"People will be viewed as statistics more than actual people" this kid hit the nail on the head
@robertjohnson-taylor1002 жыл бұрын
Almost prophetic.
@user-pb2kg1ng4g2 жыл бұрын
Yes, the danger of abstraction; and potential evil of abstraction.
@martinh86792 жыл бұрын
A child from the 60's with the most accurate quote on KZbin. Its quite depressing to see how many of these children saw their predictions become facts and just how much they've been let down.
@billk98562 жыл бұрын
Amazing insight from the young lad.
@billk98562 жыл бұрын
And then he nails the future of the egg/meat industry at 4.07.
@SteveSilverActor2 жыл бұрын
The kid who predicted factory farming and the treatment of farm animals got it exactly right. Did the BBC only take the most dystopian answers? Or were British children that pessimistic about the future? There were one or two that had positive views of the future, but the vast majority envisioned quite a horrible state of affairs.
@TouringBassist2 жыл бұрын
They were literally being prepared to die as children, it's messed up
@Thomas8282 жыл бұрын
The Cold War was still on and the Cuban Missile Crisis was only four years earlier. There was a very real possibility of all-out nuclear war and those children knew it as well as anybody. The world was a seriously scary place in the sixties.
@golden.lights.twinkle23292 жыл бұрын
These are privileged children from the most exclusive schools in Britain. Hardly representative of the general views of British children at the time.
@Tambrose04052 жыл бұрын
the future is going to continue to get worse, I'm not sure why you're surprised
@peterbelanger40942 жыл бұрын
There was most certainly an editorial process that chose the most "engaging" content. That's just how TV is done.
@joshua47472 жыл бұрын
These kids sound smarter than some adults today. They are very articulate.
@surferbri5346 Жыл бұрын
Because kids learn bullshit now
@daddylonglegspidersdontexi3210 Жыл бұрын
they probably are the adults of today
@704commentkan Жыл бұрын
@@daddylonglegspidersdontexi3210 of course they are
@paulo0651 Жыл бұрын
Why are they so smart tho? Were they like chosen specifically?
@704commentkan Жыл бұрын
@@paulo0651 i don't know why
@karenbell414511 ай бұрын
I would have been around their age then. But more importantly, these kids were amazing. They were so on target. One of them spoke about diseases, computers and the people having a hard time getting jobs. These children from England were absolutely inspiring. I would love to hear their stories now.
@GaionSputro6 ай бұрын
What your generation do back then?
@fareshajjar12086 күн бұрын
Strangely, none of the girls imagined that they would be hunted by Muslim grooming gangs.
@garurumon97582 жыл бұрын
Some very dark prescience in these kids, but what a pleasure to listen to how articulately they convey their ideas
@billie41062 жыл бұрын
Garurumon. With respect, bbc machine picking posh public school children. But your right, the future is looking rather bleak for them. Also bbc indoctrinated to think it’s all their fault, the children that is..
@Flappatackle2 жыл бұрын
'Cos they is posh kids innit
@cornishmaid91382 жыл бұрын
These are the children whose destiny (by accident of birth into privileged families) were to become the higher echelons of position in their careers.
@twizz4202 жыл бұрын
They were living through the Cold War.
@elhombredeoro9552 жыл бұрын
@@Flappatackle they are British
@kdjoshi7262 жыл бұрын
The girl talking about flats & houses being rather small was 100% correct as it's happening in my country
@volactic5240 Жыл бұрын
What county you from
@rakusko33 Жыл бұрын
Didnt happen in 2000 tho
@JamileMendes-ek9xp Жыл бұрын
What she said was obvious even to a donkey. Don't bother.
@hannahboebanna Жыл бұрын
wya?
@shiningstone6771 Жыл бұрын
@@volactic5240India ofc.
@canigetanoorah2 жыл бұрын
What intelligent well spoken children. It’s sad that several of them mentioned atomic warfare as a reflection of the world that they lived in
@socks24412 жыл бұрын
if these kids were not brought up so well, and warned of the dangers, perhaps we would all be living in a post nulcear war world right now. the few of us that remain.
@connordrake57132 жыл бұрын
Kids of the 60's lived in the wrong era because those atomic bombs they're talking is much more dangerous now and it can detonate now if Russia and Putin lose his mind. And kids nowadays still taking selfies on TikTok and explaining their preferred pronouns like wtf??? 🤦
@philiprufus44272 жыл бұрын
Remember when I was 12/13 in 1966 - it was less than twenty years since they had dropped two bombs. The Russians invaded Hungary the British army was fighting so called police actions all over the world the Cuban Missile Crises was four yaers past, along with the French Algerian War and French soldiers trying to oust the French government. The Veitnam War etc Two years later we got two see Russian tanks in Prague on tele, Aden on tele,Notthern Ireland after that. Yes we had a lot to be opptomistic about !
@eduardosotelo46632 жыл бұрын
Not like now everything is about abortion, lgtb, feminist fast and Furies, transexual!
@tenebrious_rex2 жыл бұрын
I lived most of my secondary education in fear of nuclear war and although not as dark as some interviewed here it was very central in my teen years. Along with others here, I have to say how eloquent most of these children were.
@paigecourtier4293 Жыл бұрын
As a 23 year old, I resonate a lot with the kid at the end being afraid to live in the world in 50 years time.
@SunshineCatwoman9 ай бұрын
What everyone seems to be missing is that things haven't really changed all that much. Sure, technology is much better, but we still have many of the same problems we had then, and people are still living much the same as they did then. What makes you think things will change very much in 50 more years?
@littlehalestorm9 ай бұрын
As a 28-year-old, I feel the same way. :( Stay safe and well, everyone.
@eiodintotalistli84489 ай бұрын
@@SunshineCatwomanDentro de 50 años el ser humano estará totalmente controlado. Tal vez puedan reventar a los desobedientes desde lejos mediante la tecnología. 😊
@childrensorg8568 ай бұрын
@@SunshineCatwomanspot on, only difference is cashless society but more overpopulated as in 10-12 billion people in 50 years time.
@Shivam7827 ай бұрын
so sad to know this. seems technology developed so much to the point that now people are scared of it though the people of those era used to to so positive about it.😌
@shaolinwisdom2 жыл бұрын
They'd have to be at least 70 years old now. It would be fascinating to do a follow up 62 years after these were done. Plus it's been 22 years since 2000 as well. I'd like to see how they feel about seeing their younger selves. Their kind sci-fi predictions. Or how they feel about the world now, for better or worse.
@Tor0102 жыл бұрын
I bet you anything there all dead from covid too ..
@Ggdivhjkjl2 жыл бұрын
Hopefully they've realised that overpopulation was always a lie by now.
@NullStaticVoid2 жыл бұрын
there is a series of short movies made in the UK called 7 Up, 14 Up, 21 Up, 28 Up etc Which follows a group of people from 7 years old until 56.
@lynne34602 жыл бұрын
I graduated in mid 2000's, I promise it was better then.
@petesmith94722 жыл бұрын
They’re my age…about 66-68
@SatrioBudiDharmawan2 жыл бұрын
Can you please do a re-interview with them if they still alive? That would be interesting to watch their reactions.
@xoazaja6532 жыл бұрын
No.
@SatrioBudiDharmawan2 жыл бұрын
@@xoazaja653 ok
@herbert420692 жыл бұрын
@@taicunmusic someone failed math
@TecraX22 жыл бұрын
@@taicunmusic So much for the high IQ...
@dean68162 жыл бұрын
@@taicunmusic They'll be in their 70s silly
@tinakev40222 жыл бұрын
I was gobsmacked when watching the young lad at 4:06. His prediction of intensive battery farming was completely spot on.
@JulieWallis19632 жыл бұрын
You can help by choosing to buy free range, happy meat and eggs. If people stop buying cruel food, farmers will return to happy food.
@tinakev40222 жыл бұрын
@@JulieWallis1963 It's free range for me, all the way!
@soundseeker632 жыл бұрын
Better still, less meat or no meat at all. An entire planet full of people all raising animals specifically to eat them is really damaging in a plethora of ways even if it was somehow possible to meet current demand without using battery farming methods.
