When I was a kid, I watched Star Trek with my Dad who was a futurist of sort. He always predicted we would have all the stuff we saw in the movies within a few years. I gave him an Apple Watch two years ago but he told me still prefers the old mechanical watches of his time. Futurism is great for young men; old men prefer the past.

@thereisnosanctuary6184

3 жыл бұрын

I want to hear more

@honkhonk8009

3 жыл бұрын

@Con Job bruh

@tonylu2471

3 жыл бұрын

I can't blame him. With the cellphone in my pocket it seems kind of unnecessary to me. Although I think it would be cool if they could create a cell phone pocket watch. Like on the outside it looks like one of those old fashioned pocket watches with the chain you open up and inside its like an iPhone or Samsung.

@Miranda-vj8yy

3 жыл бұрын

@@tonylu2471 apple and other brand watches are almost like smart phones on your wrist, so it can probably be done

@myassizitchy

3 жыл бұрын

They still make mechanical watches and theyre frkn amazing how complicated they are and actually work. They cost way more than a crappy apple watch or smart watch and look way better too

Yogi Berra was right: "The future ain't what it used to be."

@Wimpie1515

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed, to put it mildly...

@eyoung1683

3 жыл бұрын

Yogi used to be a bear

@ibosquez5238

2 жыл бұрын

He is Yogi Bear, not berra.

@jmartinez1259

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Another of his greatest quotes, "Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours."

Yes, yes, we all go to school in rocket ships now 😆

@Kehwanna

3 жыл бұрын

Yup. I lived a few blocks from my school and would always take my Toyota Z-79 rocket car everyday. It was much faster than the rocket school bus that had to pick up kids in the sky and sea districts.

@AstralWolf86

3 жыл бұрын

I know right? ...what a dumb prediction that was

@theheaterguyryan5052

3 жыл бұрын

I got a rocket in my pocket 🤣

@Kehwanna

3 жыл бұрын

@@theheaterguyryan5052 Wow! The future is great! Great like your rocket!

@agamefan4481

3 жыл бұрын

I believe somebody in the future will do that. No,seriously,I'm not joking.

The fact that this vid has less than 1,000 views is criminal, honestly. Like Eric said earlier, it's incredible to see the predictions that the past made of the future. At the exact same time, that ties into how WE believe the futre will go. The reason these productions didn't predict social media and the like is because, with their society, it was bear impossible to conceptualize a whole new method of communication that could almost redefine the way our relationships with others _function._ It's like trying to think of a new color. One can only wonder what will happen in our future, how much will be inaccurate in our hypotheses. To what level will technology advance? How will the quality of our broadcasting systems improve, if at all? If we've already got cameras so realistic we can see the pores, amazing quality sound systems, even VR equipment, it can be hard to imagine how any of these ideas can be revolutionized to add on to what we have now. I love retrofuturism. It's a study of human prediction, and while it teaches about the thought processes of yesteryear, it helps us to develop questions about our culture today, and what kind of future we may be creating now. I also just want to say that I love the concept of making a video for the sleepy vibes of late-night television! I think I'll be falling asleep to this video later tonight~

@picsnportraits

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for a great comment! I started this project with the intention of it being a sleep aid but over time it’s become more and more weird to the point where I can’t imagine anyone falling asleep to it. Living in a time of so much media and choice, I love the idea of a broadcast being sent out in the middle of the night of curated content, just like it would’ve in 1986. This is definitely one of the more successful and popular ones and I think that is on account of some of the things mentioned in these comments. I’m glad it resonated with you, thanks for watching!

@slowmotion6870

5 жыл бұрын

Have you ever thought that maybe just a bunch of scientists and industrials along with the banking cartels had concocted a way of living that would bring them lots of money and shove that idea through the throats of people through these world fairs ? Even if meant in a possitve way it would mean that this is not about prediction rather than forcing an idea by brainwashing. Note that 'the future' was overly romanticized and that past was almost forcefully frowned upon. This 'modern' look was also forced upon Europe as we have now torn down far too much of our historical architectural heritage.

@brianarbenz7206

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry, Del, my Reverse-a-scope was in the shop or I would have watched this sooner!

@bauhnguefyische667

4 жыл бұрын

35,000 views latter. .......

@scottlarson1548

3 жыл бұрын

@@bauhnguefyische667 Then 100,000 views later...

