What Will Future Homes Look Like? Filmed in the 1960's - Narrated by Walter Cronkite
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 3. 04. 2020
- This film, made in the late 1960's, tells what future homes will look like in the 21st century or 2001 to be exact. Very funny! Narrated by Walter Cronkite.
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1960s people: "The future's homes are going to look just like this!"
2021: *people still living in houses built before 1960.*
My house was built just before the First World War.
Yep, most of the homes were I live built before the 1960's.I;m lucky mine built 1968
Haha so true, my place was built in the 60s, as are most in auckland..
It's now very high-end, but there are people living in Habitat 67 even today. (Including the architect!)
So true! I live in an old southern mill village. My house was built in 1920! I think itâs charming and much better than these ugly âJetsonâsâ abodes.
"we may not have to go to work, the work will come to us"
Ugh... if only he had known.
It know bday does by way of the internet and computers and smart phones
I love this working from home, I never want it to end!
Trust me... they did.
@@mynameisnotjerome1803 yup
That it's so true
1960s: on my yearly salary I bought 2 vehicles, a trailer, a boat and 2 houses in just 10 years.
2023: my salary is 10x greater than salary in the 60s and I can barely make rent. I might not even get to finish writing this sentence because my landlord is going to turn off my electri
Your landlord could have at least let you finish typing. đđ
@@HoustonRebel they power was cut off mid sentence. Lol
Hope your power is back on.
Someone wants to talk to you about extending your vehicle warranty.
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Rent is hard on 2 salaries in 2023
How did they not predict that we'd spend our time watching 1960s instructional specials on personal computers more powerful than anything they could imagine, or on our phones? lol
-while we didn't do anything that was worth being paid to do the rest of the time.
your talking about humans here lol we can barely predict the weather moreless technology.
While sitting on the toilet
â@@joseventurausmcmy phone died so I had to take one of those 90s dumps.
@@roninshogun4eva did you read the shampoo bottle?
âComputers May be as common as todayâs telephoneâ
What if I told you that telephones ARE the computers?
Yeah, they never thought a computer would become so small that it fit into pockets.
@@yinchuun lol. Or take pictures/make videos.
@@phatcat3705 Or trade in virtual currency with it.
@@ColtraneTaylor or what's even a virtual currency
To be fair they are predicting for 2001. Which is a pretty accurate assessment of PC's with internet at the time.
The children of the 21st century might be educated by a computer at home. LMAO
True
Covid said hi
Little did they know
The Fun They Had - Isaac Asimov
oh no
1960: the 21st century home is a dream...
2023: a home is a dream...
2024: The dream home is dead.
This concept was killed off by massive overlending to sub prime buyers, post pandemic overpricing, massive buyouts by corporations like BlackRock, and the final blow was by insurance skyrocketing due to inflation and greed.
I love it. I watched this episode when it was first broadcast (as well as the series The 20th Century) back in the 1960s. I find it amusing that I am sitting here watching the same episode on The Internet from a room in Victorian home built in 1871. So much for the houses and furniture that look like they came out if The Jetsons. Like most images of a predicted future, the futurists forget what will be preserved from the past as we move into the future.
I'd always snickered at that. For some reason they thought we were gonna just lay waste to everything older than 1999 vintage and we'd all be living like the Jetson's. Frankly the architecture of new homes today aren't far off from what they were back then, except that instead of looking like Frank Lloyd Wright designed them, they're designed to retain the flavor of the environment and history they're built in. As a consequence even newer homes look vintage in places. Go to NE and you find people enjoying the trappings of 21st Century technology from the comfort of their 300-year-old cottage or estate. This vision of the 21st Century obliterates the influences of the past and pretends the entire landscape will look like something from _Blade Runner_ or _Demolition Man._
I grew up in a lovely old home that my great grandmother saw being built when she was a girl. There was something magical about that house and we owned it for over 60 years. My mom grew up there as well. When they sold back in 2006, the people who bought were just interested in dollars and no family has lived there since. It makes me sad knowing that. I loved that home and just want someone to love it like we do. I have many happy memories there.
You probably also remember how blatantly they actually disregarded the past in the 60s as well (cough Penn Station cough). I guess they just assumed that would keep going haha!
@@Zeoytaccount That's the way it had been for millennia, especially in the. US . If it falls down or is too costly to repair, just build a new one. At least that obvious crime started the historical preservation movement. I'm sure I was once in the old Penn Station, but I would have been very young. My mother & I were seeing her parents off on a train journey, that dates it.
