round the ear’ by both teacher and parent.
@user-yp2mw2ko9k The Cold War was still at it's peak right through the 60's and 70's. Have a look at the British movie Threads from 1984. It still scares me today.
@user-yp2mw2ko9k "Did I miss anything?" Well yes, the cold war. At that point nearing the height of the proxy war in Vietnam between the US and the Soviets and their allies.
@user-yp2mw2ko9k They were the main supplier of arms and equipment to the NVA. And either way the nuclear threat was still very real for decades after the time you're talking about, just found it bizarre that you talk as if it ended in the mid 60s!
I am the same age as the children and was also interviewed for a similar radio programme at the age of 11. Seeing this takes me back to 1968. They speak like the children I remember from my class. Although the answers sound grim, we were just like kids of every generation in our normal lives and did not spend hours worrying about the future. But, we had picked up on the themes that worried our parents that were being mentioned by politicians and in the media.
@@peperocoolero Well, in 1963 they invented the Beatles and we were knocked out by them. Then Kennedy was shot and all the TV was cancelled for the evening - we waited ages for Steptoe but no. Next night we were compensated by the first episode of a new sci-fi series called Dr Who. Black and white 405 line TV, a set cost our Dad a month's salary. I did enjoy being a kid in the 60's, decent food, great pop music, lots of freedom, the excitement of the Space Age, hope. The kids being filmed are a bit gloomy, tbh; back then, we thought science would solve all problems.
@@bingbong7316 Your comment was very interesting and gratifying. Thank you so much for sharing a bit, I really appreciate it. The 60s is a decade that I really like to study and analyze from all areas (fashion, music, culture, history, politics, social movements). That's why I really value hearing the experiences of people who lived through that. Thank you :)
@@peperocoolero You're very welcome. It was a decade of rapid change in the UK; most male adults had either fought in WWII or done 2 years of National Service, which ended in 1960, and this set the tone. Married women were mainly housewives. The shadow of Queen Victoria and Empire _still_ lingered across society; fashions like the mini skirt were a rebellion against that suffocating mindset. I could go on..
@@bingbong7316 WOW, seriously, thank you SO MUCH. It is very cool to read your comments. You are free to continue sharing information, I appreciate it very much and I will read it with pleasure!
Nah, he's just talking right to his age. Maybe you're talking about OUR GENERATION. They're tons of millennials out there who's adults now but they're screaming and shouting like a kid when someone disagree with them especially of "WHAT IS A WOMAN?"😂 Kids in the 60's had tougher and mature questions but adults in the 2020's had kindergarten questions and yet they're answers are always wrong. 🤦 Just like Kamala Harris for example. We're literally doomed, my friend.
@@connordrake5713 you are incorrect the average millennial or zoomer is likely to be considerably better educated that their boomer counterparts. The participants in this video have probably been plucked from a private or grammar school and probably represent no more than 10-20% of their contemporaries. This is an example of selection bias, look up various programmes about how those from those young people from lower socio economic status homes in the 60s would have acted or sounded
What everyone seems to be missing is that things haven't really changed all that much. Sure, technology is much better, but we still have many of the same problems we had then, and people are still living much the same as they did then. What makes you think things will change very much in 50 more years?
@@SunshineCatwomanDentro de 50 años el ser humano estará totalmente controlado. Tal vez puedan reventar a los desobedientes desde lejos mediante la tecnología. 😊
so sad to know this. seems technology developed so much to the point that now people are scared of it though the people of those era used to to so positive about it.😌
These are some extremely smart kids. I expected most of them to talk about having jet packs and robot butlers. DIdn't expect them to be so dark, and sadly, accurate about what will happen. Was very surprised by that kid talking about keeping animals in batteries instead of grazing, and raising them so they produce more meat.
Some of the predictions were super spot on in this video! The battery farming, race, and statistic comments landed with precision. Overall the whole video was filled with eloquent conveying of their thoughts and opinions.
I was born in 1949, at grammar school in 1966, studying for A levels in north London. I went on a few local Ban the bomb marches. Between 1963 and 1965 I had a boyfriend who lived about 3 miles away. We made an agreement that if the ,sirens sounded for a nuclear attack, he would drive to my house on his scooter so we could die together! The anxiety over nuclear war stayed with me until the Berlin wall came down. However, it's returned during the last two years! Also, had the BBC interviewed any of the pupils at my school, they would have been articulate, well spoken and respectful, as taught to us by parents and teachers.
I was a child in late fifties early sixties, my recollection of what we thought in the year 2000 was everything automated, remember we read the comic the Eagle so read about Dan Dare and looked at those great cutaway illustrations. Interestingly I do remember when we were discussing in class what would things be like in the year 2000, the teacher suggested that life then would not be too different as it was in 1960s.
@@Essemm52 If I remember correctly wasn't the 'nuclear' advice to hide under your dining table? Ah, indeed, those halcyon, naive, days of yesteryear!!!!
@@nuttysquirrel8574 Ha ha! Yes, I believe it was! Funny thing is, even as young as we were, we didn't stress about it too much! We just got on with life! How would the young teens of today cope with that kind of information? But of course it would never happen today! There would be an even greater shortage of counsellors! Mind you, I'm a firm believer in 'ignorance is bliss' lol!
@@Essemm52 Lmao. So the teens of today don't have their own problems to worry about? I'd take a higher chance of nuclear annihilation over a smaller chance of nuclear annihilation and climate change
they had factory farming back in the 60s. and it isn't like people weren't seen as stats back then either. holocaust, american segregation, etc. the kid was reflecting on what he already saw in his current world and predicted it would stay the same, if not get worse.
No, that was simply how it was back then. Today we dumb everything down, move at the pace of the slowest kid, hold back the smart kids so they dont upset the mcdonalds employees, and, most importantly, kids today have access to a mind bogling amount of TV and film where bad behaviour is celebrated. Monkey see monkey do.
@@stephen2583 To be fair, these kids are definitely of a privileged class. But, can agree even the average student in the 60s is likely much smarter than a kid these days in most subjects minus things such as computers, games, etc. that did not exist back then.
@@nitramluap No. Just brainwashed by the system of the time. And to those banging on about overpopulation, would you personally make that ultimate sacrifice yourselves to save the planet? No? Didn't think so.
There was a baby boom after the war, but they didn't predict it would come to an end. Anyway, automation hasn't taken that many jobs. A lot of work as gone overseas. A trend which was underway back then.
@@nitramluap As a matter of fact, the global population is expected to half in the next 50-70 years, Households are having below 1.8 children and men's sperm counts are reducing rapidly. Countries like Japan are in crisis as most of the population is 60 and above.
These children are from one of the most expensive private schools in the country- I'm sure they were well briefed in order to reflect well on their class (both contexts). It's a shame the BBC didn't balance the production with a visit to my state school- they may have been surprised.
@@ginacable5376Well, the description says 3 schools: Marlborough college and Roedean are both private boarding schools. "Chippenham schools" could mean either.
These kids are dead serious about their ideas. I love how soft spoken they are ( use those inside voices ) And wow! What are their ages? They are pretty damn smart, I mean, I watched a couple of videos on TH-cam where this guy asks the average teenager basic questions such as "What's the second month of every year?" The girl responded confidently " March, it's March". I was amazed and terrified at the same time.
I was 5 years old in '66. It's not that the kids were smarter, they were better educated. The children of America, in recent decades have been dumbed down. Taught to believe what they're told, and see being incorrect about something as an insult. It creates a compliant population, easily used by those in power.
Just told my friend how soon enough, I felt AIs and self service machines will one day take everyone's job and the only jobs available is if you go to college (just like Detroit Become Human)
@@krisknowlton5935 And yet even NASA is publicly mentioning it constantly. Either every scientist on earth is being held at gunpoint or the ocean's rising. Which one sounds more plausible?
