Arthur C. Clarke died on 19 March 2008, he saw his prediction become a reality

@Kwanzol

3 жыл бұрын

@@SFG92K how... is it scary?

@kalkinzinsunpraiser1548

3 жыл бұрын

@@SFG92K How do i do it ?....oh yeah ! Report !

@DASPRiD

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he lived through about 20 years of it ;)

@ezramantini8078

3 жыл бұрын

Can I Get Subs? DUDE!! you know that the technology we have in today’s world seems like magic those who came centuries before us. Author.C. Clarke said that “as technology advances it will become indistinguishable from magic.”

@NotRovb_

3 жыл бұрын

Ye he saw the iPhone a year before he died And no i wont sub

Little did he know that I would be watching him 46 years later on a computer that can fit in my pocket.

@traktor321

3 жыл бұрын

Little do we now too. Holograms and implants are just a matter of time. We ll probably have a PC in our head that u ll control just by thinking...oh shit wait a minute...

@keithcoen7667

3 жыл бұрын

@@traktor321 wouldn’t recommend getting that shit when it comes out. All the elites want is control and this is the perfect way for them

@RANDOMGUY-yz3nk

3 жыл бұрын

@@keithcoen7667 do the elites drink blood asell

@keithcoen7667

3 жыл бұрын

@@RANDOMGUY-yz3nk adrenachrome

@dylantryalot6187

3 жыл бұрын

@@traktor321 yes brains are definitely computers and if you r/woooosh me you are stupid

The man explained future internet like social media, online shopping, etc nearly 20 years before its existence. I'm so glad he lived to 2008 to see his words come true.

@sgtcreasegrease

3 ай бұрын

There were interconnected networks back then. Mainly arpanet. Used to connect universities mainly.

@nick56677

3 ай бұрын

@@sgtcreasegrease There was also the Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) and UseNet that started in the early 80s. Some still exist to this day. The coolest thing ever was replying to a UseNet comment from 1984, and the OP replied 36 years later!

@vincentkr

3 ай бұрын

not really weird as the whole idea already existed for years before this came out. you can read it in 1969 already. read the first rfc.

@scarygary-qq1pj

2 ай бұрын

​@@vincentkrYet there was no prediction that people would still be writing without using capital letters.😱🙀

@_Anna_Nass_

2 ай бұрын

ARPANET (the first workable prototype of the internet) delivered its first message on October 29, 1969, from one computer located at the University of California Los Angeles to another at Stanford.

I expected to laugh at how outdated this is. Instead im utterly shocked by how accurate he was and even how keen the reporter was to ask about a dependant society

@jedijones

Ай бұрын

The reporter already saw people wasting away watching Gilligan’s Island and The Brady Bunch so it wasn’t that much of a stretch.

@paulo0651

29 күн бұрын

​@@jedijones What is that? Can you explain?

@hwamez1651

28 күн бұрын

@@paulo0651television

@tonya2524

26 күн бұрын

@@jedijonesSpot on ! - just sit right and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip…

@robincharles7057

24 күн бұрын

​@@paulo0651Gilligan's island and the Brady bunch were tv shows, tho I don't know much about them beside that.

And now it fits in your pocket.

@lumi5056

5 жыл бұрын

Even inside your brain Thx for the likes

@Xx32123

5 жыл бұрын

An soon it will control us

@shadowkillz9606

5 жыл бұрын

@@Xx32123 Literally, not yet. But it has controlled some people's behavior, habits, etc...

@Erksah68

5 жыл бұрын

@@lumi5056 no.

@aname6104

5 жыл бұрын

Crystalanims and soon it will kill us

This was 44 years ago Now imagine 2062

@nine2380

5 жыл бұрын

Theoretical Physics A more expensive IPhone

@chupacabrathealien8307

5 жыл бұрын

Elon Musk will prophesy the future.

@sirmonkey3215

5 жыл бұрын

The google lenses.. is one step..

@melissataylor8106

5 жыл бұрын

Theoretical Physics 😨

@ngdukic

5 жыл бұрын

If we make it that far. It's looking doubtful at the moment.

"Everything that human can imagine is a possiblity in reality" The greatman.

@Ronald3Haney

Ай бұрын

Pablo Picasso

@MsDudette21

24 күн бұрын

except a god lol

@weirdguylol

22 күн бұрын

​@@MsDudette21Thats also a possibility

@strengthandbulkfitness5586

13 күн бұрын

Back in the 1970s, we thought that. Now we know there are limits when it comes to technology. Computers, cameras, TVs, batteries, cars, aviation and space travel have leveled off in technology.

@thornbottle

21 сағат бұрын

this is true, look at all the sci-fi things in star trek, most of them are in some shape or form a reality. We have talking computers, autonomous vehicles, even 3d printers that can print food, a basic form of replicator.

who else got this randomly recommended 10 years later? edit: where the likes cone from

@nawfalshafiu5694

Ай бұрын

Dude me, like rn

@Bloxxer0908

Ай бұрын

Me

@mjamirault7209

Ай бұрын

I did as well

@mleise8292

Ай бұрын

Yeah what the heck.

@musicmachine2395

Ай бұрын

I was scrolling, trying to look for this comment haha

"A console with which he can talk to his friendly local computer" baby internet

@sauercrowder

4 жыл бұрын

Not really. He is talking about mainframes and consoles. It's more like connecting a bunch of monitors/keyboard/mice to the same computer. But, that obviously grew into networks and later internet, so

@AdvancePlays

4 жыл бұрын

@@sauercrowder Right, so even this guy in his prescience isn't actually going far enough!

