Arthur C Clarke predicts the internet in 1964

[@tyberfen5009]

I'm just glad he grew old enough to actually witness the internet first hand. He died aged 90 in 2008

[@tyberfen5009]

@@dr.pessima9582 Indeed. Both sad and hilarious at the same time

[@IAm-zo1bo]

@@dr.pessima9582 nah he is probably proud and it isn't only about porn

[@lucashfaria98]

@@IAm-zo1bo why you think the net was born? Porn!

[@porkyminchasc1150]

@@lucashfaria98 *Proceeds to not get the joke and explain the actual reason why the internet was created*

[@anirudhpuranik5222]

R.I.P

[@Deadpool_64]

He lived until 2008, long enough to see his predictions come true. That’s awesome.

[@lodovicoconrado3297]

"That’s awesome. " Not too sure about that

[@ni5439]

@@lodovicoconrado3297 His only fear about the internet hasn't become true so far. I think living enough to see that your educated guesses were right is probably a very pleasant feeling. So I would agree with the statement that it's awesome

[@lodovicoconrado3297]

@@ni5439 " His only fear about the internet hasn't become true so far." Are you sure about that?

[@ni5439]

@@lodovicoconrado3297 Yes. Opposite to what he said, cities are not melting into suburban areas but rather growing exponentially. Take South Korea as an example, they have one of the best internet networks on the planet. Look at Seoul, the capital, during it's development in the 60s and look at it nowadays with their high internet speed. Sure, their economy grew and so did the city, but the internet didn't limit the city's expansion

[@ignorecorporatenews]

@@ni5439 Yes but only rich people can afford to live now in the biggest US cities, unlike up until around 2000 any working class person could move to a big city and afford to live decently.

[@cameronpfister8855]

“Men will no longer have to commute, but communicate.” Just about sums it up brilliantly.

[@Anton_dk]

I red this comment just as he said it👀

[@kashutosh9132]

@Sultan Abdulhameed II who are free masons?

[@bobanboban577]

@@kashutosh9132 builders who work for free

[@kashutosh9132]

@@bobanboban577 but American and Jews are rich(compared to rest of the world)they don't work for free

[@user-jo1bs9hl5x]

@@kashutosh9132 most of America is in poverty 😂😂

[@TigerGeneral]

Can you imagine how foreign this may have sounded to viewers at that time.

[@BixbyConsequence]

I don't think so. It was easier to imagine progress back then.

[@georgemirandask]

try to imagine everybody on metaverse using VR, like Player 1 the Movie :D

[@DeMarcusReevon]

@@BixbyConsequence Oh? I didn’t know you lived back then.

[@muzzletov]

yes, totally foreign, for, there were no telephones back then and no television. Duh.

[@leftyfourguns]

To the average lay person maybe. But many of the things he’s describing already existed at this time as military technology

[@pastaman64]

This footage of someone predicting the internet is now being viewed on the internet. Edit: I'm getting sick of people repeatedly thinking I'm just stating the obvious. So let me clarify and say that the point I'm making is that this guy's prediction became so true that the very thing he predicted is being used to show him predicting it

[@sparke585]

these freemason satanists know exactly what is going on and help to plan it! shame the sheeple have no idea! :( wake up sheeple!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@qrcus]

@@sparke585 what do you mean?

[@basharshehab5803]

@@sparke585 there is a 100% chance that you're braindead if you use "sheeple" unironically

[@basharshehab5803]

@@sparke585 good thing satan isn't real so people with more than 1 braincell can live their normal life

[@sparke585]

@@basharshehab5803 ohh and you can say that with such confidence how? so why are their many world/religious leaders, elites and superstars clearly worship him and will tell you they sold their soul to him.. have u ever looked into the top of the cathotic church or the freemasons for just 2 examples... u have a lot to learn.. and i suggest you humble yourself and research a little before you open you big silly mouth again.. there are lots of informative videos with clear evidence on my channel if you care to look.. unless you think you know everything about life already hahahah i bet u believe in the evolution theory too right ? hahahhahahahahhahaaaaaaaaaaa baaaaaaaaaaaa (thats the noise of a sheep)

[@theinternpianist1439]

He forgot to say that in the future, humor will be randomly generated

[@jimbsausage544]

Weed eater

[@110montauk8]

W E E D E A T E R

[@fulanbinfulan7887]

ｓｐｏｏｎ

[@pcadamtaylor4262]

When memes were more introduced to the internet some placebo memes were made where they were litreally not funny had no pun etc. And just was random as fuck

[@idkjj8835]

Pepe laugh**

[@poplidhiraj3]

"There are only two possibilities, either we are alone in the universe or not, both are equally terrifying " - Arthur C Clarke

[@helenal3956]

Meeeh...you have to see the grey nuances

[@sran438]

Bring alone is way more terrifying. If there is life out there then it doesn’t feel as lonely. XD

[@yaredkahssai1295]

@@sran438 well, imagine that there is an intelligent life out there keeping track of every move we make and has the power to wipe us all within seconds and that they think that we are not the worth the time and effort to try to communicate or make contact with us. Sounds terrifying enough for me.

[@A23-o6x]

I guarantee that we aren't alone

[@Baerchenization]

I assume we are alone and am not "terrified". I have never met a person in my life who was or is terrified by the idea. The idea that we are not alone is also not terrifying to anybody I ever heard of - that includes a million physicists giving talks and writing books on the subject. He really is alone in being terrified. And btw, he is late, because the internet was already predicted in the 1800s by some Russian nobleman. The Inquirer had an article about it a few years ago, unfortunately, they closed down only in March or April, so I do not have a link for you.

[@jaelzion]

I've been working remotely since 2005, so the quote "People will no longer commute, they will communicate" resonates with me! Indeed, Mr. Clarke.

[@MrLinuxFreak]

damn, I do it for almost 2 years and I getting crazy already

[@pattyryopotybuttongamer3063]

@@MrLinuxFreak In a brave action, tilt the Switch with gyro controls into the baked oven with pie. Wrap the green wire on the red one and the it in a bow. After you disable the video driver delete system 32. Now your car should be fully functional.

[@Miseruuuu]

@@MrLinuxFreak you dont like it ?

[@Miseruuuu]

You are so lucky

[@joesphkenda9898]

id love to work remotely i got the opportunity to from 2017-2020 but uncle covid got majority of us laid off never to be called back. it is what it is but i miss that life for sure

[@smartalek180]

I love how he says, "and the communications satellite"... WITHOUT noting that *HE WAS THE ONE WHO FIRST PROPOSED* (in 1945) putting satellites in "geosynchronous orbit" (so they appear motionless from any point on earth). THAT is a person totally secure in his genius.

[@siobhancrawley1487]

Just imagine for a second what George Orwell would think of mankind willingly installing devices in their homes that monitor everything they say, when they say it, and why. We're witnessing _"Big Brother by Consent."_

[@rxonmymind8362]

@@siobhancrawley1487 Pro tip . Make sure when you buy a TV to have the camera disabled at the store.

[@QubaTV]

@@rxonmymind8362 can be painted over with black marker. and a selfie camera on a smartphone too.

[@BarringtonDrive]

And all this for the sweet, sweet benefit ebing able to shop from home, and entertaining ourselves when waiting for a bus, or on a toilet.