Oh so accurate! So merry and so joyful were those day of old! "I think the sun will cool down and another ice age will start" Bombs, bombs, atomic bombs. Everything is automated to the point that there are almost no jobs, except for the people with very high IQ, able to operate computers. There's an insane lack of space, to the point people start living underwater. Did I mention the wars and BOMBS. The bombs cause the temperatures to rise. Oh and there's such a lack of space there's no such thing as fun anymore. So accurate
How articulate, educated and cultured were these kids. Did they chose the most articulate ones or were they all the same back in the days? Such a pleasure listening to them. Great archive.
They sound as though they were from a Grammar school. Education standards started slipping from the 1960's onwards due to Child Centred educational philosophies. I know that short changed me in the 1970's.
What school did these kids attend? They can actually formulate thoughts with complete sentences, and as someone else noted, eloquence.. their vocabulary!
Yes but whilst learning their native tongue, they were also evidently terrorized into formulating the darkest and most apocalyptic predictions I've ever heard. This is some nightmare fuel right here.
The description below the main video says that they attended Chippenham, Roedean and Marlborough College, so some most definitely public schools (in the English sense).
They don't start every sentence with 'So' (very Millennial), nor do their voices go up (intonate) when they finish a sentence (very Antipodean). And they don't overuse the word 'like' by saying it several times over while talking. These kids are articulate, thoughtful, and yes some of them gav pretty accurate descriptions of what life would be like in 2000!! I'm getting all nostalgic about 2000 now! Remember the 'Millennium Bug'? ...and 'green screen' mobiles like the Nokia 3310!? B****y h*LL where did the last 20 odd years go!!
Amazing! Quite chilling and very sad sometimes. I do so hope that they all have had a great life up to now, and that each of them found love and happiness along the way. I must admit though, that this is my generation speaking here. At that time I was totally into the music and the whole counter culture thing that was happening outside, and couldn't wait to join in the following year, when I left school. I never really dreaded anything much.
That generation, certainly had an interesting life experience! Tough times for a bit, but being a sixty something now, sure wish I’d have grown up back then! …✌🏼🇨🇦
@@richard7645 Is there a reason for your insult, given that there's nothing inflammatory in my original comment, or are you just venting randomly because your wife refuses to let you touch her anymore?
These documentaries represent more than a time capsule; they bring art and culture from a period of time where imagination was incentivized among young people. Thank you so much, BBC. Very much well done, ladies and gentlemen.
I think these kids seem to be from fairly posh families in England. They're definitely not working class English kids. Their parents and school probably drilled them in perfect articulation. That being said, they certainly picked it up!
@@willshad The producers absolutely asked the kids leading questions for this interview. If you asked a child the same questions these kids got you would get the same levels of cynicism, they may be smart kids but they're just kids, they're impressionable and follow instructions.
How can you say that? Our world today is infinitely better than what these frightened kids envisioned. I'm sorry you see the world in such a horribly negative way. What do you think these kids would have thought of the cell phone you are holding in your hand right now??
@@BramHepburn No the owner of the other comment is right. We have machines, cell, tec doing everything for us now, it is no fun. It's not that there "frightened there just being honest. We have "upgraded" things now a days but so many things are just easy, you don't work for it and yes like I said tec has a LOT to do with that. See how wise and smart people are and KIDS?! You would NEVER see that now. Some things are better off as they were. Not trying to be negative there are alright things but it is a sad reality. Coming from a teen. I also read comment saying "My mum was a teen in the 60s, she was surprised at how gloomy these kids are about the future. In general 60s kids were optimistic and bright-eyed. Maybe these kids, coming from a strict private school, were more influenced by doom-saying adults around them and less able to mix with peers and just have fun? Sad to see teens in the swinging sixties so pessimistic about their future." So no it's all kids were not "frightened" nor scared.
@@daisydukes8252 Mate, look at the way the dress, listen to the way they speak. Remind yousrself this was half a century ago, no man had been on the moon. These were posh, rich, privalaged, well educated children, as some of the say, there was a huge gap between the rich and poor. The poor would be more optimistic.
I'm astonished by the awareness of automation and computers at that time. Secondary school kids were still using slide rules in 1966. There must have been some very aware teachers in the schools. The understanding of the population explosion and the risks of nuclear war are also astonishing. No internet then. No easy access to any such information.
Exactly. These children are not a general representation of the 60s. They know about automation, computers and climate change because they were clearly receiving a highly privileged education that was inaccessible to most children. They were not being filmed arbitrarily, especially not in a time when cameras were a luxury. In simple terms: they are most likely rich. Poorer kids are generally too busy helping to support their families to worry about theoretical discussions of the distant future. They are generally worried about surviving the present.
@@dantemeriere5890 Everything they discussed could be picked up by watching television. Most of the modern tech we have already existed on shows like Star Trek.
I was born in 1960. It’s interesting to hear how educated these young people are and how articulate they are about the things that were worrying them at the time- climate, over population, loss of jobs to computers, climate change, nuclear war, racial integration and levels of wealth. I suppose being just that little bit older than me, the proximity to the last war had more effect on them than it ever did on me( I went to Grammar school but I remember very little being taught about nuclear weapons or climate change. Maybe it was their parents informing them?) The blond girl early in the discussion really nailed it.
They were being filmed in a time when cameras were a luxury. Clearly, they were chosen for a reason, most likely related to status. Yes, they are eloquent and sound educated, but this is not a general representation of society. The non-eloquent children were probably too busy working to help their parents and didn't quite have the time to acquire an extended lexicon. Furthermore their accent influences our perception of what eloquence and education mean as it is well-known that English speakers tend to associate the British accent with good eloquence. Modern young adults may not often speak with a very noticeable English accent, especially if they are not from England, but they do exhibit many qualities that are light years ahead of people from even 10 years ago.
@@dantemeriere5890 , I was born in the states in 1961 and I should go back to the 60s in a heartbeat. I remember having a movie camera, by then I was about 13 or 14 and in the early 70s. I do have movies of me from the early 60s that I turned into VCR cassettes, sadly, I can seem to find them, =(
@@dantemeriere5890 These are indeed posh, "upper-class" children. Their language skills and general eloquence is a direct representation of their social class.
I was born in 1961 I think the dark haired girl nailed with the computers and loss of jobs. Impressed how smart these children are and what they think about their future.
I was born in 1948 and back then I thought I would be dead by the time I reached 50 years old and here I am still alive at 74 years old and I thank God that I'm still alive because I die to myself I became born again through our Savior Jesus Christ and that was 12 years ago if I would have died at 50 years old I would be in hell right now thank you Jesus thank you Jesus!🙂🙏🙏
id pay anything to have a consersation with these children... Some of the hings they say are so obscure yet accurate its incredible. People don't talk like that any more.
Good grief are they in university! They're so incredibly intelligent. What foresight they had! I'm sitting here feeling like a right dimwit in comparison to these children. Astounding. I think I'm going to have to save this to rewatch now and then. Totally mesmerised by each and every one of them, their vision, prediction, calculation, understanding, vocabulary, eloquence, grasp... Absolutely fascinating! I'm literally in awe. 😳
These kids were from a private school. My in-laws are from England, and went through the public system around the same time this was filmed. They were from a poorer background, and knew nobody that spoke like these kids. Their exact words were, "We never spoke like that! We weren't posh enough!"