@jono_high2 жыл бұрын
@@JulieWallis1963 Free range is better than battery, but by no means is it ethical. The marketing material for free range products tends to lean on the idea that animals are completely free, in open fields and the likes, when the reality is usually much different.
@MrWizzleTeets2 жыл бұрын
They filmed him last week and put a black and white filter on.
@flippoint55555 ай бұрын
The kid talking about population and automation. Wow. Insane how smart that kid is.
@Tinybeario Жыл бұрын
"People are gonna be out of work due to automation" Pretty much nailed it.
@crazyaces4042 Жыл бұрын
yes!
@Brakdayton Жыл бұрын
😂 on what planet? We’ve got more money, leisure time and automated help. Fewer diseases. Third world shrinking. Fewer conflicts. Those are the FACTS.
@Brakdayton Жыл бұрын
@@flexiblepaper7389 or we can hunt and grow our dinner, build our own fires to light and warm our homes, weave our clothes and use pigeons to send messages. We’ve been automating for almost 200 years and we’re not stopping. Embrace it.
@jamiealisson8298 Жыл бұрын
@@Brakdaytonthis comment did not age well
@goblinoide Жыл бұрын
@@jamiealisson8298 The comment is only a month old now, and at the time of your comment it was about a week old. You misused the "this comment did not age well" line because you only know how to repeat things and not how to think for yourself.
@MrMenefrego12 жыл бұрын
I was 6 in 1966 and can well remember the overwhelming confidence and optimism Americans had for the future. Shockingly, contrasted by how dismal the future looked to these well-mannered English youngsters.
@ajs412 жыл бұрын
I think Americans who watch this may be slightly missing the tongue-in-cheek nature of most of these predictions. It's not as gloomy as it might seem.
@MrMenefrego1 Жыл бұрын
@@ajs41 So, all of them are simply joking. Seriously?
@rexfreeman4981 Жыл бұрын
By the end of the 60s, that optimism in America had dissipated. The 60s in Britain were far more grim as many ppl were starving.
@MrMenefrego1 Жыл бұрын
@@rexfreeman4981 What difference does that make; my point was that the two nations had widely different mindsets. England's national mood was horizontally opposed to that of America.
@solocupp6120 Жыл бұрын
Not really, if you notice things are exactly as these kids described. Especially under the so-called Biden administration.
@SlowLane-pv3nf2 жыл бұрын
They are all so softly spoken and gentle. People seem louder these days even if they have less to say.
@adhyamaurdharm3093 Жыл бұрын
yes!
@neverettebrakensiek877110 ай бұрын
Many of their parents would have been of the " silent generation " born in the late 30s and early 40s, whose lives growing up were affected by the great depression and WWll. Those parents taught their kids not to complain, not to feel sorry for themselves and to just quietly get on with what they needed to do and to do their very best. Bad manners were not tolerated and they were taught that their behavior reflected on the whole family. Most kids raised by the " silent generation" would never be loud or obnoxious in public or talk back to their parents, I am the child of "the silent" generation. My how attitudes have changed, listening to those kids made me miss how people used to speak and be respectful with each other when I was young.
@Woodman-Spare-that-treeАй бұрын
That’s from importing foreign cultures
@waynejfoster98609 ай бұрын
It's amazing how accurate those kid's were. "People will be seen as nothing more than statistics instead of real People". How accurate was that prediction. Totally spot on
@VengeanceFalls Жыл бұрын
These kids articulate so much better then 95 percent of adults nowadays.
@JohnathanElySmith Жыл бұрын
*than Sorry I just had to, no offence intended…
@longegg-wind957711 ай бұрын
They’re clearly very posh, probably students of a private school
@buriedguy158211 ай бұрын
We make the same observation for the French people today
@candygarden502911 ай бұрын
thats just the british
@neferpizzastudios273311 ай бұрын
Even the “sun will burn out and cause an ice age” girl was articulate!
@coffeebot30002 жыл бұрын
These are some extremely smart kids. I expected most of them to talk about having jet packs and robot butlers. DIdn't expect them to be so dark, and sadly, accurate about what will happen. Was very surprised by that kid talking about keeping animals in batteries instead of grazing, and raising them so they produce more meat.
@hepphepps83562 жыл бұрын
That was already happening.
@davidskeeterskeeter18352 жыл бұрын
Not smart,,but privileged upper class privately educated? Children.
@thenightdrivepictures2 жыл бұрын
Accurate? How many atomic wars have you lived through? 😮 and how many robot butlers do you have?
@KH-fv3vq2 жыл бұрын
@@thenightdrivepictures You don't have them? That's odd
@thenightdrivepictures2 жыл бұрын
@@KH-fv3vq very odd indeed. i want my robot butler as well as my robot race car driver
@Guitarbarella2 жыл бұрын
The kid with the battery animals was spot on. Both his comments were correct…a deep thinker for such a young kid…wonder what he eventually did?
@seankilburn72002 жыл бұрын
He definitely made the most accurate predictions.
@call_in_sick2 жыл бұрын
@@verynice5574 🙀😹😹
@BHALT0S2 жыл бұрын
yeah, he sells meats to KFC and burger kings etc.... from his monster battery farms lol.
@craigward76912 жыл бұрын
eugenics
@TheAbandonedAccount72 жыл бұрын
This kid is a time traveler
@Tonybaga_laughs8 ай бұрын
Does it frighten anyone how mature these children sound in comparison to today’s adult?
@leejohnson32097 ай бұрын
Technically, they are today's adults, if they're still alive.
@Tonybaga_laughs7 ай бұрын
@@leejohnson3209 I mean as kids they spoke like adults. No 12 year old sounds like this now. Maybe Asian kids.
@abdallahmehidi44807 ай бұрын
absolutely. They look more mature than todays' adults.
@theoldcoot557 ай бұрын
@abdallahmehidi4480 kids read Books back then and filled their heads with knowledge
@classic15577 ай бұрын
Yes
@JSMEsq2 жыл бұрын
1:28 This child, who appears to be at the ripe age of 8 has a near perfect prediction of the 2000s, And speaks more eloquently than anyone I know.
@jacobbaranowski Жыл бұрын
That looks and sounds like Elon Musk
@mrjacobnash Жыл бұрын
Looks like Matt Bellamy!
@Des_W Жыл бұрын
Funny cuz it wasn’t true where I lived lol
@idontevenhaveapla7224 Жыл бұрын
@@jacobbaranowski FFS
@user-gy9hq5cb1f Жыл бұрын
Such an intelligent child. I think he invented Covid 🤣🤣🤣
@Im_so_Retro852 жыл бұрын
Some of these children are absolutely prophetic. They nailed alot of what is occurring in present times. It gives me chills.
@christianmendoza36552 жыл бұрын
Children? But they are not children 🤔
@jacknasty69402 жыл бұрын
Try a sweater
@poempadgett46642 жыл бұрын
@Daniel Larkins Not true: check your listening ears, dear: these were some of those kids’ predictions: Factory Farming Automation in manufacturing, etc, taking jobs. Sea levels rising. Overpopulation Increased racial and socioeconomic integration and leveling. There were more than just those, too, lol.
@poempadgett46642 жыл бұрын
They looked like maybe middle to early high school aged, to me. That one boy sounded like a very serious and wise 50+ year old man and looked 11, lol. 🧐🤓 @@christianmendoza3655
@poempadgett46642 жыл бұрын
According to what I could find, Marlborough College was/is an English public school that was established in 1843 by Church of England clergy for students aged 13-18.
@Gaurav_9339 Жыл бұрын
" Jobs only for people with computer knowledge " these kids predicted this in 1966.
@PM20229 ай бұрын
Except that a large number of people have been carrying 'computers' in their palms for a while now
@YtuserSumone-rl6sw9 ай бұрын
@@PM2022"Except that" That isn't relevant to the OG statement. Besides, regular people have zero computer knowledge. They only understand how to get tasks done on software/apps.
