1966 Children about future

[@ImmortalReaver]

These kids have a better vocabulary than most adults nowadays.

[@drmom5]

They ARE British.

[@ImmortalReaver]

@@drmom5 that doesn't mean anything

[@NoiZy.]

Immortal Reaver We speak in mumble im worried about The future

[@lazlow9640]

They're all upper class so, have most likely had a lot of education from day one.

[@JoseGamboa]

These children are more attractive and well-spoken than everyone on youtube. Perhaps evolution has begun to reverse.

[@maranatha1281]

" I think people will be regarded as STATISTICS rather than actual people" Out of the mouths of babes! Amen!

[@Jay-vr9ir]

Nailed it .

[@obs4281]

Nothing wrong with being a statistic. We're only human, nothing brilliant or oooo wow.

[@rainonedavid3564]

@@obs4281 Yeah like there are 7 billion other people on this earth, how are you more important than them?

[@obs4281]

Code Alex Bang on 👍

[@spencerhopkinson9874]

Oʀʀɪɴ Bᴇsᴛᴇʀ rulers love subjects with this mindset

[@abstraqtphilosophy7357]

The boy at 2:10 was 100% spot on on the idea of people becoming statistics and no longer humans. Exactly what we all are today, just numbers and figures

[@C.C.369]

Right?! HoW DiD hE kNoW?!?! He must have been such an intelligent mind and so very well educated to draw this conclusion at the age of 12!!! It's like noooobody saw it coming, not even 20 y ago, but he saw it in the sixties?!? - Bless his soul

[@LordVader1094]

@@C.C.369 Can't tell if this is sarcasm or genuine lol

[@C.C.369]

@@LordVader1094 ...not the first time that sb tells me that 😂🙈 But I really mean it! I'm so impressed by this lil fellow, well all of em actually

[@hankiedave]

I love how they talk in a beautiful accent and in low volume, not loud. Very pleasing.

[@Pathos312]

The boy at 1:27 is an insanely brilliant thinker. He was years a head of his time.

[@shelbyg.8553]

I think it's fascinating that even in the midst of the baby boomer generation he realized something had to be done about the population

[@RwakaendanaMambo]

He reminds of an exuberant Richard Nixon during his campaign. Sharp witted.

[@kylereese458]

I was thinking the exact same thing! He was incredibly smart to have that kind of mindfulness at that age and time. The UN has a recent report that confidently predicts that Africa will surpass 4 billion people by the end of this century, which is more than 8 times the current population of Europe. The entire global population was around 1.2 billion in 1900 for reference. The majority of global population was equally spread, with slightly higher numbers in Europe, Far East and the Americas in 1900. The population of many developed countries then sat steady. Now the third world has swamped the planet and put itself into eternal poverty and all kind of national and global environmental problems. Our aid to such nations has been wasted, as enable them to feed 2 children and they then have 8. Overpopulation always leads to poor living conditions for the masses, with a few ultra rich at the top getting filthy rich from exploitation. This is why the politicians are opening the door and swamping their populations with third world migrants, they bring the third world economy via overpopulation so that the elite can be filthy rich and the masses see lowering of living standards. The same 1% class that ran the slave trade while treating their own people like common dirt, are the same class doing this to their country now.

[@user-ri3oz1hi4k]

J Martin-I think you mean “wise beyond his years”.

[@raeadrianarevalo6512]

that boy

[@joefrancismetalman]

It would be nice if whoever conducted these interviews will actually track down those people and ask them to assess the year 2000...

[@geekygymrat]

Whoever conducted this interview is probably dead now or really old

[@abdulfatahelfandi9272]

Agree

[@jucieandrade8573]

@Paralyzed Nigga , I think Kostas mean "whoever conducted this interview".

[@attackonpieck2789]

Paralyzed Nigga that's if they're alive, the interviewer or these kids could have died from reasons unknown to us like a car crash or something... if they were blessed enough to live to that age then it's very plausible that the then-kids are alive.

