Did AT&T Predict The Future? The "You Will" Campaign 25 Years Later | Answers With Joe

In 1993, AT&T debuted the "You Will" campaign that predicted what the world would be like in the future. And now, 25 years later, we see how close they were.
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[@michaelfink64]

Me: "Hey, 2018 Joe. Would you believe in 2 years there will be a global pandemic that will shut down the world and all of our meetings will be done from home by teleconference?" 2018 Joe: "Yeah, right!"

[@Jermine1269]

This!!

[@jasonbarnhart7382]

10 out of 10

[@JeanPierreWhite]

I came here to say that, but you beat me to it.

[@occamsrazor1285]

Hey "4 months ago" michaelfink64, would you believe that in just 4 months there would be some relatively serious concern about a second Civil War? You ain't seen nothing yet. But you do sort of point out an interesting point. At the start of this, we were so worried that the pandemic might end civilization. Certainly a number of fields are pretty much toast, but like any vacuum, "things" just rushed in to take their place and all in all; we're not doing to bad. Imagine that: we just happened to have developed the right level of technology, with no preparation or fore knowledge, to actually be able to survive this thing... Anyone else wonder if Fate just has us in the tutorial of the game called "Life" right now?

[@milanwanders8396]

Hey michaelfink64 from 5 Months ago, did you know this pandemic is still going on since you send this?

[@iconic762]

“Have you ever had decent internet speeds in a rural setting? You will not, and you will still pay us more than everyone else!” -AT&T

[@iconic762]

Please tell me I’m not the only one with experience with AT&T’s internet monopoly of certain areas of the south.

[@kathleenbuckley4338]

Starlink to the rescue!

[@sd3031]

@@iconic762 daddy elon will save your soul

[@randoshanks]

I was going to say Starlink too!

[@Stephen5311]

Same, Starlink is going to be so good.

[@BabyMakR]

"Have you ever put your child in a car to go to school.... With no driver? You will"

[@ArmchairDeity]

Post-COVID voice from the future: dude... you have NO IDEA when it comes to telecommuting... holy shit. Let. Me. Tell. You.

[@GregsGarage]

Have you ever refueled (recharged) your car at 90 MPH? You will. Have you seen a teacher who can instruct at a speed that is perfect for everyone? You will. Has your government gotten smart enough that you no longer have to file taxes? Don't worry... They won't.

[@TDrudley]

In Sweden we don't really have to do anything unless you're self employed or some special case, they just send you a paper or you can do it digitally or even on your phone and just sign off on what they said is the correct taxes and it's done.

[@PeterRonBostrom]

yea, super easy!

[@brianjuelpedersen6389]

@ Drudley: it's the same in Denmark (which is probably identical to Sweden to anyone not from Scandinavia --- but no, really it isn't). If you're OK with the assessment of your taxes by the government you can just do _nothing_ (don't even actively have to say OK), and that's the end of that... which is of course what most of us do.

[@Pining_for_the_fjords]

Drudley It's the same here in the UK. You only need to tell the tax office if you're self-employed or if you think they've got your taxes wrong.

[@JoelMurphy77]

The parody commercial for refueling at 90 MPH would show the guy sticking a wireless nozzle into his center console.

[@DesolatorMagic]

Did you cancel your AT&T service and still get billed? You will - AT&T predicting the future lol

[@Arrowed_Sparrow]

You truly can see the future!! Have you ever talked to 4 AT&T reps for two hours to unlock the sim of a phone that has been paid off for a year..... You will.

[@edwardrhoads7283]

OMG that is amazing In the future you will have the ability to cancel ATT. Right now it is almost impossible...

[@tylergarza8695]

@@Arrowed_Sparrow you guys are implying that all cell phone companies don't do this..

[@Arrowed_Sparrow]

@@tylergarza8695 ......That's fair. But at the moment I have at&t, so until my lazy ass switches... AT&T is what's wrong with this world. :)

[@tylergarza8695]

@@FulmerDuckworth So, a mixup that happened 25 years ago, to just you, makes you boycott an entire company? Also, i GUARANTEE you use AT&T products and just don't know it. They're more than just a cell phone service provider, no matter how you look at it, without AT&T, you wouldn't have much of the technology you use today, from Integrated processors, to the very infrastructure our communication networks are built on, can be traced back to AT&T. It's your fault for paying it more than you had to. Big companies like that don't actively seek out collections for fines of 8 fucking dollars. They likely sent you a collection statement that looked official to try and scare you into paying (as most service providers do by default, and not on a case by case basis.) If you had already paid it, then the solution was simply to reply to the letter saying you had, or actually show some initiative in getting in contact with someone able to resolve the issue. People make mistakes, and no company ran by people is flawless. You're just a petty dickhead that wrongly thinks they tried to take advantage of you.