[@vijayafernando1]

At the age of 14 I had privilege of going to the Planetarium in Ceylon and instead of the usual boring recording ,Arthur C Clarke himself narrated what we were seeing . In the 30 minutes ,I learned more than all the astronomy that I learned before or since.

[@aliden7692]

He would be so proud if he knew we are watching him on the internet

[@venkkatvkjr7128]

Just like you dp

[@etienneditolve1567]

He died in 2008, so fortunately he lived long enough to see the birth and growth of internet.

[@M.A.R.S.]

@@etienneditolve1567 including KZbin

[@jamieberryb]

IlComunista1917 *unfortunately

[@JoeMama-ez9ci]

He did watch ..he died in 2008..

[@johnrambo5055]

People watching this in 1964: This guy is out of his mind.

[@nehemiahzo_]

People in 1964 now: Haha Facebook go brrrrmmmmmm

[@infraredradiator]

Why would people think that? Kind of negative to say so, I’m sure his intellect is respected. People may have thought he’s far fetched, but not crazy.

[@Ghostxx]

@@infraredradiator Its hard to imagine something that you haven't ever seen before

[@ThatGuy-yk1ey]

Ghost it’s like saying now days that AI will have consciousness by 2060, like I could see it happening but it also seems impossible by today’s standards. I imagine they thought like that

[@Ghostxx]

@@ThatGuy-yk1ey Yeah exactly. But his theory was way more complicated than consciousness. He said you can communicate with people far away and even do surgery on people from countries away (We have both of these things so his predictions were correct). If I was in his era, I would've never believed him and would've thought he was a mad man. So I can see why people didnt believe him.

[@Frankie5Angels150]

Best quote from Clarke: “There are but two possibilities. Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

I’d prefer us to be alone. It means there’s no one out there to threaten us and we may advance at our leisure.

[@professionaltrollkilla5965]

@@TheNightWatcher1385the fact that you assume they would be a threat shows that our civilization is actually still in its infancy. We kill our own for no reason. I hope we’re not alone and we get some help

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

@@professionaltrollkilla5965 Conflict is an inevitable part of existence. If intelligent life is out there and it’s common and it was in its nature to help other species then we’d see galaxy spanning civilizations by now and we don’t. Keep in mind that in nature the creatures with the largest and most complex brains tend to be predators.

[@martynh5410]

We probably are not alone. There are millions of planets out there, perhaps one or more can support life. The problem is that the Universe is so immense, we might as well be alone....

[@williamhenning4700]

@@professionaltrollkilla5965 Being aware and cautious is just common sense.

[@HeidiLandRover]

Man will no longer need to commute, but will spend all his time looking at kittens and arguing with strangers.

[@Urban0utlawGT]

So true

[@TheLiamMurphy]

Brilliant :)

[@stuartliddle7228]

@@TheLiamMurphy I still commute, dislike looking at kittens, and would quite like an argument. Please

[@TheLiamMurphy]

@@stuartliddle7228 I'll give you an argument, as a teenager I would argue against things I believed in ,constantly

[@stuartliddle7228]

@@TheLiamMurphy How about , what order the cutlery should be in. in the cutlery tray?

[@c_dubbzz6127]

“The world will be completely different. In fact, it may not even exist at all”

[@scottbrandts610]

It doesn't. There's the internet, the internet or the internet. Make your selection.

[@리주민]

@Sultan Abdulhameed II because humans can't think for themselves. No, no. It was the ancient aliens.

[@scottbrandts610]

@Sultan Abdulhameed II I'm not Christian, but I'll believe what you said... The interNUT is pure sick, vile, foul EVIL!!

[@aro4322]

C_Dubbzz * congratulations, you just quoted something from the video

[@TWO00_4_3TheoryNow]

Yup the world has changed.....now with the emergence of internet we are observing some of our population actually becoming more retarded as the days progress......[ i'm referring to everything shitty like tik tok, fortnite, Tekashi6ix9ine,etc.]

[@essianmavex7549]

*Arthur, look at this cat meme.*

[@arthur__lt]

It's indeed a great cat meme

[@nsfeliz7825]

arthur .heres the nigerian prince.....

[@nrggvrn5576]

Arthur, look at this alien eating corrn flaeks.

[@maruftim]

Arthur, look at these guys dancing while holding a coffin

[@dannygjk]

Arthur look at these naked children. EDIT: (I really shouldn't have brought up this subject but ACC allegedly 'interacted inappropriately' with children).

[@jhsdfjhgjh]

This is what a real prediction should be like.. Not some vague poetic metaphors that has no boundary of a slot in time and space, thereby making it flexible enough to fit anywhere as per the fancy of the person making the prediction. Here, this gentleman has pinpointed the year 2000 and the wonders that can be accomplished by then.. Really impressive!! 👍🏻👍🏻

[@newmankidman5763]

Happy Bee, you are 100% correct. Often times, people say somebody or a scripture predicted this or that, but like you said, it is extremely vague, thus allowing wishful people to read things into it. Apart from being a physicist, Arthur C. Clarke was also a great futurologist and Science Fiction writer. Here, he proved himself as a great futurologist. However, people who are so called prophets should be able to do even better, for instance by accurately naming names of people, say Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and exactly predict what they would do, and yet these FAKE prophets do not even come close to being as accurate as a great Futurologist

[@jwboll]

The whole world will be in contact, yet most will be lonelier than ever before.

[@shadyman6346]

jwboll That is deep thinking...

[@ayoubsbai6339]

jwboll that speaks volumes now

[@shadyman6346]

sammex pouland hater...

[@VidarrKerr]

In the future, you can have sex with someone else no matter where they are, or without you even knowing where they are, on the planet. Except, you will be alone.

[@Zayden.]

#capitalism

[@Zoomer30]

"people will working from home and entertain from home, human interaction will be unnecessary, pandemic will be a thing of the past" Dammit, soooo close.

[@CityWhisperer]

Human interaction will still be necessary, both physically or via your phone, tablet, PC, etc.

[@patyk4367]

@Dakoda Fisher He didn't consider karens

[@thugpug4392]

This could be resolved if Morris cites his source. He made the claim that the average American spends 6 hours a day on their phone so the burden of proof falls on him.

[@thugpug4392]

@Morris I meant 5 hours, that doesn't change that you've still yet to provide your source.

[@eatinmychips]

@Trump TheTerrorist we may need real jobs but you dont even need a high school diploma to lay concrete you brainlet

[@ZeroMass]

That was damn impressive... Especially the remark on surgeons. This has to be one of the most accurate and yet so subtle predictions I have seen in my 45 years. Bravo.

[@juanalbichu]

I second that with the cities. There's no point of living there

[@BrushworkNL]

For real, 5 G remote surgery 2 years old, he absolutely nailed it.

[@ZeroMass]

@@BrushworkNL "The first true and complete remote surgery was conducted on 7 September 2001 across the Atlantic Ocean, with a French surgeon (Dr. Jacques Marescaux) in New York City performing a cholecystectomy on a 68-year-old female patient 6,230 km away in Strasbourg, France. It was named Operation Lindbergh."

[@jamesanthony5681]

I was born in the 50's, and in the early 1960's a number of people were predicting what Clarke was saying, especially during a period of time when communication satellites were being launched, lasers and robotic technology existed, and mainframe computers were getting increasingly smaller and more powerful. He's saying nothing that wasn't said or written about in the science periodicals at that time.

