The Incredible Machine (1968)
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- Interesting old film detailing advancements in computer/digital technology, featuring the 'Graphic 1' computer system at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Includes scenes of:
*Digital musical composition
*Electronic circuit design utilising a digital pen
*Digital movie production
*3D simulation of orbiting satellite
*Conversion of pictures to mosaics composed of tiny images
*Digital voice modulation
The Bell Labs 'Graphic 1' computer system consisted of a Digital Equipment Corporation 'PDP-5' computer coupled with input devices such as the 'Type 370' light pen and Teletype Corporation 'Teletype Model 33' keyboard, married to a Digital Equipment Corporation 'Type 340' precision incremental display backed by 36-bit Ampex 'RVQ' buffer memory capable of storing 4096 'words'. The resolution on the monitor was 1024×1024.
This system was designed to transform the graphics-based input into output to be fed into a IBM '7094' (200 Kflop/s). The entire thing was attached to a microfilm-based recorder - the Stromberg Carlson 'SC 4020', which took hours to read and record the data.
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They are wasting their time , computers will never work.
execlacli, dont worrey everythhang is allrite
It's true, never will work. A group of loosers (...)
Same with faster than light travel... god, these scientists eh?
It is ridiculous to see them teaching machine to speak.
@@ultrasparc That was 51 years ago, and for them it was new technology and they were researching computer science
Somehow this feels more futuristic than modern technology. Maybe it's the optimism.
Well I thought so too but if we were to go to a mayor tecnology company lab we would be looking at some 10 20 years plus cutting edge technology
Yep, future in the 50s and 60s looked closer than it looks today.
Sometimes it pays to take a step back before you move forward
It's definitely the optimism. Unlike back then we dread the future more often than not.
It's because of the CG visuals, early computer music, and speech synth isn't it? It's jarring to see a fair amount of technology we use today being very present in 1968... given its' VERY basic presentation... What's stranger is that all the components used in the computers are still manufactured today in one form or another.
They made so many random things because everything they did was new and never done before. A golden age of computer programming...
It's actually impressive how much they were able to achieve with such limited computing resources, and how well they integrated all these technologies together: analog video, typeball typewriters, punchcards, magnetic tape, light pens, etc.
Hard to believe they had computers like this in 1968
Not much has changed since then, asides from the size, complexity, and processing power of systems. And naturally their storage mediums and affordability.
Give me my quantum PC already...
01DOGG01 Well, not much changes between the brain of a lizard and our brain, aside from size, complexity and processing power. And we aquired new capabilities in the way of 'just make it bigger'. Like abstraction, language and logic deduction.
I what to history museum it'd all about 1968
The principle is the same today as back then. Processing of information. Input, process, output. A hundred years from now, much will be the same, only more powerful. We will have tiny microchips the size of a mm2, doing calculation at speeds of yottaflops.
once the transistor came out... BAM! everything changed...
Thank God computers were just a fad.
My grandfather still insisted that even in the early 1990s!
Hey you kids, get off of my 16 baud communication trunk!
Yeah, imagine if people were mesmerized by them and stared at screens all day! What kind of life would that be for humans?
lol
ATH
And this was only like 50 years ago, incredible how fast technology progresses.
Fran GT i hate your avatar :D
Some do, some dont
I'm actually impressed, that they already had all this over 50 years ago, graphics and sound, smooth animation... These guys had a very good idea of what is going to happen in the future. My mother was born in the early 60's and she would always tell me, how there were no computers back then...
What’s more impressive is that they had planned out the Internet
Besides the amazing retro computer graphics and sound, what I really like is when they show the people having normal discussions as part of their jobs. In most industrial movies like this either nobody talks at all except the narrator, or when they do it's incredibly stilted.
That was the Bell Labs presentational style-a sort of interactive storytelling. Variations of it have been satirized; such as this scene from a movie in 1968. czcams.com/video/s2NNZdigSXg/video.html Or an actual one made in 1957 at czcams.com/video/k_wt5AFjRQo/video.html
1968 : We could pick up a phone and write down a movie in complex limited code and render pictures and music scores.