The optimism of the past haunts me to this day. Where did we go so wrong.

@EugeneOneguine

2 жыл бұрын

Smartphones and social media.

@Mk101T

2 жыл бұрын

Looking to the future with optimism is like riding a wave into shore. In which it is not the waves fault you fell off your surf board . Cuz funnily like anything else effected by time and evolution ... optimism of course needs to adapt and evolve. Which there is plenty of it out there , even in greater quantity than before. You have just chosen to swim in the cesspool of pessimism , that has been allowed to proliferate through the natural course of more people with more freedoms being more connected . Although maybe there is really only so much freedom of choice out there to be had ... with there being an inherent mechanism in human dna that drives the forces in societal organisms towards population control ? Hence all the people with their wake up agenda about how we are all really enslaved ... which really only has 1 outcome for them in the future . And it aint a Kumbaya moment .

@e.s.6275

2 жыл бұрын

Reckless overconsumption without regards to the environment sustainability and the resources leftovers. Childish behaviour. Simple.

@danabrown4628

2 жыл бұрын

Where did we go so wrong? Reality reared it's ugly head.

@janetcraft

2 жыл бұрын

Wars?

The Revers-o-scope is KZread.

@thequietkiwi

3 жыл бұрын

The power of your imagination is truly staggering.

@beezertwelvewashingbeard8703

3 жыл бұрын

@@thequietkiwi The power of your B.O. is truly staggering.

@eccremocarpusscaber5159

3 жыл бұрын

@@beezertwelvewashingbeard8703 you’ve got this inarsnet thang down to a tee, fello-me-lad!

@StuffOffYouStuff

3 жыл бұрын

clocked that word - amazing. i fully intend to reuse it

@impulsewraith3419

3 жыл бұрын

Nah its the wayback machine

POV: It’s 2am. You struggling to fall asleep. You’re scrolling through recommended on KZread, and you come across this gem. You learn about the expectation of society in the 40s and 50s. While at the same time feel a nostalgic warmness, that induces relaxation. The one-two punch of the century. Good night all. - Yesterday’s tomorrow

@erinmalone2669

Жыл бұрын

It’s actually 1:15, but pretty accurate

@Viiiiiiiiiiiii

Жыл бұрын

1:43am ❤🖖🏼

Ahh, good ol days... I wish I could experience it. These days only old fallout games give a similar world feel. This video should get more views.

@joshuagalvez9678

4 жыл бұрын

MicrominiX I’m making a book that will become a movie, it’s in a retro futuristic world. Right now it’s titled the “Fourth Plague” but that may change so just add me on Instagram @Joshuaorellanagalvez that way you’ll know when I’m finished hopefully by September 9

@gadblatz4841

4 жыл бұрын

Lol. Yeah. Segregation though, so...

@isaacsrandomvideos667

4 жыл бұрын

Joshua Galvez cool

@loki2755

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe we experienced these times in a different lifetime , I feel nostalgic of a time I don't recall being part of.

@santicheeks1106

4 жыл бұрын

@@loki2755 I know me too and thats one reason I really like the 50s a lot

I turned 8 years old in 1980 so I spent most of my childhood in the 80s. Tech started booming and I remember we kids would sit around and talk about how cool it would be to be able to see each other on screens when we called each other on the rotary dial phones...😂😂

@mariahoulihan9483

11 ай бұрын

Push button phones were out by the early 70s. I remember a company coming to my school in the UK in 1971 with them and then we went on a school trip to see them being made.

@a.koenig

11 ай бұрын

same here xD

@TayWoode

10 ай бұрын

Same age, we used to talk about wearing wrap around glasses that would make you think you were somewhere else

@knowledgeispowermediaprodu7094

10 ай бұрын

@@TayWoode all the things we used to dream about as kids, have all been developed. It's almost unreal! We had those speak and spells, remember those? And we though it was the most amazing thing ever! Now, we have text to speech. And it's "normal". Lol

@oldschoolman1444

8 ай бұрын

And invented by your generation, not us old farts.

1940s: "In the future all cars will be like airplanes!" 2020s: "In the future all cars will be cellphones with wheels that track your every move and sell all your data!"

@papadopp3870

3 жыл бұрын

We had the car-a-year consumerism since 1980, but that has combined with and morphed into the dystopia of “1984”.

@KRYMauL

3 жыл бұрын

@@papadopp3870 Actually it's more "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" or Bladerunner because it's the companies that are selling the ads not the government.