[@jamesanthony5681]

How's this one?: John F. Kennedy, speaking to Congress and the nation at the joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961, said: "I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth." Now that's an accurate prediction!

[@maxsmith695]

The quality that is so unique with Sir Arthur C. Clarke is his profoundly high IQ, paired with a humble disposition and a reserved, but firm confidence. He was extremely well liked wherever he went, and generous to others.

[@johnnyftf2545]

*Brain surgeon in London operating a patient in New Zealand* *WiFi disconnects* "Oh shit..."

[@thanasisathanasi4965]

It will be perfectly possible with 5G

[@pac1fic055]

Killed by lag

[@karthik11512]

@@thanasisathanasi4965 Ehh, things like this would be done over hardline.

[@thanasisathanasi4965]

@@larsk1161 G6G 666

[@mikecubes1642]

he didnt know all electronics would be made by slaves in china that cant even read

[@DanielPennybaker]

This is the most accurate prediction I have ever heard.

[@jamesot8551]

Do you read any H.G. Wells? It’s interesting how much that guy got right.

[@jamesanthony5681]

How's this one?: John F. Kennedy, speaking to Congress and the nation at the joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961, said: "I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth." Now that's an accurate prediction!

[@Drive_Far_Away]

Cause it already existed most likely..the internet was invented in 1983 so it's likely some ppl knew previous to this time especially the military.

[@dietcoke759]

with the exception of the last sentence. more people are moving to cities and urban centers than ever

[@jak30341]

Because they KNEW, it wasn’t a prediction without basis. The military had email DECADES before we did.

[@ultimatewarrior733]

He died in 2008. He lived to see his projections come to life.

[@JoeVington]

*predictions

[@ultimatewarrior733]

@@JoeVington *projections. It's called a synonym buddy.

[@JoeVington]

@@ultimatewarrior733 yeah i know what a synonym is i just didn't know that was a synonym for predictions.

[@JimJamSandwich]

@@JoeVington In all fairness you were going out of your way to try and correct him, but I admire you for admitting you were wrong.

[@JoeVington]

James Rodrick thanks

[@iamthemeguyhere]

It is absolutely terrifying how accurately he described it. It’s not like the prediction of online shopping, where they got the general idea right with a few things inaccurate, this is 100% spot-on, where everything said here is already possible.

[@mls617983]

Yes you’re so right. It is terrifying how accurate he described it. The pandemic reinforces what he said. Thousands and thousands of people worked from home. Travel was limited. Meetings were and still are being held using Zoom or another communication App. The iPhone, the first smartphone was introduced in 2007. That was only 14 years ago. The changes in the capabilities of smartphones in a relatively short period of time are iincredible. There really isn’t much of a need anymore for the big desktop computers. Smartphones, iPads, Tablets and Laptops have taken over. I don’t know anyone who has a desktop computer for personal use. A smartphone can be programmed to launch a rocket into space. It’s amazing how much has changed in the last 15-20 years.

[@ivanjelenic5627]

they already do the long distance surgery

[@rodrigofreitas3288]

@@mls617983 Desktop PCs will always be more powerful and it allows more possibilities.

[@iamthemeguyhere]

@@ivanjelenic5627 WAIT WHAT

[@Luca48882]

If you and other 100 make a random assumption about the future, even with 0 knowledge whatsoever, people will still react like this when they find out that random, correct video 50 years from now. For one sensate thing there are countless "flying cars". Now, imagine if a person with some actual knowledge or part in the events makes such predictions. The slower the progress goes the easier it is to see the future: now it's way harder for example. There are a shit load of nostradamuses that predate him and all do the same thing, and this video is still decently vague tbh. Sometimes I don't get how you guys fail to recognize your selective cognition and actually think the previous humans were all morons. It's not terrifying at all, nor surprising. In fact, it's somewhat funny we failed at it so hard that our so called "progress" made it to a predicted point and we still fucked up so hard to not solve the neighbour, foreseen issues along the way. More real time thinking less marvel at random clips

[@DasBrotBernd]

I feel very lucky for him, that he could live long enough to see his predictions come true

[@okuyasuniijimura]

BERND DAS BROT!?!

[@TRINITY-ks6nw]

Like Orwell he was part of the elite group of future planners It is simply easier to think of it as prediction

[@ignorecorporatenews]

or, unlucky ?

[@PersonausdemAll]

@@okuyasuniijimura Meine Arme sind zu kurz, Mist!

[@laartwork]

@@ignorecorporatenews lucky he saw man land on moon, personal computers which he also talked about, the internet, first black president but unfortunately missed True VR and luckily missed QAnon and round earthers.

[@AllAmericanGuyExpert]

1964: It would be a breakthrough to work from home 2020: You must work from home

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

2021: [cabin fever sets in]

[@srujansshetty6538]

@@Bigbadwhitecracker Zoo wee Mama!

[@looselipssinkships333]

You must take the vaccine welcome to the Internet of things

[@jim32664]

@@mazi_thoughts No way. Too obvious. Plus it dilutes the imperative of the "must". He did it correctly.

[@UnderSprayedWhiteSkies]

There is a ruling clan, and they contrived the SCAM-demic just like many other (infamous) boogie men in the last 50 yrs.

[@cactusbread2215]

This guy: "Men will no longer have to commute, but communicate." 2020: "cAn We gEt sOmE pOgGeRs In cHaT bOiS?¿"

[@Thoughtless427]

aw hecks yeah. NoW lEts CanCeL SoMeoNe!.

[@schampookungen2201]

cAn We GeT sOmE pOgGeRs In ChAt BoIs?*

[@Bongs237]

Pog

[@yuurichito1439]

U saw nothing

[@47flix]

PepeLaugh stream sniper LMAO

[@KoharoTV]

this video even predict metaverse

[@Senriam]

Honestly such an invention was inevitable.

[@suawdthedude8583]

Ready player one vibes

[@omarescobar673]

what the hell is metaverse

[@LazyMyth]

@@omarescobar673 virtual world

[@CalebResponds]

@@LazyMyth a failed interation of something that could eventually be.

[@showmetheevidence777]

To predict something like this in 1964 shows a deep understanding of his field.

[@markwiley1211]

I predicted the exact same thing in 1934, same wording and everything - this bastard is just taking my credit.

[@ricardoveiga007]

True. He was a genius and visionary.

[@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301]

considering the 1st email was sent in 1968 just 4 years later not overly impressive

[@freewheeler8924]

Don't forget that as a science fiction writer he also "predicted" tons of stuff that didn't happen.

[@andya2665]

He was also wrong in a lot of his writings, e.g. 2001.

[@AverageAlien]

He's so confident it's almost like he had a chat with a time traveller beforehand lol

[@plopkoekmovies5566]

Average Alien kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5XJfnaMlpJne9U

[@AverageAlien]

@@plopkoekmovies5566 Very informative. This video changed my perspective on absolutely everything. I never thought today would be the day that I can finally see things in a new light. Everybody must see this video ASAP before the government remove it.

[@redlawton8896]

U never know what people could be with holding in this life...

[@saqlainalvi5485]

@@plopkoekmovies5566 idiot

[@sparke585]

these freemason satanists know exactly what is going on and help to plan it! shame the sheeple have no idea! :( wake up sheeple!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ashiljohn]

Not only did he predict the technologies, he also said that it'll happen within a specific time frame of 50 years; instead of "sometime in the future".