2019: pick up a waterproof phone with unfathomable processing power and nut to 4k hentai in the shower using 1gb/s internet speed.
Yeeeah I'd say we're utilizing our technology to its fullest potential.
The internet is for porn, as they say
Yo what the fuck? (A person from 1968)
Water resistant.
Speak for yourself.
@Blind Bob The shear inaccuracy, naivety and elitism displayed in that comment is honestly astounding. You've reached levels of ignorant douchebag I honestly didn't think were possible, it's damn impressive.
I love how these old films on computer technology always feel the need to make the soundtrack BEEP BOOP BLARPABARP
Can you imagine being alive back then and being blown away by this?
I'm alive now and am still blown away by it.
Yes imagine.
My grandkids would probably say the same us.
I know a lot of the stuff shown is trivial on hardware currently available to us. But still I'm in awe of the technological advancements shown in this video. Would be amazing to play around with such a system.
It's still pretty mind-blowing, but in the inverse parallel way that, instead of being futuristic, it's retrospective.
6:35 this dude predicts the flipping future! "sit at a train station and write a movie" and "or use a telephone and write a movie"... both things, of which we are now perfectly capable of doing....
The joke is, most people are busy arguing on Twitter, Facebook, and on CZcams via devices that have so much more potential. :(
That is amazing, it is by far the most vivid accurate forecast I have ever heard.
Predicting the smartphone!
Genetic technology is where computers were 50 years, so keep your ears peeled.
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COPYRIGHT DEFEATED
A bogus claim by 'Association Relative à la Télévision Européenne' was defeated last night. The video should now be available everywhere again.
Thanks for preserving this!
I know this was posted 6 years ago. But copyright claims that restrict videos to specific countries are so dumb.
what on earth kind of copyright claim could a European Television association think they had on a film made in Dearborn, Michigan?
Copyright has been twisted into a sick perversion. It's not at all, what it was originally intended to do.
@@davidpar2 They probably used a segment from it. Happens all the time. Sony used some footage from the 20s and claimed copyright on one of my uploads. They refused to budge. Can't do anything about it.
Man, the future will be crazy with such amazing technology. Also, whoever made this "music" deserves all the prizes.
I agree.... I grew hearing that melody and I still feel relaxed heating it up until now
"Hey guys, let's take a break and hop into BF5"
Indeed. Jobs never invented a single thing. His ruthlessness was to simply monetize the inventions of others.
Mikey McMikeFace may be... but applying pre-existing technologies in new context, combinations, forms or uses TOO is an Intelectual Invention! The interactive interface applicated into mobile device was a new concept! As Newton Said: "If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants". All scientific and technologic advances are stacked puzzles and dominoes pieces! Don't forget this fact!!! I'm inventor, composer, singer, musician, physic researcher, 3d designer, poet, novel writer, sculptor, and maybe more... for that reason I understand in first person and defend the work of an inventor and a creative. Please do not criticize without having experience and knowledge on the subject. Thanks!!!
Wow, 1968 had better speech synthesis than on most 2019 CZcams videos!
-> 14:00 "Haya loya loy each on zeeb lag?"
MEH NO HOY MEE NEY NEYO NOY NEE NOY MEE NEW NEE HOY
Generic comment that isn't even true...
@@Stuit3rb4lJesus that was hard to understand going into it without knowing what the sentence was supposed to be.
Gotta love the Sixties... "It's about computers, so the soundtrack has to be BOOP BEEP BLOOP BLARPABARP" XD
They still do that today in hacking scenes.
It was way more modern than the percussive rattling KLACKA-KLACKA-KLACKA-KLACKA electromechanical computer noises of previous decades.
@@Zwettekop in these days, they start a heavy acid techno song and make the actor write 500 words per minute in a keyboard.
That light pen technology eventually led to *Nintendo’s Duck Hunt.*
Surely would have seemed like a work of magic to the primitives in this video.
Holy sh** its the Laughing Man!
LOL "Duck Flunk" yup.
