1920s The Future

Future of Aviation as seen from the 1920's

[@midcenturymodern9330]

1:16 Well? They predicted traffic jams quite accurately.

[@avalondreaming1433]

Looks like my everyday drive to work! 😅

[@ty-re9or]

@@avalondreaming1433 why not use public transport

[@avalondreaming1433]

@@ty-re9or Too dangerous

[@290198Nicholas]

@@ty-re9or some countries especially in Asia don't provide better public transport like in US and Europe that it not so safe and so many pickpocket in public transport. that's why private vehicle is more safe

[@yosoymariantoyt]

That's what I thought...

[@Amilakasun1]

Imagine predicting worn-out and ripped jeans.

[@jackieh925]

That cost a fortune! Bet they never saw that coming, lol

[@R.N.LosAngeles]

Or leggings

[@robm321]

That's a brilliant comment.

[@darioburatovich2240]

That would never happen, who would be so crazy as to wear them.And besides, no decent place of entertainment would allow it. I hope parents in the future would have the judgment to teach their children to dress properly and according to the rules of civilized society.

[@housepalmer]

@@VieleSpiele4Fun hello from two weeks into the future.

[@yourmader6990]

And here we are in 2020s, it is weird to imagine that 100 years have passed. Watching this feels like a time machine because you hear a voice of a man in the 1920s explaining something to you while you listen to him from 2020s.

[@jesiveayu1650]

yes, that's beautiful

[@HEINRICH000]

I like your profile

[@yourmader6990]

@@HEINRICH000 thanks

[@heinrichhimmler590]

Couldn't agree more with your pfp

[@paris5663]

That haas to be the most epic pfp I have ever seen...

[@keithwaites9991]

'Speed from London to New York in a day'..wow! Can't wait for that to happen

[@davidfryer9359]

Now that's funny.

[@ocsrc]

90 minutes from NY to Paris But 6 days from NYC to Miami on Amtrak Back in the 20s trains went from NYC to Miami in just 24 hours

[@KK-pq6lu]

A 12 hour flight is one day…..a 5 hour Concord flight was under a day….they were spot on.

[@keithwaites9991]

@@KK-pq6lu when I fly from LHR to Florida it's about 7-8 hours. Going is easy but coming back is a bit jet-laggy.. Worth the gig though

[@gregorysagegreene]

Actually, anywhere on the planet in 90 minutes is right around the corner. Ask Elon.

[@michaellewis5934]

The headlight on the woman to 'help her find a good man' 🤣🤣🤣

[@gjergjaurelius9798]

Yes, Instagram is a thing.

[@robbykidman]

tinder i guess

[@shabellg5903]

This had me weak 😂

[@GrizzlerBorno]

Women: beauty, elegance, grace Men: P H O N E B O O T H

[@Redwan777]

Not incorrect either. That telephone is our smartphone and other things can fit perfectly in our universe-sized pockets.

[@thedreamer4222]

1920: future is about flying cars 2021: future is still about flying cars

[@ameybirulkar7503]

LOL 😂

[@NOBODY-vn6ni]

Already built lol

[@VocalNaats]

@@NOBODY-vn6ni Already built but not a common every day means of transport

[@YasinVanDoorsen]

Nah in 2022 you get climate folks who will complain about the radiation

[@developerAKX]

But the internet and smart phones are far more ground breaking and revolutionary than flying cars. I guess no one had imagined that. Since the industrial revolution predicting the future has become very hard we don't know what in the world next consumers will buy and so that the technology will go in that way

[@dizzydekil]

people in 1920 : in 100 years time, there will be flying cars people in 2020 : just learnt how to wash hands properly with soap....

[@purefoldnz3070]

people in 2020: the world is flat.

[@dashaalisaforesthillsbriga5046]

They already have it area 51 not for public

[@purefoldnz3070]

@@dashaalisaforesthillsbriga5046 you mean the yoga teacher with the horrible monotone voice? ahahahaha. Please don't learn science from Eric

[@brackcycle9056]

1918 was the Spanish Flue, by 1920 they had learned hand washing & handkerchiefs, passed to their children till the 1980s when the kids learned to ignore their parents

[@dizzydekil]

@@brackcycle9056 the history repeats....

[@hoganrichard9627]

Such imaginative people! Many of those things came to pass.

[@ara2805]

Read Jules Verne. He imagined submarines, airplanes, telephones, fax machines, nuclear power, and much more in the 19th century.

[@MissMoontree]

I can't believe they actually predicted men having smartphones and boomboxes with them!

[@tictac3147]

“Another designer goes so far as to believe skirts will disappear entirely in 2000” That designer’s prediction was so accurate it’s scary.