@PM20229 ай бұрын
Who is OG? Besides, that kid did not specify whether 'knowledge' meant writing code (leave aside what kind); you are projecting your own thinking (as vague, misguided as even that is) on to his statement. Meanwhile, of course people have jobs and make money using just the applications anyway, even as there remain many jobs that do not require even that (even if those people may know how to use smartphones--which are, of course, computers). And yet, it is granted that computer literacy is an educational prerequisite now in most parts of the world--but that also means getting a job demands many other things on top of that.@@YtuserSumone-rl6sw
@talpatv5129 ай бұрын
@@PM2022we are still animals first and foremost, one of our greatest problems was when we started to prioritise technology over manpower, creating a very nice gap between those knowledgeable and those that are not
@GaionSputro6 ай бұрын
Anybody have sci-fi idea which want to type?
@samuelcreighton482410 ай бұрын
Really quite sad... So young, yet their vision of the future seemed to induce only fear. - Would so love to see them interviewed again today.
@Bell_plejdo568p10 ай бұрын
Yea I wonder why was it becuase of the media, but they were right about the world being a worse place
@Andyc182 жыл бұрын
1:29 It's like an adult in a childs body! Talks so eloquently and seems wise beyond his years.
@connordrake57132 жыл бұрын
Nah, he's just talking right to his age. Maybe you're talking about OUR GENERATION. They're tons of millennials out there who's adults now but they're screaming and shouting like a kid when someone disagree with them especially of "WHAT IS A WOMAN?"😂 Kids in the 60's had tougher and mature questions but adults in the 2020's had kindergarten questions and yet they're answers are always wrong. 🤦 Just like Kamala Harris for example. We're literally doomed, my friend.
@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome2 жыл бұрын
@@connordrake5713 Yep!
@Franckdatank2 жыл бұрын
Well he was a biologist, so…
@somethingelse5162 жыл бұрын
@@connordrake5713 you are incorrect the average millennial or zoomer is likely to be considerably better educated that their boomer counterparts. The participants in this video have probably been plucked from a private or grammar school and probably represent no more than 10-20% of their contemporaries. This is an example of selection bias, look up various programmes about how those from those young people from lower socio economic status homes in the 60s would have acted or sounded
@jitkasuarez2 жыл бұрын
He's my favourite
@billchessmen2 жыл бұрын
Man, these kids back in 1966 in England were so smart! What a jewel of history, glad I found this on KZbin by chance
@shirleykurtz2 жыл бұрын
Privately educated are with the exception of Catholic school which I find no better than public school!
@Knnn1966 Жыл бұрын
Are* most of them are alive because it's of 1966 and they look 13-14
@brrrr5638 Жыл бұрын
@Moshan Yu Black kids 👉kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmWTiYqgo9lsrcU
@hitchslap8254 Жыл бұрын
These children will all be 13 or older. You didn't enter public school until you took the common entrance exam and possibly an additional exam for some super academic schools at age 13. To be fair Marlborough and Roedean are still some of the top Public (in UK Private) schools in the country. For context. I'm pretty sure if you interviewed boys at Phillips Andover or Exeter in 1966 you'd get similar answers.
@donnag5820 Жыл бұрын
I don’t know why so many people are saying these are privately educated children. I was raised in a small village of mostly council houses back in the 60s, was schooled in a two classroom School and if we didn’t speak proper English we were ‘clipped round the ear’ by both teacher and parent.
@glenmale1748 Жыл бұрын
I was in primary school in 1966 and the nuclear threat was very, very real. How it hasn't happened yet staggers me.
@glenmale1748 Жыл бұрын
@user-yp2mw2ko9k The Cold War was still at it's peak right through the 60's and 70's. Have a look at the British movie Threads from 1984. It still scares me today.
@Roger__Wilco Жыл бұрын
@user-yp2mw2ko9k "Did I miss anything?" Well yes, the cold war. At that point nearing the height of the proxy war in Vietnam between the US and the Soviets and their allies.
@Roger__Wilco Жыл бұрын
@user-yp2mw2ko9k They were the main supplier of arms and equipment to the NVA. And either way the nuclear threat was still very real for decades after the time you're talking about, just found it bizarre that you talk as if it ended in the mid 60s!
@Panimal9811 ай бұрын
Cooler heads prevailed.
@titchmoynihan21719 ай бұрын
No it wasnt. It was just posturing by US generals to get more money put into weapons. Russia couldnt have cared less about invading the US.
@guidedbyvoices2311 ай бұрын
These kids are mostly very intelligent and articulate for their age, my how times have changed..
@SHRWM2 жыл бұрын
The one child was spot on with regards to automation. You can see that this generation were drilled with regards over population.
@TheAllyMor2 жыл бұрын
Didn't blimmin work unfortunately!
@nitramluap2 жыл бұрын
We ARE overpopulated - and the wealthy countries are consuming disproportionately more resources. These kids are spot on....
@KnowYoutheDukeofArgyll18412 жыл бұрын
@@nitramluap No. Just brainwashed by the system of the time. And to those banging on about overpopulation, would you personally make that ultimate sacrifice yourselves to save the planet? No? Didn't think so.
@alunjones38602 жыл бұрын
There was a baby boom after the war, but they didn't predict it would come to an end. Anyway, automation hasn't taken that many jobs. A lot of work as gone overseas. A trend which was underway back then.
@SHRWM2 жыл бұрын
@@nitramluap As a matter of fact, the global population is expected to half in the next 50-70 years, Households are having below 1.8 children and men's sperm counts are reducing rapidly. Countries like Japan are in crisis as most of the population is 60 and above.
@neo77447 Жыл бұрын
How beautiful they spoke. The humility of these children shone through. I think we have gone backwards
@ziff_111 ай бұрын
Because conservatives dismantle education systems to keep people stupid and malleable.
@roketynoramallorca28829 ай бұрын
because kids don't read enough nowadays
@davidlondon28102 жыл бұрын
I am the same age as the children and was also interviewed for a similar radio programme at the age of 11. Seeing this takes me back to 1968. They speak like the children I remember from my class. Although the answers sound grim, we were just like kids of every generation in our normal lives and did not spend hours worrying about the future. But, we had picked up on the themes that worried our parents that were being mentioned by politicians and in the media.
@peperocoolero2 жыл бұрын
Your comment is very interesting. Could you talk more about what it was like growing up in the 60s? I'd appreciate it.
@bingbong73162 жыл бұрын
@@peperocoolero Well, in 1963 they invented the Beatles and we were knocked out by them. Then Kennedy was shot and all the TV was cancelled for the evening - we waited ages for Steptoe but no. Next night we were compensated by the first episode of a new sci-fi series called Dr Who. Black and white 405 line TV, a set cost our Dad a month's salary. I did enjoy being a kid in the 60's, decent food, great pop music, lots of freedom, the excitement of the Space Age, hope. The kids being filmed are a bit gloomy, tbh; back then, we thought science would solve all problems.
@peperocoolero2 жыл бұрын
@@bingbong7316 Your comment was very interesting and gratifying. Thank you so much for sharing a bit, I really appreciate it. The 60s is a decade that I really like to study and analyze from all areas (fashion, music, culture, history, politics, social movements). That's why I really value hearing the experiences of people who lived through that. Thank you :)
@bingbong73162 жыл бұрын
@@peperocoolero You're very welcome. It was a decade of rapid change in the UK; most male adults had either fought in WWII or done 2 years of National Service, which ended in 1960, and this set the tone. Married women were mainly housewives. The shadow of Queen Victoria and Empire _still_ lingered across society; fashions like the mini skirt were a rebellion against that suffocating mindset. I could go on..
@peperocoolero2 жыл бұрын
@@bingbong7316 WOW, seriously, thank you SO MUCH. It is very cool to read your comments. You are free to continue sharing information, I appreciate it very much and I will read it with pleasure!
@markkelly96219 ай бұрын
The kids in the video spoke beautifully. Very pleasant to listen to.
@robinmanners8094 Жыл бұрын
These children are from one of the most expensive private schools in the country- I'm sure they were well briefed in order to reflect well on their class (both contexts). It's a shame the BBC didn't balance the production with a visit to my state school- they may have been surprised.
