Monsanto and Disney's Plastic Home of The Future
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- čas přidán 10. 06. 2022
- Disney. Monsanto. So much fun to be had. Plastic homes and flat screen TVs, it's the future year of 1986 and it's sure to be a good time.
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It’s interesting that in the 50s plastic was considered luxury and beauty, while now it’s considered to be cheap and garbage. Indispensable or disposable. The fact that so much of our environment is polluted by micro plastic waste probably did not help its image in the long run.
I’ll tell you what’s interesting, you making a well spoken point on a subject and not contributing said quote to some random meme character.
The plastics industry figured out they can make more profit if they made people think of plastics "disposable" instead of something that was durable that could last for centuries as originally imagined.
@@dojokonojo Yep, though that probably came about with the same kind of mentality that brought about McDonalds.
that's quite honestly interesting, & a dope hypothesis bc for most people a lot of electricity that was developed yrs ago is so long-lasting then recent appliances, & electricity that is being developed now.
@Safwaan basically i've always observed that some of these appliances, & electronics from like an century or yrs ago depends if the person is still using them are just so versatile, & A1 compared to in this case appliances or most electronics that's being manufactured/developed rn.
Oddly there’d be something kinda interesting about having an explicitly outdated attraction based around predicting the future
I think it fits with the theme of tomorrowland that being a perpetually updating take on what is essentially the Jetsons.
I would like to visit well maintain Jetsons-ish attraction like that. The 2000s that have never been.
They should make an offshoot of Tomorrowland called Tomorrowon'tland, featuring all the old Tomorrowland attractions
@@Descriptor413 yeah yeah I love retro-futuristic themes.
It’s a fun part about watching The Twilight Zone; seeing what “futuristic” was to people of past generations.
I think Disney World becoming a weird tech demo convention with smart homes etc would be a pretty strange combo though; but keeping it old-school and sci-fy esque while dropping any corporate branding would be sweet.
I feel like that could be a fun premise for a science fiction story too. One that plays with TYE FUTURE as it was being predicted in the days of Gernsbeck and Asimov, the gleaming silver future we were promised in the 30s and with the Atomic Age.
I have to admit I do actually like the overall aesthetic of the house... I'm a sucker for retro-futurism
yeah, there really is something different about mid-century design
Same here, it's part of the fun of the Fallout series
I wish I could still go there. The feeling of entering a house made in the 1950s with everything well preserved would be surreal.
Looks like cheese
The concrete foundation is still there. They hollowed it out, painted it green, and planted some trees in it. They threw some camo netting on it to try to disguise it, but look out for it the next time you’re at Disneyland. It’s behind the Pixie Hollow sign, close enough to the path that you can easily touch it if you want.
That sounds like some weird but oddly peaceful post apocalyptic thing
Scavenger hunt?
@@fullmetaltheorist ?
@@TBustah I mean you're leaving clues on how to find this hidden object kind of like a scavenger hunt.
@@fullmetaltheorist There are other “clues”? No, I just thought people might like to touch what’s left of the house like I did.
Honestly though, construction would probably be a better use case for plastic than the disposable one we've given it today, seeing as plastic's original purpose was to be a long-lasting material that would take a lot of abuse and time to break down.
Except it would still slowly break down through sun and water damage, the get washed into the ground and leave the soil full of microplastics. It wouldn't even last particularly long either. You can look at plastic that has been left outside for a long time to see how much it falls apart, like children's jungle gyms or old barrels. It starts to lose color, then gets brittle and falls apart
Also fire, as another commenter pointed out. Wouldn't want the house to catch and cover me in burning liquid goop
@@orinblank2056 they tried to burn it when it was time to remove it, and that didn’t really work!
Let me know how that goes during the summer or a tornado.
@@patrickmarsh2538 the house had a concrete base, which is still there today! They had to use essentially cutting torches to even dismantle the plastic home attached to that base, so only the absolute strongest winds would be able to rip it off.