@sauercrowder

4 жыл бұрын

@@AdvancePlays Exactly. He predicted maybe 10 years in the future, thinking it would take 30. Beyond his wildest dreams

@che3se1495

4 жыл бұрын

@@sauercrowder Kinda like cloud computing... Crazy.

@sauercrowder

4 жыл бұрын

@@che3se1495 or, you know, like a mainframe

Sees little kid Realizing he’s now as old as his dad *Realizing 2001 was 19 years ago*

@nlksh

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao time flies lol

@TheTruthKiwi

4 жыл бұрын

Time is relentless

@Freakybananayo

4 жыл бұрын

The kid is approaching pensioner age

@Mr.Obongo

4 жыл бұрын

We don’t live very long at all :(

@PepRex

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mr.Obongo No we don't

Arthur C. Clarke was a brilliant visionary. The author of "2001: A Space Odyssey". He predicted telecommunication satellites in the 50's.

@davidtomlinson6138

Ай бұрын

And I predict, we ll be able to bend space/ time and control gravity and transverse the universe in an instant ! and in 100 yrs England will be a Muslim state - I know it, its coming - mark my words. Be blood on the streets first , just as Enoch Powel fore saw. MARK MY WORDS ! MARK MY WORDS ! You've all been warned !! ⚠️ The 3rd anti- christ ( ISLAM) is coming 🤬😡.GOD HELP US ALL ✝️

@SuperMasif

Ай бұрын

❤

@warriorsfield

19 күн бұрын

In 2040 people have own space ship! And children will be inventors What u say.

Wow this conversation was word-for-word exactly what happened. Talk about vision...

He should’ve replied: ‘That’s amazing. You really think we’ll be able to make desks that big one day?’

@theadtheogrekiller5629

4 жыл бұрын

Sam Townsend found the dad

@user-ql9cc9hg4e

4 жыл бұрын

@@theadtheogrekiller5629 found ur mom

@Natashahoneypot

4 жыл бұрын

My kind of humour 😁😁

@snape539

4 жыл бұрын

Or maybe... "Amazing! But have you tried DMT?"

@Vic_Lit344

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao

2020: Going to school while in bed

@cinnamonbun1361

3 жыл бұрын

Jokes on you, us Europeans have to suffer and go back to work/school.

@marvinavelar6746

3 жыл бұрын

@@cinnamonbun1361 so do people in the us

@asiandod325

3 жыл бұрын

@@cinnamonbun1361 Some people who are too weak to attend school can do so through computers.

@SegularRpork

3 жыл бұрын

@@marvinavelar6746do you mean "so do we" not "so do in us" or whatever

@konungr2995

3 жыл бұрын

2060: everyone dead

brother predicted work from home nearly half a century in advanced.

Rarely does someone so accurately summarize such detailed aspects of the future …

@peterrose5373

20 күн бұрын

You should track down a short story called _A Logic Named Joe_ from 1946.

"One day a computer will fall onto someone's nose because they're watching this interview at half past three in the morning."

@jasonchristiansen9063

3 жыл бұрын

Wrong........ you are so wrong. Its 20 min of 3.

@henryocean1908

3 жыл бұрын

That would've really hurt in 1974.

@florad629

3 жыл бұрын

Under-rated comment 😁👏

@lewismatthews4247

3 жыл бұрын

Literally what I am doing at 3:13am

@lj7169

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

"In 2001, your son will post a comment and people will like it" - Clark

@r.e.mbeauty

4 жыл бұрын

@Stephan Kargel myspace, lol

@GlitchClick

4 жыл бұрын

I didn’t say that

@santiagohorianski7908

4 жыл бұрын

@Stephan Kargel fb was invented 2 and a half to 3 years later, wtf are you talking about?

@stadesportsnews3202

4 жыл бұрын

@Stephan Kargel what are you talking about?

@davela79

4 жыл бұрын

Or he'll be a "first" troll

"He'll take it as much for granted as we take the telephone". . . Could never have imagined it back then, but now, the 'desk sized computer' actually is the telephone.

I'm impressed by the accuracy of the predictions, and I'm even more impressed by the question asked @ 0:49 where he actually happens to address the biggest issue we have with the dependence on today's information technology. Such an insightful interview.

@teleriferchnyfain

Ай бұрын

It is Arthur C Clarke after all….

@hiwall4883

Ай бұрын

Journalists were good in those days, did their research, knew their jobs, informed the people of the true facts, none of our Piers Morgan's or Dan Wootons tabloid Journalists back then. Sad.

@teleriferchnyfain

Ай бұрын

@@hiwall4883 The thing is, there were bad journalists back in the day - but there were a lot more good ones than now.

@peterrose5373

20 күн бұрын

I don't think the problem is that we're so dependent on it, the problem is that we suck at managing it.

He passed in 2008. RIP. I hope he was able to tell people, “told you so!”

@PlasmaStrider

4 жыл бұрын

Turtle3000 I need a weapon

@bdogman

4 жыл бұрын

@@PlasmaStrider Wingman here

@FlashySupremeGaming

4 жыл бұрын

PlasmaStrider 7777 Mozambique here

@ImWithStupid230

4 жыл бұрын

PlasmaStrider 7777 P2020 here (Got em Titanfall fans)

@nodinitiative

4 жыл бұрын

I think he must have said it between 1997/98-2002.

