Actually, they did NOT get that wrong at all. All the technology seen in those commercials had already been developed at that point by AT&T/Bell Labs. They just didn't have the network & infrastructure in place or the devices built yet to carry it on. I can't stand people who talk out of their backside when they know NOTHING at all about which they speak
They aren't wrong. AT&T laid the groundwork and built much of the telecom infrastructure that was used for all of the things in these spots. That's what this is all about.
Exactly. ATT and it's spin offs are big players in telecom infrastructure. Just think of all the cell phones: they talk to a tower, but that tower sends that info via fiber to where it needs to go.
Have you ever wanted to live in a cruise spaceship while robots clean up the garbage on Earth? You will in 81 years, and the company that will bring it to you? Buy N Large.
44 years old I remember when these commercials came out in the early 90s I was 18 in 93 and it was a magical time first getting started with computers it was awesome unbelievably so just brings back a lot of nostalgia.
I'm 40 and I remember watching these commercials with my brother and we were fascinated by them. I still remember my brother saying to me "Imagine that.. being able to tuck your baby in from a phone booth" and look where we are. 😊
Same. That's one thing a lot of younger people might be missing about these. They were things that felt like they were just on the cusp of existing. None of it was outlandish. It was largely just slightly improved or tweaked versions of existing technology that was still in the embryonic phase. Much of it was the idea of it becoming mainstream or more reliable. For example, video chat. Webcams technically existed in 1993, but weren't common. In 1994 you could buy a black-and-white QuickCam for US$100 for choppy video chat. But easily having access to full-color, 30 frame per second video and it was so ubiquitous you could do so from a phone booth instead of your computer? Or the remote teaching. In the late '90s I took upper-level Latin in high school via distance learning where due to low enrollment the teacher taught a combined class made up of students from three schools in the district in a dedicated classroom with TV-quality real-time audio and video. But doing the same thing _from home_?!? This was more about evolutionary change rather than revolutionary. That's a big part of why it was so notable. Because we _knew_ it was coming soon.
Huh that one specific example of someone turning their lights off at home via their smartphone really struck me, that's such an everyday thing now I forgot how wildly futuristic the idea was 30 years ago. The 'PDA/phone' mockup they created looks, at a glance, like your average high end smartphone today, minus the stylus. The fact that the screen was super imposed in post gives an almost OLED looking level of clarity, which is totally normal now but a complete fantasy in 93. Seeing something go from purely hypothetical to completely mundane within your lifetime is wild.
It's more of a change brought about by how the iPhone eschewed a stylus and was successful enough to be heavily copied. Before then almost every PDA used one. Most notably the Palm and the Apple Newton.
what was pretty sad about that is that they were doing it on a high speed train, which only reminds me that the US has taken decades to construct any significant high speed rail
I really miss the "cassette futurism" aesthetic. It feels so warm compared to what we ended up getting. There's just too much abstraction in design these days and the public response to everything is dystopian.
This reminds me of my mom in 2000 telling me that when I grew up, our entire CD collection would fit on a tiny chip, the size of my fingernail. I did not understand then, but now I am modding an old iPod mini, and guess what I am replacing the harddrive with... A tiny chip (microSD), the size of my childhood fingernail, and holding my entire CD collection, there will be plenty of room to spare. The engineers at AT&T saw this coming, and they understood their crucial role. Of course they did not mention the competition, but they were right, they are bringing all of these things to us today, as well as all their competitors. We have a lot to thank the talented people in the tech sector for.
What happened? I know most of the tech we take for granted now was invented in bell labs, esp after seeing commercials like this, why did they just give up?