Right on
One of their major flaws is that they assume everybody will be rich in the future
haha. yeaaaah
Everyone is rich today. Just not as rich as some.
And whiteđ€Łđ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł
@@daphnerockzaic9096 ???
Be it through trickle down economics or redistribution a la Europe (in a stronger form), in the past we tend to think that everyone will collectively reap the benefits of future tech and prosperity. Instead these benefits all go to a few instead of being divided among many is the unfortunate reality.
He forget to mention that the 21st century people will have little handheld screens for watching videos on the toilet.
Like Iâm doing just now lol
Me too.. It's what I'm doing right now. Damn prostate!!
Excellent comment đ
1960: in the future do you have jet packs & no wars? 2020: uhhh, no we get into fist fights over fried chicken sandwiches & hoard đ§».
@@DavidLLambertmobile ...toilet paper!
Aww bless you 1960s. You had such high expectations of us. đ
I find the stuff about inflatable furniture funny, especially because there was a trend for that in the late 90's/early 2000's in some places.
I remember for my 7th grade birthday party I got a purple inflatable chair. I was so excited. This was 2001. So they were accurate with that prediction.
Too bad they couldnt make it through the hey-day of smoking haha
I guess people back then thought no one had cats in the future đ
It was really only something for kids .. adults weren't sitting on those things with each other.
How cute that they thought 21st century people would do things like "entertain guests" and "have conversations"
Do you lack the social skills to do those things?
@@oldcountryman2795 have you seen society today? đ
@@oldcountryman2795 I donât know in what nice suburbia or whatever you lived in, but where I grew, everyone in the neighborhood seemed to purposefully avoid each other like the plague. Kinda like saying, you do your own thing and Iâll do my own thing.
@@kaleycooper9111 You must be one of my neighbors đđđ
@@oldcountryman2795 I and countless millions just like me.
They really thought in the future weâd be real interested in variations of chairs.
welllllllll we do have a variation of chairs đ
All I need is a bed
We still do develop new variations of chairs tho.
Aren't we tho? Lol
Just like Sims!
âYou may hear the patter of little feet.â Robot: STOMP, STOMP, STOMP! đ
I just couldnât đ
Too bad in the 60s apparently these engineers hadnât invented the wheel instead of noisy machines attempting to walkâŠ
No leisure time, no food cooking robots, lots of urban decay, no robot maids. Definitely nailed the work from home and being able to see people you talk to over the phone. Itâs good to have land. They didnât predict the demise of the family.
lmao the family was going downhill in the 60s. Grow up
What does the demise of the family even mean. You just need more money to have a family now and less people are having kids at 15.
"The demise of the family" is very true, I'm afraid. I have no numbers but I'm sure as a unit we spend less time together now more than before.
@@TheSilentMajorityNation đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł I don't have numbers but heres my bullshitđ
@isaiahbowers3712 đ€Ł this kids pressed because we said families don't spend enough time together anymore. Hit too close to home for you, I see đ€Ł
1961: homes in the 21st century plus second homes...
2021: most cannot afford homes let alone second homes.
Oh then donât come to Norway
you mean can't afford rent, let alone a home.
I extremely agree with you..houses today are expensive.. STILL HOMELESS POPULATION RISE
It's about 65% home ownership now, vs 63% when this was made.
If only
Chef: "How do you like your steak?"
21st century: "Cooked in seconds under a barrage of high energy radio waves"
Microwave meals are extremely common
I can hear it in his transatlantic voice lol
It's pretty interesting when u think about it, microwaves are insane pieces of technology
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I looked up the origins of microwave ovens and found an article "A Brief History of the Microwave Oven" in IEEE Spectrum (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. ) "at the 1933 Worldâs Fair in Chicago, Westinghouse demonstrated a 10-kilowatt shortwave radio transmitter that cooked steaks and potatoes between two metal plates." I had heard or read about someone finding a candy bar melting in their pocket while testing radar components. Early ovens (1940s and 50s) were about the size of a refrigerator and used so much power that heating up a meal would likely pop ALL the household fuses in the average home of the era.
I love how comforting these old films sound in terms of warbly sound quality and the music and narration. And ironically, it looked more space age in the late 50s/60s than it did in 2001!
And itâs kind of sad how, little did we know what would happen on that fateful Tuesday in 2001. đ«đ€Šââïž I was 12.
I was 8....