“Could we become a computer dependent society?” Wow that guy got it spot on...

@steelbear2063

4 жыл бұрын

Just like we got coal dependent society. Or horses dependent society. Shit's useful

@freddy7304

4 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelGarrity computers havent replace faced to face interactions either, thats a tired argument.

@phynchen8139

4 жыл бұрын

Our society was and will always be dependant on something. That we depend on computers now isn’t something negative. It’s just how it is and like everything it has it’s downsides but the upsides outweigh all flaws.

@alexx7848

4 жыл бұрын

he jinxed it

@WolfAssasin34

4 жыл бұрын

Kevin Nguyen yeah no shit teachers and students are using computers instead of doing face to face interactions. We’re in a pandemic.

The Dad's question was so simple and yet Arthur couldn't even give him a straight answer because Arthur already knew the Dad was spot on! YES!! EVERYBODY has a computer with them at all times. It is a part of the way society is today sadly.

@HANKSANDY69420

5 күн бұрын

*For better and for worse.*

Wow!!! This man really saw the future with computers.

"A man can be anywhere on earth and still do his business" Me: Watching this video while on the toilet.

@7z0.7

4 жыл бұрын

Damn boy not like that 😂😂😂😂

@adrianaleman937

4 жыл бұрын

When you said "on the toilet".... I felt that

@nvwest

4 жыл бұрын

Also on the toilet atm 😂

@Jako1987

4 жыл бұрын

You can even do business while doing business!

@mrdankdoom6452

4 жыл бұрын

Free same here

Little did he know, little Timmy will get this video as a recommendation by the algorithm on his desktop computer.

@mrartdeco

4 жыл бұрын

upvote masterus so true LOL

@UnleashedDan

4 жыл бұрын

Did that actually happen? I'd love to see his reaction

@SnoutBaron

4 жыл бұрын

Wait until they fit computers in your hand.

@alphabroncotwozero392

4 жыл бұрын

Little Timmy's in his 50s

@nintentap2ndaccount559

4 жыл бұрын

Unleashed apparently died in 2008

He said this 50 years ago and today we are actually living it.🙏🙏🙏

@BrickTextures-hm1uy

Ай бұрын

We were living it 20+ years ago. How old are you?

@schmingbeefin4473

Ай бұрын

​@@BrickTextures-hm1uy Beat me to it, we're past this point now.

It is 2024. I am from the UK. I have been living between Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Philippines for 9 years. I am Web developer living life as a 'digital nomad'. Sir Clarke was truely a visionary.

@Halcon_Sierreno

Ай бұрын

Why don't you just settle down?

@masti733

Ай бұрын

@@Halcon_Sierreno it's a good question! I don't have am answer. Ha!

@Halcon_Sierreno

Ай бұрын

@@masti733 So you're just going to keep moving forever?

@masti733

Ай бұрын

@Halcon_Sierreno well, most of that 9 years has been in Thailand. Phuket is a nice place to live!

@wahtx7717

4 күн бұрын

@@Halcon_Sierreno There are many factors that we are probably not aware of

This guy: "Hey you wanna know EXACTLY what the future is going to be like?"

@marioboyd557

4 жыл бұрын

Living in quarantine

@bradical333

4 жыл бұрын

It’s creepy how accurate this is

@therelaxcentral

3 жыл бұрын

Nikola Tesla predicted smartphones in 1926.

@thunderbird1921

3 жыл бұрын

He was 100% spot on correct! Imagine what this older fellow would think of a smartphone. It went from desk size to mere handheld size!

he's like a time traveler trying not to give away everything of the future

@aryashah1890

4 жыл бұрын

This made me laugh so hard

@sasssf1668

4 жыл бұрын

yes

@themantheledge

4 жыл бұрын

He speaks as if he knows something, strange

@Shadow-rp2nz

4 жыл бұрын

Stop just stop it

@marioparaschiv1759

4 жыл бұрын

I've just watched the Netflix series Dark. Gtfo. Now! I want to sleep tonight!

I love how he hesitates a bit. It strikes me as him clearly having a visionary insight of what will be, but at the same time not wanting it to sound too farfetched. Of course, everything he described would become reality and so much more.

this man predicted everything correctly from computers at home for accesing information and logging into your bank over the internet, to work from home lifestyles and instant communication

@dsquared341

Ай бұрын

I don’t think bank logins for customers were a thing yet in 2001, but I get the overall point he was making.

"One day, computer will fit on a desk" Little did they know that in 2020, schools are fit in computers

@peas1171

4 жыл бұрын

GG

@holliebrooke7327

4 жыл бұрын

_this comment_

@ahnafjawad416

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@shinjukim8576

4 жыл бұрын

Bruh, that’s genius

@dishabalaji3088

4 жыл бұрын

TRUTH

His bank statements, theater reservations, and arguing with people he’ll never meet over pointless crap, and memes.

@eyeheartsushi2212

4 жыл бұрын

elmagnificodep hahaha

@autumn_breeze616

4 жыл бұрын

All the important stuff

@thememe986

4 жыл бұрын

The internet has never been summed up better lol

@Tekkenandgaming

4 жыл бұрын

elmagnificodep i hate memes i don’t think they are funny, and i don’t get why people are so Obsessed with it it’s just stupid

@ebrahimmunsif

4 жыл бұрын

The two kittens Entertainment inc Clearly u don’t know about reddit

I'm glad this man got to see his prediction come true before his passing in 2008. He even got to see the first iPhone!