@lynndavis288411 ай бұрын
My exact thoughts
@ginacable537610 ай бұрын
No they are not all from the same school or private education.
@Bluemoon4415-s5v9 ай бұрын
England will not win the World Cup again.
@Melanie_Star9 ай бұрын
@@ginacable5376 It's very easy to tell by their toff accents what type of schools they were all at. Definitely public schoolchildren.
@welshgit9 ай бұрын
@@ginacable5376Well, the description says 3 schools: Marlborough college and Roedean are both private boarding schools. "Chippenham schools" could mean either.
@Jay-D922 жыл бұрын
I might be wrong, but I think that first kid *really* likes robots....
@stellafraser83512 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@mrfrisky29972 жыл бұрын
He actually grew up to play Metal Micky in the TV show.
@jacksdjfam2 жыл бұрын
And did he say the funeral of a computer? He's dark. In fact they all are. Atomic bombs obsessed. I suppose to be expected at that time
@mrfrisky29972 жыл бұрын
@@jacksdjfam And here we are today - probably closer to a full on Nuclear War......
@Monkey80llx2 жыл бұрын
Literally lol’d! 🤣🤣
@curtisdalrymple42 Жыл бұрын
The little girl at 2:18 talking about how machines would do everything for people was very close to accurate.
@May-gr8bp Жыл бұрын
Well, over the course of our lives through the 21st century, these changes will all come into effect. Lots of sea rises too.
@r4zi3lgintoro65 Жыл бұрын
not rly
@richard764510 ай бұрын
Universal basic income
@nunyabusiness365210 ай бұрын
Just told my friend how soon enough, I felt AIs and self service machines will one day take everyone's job and the only jobs available is if you go to college (just like Detroit Become Human)
@zerocool134410 ай бұрын
Not in 2000 lol
@annecarr371110 ай бұрын
I was born in 1949, at grammar school in 1966, studying for A levels in north London. I went on a few local Ban the bomb marches. Between 1963 and 1965 I had a boyfriend who lived about 3 miles away. We made an agreement that if the ,sirens sounded for a nuclear attack, he would drive to my house on his scooter so we could die together! The anxiety over nuclear war stayed with me until the Berlin wall came down. However, it's returned during the last two years! Also, had the BBC interviewed any of the pupils at my school, they would have been articulate, well spoken and respectful, as taught to us by parents and teachers.
@dental2572 жыл бұрын
What school did these kids attend? They can actually formulate thoughts with complete sentences, and as someone else noted, eloquence.. their vocabulary!
@PeteKowalsky2 жыл бұрын
Yes but whilst learning their native tongue, they were also evidently terrorized into formulating the darkest and most apocalyptic predictions I've ever heard. This is some nightmare fuel right here.
@jamestheposh2 жыл бұрын
The description below the main video says that they attended Chippenham, Roedean and Marlborough College, so some most definitely public schools (in the English sense).
@ftumschk2 жыл бұрын
@@jamestheposh For those who don't know, that means "expensive private schools" in everybody else's sense :)
@robtyman42812 жыл бұрын
They don't start every sentence with 'So' (very Millennial), nor do their voices go up (intonate) when they finish a sentence (very Antipodean). And they don't overuse the word 'like' by saying it several times over while talking. These kids are articulate, thoughtful, and yes some of them gav pretty accurate descriptions of what life would be like in 2000!! I'm getting all nostalgic about 2000 now! Remember the 'Millennium Bug'? ...and 'green screen' mobiles like the Nokia 3310!? B****y h*LL where did the last 20 odd years go!!
@gus4u2c2 жыл бұрын
Not in the USA
@bigred3164 Жыл бұрын
So brilliant, respectful, and perfectly articulated! I hope that all these kids grew up to be happy and healthy!
@kdjoshi7262 жыл бұрын
"People will be the same. Everything will be the same" They were very accurate. With people running behind trends it just seems all same
@pantherz910311 ай бұрын
The boy who talked about factory farming, I wish he was wrong but he was spot on. Then again it was well set as normal practice well before 2000 anyway. Most of the other predictions were a way off but they could just be delayed.
@abiola332 жыл бұрын
Some of the predictions were super spot on in this video! The battery farming, race, and statistic comments landed with precision. Overall the whole video was filled with eloquent conveying of their thoughts and opinions.
@roisinmcallister92732 жыл бұрын
And climate change!
@abiola332 жыл бұрын
@@jackstormo1459 Good point there 👌🏾
@MattRowland2 жыл бұрын
@@RedDeadMarston1 like your parents wanted to start a family and have you? GTFO
@booneboone9705 Жыл бұрын
The automation point with few jobs to go around was accurate too.
@JamesV1 Жыл бұрын
@@RedDeadMarston1source? Malthusian theory has been disproven time and time again, we can likely sustain over 15 billion
@connahbrettell94932 жыл бұрын
The kid who said people will be seen as stats and livestock will be kept in batteries is a time traveller.
@onekie57872 жыл бұрын
where tf are u living?
@connahbrettell94932 жыл бұрын
@@onekie5787 where are you living? That’s exactly what’s happening. How do you think meat is so mass produced?
@onekie57872 жыл бұрын
@@connahbrettell9493 nvm i misread ur comment , i thought u meant the people were being kept in batteries
@dullypuketon29322 жыл бұрын
Predicted Libtardism perfectly 👌!
@jns63202 жыл бұрын
they had factory farming back in the 60s. and it isn't like people weren't seen as stats back then either. holocaust, american segregation, etc. the kid was reflecting on what he already saw in his current world and predicted it would stay the same, if not get worse.
@ihaveheardHim2 жыл бұрын
These kids are dead serious about their ideas. I love how soft spoken they are ( use those inside voices ) And wow! What are their ages? They are pretty damn smart, I mean, I watched a couple of videos on KZbin where this guy asks the average teenager basic questions such as "What's the second month of every year?" The girl responded confidently " March, it's March". I was amazed and terrified at the same time.
@melissayoung89172 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing about how soft spoken they all were.
@karensky34562 жыл бұрын
I was 5 years old in '66. It's not that the kids were smarter, they were better educated. The children of America, in recent decades have been dumbed down. Taught to believe what they're told, and see being incorrect about something as an insult. It creates a compliant population, easily used by those in power.
@kdjoshi7262 жыл бұрын
2nd month of every year is March? How?
@Bagofnowt2 жыл бұрын
To be fair, those videos almost certainly are staged or pick the stupidest couple of people they can find to get more views
@ihaveheardHim2 жыл бұрын
@@kdjoshi726 LoL. It was truly something hey.
@mattjames49787 ай бұрын
These children are all so softly spoken - my daughter is like this, but there aren't too many these days. Modesty is cool.
@Truth15612 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1960. It’s interesting to hear how educated these young people are and how articulate they are about the things that were worrying them at the time- climate, over population, loss of jobs to computers, climate change, nuclear war, racial integration and levels of wealth. I suppose being just that little bit older than me, the proximity to the last war had more effect on them than it ever did on me( I went to Grammar school but I remember very little being taught about nuclear weapons or climate change. Maybe it was their parents informing them?) The blond girl early in the discussion really nailed it.
@dantemeriere58902 жыл бұрын
They were being filmed in a time when cameras were a luxury. Clearly, they were chosen for a reason, most likely related to status. Yes, they are eloquent and sound educated, but this is not a general representation of society. The non-eloquent children were probably too busy working to help their parents and didn't quite have the time to acquire an extended lexicon. Furthermore their accent influences our perception of what eloquence and education mean as it is well-known that English speakers tend to associate the British accent with good eloquence. Modern young adults may not often speak with a very noticeable English accent, especially if they are not from England, but they do exhibit many qualities that are light years ahead of people from even 10 years ago.
@tonycollazorappo2 жыл бұрын
@@dantemeriere5890 , I was born in the states in 1961 and I should go back to the 60s in a heartbeat. I remember having a movie camera, by then I was about 13 or 14 and in the early 70s. I do have movies of me from the early 60s that I turned into VCR cassettes, sadly, I can seem to find them, =(
@pho3nix-2 жыл бұрын
@@dantemeriere5890 These are indeed posh, "upper-class" children. Their language skills and general eloquence is a direct representation of their social class.