[@bravo0105]

Boy, would they be disappointed in the future…

[@jameso8086]

2:38 I'm fairly sure that is the Burj Khalifa silhouette😀. Really fascinating video and very accurate in parts, such imaginative and intelligent people, we have a lot to thank them for.

[@thefrenchcommander5770]

That does look a lot like the burj!

[@goonagun]

Exactly.

[@genericgoon3748]

Well the robots are a bit more advanced than was they predicted

[@giogremory]

Yes they predicted that in 2000. But in 2000 we already have asimo

[@petekanter8120]

@Banned Fortimes You can say that again, Banned Fortimes! Personally, being someone who was born in the mid-1950s -- I turned 64 in February of this year -- I see and hear things on an almost daily basis, which remind me of how annoying any sort of "robotic" things can be. Anything from ATM machines to pre-recorded phone messages or cashiers at a store. (And when it comes to calling a doctor's office or a hospital, people are FORCED to endure the very boring and monotonous rigmaroll.) I pray that I 'll live to see the day when all robots are... that's right. The day when they are banned!

[@chrismatthews2040]

To be fair though, the city prediction was pretty accurate - a tad exaggerated: the buildings a bit too tall, the flyovers a bit too high - but our cities today are abundant with tall buildings, urban sprawl and far too many cars.

[@justinanthonyprochemdirect401]

Animation taken from real footage of the skyscraper cities of the recent past, cloaked in the genre of Futurism. .

[@DylansPen]

All the films of various eras predicting the future are always so optimistic. Humans have a forever desire for things to 'get better' or 'be better'. Sometimes they are and sometimes they are more horrific than anyone in the past could imagine.

[@lautarogomez9711]

Is because it's the work of the Ying and yang...when there's good there's shall be evil.. when's there's light..there shall allways be shadow...and is not like we are to be punished for our actions...is what order dictated

[@DJCannon5]

Look into Hauntology if the you think that is the case, but be warned it can cause depression in some.

[@JohnTaylor-fh4et]

Sometimes you eat the bar and sometimes the bar eats you.

[@kansergaming3106]

You really gotta appreciate how Bioshock Infinite puts these ‘predictions’ into perspective.

[@susie154]

Well, they got the traffic right anyway 😁

[@XTR02]

To be fair, even back then there was a lot of traffic in big cities. It wasn’t hard at all to predict this.

[@fryloc359]

1920: "The future will have flying cars!" The Future: "Gender is a social construct, still no flying cars."

[@Perririri]

Normie

[@michaelwertzy9808]

Does anyone down the comment "thread" even recognize the "Metropolis" clip at about one minute?! Peace

[@megaotstoy]

0:59 - 1:22

[@ara2805]

I think they slipped in a few frames of Things To Come as well.

[@123456wasp]

Good eye! 😎👍

[@peterlarsen7779]

Well, the dreams were certainly there! "2000A.D." 😁😁😁😁

[@andrewaguelo1500]

1920: I wonder what future holds. 2021 - - - corona: surprise bitch!

[@DylansPen]

Yes we could go back and tell them, "You know that whole Spanish Flu pandemic you just went through? We have another one in 2020 just as bad." Which now makes one wonder what 2120 will look like.

[@xxcronomaxx7986]

1919: damn i wonder what future holds 1920: supraase modafucka

[@thedreamer4222]

covid was not the first one that surprised us, ww2, the cold war, all that bullshit just been fucking us up over and over again and we will never learn a damn thing

[@13thwho]

At 2:20, Batman’s utility belt - 12 years before he first appeared.

[@jessebrucepinkman9353]

I wanna travel in that era and drive the streets with a Lambo, windows rolled over while playing the most mainstream modern music in 100% volume

[@treewizard6484]

Listen to Something Human by Muse. A time traveling Lambo is used in the Music video!

[@flor473]

imagine these ppl reacting to dababy or sum

[@UnknownPerson-ve3uv]

@@flor473 their racism would roar

[@UnknownPerson-ve3uv]

@@flor473 their racism would roar

[@dylanpsinakis7930]

They forgot the Social Media, CP, tablets, youtube, video calls and of course Zoom meetings😅

[@cometaHavoc]

I mean Club Penguin isnt something any person could think up, it was a genius game.

[@wasniahc1]

@@cometaHavoc LMAO

[@jaif7327]

cheese pizza

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

The hell is CP doing in that list?

[@cymbala6208]

2:11 the only prophecy that came completely true: everybody is carrying a radio, telephone, a device for payments: aka smartphone 😆

[@brettl2162]

"Will speed from London to New York in a day"??? A day??