NOT true, these "technologies" werent just as simple as "inventions" they weer systems that required tons of infrastructure just to be made posible...ike people talk about how zuckerberg invented facebook as if he invented the entore idea of a social network and without giving any credit to the wireless networks that enable it and the smartphones and the android google software that came from Linux and just the history of linux alone is massive and that is just one small piece of it...you see what i mean? people act like these things were all just invention as if someone invented the smartphone with front facing camera to have video chat no they evolvd piece by piece first we had phones with cameras then we started to get the ability tpo send images and videos and emails and sruf websites and then we had more and more functionality we had more features and eventually when ALL the components are in place a new app or service organically arises emergent order there was no single invention of anyone of these technologies....the people who invented "Tivo" didnt invent ANYTHING new the idea of a recording TV on a TV card onto a hard drive on a computer was old, they just packaged it nicely and made some spiffy software... and honestly ATT did alow all of this to happen, ATT and verizon have all the Mobile Cell Towers that give us all our 4g mobile internet that makes EVERYTHING possible in terms of the internet...so I think youre forgetting about that....
@PattiBowenSolutions AT&T had lost its monopoly in 1984 after the breakup of the Bell System. Modern AT&T is in fact SBC Communications, one of the split off subsidiaries of the former Bell System, having purchased the parent company and taken its name.
I just love this compilation....these commercials bring back so much nostalgia...hearing Tom Selleck and the background music. I was a much younger man in 1993 - and the future held so much promise. Nostalgia can be soothing and sad, all at the same time.
"Have you ever sent a photo of your genitalia... to a random stranger at 3am?" "Have you ever swiped a photo of a woman and find urself paying for her dinner the next night" "Have you ever watched Brazilian women .... eating eachother's feces and vomit out of a small cup?" "Have you ever had the opportunity to learn all the miraculous wonders of the universe... but waste it on cats, porn, and arguing trivial points with strangers?" You will...
Incorrect. I renewed my license three years ago, using an app on my smartphone. The DMV mailed the new card to me. I didn't have to go anywhere near their office.
Every single prediction came true, some went beyond what was promised! And all it cost us was any semblance of privacy, annominity and dignity that we ever had....
god thank you I literally came looking for this commercials after seeing them clipped in a Brutal Moose video and being like WHAT SONG IS THAT, WHY DO I KNOW IT. I thought it was a genesis song but I couldn't remember which one it was, and was so disappointed thinking I was imagining things. Nope, it's cause it sounds just like solsbury hill! saved me a right earworm!
My predictions for 2043: Flying cars will be a thing, but as a small 1 man controlled drone and conventional cars will still be majority of travel...infact in a big city, there is going to be thousands and thousands of different sized drones flying around, making deliveries and what not... 3d printing (if hopefully allowed) will advance incredibly and be a world changer...hand tools,hardware,utensils,plates,cups,small furniture,guns,clothes,stuff for repairs,circuit boards,electronics, small electrical appliances such as maybe a small fan, and medical supplies and organs.....this will put alot of people out of jobs, but my idea is, say u wanns buy a Gucci shirt. You go online, download the file, maybe get a special "ink" delivered to your home, and then you have the 3d printer print it out for you. Maybe the same for complex things like cellphones? Factories will rely heavily on huge industrial 3d printers to mass produce everything from big furniture to maybe even cars?
As far as I understand the military industrial complex is about 10 years ahead of all tech we see today. So it just makes sense that those who knows...know.
'Have you ever attended a meeting... in your bare feet?' I'll do you one better, I've attended an entire workday in my boxers shorts. Thanks for bringing that to me AT&T, err, I mean Zoom. 😂
0:16 ' Have you ever watched the movie you wanted to, the minute you wanted to?" Yes, thanks PayPerView, HBO on Demand, Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus, etc... 0:49 'Have you ever gotten a phone call, on your wrist?' Yes, thanks Apple Watch. wait a minute... what exactly has AT&T done for us?
Yes, but hardly anybody does the things that AT&T envisioned on them in the videos, as we do them all thru our mobile devices now (except actually get cash).
@@IMDLEGEND But they nailed everything that could be done remotely. YOU predict 25 years from now. I will. The USA will not exist, and we will bow to our commie overlords. Those of us who weren't nuked following the civil war.
I remember going to England in 2005. EVERY SINGLE phone booth was, in fact, a urinal. Every one had a trickle of 'fluid' running out of it and smelled like piss.
Have you ever had a problem with your bill and found a website so confusing and maddening you called the customer service number and waited on hold for over and hour just to be transferred from one department to the next? You will....