@pjhey9472 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1961 I think the dark haired girl nailed with the computers and loss of jobs. Impressed how smart these children are and what they think about their future.
@garygermain14462 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1948 and back then I thought I would be dead by the time I reached 50 years old and here I am still alive at 74 years old and I thank God that I'm still alive because I die to myself I became born again through our Savior Jesus Christ and that was 12 years ago if I would have died at 50 years old I would be in hell right now thank you Jesus thank you Jesus!🙂🙏🙏
@peterjones66402 жыл бұрын
I was a child in late fifties early sixties, my recollection of what we thought in the year 2000 was everything automated, remember we read the comic the Eagle so read about Dan Dare and looked at those great cutaway illustrations. Interestingly I do remember when we were discussing in class what would things be like in the year 2000, the teacher suggested that life then would not be too different as it was in 1960s.
@nuttysquirrel85742 жыл бұрын
Well, the kids got it right and the teacher completey wrong..... nothing's changed, then, in the past 60yrs!!
@Essemm522 жыл бұрын
…and not forgetting the public information announcements on TV of what to do in case of a nuclear attack! Ah, happy days!
@nuttysquirrel85742 жыл бұрын
@@Essemm52 If I remember correctly wasn't the 'nuclear' advice to hide under your dining table? Ah, indeed, those halcyon, naive, days of yesteryear!!!!
@Essemm522 жыл бұрын
@@nuttysquirrel8574 Ha ha! Yes, I believe it was! Funny thing is, even as young as we were, we didn't stress about it too much! We just got on with life! How would the young teens of today cope with that kind of information? But of course it would never happen today! There would be an even greater shortage of counsellors! Mind you, I'm a firm believer in 'ignorance is bliss' lol!
@rowanmelton76432 жыл бұрын
@@Essemm52 Lmao. So the teens of today don't have their own problems to worry about? I'd take a higher chance of nuclear annihilation over a smaller chance of nuclear annihilation and climate change
@djkwikstar2 жыл бұрын
How they are conveying their ideas and have formulated them they sound older beyond their years. Absolute joy!
@stephen25832 жыл бұрын
No, that was simply how it was back then. Today we dumb everything down, move at the pace of the slowest kid, hold back the smart kids so they dont upset the mcdonalds employees, and, most importantly, kids today have access to a mind bogling amount of TV and film where bad behaviour is celebrated. Monkey see monkey do.
@Newtination2 жыл бұрын
@@stephen2583 To be fair, these kids are definitely of a privileged class. But, can agree even the average student in the 60s is likely much smarter than a kid these days in most subjects minus things such as computers, games, etc. that did not exist back then.
@sopyleecrypt68992 жыл бұрын
@@stephen2583 you seem to hear and see what you want to.
@stephen25832 жыл бұрын
@@sopyleecrypt6899 no doubt you think kids today are the hieght of intelligence and articulation. Int day bruv.
@surferbri53462 жыл бұрын
Of course, because schools spent time on core subjects, not bullshit like today
@thegreatwizardess5 ай бұрын
I love the kid that mentioned statistics and the factory farming. He is so sweet and correct.
@benjones6030 Жыл бұрын
It would be funny if someone said "I think the Rolling Stones will still be touring".
@jimbotron707 ай бұрын
1984: I think the Duran Duran will still be touring in the 2000s.
@voxer997 ай бұрын
Even these kids couldn't imagine anything as awful as that.
@johnp.94866 ай бұрын
2024 and they are STILL touring.
@Shadyshooter3 ай бұрын
@@johnp.9486 Well the comment was 2023 so not too big a leap there
@MissyGail4eva2 жыл бұрын
(4:25) That one boy's foreshadowing of how we raise livestock was horrifyingly accurate.
@Illustraful2 жыл бұрын
The boy who said people would be treated as statistics and predicted battery farming was a genius.
@wopmf4345FxFDxdGaa20 Жыл бұрын
Well, battery farming was already getting far more popular, was probably taught in school that that's what is going to happen . . .
@richard764510 ай бұрын
Cleverer than you that's for sure
@Illustraful10 ай бұрын
@@richard7645 Is there a reason for your insult, given that there's nothing inflammatory in my original comment, or are you just venting randomly because your wife refuses to let you touch her anymore?
@TheReg1da5 ай бұрын
These kids of 1966 were all articulate, smart, and analytical, but more importantly, they were mild mannered and polite as they speak their mind.
@chasehedges67755 ай бұрын
💯
@Living4YHWH2 жыл бұрын
The kids at 2:09, 2:17 and 2:38 hit the nail on the head!!! What a sad reality we live in now!
@BramHepburn Жыл бұрын
How can you say that? Our world today is infinitely better than what these frightened kids envisioned. I'm sorry you see the world in such a horribly negative way. What do you think these kids would have thought of the cell phone you are holding in your hand right now??
@oliviamizzi33 Жыл бұрын
@@BramHepburn No the owner of the other comment is right. We have machines, cell, tec doing everything for us now, it is no fun. It's not that there "frightened there just being honest. We have "upgraded" things now a days but so many things are just easy, you don't work for it and yes like I said tec has a LOT to do with that. See how wise and smart people are and KIDS?! You would NEVER see that now. Some things are better off as they were. Not trying to be negative there are alright things but it is a sad reality. Coming from a teen. I also read comment saying "My mum was a teen in the 60s, she was surprised at how gloomy these kids are about the future. In general 60s kids were optimistic and bright-eyed. Maybe these kids, coming from a strict private school, were more influenced by doom-saying adults around them and less able to mix with peers and just have fun? Sad to see teens in the swinging sixties so pessimistic about their future." So no it's all kids were not "frightened" nor scared.
@sandwichman2247 Жыл бұрын
@@BramHepburn a portal, just what it is
@SnoVVdogsPks6 ай бұрын
@@BramHepburn Cell phone, pah, only plebs use YT on a phone, PC or TV all the way :D.
@DanielCh93932 жыл бұрын
Those kids were extremely smart! I was actually expecting a different kind of responses, but they addressed social issues as an adult would do.
@abrahampalmer87612 жыл бұрын
Exactly
@carolinekamya23392 жыл бұрын
They are children who are well educated and live in a less TOXIC WORLD -special today but not at that time
@herringfly Жыл бұрын
I'm always thankful that I went to school in the 60s and 70s, and not in the 21st century.
@Jess-T2 жыл бұрын
"People will be regarded more as statistics than actual people." Chills hearing that one.
@TrybeMusic2 жыл бұрын
How dafuq he even thought about it...
@ricknroll9632 жыл бұрын
@@TrybeMusic and then at 4:07...boy dropped another fact
@ACD1994 Жыл бұрын
@@TrybeMusic Because it was true then, too.
@normamcmanus11399 ай бұрын
These children were extremely intelligent and as if they had a window looking into 2024 rather than 2000. Love these types of interviews.
@Sun_Moon772 жыл бұрын
How articulate, educated and cultured were these kids. Did they chose the most articulate ones or were they all the same back in the days? Such a pleasure listening to them. Great archive.
@petelovatt83572 жыл бұрын
Posh kids
@Livinglife5952 жыл бұрын
I wasn’t at all like them. I was a little cockney girl wiv not a lot te say
@sopyleecrypt68992 жыл бұрын
Private school. If you talked to kids from the same social class and educational strata now they would also sound posh and articulate.
@havetocookdinnernow2 жыл бұрын
Roedean, Marlborough schools, very privileged still today - you could have a look at the schools' websites.
@barnabyhughes56432 жыл бұрын
They sound as though they were from a Grammar school. Education standards started slipping from the 1960's onwards due to Child Centred educational philosophies. I know that short changed me in the 1970's.
@projectx5154 Жыл бұрын
These kids are more well spoken than most of today's 30 year olds, let alone today's kids and teenagers
@spamton_kromer_businessman Жыл бұрын
yeah, that's the fault of their parents.