Watching this on my mini computer in my hand , all I can say that this aged quite well !

“he’ll take it as much for granted as we take the telephone” kinda deep.

@hubguy

4 жыл бұрын

Then we go full circle and take our smartphones for granted. Both a phone and computer at the same time

@dinkyvirgin3656

4 жыл бұрын

Y Tho what’s a telephone

@bazzle_brush

4 жыл бұрын

what's the next big thing we'll take for granted?

@Mrbunss

4 жыл бұрын

Barry Richards space cruises around the galaxy

@blackmage1276

4 жыл бұрын

@@dinkyvirgin3656 its sounds crazy, but before we had iPhones, telephones where big hunky machines that where only used to call people. Sounds crazy! And it wasn't mobile! Imagine living in a world with that

Little jimmy was smiling because he was gonna meet the local singles in his area a lot faster

@steveetienne

5 жыл бұрын

Welsh Simon 'hey just what you see pal!' 'Der uzi 9mm'

@arranhc

5 жыл бұрын

Underrated

@matthewwoodcock

5 жыл бұрын

Boombox 5328 😂

@garyhoffmann1615

5 жыл бұрын

and the not so singles.

@wholelottateo

5 жыл бұрын

Goat comment

Clarke was known in the 40's for predicting that one day we would have artificial satellites in orbit that we would use for weather forecasting, communication, spying, etc. And he wrote _2001: A Space Odyssey._ So this is just another example of what a visionary he truly was.

@jedijones

Ай бұрын

We haven’t gotten to the point where computers try to kill us yet but I’m sure it’s coming.

This has got to be the most spot on prediction from this time period I've ever seen. HE LITERALLY GOT EVERYTHING RIGHT.

Some people thought we would have flying cars, but this guy is thinking realistically.

@richtigmann1

3 жыл бұрын

agreed

@pogimtz9910

3 жыл бұрын

Well, if whoever is ruling the world would want you to have a flying car right now, you would have one. We're sending spacecrafts to the space and we cannot build flying cars?

@justusschoenmakers8987

3 жыл бұрын

@@pogimtz9910 there are flying cars tho but nobody uses them

@samc7381

3 жыл бұрын

Flying cars are highly unrealistic. You know how dangerous that can be?

@faridvelazquez8465

3 жыл бұрын

@@samc7381 very true. I recommend the video that Joe Rogan has on his podcast

"One day a computer will fit on a desk" Me: * watches video from a computer that fits in the palm of my hand *

@MartinvonLowis

4 жыл бұрын

his prediction was for 2001. Smartphones weren't there yet, so this prediction is really astonishing

@test-em9ge

4 жыл бұрын

So can your palm computer can play GTA 5 If it isn't it not a computer It's a damn phone and for a reason it's called phone

@Prodzick

4 жыл бұрын

​@@MartinvonLowis The Nokia 9000 had a weight of half a kilo but it included telephone, fax, email and internet connections it sounds like you had smarphone before 1996 unless you mean fully tactile the revolution started with the IBM Simon in 1994 and still evolve today with bending display.

@kebap6797

4 жыл бұрын

@@test-em9ge We dont judge what a computer is by looking if it can play GTA 5 "A mobile device (or handheld computer) is a computer small enough to hold and operate in the hand." Straight outta wikipedia

@lad8739

4 жыл бұрын

@@test-em9ge computers couldn't play gta for a long time they could only do very simple things saying something isnt a computer because it cant play GTA is ridiculous you obviously dont know what a computer is 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

It’s interesting how he predicted talking to a main frame, which we did back in 70’s but now we have the cloud.

One mindblowing thing is: We carry around little computers (smartphones) with us every day which are exponentially more capable than the computers shown in this clip

@yrysroda8592

5 ай бұрын

I'm not an expert but my friend (aerospace engineer) is. He told me that a Nokia 3310 has more computing power than they used to put man on the moon!

@MarcinKralka

4 ай бұрын

I mean sure, they are much more powerful, but it's 2023 and I still can't do half of things on my phone that I do on a computer without headache. Multitasking is especially bad, just trying to read a book and use a dictionary at the same time is a pain.

@steveswoodworking2504

Ай бұрын

Your phone is insanely more powerful than a supercomputer was. I've sat on a Cray computer (they have a ring seat around it). One article says your phone is about 5000 times faster than the Cray 2 from the 80's. The Apollo 11 guidance computer was 12.3K FLOPS, and the Cray 2 was 1.9 GigaFlops. Another place says the PS4 gpu is 4.2 teraflops. That's pretty wild.

@ernestkhalimov9368

6 күн бұрын

​@@yrysroda8592he's right that nasa com. Was potatoes

It’s crazy how some people are watching this video with a small but powerful device that fits in their hand.

@Rottypops

3 жыл бұрын

And it runs all day long on a 3 volt battery

@themooncow2644

3 жыл бұрын

A small AND more powerfull device than the one shown in the video

@sukhvirsinghmercury8558

3 жыл бұрын

it is called smartphone😘

@sean5028

3 жыл бұрын

@@themooncow2644 Tens of thousands of times more powerful

@themooncow2644

3 жыл бұрын

@@sean5028 even a clock is ten times more powerful than this

this guy died 2008, so he was able to see his prediction come true! Edit: 17k likes? y'all crazy

@BigJunnySoprano69

3 жыл бұрын

Which guy? The dad, the old fella or the kid?