[@Perririri]

"90 minutes from New York to Paris"

[@rongendron8705]

They didn't envision jet speed! My aunt flew to Germany from NY in 1960, by four engine prop plane & it took 18 hours!

[@Jebbidan]

i love how extremely optimistic the 1920s are but when we *finally* reached the future (2020, a year ago), everything is now a depressing totalitarian dictatorship with corporate characteristics and a fine mix of technocracy 😂

[@290198Nicholas]

As we now we see pesimistic vision about future. Because of climate change in front of your eyes now

[@astrocatsoft]

@@290198Nicholas It's not because climate change, it's mainly because economical inequality, which affects our lives far more than climate change (which is also bad of course, but we can't stop climate change when capitalism is world's system.)

[@slurpii4669]

Are you 12?

[@290198Nicholas]

@@astrocatsoft economical inequality are happened more than centuries ago that same in past, present and future, but idk in future are inequality gap become wide?

[@astrocatsoft]

@@290198Nicholas Yes, economical inequality existed since slavery times. But in last years this gap is really becoming much bigger. For example, in Russia 1% of people owns 56% of wealth... Obviously, it's very unfair and wrong.

[@enraikow6109]

Instead, they got a war, nice going art professor!

[@thelegendarybovice]

1:33 "It's the sleeves what does it."

[@blondeboy9288]

This looks more futuristic than today lol.

[@珍惜-d3d]

Right 👍

[@XTR02]

It looks like a cyberpunk city. Definitely seems to be the inspiration of Blade Runner with all of those gigantic neon signs, enormous buildings, highways on top of highways so high into the air. Only difference is the cars aren’t flying.

[@suzyrokits3993]

… “what the groom will wear-apart from a worried look-isn’t mentioned”… LOL!!

[@aflah8890]

Almost of all these prediction are reality that we live in today.. But as a human, we never be grateful for whatever we have now

[@niftycritter1870]

I am.

[@georgeobada5080]

one thing predicted correctly for 2000's : traffic jams

[@aperezNWO]

A movie which inspired Werner Von Brsun was "Woman in the Moon". It could be an interesting subject of discussion

[@Perririri]

A Nő Holdoban

[@russianwarsupporterz1499]

Some of the famous fashion designers decided to F&$k us 1:24

[@TheNicestPig]

Funny how everything is super over-the-top but then they severely underestimated modern aircraft

[@ledam2654]

So it's safe to assume that 100 years from now will look more or less like a slightly more technologically advance version of now.

[@hamstergodfufurufufu8842]

They predicted the solar path lights, even the design ( 2:08 )

[@XTR02]

The 1920’s predictions for AD 2000 seems to be the earliest concept of a cyberpunk city.

[@henrytaverner1803]

The only thing they predicted right about 2000 is the bumper to bumper traffic

[@antikkx159]

1:10 and they predicted chicago

[@michaelsteven1090]

“Things in the future will be laid out in a master plan”…well here we are in 2021. Right on schedule. 😵‍💫

[@johncox2284]

I'd love to keep watching but I have an appointment at the pleasure dome and my Turboglide 2000 has to go in the shop for new metapolar refractive pilfrometers.

[@alanluscombe8a553]

I appreciate modern tech but the past is so interesting life was a totally different meaning and you’re decisions mattered every time.

[@KK-pq6lu]

Yesterday was a much nicer place….kids today have no idea what freedom and privacy feels like.

[@alanluscombe8a553]

@@KK-pq6lu I agree

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

@Nope we made sure it didn't happen.

[@kevinaguilar7541]

@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar it still wasn't a guarantee.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

@@kevinaguilar7541 we had many upon many safety measures to make sure our citizens were safe if threat of nuclear attack ever become a sprawling truth. There have been advertisments for nuclear bunkers since 1951.

[@xx-bg2dj]

They were so forward thinking that they had a depression within a decade

[@cal7961]

“As for him, if he matters at all he’ll wear a telephone.” 😂 well they weren’t wrong.

[@darioburatovich2240]

From London to NY in a day ! I can't believe that is achievable with a flying machine.

[@echodelta9]

The hipster dandy with the cellphone holder, PDA, drink bottle etc.! Right on.

[@nishanthgowda97]

This's way more futuristic.

[@pessational]

Film name is Metropolis

[@lizamelendez3095]

I love how the way they made 2000

[@Add_Account485]

Well they got part of the fashion statement right of wearing less.. If only they could see exactly HOW much less! And I don't know about planes storing all that extra stuff but some boats/cruise ships certainly do...