[@sailingonasummerbreeze7892]

Just seeing these commercials, hearing the music and Tom Selleck's voice...gives me a warm feeling of nostalgia. I was so much younger then and the world held so much promise. Thank you Joe!

[@JoshuaZalewski]

it still holds promise, people just dont trust promises anymore. theyd rather just say "oh well what can i do?" instead of actually looking around to see what they could do

[@NickRoman]

Nah, the world broke its promise. We should say, "the world holds so much suggestion" because it doesn't _promise_ squat.

[@jeffersonmp4]

Seems like we are more cynical and hopeless now, right?

[@Ken-fh4jc]

I didn’t know it was Tom Selleck.

[@ig_foobar]

I was working at AT&T Microelectronics (formerly Bell Labs, later Lucent) when these commercials were made. You'd be surprised how much of this was actually enabled by the components they were bringing out at the time.

[@BrianHockenmaier]

That's actually fascinating. You still have any contacts working in microelectronics or the modern equivalent?

[@enjoybrad81]

Did they have flat screens back then? Cos how did those kids have a flat screen mounted up by the ceiling?? Last I remember every TV in ‘95 weighed about 137 lbs and no one dared to have them precariously hung on the wall.

[@ig_foobar]

@@enjoybrad81 Like a lot of things, they existed but there was no way to make them cheap enough for mass market consumption.

[@sarahshawtatoun6492]

Yup. Bell Labs - and Xerox-PARC - were the parents of just about everything we have technology-wise today. Can't think of any kind of research centers doing comparable work today.

[@ig_foobar]

Oh there's plenty of research, but the results are immediately locked up into big tech ecosystems instead of moving the whole industry forward.

[@oncaphillis]

Have you ever had your health insurance application rejected by an AI which identifies your suicidal tendencies based on your social media interaction ? You will.

[@darkjill2007]

oncaphillis have you ever had a robotic doctor treat perfectly treat a injury at zero marginal cost. You will

[@TwoWholeWorms]

+Zach: Why not both? o.o

[@TheRedRuin]

Benjamin Nolan An A.I to develop your suicidal thoughts, so another A.I can treat them lol.

[@timothymccaskey4362]

oncaphillis: AI of the future will be instrumental in stopping suicide..... only to turn around and "liquidate" a few million due to overpopulation and lack of resources. *Does not compute.*

[@kuuldudepat]

Have you ever bone a 10 out 10... perfect looking... exactly to your taste and fantasies ROBOT? You will....

[@melllvar4262]

Have you ever sent private photos to the wrong person? You will!!

[@NateBostian]

Can we talk about how all the lighting and architecture from the ATT commercials look like they are straight out of a dystopian cyberpunk movie?

[@kleuafflatus]

honestly i'll be taking a french class with a korean and a canadian in a little over an hour. how the world has changed over the last 2 years since the video was uploaded lol

[@thetruthhurts6652]

Yes I thought Joe was wrong on this. My niece does virtual teaching and she has students from everywhere.

[@oscilation5678]

Ironically, Blockbusters had the chance to buy Netflix out but they turned it down as they didn't think it had a future in it.

[@william41017]

Same thing with Yahoo and Google if I'm not mistaken

[@marccolten9801]

And my dad refused to buy Polaroid at 8. What's your point?

[@notosure2148]

@@marccolten9801 That your Dad is clearly smarter than Blockbuster.

[@DaFetrow]

My understanding is Blockbuster had their own idea how to do a Netflix type service.....it wasn’t that obvious how to do the infrastructure at the time. Blockbuster bet wrong and underestimated how short a time Netflix could ramp up. Netflix had cloud services available and innovated on reliability (look up ‘chaos monkey’ sometime). Also most of Netflix business at the time was mailing DVDs. It was a defensible decision. Wrong but defensible.

[@marccolten9801]

@@DaFetrow Many years ago my therapist told me that just because everything turned out wrong doesn't mean it was a bad decision. I continue to think that it's the very definition of a bad decision.