[@danielazaes7484]

@@geekygymrat don't be silly. 1967 kids... thse kids would be like about 60 years old. that is not that old. :P

[@happybirthday2078]

I'm almost 19 years old and feel dumb compared to these children. The child that guessed that cows and sheeps will be bigger and wont be walking to eat grass, predicted the future. 😨

[@homer88100]

that child or the teacher that told him to say it LOLOLOL!

[@MackNcD]

@@homer88100 No if you remember correctly people were a lot smarter even 30 years ago. Go read the forefather’s writings. Of course the children of earlier eras were derivatively this intelligent. A combination of aspiring to be trashy, a dumpster fire dystopian culture, and a range of neurotoxins have made us all a lot less intelligent. This is no trick. It is our history and how the world has changed

[@Brooklynlife1000]

Never compare yourself to others, it's a bad habit hole to fall into. We all have something special about us.

[@carter7937]

1:35 "If I wasn't a biologist..." This dudes like 10 and he's a biologist?!

[@Gagan831]

Even his voice is like if he is some scientist.

[@Shadan.2002]

I think he meant if he wasn’t a biologist by that time (the year 2000)

[@Ac0ustics0ul]

yeah he was speaking in future terms.. but the kid's so brilliant that it wouldn't even shock me lmao

[@horminmangfi5653]

Where is he now?

[@wigstageoffreys7500]

Today's kids want to be streamers and youtubers xD

[@flattheyounger1028]

I wish people were still this articulate, let alone children.

[@zindi1138]

msm

[@trevorbirdistheword]

do something about it

[@Twistedmist]

I have a couple friends kids who speak like this or better, it tends to be home schooled kids. Its weird they are 7,8,9 and you can have full on conversations with them.

[@CopyRunStartMaster]

I came here to say this - my kiddos (10 & 12) do better than most articulating and vocalizing ideas, but they aren't nearly as engaged in critical thinking as these youngsters. I wonder what the kids in the video are up to these days...

[@puck9306]

Okay. These are obviously early teens in private schools with good backgrounds who've been specifically selected for their answers. You can find millions of kids these days that are this articulate, easy.

[@markedwards9247]

The world population in 1966 was around 3.4 billion people. 50 years later (2016), world population hit 7.5 billion, more than doubling. These kids knew it was coming, but had different ideas on what it would look like.

[@quietesvous4283]

@@RobertPunt Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT)

[@MICHGO1]

@@RobertPunt RIGHT?AND THE RIGHT WING THINKS BIRTH CONTROL IS MURDER.

[@debasishchapeyar4826]

Thank China and India. :)

[@jayshukla325]

Because wars have reduced.

[@nikkilee3840]

Well it was common knowledge that population was rising at unprecedented rates at the time. It was like global warming now. Very commonly talked about. However, population growth has been slowing since 1977. And probably won't ever overtake 12B.

[@maranatha1281]

4:04 WOW!!! That young man described exactly the cattle, chicken and even Tuna farms of today.!!!!

[@net-ego]

Can you please explain to me, what he meant by "kept in batteries"?

[@znpu4737]

@@net-ego just look up battery farming, its where animals are kept in buildings to maximise the ammount of food they can make, its more efficient but really shit for the animals.

[@daribluestar7752]

Brilliant, intelligent, mature children. You can tell they all had great parents. Unlike today, we have humanized computers & computerized humans.

[@GhostOfJulesVerne]

4:04 Damn, that was spot on.

[@frodis64]

And at 4:30! Wow.

[@Supasweet95]

shit... that was impressive

[@tysonfranswah9296]

1:27 was my fav

[@impracticalthinking311]

Goddammit, I lost the keys to the delorean..

[@MaTeiso4]

HOW DID HE KNOW

[@stoneddjen]

Damn they really thought we would all be dead by now

[@Mike8981]

Don’t hold your breath!

[@petehall889]

I was about the same age then. Believe me, the threat of nuclear war was very real. It worried me anyway!