I was 11
It was just 15 days before my eleventh birthday
I think they had far, far, more vision than anyone today, seems capable of.
I was 16.
I'm 76 & loved to see films, in the 1950's & '60's, about the 'near future', specifically the 21st Century!
Now that we are more than 20 years into that century, we can see that the predictors were both
correct & incorrect in their predictions! Most people still live in the same old, wooden houses; drive
newer, but still gas combustion cars & commute to jobs; miles away! Except for advances in
communication, far less than they predicted, has changed!
30 hour work week? Month long vacation?! This dude should run for president.
he's dead, lol
I work for a company that gives me 300 hours or about 2 mounts of vacation. Tho I work a lot more than 30 hours a week
â@@billolsen4360#BestPresidentEver!
Why should that stop him? LOL
@@billolsen4360 Well, they let brain-dead people run for president.
âIn 2001, weâll sit on giant, plastic inflatable chairs...â I mean, they werenât wrong.
Yeah I had one of those
So so true
I had a Britney Spears oneđ
I had a Blue's Clues one when I was like 3 or 4 lol
Made in China
The idea that he so casually mentioned â90% of Americans living in urban areasâ is both crazy and scary.
It's also really, really close. In 2021 the urban/rural ratio was 86%/14%
That 30 hour work week, and month vacation was missed by a mile! đ
Only true in a few European countries who are in severe economic trouble.
It's always that creepy ass flute music that gives these things such an enjoyable dystopian feel.
When the fast food production line bit is running we suddenly got nice mp3 clean stereo jazzy music. My first thought was What has old Walter said in this section.....
Why is this kind of music so disturbing I wonder? Something about this entire era is unsettling in a way I can't quite put my finger on.
@@skeNGk it's made in such manner. Also the bitrate of the recorded audio maybe a reason
@@skeNGk twilight zone is why it creeps me out lol
Ah, the ass-flute, one of the creepiest instruments known to man
"Alexa....inflate my chair."
Why the long pause? Sounds like this person is giving Alexa the command to kill them!
@gyrergd wtf.. that's hilarious to imagine Alexa answering "daddys" đ€Ł
@@NovaRanger007 What's wrong with that? Mine calls me Master.
Oh funvk hahahaha I laughed out loud and woke my husband hahahaha that was hilarious đđđđđđ
Stop with the sex talk
"Computers may be as common as todays telephone.".... nailed it and more.....
I love that the robot guy says theres absolutely no need to make them look human. All these modern day human looking robots are just creepy
That said, there has been a need to smooth out their edges, literally.
who else is watching this on their computerized communications console?
You mean your smartphone?
I mean, thereâs literally no other way to watch this anymore lol
@@futavadumnezo whats a smartphone? is it like a pay phone? or does it got a number pad on it
@@tysontitus3332 hilarious
@@futavadumnezo woosh!
All we got in the future was TVs that fit in our hands where we can watch old documentaries that predicted the future wrong!
We also have TVs the size of the wall, just like he showed.
@@mexicanspec Accept the fact that 3D tv's died 4 years ago.
@@dennisschnobrich9288 What does that have to do with the size of current televisions? They are up to what, 85 inches now?
@@mexicanspec I'm just saying that 3D tvs don't exist anymore.
@@dennisschnobrich9288 3D TVs still exist, they're just not popular because it gives a handful of people headaches. I love 3D blurays and games.
Iâm imagining what the future holds that we canât imagine. When I was on the bus in 6th grade I remember thinking about being told that we would have book and newspapers on a handheld device that we could fold up and stick in our purses. I was blown away and could not fathom it. đ Now I have a 1 terabyte iPhone.
Thereâs the Samsung Galaxy Z series that can either fold or flip. Neither one is cheap.
@@SWalkerTTU I was imagining something that could be rolled up like a newspaper.
It's always fun to watch these things and see what has come true, what hasn't and what sort of did, just in a different way than predicted.
I'd love to try out a model of one of those retro-futuristic homes, just as they invisioned it back then.
1960: "By the year 2000 the United States will have a 30 hour work week and a month long vacation as the rule"
2020: "If I work 2 Jobs, use foodstamps and skip Breakfast, I could afford my next Insulin shot"
ROFL! Sad, but true.
Or if I go back to work, im not going to be able to afford health care insurance đ might as well stay jobless đ€Ș on Medicade and draw disability but some get turned down, like I did, so working to death is the only option.. uhh
10.08% of the population is on food stamps. 2021. Majority of those on food stamps live in California.