@@samanthafairweather9186 I did know that....and yes I am English. And no I'm not posh at at all! 🤣 It wasn't so much their pronunciation that impressed me, as it was their ability to visualise things and comprehend them despite being so young. They're even able to forecast an outcome unless things change and really it's THAT that blew my mind the most. I know adults 4x their age who would be wondering what the conversation was about after a minute....mind wandered and lost and thinking about more important things like, football, farts or beer! 😳 That would be almost funny if it wasn't so tragically true! I'm especially impressed by the girls in fact, given the times it was filmed in particularly. Not that I doubt girl's ability, but because they weren't instead off in cookery class or learning how to correctly starch and iron a business shirt for their future husband, while the boys learnt the scientific theories of life! 🙄 You can tell your in-laws I'm very much NOT posh....my Dad describes me as "rough as a badger's arse"!!! Whatever the hell that means....😂🤣😅
They got most of it right… they’re really explaining the entire future, we have self checkout till aka robots. Covid killed workplaces + dropped staff…
@@filipburic5194 thats a strawman fallacy , he never said anything about climate change not being real , he just said people nowadays think the world would have ended by the 2060s
@@onekie5787 but that's not what people really think though is it, he's just being facetious, hence my Maldives comment. Ask the how they'll be doing in 2062 and they may give you that exact answer. I'm not sure where you live, but I live on an island, which suffers more year on year from climate change, and I'm pretty comfortable in listening to the worlds leading scientists in regards to where we are heading by the end of the century
The boy who talked about factory farming, I wish he was wrong but he was spot on. Then again it was well set as normal practice well before 2000 anyway. Most of the other predictions were a way off but they could just be delayed.
I don't think they nailed it at all, many of them imagined a world destroyed by nuclear war, many of them also predicted the population would be so large that we would be living under water or under domed in the Sahara Desert.
Wow. Glad to see at least one kid with an optimistic view of the future. She and others like her are reason why we are still here and trying. There is still hope for us. God speed.
The young chap talking about statistics and animal farming is one of the smartest and most well spoken kids I've seen. Way more classy and eloquent than any of the kids I see today.
I don’t think it’s fair to make that comparison to be honest. I am fully certain that we have a lot of kids and teenagers now who are just as, if not, more eloquent than the ones in this video. You can’t compare just some of the worst kids you’ve met in real life with these handpicked interviewees (clips that are edited for better flow btw) and just assume that a whole generation is worse than the other. Not to mention the children and teenagers nowadays are fighting against BILLION dollar companies that are fighting for their attention and energy, puttinf all their resources into ensuring their platforms are as addicting as possible. That affects children’s attention span, interest in other matters and it might even affect literacy. These problems are not the fault of the 8 or 13 year olds who just want to play Fornite. Much larger forces are at play here and you can’t just ignore that.
That’s what happens when the state removes all discipline from schools and homes. What we are witnessing now and have been for the last twenty years is a failed system where children have too much power over parents and over what they do. They choose to shun education and emerge into a world where all they can do to forge an existence is smash bus shelters at 12 and sell cocaine at 14. Frankly, the results of New Labours education, education, education speech.
They talk like that because they aren't encouraged to have normal childhoods like the working class children, its all elocution and study. These middle class kids are groomed to achieve status in politics or Science, to lead and improve our futures. They attend boarding schools where discipline is strict until they come of age. Believe me, the Victorian 'children should be seen and not heard' attitude, is still very much alive amongst the upper classes in Britain today.
@@Toastrackman Wow, this is really interesting, seriously I'm not kidding. I didn't know that about those tiers in Britain. So they're like wealthy kids?
They all look so well mannered and mature and they know what they're up to. It's rare to find kids like this these days. They would surely light up the world.
you’re so delusional my god, if you interview extremely posh kids with very rich parents, shocker, they’ll be well spoken 😱😱 that would be the same today if you interviewed kids from eton
The parents of these children had themselves been children during WWII, which had ended just over 20 years before this video was made, so the kids would have been echoing the preoccupations of the adults around them - right in the middle of the Cold War. At the same time, some of them might have been reading science-fiction. I remember reading articles and stories with the same kind of speculation when I was in my early teens (mid-1970s). Some were rather dark projections, others quite idealistic. Some I didn’t really believe turned out to be true, like credit cards and laptop computers; others, which sounded possible, still haven’t happened, or at least not as severely as described - yet - such as having to wear gas masks because of pollution in large cities, or actually colonising the Moon. It’s quite interesting to read old sci-fi stories set in a future that is now past - and different from the stories. And yes, European kids are encouraged to read and to fantasise and reflect about what they read.
In 1966 I was an American sixth grader and in 2023 I am approaching my 70th birthday. Our generation was concerned about nuclear war. Today's kids are convinced they will be done in by global climate change. Both generations pessimistic but for different reasons. I'm still far more concerned about nuclear conflict or accidental use of nuclear weapons than climate change which I don't consider a genuine problem.
Wow! Incredible how these kids could see what was coming - they were very astute observers & therefore many of their predictions are what we’re actually dealing with in today’s world!
"People will be viewed as statistics more than actual people" this kid hit the nail on the head
Almost prophetic.
Yes, the danger of abstraction; and potential evil of abstraction.
A child from the 60's with the most accurate quote on TH-cam.
Its quite depressing to see how many of these children saw their predictions become facts and just how much they've been let down.
Amazing insight from the young lad.
And then he nails the future of the egg/meat industry at 4.07.
The kid who predicted factory farming and the treatment of farm animals got it exactly right. Did the BBC only take the most dystopian answers? Or were British children that pessimistic about the future? There were one or two that had positive views of the future, but the vast majority envisioned quite a horrible state of affairs.
They were literally being prepared to die as children, it's messed up
The Cold War was still on and the Cuban Missile Crisis was only four years earlier. There was a very real possibility of all-out nuclear war and those children knew it as well as anybody. The world was a seriously scary place in the sixties.
These are privileged children from the most exclusive schools in Britain. Hardly representative of the general views of British children at the time.
the future is going to continue to get worse, I'm not sure why you're surprised
There was most certainly an editorial process that chose the most "engaging" content. That's just how TV is done.
These kids sound smarter than some adults today. They are very articulate.
Because kids learn bullshit now
they probably are the adults of today
@@daddylonglegspidersdontexi3210 of course they are
Why are they so smart tho? Were they like chosen specifically?
@@paulo0651 i don't know why
The kid talking about population and automation. Wow. Insane how smart that kid is.
Just proves the British are superior.
Some very dark prescience in these kids, but what a pleasure to listen to how articulately they convey their ideas
Garurumon. With respect, bbc machine picking posh public school children. But your right, the future is looking rather bleak for them. Also bbc indoctrinated to think it’s all their fault, the children that is..
'Cos they is posh kids innit
These are the children whose destiny (by accident of birth into privileged families) were to become the higher echelons of position in their careers.
They were living through the Cold War.
@@Flappatackle they are British
The girl talking about flats & houses being rather small was 100% correct as it's happening in my country
What county you from
Didnt happen in 2000 tho
What she said was obvious even to a donkey. Don't bother.
wya?
@@volactic5240India ofc.
What intelligent well spoken children. It’s sad that several of them mentioned atomic warfare as a reflection of the world that they lived in
if these kids were not brought up so well, and warned of the dangers, perhaps we would all be living in a post nulcear war world right now. the few of us that remain.
Kids of the 60's lived in the wrong era because those atomic bombs they're talking is much more dangerous now and it can detonate now if Russia and Putin lose his mind.
And kids nowadays still taking selfies on TikTok and explaining their preferred pronouns like wtf??? 🤦
Remember when I was 12/13 in 1966 - it was less than twenty years since they had dropped two bombs. The Russians invaded Hungary the British army was fighting so called police actions all over the world the Cuban Missile Crises was four yaers past, along with the French Algerian War and French soldiers trying to oust the French government. The Veitnam War etc Two years later we got two see Russian tanks in Prague on tele, Aden on tele,Notthern Ireland after that. Yes we had a lot to be opptomistic about !
Not like now everything is about abortion, lgtb, feminist fast and Furies, transexual!
I lived most of my secondary education in fear of nuclear war and although not as dark as some interviewed here it was very central in my teen years. Along with others here, I have to say how eloquent most of these children were.
I would have been around their age then. But more importantly, these kids were amazing. They were so on target. One of them spoke about diseases, computers and the people having a hard time getting jobs. These children from England were absolutely inspiring. I would love to hear their stories now.
What your generation do back then?
Strangely, none of the girls imagined that they would be hunted by Muslim grooming gangs.