TBH an American wooden home is also very light and blowable-seeming compared to the brick houses I’m accustomed to, but those wooden houses mostly do okay. I’d be interested in a test of situations where they get blown off their foundations (since that does happen to that construction sometimes), how the plastic construction compared. But AFAIK that was never done.
1950s: "By 1986 the kitchen can almost get dinner itself. But that's no fun"
2022: "Fridge, order food!"
Although plastic is not often marketed as a finishing material for homes and isn't practical for most structural purposes, it does show up a lot in construction for other means, particularly insulation, weather-proofing, paint, and fenestration.
Kitchen tops
And reinforcement spacers, some projects would have tons of theses.
I was going to say the same. Homes use more plastic than people realize.
We use plastic ABS pipe in plumbing.
@@16driver16 No, we put them in the walls. I was merely commenting that plastic is still heavily used in the construction of a house.
safety-wise plastic would probably be the last material i'd use to build a house. I'm not crazy about the idea of being trapped under a ton of magma like melted goo if it ever catches on fire
Or walking onto a structurally compromised section that didn't feel too hot and having your foot / feet / entire self sink and get coated in the stuff
What about fulfilling your Willy Wonka fantasy of living in a home made of chocolate?
Would still probably be safer and give you more time to escape than a wooden house that catches fire, depending on the plastic being used.
@@darken2417 definitely wouldn't consider it an escape considering you are about to be so badly covered in melted plastic you probably won't be able to move far
@@kameronjones7139
Different plastics can have extremely different properties. Making it more resistant to flames or heat than wood is one of many quirks that can be applied to the development of materials.
Unlikely you'd survive the fumes long enough to worry about being covered in plastic goo even if your house was made of literal water bottles.
Yknow, with the impact that plastic has made on society, for better or worse, I have to wonder what the world would be like if plastic was never invented? Might be worth an episode of Alternate History Hub.
Mr Cody, Sir, please!
I have a hard time even imagining it. It's in our electronics, wiring, depending on the house water pipes, it's used with our foods and we ship things. It's so ubiquitous that it's up there with a strange reality where cotton was never domesticated.
There would be a lot more dead people. For all its faults, it is indispensable in medicine and modern medicine would not exist without it. Many devices would be far more dangerous as plastic housings make short circuits inconvenient rather than deadly in handheld devices like drills and cooking tools.
@@charion1234 Hemp?
That would be so utterly different it would be almost impossible to imagine. It's easy to only think of plastic in terms of household products, but it is used so widely in so many critical industrial applications that lacking it would require an entire different understanding of technology.
One good example is Hydraulics. Hydraulic cylinders rely on non-metallic seals to function. Usually these are made from a synthetic rubber or plastic (You can use leather or rubber but they degrade very fast and don't last very long). If there was no plastic hydraulic systems would be much much rarer and only used in very specialized applications. This has significant knock on effects. One example of that would be in heavy duty construction equipment, without reliable hydraulics most construction equipment would operate like it did in the 1930s. This would mean that not only are big buildings rarer, but everyday buildings are more expensive to build and buy. A society where housing is even more ridiculously expensive than today would look very different to ours socially and politically.
And that's only one tiny aspect of this world. Cars and furniture would look radically different as they rely on hydraulic presses for manufacture. Airliners might not exist as large aircraft can't be controlled without cylinders to move the control surfaces and gear. Robots might not exist as we know them today. This one small element alone causes dramatic changes to the course of history.
Back when this was the worst Monsanto were up to.
Oh I highly doubt this is the worst they were up to.
DDT IS GOOD FOR MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
@@notdoppler83is this what you would say after someone makes a joke? what a buzz kill
@@ethanwasme4307 No. I just doubt this was the worst they were up too. Thats all.
A couple of notes: In 1957, the electric razor was an option available on the Chevrolet Bel Air (possibly available earlier, but I only know for sure in 1957). Yes, that's an electric razor available to purchase with your car that plugged into the cigarette lighter socket. Also, there are still some Futuro Homes around. A friend of mine lives in one somewhere in the middle of Illinois.