@@orated762 California only has the most of all states because it has the highest population of all states (9th largest economy in the world just as a single state alone)...which is expected statistically, so lmao who cares. More effective information would be the state percentage of those on welfare per the population of the state; ranked from the highest would be: 1-New Mexico, 2-West Virginia, 3-Louisiana, 4-Mississippi, 5-Oklahoma, etc... California doesn't even come close to the top 10, in fact, California actually ranks way down in 32nd place out of all states regarding those on food stamps as a percentage of the population. Not sure what you were trying to convey, but the majority of those on food stamps do NOT live in California...
Scientists forgot to predict the GREED of those who run corporations, stockholders, and small business owners when making this utopic prediction of a shorter work week. Isaac Asimov is guilty of the same thing. He talked about more leisure time for people coming in the near future... I call his prediction the Great Sci-Fi Lie.
Little did they know Iâd be still living in a home they built đ
yeah but my computer could store all the data they had in the world in the 60s, including physical media, like books. probably. (i mean, it's 8tb)
@@GraveUypo ppppft... my phone could store yours and the 1960s data on it
my home was built in 1846
@@roonilwazlib3089 Pretty sure your phone has 64 or 128 GB, which is like 60x less storage than 8tbs..
@@GraveUypo meanwhile my iPhone storage is full, because I did some photos xD
That transition from 2001 to 21st was smooth bruh đđ
1960s vision of a future home: This
2001 vision of a future home: McMansion on a no-doc loan
2023 vision of a future home: Tiny apartment with high rent
2050 vision of a future home: Cardboard box by the river
I love how people thought that the future would be very round but itâs more flat and minimalist
DEFINITELY not cars, though, i hate how cars look like bubbles now
Not in 2001. A lot of stuff was rounded if I recall correctly.
In the future, people will waste as much of the space they are paying for as possible
@@jaysleezy5464 me too Itâs so ugly. Bring back the rectangular bumpers and regular cars
@@jaysleezy5464 Youâre gonna LOVE the Tesla Cybertruck.
The fact that they thought you'd need all these screens and devices dedicated to the news or the weather rather than just one computer fascinates me.
I know, right. They did have multiple TV channels back then, so why not make that leap?
Technology took space, mechanics, records and tapes, bulky CRT screens, energy, they generated heat and were heavy and expensive, and that was true even up to the early 2000s when TV was still analogue, you watched a movie on disc, listened to music on a stereo, went to your PC to get online, or got out your CD collection that youâd converted onto your iPod via your PC to listen to music.
It wasnât until we got flat low energy screens, efficient batteries, fast computing, tiny affordable solid state memory and super fast wireless data connection that we could even conceive of small digital devices doing it all and thatâs only occurred in the last 15 years.
For 2001 they did ok.
Yeah, I got a screened device for viewing the weather. Itâs called a window.
Yeah... I had the same thought. Remember, though, that the concept of a personal desktop microcomputer was still a bit of a stretch, much less one that could incorporate all of these functions in a single device. Software and operating systems like iOS and Windows that provide convenient access to all these functions didnât exist yet, and were probably well beyond the ken of most people.
Jarrod Baniqued The best comment here.
It would be cool and fun to recreate a home how it was supposed to look like according to this video!
LMAO, the pitter patter of little feet, as the robot clunks around like stomping bricks. And that ever so calming sound of the printer clanking in the kitchen.
They did get quite a few things correct, yet thankfully improved from the original concepts.
I mean, they werenât wrong about the inflatable chair, those things were cool at the beginning of the 2000s
Haha hellz yeah they were, I had one!đ đ
@@ReikiLightLanguage even my Barbie had one! xD
Theyâre very uncomfortable and would get punctured easily
werent these inflatable outdoor sofas a thing like 2 years ago?
yeah but you didn't carry them around. and if you once sit on it ther where 2 possibilitys, you sat ther forever or you instantly fall of. nothing in between. and never sit on them on a hot summer day with shorts...will end in possibilty number one...
People in 21st century: eating detergent and putting glue in their hair
Thx for the laugh đ
People were probably doing that back then there was just no internet to put it on
@@SK-pw9id Back then sniffing glue was an all too common pastime for teens who couldn't access alcohol.
@@lilRadRidinHood đ€Ł
It seems like people get dumber as time passes
This is up there with some the funniest things I have ever seen. They got so many things right in such an awkward way, and so many things wrong also in an awkward way. Personally, no one can predict future things precisely. But I just love the "dot matrix" printers of the 21st century.