They'd have to be at least 70 years old now. It would be fascinating to do a follow up 62 years after these were done. Plus it's been 22 years since 2000 as well. I'd like to see how they feel about seeing their younger selves. Their kind sci-fi predictions. Or how they feel about the world now, for better or worse.
I bet you anything there all dead from covid too ..
Hopefully they've realised that overpopulation was always a lie by now.
there is a series of short movies made in the UK called 7 Up, 14 Up, 21 Up, 28 Up etc Which follows a group of people from 7 years old until 56.
I graduated in mid 2000's, I promise it was better then.
They’re my age…about 66-68
They are all so softly spoken and gentle. People seem louder these days even if they have less to say.
yes!
Many of their parents would have been of the " silent generation " born in the late 30s and early 40s, whose lives growing up were affected by the great depression and WWll. Those parents taught their kids not to complain, not to feel sorry for themselves and to just quietly get on with what they needed to do and to do their very best. Bad manners were not tolerated and they were taught that their behavior reflected on the whole family. Most kids raised by the " silent generation" would never be loud or obnoxious in public or talk back to their parents, I am the child of "the silent" generation. My how attitudes have changed, listening to those kids made me miss how people used to speak and be respectful with each other when I was young.
That’s from importing foreign cultures
thats back when they used to beat you at school for misbehaving
These kids articulate so much better then 95 percent of adults nowadays.
*than
Sorry I just had to, no offence intended…
They’re clearly very posh, probably students of a private school
We make the same observation for the French people today
thats just the british
Even the “sun will burn out and cause an ice age” girl was articulate!
It's amazing how accurate those kid's were.
"People will be seen as nothing more than statistics instead of real People".
How accurate was that prediction. Totally spot on
I was gobsmacked when watching the young lad at 4:06. His prediction of intensive battery farming was completely spot on.
You can help by choosing to buy free range, happy meat and eggs. If people stop buying cruel food, farmers will return to happy food.
@@JulieWallis1963 It's free range for me, all the way!
Better still, less meat or no meat at all. An entire planet full of people all raising animals specifically to eat them is really damaging in a plethora of ways even if it was somehow possible to meet current demand without using battery farming methods.
@@JulieWallis1963 Free range is better than battery, but by no means is it ethical. The marketing material for free range products tends to lean on the idea that animals are completely free, in open fields and the likes, when the reality is usually much different.
They filmed him last week and put a black and white filter on.
" Jobs only for people with computer knowledge " these kids predicted this in 1966.
Except that a large number of people have been carrying 'computers' in their palms for a while now
@@PM2022"Except that" That isn't relevant to the OG statement. Besides, regular people have zero computer knowledge. They only understand how to get tasks done on software/apps.
Who is OG? Besides, that kid did not specify whether 'knowledge' meant writing code (leave aside what kind); you are projecting your own thinking (as vague, misguided as even that is) on to his statement. Meanwhile, of course people have jobs and make money using just the applications anyway, even as there remain many jobs that do not require even that (even if those people may know how to use smartphones--which are, of course, computers). And yet, it is granted that computer literacy is an educational prerequisite now in most parts of the world--but that also means getting a job demands many other things on top of that.@@YtuserSumone-rl6sw
@@PM2022we are still animals first and foremost, one of our greatest problems was when we started to prioritise technology over manpower, creating a very nice gap between those knowledgeable and those that are not
Anybody have sci-fi idea which want to type?
"People are gonna be out of work due to automation" Pretty much nailed it.
yes!
😂 on what planet? We’ve got more money, leisure time and automated help. Fewer diseases. Third world shrinking. Fewer conflicts. Those are the FACTS.
@@flexiblepaper7389 or we can hunt and grow our dinner, build our own fires to light and warm our homes, weave our clothes and use pigeons to send messages. We’ve been automating for almost 200 years and we’re not stopping. Embrace it.
@@Brakdaytonthis comment did not age well
@@jamiealisson8298 The comment is only a month old now, and at the time of your comment it was about a week old. You misused the "this comment did not age well" line because you only know how to repeat things and not how to think for yourself.
Really quite sad... So young, yet their vision of the future seemed to induce only fear. - Would so love to see them interviewed again today.
Yea I wonder why was it becuase of the media, but they were right about the world being a worse place
Can you please do a re-interview with them if they still alive? That would be interesting to watch their reactions.
No.
@@xoazaja653 ok
@@taicunmusic someone failed math
@@taicunmusic So much for the high IQ...
@@taicunmusic They'll be in their 70s silly
I was 6 in 1966 and can well remember the overwhelming confidence and optimism Americans had for the future. Shockingly, contrasted by how dismal the future looked to these well-mannered English youngsters.
I think Americans who watch this may be slightly missing the tongue-in-cheek nature of most of these predictions. It's not as gloomy as it might seem.
@@ajs41 So, all of them are simply joking. Seriously?
By the end of the 60s, that optimism in America had dissipated. The 60s in Britain were far more grim as many ppl were starving.
@@rexfreeman4981 What difference does that make; my point was that the two nations had widely different mindsets. England's national mood was horizontally opposed to that of America.
Not really, if you notice things are exactly as these kids described. Especially under the so-called Biden administration.
Some of these children are absolutely prophetic. They nailed alot of what is occurring in present times. It gives me chills.
Children? But they are not children 🤔
Try a sweater
@Daniel Larkins
Not true: check your listening ears, dear: these were some of those kids’ predictions:
Factory Farming
Automation in manufacturing, etc, taking jobs.
Sea levels rising.
Overpopulation
Increased racial and socioeconomic integration and leveling.
There were more than just those, too, lol.
They looked like maybe middle to early high school aged, to me. That one boy sounded like a very serious and wise 50+ year old man and looked 11, lol. 🧐🤓
@@christianmendoza3655
According to what I could find, Marlborough College was/is an English public school that was established in 1843 by Church of England clergy for students aged 13-18.
These kids are mostly very intelligent and articulate for their age, my how times have changed..
The kid with the battery animals was spot on. Both his comments were correct…a deep thinker for such a young kid…wonder what he eventually did?
He definitely made the most accurate predictions.
@@verynice5574 🙀😹😹
yeah, he sells meats to KFC and burger kings etc.... from his monster battery farms lol.
eugenics
This kid is a time traveler
Man, these kids back in 1966 in England were so smart! What a jewel of history, glad I found this on TH-cam by chance
Privately educated are with the exception of Catholic school which I find no better than public school!
Are* most of them are alive because it's of 1966 and they look 13-14
@Moshan Yu Black kids 👉th-cam.com/video/840XWjnt9wc/w-d-xo.html
These children will all be 13 or older. You didn't enter public school until you took the common entrance exam and possibly an additional exam for some super academic schools at age 13. To be fair Marlborough and Roedean are still some of the top Public (in UK Private) schools in the country. For context. I'm pretty sure if you interviewed boys at Phillips Andover or Exeter in 1966 you'd get similar answers.
I don’t know why so many people are saying these are privately educated children. I was raised in a small village of mostly council houses back in the 60s, was schooled in a two classroom School and if we didn’t speak proper English we were ‘clipped round the ear’ by both teacher and parent.
How beautiful they spoke. The humility of these children shone through.
I think we have gone backwards
Because conservatives dismantle education systems to keep people stupid and malleable.
because kids don't read enough nowadays
Does it frighten anyone how mature these children sound in comparison to today’s adult?
Technically, they are today's adults, if they're still alive.
@@leejohnson3209 I mean as kids they spoke like adults. No 12 year old sounds like this now. Maybe Asian kids.
absolutely. They look more mature than todays' adults.
@abdallahmehidi4480 kids read Books back then and filled their heads with knowledge
Yes
I was in primary school in 1966 and the nuclear threat was very, very real. How it hasn't happened yet staggers me.
@user-yp2mw2ko9k The Cold War was still at it's peak right through the 60's and 70's. Have a look at the British movie Threads from 1984. It still scares me today.
@user-yp2mw2ko9k "Did I miss anything?" Well yes, the cold war. At that point nearing the height of the proxy war in Vietnam between the US and the Soviets and their allies.