I remember a time when Bank ATMs were able to sell you movie tickets!! And the tickets came right out of the machine. This was a service of Arizona Bank in Tempe AZ, in 1985. The cool part was that these ATM tickets were discounted. I remember some people saying things like "Damn computers taking over the world" and stuff like that. I vaguely recall there being more than movie theater tickets available...seem to recall concert stuff and special event stuff too..
I love the edgy blade runner looking filmmaking. Do commercials with this kind of lighting and cinematic edge still exist. Commercials seem so bright and flat now
Have you ever been a company so universally hated that you had to buy AT&T just to own their name? You will. And the company that will bring it to you? SBC.
These commercials make me yearn for a time when we were optimistic about the future of technology and what it would contribute to society. I don’t have that same faith today in 2020.... the result of one man, social networking, and the society that voted for him by misusing it.
@@TheStanglehold Donald Trump has contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans and have tax cuts to the rich. Barack Obama saved the economy from depression. Take your pick.
Have you ever met new friends from your bedroom? Have you ever used your fridge to make a shopping list? Have you ever read a book on your television? You Will! And the company that will bring it to you, AT&T?
Traylor did do a "You Will" commercial. And the first one is usually the one cited. But it doesn't look like her to me. The blonde woman in the second commercial is Jenna Elfman.
The irony for me is that I'm switching from AT&T to T-Mobile tomorrow. Sure, AT&T will bring it to you....as slowly and expensive as they possibly can.
@@6bim4uYGfeGSM4jdEm9g2 I am, sort of. I switched from AT&T to Mint Mobile a few months ago. Mint is an MVNO that uses the T-Mobile network. Switching saved me a lot of money.
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"Have you ever wasted hours posting hate messages and spam to help a politician who won't ever notice you because that made you feel for once you had a purpose and community in your depressing life ?" "Have you ever spent nights arguing on the internet to ''wake up'' people who never sollicitated your opinion just because you feel they're on the wrong aisle ?" "Have you ever developped a drug-like addiction to some toxic echo chamber that makes you more angry each day ?" "You will" Ah, AT&T were so optimistic before we knew how much of a cesspool that part of the internet could be.
Have you ever watched your favorite TV shows the moment you wanted to? Have you ever carried your favorite recipes in your wallet? Have you ever checked out a book from your local library from your phone? You Will! And the company that will bring it you, AT&T.
Benbot lol. Those bastards are long gone. I remember I didn't even buy a cell phone until I quit seeing pay phones entirely. I got tired of my car breaking down and having to walk 10 miles to get back home. Back in the day, Pay Phones were everywhere. Now you very rarely see them because no one uses them.
Have you ever paid your electric bill at an ATM? Have you ever watched sporting events whenever you wanted to? Have you ever played music by talking to your music player? You Will! And the company that will bring it to you, AT&T.
Have you ever taken dance classes from your own home? Have you ever kept score of poker with your phone? Have you ever got VIP Sports tickets at a lottery machine? You Will! And the company that will bring it to you, AT&T?
Have you ever received a charge on your bill that you have no idea where it came from? You Will! And the company that will bring it to you AT&T...
THE BEST!!!! LMAO!!!
rofl, thanks for making me spit out my drink!
Have you ever tucked your baby in. From a phonebooth.
You win everything...
Ahh, haa, haa, haaaaaa,!!!!!🤣🤣🤣
These are absolutely amazing. The only thing they got wrong is " The company to bring it to you, AT&T"
Actually, they did NOT get that wrong at all.
All the technology seen in those commercials had already been developed at that point by AT&T/Bell Labs.
They just didn't have the network & infrastructure in place or the devices built yet to carry it on.
I can't stand people who talk out of their backside when they know NOTHING at all about which they speak
They aren't wrong. AT&T laid the groundwork and built much of the telecom infrastructure that was used for all of the things in these spots. That's what this is all about.
Lol
As another said, AT&T did, and still does, provide the backbone terrestrial services for many of these amenities.