[@jc.1191]

@@petehall889 don't forget future children, he's totally correct

[@Maz-wf3eg]

heyitsjen /: they underestimated us

[@MyloXyloto94]

This was during the Cold War, so I can’t blame them for being a bit morbid😂

[@kaneda317]

"People will be regarded more as statistics than actual people" - Big Brain Boy,1966

[@blackomega4061]

1:28 This kid is by far the most brilliant out of all of them, and they're all brilliant. I hope he lived a very successful and fulfilling life.

[@MackNcD]

Get those kids some chemical age neurotoxins, they’re a threat the hierarchy 😧😅 I weep for what has been done…

[@brianbommarito3376]

Probably not. Not because he didn’t deserve it. Life has a way of being a disappointment when you are encouraged to set your standards and goals high, only to have reality come and crash them down. There are times when I think of all the marvelous things I wanted to do, and tried hard to bring into fruition, and then failed, and I wish I had never had such dreams to begin with. I wish people had been more honest with me about how indescribably cruel this world can be.

[@joshuarose20]

I was literally talking to my monitor like "this guys brilliant"

[@NickGerse]

People, let alone children, speaking articulate well put-together English is a very nice change, we should go back.

[@illusionfaderr5394]

Not everybody spoke like this, jeez. People in the streets would certainly not speak to each other like these kids did.

[@celinebeurle7915]

It is how well educated English people speak. I am so perplexed as to why there is such a focus on the post abut how the children speak? To me it is normal.

[@raesmith2164]

Tell schools to implement that change. Lord knows they are doing the bare minimum to educate the future generations. I'm in high school right now and I can say with certainty that since the 3rd grade, I have not learned any important skills at school.

[@longfield0023]

@@illusionfaderr5394 People in general were better spoken. Working class as well. They may have different linguistics but most people were much more knowledgeable about a broad range of subjects and took a pride in that.

[@CR33SIVE]

@@raesmith2164 How about certain groups of people focus on changing their culture to be more oriented towards education? I think that will be a better start.

[@thejesuschrist]

fascinating!

[@JashAnon]

ye

[@EndlessMike]

Fancy seeing you here! Good luck with everything

[@necrophile18love]

Hi Jesus, God bless you

[@khl23]

Yo my guy where’s my fiver from 1bc bro

[@itsrandydandy4489]

Wow its jesus

[@deaddiamond7554]

These kids are extremely aware and intelligent. Articulate their words so properly, too

[@runaisha123]

4:04 This kid was spot on! Exactly what's happening today!!

[@wasabi2127]

I'm an agriculturist and he just nailed his predictions very well 4:05

[@markdemell3717]

You look 12 yrs old.

[@SuperTonyony]

@@markdemell3717 He's gifted. :)

[@markdemell3717]

He may have been coached by controllers.The ones ruining the earth!

[@KushGoblinn]

You look like a little kid with that pfp and name

[@christinap-c]

This was the most accurate prediction!

[@swish1234567890]

These kids are smart

[@gpll8135]

kristian r private school

[@longfield0023]

@@gpll8135 Working class children had a superior education also compared to today. They had a much wider range of knowledge.

[@lm707]

kristian r they are not smart they're afraid. Myself and children of today looked forward to the future and we're excited about the things that were to come these children are nothing but afraid

[@jaswag-hr1en]

They are racist..

[@user-qi6tp1te1y]

@@jaswag-hr1en no you

[@MissMellyVee]

This is from a time when children really received a great education.....

[@pneron2032]

Before the purposeful lowering of standards.

[@markdemell3717]

Fear was instilled into them ,just like today and tomorrow.Sad ,truly sad. The great tribulation can't be far off!

[@ghg76vhfyg11]

No cell phone

[@ghg76vhfyg11]

Nobody has a cell phone

[@nickellnicholson5367]

except if you were black of course

[@suraya_]

5:27 “Not so many people would get sick” *Coronavirus enters the chat*

[@itsrandydandy4489]

Yes bro

[@orvvro]

Yeah well still true

[@firingallcylinders2949]

Well to be fair modern medicine has made huge strides even from the 60's

[@danielazaes7484]

covid-19

[@legendz-mlbb1802]

Lmao So True.