@DadaPoopoo

3 жыл бұрын

@@KRYMauL No, they just control the government.

@hydrolito

2 жыл бұрын

Smart phones, computers, credit and debit cards to do that.

@Gameriam100

2 жыл бұрын

Cars will not fly, we have airplanes for that lol.

42:18 "Asbestos! The Magic Mineral!" XD

@dehydratedwater4803

3 жыл бұрын

I remember in the 60s my mom bought me asbestos infused pajamas to keep me safe. At least I've survived the cancer.

@wizardmix

3 жыл бұрын

And nutritious LEAD!

@John2E0GTU

3 жыл бұрын

Amazing stuff, asbestos. Shame it kills!

@jasoncaldwell5627

3 жыл бұрын

Makes your lungs disappear like magic...

@razmazerz

3 жыл бұрын

@@dehydratedwater4803 safe from what?

Nothing ages faster than our vision of the future.

@larryparis925

Жыл бұрын

😂

@skinni_the_P00hBear

10 ай бұрын

This sounds kinda profound ngl

@geoffreyrichards6079

4 ай бұрын

It does provide ideas for creating fictional AUs of a retro aesthetic.

@northprime_unlimited

Ай бұрын

Deep…👍🏽

They forgot to mention how everyone in the future has a wireless phone glued to their head and we all hate each other. 😃

@suskris1

3 жыл бұрын

Giovanni?

@amescapism6100

3 жыл бұрын

i love this comment

@SuperGamesLegend

3 жыл бұрын

I don't hate everyone. Just the unhinged ones.

@waynemacomson6448

3 жыл бұрын

And the love of many will grow cold..

@crankychris2

3 жыл бұрын

Or how a pos leader led to the death of 500+K Americans before he was impeached. :((

It's so interesting to see these videos I think... the way a generation imagines the future... it's says so much about them. So much about what they thought about , their values as well as their expectations of technology. I mean, it's funny that in all these TV shows, and movies and all those concept videos... Most of them didn't imagine things like social media, they sort of imagine this future were we had amazing technology, like in the Jetsons: they pretty much had the technology of the internet, but... nonetheless... they didn't had like social media, they didn't had youtubers, they had TV. So, it's pretty interesting to watch this and seeing a version of the future that never quite happen

@picsnportraits

5 жыл бұрын

My favourite aspect of the 1939 World's Fair specifically is its timing. It was this little bit of optimism right between the Great Depression and WW2. Like you said, they imagined a future with amazing tech but couldn't imagine the amount of information and connectivity that now fits in our pocket. Another great comment, thanks for watching!

@amazonbox1115

4 жыл бұрын

Eric Alvaro thankfully im not the only one interested into this

@wizardmix

3 жыл бұрын

It never happens exactly the way people think it's going to happen and it's far more varied than people think it's going to be. Some technologies thrive beyond imagination and other technologies (such as planes, trains, automobiles and homes) have changed more slowly than they perhaps could have.

@StopFear

3 жыл бұрын

Well, you seem to be presuming that most people today actually care about or watch KZread.

@rodferguson3515

3 жыл бұрын

@@picsnportraits Yes sounds like the type of optimism we need TODAY about the future. Their is so much pessimism about "The world of Tomorrow" Why is that ?.. Because of our failing Education system and questionable values that promotes absorbing information instead of actually "thinking ",And "imagining" the concepts and possibles of things innovative ideas , thinking outside of the box , creativity and individually to name a few things. Plus we simply do not give a S#$t about the future of generations after us and how they are going to live and love and create ... Look at what we are doing. To the environment and the threat of Global warming and climate change , it doesn't take 🚀 science to figure out why today's generation of young people have such an negative and hopeless 😢 view of the Future. These are the reasons why we need that type of NEW optimism about the future AGAIN by young and young at heart people to give us all a brighter , plausible, new view of a future we can all truly appreciate and respect .

I remember how pissed off I was as a teenager when my dad wouldn't buy me a rocketship either.

@SoulCore413

2 жыл бұрын

Nowadays, We’d be lucky to even afford an old fashioned helicopter.

@jeraldbaxter3532

11 ай бұрын

All the really cool kids teleport.😉

Retro-futuristic/ atomic age is my favorite theme. I would love to have my house be like those old commercials of prototype kitchen ideas and home ideas that never came to be. Some of that stuff was so dope. A self sufficient cross between fallout and the LOST bunker is my dream home.