[@sparke585]

yes these freemason satanists know exactly what is going on! shame the sheeple have no idea! :( wake up sheeple!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@floskater99]

spa rke ??

[@masterkeef133]

@@sparke585 now ur just pulling shit outta ur ass, wtf abt satanists?

[@nodak81]

He said "perhaps", that's hardly being specific.

[@sparke585]

@@masterkeef133 No why dont you research it yourself. @garrulousglandarius For starters take a look at his book "Childhood's End" for just about the most satanic book ever! Just put the name in google images and see all the photos of the devil appear. The freemasons at the top are devil worshippers, if you dont know you should research it, there is plenty of evidence on my channel in playlists.

[@T0M_X]

Very impressive, i could never imagine what would happen in 50 years and this guy has given an in depth analysis and got his prediction right

[@toddu2362]

he also accurately predicts telecommuting and texting!

[@slayvid2620]

@@tarstarkusz your a fucking dumbass. What kind of reply is that on a 3 year old comment? Dumbass idiot.

[@Gamerad360]

Keep in mind ARPA net was already around, so it's not like this is amazing or anything, it's just the logical next step for ARPA net.

[@pete49327]

He co wrote screenplay for 2001 Space Odyssey (filmed in 1967), and there are scenes of man and computer talking to each other just as we communicate today with Siri and Alexa, live video communication from space to earth, flat screens. FYI to the 1% who have not seen the movie:}

[@firingallcylinders2949]

He also predicted overseas surgeoning which is done.

[@Alex_1729]

And PC

[@luxorion1]

He spoke not only of Internet but more generally about long distant communications by satellites (so predicting the usage of GSM, cellular phones) and remote-controlled systems. What we call a visionary, A.C. Clarke counted among the few to predict a realistic future, a very difficult task where most "futurist" have failed !

[@WhatIsLove170]

Funny thing about some people in the past predicting the future is while many predictions were too advanced sounding some actually made predictions that by modern day standards are actually outdated, look at how many old scifis portray through devices, we have better than a bulky ship mounted computer that talks to you, we have palm sized computers that talk to you

[@MrZlathan3]

@503 Workshop ....True. Too many assholes in the world.

[@mohannadali9662]

Nietzsche, anyone?

[@mjstecyk]

Although telecommunications satellites are a thing, the vast, vast majority of the world intercontinental comms still go through underwater cables, a feat that was first accomplished with metallic conductor cables well before this recording, however fibre optic transmission was yet to be made practical (Charles K Kao won the Nobel Prize in 2009 for his work he did developing it decades before). Clarke could not have predicted how efficient fibre optics would turn out to be in comparison to satellite communications!

[@nadeemshaikh7863]

@@mohannadali9662 What about Neitzsche?

[@dylana7752]

I predict this will be recommended to everyone in another 6 years.

[@HasanMemes]

can you watch and comment your opinions

[@Spadman-um4vb]

Hello future!! (Just in case we still exist)

[@gabbyklo3873]

Heyo people of the future We are the people of the past

[@corpsenugget455]

Nah recommended to me today

[@julescanada3598]

No, youtube will disappear in 2025.

[@americanmade4484]

Crazy how he predicted the communication, and now we're starting to see his prediction of not commuting to work come true

[@SimirJohnson]

He forgot to mention how - in 2021 - folks will be viewing his speech on a handheld device while sitting on the toilet.

[@SnapMeBollix69]

Incredibly accurate 😂😅 were all communicating while sitting on our toilets scattered across the world

[@SimirJohnson]

@@SnapMeBollix69 Makes me want to sing “ Kum by yah”.

[@jazzjohn2]

He did implicitly , by saying that you could communicate instantly with a friend without knowing their location. He must have visualized a device in their possession.

[@cycletouringoz5760]

Mobile phones and social media changing behaviours daily 🤗

[@bob_._.]

Nor did he predict anyone forcing TMI on a world full of people who don't GAF. 🙄

[@christopherhope6434]

Imagine a device that is so powerful that connects everybody but also at the same time disconnects everyone everyone

[@zedohh4450]

Very profound, your comment.

[@Razerkid99_]

Exactly

[@spikeybug1]

Oh the irony.

[@BolsaChicaRadio]

...disconnects everyone everywhere. (???)

[@danielsurman4669]

and John Fogerty wrote a song about our disconnected society; "Nobody here anymore"

[@billygiamou7435]

He wrote "2001 A Space Odyssey " and was one of those rare human beings decades and/or centuries ahead of his time.

[@SuperSpecies]

The movie version of which had a tablet in it. Well ahead of time. Not sure if that was in the book or not.

[@j.b.8546]

This guy was a genius. So was Kubrick. IMO the latter might be one of the most important artists that ever lived.

[@faveli6369]

Kubrick directed the moon landing. He was the greatest director of all time

[@sp4msolo724]

And he invented the communication satellite 🛰

[@rmzxr4395]

@@faveli6369 yes and your lot have followers all around the globe.lol

[@brasileirosim5961]

I loved his Sci-fi books when I was a teenager, the guy was very smart. His predictions are mind blowing.

[@Benjamin-yd1lc]

People keep on talking about how precisely he predicted the internet, but I am equally as impressed that he had a feeling that it would result in the earth becoming essentially one giant suburb, because when you give it enough thought, it is so true.

[@ryadh456]

Yeah same

[@bryancrook5875]

should have went down further on the comments I was in shock when I heard the last 10 to 15 seconds had to replay it 4 times!!!! sounds like the nwo right...?

[@bryancrook5875]

@Viper your right brother

[@Annemarie_case143]

"men won't have to travel for business anymore, they only travel for pleasure. i only hope when that day comes and *THE CITY IS ABOLISHED* the whole world isn't turn into one giant suburb"

[@charlie1234500]

Globalism

[@lostinthewoods3918]

His last words were: “told ya so”

[@markekar6021]

all u need to do is make a bunch of predictions. here ill make one for you.. ive got 50 or so if u got time.. ppl will eventually have robot and or avatar version of themselves walking around doing most of their chores for them.

[@lostinthewoods3918]

@@markekar6021 I’m gunna quote you a top comment that I read on this video. If you don’t want to read the whole thing skip to part I put in bold. “He wasn’t dreaming, he was paying careful attention to innovations in his own time and from that extrapolating how that could change the world in the future. *Any idiot can make guesses that turn out to be correct, but to be able to work out the future from careful observations about the present is the hallmark of true insight and perception* “

[@markekar6021]

@@lostinthewoods3918 that's what I did.. how about all his predictions that didn't come true?

[@lostinthewoods3918]

@@markekar6021 except you didn’t. You literally just told me “all you have to do is make a bunch of predictions, here I’ll make one for you” and proceeded to make up a prediction. And the comment I just quoted to you perfectly explains how anyone can do that. (Btw I’m not calling you an idiot, that’s just what person who wrote the comment decided to write.) More so, his prediction was more detailed than yours. Yours was very broad, so the chances of it coming true are higher. And as far as the predictions that didn’t come true? What about them? No one is right about everything. C’mon now.

[@GlareBoxTV]

@@lostinthewoods3918 There's always an unimpressed naysayer. Ignore them.