@johnhaydock157711 ай бұрын
I think these kids seem to be from fairly posh families in England. They're definitely not working class English kids. Their parents and school probably drilled them in perfect articulation. That being said, they certainly picked it up!
@willshad10 ай бұрын
They aren't really 'normal' kids, they're upper class/rich kids and were probably given a script to recite.
@scrittle9 ай бұрын
@@willshad The producers absolutely asked the kids leading questions for this interview. If you asked a child the same questions these kids got you would get the same levels of cynicism, they may be smart kids but they're just kids, they're impressionable and follow instructions.
@shawnv1236 ай бұрын
no not really, they were probably just giving notes to recite and say over and over again until they sound smart
@carl48uk2 жыл бұрын
The perception of these youngsters is amazing. How accurate they have turned out to be!!
@krisknowlton59352 жыл бұрын
Except for the part about the oceans rising. That lie has been perpetrated for over a century now.
@JimC2 жыл бұрын
@Jannie Kirsten Which is why Obama owns two waterfront properties.
@tbird-z1r2 жыл бұрын
Yes. I'm hunting for bats in cave due to nuclear fallout.
@Forcoy2 жыл бұрын
@@krisknowlton5935 And yet even NASA is publicly mentioning it constantly. Either every scientist on earth is being held at gunpoint or the ocean's rising. Which one sounds more plausible?
@hmmm7132 жыл бұрын
Oh so accurate! So merry and so joyful were those day of old! "I think the sun will cool down and another ice age will start" Bombs, bombs, atomic bombs. Everything is automated to the point that there are almost no jobs, except for the people with very high IQ, able to operate computers. There's an insane lack of space, to the point people start living underwater. Did I mention the wars and BOMBS. The bombs cause the temperatures to rise. Oh and there's such a lack of space there's no such thing as fun anymore. So accurate
@mississippimud7046 Жыл бұрын
Families used to sit around the dinner table and discuss world issues among other things ,now everyone has a computer in front of them ,we never talk to each other any more .
@RooseveltCoopling2 жыл бұрын
These documentaries represent more than a time capsule; they bring art and culture from a period of time where imagination was incentivized among young people. Thank you so much, BBC. Very much well done, ladies and gentlemen.
@ollief1693 Жыл бұрын
that young boy at 4:25 is just a time traveller he has everything exactly right.
@philipluxembourg9013 Жыл бұрын
absolutely amazing how these youngsters articulate the future with true understanding
@alexanderapostolov22859 ай бұрын
"I think people will be very dull..." Right in the top ten girl! 🎯
@TheMarshallMalone Жыл бұрын
The amount of fear these kids lived in - it’s the reason the world manifested into the way it is now. Your thoughts shape your world.
@cooley1521 Жыл бұрын
Correct, we create our reality. Now, factor in the human Conciousness always living in fear after non stop relentless war & terrorism & the media machine covering only negative events. What this does to the human psyche. What manifests from these constant negative emotions? We continue to create our own jail of oppression
@Silentpartner217611 ай бұрын
I think the world leaders got all their bad ideas from these kids and made it a reality.
@prakashm146811 ай бұрын
Exactly!!!
@RainVine11 ай бұрын
the future is beautiful, green, abundant, creative and wonderful. Peace, love, equality and lots of joy. Cheers mate! :)
@Danielle14..610 ай бұрын
no that’s not true technology dictates how the future will be everything these kids are talking about the start of the 2000s is being prophesied in the bible this is all happening because of the most powerful and vile humans on this earth control it we can’t do anything about to but you can change your life right now by listening to this message the bible is the truth and our lives are very temporary I hope whoever is in a dark place that reads this feels the love and compassion I have for humanity I hope God reaches your heart because you matter and you always have you’ve been created by the Creator of the world and universe please understand that the people in power in this world want nothing good out of anyone of us and only God really has the power to stop those corrupt people he loves you and he won’t stop caring about you because you don’t understand how much you matter to him until you reach out to him and comprehend what Jesus really did on the cross it was the most selfless act any human has committed mind you he was God in human form but it needed to be done to save humanity please let this message connect with you because honestly the world is in a concerning state 2024 might be the year where all hell breaks loose and I don’t want people to go through these things without giving you this message God blesses anyone who sees this message by the grace of God have you seen this I hope you’ll open your heart to him 🙏🕊️🌟
@jamesmason80992 жыл бұрын
This is pretty amazing, can BBC find these children now and see what they say? That could be interesting!
@Drobium772 жыл бұрын
They'd all not have the same elocution, that's for sure.
@westaussie9652 жыл бұрын
No box tickers for the BBC
@Banglish1232 жыл бұрын
I started school in 71. We always used to talk about "The Year 2000" so much so that when it actually happened I thought it to be somewhat of an anticlimax. The millennium bug was funny though.
@alfiecdyson2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this comment. It’s helps support my experience of living as a young person in the 21st Century! Perhaps substitute the word anticlimax for the term ‘societal collapse’ :P
@Brimstoneandfire2 жыл бұрын
@@alfiecdyson :) don’t forget the planes that would fall out of the sky etc
@handheldgaming4life2 жыл бұрын
I was born in 74. In run up to 2000 I was literally killing myself with hours worked to patch/replace kit that was affected by impending Y2K. Never made so much money in my life, also never destroyed my social live so much. Meanwhile I had folk asking "it'll all just be a flash in the pan!" And it was.... because...... folk like me killing themselves working double shifts for weeks at a time to replace ageing kit. 😂
@geoatavist68802 жыл бұрын
I was working doing IT for a bank in the city of London in 2000 - Like Handheld gaming's comment, we worked our butts off to test, fix and replace old systems and kit.
@calessel31392 жыл бұрын
As someone who also started school in 71, I can attest to your statements. As children we were all told the year 2000 would bring space travel between planets, colonies on the Moon & Mars, flying cars, humanoid robots that would end the need for manual labor and the elimination of all disease. Needless to say, our achievements fell far short. Instead the millennium generated a few suicidal cults and a fear of social collapse due to a universal coding error in computers. So yeah, it was a major disappointment.
@shelbydriscoll9219 Жыл бұрын
The kid who predicted the livestock blew my mind how he said animals will be kept in batteries unable to graze
@kristentindle30752 жыл бұрын
My jaw drops! These kids nailed it! How depressing.
@metageist666 Жыл бұрын
You must live in a very bleak place if you think they nailed it? My assumption is they've just read 1984 and other similar dystopian books.
@ShadowOfMassDestruction Жыл бұрын
@@metageist666At least they read.
@Middleseed11 ай бұрын
Except for the numerous mentions of atomic apocalypse. We’ve been lucky enough to avoid that.
@cjoin8311 ай бұрын
I don't think they nailed it at all, many of them imagined a world destroyed by nuclear war, many of them also predicted the population would be so large that we would be living under water or under domed in the Sahara Desert.
@raycope20862 жыл бұрын
Amazing! Quite chilling and very sad sometimes. I do so hope that they all have had a great life up to now, and that each of them found love and happiness along the way. I must admit though, that this is my generation speaking here. At that time I was totally into the music and the whole counter culture thing that was happening outside, and couldn't wait to join in the following year, when I left school. I never really dreaded anything much.
@mathewduffy58272 жыл бұрын
I doubt it they were probably all traumatised after being abused by the staff at the bbc
@midnightrun27642 жыл бұрын
That generation, certainly had an interesting life experience! Tough times for a bit, but being a sixty something now, sure wish I’d have grown up back then! …✌🏼🇨🇦
@Forcoy2 жыл бұрын
@@midnightrun2764 Racism and Homophobia were still rampant back then, I don't know about that.
@TheAbandonedAccount72 жыл бұрын
Wow! What it must've been like going through your 20s with hope...
@pinkpaprika84102 жыл бұрын
The parents of these children had themselves been children during WWII, which had ended just over 20 years before this video was made, so the kids would have been echoing the preoccupations of the adults around them - right in the middle of the Cold War. At the same time, some of them might have been reading science-fiction. I remember reading articles and stories with the same kind of speculation when I was in my early teens (mid-1970s). Some were rather dark projections, others quite idealistic. Some I didn’t really believe turned out to be true, like credit cards and laptop computers; others, which sounded possible, still haven’t happened, or at least not as severely as described - yet - such as having to wear gas masks because of pollution in large cities, or actually colonising the Moon. It’s quite interesting to read old sci-fi stories set in a future that is now past - and different from the stories. And yes, European kids are encouraged to read and to fantasise and reflect about what they read.