@user-yp2mw2ko9k They were the main supplier of arms and equipment to the NVA. And either way the nuclear threat was still very real for decades after the time you're talking about, just found it bizarre that you talk as if it ended in the mid 60s!
Cooler heads prevailed.
No it wasnt. It was just posturing by US generals to get more money put into weapons. Russia couldnt have cared less about invading the US.
I am the same age as the children and was also interviewed for a similar radio programme at the age of 11. Seeing this takes me back to 1968. They speak like the children I remember from my class. Although the answers sound grim, we were just like kids of every generation in our normal lives and did not spend hours worrying about the future. But, we had picked up on the themes that worried our parents that were being mentioned by politicians and in the media.
Your comment is very interesting. Could you talk more about what it was like growing up in the 60s? I'd appreciate it.
@@peperocoolero Well, in 1963 they invented the Beatles and we were knocked out by them. Then Kennedy was shot and all the TV was cancelled for the evening - we waited ages for Steptoe but no. Next night we were compensated by the first episode of a new sci-fi series called Dr Who. Black and white 405 line TV, a set cost our Dad a month's salary.
I did enjoy being a kid in the 60's, decent food, great pop music, lots of freedom, the excitement of the Space Age, hope. The kids being filmed are a bit gloomy, tbh; back then, we thought science would solve all problems.
@@bingbong7316 Your comment was very interesting and gratifying. Thank you so much for sharing a bit, I really appreciate it. The 60s is a decade that I really like to study and analyze from all areas (fashion, music, culture, history, politics, social movements). That's why I really value hearing the experiences of people who lived through that. Thank you :)
@@peperocoolero You're very welcome. It was a decade of rapid change in the UK; most male adults had either fought in WWII or done 2 years of National Service, which ended in 1960, and this set the tone. Married women were mainly housewives. The shadow of Queen Victoria and Empire _still_ lingered across society; fashions like the mini skirt were a rebellion against that suffocating mindset. I could go on..
@@bingbong7316 WOW, seriously, thank you SO MUCH. It is very cool to read your comments. You are free to continue sharing information, I appreciate it very much and I will read it with pleasure!
1:29 It's like an adult in a childs body! Talks so eloquently and seems wise beyond his years.
Nah, he's just talking right to his age.
Maybe you're talking about OUR GENERATION.
They're tons of millennials out there who's adults now but they're screaming and shouting like a kid when someone disagree with them especially of "WHAT IS A WOMAN?"😂
Kids in the 60's had tougher and mature questions but adults in the 2020's had kindergarten questions and yet they're answers are always wrong. 🤦
Just like Kamala Harris for example. We're literally doomed, my friend.
@@connordrake5713 Yep!
Well he was a biologist, so…
@@connordrake5713 you are incorrect the average millennial or zoomer is likely to be considerably better educated that their boomer counterparts. The participants in this video have probably been plucked from a private or grammar school and probably represent no more than 10-20% of their contemporaries. This is an example of selection bias, look up various programmes about how those from those young people from lower socio economic status homes in the 60s would have acted or sounded
He's my favourite
The kids in the video spoke beautifully. Very pleasant to listen to.
As a 23 year old, I resonate a lot with the kid at the end being afraid to live in the world in 50 years time.
What everyone seems to be missing is that things haven't really changed all that much. Sure, technology is much better, but we still have many of the same problems we had then, and people are still living much the same as they did then. What makes you think things will change very much in 50 more years?
As a 28-year-old, I feel the same way. :( Stay safe and well, everyone.
@@SunshineCatwomanDentro de 50 años el ser humano estará totalmente controlado.
Tal vez puedan reventar a los desobedientes desde lejos mediante la tecnología. 😊
@@SunshineCatwomanspot on, only difference is cashless society but more overpopulated as in 10-12 billion people in 50 years time.
so sad to know this. seems technology developed so much to the point that now people are scared of it though the people of those era used to to so positive about it.😌
I might be wrong, but I think that first kid *really* likes robots....
😂😂😂
He actually grew up to play Metal Micky in the TV show.
And did he say the funeral of a computer? He's dark. In fact they all are. Atomic bombs obsessed. I suppose to be expected at that time
@@jacksdjfam And here we are today - probably closer to a full on Nuclear War......
Literally lol’d! 🤣🤣
These are some extremely smart kids. I expected most of them to talk about having jet packs and robot butlers. DIdn't expect them to be so dark, and sadly, accurate about what will happen. Was very surprised by that kid talking about keeping animals in batteries instead of grazing, and raising them so they produce more meat.
That was already happening.
Not smart,,but privileged upper class privately educated? Children.
Accurate? How many atomic wars have you lived through? 😮 and how many robot butlers do you have?
@@thenightdrivepictures You don't have them? That's odd
@@KH-fv3vq very odd indeed. i want my robot butler as well as my robot race car driver
How smart and mature were kids back in those days. This video just blew my mind. So considerate and thoughtful. I am speechless.
Some of the predictions were super spot on in this video!
The battery farming, race, and statistic comments landed with precision. Overall the whole video was filled with eloquent conveying of their thoughts and opinions.
And climate change!
@@jackstormo1459 Good point there 👌🏾
@@RedDeadMarston1 like your parents wanted to start a family and have you? GTFO
The automation point with few jobs to go around was accurate too.
@@RedDeadMarston1source? Malthusian theory has been disproven time and time again, we can likely sustain over 15 billion
1:28 This child, who appears to be at the ripe age of 8 has a near perfect prediction of the 2000s, And speaks more eloquently than anyone I know.
That looks and sounds like Elon Musk
Looks like Matt Bellamy!
Funny cuz it wasn’t true where I lived lol
@@jacobbaranowski FFS
Such an intelligent child. I think he invented Covid 🤣🤣🤣
So brilliant, respectful, and perfectly articulated! I hope that all these kids grew up to be happy and healthy!
I was born in 1949, at grammar school in 1966, studying for A levels in north London. I went on a few local Ban the bomb marches. Between 1963 and 1965 I had a boyfriend who lived about 3 miles away. We made an agreement that if the ,sirens sounded for a nuclear attack, he would drive to my house on his scooter so we could die together! The anxiety over nuclear war stayed with me until the Berlin wall came down. However, it's returned during the last two years! Also, had the BBC interviewed any of the pupils at my school, they would have been articulate, well spoken and respectful, as taught to us by parents and teachers.
"People will be the same. Everything will be the same" They were very accurate. With people running behind trends it just seems all same
I was a child in late fifties early sixties, my recollection of what we thought in the year 2000 was everything automated, remember we read the comic the Eagle so read about Dan Dare and looked at those great cutaway illustrations. Interestingly I do remember when we were discussing in class what would things be like in the year 2000, the teacher suggested that life then would not be too different as it was in 1960s.
Well, the kids got it right and the teacher completey wrong..... nothing's changed, then, in the past 60yrs!!
…and not forgetting the public information announcements on TV of what to do in case of a nuclear attack! Ah, happy days!
@@Essemm52 If I remember correctly wasn't the 'nuclear' advice to hide under your dining table? Ah, indeed, those halcyon, naive, days of yesteryear!!!!
@@nuttysquirrel8574 Ha ha! Yes, I believe it was! Funny thing is, even as young as we were, we didn't stress about it too much! We just got on with life! How would the young teens of today cope with that kind of information? But of course it would never happen today! There would be an even greater shortage of counsellors! Mind you, I'm a firm believer in 'ignorance is bliss' lol!
@@Essemm52 Lmao. So the teens of today don't have their own problems to worry about? I'd take a higher chance of nuclear annihilation over a smaller chance of nuclear annihilation and climate change
The kid who said people will be seen as stats and livestock will be kept in batteries is a time traveller.
where tf are u living?
@@onekie5787 where are you living? That’s exactly what’s happening. How do you think meat is so mass produced?