[@asdadfafafafffallslsldd8068]

This is so impressive. Highly intelligent man. The future was not given in 1964 and some of his predictions are starting to happen as we speak in 2017 :)

[@FallingGalaxy]

To be fair, it is likely a lot of people, men and women, behind the scenes and in the tech world back then, imagined and fought for the future we now have, and merely told him about it, made him aware of it, and he shared it with others is all. I don't think he magically thought it up himself, by any means. So we should acknowledge people who don't get their names heard or ever known, instead. And thank him for bringing it to others.

[@slayvid2620]

@@FallingGalaxy you sound like a fucking Bitch. lol

[@Gamerad360]

Keep in mind ARPA net was already around, so it's not like this is amazing or anything, it's just the logical next step for ARPA net.

[@cidballcidball8030]

Oh boy, I bet he couldn't have predicted this

[@codeoptimizationware2803]

@@cidballcidball8030 : Why not, oddball? Arthur C. Clarke had already been a part of a group of scientists, under the auspices of the U.S. Air Force, that invented the orbital satellite in, IIRC, the 1950s. IIRC, he was still in the military in 1964, where ARPANET was right around the corner, that under the auspices of the U.S. Dept. of Defense. Yeah, I bet he could and did. Oh boy, sorry, oddball. kzbin.info/www/bejne/foGbpKKcdrNnrsU

[@danielholmqvist2713]

The most fascinating part is that the word "internet" isn't in his vocabulary, the word didn't exist. We're all here thinking "just say the word!" but he's talking about something that in his time was so abstract it didn't have a name.

[@theeunknown3988]

Very interesting isn't it?

[@TheMowertech1]

I know right. I kept waiting to hear him at least say the word computer. Wish we all knew where he came up with this prediction.

[@asherujudo7383]

He predicted people conducting business online. Now, there are multi-billion dollar business that EXIST exclusively online

[@iagreebut7269]

whyd you caps lock “exist” instead of “exclusively”

[@iagreebut7269]

Azudra FOR real man. the important things OF an argument should be highlighted TO help get the point ACROSS

[@cristianowey]

@@iagreebut7269 Seriously dude I get so mad when I see someone trying to emphasize their point and then highlighting the wrong word... Like.. is it that hard..?

[@A23-o6x]

Cough cough *Bezos*

[@ryadh456]

@@Azurryu one doesn't simply enter Mordor

[@ljo642]

A truly outstanding man with a brilliant mind.

[@Loosehead]

Shame about the allegations - another Turing.

[@chrisyates8115]

All this technology has been in the making since at least WW2 and there's more coming, slowly implemented, to take control of all people and things on this earth by the biggest tech co's and ruling elites, people are despensible, its a lie, more than that, to think gov's care about the welfare of man woman or child, look what they are doing to the natural resources, the raping of countries whether its wars or the stripping of rain forests! All in the cause for power, control and money over the masses!

[@gregdee9085]

So then imagine the guys who envisioned and friggin complimented the things he talking about at that time (not new at all)

[@kensandale243]

"A truly outstanding man with a brilliant mind." Did cities disappear by the year 2000?

[@twowongs8266]

@@Loosehead Agreed Big Dave, - lift no man up on a pedestal as all are subject to the foibles of the human meat-suit. A brilliant writer, 'Yes'. A Meat-Sack, also 'Yes'.

[@quangloc97]

"They'll only travel for pleasure." So true.

[@BuriedFlame]

Especially given how covid's thrown a wrench into that plan.

[@RakibFiha]

@@BuriedFlame how? Now more people are working from home than ever before, thanks to covid.

[@FreakyStyleytobby]

@@RakibFiha Yeah covid only confirmed that travelling is not a must, like Clarke said

[@tonyt5218]

@@BuriedFlame covid is part of that plan and i'll tell you now, you won't be the one thats travelling. Thats kind of the point.

[@Ty-vj4wg]

@@tonyt5218 That doesnt make sense, Covid has made us realize it isnt a nessecity to travel.

[@makuogoku2102]

I love these practical predictions that scientists make, they're accurate and not too unreal like flying cars and stuff, loved it when he talked about the consequences and his expectations toward humankind

[@themostwanted774]

Arthur: predicts the future Dutch: *I got a plan*

[@skeletor_2012]

Tahiti

[@uncledave5690]

MANGOES

[@jugedwe]

PINEAPPLES

[@sirballin9016]

LUMBAGO

[@thesimplestickman]

LENNY

[@Jonas-ej7id]

This gave me goosebumps. I'm glad he lived to see all of this prediction come true. He passed away just before the boom of smartphones though :(

[@josephstalin9139]

To his credit, absolutely nobody predicted the smartphone, let alone the unconscious power of that comes with it.

[@qdakid7776]

@@josephstalin9139 he literally did he explained phones in this video

[@itsyuboi3218]

@@josephstalin9139 Star Trek predicted phones and tablets lonnngg before they existed I assume many people in many different places did as well

[@leventegyorgydeak1300]

go back in time and tell him?

[@redeye4516]

People had cell phones back then, so he still got to see that part of his prediction come true. If anything it might make him happy that a technology considered very advanced by the standards of when he made his prediction is now considered to be nearly 10 or 20 years obsolete to us.

[@Digital111]

This was filmed years after the Internet was starting. The first network that started or "inspired" the internet was the ARPANET created in 1969 but it really all started in 1958. He also talks about the transistors. This guy just knew his stuff back then. People think the Internet started in the late 1990's but it was a thing back in the 60's just not affordable to the average guy. What this man predicted was the internet growing and the transistors becoming more powerful so that instead of only covering the US and being used by the military, it would cover the world and be used by most civilians.

[@1234qwer1002]

Exactly

[@johndickle4694]

👍

[@billtree52]

I came here to say this. Thank you. I was starting to think I was the only person that knew about the Arpanet.

[@JohnSmith-bm3ix]

yeah he's predicting the world wide web not the internet

[@flankerroad7414]

The web didn't come along until 1990...agreed on the internet/ARPANET history.

[@ValluvarReturns]

If you can relate your mind to those who lived in that era listening this speech and now think what they would have thought then, it’s “mind blowing”

[@Ghostofenzo]

“I only hope when that day comes and the city is abolished. The whole world isn’t turned into one giant suburb” Social media...

[@smallstudiodesign]

How prophetic - I like the ending when he hopes “... the world won’t turn into a giant suburb ...”, because it kind of has. Everyone globally seems to have dumbed down to North American suburban fetish dream, no matter where they live. Everybody wants a car, a big house, and needless fake luxury.

[@anonb4632]

@@smallstudiodesign Most of the world is nowhere near that. Much of the world doesn't own a TV, and millions don't have phones.

[@anonb4632]

@StevieEthereal 966 Mobile phones yes, televisions no. Don't haves are a majority in some cases globally e.g. cars and computers. Millions of people have no electricity even, or bad supplies... It's hard enough in some places to get decent drinking water, let alone power supply. Solar is changing that... Slowly.

[@cokeromobolatimeless]

Here we are Arthur, the whole world is gradually becoming a giant suburb...

[@janosk8392]

Suburb of what?

[@cokeromobolatimeless]

@janos k he predicted a world that will be shadow of itself. Virtual Reality will become the new normal.

[@naka1712]

@@cokeromobolatimeless I would say it's already there : for a lot of people, virtual is more normal than real.