Love these old films!! Gives a warm fuzzy of days gone by.
They wrongly assumed there would still be a huge, thriving middle class population
They killed that off to give us everything else speculated on a handheld screen.
Ok use small imagain and think of future re-vented something we used in 1990's
tacgoloy that persons will use in 2060-70's but won't you live longer enough to see
how many things you got wright or wrong and what tacogoy will use in the future
@@annamariapiotrowicz511 Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?
@@annamariapiotrowicz511
You really need a spell check before posting a comment if you want to be taken seriously
The American dream moved to the Peopleâs Republic of China. They have over half a billion of people in the middle class, social healthcare and welfare benefits.
What's really weird to think is we're already 20 years past this.
And still living in homes built when this video was fikmed.
That means Iâm turning 20 this year and Iâm not okay with that
Itâs because the elites stop us from growth
@@nolinm7640 Shall we eat them?
@@Amygondor Yes! The beginning of this could easily be Google map footage
i saw this show as a kid. i always wanted to see it again. thank you!
That robot is terrifying!! My cat would freak out! đđ
1960âs: â *everyone dreams of a home somewhere* ... *surrounded by natural beauty & a lot of land* ...â
2000âs: â *everyone dreams of a home* ... *anywhere will do* ... *just a home thatâs affordable* ...â
The Great Reset in 2030 they say you will own nothing and be happy about it.
@@hlinville6034 we will be forced to be happy about it. Weâll will be forced to believe it ... the great pharmaceutical rollout ...
I wonder if itâs do to being so dependent in this time as now most of us lost knowledge of how to build a house ourselves. Back in the day I think we were more independent. I seen a guy almost not spend a dime after he bought some land and built a log house đĄ peacefully in nature and solar panels roof.
@@KevinBourque like many things thereâs always a *tradeoff* , as you live in a city and become more and more specialized in your activities you gradually lose the ability to be self-sufficient.
Civilization is powerful and efficient but very fragile.
@@hlinville6034 does that reset my student loan debt too? If so, sign me up.
This film is about 50 years old. Stop and imagine what the world will be like in another 50 years. Then realize that what this video teaches us is that we can't even begin to imagine what the world will be like in 50 years.
In another 50 years, People wont have privet cars or privet homes. All jobs and everything else, will be issued to you via the standing government...Dam. That sounds so commy, doesn't it.
i dont think 50 years from now will be that different, i mean, i hope it is but i dont think it will
@@trashcan2088 If you ask me you are just 'hedging' your bets... đ€Łđ
Me in 50 years: 'Get your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty apes!'...đ
This was filmed about 60 years ago.
Fascinating. I like seeing the way our parents and grandparents believed. I also love seeing the old films. Thereâs a quality to that old fashioned film that you donât naturally get with digital video.
I remember watching this in grade school....some happened, some didn't. There's a fascination about what the future might be....to this day they still create concept cars for that very reason.
1960: âSshhh...donât say that out loud, the government will wiretap us and listen to what weâre saying.â
2020: âHey wiretap, give me a recipe for enchiladas!â
ehh ehh ehh :)
I talked about a little tiny turtle I used to have when I was a kid and on Facebook I got an ad for exotic pets and said are you looking for turtles?
I Googled "internal temp for meatloaf" last night. This morning there were 30 recipes for meatloaf in my CZcams recommendations. This has to stop.
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@@csabo1725 I looked up the song âmoneyâ by Pink Floyd and now am getting investment ads and ads for TurboTax and money management. CZcams and google gotta stopđđ
My grandpa was born in 1890 and died in 1964. He came of age when horses and buggies were the norm. By the time he died he'd seen cars, motorcycles, airplanes, two world wars, spaceships and computers.
And people think we are living in the greatest time ever but they don't realize the people that lived before technology are the real lucky ones.
@@loadedhot1034 lucky?
When they survived wars and then uncurable illnesses....
@@utej.k.bemsel4777 the literal same can be said about us idk what youâre poppin off about
I'm sure this was the case for most people that were born in 1890 and lived for 70+ years.
@@utej.k.bemsel4777 yep, everyone knows if you have technology you are immune to disease and warđ€Šââïž
I LOVE watching videos like this!
I like how the robotic vacuums have done almost exactly what was described in this video, except for the stair-climbing feature. I'm still waiting for that, instead of having to purchase one for each floor or carrying one to each floor while still having to sweep/ vacuum my stairs...