@jdobbs7700 Жыл бұрын
In 1966 I was an American sixth grader and in 2023 I am approaching my 70th birthday. Our generation was concerned about nuclear war. Today's kids are convinced they will be done in by global climate change. Both generations pessimistic but for different reasons. I'm still far more concerned about nuclear conflict or accidental use of nuclear weapons than climate change which I don't consider a genuine problem.
@piiinkDeluxe11 ай бұрын
Polution is really bad sometimes in some cities already.
@JamesEscobar5 ай бұрын
How are these children so proper, focused, collected, and adult like in manner?!? American adults aren't even this well spoken! Bravo Britain!
@winstoncat67852 жыл бұрын
I'm astonished by the awareness of automation and computers at that time. Secondary school kids were still using slide rules in 1966. There must have been some very aware teachers in the schools. The understanding of the population explosion and the risks of nuclear war are also astonishing. No internet then. No easy access to any such information.
@TheAbandonedAccount72 жыл бұрын
People used to do this thing back then called talk to each other and read books lol
@dantemeriere58902 жыл бұрын
Exactly. These children are not a general representation of the 60s. They know about automation, computers and climate change because they were clearly receiving a highly privileged education that was inaccessible to most children. They were not being filmed arbitrarily, especially not in a time when cameras were a luxury. In simple terms: they are most likely rich. Poorer kids are generally too busy helping to support their families to worry about theoretical discussions of the distant future. They are generally worried about surviving the present.
@nextinstitute78242 жыл бұрын
@@dantemeriere5890 Yes, but even if this came from their parents, in general, I am surprised too about the awareness of computers at that time.
@johnfolkes12372 жыл бұрын
As a person born in 1958 I can tell you that secondary school pupils were still being taught about slide rules in 1976!
@braemtes232 жыл бұрын
@@dantemeriere5890 Everything they discussed could be picked up by watching television. Most of the modern tech we have already existed on shows like Star Trek.
@whentokoloshsays11422 жыл бұрын
These children were brilliant. Some of them nailed what happened since 1966
@yanamooncraft2 жыл бұрын
I love how people are complaining about today's kids, but as adults they are part of the reason that today's children are the way they are. There is a direct correlation.
@scrittle9 ай бұрын
Too right, gen X are responsible for today's children and yet they seem to bash on about it the most. Whiny lot.
@sierralvx6 ай бұрын
That is so true. The lack of responsibility from the older generations to care for the youth is just appalling. We need their help but they refuse to give it.
@pim123410 ай бұрын
What a sweet children we were back then ...
@tammibaybii2 жыл бұрын
Wow these children are so articulate and well spoken. How accurate their predictions were and many of them have sadly turned out to be true xx
@sopyleecrypt68992 жыл бұрын
Not nuclear war, which seemed to be their main focus.
@westaussie9652 жыл бұрын
Why finish the sentence with two kisses?
@thefifthdoctor93002 жыл бұрын
@@westaussie965 Some British people put 'x's at the ends of their sentences regardless. It doesn't mean anything really.
@MrDaiseymay2 жыл бұрын
@@thefifthdoctor9300 I take it to mean 'best wishes'.
@longtailgt Жыл бұрын
The young chap talking about statistics and animal farming is one of the smartest and most well spoken kids I've seen. Way more classy and eloquent than any of the kids I see today.
@Cheesyenchilady Жыл бұрын
That one creeped me out.
@stragi Жыл бұрын
You don't get out much.
@KOKINGWAYNE Жыл бұрын
How about the child taking about blacks and whites living along together one day!?
@sroy7982 Жыл бұрын
True, every damn one of his predictions came true
@cool_bug_facts Жыл бұрын
Way more classy and eloquent than most kids you'd have seen back then too, I reckon
@sunfish872 жыл бұрын
Wow. Glad to see at least one kid with an optimistic view of the future. She and others like her are reason why we are still here and trying. There is still hope for us. God speed.
@eldiablo37945 ай бұрын
0:27 I think these British kids watched one to many episodes of Dr. Who.. the girl described how people will eat cabbage and food in the form of pills, lol. In the Dr. Who movie, Dalek Invasion Earth 2150 AD, the Robomen and the enslaved humans were fed food in pill form by the Dalek robots like she described.
@tamielizabethallaway24132 жыл бұрын
Good grief are they in university! They're so incredibly intelligent. What foresight they had! I'm sitting here feeling like a right dimwit in comparison to these children. Astounding. I think I'm going to have to save this to rewatch now and then. Totally mesmerised by each and every one of them, their vision, prediction, calculation, understanding, vocabulary, eloquence, grasp... Absolutely fascinating! I'm literally in awe. 😳
@shirleykurtz2 жыл бұрын
It makes you wish you were born rich. The powers that be don't want commoners getting their cushy jobs!
@shirleykurtz2 жыл бұрын
I agree! We had a much better education!
@samanthafairweather91862 жыл бұрын
These kids were from a private school. My in-laws are from England, and went through the public system around the same time this was filmed. They were from a poorer background, and knew nobody that spoke like these kids. Their exact words were, "We never spoke like that! We weren't posh enough!"
@tamielizabethallaway24132 жыл бұрын
@@samanthafairweather9186 I did know that....and yes I am English. And no I'm not posh at at all! 🤣 It wasn't so much their pronunciation that impressed me, as it was their ability to visualise things and comprehend them despite being so young. They're even able to forecast an outcome unless things change and really it's THAT that blew my mind the most. I know adults 4x their age who would be wondering what the conversation was about after a minute....mind wandered and lost and thinking about more important things like, football, farts or beer! 😳 That would be almost funny if it wasn't so tragically true! I'm especially impressed by the girls in fact, given the times it was filmed in particularly. Not that I doubt girl's ability, but because they weren't instead off in cookery class or learning how to correctly starch and iron a business shirt for their future husband, while the boys learnt the scientific theories of life! 🙄 You can tell your in-laws I'm very much NOT posh....my Dad describes me as "rough as a badger's arse"!!! Whatever the hell that means....😂🤣😅
@rosiedollface2 жыл бұрын
They got most of it right… they’re really explaining the entire future, we have self checkout till aka robots. Covid killed workplaces + dropped staff…
@Marcia_Toms Жыл бұрын
Very well spoken children who can think for themselves and have a large vocabulary. Some very close to home predictions here.
@roberthayes98422 жыл бұрын
How different children were back then, obviously these are middle class kid's, very well spoken and some are extremely bright, much calmer and thoughtful, talking climate change with some amazing insight to the future, I was 9 then and the world was brighter
@alistairgalt65292 жыл бұрын
I think it's an insight into how well educated children were back then, try and repeat those interviews now and see the difference in response. it will chill you to your bones at how this generation are disconnected from reality.
@EuanWhitehead2 жыл бұрын
Idk about this guys, I think you'll find they are interviewing middle class kids here lol I went to school from 2006-2016 and there were a fair few well educated ones. People don't ever change, time does. I'm only 21 now and I'd like to think I'm fairly intelligent.
@connordrake57132 жыл бұрын
@@alistairgalt6529 yeah, you're right. Millennials and Gen Z are really disconnected to the reality all thanks to TikTok and a lot of Social media. It's too late when WWIII strikes in an unexpected areas and dates. Millennials and Gen Z will die in Wars and also die starving because this generation doesn't even know how to farm and how to raise animals in livestock.
@geoffwebber82722 жыл бұрын
If you look at the list of school names, you will see that these are indeed kids from the more ‘privileged’ end of society. They will now be our politicians, doctors, scientists etc.
@jns63202 жыл бұрын
statistically speaking, we have higher literacy rates now and kids are on average smarter. i can guarantee you are just seeing a snapshot of what the children of the wealthy looked like.