Hermentotip I thought what I’d do was pretend to be one of those deaf-mutes... or should I?
Quattordici Montenapoleone - it is impressive when you consider not many years earlier their computer was the size of a warehouse and needed a small army of kids to run around replacing blown vacuum tubes...
I find it simply staggering that my father used to learn programming with assemblercode saved onto punchcards whilst I started programming c++ saved on harddrives a billion times the capacity. All this just a few decades apart.
I was stuck in the middle with BASIC, and later FORTRAN.
My mam learned to program on punch cards the same as ur dad and it just seems like such an archaic technology to me
@@carpetsomething My dad also started programming on punch cards, in the 1980s.
... I used to program in FORTRAN IV on punch cards, and years later had many telephone conversations with Bjarne Stroustrup about how C++ should be designed.
@@JiveDadson That's really cool! For some reason, FORTRAN was easy to me, but I could never grasp C++.
Back when engineers wore suits and suits wore hawaii shirts
StuG III is a sniper schnitzel
Back when engineers actually engineered, and weren't just constructing piles of java.
@@mikeymcmikeface5599 Engineers still engineer, just because the medium has changed for many doesn't mean there's less merit in the field.
@@CockatooDude bah
@@mikeymcmikeface5599 Whaddya mean bah!? It's not like engineering has gotten any easier. People were pushing boundaries then just like people are pushing boundaries now.
What a time to be alive 🤩
Imagine what you could do if this computer would be available to normal citizens. Or even better, if this processing power and programme would be available in a form factor that could fit in a pocket.
Just mind-blowing!
I love the dramatic lighting everywhere! You can see where Hollywood got their idea of what computers are like. Unfortunately, their understanding has barely progressed since.
This was one of the best videos I ever saw on CZcams, though! :)
Despite being absurdly informative and curious, it's also very artistic. The light, the music, the narration, they all work together to create a very strong mood. And the fact it uses computer music and computer graphics all the time is just brilliant. This is an amazing video even for today's standards.
My dad worked as a field technician for Bell from 1969 to 2003. He told me that at its peak, Ma Bell had everything for its enterprises, from the line services to R&D to equipment production and supply, all under the Ma Bell umbrella. He said in the '60s and '70s they heard of amazing tech and programs that Bell Labs produced, and such things as this boggled his and his coworkers minds and amazed them all the same. Now we'd consider it primitive, but back then, this was cutting edge and top of the line. Amazing stuff, great video.
The internet, every smartphone in the world, and Macs run entirely in technology started by Bell Labs (UNIX, Linux, Android, et-all)
Bell Labs was the preeminent research facility for just about everything considered cutting edge. It also was responsible for the experiments proving the Big Bang.
@@alobosk You could word that better as neither Linux nor Android have anything to do with bell other than their operating systems are descended from UNIX.
I swear some company must have made a ufo with how advanced they were at the time
@@kwisatzhaderach1458 We can easily make a UFO. But is it cost effective and efficient? No.
Our planes are still 60s-70s models with a few modifications.
Can't wait to get my hands on one of these babies. NOICE!
This is mind blowing...Bell Labs 21 years after they invented the transistor. Staggering.
This just illustrates the genius that was at work in the research departments of places like (especially like) Bell Labs.
Thank you so much 01DOGG01 (cool name - subscribed)
Heh. YT went ahead and flagged like 100 comments as spam. One of them was yours. I just approved them all.
Unfortunately they shut me down and told me that I had to post original content, even though this is in the public domain. They took away my revenue from my own videos, such as my lockpicking one that has millions of views. It really pissed me off.
What an awesome documentary, it's quite a trip. Things were similar enough that you can relate, yet still so different that it seems like a different planet. The two engineers designing a circuit on what looks like a highly usable touch screen system, in a dark room with gloomy red lighting, wearing suits and ties...
Thanks a bunch for uploading, I subscribed to your channel!
Not a problem mate, I love stuff like this. I've had to cut back though due to bogus copyright issues.