[@MissMoontree]

They also got airco and central heating predicted. Pretty cool. And I actually have dresses that look similar to the breezy dress in this video. They really did a great job

[@ricpowers1475]

Seems their optimism was not fulfilled by us, as far as travel goes. Still, medicine has exploded.

[@ciscobuying8116]

We could have got those very futuristic 2020 prediction of them if we never had world wars

[@deathsummerbait2]

Well some of thwm had it right this most likely our future will become retro futurism in the year 2050

[@leandroingrassia]

0:59 where is this part from?

[@RMFUNTIK]

Rapture

[@ASTERisk44946]

Metropolis the movie( 1927) its a sci/fi drama film

[@ASTERisk44946]

@@RMFUNTIK wtf are you talking about bro

[@leandroingrassia]

Yes, i realized it was Metropolis no long after asking, thank you anyways.

[@leandroingrassia]

@@RMFUNTIK Well, both Metropolis and Rapture cities were heavily inspired by 1920/1930s New York and Art Deco in general.

[@shabellg5903]

I guess women been looking for honest man throughout history and men been equipped with coins,keys and candy for cuties

[@FrostyFin]

"Candy for cuties" Dude started to eat the candy by himself

[@Pejelo]

1920s: this is the standards of 2000s Also 2000s: a sk8er boi just doin' things. So sweet, they thought in 2000s to now we built more Car Infrastructure, the future? B I K E S and trains. Something than NOBODY would predict is the Internet itself. And yet some things they actually got on point.

[@dirtdiggler9293]

McDonalds everywhere

[@KK-pq6lu]

I don’t think anyone in 1920 was diabolical enough to envision fast food restaurants everywhere…..

[@ΑθανάσιοςΚΥΡΙΑΚΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ-θ7γ]

It's really hard to predict the future because history is multifactorial and not linear. For example in 1920 people imagined for 2020 rocket trains, but they couldn't imagine that trains would be replaced by the car. Or they would imagine housewives having robot assistants but they couldn't imagine emancipation or that even the term housewife would become obsolete. Basically, people exclude from future predictions things that oppose their current progress or values. Now we imagine for 2120 a fully democratic united digital world, because we don't want to admit that our tendency for centralisation and digitalisation can lead to a global dictatorship. Or we won't predict a world devastated by sin and crime, because we don't want to admit that abandoning religion and family values can lead to decadence. The most difficult part about future predictions is looking into the present without superstition

[@ivanmishutin8017]

2:40 - an actual picture of Burj Khalifa in Dubai.

[@calin.86]

The prediction of clothes for the 2000’s was the funniest. If only they knew 😂😂 They were right about the traffic though.

[@ivaylokaraivanov2345]

Some of these things look so good why haven't they been made

[@slavasandsglam]

Looks like we are still in twenties... somebody stole our future

[@davidfryer9359]

This last narrator makes me sad. No one on earth still speaks English so beautifully.( Eim naught heppe enne mohw! Or I'm not happy anymore.) At least we have the wax cylinders as a record. English was the only real victim of the rise of the common man.

[@davidhoward4715]

Learn the history of English before making stupid comments.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

@@davidhoward4715 how exactly would I do that, there's so many wrong sources to read that by the end, you've heard 600 variants off of one topic.

[@beatricet5682]

"Men wearing phones" they got that right. Still waiting for the candy caddy for cuties. 😄

[@glenniego2574]

Oldee generation expecting flying cars Also older generation seeing self popping pop corn: The devils work

[@Phillyhippie215]

Forecast what Eve would look like in 2018! “skirts will disappear entirely” 2018: 🗣IM TALKIN WAP WAP WAP…. WITH THAT 💦 🍑😾

[@SshAleksandr]

Адаптация моды 30-х под "будущее" выглядит как костюмы инопланетян из звёздного пути.

[@antikkx159]

1:09 this is very accurate to Chicago.

[@lucifer_69960]

1:11 leaked footage of cyberpunk 2077

[@BorisTheAnimal-p5y]

He'll be fitted with a telephone, a radio and containers for coins, keys and candy for cuties.

[@ForgetReligion3179]

The only accurate point on that prediction was the amount of traffic that would be in cities.

[@Ruhnum]

They didn't expect that racial segregation would be over

[@Goldedguy]

We were so close to greatness.

[@rboosterman9944]

"What would 'Eve' look like in 2020?" Add 300 pounds.

[@davidwesley2525]

Plus Pink , Blue , Green or Purple Hair & Tattoos. And more masculine than most men. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@martygroover]

So much optimism for abundance and prosperity for all, after such a horrific war. Yet, somehow like a bad addiction, they got more war.

[@KK-pq6lu]

Yes, notice how the theme was abundance, not green frugality and no mention of social services or getting rid of anything….