[@dahliafully]

Sadly, every single child had a pretty accurate prediction. Sameness, oceans rise, over-population, computer control, weather changes, dense, boring housing, people treated as statistics, ongoing war, and we're still on edge over nuclear destruction.

[@AverageAlien]

No nuclear destruction

[@PurblePlacecomm2]

Average Alien We’ve fucked it with literally everything else but no nuclear war yet! Lets celebrate and get wasted shall we??

[@Giraffafi124]

Why do people always see just the bad things? I think people are smart enough not to use nuclear shit anymore cuz that wouldn’t be good for anybody. We have invented cures and great technology, inventions are made all the time and the problems we have are being solved, i think this is pretty great compared to past. 🤔

[@AverageAlien]

@@PurblePlacecomm2 no we haven't dipshite. All of your global warming end of the world in 5 years bullshit is getting old now. You green nutters have been saying since the 1980s. Oh look, nothings happened. Wanna fix climate change forever? Remove the fossil fuel power plants, and replace them with nuclear plants. There you go. Practically zero global warming. Oh wait, what's that? The world is going to get warmer anyways because of earths changing tilt? OOOPSIES

[@XMysticHerox]

Overpopulation isn’t accurate at all. Neither is sameness. On the contrary. Also there is way less war today than in the Cold War.

[@jurinajjar6671]

And the children’s negative predictions are understandable especially that this was filmed (I think) around the Cold War times

[@jc.1191]

45-91

[@deniseherud]

And Shazam!- they’re all right.

[@BUBBA808]

Vietnam too

[@halfasleep3685]

These kids are now in their 60's some early 70's. That's mental to think about; time is precious.

[@all-startiktokpakistan9473]

These kids are more sensible than most of the adults these days

[@machinegunsally1874]

4:05 Sadly this boy is correct.

[@abdelkaderelbachir9523]

One of the girls was on point a lot of people are jobless because robots are taking over in factories

[@gorgono1]

Abdelkader Elbachir and this is good. Have you ever worked in a factory? It is the worst

[@athletics0067]

It continues to get more real as we speak they planned these events for decades

[@longfield0023]

@@gorgono1 That can be true but not having enough food or medical care for your family is awful also. Greed fuels factories that run more cheaply while no one cares to figure out what to do about the negative impacts.

[@evildeed90s]

@@gorgono1 yes its awful job would never do it again

[@lauriedesaulniers8955]

yes but technology creates jobs as well so it balances out

[@JawJX]

i'd like to live in a time like that, so classy, have manners, no technology, curious, not bombarded by distractions. I was born way after that but i'd love to live in that time

[@horminmangfi5653]

Distraction is in the mind.

[@JawJX]

@@horminmangfi5653 agreed, I have better control of myself now since I uninstalled my social media.

[@smokie651]

Don't forget racism, segregation and discrimination

[@liamcraddock9539]

"It'll be boring and everyone will be the same" they got that bit right 👍😂

[@Dawt_Calm]

It's worse than they could have predicted. It's 2018 and we're trying to convince people it's not a good idea to eat Tide pods.

[@zeboy1959]

2018 where the earth is flat again and there are 382903+ genders

[@Rhythmattica]

Mrdead. Damn... I lost a good swig of beer through my nose., lol... Might go a Tide Pod chaser... Na, Two.

[@tonmoydeka7319]

Its damn 2019

[@fk5gsaveourcells967]

@Suzanne Jefferson stupid horse shit.

[@MyChannel-ny6kk]

Hollerin!!😩😆😆

[@abigailmeza4529]

it would be so cool if there was a video of the people in this video reacting to what they predicted.

[@southlondon86]

YES!

[@missdelad.deladela7748]

But are they still alive on this day because my parents are about 7-8 years of age during that time!!!

[@greymomma]

@@missdelad.deladela7748 excuse me, I'm still here! I was "during that time!!!" LOLOL

[@missdelad.deladela7748]

@@greymomma-Yes, of course and it is just bad joke!!!