@sbj4110

3 жыл бұрын

No Productions rlly? Dammm

@sorianomayflor

3 жыл бұрын

No Productions nah, the kid didnt die

@korewatori

3 жыл бұрын

@@sorianomayflor yooo a recent comment

@RonaldoGoat12327

3 жыл бұрын

@@korewatori another recent comment

One of the few predictions from the past that actually came true. Erie how spot on it was 😂.

And yet, who would go back to the days we had in the '70's in a heartbeat if they could, raise your hand 🙋

@adolfgerhardhermann5952

Ай бұрын

Talk to the hand!

@christianpalmer

Ай бұрын

I'd go back to mid forties to grow up and live back then

@blessanabey5575

Ай бұрын

I will go way before that like BC or something just to see how everything was and how it progressed.

now jonathan is in his 50s, not knowing that this video exists on youtube

@mustang8206

4 жыл бұрын

40s

@dashl8880

4 жыл бұрын

@@mustang8206 He looks about 5 years old. Which would put his birth in 1969. 2020 - 1969 = 51

@thomaspayne6866

4 жыл бұрын

ImABigBoi69 -- I just saw him too

@danielmann5427

4 жыл бұрын

@@dashl8880 Jonathan and i about the same age 50's

@sundigest1121

4 жыл бұрын

@@mustang8206 You really think this kid is 4 years old or younger?

Now Jonathan is addicted to World of Warcraft.

@Jono1982

3 жыл бұрын

and poopsocks

@mattschluter8108

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jono1982 yum

@jesbinjain2085

3 жыл бұрын

Jonathan is actually a lawyer in Chicago! sadly, he gave up computers for law

@moviesandvlogs6509

3 жыл бұрын

🤣

@rjjcms1

3 жыл бұрын

He lost his shirt to online gambling and shuffles around hostels drinking fortified lager.

At this point in time im working at home and clicked this video, Im amazed by how Arthur was so visionary

And now it fits on my palm😳😊

*“Because in the future, we will have bigger desks”*

@Sheffieldisred

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@praveen3862

3 жыл бұрын

Ancient problem requires modern solutions

@StoopsyDaisy

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yes of course! I enjoy this solution

@siemenpersyn4451

3 жыл бұрын

Legend

@infinity2355

3 жыл бұрын

😂

Kinda crazy to think how many people would have been like "nah, no way"

@kattypig58

4 жыл бұрын

I doubt it, they wouldn’t have said it as a wild prediction, they said it because they were already working on it and knew it was possible

@harbingerofepiphany3155

4 жыл бұрын

It would have been even more prophetic if he would have said that they would mostly be used to perpetuate pornography' conspiracies' Progressive Propaganda' & espouse Militant Secularism to the point of nauseam" Where if you want any grain of decency or truth you will have to fact check the supposed fact checkers or just go to your local library and knock the dust of an old Book.

@RD-mp8bm

4 жыл бұрын

@Forrest Mcgee hallelujah

@alexsbikesandmotors

4 жыл бұрын

Not really. They already had compact computers even in these days. I have an atari 2600 from 1976. It easily fits on a desk and was considered a powerful computer system back then.

@jemzomaclain

4 жыл бұрын

@@alexsbikesandmotors but in the video he's talking about technology capable of the same things as that entire room-wide computer

This guy was a true visionary

*For those not old enough to remember, the first desk top computer that wasn't a kit or a prototype was the Xerox Alto released in early 1973, a year before this video was made. The ACTUAL prediction was what Clarke speculated the computer could do. When they came out in the 70's, we were like cool, but what on earth could you possibly use it for? We had no idea, but Clarke did. That's the real and far more impressive prediction.*

Little do we know, Jonathan could’ve been one of the people who’d watched this video, right now!

@superiorghost2682

4 жыл бұрын

@@ChristianBaleNutjob stfu

@plomeatoad

4 жыл бұрын

@@ChristianBaleNutjob okay.

@Catnippy

4 жыл бұрын

he's middle aged by now, doubt he's checking youtube recommended lol

@kreuzritter4898

4 жыл бұрын

bro, he would be like beetween 50 or 60 now

@milang393

4 жыл бұрын

@@kreuzritter4898 no he is 46

My high school business teacher said ‘in a few years instead of typewriters in front of you you’ll all have computers.” That was 1979 and we all thought he was nuts. .

@arbor8445

3 жыл бұрын

Damn.

@thebondofunity

3 жыл бұрын

That's amazing. We are constantly taking our current technology for granted.

@BODUKE3201

3 жыл бұрын

I remember playing on a computer in nursery school in 1985.

@itsyoboiivan3255

3 жыл бұрын

Who's nuts now?

@ohafalanoldumyaniii5092

3 жыл бұрын

Respect to the teacher.

One day a desk will fit on a computer. I'm calling it right now.

@peterdarr383

27 күн бұрын

One day a computer will be implanted inside your brain

Absolutely spot on insights 50 years ago. We have the smartphone today..in 50 years time in 2074, I wonder what will be in place ?