@BrownNProud781

Жыл бұрын

bro, yessssssss! i want something like that too😎

It's kind of amazing that they got quite a few things right.

@robwatts4988

3 жыл бұрын

Not all the time like didn't the cartoonist check the dates ie tuesday 5th October 2000 that should have been thursday 5th October 2000

@ro2163

3 жыл бұрын

That blue bubble lookin vehicle is supposed to be a fiat

Retro Furturism is just so fascinating! Its actually inspiring something in the world of a project I am making.

it's kind of crazy how our vision of the future has changed so much.

@tonylu2471

3 жыл бұрын

We were a lot more optimistic back then. Now everything is dystopia.

Meantime in my 1890's neighborhood, we still live like the 1940's. These people would be sorely disappointed except by our TV's, phones, and dryers.

@ZaiyaFineArt

3 жыл бұрын

My house was built in 1891 and it’s now 2021 lol

@digge2210

3 жыл бұрын

American dream, capitalism, failed

@danityvanityinsanity

3 жыл бұрын

They would have been dazzled by the advanced technology of the pet rock circa 1975!🗿Yes, Im old.😔

@jasontucher7011

3 жыл бұрын

@@danityvanityinsanity LMFAO 😆🤣!

@guardianoftheduat

3 жыл бұрын

@@digge2210 we get it u just entered college

We need to bring back this enthusiasm

Love these stuffs. The american/soviet/japanese/nazi retro-futurism featuring industrial diesel punks, post ww2, post cold war type of stuffs. This is my type of porn!

@abdallahshamis1524

4 жыл бұрын

Im concerned that u watch this with one hand.

wow. this is amazing. some of this technology is better than what we actually have. people had big dreams back then. now we are so focused on daily survival we dont dream anymore

@leo-unddieAnderen

10 ай бұрын

Do you really have to focus on "survival"? Do you even know the literal meaning of such a word?

8:31 He was gonna backhand his kid just for saying he wanted to watch something else. 😂

@toonbat

3 жыл бұрын

It's 1960. Gotta start toughenin' him up for Vietnam!

@neilgibbons2532

3 жыл бұрын

The future. Everyone is so violent

@kgthompson5814

3 жыл бұрын

My dad told me horror stories about his own dad when he would come home from the bar and beat him and his sisters in a drunken rage and back then it was perfectly legal. It was a different time.

@kevindoran9389

3 жыл бұрын

@@toonbat yeah, otherwise he'll turn into a mary.

I can't even begin to describe what a nightmare having millions of self absorbed people flying cars overhead!!! Cities would have to go underground to avoid the debris.😱😱

They predicted "undesirable slum areas" in the future, and they nailed it. 45:57

@americancitizen748

Жыл бұрын

Seattle, Detroit, Chicago, D.C. Any place run by Democrats...

Well, they got one thing right about the future, commercials.

Well. This was, in a word, fascinating. I realize parts of it were designed to be hokey, but many times those parts missed the mark in that respect. This vid was something I idly clicked on while waiting for NASA to screen the Perseverance landing, which was successful. (YEAH!) The contrast was stunning; in fact, the reality blew the predictions away! But I have a beef: the audio. The people who mixed this evidently decided to make the soundtrack more "authentic" by adding a ton of wow to it; this doesn't do much to the narration but it makes the music sound terrible. This was noticeable throughout the entire video, and especially during the 1939 World's Fair segment. I'm old - 73 - and I happen to be familiar with the sound equipment used to produce soundtracks in the 30s 40s, 50s and 60s, since my career has involved the servicing/restoration of such equipment. Much of this gear was built by Western Electric, and the specs on it were astonishingly good - and still are - even by today's standards. Playback gear - discs, magnetic tape, movie projectors (which used optical soundtracks) would often produce a bit of wow until they mechanically stabilized after two or three minutes of warmup time and delivered near-flawless performance after that. It is simply not natural to hear huge amounts of wow throughout an entire hour-long production - this has been ADDED to provide "authenticity," to give a "vintage" flavor/sound to the video, much the way film scratches and frame skips are artificially added to otherwise excellent videos to make them look "old" or "authentic." "Wow," for those unfamiliar with the term, is a mechanical flaw in audio playback equipment which causes a cyclic pitch variation in the soundtrack. Early 33rpm "long playing" discs often exhibited this due to the center hole being punched off-center during production, which caused the groove speed to slow down and speed up throughout the entire playback process. This made the pitch of the music rise and fall periodically, and it's infuriating. A touch of this might be artificially added in a suggestive fashion to provide a little old-timey ambience, but to use this effect for an entire one-hour production is unconscionable. It's something an amateur would do, and it spoiled an otherwise excellent video. If by chance the producer *didn't* add this effect, he was certainly aware of it and should've applied a software solution to remove it. As a piece of trivia, I'll add this: At 45:45 of the vid during the "Futurama" segment, we hear a rather rare instrument - a Hammond Novachord. This was one of the earliest (1930s) polyphonic subtractive synthesizers, and it had 160+ vacuum tubes, thousands of capacitors and resistors, and it weighed over 500 pounds. It was designed/built by Laurens W Hammond, the inventor of the Hammond B-3 organ, the spring reverb unit, and the hysteresis synchronous motor, which made electric clocks possible.