[@missdelad.deladela7748]

-I MEAN IT IS A BAD JOKE.

[@crumblenut4304]

Wow these kids are so brilliant and articulate their words so well. These types of old interviews are fascinating to me to see how real people acted, thought, and looked back then especially their views about the future or other more advanced scientific topics. They were pretty accurate too and spoke about things most people speak of today. Goes to show that humans are aware of their own demise and even after all this time.. we’re still falling.

[@ErayIsBae]

These kids have some deep insights. Much more intricate than most children today.

[@cordeliachase601]

What are you talking about? Are you high? I can tell. They’re reading from a teleprompter, sweetheart. 4:23

[@corywiedenbeck2702]

@@cordeliachase601 no they aren't, look at the eyes of the one is 1:28, he was in thought

[@Anon1913]

I'm surprised how well so many young people spoke so awesome not so long ago.

[@Anon1913]

notice I couldn't respond in good english myself and I'm 33

[@maranatha1281]

" I think it would be very dull! People will be all squashed together." NYC, CHICAGO, LA, FEMA CAMPS...…

[@LnPPersonified]

That one kid was spot on about how we'd raise farm animals.

[@asianamericanadvice6016]

They seem unusually calm and soft-spoken.

[@Calis708]

If they only knew what the world would be. Kids eating Tide Pods, and others trying to say the world is flat. My gosh.

[@rafaelmalate7938]

*very small portion*

[@josephlennonmccartney245]

I know very disappointing 🤦‍♂️

[@khl23]

Calis708 no bro that was your time,I’m from the future and we now have baby yoda. Yeah it’s all looking up human

[@raesmith2164]

The groups of kids eating tide pods (majority of them doing it for attention) is much smaller than the fraction of mindless idiots who believe the Earth is flat. Media tends to exaggerate these things.

[@hostofsoulslol]

@Tommy Blueee you have failed the vibe check. You have also lost brain privileges

[@RightWingCorrectWing]

These kids are all 65 now. I'd love to hear what they have to say about how we've progressed. I wanna hear all the "I told you so's".

[@lolajenkins2674]

Yes it's absolutely fascinating to listen to, my grandmother is currently 97 years old, born 1925. Yesterday i spent all day with her talking about all of the changes she has seen in her long life. She remembers seeing a television for the first time and being scared of it. Only one person in the whole town had managed to get one and every person in that town would go over to that persons house just to see it. The entire house full of people, even the street was filled with crowds of people trying to look through the window to get a glimpse of the television.

[@pinkrose372]

My mom is 65❤

[@TheGigDoctor]

Hand-selected brilliant kids interviewed for a TV show.,..and many of the opinions/predictions appear to be things they were fed by teachers, or by people who prepped them for the interview.. You can tell from their comments they were all "taught from the same textbook," so to speak. This was the era of the fear of the "population bomb," for example, so that's a dominant theme they all refer to.

[@rock3952]

1:51 this girl truly predicted the future.

[@holysheem863]

Yes

[@ZeloticMemes]

How? Didnt know that the technology those people couldnt even dream about would be boring

[@fourshore502]

@@ZeloticMemes it will be boring soon because AI will surpass us and do everything we do but much better. we are seeing the inklings of it now with chatGPT and image generators like midjourney but it wont stop, it will just increase, exponentially until even the most advanced jobs are done by AI. thats what they somehow knew was coming. kids have good instincts.

[@vealck]

So those kids grew a bit and formed first death metal bands in 80's? Also, fun fact, the world population was at about 3 billion at that time.

[@mcon8569]

seeing these kids back then, how intelligent and articulate they are, what a difference to todays kids

[@MackNcD]

Kids today look up to piles of trash of knocked over dumpsters. “Of that’s the cool way to be!” No my dear child, that’s absolutely an embarrassment and your ancestors weep from the heavens.

[@Luvyourfam4ever]

My uncle is about the same age as these kids. This was interesting to see.

[@josy26]

2:59 nailed it as well

[@johnrmusic]

They look more mature

[@gaminglegend]

Because of the clothes, hairstyle, and overall behaviour

[@longfield0023]

@@gaminglegend Yes, they behave more maturely.