Social interaction will be replaced by sophisticated hand-held devices displaying cat videos.
Hahahahahaha, yup
the device will be on you at all times notifying you of new cat videos
Lol
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For brainwashing
"You'd eat the food and...you might even eat the package."
It's called a burrito.
ICE CREAM CONES! đ€đ»đŻđŠ
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Damn I didn't think i would find so many laughs in these comments.
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Or a roti, patty or empanada
I remember watching this when it was originally broadcast. The accuracy, including residential aesthetics (beyond not anticipating microcircuitry) is uncanny.
Cool video, thanks! I was amazed at how much stuff they predicted correctly! Microwave cooking, Internet, colour TV, Video calls, online banking just to start - totally bombed on future fashion choices, but easily a 7.5 on technology :) Mitch, Australia.
2021: That's cute, they thought we could afford two homes let alone one
I wish I could even own one home. đĄ Hopefully someday. đđ»
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IKR.đ
True haha đ
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That future house looks so 60s inside.
My thought, too.
Interesting đ.
Reminds me of Disney World Carousel of Progress
Agree
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Hey my family had that "old" rocking in the 1980s!
I loved that thing.
WHOA!!! That building development looked exactly like LeFrak City! I used to live across from there in the 70s - 2000s
omg I remember seeing that Lefrak from the long island expwy as a wee lad, the sight of it scared me đ±
They forgot to mention everything would also be in colour.
Except for cars. 90% are now monochrome.
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@@astrogirl7616 dude no need for such a comment on a video related houses like plz đâ
crazy how everyone lived in black & white back then.
@Joseph Lomeo did you not get the joke or are you just spamming without reading the comments?
I always loved how the 60s vision of the future still included wood panelling.
hey we put wood paneling in my room in early 2000 and it's pine and looks really really nice đ
Somewhere....some archtect designed a house back in the 60s and said "ohh they're going to LOVE this brown wood paneling. It'll go GREAT with this yellow tar colored paint, green shag carpet and cigerette colored kitchen
@@murkypuddle33 My Dad went all in on the panelling trend in the 70's. My childhood home, which my mother still lives in, is ensconced in paneling. lol
@@murkypuddle33 lmao best response
Better than the boring plain painted walls
Lmao I really wanted to see that guy try to sit in that inflatable chair đ€Ł woulda turned quick from a documentary to a blooper reel quick!! Haha!
Well, in a lot of ways, weâve changed more than they could have ever imagined, but in other ways, we didnât change nearly as much
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1960: âRobots doing housework in 21st Centuryâ
Robots in 21st Century : Are you a robot? đ
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Indeed i am a robot
That's why my house work never gets done!!!
?? This is a confusing statement
@@xPOWERx-ne1jr He means that we as humans encounter "btos" every day on internet which ask us "are you a robot" and ask us to do crazy 'captchka' to prove that we are not robot.
I remember this show when I was little; I found it fascinating.
It would be interesting to take each episode, and show how things really turned out.
Thank you for sharing this tragical-comical piece of time documentation.
Despite the obnoxious voices, it was truly hilarious - and of course sad at the same time. If we only laugh at it, we totally miss the golden opportunity to see that we are absolutely unable to predict anything even thirty to forty years ahead. The real danger is to believe we are better at predicting today than in the 1960s, but I will still venture to predict that human society in forty years from now will be unrecognisable...insofar it will even exist.
One consistent thing Iâve noticed with any predictions of the future is overestimating how much technology will change and underestimating how much social change there will be.
Very true. There are limits.
They may have underestimated the ability for people to adapt to tech, and the level of planed obsolescence required for implementation of tech. People aren't as fascinated with home automation as they thought, or it may have happened sooner.
It took decades for computers to find their way into every home.
I wouldn't say they overestimated, they just estimated according to what they knew. After all, the internet is one of the most incredible inventions in human history. In combination with cell phones, almost everyone has immediate access to an unfathomable amount of information at all times. One device which we use to learn, network, socialize, and entertain ourselves. So after hearing this guy gush about an inflatable chair, I'd say they didn't overestimate; they simply estimated incorrectly.
The scientific community has often been composed of large numbers of fools who hold vast book knowledge in very small areas of a specific field.
@@gotouguts2066 I agree, I think we just can't predict or sometimes even comprehend what will change/hold importance/be the way of the future.