@amarketing8749

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, love the insight and information!! It is interesting that the quality is down graded for authenticity, lol.

@crankychris2

3 жыл бұрын

This video is actually just short clips of many old PD movies pieced together. Being that I'm 67, I've seem most of this many times before. So has everyone else my age that went to public school. All synchronous motors run on frequency, not voltage. A hysteresis sync motor differs only in that it can develop a small starting torque at 0 rpm, this eliminating the need for start windings or capacitors to shift voltage out of phase with current. Digital timers have long sense replaced HS motors as being far more accurate. HS motors are only as accurate as the a/c line frequency, which , of course, is never exactly 60.0 Hz [the proper term is 'cycle' meaning two alternations equaling 360 deg of armature rotation]. They still use these motors on LP turntables. I also believe the 'wow' was added as a special effect. TV sound was actually frequency modulated [albeit at only 1/3 of the carrier deviation of FM], and could support 50-15K audio with about 50 db dynamic range. This is not what we heard!

@MrClaysta

2 жыл бұрын

I paused the video just to read your expertise. Very informative and interesting thank you sir. Stay healthy

@dinorei7364

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah...I got your point.

@IGD-974

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't notice until you mentioned it, I have to say I kind of like it though.

these sleepcore videos are a godsend. thank you!!!!

@picsnportraits

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Just found this video today! Sleepcore? Nah, I’m gonna watch all of these religiously! I love retrofuturism!

I would have absolutely LOVED to visit something like the 1939 Worlds Fair today. Visiting displays that would have technology and scientific achievements that would seem so advanced and mind blowing as teleportation or a fully sentient synthetic cyborg or something on that level might be for us today. This was the time when technology was advancing so fast and the future was full of such limitless possibilities. Flying cars in 50 years, living on a base on the moon or Mars in a mere 70 years.

"We can't afford a rocket ship!" Yes, what teenager in 1960 didn't hear that disappointing refrain? It was the great bane of our generation that all we had was a lousy helicopter.

@brianarbenz1329

3 жыл бұрын

@D Sullivan In the real 1960, we thought that by now jet packs for commuting would be as widespread as cars.

@adamoneale4396

3 жыл бұрын

Vietnam had a few helicopters. America provided them for free.

@BigPuddin

3 жыл бұрын

It sucks being middle class, I know.

@bluefaery1865

2 жыл бұрын

Quiet down junior and eat your top choice grade a sirloin.

This video is very important to me! Thank you very much!

@picsnportraits

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

30:36 This also ended up becoming a pop culture icon of the 1980s and it’s still a popular concept today within the 1980s nostalgia community! Also the thumbnail image was also used in the game Portal Stories: MEL for a framed painting in the Aperture Science facility lobby at the beginning of the game in the year 1952 so it’s possibly a genuine futuristic painting from the 1950s or 1960s that was just licensed out to the game developers to be used in the game! :)

@jameskirk7762

Жыл бұрын

It is from a art book project called sexy robot. 1980 maybe 1985.

A super rocket plane to fly to school in ! Gee willikers!

@LA_HA

3 жыл бұрын

Better behave or you'll be grounded. Actually grounded, and have to drive a plain old automobile and get dumped -- shoo, shoo, baby. haha

Oh yeah, I'm not gonna lie, a ten hour version of this would be awesome. This type of content though, old school futuristic stuff.