[@cokeromobolatimeless]

@ZoroZek we are on the same but its an emerging trend, I still stick with gradual. However there wasn't a Covid-19 factored in when my initial comment was made. What I didn't know was that the catalyst will be coming so soon. Post Covid-19, Arthur's world manifests.

[@Zeon081]

@Alex it's already is. it's just overlords try to hide it from us

[@chrisbenavides3176]

Sometimes it's funny to look back at old Sci-Fi and see how badly they missed the mark. Information technology is something many didn't see coming, so it's great to listen to someone who did.

[@mikegarrison7957]

A teacher in 1st grade told me someday you'll be able to make a phone call and see the person you're talking to and it weirded.me out.

[@BolsaChicaRadio]

Yup...the old saying in the 40s, "It's The 80s Now...So Where Are Our Jetpacks?" did not apply in his analysis. In fact, I really don't feel he was "predicting" anything, but merely, with an observing mind, seeing our pre-planned future...and eventually...our demise. Yup...some other guy...about 2,000 years ago...give or take a year or two...who we portray with long hair, beard & was cast away to a deserted island...pretty much wrote about the same thing too. I've read his book...it's just as "revelating"...and just as true. BCRadio

[@michaelhall7663]

If anyone could've predicted the future accurately it was good old AC Clarke. I'd like to think of Andy Weir as his successor.

[@toastfan23]

Living to see your predictions become true. Satisfaction at its finest

[@koulka4]

" I just hope that when that day comes and the city is abolished, the whole world doesn't turn into one giant suburb." Man, thats literally whats in transition right now. This man is a genius and were all doomed lol

[@770WT]

Clarke was not a negative man . It's amazing people come on here to relish in negatively that accomplishes nothing .

[@koulka4]

@@770WT do you know how to read ? i said this man is a genius because he basically predicts the future and what it is still yet to come. I said were all doomed because if the whole word turns into one giant suburb than we will not live as we are used to. What are you trying to say ?

[@koulka4]

@@spryzeNxX whats up ?

[@blackman5867]

I also has a thought like that, which is something like : "Someday technology will become so advanced that we don't even need to use our brain". I know that doesn't sound as smart and deep-looking as Clarke's but I guess that's my best guess until now...

[@koulka4]

@@blackman5867 in no shape or way are you wrong. What you are stating is AI. AI will take over one day and ww will not need to use our brains anymore. Altough i dont think we will still be alive to witness this revolutionary change

[@Albeit_Jordan]

"Yo Arthur, you've gone viral!" "I've gone what?"

[@robertcronin6603]

Lol 😂

[@freedapeeple4049]

I suspect he would not have to ask what it meant.

[@dentonkyle5155]

Haha, that's pretty funny. In all seriousness, Arthur died in 2008. He very well may have heard the reference, which dates back to 2004.

[@HaenaKauai91]

@@freedapeeple4049 you're exactly right.

[@jamesbeez]

Lmfaoooo

[@johnreese3797]

I remember back in elementary school in the 80's we took computer class. The teacher was saying she thought future newspapers would be an electronic form on a computer.

[@mjt1517]

Sort of an easy prediction to make in the '80s. We had basic dial up networks through bulletin board systems and also early services like CompuServe.

[@cobrajeff96]

A brilliant sales pitch by two engineers was made to a top executive at Xerox in the 80s. Their opening statement was: the future of the office is no office. The executive's business, however, relied chiefly on paper production and consumption. He turned down their pitch and thanked them for their time. Xerox missed it's chance to be one of the biggest leaders back then.

[@dennisbailey6067]

I was in Elementary and we took pencil sharpening lessons,and using ink wells.Not to mention how to get the Cane...

[@rxonmymind8362]

I made a prediction in math class when we bought "stocks". I bought batteries. I said "this was the future" (while holding up a Duracell). Almost right.

[@Nightweaver1]

I mean... they are. Who even reads paper newspapers anymore? We all just get our news off Facebook (sorry, META) and Twitter.

[@smorcrux426]

"I only hope that when that day comes, and when the city is abolished, the whole world won't turn into one giant suburb" damn that's on point

[@muntaha681]

He knew exactly where the technological was heading. He even talked about remote work, which people had to put especial effort in COVID-19. And the remote surgeries , they are happening but they still have a long way to go. Wow! He gave me chills by his last prediction!

[@freighttrain7143]

@@thundercat007 Yes, because adults cannot be excited by intelligent thought and new ideas! Wow, you are a moron. And SO PROUD of it!

[@dj-ux1jr]

That's true i was awestruck when he said adminstrative work thinking the same wfh situation..

[@amybrowning]

@@thundercat007 Why is there always someone like you here to ruin the vibe? Like I'll be reading an interesting comment and open the comments to see something that really could have been kept in your head. Lol it's just weird...

[@amybrowning]

@@thundercat007 huh

[@whiteface513abandonedchann8]

@@thundercat007 hello, do you grasp the premise of context?

[@daveh9753]

Clarke's best quote has got to be “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. In this video he is only describing technology half a century in his future and at the time his ideas were regarded as rather fanciful. Imagine what it could be like a couple of hundred years hence, that is if we survive that long. My prediction is that we will be communicating through, lets call it, quantum tunnelling requiring no conventionally transmitted electromagnetic connection at all and at virtually instantaneous speed over any distance with no limit on the amount of data being transmitted. Consequently, it would be possible to present a virtual image of oneself at any location requiring no physical presence and would be indistinguishable from the real thing. That really would be working from home.

[@theduke1163]

They would never allow it

[@_puffy]

@@theduke1163 they may not be able to stop it

[@mikeg3439]

Quite a lot of Sci-Fi really is a smart collection of "what if". Tanks, bionics, the internet, credit cards, submarines, all were famously clearly depicted in Sci-Fi before they were ever made real. Hopefully we can turn from a world that worships thug culture and go back to a world where accomplishment, innovation and pushing the boundaries of knowledge is (more) popular. P.S. I love love your predicts about quantum tunneling

[@fQsfHi]

That would also explain people's meetings with aliens, if they are really true. They often describe it as metaphysical experience, because they don't have point of reference.

[@yummycookie3429]

This is happening already

[@Perepechca]

It is trurly incredible, how sci-fi writers were able to envision the future. One day i was reading "The Magellanic Cloud" (Polish title: Obłok Magellana), a science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. The story was about journey of a generation starship, and in one of the chapters, the protagonist was using informational network to access some of the data for research (it was stored on a tiniest crystals). Suddenly, it hit me - the author literally described Internet, and the novel was written yet only in 1955! Amazing. Simply amazing.

[@skaiby6633]

If you thought that was amazing, try The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, 1960’s The story is about a book so huge about space and similar things that it’s put into a device described in a remarkably similar fashion to an iPod or a phone It’s witty and the book itself is a stroke of genius if you ask me, I couldn’t recommend it more

[@jeopardy60611]

It's amazing how he talks about virtual surgery, which does exist now, as well as saying that we won't have to commute, only communicate, which we now have possible because of Zoom.

[@MrTruth111]

'In fact some day in the future you will be able to view and hear me speak this prediction while you are on a small device sitting on your toilet''

[@rocker-barrel4786]

And im viewing this 2 days after you posted it ☺

[@Leehamism]

Pissed myself laughing at your comment! Just as well I'm sitting on the toilet.