It's 2021 and I'm living in an apartment building that hasn't been renovated since the 60s LOL
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HA! I'm in a double-wide trailer home built in 1954. "Renovations" seem infinite. I do love my pink bathtub and sink though.
bruh moment
Same here lol
They predicted chairs you would find in a 90's teen room with that inflatable chair....
It's interesting to hear someone back then have such a good take on suburbia and sprawl.
30-hour work weeks, month-long vacations, inflatable chairs, and furniture made of paper. In actuality, we have 80-hour work weeks, vacations destroyed by Covid, inflatable sex dolls, and CZcams videos on pimple squeezing.
Dam that was funny. LMAOROF!
Well the furniture made from paper concept is a pretty close truth just shop at IKEA!!! ---junk
And CZcams videos from Russians telling us that we are not pooping properly. And Russians not necessarily being bad guys looking to nuke us to defeat the Capitalist West, but instead join it and leave the ex-USSR behind, like Putinâs old bossâs boss at the Museum that puts out the Spycast podcast.
Remember, this describes 2001, not 2021. The iPhone is still in the future, and the Blackberry screenless.
Soon you can ditch the inflatable doll, there are better options, soon can have your own AI doll companion
some of what they predicted came true. sadly most of what they predicted that came true was the worst case scenario, but one has to still admire our technology has most definitely made life far more simplified for certain things at home.
Jokes on them they actually just predicted the 70's
That's what I was thinking.
I had the same thought.
Still the future to them đ
@Kiki r/TechnicallyTheTruth
This is a good concept.
Walter Cronkite....when newscasters just broadcasted the news, said thank you for joining us tonight and then you wouldn't hear from the newscaster until the next night. No fake news, no spin, no personal opinions.
âBy the year 20000 the US will have a 30 hr work week and a month-long vacationâ LMAOOOOOOOO
By the year '20000', the US will have been fossilized, the Earth will have turned into a wasteland , and humans will have colonized tens of thousands of star systems in the Milky Way :).
@KraB Please don't! I can't guarantee those things will happen.. They were merely speculations based on some probable scientific scenarios as to what the year twenty thousand CE might be. Earth could be buried in an Ice Age or humans, having exhausted all earthly resources, could be forced to abandon Earth and seek new planets to settle on. It could happen or, then again, it couldn't. Just, don't hold my word for it.
I work that part time
@KraB that's not physically possible.
Welcome to Europe! đ. This as been normal here for years.
1960s: âFuture homes gonna be awesome houses!â
2022: âHappy when I can pay my rent and have some money for heating.â
Right. Just got charged $100 for water đ itâs only me & my husbandâŠ
Thanks Biden!
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What has Biden to do with the complete failure of the US to fully urbanize their cities?
If you watch the video closely they predicted with pinpoint accuracy how the suburban sprawl will destroy the housing market and bankrupt cities.
Heating? What a luxury. I forgot what it feels like to not have numb toes.
5 years ago, I could have had it on all year and spent less than I do just to cover the standing cost now.
@@mrzabie0138 they fuck with us worldwide.. greetz from germany
Forward 2023 we still have apartment buildings from the 40s 50s 60s and 70s and 80s a lot of these folks from that era will be disappointed, That not everybody's gonna be able to afford them high end apartments, because of the high cost of rents. Especially in LA. A 1 bedroom is going for almost $2000 and a 2 bedrooms for $2400 to $3000 depending on the area located.
I remember in 1999 that they said everyone will have there own computer or the internet by 2005 and it would help everyone. Social Media kinda ruined it as made a lot of people depressed.
But it's really up to YOU how you use and control it.
Imagine his shock when he found out All these devices he mentioned can fit into one single device that can fit into his pocket. Which now controls a human life.
Lol. True. Back in the '90s when I was growing up, everything was its own separate device, and they were these big, heavy, blocky monstrosities that only public places, such as some schools, have. That wasn't that long ago, but even back then we couldn't imagine a pocket-sized device that could do all of these things, either. Now people can't imagine life without smartphones, lol. (And if you're like myself, who does not own a cell/smartphone -I only borrow the one I'm using now -people look at you as if you're an alien, lol).
@@phatcat3705 I don't own a smartphone too but I still have a phone. I'm blessed to have my childhood in the later half of 90s that gave me a chance to be exposed to outdoor plays with neighbors. It's great to experience the great days of 90s and also be there in the tech age. I get to experience the best of both worlds.