@@connahbrettell9493 nvm i misread ur comment , i thought u meant the people were being kept in batteries
Predicted Libtardism perfectly 👌!
they had factory farming back in the 60s. and it isn't like people weren't seen as stats back then either. holocaust, american segregation, etc. the kid was reflecting on what he already saw in his current world and predicted it would stay the same, if not get worse.
Wow! These children are amazing. So thoughtful and articulate. They seem so intelligent and mature for their age.
How they are conveying their ideas and have formulated them they sound older beyond their years. Absolute joy!
No, that was simply how it was back then. Today we dumb everything down, move at the pace of the slowest kid, hold back the smart kids so they dont upset the mcdonalds employees, and, most importantly, kids today have access to a mind bogling amount of TV and film where bad behaviour is celebrated. Monkey see monkey do.
@@stephen2583 To be fair, these kids are definitely of a privileged class. But, can agree even the average student in the 60s is likely much smarter than a kid these days in most subjects minus things such as computers, games, etc. that did not exist back then.
@@stephen2583 you seem to hear and see what you want to.
@@sopyleecrypt6899 no doubt you think kids today are the hieght of intelligence and articulation. Int day bruv.
Of course, because schools spent time on core subjects, not bullshit like today
The one child was spot on with regards to automation. You can see that this generation were drilled with regards over population.
Didn't blimmin work unfortunately!
We ARE overpopulated - and the wealthy countries are consuming disproportionately more resources. These kids are spot on....
@@nitramluap No. Just brainwashed by the system of the time. And to those banging on about overpopulation, would you personally make that ultimate sacrifice yourselves to save the planet? No? Didn't think so.
There was a baby boom after the war, but they didn't predict it would come to an end. Anyway, automation hasn't taken that many jobs. A lot of work as gone overseas. A trend which was underway back then.
@@nitramluap As a matter of fact, the global population is expected to half in the next 50-70 years, Households are having below 1.8 children and men's sperm counts are reducing rapidly. Countries like Japan are in crisis as most of the population is 60 and above.
It would be funny if someone said "I think the Rolling Stones will still be touring".
1984: I think the Duran Duran will still be touring in the 2000s.
Even these kids couldn't imagine anything as awful as that.
2024 and they are STILL touring.
@@johnp.9486 Well the comment was 2023 so not too big a leap there
I love the kid that mentioned statistics and the factory farming. He is so sweet and correct.
These children are from one of the most expensive private schools in the country- I'm sure they were well briefed in order to reflect well on their class (both contexts). It's a shame the BBC didn't balance the production with a visit to my state school- they may have been surprised.
My exact thoughts
No they are not all from the same school or private education.
England will not win the World Cup again.
@@ginacable5376
It's very easy to tell by their toff accents what type of schools they were all at. Definitely public schoolchildren.
@@ginacable5376Well, the description says 3 schools: Marlborough college and Roedean are both private boarding schools. "Chippenham schools" could mean either.
These kids are dead serious about their ideas.
I love how soft spoken they are ( use those inside voices )
And wow! What are their ages?
They are pretty damn smart, I mean, I watched a couple of videos on TH-cam where this guy asks the average teenager basic questions such as "What's the second month of every year?" The girl responded confidently " March, it's March".
I was amazed and terrified at the same time.
I was thinking the same thing about how soft spoken they all were.
I was 5 years old in '66. It's not that the kids were smarter, they were better educated. The children of America, in recent decades have been dumbed down. Taught to believe what they're told, and see being incorrect about something as an insult. It creates a compliant population, easily used by those in power.
2nd month of every year is March? How?
To be fair, those videos almost certainly are staged or pick the stupidest couple of people they can find to get more views
@@kdjoshi726 LoL.
It was truly something hey.
The little girl at 2:18 talking about how machines would do everything for people was very close to accurate.
Well, over the course of our lives through the 21st century, these changes will all come into effect. Lots of sea rises too.
not rly
Universal basic income
Just told my friend how soon enough, I felt AIs and self service machines will one day take everyone's job and the only jobs available is if you go to college (just like Detroit Become Human)
Not in 2000 lol
1:14 spot on.
The perception of these youngsters is amazing. How accurate they have turned out to be!!
Except for the part about the oceans rising. That lie has been perpetrated for over a century now.
@Jannie Kirsten Which is why Obama owns two waterfront properties.
Yes. I'm hunting for bats in cave due to nuclear fallout.
@@krisknowlton5935 And yet even NASA is publicly mentioning it constantly. Either every scientist on earth is being held at gunpoint or the ocean's rising. Which one sounds more plausible?
Oh so accurate! So merry and so joyful were those day of old!
"I think the sun will cool down and another ice age will start"
Bombs, bombs, atomic bombs. Everything is automated to the point that there are almost no jobs, except for the people with very high IQ, able to operate computers. There's an insane lack of space, to the point people start living underwater. Did I mention the wars and BOMBS. The bombs cause the temperatures to rise. Oh and there's such a lack of space there's no such thing as fun anymore.
So accurate
How articulate, educated and cultured were these kids. Did they chose the most articulate ones or were they all the same back in the days? Such a pleasure listening to them. Great archive.
Posh kids
I wasn’t at all like them. I was a little cockney girl wiv not a lot te say
Private school. If you talked to kids from the same social class and educational strata now they would also sound posh and articulate.
Roedean, Marlborough schools, very privileged still today - you could have a look at the schools' websites.
They sound as though they were from a Grammar school. Education standards started slipping from the 1960's onwards due to Child Centred educational philosophies. I know that short changed me in the 1970's.
What school did these kids attend? They can actually formulate thoughts with complete sentences, and as someone else noted, eloquence.. their vocabulary!
Yes but whilst learning their native tongue, they were also evidently terrorized into formulating the darkest and most apocalyptic predictions I've ever heard. This is some nightmare fuel right here.
The description below the main video says that they attended Chippenham, Roedean and Marlborough College, so some most definitely public schools (in the English sense).
@@jamestheposh For those who don't know, that means "expensive private schools" in everybody else's sense :)
They don't start every sentence with 'So' (very Millennial), nor do their voices go up (intonate) when they finish a sentence (very Antipodean). And they don't overuse the word 'like' by saying it several times over while talking. These kids are articulate, thoughtful, and yes some of them gav pretty accurate descriptions of what life would be like in 2000!!
I'm getting all nostalgic about 2000 now! Remember the 'Millennium Bug'? ...and 'green screen' mobiles like the Nokia 3310!? B****y h*LL where did the last 20 odd years go!!
Not in the USA
These children were extremely intelligent and as if they had a window looking into 2024 rather than 2000. Love these types of interviews.
Amazing!
Quite chilling and very sad sometimes.
I do so hope that they all have had a great life up to now, and that each of them found love and happiness along the way.
I must admit though, that this is my generation speaking here.
At that time I was totally into the music and the whole counter culture thing that was happening outside, and couldn't wait to join in the following year, when I left school.
I never really dreaded anything much.
I doubt it they were probably all traumatised after being abused by the staff at the bbc
That generation, certainly had an interesting life experience! Tough times for a bit, but being a sixty something now, sure wish I’d have grown up back then! …✌🏼🇨🇦
@@midnightrun2764 Racism and Homophobia were still rampant back then, I don't know about that.
Wow! What it must've been like going through your 20s with hope...
The boy who said people would be treated as statistics and predicted battery farming was a genius.
Well, battery farming was already getting far more popular, was probably taught in school that that's what is going to happen . . .
Cleverer than you that's for sure
@@richard7645 Is there a reason for your insult, given that there's nothing inflammatory in my original comment, or are you just venting randomly because your wife refuses to let you touch her anymore?
(4:25) That one boy's foreshadowing of how we raise livestock was horrifyingly accurate.
Wow some of these children are bang on with their predictions
absolutely amazing how these youngsters articulate the future with true understanding
This is pretty amazing, can BBC find these children now and see what they say? That could be interesting!
They'd all not have the same elocution, that's for sure.