I can’t tell if the kid’s actually interested in what he’s hearing or he’s just spacing tf out

@Doubel

3 жыл бұрын

I thought it was pretty obvious that it’s the latter

@Leszczuk23

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@_shark

3 жыл бұрын

mad ass *to

@fizzywizzylemonsqueezy1774

3 жыл бұрын

@@_shark can we get claps for this dude👏👏👏👏👏

@elizabethpatrick2608

3 жыл бұрын

Why’s that me tho- 💀👺

**looks at the size of phone** **looks at the size of desk** he’s right, that could fit

@Starlightbooper

4 жыл бұрын

No way! The desk needs to be smaller

@kezzawozza

4 жыл бұрын

What are you doing here you little rascal? Swept up by the algorithm too it would seem

@geekysnak5436

4 жыл бұрын

He said 2001 tho,if he was talking about 2020 he would've obviously said that it would fit in your pocket.

@PlyrHuman

4 жыл бұрын

If he had said 2069 It would fit up your ass

@yusufterminator2676

4 жыл бұрын

I like how no one acknowledged that you’re a youtuber

The question is... who are we NOT paying attention to now, yet with such foresight they are telling us what will be?

I just finished watching the replay of Sarah’s morning stream. Thank you 🙏🏽

Crazy how that little kid on this video is now almost the same age as the old man in this video.

@Dave-ks9fi

4 жыл бұрын

And probably working from home using a desk computer thinking about that guy.

@swallowedinthesea11

4 жыл бұрын

That kid must be 55 years old now! It's bittersweet.

@ssj2camaro21

4 жыл бұрын

@One Billion Caring Mums lol

@22minecraftguy

4 жыл бұрын

@One Billion Caring Mums I think you may be dumb

@bulk_manifesto3624

4 жыл бұрын

Kid was probably 10 so today maybe he's age 60 now

Finally a prediction that was actually 100% accurate, no exaggeration/analogies required.

@Robert-cu9bm

4 жыл бұрын

They missed the main use, pornhub

@JustN3ptune

4 жыл бұрын

Robert it wasn’t a thing or never thought of probably actually nvm it was but it wasn’t a thing

@mathematics5573

4 жыл бұрын

Arthur C Clarke was a physicist and mathematician and a science fiction writer

@ericbartha6313

4 жыл бұрын

It actually is not though. I'm nitpicking but he said we will have a console in our homes that allow you to talk to your local computer. He didn't realize how small and powerful we would be able to make computing. He thought the brain would still be a big machine taking up the floor of a library or university.

@da_pikmin_coder8367

4 жыл бұрын

@@ericbartha6313 Well I mean this contradicts my "no exaggeration/analogies required", but internet servers could be seen as a computer our desk consoles communicate with.

Back in the day, school teachers would say, "Learn your math facts. You aren't going to be walking around with a calculator in your pocket." Well, teachers were right in that we should all learn our math facts, but wrong about carrying a calculator in our pocket. If we knew then the technology and smart phones of today, we'd be blown away. In the video, the guy was talking about having a dumb monitor on a desk, connected to a mainframe. He didn't realize we would have an actual stand alone computer on our desk, as well as internet, and no need to connect directly to a mainframe.

He didn’t dream big enough. I watched this on a computer far more powerful than the one in that room, with an integrated screen, small enough to fit in my pocket, while sitting on the toilet.

"will take it as much for granted as the telephone" Plot twist: The computer *IS* the telephone

@skyscall

4 жыл бұрын

Charles Reinmuth Technically speaking our smartphones _are_ miniature computers, so that's right!

@Prodzick

4 жыл бұрын

What's a computer :b

@CigaretteCrayon

4 жыл бұрын

I clicked on this thinking it would be a George Gilder video.

@battleskorpionYT

4 жыл бұрын

@Shane McKenzie that computer in the video could do less than your phone. You're phone is a computer, even if we don't call it one, it literally is.

@aqekr5607

4 жыл бұрын

@Shane McKenzie Nah. It's just that ignorant people think only a PC is a computer. Computer is just the name for a wide range of varying devices that all have the ability to store and process data.

I don't believe this. This guy is talking science fiction.

@cos5193

3 жыл бұрын

What do you mean? Of course computers will fit on desks. I mean have you seen how big we can make desks?

@Dremag_Gaming

3 жыл бұрын

Right? Plus make it too small and you might lose it somewhere. 😁

@Dragonspirit223

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dremag_Gaming Imagine losing a computer in your home, impossible.

@whichsherice

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dragonspirit223 you ever lose your keys or remote?

@dhruvrai2170

3 жыл бұрын

Why would we need a computer on our desk? This guy is unbelievable. This thing doesn't make sense at all

"One day you would be replaced by a Software engineer named Devin , who would do everything himself" I would be back after 10 years

He nailed it. And 20 years after that we we'll be carrying them with us everywhere we go and staring at them all day like hypnotized zombies.

@jedijones

Ай бұрын

He would’ve said that but the reporter didn’t ask him to look that far ahead.

Who else is watching this from a computer that fits into a pocket?

@zamond258

3 жыл бұрын

@@juliaawad9552 A smartphone or tablet/ipad is considered a computer. They are built on the same components in a different form factor- CPU, ram, GPU

@evabugiugi

3 жыл бұрын

Julia Awad Friend, a phone is a type of computer device. Having a keyboard and a big screen isn’t what makes something a computer.

@farisalhajjar4640

3 жыл бұрын

Nope

@javar_inq

3 жыл бұрын

Well I got it linked to my tv so I guess

@trojanthedog

3 жыл бұрын

I am watching on a Vidro-Crankulator 3800-D. That's right, the D series. It's the size of a large commercial refrigerator and YOU and I know it's the smallest private computator and videocaster ever invented. So stop supporting this rediculous science fiction nonsense! Computer in your pocket indeed! Are you on drugs you hippie?