@RossGibb908 ай бұрын
I could sit and listen to these youngsters all day. What's happened to society?
@Acing10 Жыл бұрын
They all look so well mannered and mature and they know what they're up to. It's rare to find kids like this these days. They would surely light up the world.
@bubbyft3779 Жыл бұрын
you’re so delusional my god, if you interview extremely posh kids with very rich parents, shocker, they’ll be well spoken 😱😱 that would be the same today if you interviewed kids from eton
@AbrahamPalmer-wj5cb Жыл бұрын
Big Time tbh most kids today are lost cause extremely weird in a very cringing way and extremely narcissistic and entitled
@AmyMichelleMosier Жыл бұрын
No, these days these kids wouldn’t get heard cause critical thinking and realistic viewpoints are out the window.
@AbrahamPalmer-wj5cb Жыл бұрын
@@AmyMichelleMosier exactly I agree 💯 percent because everyone is so super sensitive about everything nowadays
@Panimal9811 ай бұрын
"They would surely light up the world." The kids: "So, yeah. I imagine we'll die in a fiery explosion."
@toolebukk2 жыл бұрын
Remarkable how quietly kids were able to speak back then.
@daisydukes82522 жыл бұрын
They were taught, something that does not happen today. Taught eloquence and self control.
@kevinjenkins6657 Жыл бұрын
@@daisydukes8252 In other words these children were rich, very negative although some of them made some correct predicitons.
@daisydukes8252 Жыл бұрын
@@kevinjenkins6657 Why do you say they were rich?
@kevinjenkins6657 Жыл бұрын
@@daisydukes8252 Mate, look at the way the dress, listen to the way they speak. Remind yousrself this was half a century ago, no man had been on the moon. These were posh, rich, privalaged, well educated children, as some of the say, there was a huge gap between the rich and poor. The poor would be more optimistic.
@rahuldahoob4513 Жыл бұрын
@@kevinjenkins6657 they were beaten
@barrymay82692 жыл бұрын
It was incredible to hear children speak so eloquently and NOT use the words “so” and “like” all the time.
@limedickandrew60162 жыл бұрын
Yeah, like, you're so right there buddy!
@Paqcar2 жыл бұрын
so… unlike this?
@snowflake64212 жыл бұрын
i know right like it's incredible so like yeah
@iainstirling14752 жыл бұрын
“Literally” another one!
@dannyclub092 жыл бұрын
That's more due to their upbringing and social class.
@frankprit33209 ай бұрын
I'm amazed at their level of maturity and intelligence for such a young age. What happened!!!!
@Bambi_Harris_Author2 жыл бұрын
Remarkable. These children are so eloquent and insightful. Not optimistic, but then, the accuracy in that respect is uncanny.
@abrahampalmer87612 жыл бұрын
💯 percent correct
@sopyleecrypt68992 жыл бұрын
My mum was a teen in the 60s, she was surprised at how gloomy these kids are about the future. In general 60s kids were optimistic and bright-eyed. Maybe these kids, coming from a strict private school, were more influenced by doom-saying adults around them and less able to mix with peers and just have fun? Sad to see teens in the swinging sixties so pessimistic about their future.
@Eikorunu2 жыл бұрын
Well the cold war was at it's peak where the entire world was terrified of the idea of a nuclear war that was very much on the horizon
@sopyleecrypt68992 жыл бұрын
@@Eikorunu yes, but I don’t think that significantly dimmed the spirits of most kids looking forward to the future.
@foxii46912 жыл бұрын
Well, they were right though, weren't they???
@yohasakura59032 жыл бұрын
They were different from average kids. Maybe a quick & heavy thinker who had thoughts about future. We couldn't say they're boring & gloomy 'cause we needed these kind of people to do statistics, became inventor & probably had highest IQ level for complicated jobs.
@bbeeez2 жыл бұрын
Thats what i thought!
@michaelp9982 жыл бұрын
The best bit is you can understand every word they say….
@amberplays12326 ай бұрын
The girl talking about flats is a very good prediction because it’s happening in the uk very slowly more houses are being built which means more land is being taken up and most of the homes that are being built are flats rather than houses which is smaller and fits more people in than building separate houses. They do it because It also saves money too because the flats are smaller and they can fit more people in. That was a very good prediction
@mikeoliver1592 жыл бұрын
Many of these kids seemed sure that the world would be severely overpopulated and robots and computers would lead to high unemployment. I suspect they all had a teacher who speculated about this stuff. I was a kid around the same time and when we thought about the future we dreamt of flying cars and having robot servants, but we did worry about nuclear war.
@tarpnarp2 жыл бұрын
Did you ever get a flying car?
@steviewondek2 жыл бұрын
I think they were fairly spot on in some areas, we are overcrowded/overpopulated in some areas running out of habitable land and resources, stressed with strained, inadequate infrastructure, constant gridlock on the roads, rents are through the roof, increasing homeless, close to a million $ for a basic house in our country, automation has caused high unemployment, the internet/social media has caused much negativity and problems in society, nuclear war is a likely possibility taking note of the current war and crisis in Europe, but still no robo servants but a few high tech sex dolls in China, flying "cars" are just about a thing too. . :D.
@nattojelly83492 жыл бұрын
These kids are so well spoken and all of them gave so intelligent answers. Looking at the social media generation I loose more and more faith in our future
@Vanessa-fs7oz2 жыл бұрын
Why's that, exactly? Have you considered you're not seeing the intelligent youth content out there? Most of the unintelligent stuff I see on social media are from older generations who just learned "how to facebook" or how to "use the google"
@abrahampalmer87612 жыл бұрын
Same
@daisydukes82522 жыл бұрын
@@Vanessa-fs7oz Not me-the ignorant ones are the untrained, uncontrollable young people.
@guyincognito7979 Жыл бұрын
These are upper class privileged children who went to private schools so ofcourse their articulate.
@livingintheforest39632 жыл бұрын
I can’t get over how accurate their responses are unbelievable!
@jenkar571610 ай бұрын
"People will be regarded as Statistics more than actual people". Why do I feel like I have heard a similar line before?
@jules96282 жыл бұрын
Never hear young adults articulate and speak so intelligent like this; come to think of it, not many 40 yrs old either! Many seem spaced or zoned out or dwarf minded.
@Cooke1252 жыл бұрын
That’s because they didn’t have social media to brainwash them 😂
@Hoodied2 жыл бұрын
Wow, what a bundle of joy these teenagers are
@SmartCookie20222 жыл бұрын
Sure, but ask the current zoomers to imagine life in the year 2062 and they'll say climate change will have fried us all to a giant crisp!!
@filipburic51942 жыл бұрын
@@SmartCookie2022 if you think climate change isn't real, go to the Maldives and ask them, while you still can
@onekie57872 жыл бұрын
@@filipburic5194 thats a strawman fallacy , he never said anything about climate change not being real , he just said people nowadays think the world would have ended by the 2060s
@filipburic51942 жыл бұрын
@@onekie5787 but that's not what people really think though is it, he's just being facetious, hence my Maldives comment. Ask the how they'll be doing in 2062 and they may give you that exact answer. I'm not sure where you live, but I live on an island, which suffers more year on year from climate change, and I'm pretty comfortable in listening to the worlds leading scientists in regards to where we are heading by the end of the century
@HaggisMuncher-69-4202 жыл бұрын
@@filipburic5194 Climate change happened back when the dinosaurs were alive. Imagine thinking climate change is man made. Go huff your pipe some more.
@soniatriana90912 жыл бұрын
Wow! Incredible how these kids could see what was coming - they were very astute observers & therefore many of their predictions are what we’re actually dealing with in today’s world!
@Godwinpounds43332 жыл бұрын
Hi how are you doing?
@johnschuh8616 Жыл бұрын
No wonder that contraception and abortion were have become the choices of the British people. Fear of the future was rampant.
@cheery-hex Жыл бұрын
they were mostly just repeating what was fed to them via govmts and news, same as today. exact same!
@em_ignite8 ай бұрын
id pay anything to have a consersation with these children... Some of the hings they say are so obscure yet accurate its incredible. People don't talk like that any more.