[@mikewolf5367]

No mention of the fact that driver was going like 90 miles an hour through that narrow toll booth while swiping that card? lol

[@NightsReign]

Is it just me, or did that part of the clip have a very Death Race/Mad Max/ air about it? Almost like the camera cut away moments before the car's autoguns deployed.

[@kleuafflatus]

there is literally no other car on the highway... i lived in france and in the us and im living in hong kong right now, have to say that is only possible if it's post apocalyptic lol

[@justagiraffe2868]

Have you ever crashed while paying a toll? You will!

[@juicynugget]

Lmao yes I laughed at that 😂

[@KaeYoss]

Oh yeah, exactly. "We imagine a change in paying tolls. But that change will be that it will be like playing Russian Roulette" I guess they have cameras pointed at that toll booth and broadcast the best crashes to a violence-craving audience.

[@NightsReign]

Have you ever had a company use automation and subversion to make it impossible to cancel your account with them? You will. And the company to bring it to you, AT&T.

[@roseclimbpaintcont]

Comcast.

[@kleuafflatus]

when your body is rotting away literally but your mind is still connected to the net and live like normal without realizing anything is wrong. you will...

[@danielandersson7515]

Maybe in 10 000 years. Definitely not in 25.

[@grn1]

Reminds me of the plot in Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society though I've certainly seen similar ideas elsewhere.

[@kleuafflatus]

@@grn1 a man of culture, I see. Lol I think that's what I was thinking when I typed the original comment

[@WhitentonMike]

Have you forgotten all about AT&T? You will.

[@donatodiniccolodibettobardi842]

Who are they?..

[@garetclaborn]

oh i hope so

[@joshuawiggins3891]

American based phone company

[@WhitentonMike]

Thus the letter A in their company name.

[@joshuawiggins3891]

i know this , i was just anwersing dude who asked

[@zzclarke]

You didn't include my favorite "You Will" commercial. There was one where you checked out at the grocery store without unpacking the cart. A scanner that resembled an airport metal detector was able to read all the items in your cart at once and then you just paid.

[@PaintedCavern]

...and Amazon just opened their first cashierless grocery store that does that, but it just charges your account as you go out the door.

[@louzustak5383]

Here in Japan there is a clothing store called UNIGLO where you do exactly that! Put all the clothes in a bin style compartment and it tells your total.. slide your card .. done!

[@L4JP]

​@@louzustak5383 Spelled UNIQLO, but yeah, that system is pretty cool. In fact, you don't even need to take the clothes out of the shopping basket but just put the whole basket in the bin.

[@digitalninja85]

@Ricardo Montana I know exactly which commercial you are talking about. That one is an IBM commercial though. kzbin.info/www/bejne/raupmXV9gLppfqM

[@WendyLopezGazquez]

Here in The Netherlands, grocery shops have this for years now.

[@johannesdolch]

I Challenge You, Joe Scott, to make this "25 years from now" Video.

[@dfgdfg_]

Have you ever seen that gap between rich and poor get so vast it feels like the 3rd world in the 1st one? You will.

[@bearcatben4762]

Wealth gaps have improved? there was no middle class in feudalism

[@danielandersson7515]

...And that´s because a very small group of people grew their wealth to extreme proportions while "the poor" only grew theirs a decent amount. It´s really a win-win situation, everyone gets richer. Tax the rich harder you might say, but then fewer people would bother getting rich in the first place. The economy would slow down, less money invested, less jobs, less technological progress, and "the poor" would be worse off than without those taxes.

[@hecticenergy1233]

There’s a happy medium. We humans can’t handle total equality of outcomes. But a broadening wealth gap where the top 10% hold 50+% of the wealth is equally unsustainable. There has to be a better life just ahead of you (attainable) for most of the population, where basic needs are met, and opportunity for advancement is fairly abundant.

[@jarosawzieba4527]

Market is not a zero sum game. It is true that rich people are getting richer and richer but it is for poor as well. Look what we are doing now: we get yt for free, and we can afford technology to access it. So we are richer than people 25 years ago. Guess what? People making this technology become even richer. It is a good thing. And those rich people can afford developing even more crazy stuff. Look at Elon Musk for example.

[@DanaThoughts]

At some level, as an adult, you have to take responsibility for where you are and what you’ve achieved. Simplistically categorizing Rich vs Poor paints yourself as a powerless victim. Victims never win. Winners take responsibility and do something about it. The government is not going to save anyone; you’ll have to save yourself! And we all can improve our situations!