You don’t know exactly where your friend lives or you’re not his friend
@@fastinradfordable No, YOU don't know where he lives, and it's going to stay that way. I doubt he wants to be bothered by trolls.
@@fastinradfordable Didn't knew you absolutely HAD to know where someone lived to be their friend in this day and age. I don't know where most of my friends IRL live, but that doesn't mean we're not friends either way
I could see how an egg-shaped plastic house could be hard to demolish. Have you ever tried to destroy a plastic Easter egg? The material and shape could make the wrecking ball bounce right off.
"Monsanto! Because without chemicals, life itself would be impossible!" (That was really their slogan)
Literally the first Disney attraction I ever saw was the Monsanto theater in Tomorrowland, Disney World, Florida. It must not've been very good because I remember the lobby more than I remember the film, but, eh, whatever.
Too bad these futuristic homes were never preserved. Here we are on CZcams, all looking at old footage of how people thought the future would be.
“The sinks move up and down!”
But….why?!
You know, for kids!
I know you're going for a meme here but to be serious for a second it's because people make the connection that complexity equals futuristic which it isn't. It just means it's more annoying just like having a sink that moves up and down.
With home many convenient appliances were coming out in the 50s, people just expected more would come out for even the most niche uses
I often forget that this type of commercial was actually the norm in the 1950s and not just spooky videos from films and video gamess
Those cabinets would drive me crazy after 2 weeks. They're so, so slow. Even getting a single cup out of the cabinet takes half a minute, instead of just the normal whoosh, grab, bang of a normal door cabinet.
Imagine what decades of UV radiation from the sun would do to it.
It probably turned yellow like the SNES super nintendo consoles of the 1990's .
Depends. Some plastics are much more resistant to UV radiation than others.
Nothing a little clear coat can't fix.
Yeah, bleach the thing white, then, yellow, then dryrot, then fall apart, then dust on the ground.
Always a quality exploration of an obscure topic I’d never thought about. Cheers
I actually like the idea of plastic housing, but not really for permanent residency. I think it could work well for disaster relief scenarios as temporary shelter. I know that plastic isn't as recyclable as previously thought, but any reason to recycle waste plastic into actually useful things is at least interesting.
As far as the ac and every room being able to control its own temp, they do this now is Japan and some other Asian countries. They use mini split or ductless units and each room has its own head unit with its own remote to control temp. It's actually more efficient and lower cost then current ac systems and split systems
Notice how the only thing used by the man was his razor and toothbrush, but the only thing you see the woman and daughter do are chores (washing dishes, cooking, setting the table, doing the bed). I.e. "For the men, look at all this cool stuff to relax and look after yourself", "For the women, look at all this cool stuff to help your husband relax and to look after him". It makes me realise how different the world was just 70 yeas ago (fun fact: did you know women did not have proper voting rights in canada until the 1960's) compared to now. If that ad were made today it would be considered so sexist, but then it was not only normal, it was the future.
What I like most about this concept is the modularity; adding more rooms easily using prefabricated sections would be wonderful, and the possibility of moving your house piecemeal to another location would be quite convenient, too.
I like the fact that you don't have to bend over to fill and empty the dishwasher. Would be a great thing especially for the elderly.
My parents have a dishwasher that's located higher up so don't have to bend over.
It's definitely a thing
I wish that actually modular houses were a thing. I hate that whenever you want to do anything to a house you almost inevitably need to take a sledgehammer to your walls and rebuild everything after. It would be great if all you had to do is remove a few bolted-on panels instead.
Imagine going to Ikea style showrooms and being able to order any rooms you want!
Modular homes do already exsit, they cost just as much as a normal woodframe home but can be made far stronger and longer lasting.
Ah, Disney and Monsanto. The perfect collab of evil!