Exactly. ATT and it's spin offs are big players in telecom infrastructure. Just think of all the cell phones: they talk to a tower, but that tower sends that info via fiber to where it needs to go.
I remember some geek telling me 20 years ago that you'll have tv, music etc all on your mobile phone....I thought he was crazy...
NERD ALERT!!
I was just a kid when these commercials came out and I was blown away by the possibilities. All of these things have come true. It is amazing.!!
The one about attending meetings virtually really hits home right now..
Have you ever typed angry sentences at a complete stranger, from thousands of miles away? You will.
😁😂🤣😅
Have you ever wanted to live in a cruise spaceship while robots clean up the garbage on Earth?
You will in 81 years, and the company that will bring it to you? Buy N Large.
44 years old I remember when these commercials came out in the early 90s I was 18 in 93 and it was a magical time first getting started with computers it was awesome unbelievably so just brings back a lot of nostalgia.
Great feeling.
Just reading your comment made me feel the idea.
I'm 40 and I remember watching these commercials with my brother and we were fascinated by them. I still remember my brother saying to me "Imagine that.. being able to tuck your baby in from a phone booth" and look where we are. 😊
Exact same here
I remember hearing about the release of Wired magazine on CNN's Future Watch and went to Waldenbooks every day until they got it in.
Same. That's one thing a lot of younger people might be missing about these. They were things that felt like they were just on the cusp of existing. None of it was outlandish. It was largely just slightly improved or tweaked versions of existing technology that was still in the embryonic phase. Much of it was the idea of it becoming mainstream or more reliable.
For example, video chat. Webcams technically existed in 1993, but weren't common. In 1994 you could buy a black-and-white QuickCam for US$100 for choppy video chat. But easily having access to full-color, 30 frame per second video and it was so ubiquitous you could do so from a phone booth instead of your computer?
Or the remote teaching. In the late '90s I took upper-level Latin in high school via distance learning where due to low enrollment the teacher taught a combined class made up of students from three schools in the district in a dedicated classroom with TV-quality real-time audio and video. But doing the same thing _from home_?!?
This was more about evolutionary change rather than revolutionary. That's a big part of why it was so notable. Because we _knew_ it was coming soon.
Huh that one specific example of someone turning their lights off at home via their smartphone really struck me, that's such an everyday thing now I forgot how wildly futuristic the idea was 30 years ago. The 'PDA/phone' mockup they created looks, at a glance, like your average high end smartphone today, minus the stylus. The fact that the screen was super imposed in post gives an almost OLED looking level of clarity, which is totally normal now but a complete fantasy in 93. Seeing something go from purely hypothetical to completely mundane within your lifetime is wild.
S22 ultra with spen or every galaxy note will be on point having a stylus
I literally just turned off my home office light via my smartphone 15 seconds before reading this comment.
It's more of a change brought about by how the iPhone eschewed a stylus and was successful enough to be heavily copied. Before then almost every PDA used one. Most notably the Palm and the Apple Newton.
@mikefly562 why ? That's dumb.
what was pretty sad about that is that they were doing it on a high speed train, which only reminds me that the US has taken decades to construct any significant high speed rail
Funny how all of these commercials came true... except the last sentence in every one of them.
Lmao...every single one came true...except every single one didnt come true
I don't think anyone is touching babies from a phone booth.
Phone yes, phone booth no
@Zion Thomas-Harmon Not a cash machine, but there are kiosks for renewing driver's licenses.
@Zion Thomas-Harmon I have renewed my DL from my cell phone. And the State that brought it to you...Georgia.
I really miss the "cassette futurism" aesthetic. It feels so warm compared to what we ended up getting. There's just too much abstraction in design these days and the public response to everything is dystopian.
You just blew my mind with that observation! "cassette futurism" LOVE IT!
What is cassette futurism?
@@realSamAndrew You will
@@TheBoondoggler I don't get it
@@realSamAndrewzoom conferences but instead of using .pdf they use fax machines
Steve Jobs watching this back in 1993:
"It's free real estate"
“Nice Picture “… she must have been trying to spy on his ATM code.
This reminds me of my mom in 2000 telling me that when I grew up, our entire CD collection would fit on a tiny chip, the size of my fingernail.