I wish we are more optimistic about our future like these people in the 50s. What a feeling it must have been....

@carso1500

2 жыл бұрын

there are people this optimitic, check issac arthur for someone who is trully optimistic about the future as an example

@thegreencat9947

7 ай бұрын

And I was there.😁😁😁😁 going and landing on the Moon was a perfectly normal assumption... Look at us now.....I'm embarrassed....every new appliance has turned us to mush.

Who in their right mind would complain about too much steak? You can never have too much 🥩.

@pjincho

3 жыл бұрын

Cows.

@tonylu2471

3 жыл бұрын

I would. I'm not a big steak fan unless its cheesesteak or steak burrito or southwest steak and cheese from Subway. Porkchops and spare ribs are better and things like that are better in my opinion.

@midcenturymodern9330

3 жыл бұрын

@@pjincho Cows don't eat steak. Do they? 🙃

@RuataLungchuang

3 жыл бұрын

That's the point.

@thegreencat9947

7 ай бұрын

@@midcenturymodern9330 not intentionally....mad cow disease.

Regardless of what they planed or hoped for poverty, homeless and hunger are still with us and getting worse.

I love this so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My beautiful childhood

It's like Rocky and Bullwinkle and the Jetsons had an "American Dream" love child. I'm riveted and charmed and horrified at us. :)

Spit it out, Electro-Man. I ain't got all day.

Didn't like the world of tomorrow segment as much as the atom bomb segment. Amazing. Thumbs up, keep those old documentaries coming.

@leo-unddieAnderen

10 ай бұрын

The atomic and nuclear bomgs are horrifying and disgusting. I cannot even imagine what prompted the conceiving of such utterly evil notions.

it's 2020 and we still don't have bloody flying cars. We just have Xbox's and flat screen TV's.

@sebastiaaaaa2

4 жыл бұрын

And computers with more processing power than any supercomputer from the past. With insanely good internet speeds and mobile networks. As well as VR, social media, and sci-fi esk medical equipment. Be grateful we live in such an advanced time.

@mrmeatwhip1388

4 жыл бұрын

@@sebastiaaaaa2 My friend, that comment is what you call sarcasm

@znentitan4032

3 жыл бұрын

It's like comedian Lewis Black said, "this isn't the twenty first century, it's the twentieth century in hi def!"

@starlord2112

3 жыл бұрын

As a kid in the mid sixties I considered that by 2000 we would all have our own personal jet packs. And we would also commute around in hover cars. (Although the hover car thing was probably due to the fact that when I drew these futuristic vehicles they were hover cars purely because I couldn't draw wheels very well...)

@Kehwanna

3 жыл бұрын

I have a feeling that the 2060s will be nothing too impressive, as well. I'm predicting a bunch of touch screens everywhere, possibly smart glass, better robotics, a lot of automation, self-driving cars will be impressive, more data, more green technology, and we'll inevitably go more green. I doubt we'll have flying cars or the kind of sci-fi technology we have been dreaming of for the future still. At the rate we're going, the utopian future strengthened by maximizing education, social-net benefits, and technology we dream of won't likely happen. Unless of course we hit fluke where the world comes together to better itself and gives science a big boost.

Yeah I remember books I had from the 60s saying in 2000 we'll have bubbled cities with flying cars & robots LOL. I was a child of the 80s myself. Those were the days. Wish I were a kid again. Adult life is too hard ;p That time capsule is pretty cool. Never saw one on the news during my current day though think similar things were sent on a space satellite. So.. uh.. are people going to remember to open it in 6940 or what have you? LOL

@mrnemo204

2 жыл бұрын

Well we have more powerful computers by then

@andyokus5735

2 жыл бұрын

The 60's were the time to be a kid. The 80's were the beginning of the great demise.

Kids, being your folks down to the General Motors factory this weekend! We're showing off our newest invention, the fusion reactor! Revolutionary, and safe! Go on kids, put your hands in the fusion! Mom and Dad will love it!

I love these old futuristic designs

22:42 Almost 3d printing concept. Even it is not yet mainstream, printing houses is a reality now.

Electro is so advanced and smart. I wish I had a robot like that to impress all my friends. 20:25

No pandemics or murder hornets in their future just sunshine and lolipops.