[@hmq9052]

I moved to the toilet to truly revel in this comment experience

[@MrTruth111]

@@Leehamism hahaha

[@Leehamism]

@@hmq9052 hah! T S...? "T S" always reminds me of famous poet, T.S. Eliot. Many years ago I heard he would always include his middle initial. "T.Eliot" read backwards was apparently the reason. Not sure if this is true.....?

[@DylansPen]

"People will sit in their underwear and watch videos of cats vomiting, sewer lines being cleared, pallet wood being made into guitars, and the tv you are watching me on being taken from a landfill and restored to working condition."

[@PaintingwithEnrique]

Are you spying on me?

[@EojinsReviews]

@@PaintingwithEnrique We all are, Enrique..

[@KevAng039]

How does this only have 65 likes. This should have at least 65,000 lol.

[@moow950]

Arthur C. Clarke was so right. Almost everything he predicted came out.

[@pipedream690]

Still plenty of time for the other predictions. With the current pandemic it wouldn’t surprise me if they started working on remote surgery.

[@Mephitinae]

I'm glad he also lived long enough to see it happen.

[@wanderer1955]

And when he was with little children that wasn't the only thing to "come out".

[@isaacolivecrona6114]

Did he really predict it? Or did he inspire engineers to develop such technology?

[@moow950]

Erik Olivecrona Well, that’s an interesting question. You could say the same about Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek. Many things in those show have become reality. Anyway, Clarke and Roddenberry were visionairs who got a lot of things right.

[@nigelcroft5113]

a brilliant man, with a brilliant mind always watched his tv documentrys

[@VikPaints]

A true visionary. He predicted our world today highly accurately, clever man.

[@aldozilli1293]

Not even the world today he is predicting our future, which will be exodus from cities and ruin of the countryside which has already started happening as more people are able to work from home. My county Sussex is fast being turned into a suburb of London with huge new non-descript housing estates popping up all over the place.

[@matthewsmith3956]

@@aldozilli1293 Same where i live. My village is being swallowed up by London.

[@supertouring22]

@@matthewsmith3956 My small village of Croydon has also been swallowed up. When will it end?

[@Torpengpogi]

Nikolai Tesla : Hold my beer!!!!!

[@eric-jr2nf]

No, that's just due to population growth. The global trend is more urbanization actually.

[@arthurfranklin9315]

"Men will no longer have to commute, but communicate", unless they work for a corporation that wants to keep an eye on them and therefore they will schedule a few face-to-face meetings per day to ensure the employee's physical presence at work.

[@maudemathildeh335]

I use to buy OMNI Magazine all the time back in the day. Always loved A.C. Clarke brilliant man!

[@GastonBulbous]

That last sentence turned out to be painfully true. Urban centres with vibrant downtowns are dead, but so many of us live in these soulless suburban sprawls.

[@johndsouza1839]

a true visionary of that time! RIP

[@Patrick-hb7bk]

He's in hell , not resting in peace .

[@enuma7]

And did he also see that the earth is going to be populated by idiots ?

[@Patrick-hb7bk]

@@enuma7 That was visioned before he ever said it .

[@dalethelander3781]

@@Patrick-hb7bk YOU go to Hell.

[@pakovitz4088]

okay dude, now return the Delorean to Doc!

[@Burg2143]

Lol

[@daviddemar8749]

Lol

[@daviddemar8749]

Lol I hope young people got the joke.

[@vipertwenty249]

Someone already did. The patient was David Eyke. You can't actually tell if it had any negative effect .

[@captainjohn7833]

"Great Scott!" "Woah, this is heavy Doc." 🚬👓...

[@blessedzulu]

This is scarily accurate. One might think it's a modern video with a "retro" filter.

[@dw7200]

Post it on Facebook. Fact checkers will tell you if it’s true.. 🤣🤣🤣

[@larrysouthern5098]

Yep ... you should read some of his books... 👀

[@qdakid7776]

@Peter Evans you’re a goofy for acting like this is something people are supposed to know

[@ghostface1500]

@UCEoYUvscb5FOjNYyPD1ajfA lmao you don’t even know what illiterate means, dumbass

[@user-kx7ls8ds9j]

Many modern concepts and algorithms have been theorized about as early as the 30s. It’s just that they didn’t have the processing power for it. Honestly, it doesn’t sound too scary if you remind yourself that this is many years after tech like radio and TV were popularized, which is a good beginning for wireless worldwide communication. We pretty much just lacked the physical devices for reaching bigger - same for today: quantum computers have been a concept for quiet a while, but it’s not feasible to its full potential yet.

[@abdelm4lek]

This man's prediction was so on point that he exposed his possession of a time machine

[@wiscgaloot]

He died in 2008 so he lived to see much of his prediction come true! What a great man, and one of my absolute favorite authors.

[@marksimons4108]

Yes but he did have a penchant for little boys which is why he lived in sri Lanka where such things can be purchased!

[@wiscgaloot]

@@marksimons4108 Utterly false, he was cleared of all charges.

[@meesalikeu88]

@Kelly Cox nope utterly true

[@StratOCE]

@@meesalikeu88 Glad to see we live in a world where a newspaper can make accusations with no evidence and everybody believes them.

[@wiscgaloot]

@@meesalikeu88 then why did the Sri Lanka police investigate--and dismiss all charges?

[@AA-gl1dr]

If only he could see just how true his predictions would be

[@goncaloamaral7846]

A A he died in 2008. He saw them.

[@comradepatrick9167]

Watching videos like this always make me triggered becose i know that most of the people that predicted the future didn't even know what they got right. Thankfully he saw them.

[@dannygjk]

If only he had kept his hands off kids.

[@sparke585]

yes these freemason satanists know exactly what is going on! shame the sheeple have no idea! :( wake up sheeple!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@AA-gl1dr]

spa rke lmao seek professional help

[@marcparella]

"I hope that when that day comes and the city is abolished the whole world isn't turned into one giant suburb." The man didn't predict the internet, he predicted Phoenix.

[@descendant0fdragons]

No he predicted Covid 19 and the aftermath, Cities going into village mode. pple working at home and Sh!t.

[@ps-yk8su]

What does Arizona have to do with this

[@marcparella]

@@ps-yk8su "One giant suburb"...

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

Nah, South Florida. One. Big. Urban. Sprawl.... without a city center.

[@disoriented1]

@@marcparella Phoenix as it is could survive without the internet; without air conditioning it would still have a population of 50,000!

[@squatch5266]

Fairly insane to be watching this video through an offshoot of the very thing he was predicting.

[@richardhill9549]

“Men will no longer need to commute, but will spend all his time on KZbin watching people commute"

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

.... they will spend their time staring at very small screens while walking into trees and into traffic. They will lose all ability to communicate and do it through animated emotions and typing short words and abbreviations.

[@spactick]

ha!

[@mazi_thoughts]

Lol

[@xavier4519]

@@Bigbadwhitecracker you sound exactly like my granddad lmao

[@kartikpoojari7066]

@@Bigbadwhitecracker ok boomer

[@samuel_s.8181]

It’s so incredible to see his work and predictions before he even wrote 2001: a space odyssey

[@justinmillard8196]

The prediction of surgeons performing surgery remotely in 50 years or so is extraordinarily good.

[@Jonas-ej7id]

Has that come true?