You know, the CIA built a dragonfly in the 70s. It used a fluidic oscillator as the engine, and gas as the fuel. It was guided by a laser beam and designed to deliver an audio bug to a taret location. It had its limitations though, such as a 100 meter range, and would not work in windy or even breezy conditions.
Imagine what they have now!
czcams.com/video/TZ3spmVqnco/video.html
It's not a touch screen. They're using a "light pen". An old-fashioned input device that fell out of use in the late 80s to early 90s.
@@01DOGG01 Fwiw; back in the late 1960's they were able to listen to people in a room a mile away by bouncing a laser off its window back to the source. The changing light pattern from the vibrating window was bounced back and read by an interferometer used to create the speaker's sound. Very heavy curtains are a must have for company boardrooms.
*Imagine what they have now!*
@@WokerThanThou I understand how it works, but question the accuracy of that allegation.
I mean... can a voice really vibrate a window that much? Surely it would depend on shape, size, etc...
The biggest issue I have is that there are other environmental factors which far overpower the impulses that a human voicebox generates.
A car or truck driving past would vibtate the window a lot more than your voice. There's simply too much interference to be able to filter out such a tiny interference.
If you can show me evidence, I'll be well impressed. But will probably miss it as I'm being swamped with comments now as the video skyrocketed in popularity overnight.
@@01DOGG01Veritasium
made a video on something like this.
czcams.com/video/eUzB0L0mSCI/video.html
"We'll be on the way to sending three dimensional color picture messages over ordinary thelephone lines" Wow!
It's pretty much what the internet is now
Could they have imagined viewing movies in real time over telephone line? I really doubt that.
I did my first 'work experience' from school in the 60s at a computer center that processed wages. The programmers didn't have screens at all. They did however send digital images to each other on the printers. (usually pornographic, one guy got the sack while I was there).
Same principal, not fast but the idea was already there.
gifs
DSL and 3D SRS ...
In the future, every typewriter will incorporate computer technology in some way.
um...when were you born? I haven't seen a typewriter except for when I was a kid and there was one in our grandmas study
That's up there with being able to pick up a phone and write a movie. Seems awfully cumbersome, but when you're The Phone Company, everything is seen as a way of extending the scope of your product. It's like when people thought that the ultimate goal of information technology was being able to fax pictures and documents instantly.
Back then, casual Friday meant working with your suit jacket unbuttoned.
At 7:47, it's interesting how they use the term 'countless dots' to make a picture. The term 'pixel' had not come about yet.
While you're right in the fact the term pixel hadn't been coined yet, they wouldn't need to use the word. The displays used on the computer are vector displays which don't use pixels. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_monitor "In a vector display, the image is composed of drawn lines rather than a grid of glowing pixels..."
@@bluskos and that is exactly why you cant use the nintendo light gun on our new tv's the light gun required the vector display to work.
@@hardwirecars Not exactly. Light guns require CRTs as they simply detect the moment the electron beam hits the photo detector inside the gun. Since the console knew where the beam is at any moment it could deduce where the light gun was pointing at. However CRTs are not vector displays. Old CRTs didn't have pixels though as they were quantized only vertically in lines and horizontally they didn't have any quantization: the horizontal resolution was limited in an analog way by their bandwidth (and that of the input video signal). Later color CRTs started having horizontal 'pixels' due to various grids they needed for the RGB phosphors. Vector displays are a different beast entirely.
@@catalinvasile9081 thank you
The computer folks wanted use a nonstandard term. So instead of a dot matrix, someone came up with the term pixels, which meant picture elements. All this just to be different. very odd.
9:17 - this may be the actual PDP-7 that was used to develop the initial version of Unix. It came from the Visual & Acoustic Research Department once deemed to be surplus to requirements.
1968: we will have touch screen devices
2019: HA- wait a second, here it is...
2007* lol
@@assassinaria 1965 actually. Although it wasn't patented until 1969
We had touch screens in radar school in the Navy back in the early 80's. We used them to practice troubleshooting radar systems.
They already did in the 1980s!!
This is mind blowing! God I hope this technology takes off!
Watching this stoned, on a modern computer is such a beautifully meta experience.