@Laws2

3 жыл бұрын

And segregation and pointless drafts to a losing war

30:31 - Containers for coins, keys, and candies for cuties! This, for the groom wearing a telephone and radio to his wedding ceremony. Bizarro! Thanks for the video!

The Worlds Fair animated segment w/ the country couple was cool - especially the 3D printing of the houses 😂

19:20 once this robot started walking i was laughing so hard at how slow it walked

@MissCracker

3 жыл бұрын

We have robots that run, fall, then get back up again. This video is hate speech

first time hearing the term sleepcore?

@bunnyfoofoo9695

4 жыл бұрын

Yep! I never knew this existed. I subscribed!💙💚💙

@DreamGyrl360

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@tonylu2471

3 жыл бұрын

I was expecting music but this is good too.

I'm glad I found this video on my Revers-o-scope.

These videos are absolutely amazing

Wow, the year 2000 sure will be spacey.

@EPICRANDOMGUY02

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry to say this, but you've missed it.

@niamhcosgrave9545

3 жыл бұрын

Yeh ikr I’m so sad I missed it

Now I know where Firesign Theater got so much of their retro creativity.

back in the 60s, there was a show called- the 21 cenury -- i dont remember how long the show lasted, but in it they would explore the possibilities of want the 21 century would be like. i remember the kind of houses we would be living in, they be on stilts of some kind, like spaceship where the door comes down with stairs built in.

I love that "21 CENTURY CAAARS!" and when the 21st century came it was just a Toyota Camry

This is amazing!! I've seen alot of old futurism videos, but not this one!!

In the future some people will chose to stop using electricity and go "off grid". People will be fascinated with the ancient ways while others ask where is my flying car.

@honkhonk8009

3 жыл бұрын

Nah, they would go off grid for sure, but it wont be without electricity lol.

@crankychris2

3 жыл бұрын

That lasts for about 2 days. By then, desire for a shower, food, etc. causes a mutiny "Dad gets left in the desert."

@BigPuddin

3 жыл бұрын

I like to think that with the right mentality, we can do both.

@ToonCatTV

3 жыл бұрын

Ok boomer

It's quite interesting (to me anyway) that this video was uploaded in 2018. This was before drones and AI had become mainstream. The pandemic hadn't come along meaning that huge numbers of people became homeworkers overnight (including me) and never went back to an office.

That was really fun to watch. Thank you

Its so cool knowing that some animator in the 50s predicted XR tech. Its really neet to see some of these space age technologies come to reality over the last decade.

Now Johnny I told you before......we can't afford a rocket ship!

A minute into it and it's one of the craziest things I've ever seen! I'm here for it.

They imagined all the things they would try to do tomorrow. Today, we're more concerned with holding each other back.

I used to have a Chevy Cavalier, it was so bad, if you drove it off a cliff, you’d still have to get out and push!

This is really cool man! Congrats. It's not always easy to find something worthwhile on KZread or the internet, but this is golden. Great concept. I need to get KZread on my TV and let this run in the background. I want to watch it all too, but it would be awesome background noise too. The part about the atom bomb around 13 min left reminds me of old Tom and Jerry or Looney Tunes where they have a piece that has no characters we know in it. There was an episode of one of the two where they were showing future cars where one could raise up on its wheels and drive over top of traffic. Another car had a big scoop on front so you could run everyone over and a glass floor so you could see who you hit. That's what some of this reminds me of. Might even be a good clip for you to add to one. Really cool work, thanks!

To appreciate how much people admired the idea of these things we needed to see what they had and grew up with. I’m 71 and my dad would share with me about his life a hundred yrs ago. He and Mom would share what there lives as kids, teens and later during WWll were like. Basically, one didn’t know how bad their life was because they didn’t know any better but their principles and love of America was really incredible. I have to say their belief of our ability to make the future better always inspired them.

In the early '70s Disneyland had an attraction whereby you could phone someone, usually our parents, and see their picture while you spoke to them. It was amazing!

Unfortunately the future isn´t what it used to be.

@papadopp3870

3 жыл бұрын

You win the “Best Comment” of this vid.

A very interesting look into the future of the past.

Omg I'm a new subscriber and I love this. Love how it isn't just music but I don't mind it being just music either

Fantastic. Those John Sutherland cartoons are brilliant.

Keep these coming, they're great.

@picsnportraits

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy them. We try to do one every other week. Thanks for watching!