[@bliss448]

@Mr Sunday7 They've also benefited from upper class education.

[@aahiljcat]

Yeah, and now kids play fortnite

[@fedreck89]

@@aahiljcat "hAhA tHeY pLaY fOrtNiTe sO tHeY nO NO sMarT nOw gIvE mE tHe gOlD"

[@MB-st7be]

And yet we keep being told "today's kids are the most pessimistic ever" lmao!

[@AyoxinBlake]

Tell me about it. I'm surprised kids were such downers back then, but I guess the fear of nuclear war doesn't do wonders to one's mind. That was mere 4 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[@godofwarkratos8513]

1 word FORTNITE

[@RosebudKane41]

Also, these kids parents lived through London getting bombed daily during World War II, I'm sure their trauma rubbed off on them.

[@SpiderDibs]

Really? I was thinking they asked questions before they started recording. Like pretty depressing questions.

[@longfield0023]

They were being realistic and explained their reasoning. I'm certain they were also able to have fun and a laugh.

[@FuturisticTutorials]

2:10 give this kid a medal !

[@sid2112]

It saddens me I had to scroll down to find this. That kid was 100% correct.

[@GenericUsername1388]

These kids are just brilliant

[@gorgono1]

1:12 when ASMR was born

[@bankroiii7278]

Peter Pan 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@godotova]

Oh, yeah!

[@cordeliachase601]

2:17 and 2:28 and 3:13 for me.

[@Velvetstormmm]

IKKRRR I get so much ASMR from this video

[@Blue_Lugia]

You enjoying listen to a 13 year old girl speaking? 😅😅😅

[@char6081]

These kids were so smart. And these videos are so interesting

[@blueplanet1048]

They are so articulate and gentle. Wish grown ups talked like that now let alone crazy narcissistic kids that talk now like zombies sadly

[@danielbeta7393]

Incredible!!! Such and essence and education those kids. Everything changed so fast. Amazing!!

[@alyssajones4368]

Absolutely love how intellectual these children are. Especially the one lad at 1:29 Makes me ponder if they are still alive to this day.

[@southlondon86]

Did you use the word ponder to seem more intelligent?

[@wilmeralbert2908]

@@southlondon86 wtf

[@southlondon86]

Wilmer Albert wtf

[@alyssajones4368]

@JosGames Jos Would be awesome if all or some of them were still living.

[@OghenerurohAnyoma]

​@@southlondon86😂

[@animecity9678]

5:31 she nailed it👌🏾

[@smokie651]

There's racism now

[@michaelparsons2290]

The insight that these kids had back then was/is amazing.

[@PortlandMan]

"If I wasn't a biologist." You're telling me that 9 year old was a biologist?

[@andyc6542]

The real takeaway here is that he was so brilliant, I wholeheartedly believed him. Wherever he is in life now, hope he had an amazing career - that’s one extremely bright child.

[@masterofdragons82]

Andy C your crazy thinking he was a biologist. This isn’t tony stark

[@SuperTonyony]

@Adam: He meant that he planned on being a biologist by the time in question: the year 2000.

[@deniseherud]

The fact that we have to explain to you that a 9yo ^isnt^ a biologist is why their predictions were totally right...you’re an idiot just as predicted 😂

[@sathwickborugadda4744]

the count is 36

[@Me-wm5zy]

Wow they are really see a sad future veiw. And have more vocabulary to then I have ever seen in any one on Earth now. Very smart. Wow

[@desirae4551]

I wish I could see what these children have become today, 2020.....

[@darylgardner509]

The one kid..."we will be statistics and that animals will no longer graze but be put together in large houses..." was a true visionary. He was right....

[@Heat3YT2]

The kid talking about automation taking jobs was right on point!

[@fourshore502]

only thing slightly wrong was the time. give it a few more years and she will be bang on.