I did not understand then, but now I am modding an old iPod mini, and guess what I am replacing the harddrive with...
A tiny chip (microSD), the size of my childhood fingernail, and holding my entire CD collection, there will be plenty of room to spare.
The engineers at AT&T saw this coming, and they understood their crucial role. Of course they did not mention the competition, but they were right, they are bringing all of these things to us today, as well as all their competitors.
We have a lot to thank the talented people in the tech sector for.
AT&T: You can get a phone call on your watch, thanks to us.
Apple: Cool story, bro.
Why is the future so dimly-lit and hazy?
noahz Yup, it's a standard def view of a high-def future. But standard def was all they had back then.
@@RobotPorter Blade Runner. That's the only way to make the future look like the future without looking cheesy.
because cyberpunk
cos Fincher shot the future
VHS and a composite signal.
I remember these I was about 15 or so. What an awesome time, everything was changing and it was exciting as hell.
Wow. I was 8 years old when these aired on tv, and I vaguely remember seeing them then. Watching this brings up weird feelings.
AT&T Could've made tons of money developing these technologies, but instead they let all the other companies take it all.
I know. AT&T missed a great opportunity to let all of this happen.
***** Yea, well they did buy up all the companies. 1st SBC, then Cingular, and now Time Warner.
What happened? I know most of the tech we take for granted now was invented in bell labs, esp after seeing commercials like this, why did they just give up?
NOT true, these "technologies" werent just as simple as "inventions" they weer systems that required tons of infrastructure just to be made posible...ike people talk about how zuckerberg invented facebook as if he invented the entore idea of a social network and without giving any credit to the wireless networks that enable it and the smartphones and the android google software that came from Linux and just the history of linux alone is massive and that is just one small piece of it...you see what i mean? people act like these things were all just invention as if someone invented the smartphone with front facing camera to have video chat no they evolvd piece by piece first we had phones with cameras then we started to get the ability tpo send images and videos and emails and sruf websites and then we had more and more functionality we had more features and eventually when ALL the components are in place a new app or service organically arises emergent order there was no single invention of anyone of these technologies....the people who invented "Tivo" didnt invent ANYTHING new the idea of a recording TV on a TV card onto a hard drive on a computer was old, they just packaged it nicely and made some spiffy software...
and honestly ATT did alow all of this to happen, ATT and verizon have all the Mobile Cell Towers that give us all our 4g mobile internet that makes EVERYTHING possible in terms of the internet...so I think youre forgetting about that....
@PattiBowenSolutions AT&T had lost its monopoly in 1984 after the breakup of the Bell System. Modern AT&T is in fact SBC Communications, one of the split off subsidiaries of the former Bell System, having purchased the parent company and taken its name.
Funny how the actual future turned out to be WAYYY cooler than they were even predicting.
I just love this compilation....these commercials bring back so much nostalgia...hearing Tom Selleck and the background music. I was a much younger man in 1993 - and the future held so much promise. Nostalgia can be soothing and sad, all at the same time.
Well said. Well said. Feel exactly the same. I turned 16 in 1993. I often wish I could return to what felt like golden years.
@@ryeosborne I hear you! The future held so many possibilities...now the runway is getting a lot shorter.
and now you're buying reverse mortgages from Mangum PI
@@nomadcowatbk Times change for sure!
"Have you ever sent a photo of your genitalia... to a random stranger at 3am?"
"Have you ever swiped a photo of a woman and find urself paying for her dinner the next night"
"Have you ever watched Brazilian women .... eating eachother's feces and vomit out of a small cup?"
"Have you ever had the opportunity to learn all the miraculous wonders of the universe... but waste it on cats, porn, and arguing trivial points with strangers?"
You will...
this needs about 50K more updoots
And the company that will bring it to you? ...AT&T.
@@sethburke OnlyFans
Touch screens, smart watch, smart home devices, face time,… AT&T wasn’t far off
AT&T basically leaked all of their best ideas on TV and then let all other companies have it all. AT&T could’ve been the next Amazon.