The best thing is Arthur C. Clarke lived well into the 2000's, and lived to see his own words come true :)

@Adnan-vh1js

4 жыл бұрын

Millions of families suffer every year.

@JohnDoe-pz4nk

4 жыл бұрын

Béarnaise sauce

@gianglai6242

4 жыл бұрын

MICHAEL!

@starlightpastel279

4 жыл бұрын

this reply section has some of the shallowest attempts at humor i have ever seen

@bevfds7098

4 жыл бұрын

Aiden Akeson Isn’t it so great?

How positive he describes it and how negative it became with Smartphoes and all other sedating devices.

You could logically argue that Arthur C. Clarke had already lived the future and had returned to the past in a time machine. He was spot on!

Plot twist: The old man is actually the kid but from the future explaining computers to his dad.

@internetpolice6143

5 жыл бұрын

SnakeJaxon my brain exploded

@gebana

5 жыл бұрын

you want to watch: time masters.

@williamseipp9691

5 жыл бұрын

LOL

@sakatababa

5 жыл бұрын

the old man is arthur c clarke. the guy that wrote 2001: odyssey in space before we went to space. that is the power of science. no need for timetravel or such nonsense when we have intelligent brains to predict the future. too bad intelligence seems rare in humans these days...

@rickyhyppa7960

5 жыл бұрын

Based on his pupil dialation and speech patterns, i assumed the old man was just another cybernetic organism. Cyberdine systems, model 101 living human tissue over metal endoskeleton.

This guy wasn’t predicting phones, he was predicting computers in 2001, he’s spot on.

@CrimsonKaia

3 жыл бұрын

yes

@jdfleo8140

3 жыл бұрын

He was only off by nearly 20 years...by 1980 everything he predicted was already a fact.

@estebanquito356

3 жыл бұрын

I like how specifically he mentioned 2001. Which was for me the golden era of the personal computers before the smartphone took over

@kademcarthur5362

3 жыл бұрын

Well, modern day smart phones are technically computers.

@xaverlustig3581

3 жыл бұрын

@@jdfleo8140 Not really. Home computers were just coming around by 1980, but you couldn't handle your bank statements or theatre reservations with them. They were not networked to do so and there was hardly appropriate software available on them. What he describes takes a desktop PC-like computer and internet in the home, which would be 1990s.

We're so mesmerized with our pocket computers ( smartphones) to the extent that most of the time we live in our own,separate, imaginary worlds and in the process we've become alienated from one another. These things are supposed to be our tools but the tools have become our masters.

@briandeeley1599

27 күн бұрын

Exactly.

Arthur C. Clarke. Not a lot of people know this, but the C stands for Computer.

someone needs to find this kid now

@filipalilovic8562

5 жыл бұрын

@@michaelmyers492 what??

@ninjaseals

5 жыл бұрын

Michael Myers 🤔 mmmh... I’m wondering what happened to the Native American when “the beautiful white man” came on his lands... Raped? Mass murdered? Or maybe both?? I dunno maybe u can give the answer to this question too

@ninjaseals

5 жыл бұрын

Michael Myers was it “social progress” back then too, mass murdering people or killing them from the inside, killing their customs, their habits, their culture... and imposing yours it was all “social progress” in your words And after that the Slavery, the Jim Crow laws, the segregation they were all “social progress” I guess

@1HardCoreGaming1

5 жыл бұрын

@@ninjaseals Wtf are you talking about

@ninjaseals

5 жыл бұрын

Belarus-chan what do Muslims have to do with anything??

Interviewer afterwards to his colleagues: "listened to this crazy old dude harping on about..."

@subatomicsegway2360

4 жыл бұрын

He was probably like.. Get a load of this simp

@eh9737

4 жыл бұрын

Subhadip Sengupta I don’t think you understand what simp means...

@potato1341

4 жыл бұрын

E H He 100% doesn't know, he just heard it said a lot and now he says it about everything

@igorsirius9178

4 жыл бұрын

@@eh9737 The Google says "simp" means "a silly or foolish person". Is that what it means? I'm asking because I'm not a native english speaker

@SteveJaws-fv3fk

4 жыл бұрын

Igor Sírius it’s someone who’s unnecessarily nice to girls. Kind of like a white knight.

That's amazing, how much foresight he had. Usually you aren't as forward looking in advanced age. RIP

Today it not only fits on a desk, but on a child's palm, a smartphone

"If our whole life is built around a computer will we become a computer dependent society?" *BOI you have no idea...*

@Menolifee

5 жыл бұрын

its such an eerie question because of how correct it is. computer dependent society and computer dependent people with their social lives revolved around computers and internet. thats hundreds of millions if not billions of people now. and it just keeps evolving, kids are getting into it younger and younger etc. very interesting that they saw the good and the bad of it instantly as soon as this.

@blusuck

5 жыл бұрын

Piker simpson or homachu

@SuperSMT

5 жыл бұрын

But what's wrong with that?

@otapi

5 жыл бұрын

Like "If our whole life is built around a pipe system of clean water will we become a pipe system of clean water dependent society?". Of course yes, as with all good technology starting with the controlled fire.