Truth be told, I love this. I absolutely love it. I would love to live in a plastic house, I would love to live in THIS plastic house, because I just love that whole mid-century aesthetic. I also think the concept of modular housing was a really good one, and of course double-wide mobile homes exist, so evidently other people think so, too. It's got issues, of course (How are you supposed to hang things on those curved walls?) but it just looks really neat. The kind of future they promised me as a kid, which I never got.
Well, I guess they didn't promise *me* specifically, since this was torn down the year I was born, and I didn't even know about it until the 1990s, but still, I just love this.
Wouldn’t plastic homes be especially susceptible to strong winds due to how light plastic is compared to traditional materials?
Weather straps should help with that
@@joriankell1983 angry neighbor cuts your straps
Come back from vacation and your home blew into the lake during a typhoon
@@DoABarrelRol1l you don't know how foundation straps work, do you? Nice try, kiddo
@@joriankell1983 That's true i've never heard of them but that was the concept that popped into my head
@@DoABarrelRol1l they're metal straps embedded in the foundation slab. They strap over the frame of the walls at the bottom.
All I could think of when you say "plastic house" is "fire hazard".
It’s funny to think that living in a plastic home used to be seen as “futuristic” when now it’s more of a capitalistic urban nightmare scenario.
If you ask me it just looks like the Jetsons, now everyone is obsessed with shipping containers.
I don't get where's the "capitalistic urban nightmare" in building a house out of plastic
@@HeortirtheWoodwarden Its a single family Unit, its made out of a non recyclable company and it was made up by a Capitalist Firm which just wanted to expand profits. Simply put, this would have never happened in such a form under Socialism
@@aturchomicz821 So it's like a normal house. And screw socialism.
@@aturchomicz821 yeah, because nothing would happen under socialism
What if we made those out of recycled ocean plastic though? solve two crises at the same time.
Better idea store the plastic, it would make great use when we colonize other planets
@@hs5312 Or maybe learn from the past and like.. not go around colonizing places al lover again.. Plus it's still more energy efficient to try and fix our planet as best we can rather than terraform a distant planet over the course of centuries. There's no Earth II .
@@POKker1996 who said anything about abandoning earth. We can fix earth and colonize other planets, it’s not one or the other, both can be done and likely will be done
@@POKker1996 There's literally no one there, maybe some microcrobs, but even then we haven't find a trace of that.
Problem with affordable housing is not about building materials too expensive.
Well I hear life in plastic is, in fact, fantastic!
I build new modular homes, steel frame and built to tight specs, I run the roof department.
I don't really think the house was there to show off a plastic house as much as it was to show off technology that would be popular in the future, whether it be in 1963 or 1986. It was almost like a worlds fair display in a big plastic flower shaped house. I mean they didn't get the execution right on some of it but they were showing you what would be commercially available in the coming years.
I FUCKING LOVE MICROPLASTICS IN EVERYTHING!!! I LOVE CONSUMING IT IN ALL MY FOOD AND WATER
Good lord I love retro Disney, thank you sir.
man they could have kept the cheese wheel house and had it be like a time capsule type thing,, it'd be so fun walking around it and seeing their predictions of the future.
although i guess that's kinda what the epcot golf ball ride is
There's something clean about this aesthetic that I love. But yeah otherwise, I think plastic home in the long run wouldn't be a good idea. I did hear about 3D printed homes as an aim to combat homelessness, that would be an interesting video.
Currently watching this while eating my burger for dinner. I look around the kitchen and I see so many things that use plastics in either large or small quantities. My window frame is plastic, the fridge has lots of plastics used for panels and the interior walls, my microwave has a plastic fascia, my recycling bin is plastic, hell - even my steel and wooden bar stool has a few plastic end caps on it.
Plastics play a huge role in the modern household for a multitude of reasons. While they don’t make up the bulk of construction, they have their place. Honestly - PVC piping is a huge one that comes to mind.
It’s easy to forget sometimes, but compared to what our ancestors had: we absolutely do live in the early part of what would historically have been considered the technologically advanced future. I’m interested to see where it goes from here. We’ve been making leaps and bounds into things like AI in forms that would’ve been science fiction not so long ago.