Have you ever attended a meeting without pants on. YOU WILL and ZOOM will bring it to you.
I argue that they were simply implying that AT&T would supply the ability to do it. Not be the one to bring the technology. Just the pipeline.
They did bring the technology. They were hugely instrumental in developing things like packet switching that made all of this possible.
"Have you ever bleed?
You will."
AT&T
okay, that went dark...
Yeah, it surprised me after all the neat stuff suddenly it was like, “Have you ever bleed?”
Have you ever renewed your driver’s license somewhere other than a raggedy DMV? You never will.
Incorrect. I renewed my license three years ago, using an app on my smartphone. The DMV mailed the new card to me. I didn't have to go anywhere near their office.
The future was cool in the '90s. Nowadays I wish I could hit rewind.
0:46 smartphone
1:35 iPad
This is spot on!
Every time I see E-ZPass I hear Tom Selleck say you ever paid toll without slowing down you will. Back when I was a kid.
Every single prediction came true, some went beyond what was promised! And all it cost us was any semblance of privacy, annominity and dignity that we ever had....
Let me tell ya something: we never had any real privacy, ever.
@@NohjAnec ackshully we did. Now everything is easily compiled and collated thanks to aTT and their like.
The government has been keeping on tabs on everyone way before we had cellphones.
@@NohjAnec nah, I got paid in cash b4 cellys
ESPECIALLY "dignity"
Have you ever sat on your hand long enough to cut off circulation to give yourself a stranger? YOU WILL.
And the company that will bring it you? [Google] [Apple] [Amazon] [Everyone Besides AT&T]
Also Microsoft.
How do you think the data from Google , Amazon, etc gets to your phone?
They didn't create the infrastructure.
They need to hurry up with the renewal of Driver’s License at an ATM machine…that would be flippin AWESOME!
Several states let you renewal your driver's license online these days. I'd rather do it at home than at a public ATM machine.
@@bobt811 Great wait for it to get mailed while mine Pops out the machine!🔥💰
@@chaneltyler I hear ya, but in our state can just print out the confirmation and keep it in the glovebox and show to anyone, while waiting.
@@bobt811 NO!!! I want my updated, renewed DL to pop out and Ready to Rock! No mail, no printers, NO B.S.!
Be better to have digital licenses so it's always on your phone
You can tell that they really wanted to use Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill" but couldn't make it happen
god thank you I literally came looking for this commercials after seeing them clipped in a Brutal Moose video and being like WHAT SONG IS THAT, WHY DO I KNOW IT. I thought it was a genesis song but I couldn't remember which one it was, and was so disappointed thinking I was imagining things. Nope, it's cause it sounds just like solsbury hill! saved me a right earworm!
Occasionally with Whitney Houston singing at the end of some of them.
I remember these commercials and thought these things were going to be awesome, but boy did it ever take so long!
These were directed by David Fincher. He was also working on Alien 3 at the time.
Love hearing Whitney Houston’s voice singing “Your True Voice”!
Groundbreaking in 1993. Quarter century later, all of it exists, though not as shown. Hope i get 25 more years to see where we are then.
My predictions for 2043:
Flying cars will be a thing, but as a small 1 man controlled drone and conventional cars will still be majority of travel...infact in a big city, there is going to be thousands and thousands of different sized drones flying around, making deliveries and what not...
3d printing (if hopefully allowed) will advance incredibly and be a world changer...hand tools,hardware,utensils,plates,cups,small furniture,guns,clothes,stuff for repairs,circuit boards,electronics, small electrical appliances such as maybe a small fan, and medical supplies and organs.....this will put alot of people out of jobs, but my idea is, say u wanns buy a Gucci shirt. You go online, download the file, maybe get a special "ink" delivered to your home, and then you have the 3d printer print it out for you. Maybe the same for complex things like cellphones? Factories will rely heavily on huge industrial 3d printers to mass produce everything from big furniture to maybe even cars?
Have you ever had to convince a total stranger that the Earth is round? You will.
Soo Nostalgic, I remember these ad's like it was yesterday. Time fly's yall.