[@littlegirlgomz]

They were right about wars and global problems. Sad

[@ZeloticMemes]

LMAO they were right? 75% of them said the world would end before 2000, and wars are almost non existant nowadays, only small wars that kill a few thousands compared to a few dozen millions

[@ethanrosenberger8883]

@@ZeloticMemes None of them said the world would end. Wars aren't nonexistent either, countries just refer to them as "peace keeping oeprations". The lower mortality rate is just due to medicine.

[@wakin7907]

@@ethanrosenberger8883 the boy in 0:40 said that a nuclear bomb would reach the center of the earth and melt the whole world. he even went as far as saying that it would explode like a supernova the next kid said said that someone would take control of the bombs and blow the whole world up. the next kid said something similar did you watch the video?

[@sciki5533]

the way they talk is strangely comforting and soothing

[@brenthachmann5655]

Wow hey these kids nailed it !! Really cool

[@davidvanaalst8356]

some of these kids are so accurate

[@piratesfan123]

These kids are so articulate, so sad that most kids can’t even string a sentence together nowadays

[@Azog150]

'\Most kids can't even string a sentence together nowadays'? Based on what?

[@esarab21]

boiii shut up dont speak for a whole generation you dont even understand. open up your mind you old hag

[@Zoza15]

Wow!, what a way to judge kids on their verbal ability..

[@memediff3475]

I think u are worse than kids based on the shitty comment

[@joshuaferguson698]

Piratesfan123 m8 u dnt even no wot ur talkin abt lmao

[@dangernoodle7700]

"I think people will be regarded as statistics than actual people" Dang boi, spot on.

[@kubermr29]

Sometimes it`s just so breathtaking to have an opportunity to look at the people of the past. Such an exiting experience.

[@lv4977]

🦁 It seems like kids 60 years ago had a clearer perspective and much a more articulate way of expressing their feelings. What happened? What did they put into us to dumb us down? 😢

[@GizmoRob176]

These kids are my peers. The nuclear threat weighed heavy on the minds of all ages during the fifties and sixties.

[@kurtmeier9584]

and 70s and 80s

[@Sarahmint]

4:20 was terrifyingly true

[@jeffchapman1962]

So well spoken and polite children amazing

[@Disastatron]

The power of properly implemented public education system coupled with a stable, disciplined, & encouraging home produces children like this. Change my mind.

[@abellemilagro9917]

0:58 the hair flip tho

[@southlondon86]

That’s your only comment lol? Dumb bitch

[@angadsingh9314]

@@southlondon86 Shut up boomer

[@harsharya545]

Chad

[@jdm3072]

This was part of an episode of Tomorrow's World, which was a British television series about contemporary developments in science and technology. This episode was originally broadcast on December 28, 1966.

[@view1st]

Thanks for the context. 👍

[@ThePhenom7]

*Kids were very brilliant back then*

[@srajanverma9064]

These kids are all time-travellers!! They know about the 21st century more than me!!

[@louisll.nicholls5347]

It's almost scary how accurate some of these kids' predictions are.

[@gpll8135]

5:30 weird to think that was once something to predict

[@Rahat28251]

Not so weird, it’s still the same. Progression has been made but still too many racists lingering around who share the mindset this girl mentioned.

[@sussett]

What utterly fascinating and pessimistic points of view children had back then, yet, they are so right in some instances, wow.

[@Felled-angel]

It's amazing how right they were.

[@kathleenmckeithen118]

Children, as I recall, read a lot of books in those days, talked, and interacted a lot with each other. They listened to adults more, and were interested in the real world around them. No cell phones, tablets, personal computers, etc. I was 17, but had a brighter outlook on the future than some of these children.

[@thisisgangadhar]

1:28 This kid is a genius

[@mothermcready4417]

This is from the not too distant past, when children' were not only allowed, but encouraged, to think for themselves. They speak better, and sound more highly educated than so-called "journalists" today.

[@alexfrt01]

These kids are more mature than a quarter of the American population!

[@BUBBA808]

These kids are smarter than ALL KIDS nowadays. Kids nowadays are PATHETIC.