No box tickers for the BBC
These documentaries represent more than a time capsule; they bring art and culture from a period of time where imagination was incentivized among young people. Thank you so much, BBC. Very much well done, ladies and gentlemen.
What a sweet children we were back then ...
These kids are more well spoken than most of today's 30 year olds, let alone today's kids and teenagers
yeah, that's the fault of their parents.
I think these kids seem to be from fairly posh families in England. They're definitely not working class English kids. Their parents and school probably drilled them in perfect articulation. That being said, they certainly picked it up!
They aren't really 'normal' kids, they're upper class/rich kids and were probably given a script to recite.
@@willshad The producers absolutely asked the kids leading questions for this interview. If you asked a child the same questions these kids got you would get the same levels of cynicism, they may be smart kids but they're just kids, they're impressionable and follow instructions.
no not really, they were probably just giving notes to recite and say over and over again until they sound smart
The kids at 2:09, 2:17 and 2:38 hit the nail on the head!!! What a sad reality we live in now!
How can you say that? Our world today is infinitely better than what these frightened kids envisioned.
I'm sorry you see the world in such a horribly negative way. What do you think these kids would have thought of the cell phone you are holding in your hand right now??
@@BramHepburn No the owner of the other comment is right. We have machines, cell, tec doing everything for us now, it is no fun. It's not that there "frightened there just being honest. We have "upgraded" things now a days but so many things are just easy, you don't work for it and yes like I said tec has a LOT to do with that. See how wise and smart people are and KIDS?! You would NEVER see that now. Some things are better off as they were. Not trying to be negative there are alright things but it is a sad reality. Coming from a teen.
I also read comment saying "My mum was a teen in the 60s, she was surprised at how gloomy these kids are about the future. In general 60s kids were optimistic and bright-eyed. Maybe these kids, coming from a strict private school, were more influenced by doom-saying adults around them and less able to mix with peers and just have fun? Sad to see teens in the swinging sixties so pessimistic about their future." So no it's all kids were not "frightened" nor scared.
@@BramHepburn a portal, just what it is
@@BramHepburn Cell phone, pah, only plebs use YT on a phone, PC or TV all the way :D.
Those kids were extremely smart! I was actually expecting a different kind of responses, but they addressed social issues as an adult would do.
Exactly
They are children who are well educated and live in a less TOXIC WORLD -special today but not at that time
I'm always thankful that I went to school in the 60s and 70s, and not in the 21st century.
These children are all so softly spoken - my daughter is like this, but there aren't too many these days. Modesty is cool.
Remarkable how quietly kids were able to speak back then.
They were taught, something that does not happen today. Taught eloquence and self control.
@@daisydukes8252 In other words these children were rich, very negative although some of them made some correct predicitons.
@@kevinjenkins6657 Why do you say they were rich?
@@daisydukes8252 Mate, look at the way the dress, listen to the way they speak. Remind yousrself this was half a century ago, no man had been on the moon. These were posh, rich, privalaged, well educated children, as some of the say, there was a huge gap between the rich and poor. The poor would be more optimistic.
@@kevinjenkins6657 they were beaten
I'm astonished by the awareness of automation and computers at that time. Secondary school kids were still using slide rules in 1966. There must have been some very aware teachers in the schools. The understanding of the population explosion and the risks of nuclear war are also astonishing. No internet then. No easy access to any such information.
People used to do this thing back then called talk to each other and read books lol
Exactly. These children are not a general representation of the 60s. They know about automation, computers and climate change because they were clearly receiving a highly privileged education that was inaccessible to most children. They were not being filmed arbitrarily, especially not in a time when cameras were a luxury. In simple terms: they are most likely rich. Poorer kids are generally too busy helping to support their families to worry about theoretical discussions of the distant future. They are generally worried about surviving the present.
@@dantemeriere5890 Yes, but even if this came from their parents, in general, I am surprised too about the awareness of computers at that time.
As a person born in 1958 I can tell you that secondary school pupils were still being taught about slide rules in 1976!
@@dantemeriere5890 Everything they discussed could be picked up by watching television. Most of the modern tech we have already existed on shows like Star Trek.
I was born in 1960. It’s interesting to hear how educated these young people are and how articulate they are about the things that were worrying them at the time- climate, over population, loss of jobs to computers, climate change, nuclear war, racial integration and levels of wealth. I suppose being just that little bit older than me, the proximity to the last war had more effect on them than it ever did on me( I went to Grammar school but I remember very little being taught about nuclear weapons or climate change. Maybe it was their parents informing them?)
The blond girl early in the discussion really nailed it.
They were being filmed in a time when cameras were a luxury. Clearly, they were chosen for a reason, most likely related to status. Yes, they are eloquent and sound educated, but this is not a general representation of society. The non-eloquent children were probably too busy working to help their parents and didn't quite have the time to acquire an extended lexicon. Furthermore their accent influences our perception of what eloquence and education mean as it is well-known that English speakers tend to associate the British accent with good eloquence. Modern young adults may not often speak with a very noticeable English accent, especially if they are not from England, but they do exhibit many qualities that are light years ahead of people from even 10 years ago.
@@dantemeriere5890 , I was born in the states in 1961 and I should go back to the 60s in a heartbeat. I remember having a movie camera, by then I was about 13 or 14 and in the early 70s. I do have movies of me from the early 60s that I turned into VCR cassettes, sadly, I can seem to find them, =(
@@dantemeriere5890 These are indeed posh, "upper-class" children. Their language skills and general eloquence is a direct representation of their social class.
I was born in 1961 I think the dark haired girl nailed with the computers and loss of jobs. Impressed how smart these children are and what they think about their future.
I was born in 1948 and back then I thought I would be dead by the time I reached 50 years old and here I am still alive at 74 years old and I thank God that I'm still alive because I die to myself I became born again through our Savior Jesus Christ and that was 12 years ago if I would have died at 50 years old I would be in hell right now thank you Jesus thank you Jesus!🙂🙏🙏
id pay anything to have a consersation with these children... Some of the hings they say are so obscure yet accurate its incredible. People don't talk like that any more.
Good grief are they in university! They're so incredibly intelligent. What foresight they had! I'm sitting here feeling like a right dimwit in comparison to these children. Astounding. I think I'm going to have to save this to rewatch now and then. Totally mesmerised by each and every one of them, their vision, prediction, calculation, understanding, vocabulary, eloquence, grasp... Absolutely fascinating! I'm literally in awe. 😳
It makes you wish you were born rich. The powers that be don't want commoners getting their cushy jobs!
I agree! We had a much better education!
These kids were from a private school. My in-laws are from England, and went through the public system around the same time this was filmed. They were from a poorer background, and knew nobody that spoke like these kids. Their exact words were, "We never spoke like that! We weren't posh enough!"
@@samanthafairweather9186 I did know that....and yes I am English. And no I'm not posh at at all! 🤣 It wasn't so much their pronunciation that impressed me, as it was their ability to visualise things and comprehend them despite being so young. They're even able to forecast an outcome unless things change and really it's THAT that blew my mind the most. I know adults 4x their age who would be wondering what the conversation was about after a minute....mind wandered and lost and thinking about more important things like, football, farts or beer! 😳
That would be almost funny if it wasn't so tragically true!
I'm especially impressed by the girls in fact, given the times it was filmed in particularly. Not that I doubt girl's ability, but because they weren't instead off in cookery class or learning how to correctly starch and iron a business shirt for their future husband, while the boys learnt the scientific theories of life! 🙄
You can tell your in-laws I'm very much NOT posh....my Dad describes me as "rough as a badger's arse"!!!
Whatever the hell that means....😂🤣😅
They got most of it right… they’re really explaining the entire future, we have self checkout till aka robots. Covid killed workplaces + dropped staff…
Wow, what a bundle of joy these teenagers are
Sure, but ask the current zoomers to imagine life in the year 2062 and they'll say climate change will have fried us all to a giant crisp!!