It's 2019 and I'm still waiting on those driver's license renewal kiosks. I freaking hate going to the DMV!
In CA (maybe on other states) you can renew the licence over internet, unless it's the time to update your picture.
Blame 9/11 and Republican slashing of funding for federal and state services.
@@timedraven117 Now it would be all voter fraud and illegal alien turrists and somehow the space lasers.
@@Alexagrigorieff I renewed my license on my iPhone while sitting in a restaurant. That was in 2018. (I live in NC.)
Maybe AT&T can still at least bring us that one.
As far as I understand the military industrial complex is about 10 years ahead of all tech we see today. So it just makes sense that those who knows...know.
'Have you ever attended a meeting... in your bare feet?' I'll do you one better, I've attended an entire workday in my boxers shorts. Thanks for bringing that to me AT&T, err, I mean Zoom. 😂
0:16 ' Have you ever watched the movie you wanted to, the minute you wanted to?" Yes, thanks PayPerView, HBO on Demand, Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus, etc...
0:49 'Have you ever gotten a phone call, on your wrist?' Yes, thanks Apple Watch.
wait a minute... what exactly has AT&T done for us?
Have you ever attended a meeting--while secretly masturbating the entire time? You will...
I find it funny that they got many predictions exactly, but they could not see us moving beyond ATM's and phone booths.
Yes, but hardly anybody does the things that AT&T envisioned on them in the videos, as we do them all thru our mobile devices now (except actually get cash).
beyond atms?
@@IMDLEGEND But they nailed everything that could be done remotely. YOU predict 25 years from now. I will. The USA will not exist, and we will bow to our commie overlords. Those of us who weren't nuked following the civil war.
And the company who will bring it to you: ATT.
I remember going to England in 2005. EVERY SINGLE phone booth was, in fact, a urinal. Every one had a trickle of 'fluid' running out of it and smelled like piss.
Kids these days be like:
"what the hell is a phonebooth?"
Have you ever had a problem with your bill and found a website so confusing and maddening you called the customer service number and waited on hold for over and hour just to be transferred from one department to the next? You will....
LOL!
AT&T is now famous for billing issues and convoluted service packages.
Back when they thought it the utilities rather than the hardware manufacturers would be the innovators.
I remember a time when Bank ATMs were able to sell you movie tickets!! And the tickets came right out of the machine. This was a service of Arizona Bank in Tempe AZ, in 1985.
The cool part was that these ATM tickets were discounted. I remember some people saying things like "Damn computers taking over the world" and stuff like that.
I vaguely recall there being more than movie theater tickets available...seem to recall concert stuff and special event stuff too..
These hit for real, to the 90s.
I love the edgy blade runner looking filmmaking. Do commercials with this kind of lighting and cinematic edge still exist. Commercials seem so bright and flat now
Optimistic cyberpunkish future? Count me in!!
So the sort of present?
@@Marylandbrony Not really.
Have you ever been a company so universally hated that you had to buy AT&T just to own their name? You will. And the company that will bring it to you? SBC.
The future is voiced by Tom Selleck.
These commercials make me yearn for a time when we were optimistic about the future of technology and what it would contribute to society. I don’t have that same faith today in 2020.... the result of one man, social networking, and the society that voted for him by misusing it.
Ah yes. Barack Obama.
@@TheStanglehold Donald Trump has contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans and have tax cuts to the rich. Barack Obama saved the economy from depression. Take your pick.
@@TheStangleholdNo Donald Trump. The first President in history facing criminal charges and his goons along with him.
Basically AT&T got all of this right except the AT&T part
Simpler times. Still with this company.
It's Traylor Howard aka Natalie from Monk!!👍👍
The 90´s, where the future was filled with fog.
This is scary uncanny insane! 😮
0:12 & 0:57 - Your True Voice by Whitney Houston.
Now that I live in this future, I want to go back before this technology.
Have you ever met new friends from your bedroom? Have you ever used your fridge to make a shopping list? Have you ever read a book on your television? You Will! And the company that will bring it to you, AT&T?
This commercial predicted the future. It called it.