@Iâm eating cereal I've watched Social Dilemma. It's basically saying companies used psychology to get you hooked and create demand on their products. Targeting your very core habits. If you know how habits work and how it is created you can still have hope. You can still control your life even if you are surrounded by this Technology. I've read the book Atomic Habits and Power of Habits before I ever encountered the movie and so I kinda understand the whole movie how these technology creates great divide among people by feeding them with more information related to what they are seeking like how a confirmation bias happens.
I watched documentaries like this when I was a kid and "the 21 century" was a sci-fi dream. They got many things ridiculously wrong, but they also got a few right, like home computers, remote working, on-demand entertainment, big screen TVs, microwave dinners, robots...
I feel so old now, I need to sit down... but I can't remember where the hell I left my favorite inflatable chair!
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I really thought it would happen.
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Did you check the carrying bag?
People working essential jobs can't work from home. People need to work in grocery stores and be nurses and doctors in actual hospitals. Get real.
@@dystopiaisutopia what
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It's incredible how much they got right in this program. Not everything but a good bit!
If I can't bring my self inflating bubble chair, I'm not coming.
Haha omg I just busted up reading this.
it was actually popular in early 2000s. its not around anymore because its uncomfortable af
Imagine trying to get the air out of your chair at the end of the night so you can put it back in itâs little bag for the trip home đ
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It's hard to forget we're living in the future, their future
and in primitive times for an advanced civilization of tomorrow
We are also living in the past, the future's past.
@@S.O.N.E that's somehow deep, interesting to think about
Itâs funny that the âfuturisticâ room that Cronkite is sitting in looks just like the ones in 1960âs tv shows
So they kinda predicted microwaves, suround sound speakers, wide screen TV, working from home via computer, video calls, in-home security cameras, digital learning, and instant food like microwavable dinners
Nah, not really. There already were microwave ovens, stereo, and frozen dinners when they made that.
A lot of that stuff existed back then. Not exactly the same as today and far more expensive than today. Computers existed (though they were massive). The internet was in its infancy (mostly used as communication between college campuses and between military bases similar to a text message or email today and some limited information).
"Our tables, chairs made of paper"
Foreshadowing Ikea? đ đ€Ł
Hello C faz how are you doing
FYI Ikea was founded in the 40's. Was just in Sweden back then though.
So if I may ask where are you located
We're get'n there. Someone made a chair out of paper that u open up like a book.
@@fredjohnson5458 bruh this isn't tinder
Funny how these looks at the future always seem to be stuck in the aesthetic of when they were produced...
People have a hard time looking beyond what is currently fashionable.
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What âaestheticâ? That rounded house was considered bad taste back then, and the âprefabâ houses were recognized as just mobile homes referred to in a fancy way.
They might have been popular in California, but no one but California thinks that anyone there has good taste.
It's unavoidable. Go back to the Fifties and their "Home of Tomorrow" had a full-size humanoid robot to do the job of a Roomba.
I remember watching this show when I was a little kid in the 60s.
They were always off.
Also nobody ever predicted that we would be watching videos on a personal computer over telephone lines.
You know, they got a remarkable number of things correct here, or close to it. I was around, one year old when this came out. âșđđŒ
1960: look, a house in 2001!
2020: look, a house in 1970!
A house in the 21st century... A tent
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That mid century furniture is sought after and very expensive now!
I think we all want the simpler days
@@bettyh3747 only in trendy SoCal. We should all be as lucky!
@@bettyh3747 if you live in CA
@@bettyh3747 It's getting that way, but not because of technological advancement.
"Our favorite easy chair may be inflatable". I take that to mean they thought house cats would be extinct.
You must have missed the part where Walter explained, that the cats of the future will have their own computers with images of your furniture so they can digitally sharpen their claws.....geez, pay attentionđ Besides, most of the cats would be crushed by the tiny feet of the robots.
And also fat people.
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Belted Radials.
And that kids would stop jumping on furniture and not bite it
Or that you would have to sit on them in Florida in the summer.
This is really cool!
1960s: Print like there's no tomorrow!! BRRRrrrrr!!!
2020s: Everything is inflated to the max!!!
They were right about controlling a house from one location, but instead of a giant Star Trek control panel, we just use a cell phone.
To be fair, the phone might as well be a Star Trek control panel
"Cell" phone
iPad on the wall there you go
@@Lee-km7qq Exactly, but the difference is in appearance mostly, at least that's what Id think hes saying.
iâd happily take a star trek control panel instead of a phone lmaoooo
*twitter for star trek control panel*