@carolinanelmida6162

5 жыл бұрын

One day, it's either we are the computers or computers are ruling us

"Will we become a computer dependent society?" LOL

@chillyconmor

4 жыл бұрын

you dont need computers in the fishin life

@ddebenedictis

4 жыл бұрын

Nobody will ever need more than 64k

@eh5048

4 жыл бұрын

What a understatement

@cristianduque2879

4 жыл бұрын

man..., this is exactly what he didn't want us to become let that sink in...

@gabrielolofernes9871

4 жыл бұрын

I am your 1000th like

Now I understand how visionary this man was!

At the time this was filmed, it must have been the most important recording in the world

So my KZread recommendations want me to feel nostalgic now?

@LPPB

5 жыл бұрын

Lol

@thebeststooge

5 жыл бұрын

Better than what it is living in the here and now and they know it.

@constantiniasmith4231

5 жыл бұрын

Current year - 2018 Year uploaded - 2013 Something happned in - 1972

@thebeststooge

5 жыл бұрын

Year upload was Dec 10, 2013 not 2014.

@paranoikoc

5 жыл бұрын

MINE TOO

Back when the world was in black and white.

@dazedoos

3 жыл бұрын

Fr good ol times 😔

@dsi-films1264

3 жыл бұрын

@@Spottedhusky but then god said bet, then we all got tech, and now we can see color like it should have been I just made that right now lmao uh I'm not gonna make it better or change it and just leave it like that xd ahha

@bytetn5856

3 жыл бұрын

@@dsi-films1264 you did good soldier 👌

@jayys5657

3 жыл бұрын

I am done with you guys sorry for whatever the helluva crisis I created in this comment section. Have a great day yall peace✌

@JuicyMilf2.0

3 жыл бұрын

Skinnyboyjan 😐

What a visionary was Mr Clarke!! In 1974 when this was made, even a simple 4 function calculator was not available to Australian students. I bought my first one from a newspaper ad by Texas Instruments ($19.99) in 1976 while doing my HSC (equivalent of UK A-levels). This could do math functions , square root and sin, cos, tan. Prior to that we were using slide rules. The university I attended for visit that year had computer consoles linked to a mainframe but no stand alone computers. People must have thought Mr Clarke was a fantasist for his predictions at that time

He describes it as a console that could connect to "your local friendly computer". His idea was that real computers would always be big, like the one in the video, but that you would only need a real computer for every handful of people, maybe a small neighborhood, town, city, and everyone would have their own personal client that could connect to this host. He didn't realize computers would get small and cheap enough that we would all have our own, but he did realize the network possibilities, and basically described how the Internet works today

@elliott8175

3 ай бұрын

Exactly! Not to criticise the guy, but the title of the video and many of the comments here think that he was saying that a computer would sit on your desk, when he was actually talking about connecting to a mainframe from home. Thinking very much grounded in the time of the 70's where consoles already were almost small enough to fit on a desk.

@ElGrecoOB

2 ай бұрын

Well, consider this: How much of your screen time do you spend without accessing some server over the internet? Yes, your computer is powerful in its own right, but when you think of how much computing is done in giant computing centers/server farms, he is not too far off.

Damn Arthur C. Clarke died in 2008, that means he got to see his prediction come true

@Tech-cy9yo

3 жыл бұрын

😃😃😃😃made my day.

@ruller8901

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome. I am always saddened by great people not living to see their creations or predictions come to reality.

@Patttiat

3 жыл бұрын

and my prediction is that we see soon the WW 3

@Tgrjye

3 жыл бұрын

@@Patttiat ;0

@bojaidin

3 жыл бұрын

@@Patttiat People have been saying that for many, many years. Lol

1974: One day a computer will fit in our desks 2020: One day a computer will fit inside our eyes

@demoniclily1892

4 жыл бұрын

They're working on turning your clothing into a computer as we speak.

@XeoDCaron

4 жыл бұрын

2018: IBM can fit computers inside grains of rice

@ChickentNug

4 жыл бұрын

One day computers will fit in your blood vessels

@sparrow_solas

4 жыл бұрын

@@ChickentNug nanomachines son

@gaberamirez9261

4 жыл бұрын

Azax Science yo

Always looked forward to watching and listening to the great man

I don’t think he even imagined a computer we could carry in our hands.

"And many years from now, computers will randomly recommend this video to everybody on youtube."

@RinJackson

4 жыл бұрын

Kid: "What's a KZread?"

@mmkb6849

4 жыл бұрын

@@RinJackson *magicly fading out*

@caletevelen2647

4 жыл бұрын

Not randomly, based on an algorithm which determines which content people would be interested in, with increasing accuracy despite people's criticisms I might add.

That Older gentleman understand more about computers in 1974 than a lot of people his age in 2021

@stickmananimations2297

3 жыл бұрын

Yea, and thats sad

@marcraft0077

3 жыл бұрын

My teacher .....

@marcraft0077

3 жыл бұрын

Ps: i come from Germany. We dont use PC or Tablets in school.

@Aurelius11605

3 жыл бұрын

@@stickmananimations2297 he literally studies computers for a living although outdated its still alot of knowledge.

@xtommy1984x

3 жыл бұрын

@@marcraft0077 Also wir haben PC‘s, iPad‘s und Smart Boards in unserer Schule😅🤣

The phone you are holding has 10 fold the computing power over that whole room of reel to reel

I respect all those involved in the creation of the computer from the beginning till today.. The computer is the most beautiful thing born in this world.☺♥