@@SmartCookie2022 if you think climate change isn't real, go to the Maldives and ask them, while you still can
@@filipburic5194 thats a strawman fallacy , he never said anything about climate change not being real , he just said people nowadays think the world would have ended by the 2060s
@@onekie5787 but that's not what people really think though is it, he's just being facetious, hence my Maldives comment. Ask the how they'll be doing in 2062 and they may give you that exact answer.
I'm not sure where you live, but I live on an island, which suffers more year on year from climate change, and I'm pretty comfortable in listening to the worlds leading scientists in regards to where we are heading by the end of the century
@@filipburic5194 Climate change happened back when the dinosaurs were alive.
Imagine thinking climate change is man made.
Go huff your pipe some more.
They’re all so well spoken.
no they’re not
The boy who talked about factory farming, I wish he was wrong but he was spot on. Then again it was well set as normal practice well before 2000 anyway.
Most of the other predictions were a way off but they could just be delayed.
My jaw drops! These kids nailed it! How depressing.
You must live in a very bleak place if you think they nailed it? My assumption is they've just read 1984 and other similar dystopian books.
@@metageist666At least they read.
Except for the numerous mentions of atomic apocalypse. We’ve been lucky enough to avoid that.
I don't think they nailed it at all, many of them imagined a world destroyed by nuclear war, many of them also predicted the population would be so large that we would be living under water or under domed in the Sahara Desert.
The best bit is you can understand every word they say….
"People will be regarded more as statistics than actual people." Chills hearing that one.
How dafuq he even thought about it...
@@TrybeMusic and then at 4:07...boy dropped another fact
@@TrybeMusic Because it was true then, too.
I could sit and listen to these youngsters all day. What's happened to society?
These children were brilliant. Some of them nailed what happened since 1966
Remarkable. These children are so eloquent and insightful. Not optimistic, but then, the accuracy in that respect is uncanny.
💯 percent correct
Very well spoken children who can think for themselves and have a large vocabulary. Some very close to home predictions here.
i wonder if anyone is still around i think they would love to watch this.
Wow. Glad to see at least one kid with an optimistic view of the future. She and others like her are reason why we are still here and trying. There is still hope for us. God speed.
Oh how right they were, I would love another interview with these people now x
that young boy at 4:25 is just a time traveller he has everything exactly right.
These kids of 1966 were all articulate, smart, and analytical, but more importantly, they were mild mannered and polite as they speak their mind.
💯
I can’t get over how accurate their responses are unbelievable!
That one kid was spot on about factory farming though.
The young chap talking about statistics and animal farming is one of the smartest and most well spoken kids I've seen. Way more classy and eloquent than any of the kids I see today.
That one creeped me out.
You don't get out much.
How about the child taking about blacks and whites living along together one day!?
True, every damn one of his predictions came true
Way more classy and eloquent than most kids you'd have seen back then too, I reckon
I am absolutely amazed how smart some of these answers did sound!
The absence of the words “like”, “I feel”, and “know what I’m sayin’” was refreshing.
It's sad that I was almost waiting to hear those words lol. They are used way too much, but I'm guilty of saying "like" a lot 💀😂
I don’t think it’s fair to make that comparison to be honest. I am fully certain that we have a lot of kids and teenagers now who are just as, if not, more eloquent than the ones in this video. You can’t compare just some of the worst kids you’ve met in real life with these handpicked interviewees (clips that are edited for better flow btw) and just assume that a whole generation is worse than the other. Not to mention the children and teenagers nowadays are fighting against BILLION dollar companies that are fighting for their attention and energy, puttinf all their resources into ensuring their platforms are as addicting as possible. That affects children’s attention span, interest in other matters and it might even affect literacy. These problems are not the fault of the 8 or 13 year olds who just want to play Fornite. Much larger forces are at play here and you can’t just ignore that.
How well spoken these young people are! So different from today.
That’s what happens when the state removes all discipline from schools and homes. What we are witnessing now and have been for the last twenty years is a failed system where children have too much power over parents and over what they do. They choose to shun education and emerge into a world where all they can do to forge an existence is smash bus shelters at 12 and sell cocaine at 14. Frankly, the results of New Labours education, education, education speech.
Dam some of the modern world.
Before asses such as boris Johnston existed
Better times back then.
You can tell by their accents though that they were all posh kids (except for one maybe). Not exactly representative of the general population.
These kids have relaxing, soothing voices.They were do right in their predictions about CO2 omissions😰
I'm amazed at their level of maturity and intelligence for such a young age.
What happened!!!!
Those kids are really mature and make sense when they speak, it's like talking to adults with young voices
@@madisntit6547 Yeah I just saw that lol
Adults are not "really mature" and they do not "make sense when they speak". I cannot find a single one does.
That’s what a decent education does. Too bad comprehensives were introduced and the lowest common denominator is catered to
They talk like that because they aren't encouraged to have normal childhoods like the working class children, its all elocution and study.
These middle class kids are groomed to achieve status in politics or Science, to lead and improve our futures.
They attend boarding schools where discipline is strict until they come of age.
Believe me, the Victorian 'children should be seen and not heard' attitude, is still very much alive amongst the upper classes in Britain today.
@@Toastrackman Wow, this is really interesting, seriously I'm not kidding. I didn't know that about those tiers in Britain. So they're like wealthy kids?
Wow these children are so articulate and well spoken. How accurate their predictions were and many of them have sadly turned out to be true xx
Not nuclear war, which seemed to be their main focus.
Why finish the sentence with two kisses?
@@westaussie965 Some British people put 'x's at the ends of their sentences regardless. It doesn't mean anything really.
@@thefifthdoctor9300 I take it to mean 'best wishes'.
They all look so well mannered and mature and they know what they're up to. It's rare to find kids like this these days. They would surely light up the world.
you’re so delusional my god, if you interview extremely posh kids with very rich parents, shocker, they’ll be well spoken 😱😱 that would be the same today if you interviewed kids from eton
Big Time tbh most kids today are lost cause extremely weird in a very cringing way and extremely narcissistic and entitled
No, these days these kids wouldn’t get heard cause critical thinking and realistic viewpoints are out the window.
@@AmyMichelleMosier exactly I agree 💯 percent because everyone is so super sensitive about everything nowadays
"They would surely light up the world."
The kids: "So, yeah. I imagine we'll die in a fiery explosion."
2:36. Right on spot, little lady. l hope you're still among us to see you did predict the future.
The parents of these children had themselves been children during WWII, which had ended just over 20 years before this video was made, so the kids would have been echoing the preoccupations of the adults around them - right in the middle of the Cold War. At the same time, some of them might have been reading science-fiction.
I remember reading articles and stories with the same kind of speculation when I was in my early teens (mid-1970s). Some were rather dark projections, others quite idealistic. Some I didn’t really believe turned out to be true, like credit cards and laptop computers; others, which sounded possible, still haven’t happened, or at least not as severely as described - yet - such as having to wear gas masks because of pollution in large cities, or actually colonising the Moon. It’s quite interesting to read old sci-fi stories set in a future that is now past - and different from the stories.
And yes, European kids are encouraged to read and to fantasise and reflect about what they read.
In 1966 I was an American sixth grader and in 2023 I am approaching my 70th birthday. Our generation was concerned about nuclear war. Today's kids are convinced they will be done in by global climate change. Both generations pessimistic but for different reasons. I'm still far more concerned about nuclear conflict or accidental use of nuclear weapons than climate change which I don't consider a genuine problem.
Polution is really bad sometimes in some cities already.
Wow! Incredible how these kids could see what was coming - they were very astute observers & therefore many of their predictions are what we’re actually dealing with in today’s world!
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No wonder that contraception and abortion were have become the choices of the British people. Fear of the future was rampant.
they were mostly just repeating what was fed to them via govmts and news, same as today. exact same!
It was incredible to hear children speak so eloquently and NOT use the words “so” and “like” all the time.
Yeah, like, you're so right there buddy!
so… unlike this?
i know right like it's incredible so like yeah
“Literally” another one!
That's more due to their upbringing and social class.
These kids are smarter than most American college students these days.