[@justinmillard8196]

@@Jonas-ej7id I was at a simulation congress at the end of 2016 where the technology was being showcased. There had been some big news stories about remote surgeries before then. At that stage they were focused on showing off the haptic feedback so the surgeon could get a simulated feel of where they were and what they were doing. When discussing it with hospital staff over the next year or so the biggest bottleneck to it becoming more common seemed to be digital literacy amongst surgeons.

[@cooleroconnor1718]

@@justinmillard8196 Imagine mfs using PS5 controllers to operate someone.

[@erlindaalba1682]

@@cooleroconnor1718 then a patient dies because the controller was set as inverted (nose up means down) Nurse: "Sorry doc i was playing GTA last night"

[@nickxcore74]

This man was an absolute genius, I learned of Arthur C Clarke through my best friends Dad who introduced me to his work.

[@HardRockMiner]

This man was far more intelligent than any of us really realizes.

[@PaleBlueDott]

HardRockMiner He is as intelligent as someone today who can somewhat accurately predict life in the year 2050 and I doubt anyone here can do that.

[@bonestoner2245]

+OdysseusThinking I think we'll all be dead

[@knottsscary]

Bones Toner Dead because of....?

[@fyreal9123]

+manasseh dawkins ok wow thats a huge disappointment

[@Gamerad360]

Keep in mind ARPA net was already around, so it's not like this is amazing or anything, it's just the logical next step for ARPA net.

[@jaimehudson7623]

Wish he was still here with us... What an amazing mind & clever writer!

[@harleyatc956]

The internet hasn’t turned the world into a suburb, more like a cesspool.

[@yannisgouras4482]

Swimming in an ocean of information yet drowning in ignorance

[@mchapman132]

The Internet has changed many things for the better, but it has also opened access to a seedy, degenerate world, and brought it right into our homes. Pornography no longer arrives in a plain brown wrapper, so the mailman, neighbors, mother or the wife doesn’t see it, it’s right there one click away. Our children are exposed to things they shouldn’t see or even know exist. I was a child of the ‘50’s, the worst I was exposed to was maybe a shoot out western on TV, a gangster movie, Roadrunner blowing things up, or the 3 Stooges slapping each other. Our young people today are bombarded from all sides. They are being robbed of their childhood, their innocence, and now being taught to question their own gender. Not all progress is good.

[@gc6888]

Destroyed it - there is no turning back now

[@everforward8651]

@@yannisgouras4482 Maybe because much of that so-called information is bullshit, and much of it doesn't actually do people any kind of good.

[@mchapman132]

@tate rosemary - true. Predictions are coming to fruition.

[@sayyer10]

R.I.P. Mr Arthur C Clarke. You are a wise man indeed! And you lived to see your predictions come true!

[@LyricWulf]

Turns out, the world isn't wizard jizz.

[@ole781]

LyricWulf nur was wenn doch?

[@frederikex4545]

exurb1a ?

[@SagaEf]

I don’t remember the lyrics lemmie check the video

[@parzh]

Nice reference 👍

[@petko5335]

Ah, a fellow exurb1a worshipper.

[@lordstinson8095]

And here we are.. all men gathered to witness this man's speech, and to "communicate".

[@Grevilles]

funny how in these times where we are more connected than ever, we are more lonely than ever

[@nevincox8205]

And that's only going to get worse

[@ryadh456]

@@nevincox8205 yeah 😓 loneliness is a bitch

[@thepoplionbrosshow3669]

r/im14andthisisdeep and to save you the trouble r/ihavereddit

[@daidara1462]

Lol humans would be lonely regardless

[@daidara1462]

@@FlashyLi shut the fuck up teddie

[@fatguyfrommars]

How did he describe the internet purely on a prediction better then I would now

[@tiberiius]

a bit scary the descriptions and how accurate it is.

[@RudeHaus148]

The man was beyond brilliant. In the vein of Aldous Huxley.

[@jv-lk7bc]

far more accurate than Aldous Huxley.

[@ignorecorporatenews]

@@jv-lk7bc Wrong

[@thrwwyaccnt123]

@@ignorecorporatenews don't just say "wrong", say the ways in which he's wrong

[@TheLizardOfOz]

Clarke predicted the geostationary satellite in an SF story in the late 1940s (or early '50s). So accurate was his idea, that when they began to be built, the tech couldn't be patented.

[@simonjones7727]

You should read E M Forster's "The Machine Stops". That is a sort of miracle of prediction.

[@marlonmosley]

The reading of the last three chapters of 2010 & 2001 space odyssey Junior year in high school changed me. I immediately read it again to feel that again. Then I saw the epic masterpiece on film. Although Kubrick deserved the Oscar and accolades, Sir Arthur's words.. Particularly the Stargate sequence... They say a picture is worth a thousand words..yet with all the stunning, breath taking Oscar winning visuals- Arthur C. Clarke's thousand words...were somehow better than any visual could ever achieve. He's the guy sitting next to Chronkite on the moon landings, His documentary about the Mandel brot set using Pink Floyd music, His memoirs led to the eventual advent of the satellite and his thoughts on the potential life swimming beneath Europa's frozen surface is.. Arthur is my favorite Arthur and Scientists. This old man is my nigga. Thank you.

[@RizkyRick]

LMAO i felt that he my nigga too fr

[@aaronmatzkin7966]

Doc Brown: "Of course we run (in the future), but for recreation; for fun." Old Timey Prospector Guy: "Run for fun? What the hell kind of fun is that?"

[@sabatino1977]

If evrbody’s got one o’ them, automo-whatsits, doesn’t anybody walk or run anymore?

[@BridgetteBentley]

He was far ahead of his time…amazing✨

[@andrewgunnell5557]

The beautiful irony.

[@dominicstocker5144]

@@andrewgunnell5557 what?

[@tibormalinsky8751]

“I only hope that when that day comes and when city is abolished, the whole world isn’t turned into one giant suburb.”

[@mehamad8506]

How would you explain suberb to a non native speakers? What does he mean?

[@tibormalinsky8751]

@@mehamad8506 My words: It’s the edge of the city that is primarily created for the habitants that don’t want to live in the center but still near. Usually this part of the city is full of houses, playgrounds etc., no malls, no cinemas; I would call it the village part of the city. But you are still near the center. The advantages are that you can live in a house with a garden and a pool, but still commute and it doesn’t take 3 hours. But it’s within the walking distance (well, that’s subjective). Disadvantages are that you don’t live in the center so when you are dependent on the buses etc. Cambridge dictionary: suburb - an area on the edge of a large town or city where people who work in the town or city often live merriam-webster: 1. an outlying part of a city or town, 2. a smaller community adjacent to or within commuting distance of a city

[@tibormalinsky8751]

@@mehamad8506 How I understood it is that he hopes the whole world won’t transform into a landscape full of houses but with nothing in it.

[@WaterlooExpat]

That's exactly what is happening.

[@mandoman2874]

@@mehamad8506 the only thing you need to know is they suck. One has to drive to get staple goods. Either live in the city with easy access to everything, or live in the country away from neighbors.

[@alphaapple9673]

not just internet, this man predicted the metaverse as well

[@user-li6qb7kc7j]

I'm glad he got to experience the internet. May his soul rest in peace

[@user-li6qb7kc7j]

@MichaelKingsfordGray someone's mad