What a place Bell labs must have been to work at!
they made a song when they made the transistor czcams.com/video/8ZGDW-Q2J_A/video.html
Yeah, cool tech but I wonder how many got brain aneurysms from working so close to those cathode ray tubes all day
@@Cyba_IT None.
10:00 HAL9000 Sings happily. Just wait till 2001.....
I was looking for this comment
And less than fifty years later, everyone watches the film in their homes, as a collection of dots on their screen presented by a computer. There's something lovely about that.
The entire musical score of this film was composed with Mario Paint
Reminds me of a punchcard test I did 53 years ago, back in 1966 ... Excellent results, still applicable today.
Imagine how they'd react if you gave these lads a modern day computer.
*A foldable cellphone
They'd want to see a flying car.
They wouldn't be able to use it.
it's not how you'd think. i've learned LISP, haskell and COBOL this semester. they are miserably lame compared to higher object oriented languages. the functional languages are just that... no variables just a very complicated twisted sideways inside out ninja recursive function and COBOL is kind of a nice attempt at structure and scripting but it sucks. suggest the possibilities of java or python or C# and they'd cry. they'd think our brains are the size of a walmart compared to them and be scared of our computers, realizing a potential that looks like a galaxy compared to a solar system of a few registers and limited memory.
@@Toleich m'afraid not: they'd learn using it in no time and take it beyond what you and most can grasp!
This was all the rage at the beginning of my work life. I was an engineering technician at RCA labs. Transistors had come yo fruition. I saw LSI-MOS device research at the start.
11:57 - They even predicted Data from Star Trek.
Wow ! that's HIM !
You fools!! That's LORE!!
That's exactly what I was thinking!!
Looks eerily like data in the episode "Phantasms" where he has a recurring nightmare that a phone is ringing and when he tries to speak, he opens his mouth but only a a strange electronic screech comes out.
Now we know where Stanley Kubrick got Hal's song from.
10:02 that sounds like bonzi buddy
It has to be!!!
@Strange Faction Lichlider made sounds from a computer drive to sing too.
It started more than 10yrs earlier .
Thought the same thing. Creepy AF
Just 21 years after the first electronic computer was made, wow
It has advanced beyond 10 fold today
Devin Harris imagine 21 years after the first functional quantum computer goes online
This is beautiful and so well-done. Long live CRT!
The ending animation and music felt so wholesome.
are you cry too?
A warm and cozy family of slendermen.
Oh, man - I remember punch cards, 120-column line printers, vacuum-loading tape drives... I must be OLD......
...I also remember confidently stating that desktop computers were just toys that wouldn't go anywhere - that the future would be in remote terminals we'd rent to access storage space on massive, centralized mainframes. I'd like to say that I was predicting the Cloud, but I'm afraid not.
I was able to get on the PC bandwagon in the early 80's. Someone brought in an external hard drive slightly larger than a house-brick. We all wondered who could possibly use 20 megs of disk space.
20 megabyte: That's not quite enough space for two photos from my camera.
Pretty much
If it helps any, when I was in college studying computing in the mid-nineties when the internet was just starting to become a thing normal people had heard of, I confidently predicted that it would just be a fad and that after a couple of years, most people would quite happily go on to whatever the next big fad would be and the internet would just go back to being full of computer programmers and academics.
I don't make predictions any more.
The mainframes will allways more powerfull, than the device at your hand. Have computing power at your hand will be allways more expensive, then call a mainframe and wait for the result. Nothing much to predict;)
@@goiterlanternbase you know i think you are onto something.. The invention of the internet was really cern intranet spreading.. A network of processors connected to deal with the vast array of raw data... Great heat dispersion.. But the cheapest way to have it grow.. Get the global public to pay for it... So crypto mining is actually what microsoft Has been doing for years having background processes syphon off your performance to web process for firms.. Which is the inverse of this idea... Lets say everyone had Screen they did actions on.. All they want to see is a result.. A super cooled quantum could serve all of those monitors .. Whether hand held or home pc... And it would be like nothing changed you just wouldnt have a radiator at home called a cpu.. The reason they wont do this is the same reason tesla was killed over "free" persay energy. Consumers pay for and offer free bug reports. Instead of allowing people to have a better life on the majority giving earths inherent abilities.. They would rather industry thrive on the majority benevolent people whom there will be someone somewbere who will do a job for free just to be apart of the web and we do.. We buy up old tech whilst tech we should have now is sitting in a warehouse somewhere. They incrementally increase control performance and find new ways to limit perception of what a fast computer is.. Syphon off the rest etc.