Imagine the static electricity shocks you could give to others in that home!
Man I realy wanted to hear about plasic compared to wood, concrete, etc.
7:40 if anyone is like me to save your time
Thanks.
You must be new to this channel
@@nanonymous9139 sadly no, but I always hoped. But since after years it does not seem to be for me I unsubscribed.
The foundations of that house are still there today but are painted in the infamous Go Away Green colour Disney uses for things they want you to ignore! AdamTheWhoo also did a video on it many years ago! :)
1950s: Live in Plastic!
2020s: Plastic Lives in You!
love how you talk as if monsanto is defunct. They're still quite around and still doing quite terrible things
"Unquestioned ethics and moral fortitude" 😅🤣😂😂🤣🤣😅😅🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣😅😅😅
Hey, plastic is nothing. Imagine a world without zinc! Lol
I recognize that Simpsons reference !
Such a beautiful house like that would be solar powered. So no bills.
You'd still have to pay off the solar panels manufactor, shippment, & intstallation cost. So yeah, you'd still have bills each month for several years.
In one African country, somebody (a woman with not much education I want to point out 😊! Good for her!!! ❤️❤️❤️) Found a low tech way to repurpose junk plastics into building material for housing! Very durable, insulated, and free (for her and many people).
THREE new 'hub' videos' in a day. 👏 thanks guys for all you're hard work.
"DDT is good for me" And so is eating lead and drinking paint.
A great little piece of history. Thanks for the video!
It looks like a white Tide Pod with parts cut out.
Plastic housing is the future. It'll be cheap to create, especially if the process is automated, and we can churn them out quickly. With today's innovations with technology we can make them efficient and practical. AND there's more than enough plastic in landfills and the ocean to build thousands of modules without ever having to add "fresh" plastic. I think this will be ideal to make pod homes that have a limited footprint while pulling plastic from the trash.
seriously some of these features are awesome and i wish i had them in my house
The old plastic homes were flexxed and thick so hitting them with wrecking balls didnt work. They had to use bulldozers to break them up due to the constant pressure they can produce.
KnowledgeHuh.
"and of course, don't forget to look really creepy while taking those dishes out Sally!"
*Little girl stares and smiles into the nothing*
"Ha-ha! Atta girl Sally!"
Walt Disney, Warner Brothers, Universal, Nickelodeon, DreamWorks, And Legos should combine there efforts yeah
2:20 Rare footage of the Minnie and Micky Mouse wendigo cryptid.
Honestly, if it were made of modern flame-retardant materials and had normal cupboards, I'd ABSOLUTELY live in this thing. I love the design, it's slick yet cosy. That living room especially. Add a couple beanbags on the floor, and it'd be an awesome room to lounge around in and get high with friends.
Would've been cool to keep it and just add more and more each decade as a subdivision of progress and optimism.
Why did it change from hub to husk.
because he's a husk of the man he once was.....or something
@@TheKingOfNachosTM bucket of chicken!
Honestly, with the weirder era pre-whimsu channel it wasn't inaccurate
Disney has brought back the Mansanto: home of the Future. They’re now calling it Home of the Retro Future Suite. The bathroom is not that great though.
I've been watching both of your channels from time to time, but until you mentioned it I hadn't realized you hosted both lol
will there be a home in the future where i can sell my personal information to a big company in turn of getting smart trash bins
Remember when this channel was solely about geography? I'm not complaining, I'm just wondering who else has been watching since the GeographyHub days?
He has become a sell out, and dont give me that “variety” reason. Thats just a thinly veiled excuse of a person who has lost all morals, dignity, self respect and pride
@@shatterscape He made a vid 2 years ago explaining the change in direction of the channel and the reasons for it. You can go look it up.
I don’t care
This content is better
@@kitsuaria4859 I refuse to listen to the words of a person that betray their own self.