Thhats some nostradamus shit right there.
Have you ever had a company promise you unparalleled conveniences, then not delivered on any of them? You will.....
100 % Proof of programming the masses through the media… just like how they use the Simpsons as well
You notice the first commercial that the guys driver license renewal date was 2002? I never caught that before until now.
Someone should do a present day version with our current tech, and at the end say NOT brought to you by AT&T.
Es prodigiosa la capacidad que tienen algunos para imaginar el futuro.
Absolutely premonitory
To the best of my knowledge, these were all directed by David Fincher.
The blonde lady in the first 2 commercials was Traylor Howard (Natalie on “Monk”)
Traylor did do a "You Will" commercial. And the first one is usually the one cited. But it doesn't look like her to me. The blonde woman in the second commercial is Jenna Elfman.
The irony for me is that I'm switching from AT&T to T-Mobile tomorrow.
Sure, AT&T will bring it to you....as slowly and expensive as they possibly can.
still using t mobile?
@@6bim4uYGfeGSM4jdEm9g2 I am, sort of. I switched from AT&T to Mint Mobile a few months ago. Mint is an MVNO that uses the T-Mobile network. Switching saved me a lot of money.
"Have you ever wasted hours posting hate messages and spam to help a politician who won't ever notice you because that made you feel for once you had a purpose and community in your depressing life ?"
"Have you ever spent nights arguing on the internet to ''wake up'' people who never sollicitated your opinion just because you feel they're on the wrong aisle ?"
"Have you ever developped a drug-like addiction to some toxic echo chamber that makes you more angry each day ?"
"You will"
Ah, AT&T were so optimistic before we knew how much of a cesspool that part of the internet could be.
Wow. Right on.
All these years and I didn't realize this was Tom Selleck!
0:31 - Jenna Elfman
1:53 - Naomi Watts
Have you ever had your mother's purity challenged by a total stranger? You will!
AT&T could have made tons of money as a psychic.
Have you ever called for help just to get a person that cannot speak fluent English? You will and AT&T will bring you that shit
Everything cept the phone booth spot on, as i sit in my car in the middle of nowhere watching this.
AT&T might have ruled the world by now if they didnt say they will bring these tech to us back then
Have you ever watched your favorite TV shows the moment you wanted to? Have you ever carried your favorite recipes in your wallet? Have you ever checked out a book from your local library from your phone? You Will! And the company that will bring it you, AT&T.
I love listening to Whitney Houston sing "Your True Voice" jingle!
Tom Selleck doing the narration.
They went wrong only on one thing, the last sentence on each ad...
It is kinda freaky when they predict the future and get it right.
So they were 9 for 11 in predictions. That’s pretty fucking good.
The technology that will bring it to you is the Internet. Sorry AT&T.
YOURRRRRR TRUE VOICE
What's a phone booth?
Benbot lol. Those bastards are long gone. I remember I didn't even buy a cell phone until I quit seeing pay phones entirely. I got tired of my car breaking down and having to walk 10 miles to get back home. Back in the day, Pay Phones were everywhere. Now you very rarely see them because no one uses them.
That went away in many places long before payphones due to people vandalizes them, sleeping in them and generally using them for illegal purposes.
Dude they didn't get rid of phone booths here till about 5 years ago
Benbot if you don't know. You'll never know.
I saw one last week at a Dunkin Donuts
Higgins will put a stop to these shenanigans.
00:31-00:39 cell phone viewing screens, the commercial I've been looking for
AT&T; they had the vision - just not the will.
Have you ever watched the rapid devolution of society one social media platform at a time... you will.
Have you ever attending a meeting without shoes on? Yeah, Every fucking day. Even go to school like it now 😂
Have you ever paid your electric bill at an ATM? Have you ever watched sporting events whenever you wanted to? Have you ever played music by talking to your music player? You Will! And the company that will bring it to you, AT&T.
Have you ever taken dance classes from your own home? Have you ever kept score of poker with your phone? Have you ever got VIP Sports tickets at a lottery machine? You Will! And the company that will bring it to you, AT&T?
I forgot Whitney sang that hook