Wow. The animation at ~6:00 was trippy. Turn on the sub--titles! The modern computers interpreted the old computer generated music as words, leading to a stream of consciousness narration worthy of a beatnik.
Pat Jaffray ahahaha thank you for pointing that out!
Those aren't auto-generated captions. The auto-generated ones have no text for that area.
@@userPrehistoricman I've often wondered how CZcams captions were generated. I assumed it was digital based on the high error rates. Too bad. There was something nice about one computer misunderstanding another computer. Maybe payback for all my auto-correct faux pas.
Google's one is good actually. Speech recognition is getting very good these days and big tech companies do it on a massive scale with apparent ease.
That mechanical keyboard makes the tactile switches of today sound like rubber domes.
Its attached to a typewriter, that's why its so loud.
1969: With the processing power of tomorrow people will be capable of doing things we could never imagined.
2019: GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG!
they weren't lying
1969s people can even imagine, that what with computing power like in 2019, regular people still can do only GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG!
@David Stunning no! You can do better! You can be better! Strive to be more than a just a drone. A little more then you were the day before! You can do it!! You humans have come very far in so little time don't give up now!
I'd like that. Now I don't have to get out of bed to interface with the network. Then I wouldn't even have to move my arms anymore.
@@mikeymcmikeface5599 or you're free to do other things while connected. I put my major UI and systems in my googles for a reason. You wanna be hands free when on the wing
According to the captions at 3:00 Bell Labs invented hip-hop in 1968
and his answer was "no u"
You look like Jesus
now thats a hip-hop level of mumble!
Look at all those wheels, giant machines, and complex programs. This will never take to mainstream.
Those Space odissey's robotic sound send the chill vibe of fearing the unknown back to my head. Geezes
6:38 Dude, did he just predict smartphones?
Yeah. But here we are making snap chats and Instagrams.
X Harmonic …and tablets…
14:28 idkhow's ending of do it all the time (animation and music)
6:40 "I want to sit in a railroad station and pick up telephone and write a movie..." This was his guy's hope for computers of the future? That we can write movies... over a phone... at train stations. Brilliant.
technically he's the unsung dictator of the entire modern world :))
And, how many modern movies are currently being written on cell phones, made on laptops and tablets connected to the internet.
They described the modern internet, and 3d graphics... in a time when computers where struggling to render pictures, and struggling generate any halfway watchable graphics.
And that.. sound synthesis. Eech.
It is truly incredible
He wasn't totally wrong. Go to any train station or airport and see how many people are doing work on their laptop computers while sipping coffee waiting for their layover to end. He mentions movies as an example, but being able to work while mobile is what they were really getting at. For a while we had Blackberries and now it's smart phones. Bell Labs was always thinking way ahead.
0:45 QR code already existed in the 60's +
Haha...try to scan it with your phone!
@@primovid what dafaq it gave me a $500 amazon gift card
@@primovid It gave me a $200 discount on thailandese girls.
@@-Vitalis- YOU CANNOT JOKE ABOUT WORLD PROBLEMS!!! I usually never talk to people in this way but this is revolting.
@@mz7315 cry baby
I had the Bell Labs "He saw the cat" record and "speech synthesizer" kit when I was a child. It contained some of this material. It is amazing how little the context has changed.
This is outstanding, thanks for digging this out to share!
This is not a video. This is pure pleasure!
You might also like On Guard! The Story of SAGE (~1956) czcams.com/video/euL4y49mGqw/video.html
Or if you're into sound stuff, I've got a couple of videos about 4-track tapes and such.