@artseye00

8 ай бұрын

2023 here and still want more 😅😉😎💯🙏🤙

Man I'd settle for the damn hydraulic jack, self contained under the car for tire changes

@evelgreytarot8401

11 ай бұрын

What the crap. How'd I watch this again

This is VERY cool, thanks uploader.

This was fun lol.. they had slim tvs in 65 how we got them until late 00s. The last part was intensely educative

God if those people back then could see the hypercars we make today, I wonder what their reaction would be.

@gracecalis5421

3 жыл бұрын

@@awesomeone2979 That'll probably be the last thing going through their minds as they deal with the Gs from going 0-60 in less than 3 seconds and rocket all the way to 200+mph

@IAmAMuslimaah

3 жыл бұрын

@@gracecalis5421 I agree. We are always fascinated by the things from the past who's to say they wouldn't be fascinated coming into the future. Seeing us open our phones and computers with our eyes. All these flat screen TVs.

@WitchKing-Of-Angmar

3 жыл бұрын

Their disappointment would be immeasurable I assure you, I should know, I was there, and in the late 1990s car design faulted and burned into what technological thing we can shove in the car. They wouldn't be amazed, and this future is not remotely the one we expected and wouldn't register as futuristic.

@LA_HA

3 жыл бұрын

@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar Yep, I think they'd be extremely disappointed.

@mworld2611

3 жыл бұрын

@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar How would modern cars not totally blow the minds of people living in the 40s/50s? The average car now has backup cameras, infotainment systems, driving assists like lane keep and radar cruise control, GPS systems, phone connectivity, traction control, ABS, and so much more compared to the inefficient steel cans they had back then.

We are indeed a curiously naive delusional species. Edit: Interesting to consider how dark our own visions of the future are now, though, compared to back then. Post-apocalyptic, dystopian, etc.

@Sashazur

Жыл бұрын

Back in the 70s we had big popular scifi movies about the dystopian future like Roller ball, Omega man, Soylent Green. Things go through cycles.

I would have loved to live this version of the future...

Thank you for this great post!!

When he said "You all living in the year 2000" I FUCKING LOST IT 15:55 After all that hubub about how terrible the past is and how much it advanced and how in the future we have flying cars and 4 hour work days, to suddenly say that was 20 years behind us is just hilarious.

1:30 this joke was probably so funny at the time. I remember a Futurama episode where fry locks himself in his room listening to “classical music” all day long, as you can hear “I like big butts and I can not lie” blasting from behind his room’s door. Classical music to the year 3000

The over the top optimism is hilarious 😂

Quaint. Thanks Picsandportraits.

Past life memories!! 😢

"Gee Ward, I think something's wrong with the Beaver."

@JO-ly3hi

3 жыл бұрын

Ward hit the beaver pretty hard last night...

The designer guessing on skirts disappearing was pretty on point with that one. And while we don´t wear electric heat belts as day wear, we do have them. And while heels are not that populat anyome I am pretty sure I have seen ones like this around.

50:12 That was really didatic, I found it incredible, I expected this kind of things nowdays available to all in open tv.

I don't know about anyone else, but all these future society concepts are terrifying.

@eccremocarpusscaber5159

3 жыл бұрын

Inc. the great reset society. God help us all.

@CIorox_BIeach

3 жыл бұрын

@@eccremocarpusscaber5159 Yeah.....

@honkhonk8009

3 жыл бұрын

Lmfao the flying cars would be constant 9/11

The vid is really linked to consumer culture, notice how city is high above ground level probably because of segregation from garbage dump people and contamination.

@BigPuddin

3 жыл бұрын

Nice personal projection. Real nuanced.

@aquatadevore9335

2 жыл бұрын

Makes me think about the movie Wall-E, that might be our real future, I wouldn't mind it though, living in outer space in a robotic flying cruise ship

Love the “Revers-O-Scope”. 👏👏

Too mind blowing modern for my simple mind. Greetings from Italy

Not even 100 years have passed since the time capsule was buried in 1939, and a number of the items in it will already have badly deteriorated. The chances of it being intentionally unearthed someday are very slim, and even if it's successfully opened then, not much recognizable will still exist inside it.

@crankychris2

3 жыл бұрын

We only have 4920 years to go...

23:08 predicted first juice bars...Jammba Juice!!

You see that the future clearly was build for the cars no one ever expected technology like we have today.

Great! Truly great material.