[@MackNcD]

2/3rds…

[@dukeon]

85%

[@shoot4thstars]

These are the children from a television show called “Seven Up”. Every seven years another episode would be revealed with the children seven years older. They were asked questions on life, love and the meaning of everything. It documented their growth and how they changed throughout the years. Some prospered while others came upon tragedies and hard times. It would be fascinating to know what happened to all of them.

[@bluebutterflywellness2273]

Thank you for this information! There’s a documentary of them on Amazon that follows until 2019. I’m going to watch for sure!

[@user-qr5xp9vp5n]

We had the same show in USSR but the first episode was filmed in 1990 so it kept being filmed in post soviet countries. It's been only 4 episodes until these kids got 28 y.o

[@SkepticalSteve01]

Actually, I don’t think this is from Seven Up, which featured interviews with kids from varying backgrounds. These kids are from something similar, but the uniformity of the accents and clothing makes me think they’ve all come from the same school.

[@flamencoprof]

@@SkepticalSteve01 I agree, I have seen most of Seven Up over the years.

[@Haberdashery22]

This isn't from 7 Up. It's similar but 7 Up used children from diverse social groups and from different parts of the UK. The 7 Up children were a year younger than me I think, which would make them 67/68 now. Please correct me if I'm wrong!

[@humanentity5890]

These children understand more about the world than the twenty-somethings around today.

[@bigmack8307]

Their words grow truer every year. (I used a period to respect their dedication to proper grammar.)

[@LAM_AUT_ECU]

I was born in 66. The first class discussion I recall was in 1974, on the Vietnam War, I was 8. I fondly remember another one about plastics in 1979, I was 13 and a final favorite on why there is a 1st World and a 3rd World in 1982, at age 16. What's happened to our vocabulary? Can we truly rely on 200 words plus a handful of emojis for a meaningful communication? Dare we still come up with ideas or must everything be a social media repost?

[@mookitty2396]

"These kids are so smart!" Yes, kids from affluent families sending them to private schools tend to be more education than kids who go to public school.

[@Zoza15]

Is that still an argument, because the internet could provide all the education material they could dream off.. Information data spreads faster today, as well.

[@mookitty2396]

Morph Verse we are talking about the kids from the 60s or whatever time these are from. And no, it would not be an argument. I didn’t realize kids with out Internet should in the same level as kids with

[@korabi7484]

@@Zoza15 a little late but internet is not that cheap for every one also good luck getting a job saying oh yeah spent 3 hours on Google learning accounting no actual business will hire you

[@drastocedits2682]

It's a shame that you would think the internet is sufficient for knowledge and wisdom, firstly the internet accessible to us is literally the tip on a large iceberg, secondly the internet still remains vulnerable to inaccuracy and hackers, and if you do read any type of literature, you would realise they offer far more than just the information you could receive on the internet

[@seamus7585]

They are British after all.

[@dufus7396]

They speak better than world leaders today

[@bobwitkowski6410]

It would be interesting to have those kids together as they are today in their 60s and 70s play back this video and see what they think about what they said back then.

[@asherujudo7383]

That first kid was too much. "I'll be controlling robots and shit. Or if we blow ourselves up, I'll be chilling in my cave, back from the hunt." 😂🤣😂

[@nazmanrashid7830]

Aww.thats cute.😄😄😄

[@69_pigeons_in_a_trenchcoat]

he predicted the post apocalyptic fiction of the future

[@MilesParker475]

Imagine its the year 3000 and there's still no flying cars

[@Yuli_Ban]

Because flying cars are a dumb idea. We could literally have superintelligent AI, colonies in other star systems, and subatomic engineering and we'd still not bother with flying cars.

[@thepenultimateninja5797]

I clicked on this expecting to chuckle indulgently at some naive kids talking about flying cars and jet packs. Instead they made grim predictions about overpopulation, unemployment and urban decay, many of which have come true.

[@lizzygrace3873]

Wow these kids are spot on!

[@Jasmeetkkaur]

2:20 the girls who said that everyone would be the same and the world would be boring because of computers were spot on.