@@01DOGG01 Thank you! Subscribe for sure :)
@@01DOGG01 Then you probably remember seeing light guns from that movie. BTW, the way these work, notice that when the operator touches the screen with the pen (1:35) , a '+' cursor shows up. The pen contains a photodiode, and the computer knows what symbol it was drawing on the screen when it started getting pulses from it. It then started drawing the '+' cursor in order to fine-track the pen in X and Y.
I am here from 2019. Hang on guys, you are doing a good job.
8:50 - and thus, the pixel was discovered
…and some pixels happen to be swastikas. Yikes.
This amazing that they were doing this in 1968. BTW I did intern with Bell Labs back in the early 80's what a shame they're not around anymore...one of the greatest companies ever!
Yeah. By coincidence I was working on a CAD model while watching this. I bet what I was doing would send all of those guys' jaws dropping to the floor.
Now I know what it sounds like to be serenaded by Stephen Hawking.
zooblestyx Haha🤣
😂😂😂😂
Skrillex soundtrack, trench run animations and HAL singing Daisy. Awesome stuff.
OMG! At 6:44 he says "Pick up a telephone and write a movie". He had no idea how true that statement would become.
yea my jaw dropped on that one...
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and
talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data
processing is a fad that won't last out the year."
- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice-Hall,
1957
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." - so is Ken Olsen DEC's founder and CEO alleged to say in the 70s. www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/computers-in-the-home
the internet is just a fad that will die off in a few months -my dad 1995 (still love picking on him for that one)
The Cooley-Tukey algorithm (fast Fourier Transform for machine calculation) had only been published a few years earlier! Amazing! B-)
What was that used for in this video?
Nice they got Orson Wells to narrate
I wandered the comment section, endlessly, for days, searching for "Orson Welles". There were times I thought I wouldn't make it. I ran out of food. But then, there you were... 😭
I was six years old then and I was fascinated by doppler shift , comb effect and reverb .
im blown away by the vector graphics thats pretty good for 1968
That Daisy song at 10:05 sounds like an origin of Daisy song by HAL in Space Odyssey
It is, a variant! 😎
coincidently, 2001 was released the same year!
The book was published the same year. Hard to know who influenced who. I tend to believe that Arthur C. Clarke must have seen a demonstration of computers and included the Daisy song in his book.
@@kurenan4564 seems reasonable
I once read that the IBM singing Daisy Bell influenced the choice to include an homage in 2001.
All I hear are the beeps and screeches of witchcraft coming from the devil's box.
Ryan Nutter same
This is the shit that sent the Unabomber into mind meltdown
He was ahead of his time though....and right....we still haven't completely reached what he has foreseen but we are enough there to know he was right about a lot although his solution to these problems were't the greatest. He was extremely intelligent and could work out with foresight much of what is happening today and will begin to happen in the near future
@@DweeD1516 you should really think about what you say before the FBI arrests you for sympathizing with a terrorist, ok?
@@johnhenrymills4517 No
Imagine all the greybeards holed up in isolated shacks today, hiding from AI.
Crazy, this was in marvelous miss masel, her father worked at bell labs 'teaching computers how to sing' he was even looking at her sons sing a long records looking for simple rythms and melodies
6:32 "what spellbinds me is an idea that I'll be able to sit someplace, a railroad station, and write a movie. or maybe even pick up a telephone eventually and write a movie." this guy prophesied the ability to create entertainment with our phones
I thought I was listening to a Trevor Something song
The beginning of this video is used at the beginning of the album Trevor Something Does Not Exist. I remember four years ago I tried to find where the quote from the intro came from but was unsuccessful. Today I clicked this video out of curiosity and was pleasantly surprised to finally have my answer.
6:08 "Man and his World/Terre des Hommes" was the theme of the International and Universal Exposition or Expo 67, in Montreal.
la expo co es en mariano roque alonso jajajaja
subtitles are incredible. especially while music in background is playing. thank you for movie and subs.
10:03 I always appreciate a "2001 : A Space Odyssey" reference...