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

@@KK-pq6lu It was the roaring 20s. The economy was on an uphill trajectory.

[@x-ray1018]

You know these would’ve been some insane and cool ideas for our future. But since WW2 and the Great Depression came around, it was like many dreams screeching to a halt. Would’ve been good though.

[@astrocatsoft]

It was pretty obvious that WW2 will start. And economical crisyses are systematic things in capitalism!

[@ara2805]

Yes, it was silly. Especially the transatlantic plane with passengers in the wings. I wonder where they planned to store fuel.That aside at least they had hope for the future.

[@KK-pq6lu]

600 passengers….they were spot on….

[@ara2805]

@@KK-pq6lu Sure if they could hold their breath for 24hours. Don't forget they were allowed to smoke on planes.

[@jurgenkoks9142]

I cant remember the prototype name but this plane actually was designed but as I remember they never finished the prototype because of the huge fuel consumption it would have needed. That would make it super expensive to run and thus economically it made no sense. It can be built though.

[@ara2805]

@@jurgenkoks9142 Are you referring to Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose?" Hughes flew it during a taxi test. It rose off of the water and flew a short distance. It was proof of concept, but it never flew again.

[@UswahAst]

People predict future all about transportation. In reality: it is about communication: internet and smartphone

[@MrAnonymousme10]

In the future, people think the earth is flat

[@walley2637]

man, they really had it all figured out didnt they?

[@bricio4688]

im all for the suspension bridge apartments

[@BradleyRisi]

Multiple radios in a phone at that.

[@Mark-xd5up]

Luckily this didn’t happen. The future vision of a city full with cars and only skyscrapers is ugly af

[@johnshields6852]

Technologies change the conveyance of human beings, that's the main changes, but the reality is we're just the same humans, many little details change but not us, we get wrapped up in imagining a fantastical future, when actually we don't change.

[@XTR02]

We’re just the same humans? Goodness gracious 😂 That is so distanced from the truth. Back then, the suicide rate was nowhere near what it is like today. Mental health, homosexuality, etc. were non-existent to the masses’ knowledge. People were mentally significantly healthier. People had stronger morals, they valued communities and they valued families. Very different on so many counts!

[@Farus2007]

Filme Metrópolis de 1927.

[@KK-pq6lu]

I wonder which film used this scene, first.

[@robsonreis76]

The heavy traffic they've got right.

[@davidhutchinson7888]

The future ain't what it used to be

[@AlisonBryen]

In AD 2000 I was wearing hair glitter and hair clips that were shaped like butterflies

[@carnthecorby]

Somewhere put there in the multiverse there's a future exactly as depicted 😮

[@beasttowers392]

Owww the sweetest idea of the future in the 20's lol

[@brutalbotx4628]

This will get recommend to y'all sooner or later.😂

[@justincase2281]

If they only knew how f##ked up the future really turned out to be.

[@rickker20]

We wear shorts and t shirts with flip flops in 21th century.

[@Perririri]

…and even listen to #Migos!

[@richardstephens7636]

pretty accurate

[@fortis3686]

I need the name of the song at the beginning

[@JackLuigi]

I’m crooning a tune about june

[@fortis3686]

@@JackLuigi ohhh thank you so much

[@abeeksarebi2276]

​@@fortis3686 thats very nice of you two to respond and thank to each other after 10 months

[@youngstylethe1]

Darude:sandstorm

[@haikalmiftah2529]

The future is unpredictable and sometimes beyond human imagination. I think nobody in 1920's ever though if human will made a small device that can do a job of radio, calendar, clock, newspaper, telephone, telegraph, film, note, music, etc. Called "computer".

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

Also called a phone. Which makes it even weirder.

[@Pich14.]

All we hear is radio gaga

[@Defential]

What's the music called?

[@layoung.]

The problem with yesterday’s methods of invention, cast iron. Heavy and not that refined but sturdy and strong, It was more mechanically inclined to the senses. Knuckle breaking components. Go back even further, invention was an empirical mindset. Water was an asset to mechanical functions. Hydro leads way to electrical. Even before old fashion hydro power, you had magnetic atmospheric collection stations. Houses generated their own light sources. Through skeleton copper and mercury foundations and rooftops. Paints containing large amounts of lead conducted this direct current. Where did energy travel through, out the tops. Friction with air. Static. Once the fine tuning of this particular energy was lost but not completely, due to resets, natural and unnatural, the forces of inventions for power always take over. Philips isn’t just a name concerning to electric, it was an empire. To this day they continue to battle for the rights to be the carriers into the next generation. Magnavox another corporation to Phillips. Trust me when I say this subject gets personal and very deep.