I’m confused about the sellout part. Seems like he’s doing more content that interests him personally instead of making stuff because it was popular. Almost the opposite of selling out. And morals? Give me a break, just because you don’t approve doesn’t make it a moral failing. This person needs to get off the internet for a little bit, I think.
None of the features of the home seem terribly outré or unreasonable, really. Even using your dishwasher for storage... I think anyone who has a dishwasher has been guilty of just taking plates straight from the rack instead of bothering to stack them in the cupboards more than once.
Isn't that what dishwasher is for?
I mean cleaning and storing clean dishes ready to be used next!
I do that with my clothes. I usually just keep the stuff on the line until I have accumulated the next wash and then I take off whatever is left.
7:33 One futuro that I know of was converted into a *”””funtime palace”””* in Tampa, Florida and is still around.
For each room to have its own temperature you need a whole home ductless mini split heat pump system. They’re becoming more common in the US, but they’ve been pretty common in Asia for quite some time now. The secants though? Idk glade plug in?
The world would be a better place if Monsanto never existed
I really like the idea of the retractable cabinets and sink. That's a nice touch. I'm more surprised they predicted the doorbell camera
plastic really caught on very quickly
I remember going to the spiritual successor of this attraction, Innoventions. It had (wait for it)
An electronic drum kit.
That was clearly a decade old.
Felt really odd seeing this "thing of the future" when I already had the more upgraded version sitting in my own bedroom.
Anyway, I wonder if that's what people thought upon seeing the microwave.
this is the earliest I have ever been
They were right about the dish washer being used to store dishes. Lmao.
We may not have plastic homes, but we do have Plastic Love.
That’s wrong. We have plastic homes all over the world right now and they’re bringing Futuro homes back into production.
Just realising fallouts inspiration for corporate vaults/attractions
We need not look further than miracles from molecules if we want to glimpse into the dystopian future we could have had.
The kitchen. All I see is, maintenance nightmare, maintenance nightmare, maintenance nightmare. There gonna be mice and roaches ALL up in that shit, in all the cracks and crevasses of all that machinery.
Ok I’ll give DISNY this they got a lot of things right but some things wrong mostly the everything moving things and the ultra sonic dishwasher and the fridge being non existent but they did get a lot of things right I love looking back at what people used to think things would be like it’s super interesting
As if we didn't have enough microplastics as it is… 😏
I want that dishwasher!
Ah plastic the material we made, that is now in my lungs and digestive system!
The plastic molds would have to have had pellets injected or vacuformed into it somehow. You could always grind the bulkheads of the plastic house down into pellets to be re-injected or formed. That's it's own challenge however
I think that's a very good idea, make family homes out of ocean plastic.
I got a Disney+ ad on this video
The 1950's peoples were likely obsessed with smells because everyone (well every male anyway) over the age of 11 was smoking 4.5 packs a day and Smell-O-Rama was the only way they could smell anything anymore.
Boy, howdy! I cannot wait for it to be 1986! They look like they will have so many cool doodads and gizmos at that time! I bet society will be really nice, too!
Hey you! You aren't a husk of knowledge! You're a hub proper!
4:46 "Observascope" is a great name. Not for a TV, I don't know what for but it's great.
I admire plastic as a use for permanent structures. Plastic gets a bad wrap for being used too much for single use products. Imagine an incredibly durable house that simply will not rot? Used from recycled materials perhaps?
The Last Time I Was this Early, The Plastic Home was First Unveiled)
I don't know about anyone else, but a kitchen with retractable everything sounds wonderful
Man that house probably would light up like an oil refimery if you accidentally dropped a cigarette in there
yay a flammable death dome!
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
Long time no see
3 big problems with these, plastic was actually kind of hard to make with oil back then, so these things took tons of oil, they also didn't understand plastic was extremely flamable and flame retardants wouldn't really be well understood for decades later, and probably most importantly the plastic shell would badly degrade over the course of a few decades
flash forward to 2022 and everyone wants a house built in the 1950s because we went with stucco instead of plastic