Daisy, Daisy...
Watching this a few days after a worldwide network gathered and processed petabytes of data and imaged the accretion disc around a black hole millions of light-years away.
Same feeling!
And now we have transistors the size of atoms. Science is truely magnificent!
Perfectly in sync with the psychedelic lsd-experimenting population of the same decade. Surprising from Bell labs and their big budget, but brainstorming and playing around were essential.
Oh, I think the graphic designer with the moustache was one of them.
Great video ! Thanks a lot for sharing !
The guy making the movie without a mustache looks like he has been on a 5 day cocaine binge.
(4:11) The scene reminded me of Dennis Hopper (sitting) talking to Christopher Walken (standing).
@@WokerThanThou this is scary I tought the very same thing
XD
@@WokerThanThou Bullseye
Everything will be fine ... unless they start talking about Eggplants and Cantalopes.
Cuando vez estos programas y que tienen tan pocas visitas, sabes que hay algo mal en el mundo 😪
Thanks, Jazzpunk, for bringing me here.
the cinematography in this is amazing.
touch screens in 68, makes ya wonder what tech we have now that we dont know about........
Wasn't a touch screen at all. The "pen" is reading the dots of light on the screen to tell where it's pointing. Same way Duck hunt worked on the original Nintendo
@@Moxxuren i understand that
Oh we are probably 40 years behind.
@@Moxxuren so... a touch screen.
After this we invented a "laser" touch screen which worked by breaking the lasers path to tell where you were touching. Modern touch screens use a capacitive method to translate your touch into electrical energy.
Lmao, "the entire musical score of this film was composed on a computer" - bzzt beep boop, lol no shit
Just listen to the early works of Stockhausen and you'll see how normal the "entire musical score of this film" was.
@Mish Elf, that was 1968, it wasn´t that obvious back then, this people made all modern technology possible yet here you are, using all this marvelous developments to show the entire World how moronic you are.
Electronic music... 1930s... Okay.
That can produce nearly endless variantions of sounds.
lol that part made me laugh too although I know back then a listener would have to be told.
it's insane how far we've come
came here from idkhow! (i dont know how but they found me)
after digging through the internet to try and figure out the puzzle for the ARG side, looks like I found a really cool machine instead~
thank you for posting this lovely machine!
did they done a Electronic Spice schematic simulation with Resistors/Diodes/Capacitors... in 1968...back then... AND with touch screen Monitor...? crazy
Mito Luil yeah I’m blown away...
It's not touch screen, it's light pen :) Amazingly simple thing: it's just a photodiode with a button. But because CRT screens show just one point at time (it travels left to right, from top to bottom), by the time this photodiode got its pulse we know at which part of monitor it was!
But yes, result is the same, even more precise actually. There is no way it can be miscalibrated! Really strange this became obsolete at PCs.
@@allmycircuits8850 I made one (lightpen) to use with my Commodore 64 when I was about 15. It was in the era where you could actually do computer stuff AND be active outdoors with football and more😁
@@allmycircuits8850 It is actually touchscreen. The definition of touchscreen is that you can control the computer by touching the screen (doesn't matter if it's a finger or a tool like a photodiode pen). They actually had a god damn touchscreen in '68. I'm fucking impressed.
Yeah we definitely had enough tech to land on the moon
In my opinion, Moses. was the first to Download with His Tablet from The Cloud.
This is a gold mine of samples. I'm gonna be up all night now.
Quarantine Makes Me Watch All These Cool Old Videos.
I like the bit where Prof. Hawking sings us a pleasant song. I've heard that before somewhere. It might have been a podcast or pod bay doors, something like that.
It features in the film 2001
@@martybhoy72 I'm sorry Dave..
Amazing how ahead of the game these people were. Especially at 6:38 where he’s talking about composing a movie on a phone whilst waiting for the train!!
Crazy how accurately they predicted it
Absolute madness sir, it will never take off!
Have you heard about drones? Most aircraft that fly today contain a computer of some sort.
r/whoooosh
The auto-generated captions during the music at 6:00 is gold.