[@davesworld7961]

2045: Have you ever taken a tour of a fusion reactor to see where your power comes from. You will. In another 25 years because we don't have those yet.

[@beaconofwierd1883]

Nah, Fusion is 20 years away. Always 20 years away, not 25.

[@beaconofwierd1883]

NomadicMonk I was refering to the long standing fusion joke. Also, ITER started back in 2013, not 2019 and it will not be a powerplant. It will be the first reactor to break even and be able to produce power but it won’t be providing power to any homes it is purely experimental in order to understand how to better build commercial fusion reactors. The project is expected to be complete by 2025 but has already been delayed several times so it will probably be delayed even more, so maybe 2030? Then it will probably take another 5-10 years to make an economically viable reactor, so we are still 20 years away from fusion powerplants.. ”and always will be” ;) Though this time I honestly believe we will make it :D Also, as for your response to the other guy, we do have fusion reactors (I’ve actually been in one :D) but we don’t have fusion powerplants.

[@loccaleus1]

Nailed it

[@jimboAndersenReviews]

@John Buick Exactly. Well put.

[@Yvelto_Gaming]

Have you ever spent more time in virtual reality than in real life? You will.

[@Yeyee23]

Sam Woodel like the parlors from Fahrenheit 451

[@shiny_x3]

THIS! I think we'll spend 90% of our time in VR and probably the rest in AR.

[@conexant51]

Some will, but the majority won't. If you're talking about augmented reality, that's another matter, aaand yet they're somewhat similar. Google Glass which failed miserably is a good example... the technology, cultural and social evolution just wasn't there yet.

[@lucywucyyy]

i already do

[@AMpr0d]

Knock knock, you're already here.

[@ashleyross5874]

You: "It's officially 2018!" me watching in 2021: so much has happened since 2018.

[@computernerdtechman]

@ashleyross5874 You commenting on 2018 from 2021. Me watching in 2024 about you in 2021.

[@roseskyeohmy]

me commenting in 2027 about you’re commenting in 2024 about her commenting in 2021 about 2018

[@MichaelTurvey1979]

AT&T did sign a proprietary contract with Apple, Inc. to distribute iPhones which was the primary game changer for smartphone technology competition. So, their contribution to “bringing it to us” was remarkable considering they were the main catalyst which brought the technology to us even if not directly.

[@CoryDaehn]

Unfortunately though, this was a totally different AT&T at that time known as Southwestern Bell that brought us all this after buying AT&T and taking their name.

[@patrickfitzmichael5940]

What's funny about that was Nokia tried the same deal with AT&T a year or so before Apple but it got shut down because AT&T didn't want wifi on the devices so they could control and sell all the data transfers.

[@JSer25]

Technically it was Cingular that signed the deal with Apple then AT&T’s acquisition of Cingular closed before the iPhone was released. So it wasn’t really AT&T’s vision.

[@ckl9390]

Blackberry would have been better.

[@terryhumphrey3880]

If they’d had everything happening at home, it would have looked sad. They might have actually predicted it, but elected to change it to make it more appealing.

[@jaxager]

Yeah. The future isn't as romantic if they show the actors in their underwear with dorito crumbs all over their chests.

[@jeremyandrews3292]

Yeah, I think people definitely could have predicted handheld computers that wirelessly connected to the Internet back then. Probably not smartphones, would have looked more like a Windows CE device, but I think somehow people knew the actual future would look really depressing. I mean, think about it... isn't it kind of sad that people never go anywhere, and everyone has one boring, expensive slab of plastic that does everything, and they all look almost exactly the same? At least in the future visualized, people still have specific spaces set aside for things, and devices are tailored to specific things. I don't know, I think we'd be better off in the alternate future where smartphones were never popular because wireless tech was a dead end.

[@lopiklop]

Same thing with the "chip that holds all information" it's just something for the viewer to covet. Especially in these circumstances, the products don't actually exist.

[@KylePoni23]

@@jeremyandrews3292 I mean Star Trek predicted the cloud, but didn't put it on their tablets, so that's kind of weird...

[@joed180]

Definitely a lot of these choices were made because of things that had nothing to do with prediction. They had to show a credit card in the toll segment, so people would understand they were paying for something. And 100% they needed to show an AT&T credit card.

[@TheTurkey79]

Have you ever been chased by a Boston Dynamics killbot? You will...

[@samsmusichub]

LOL

[@stevenjlovelace]

"Have you ever quarantined from a global supervirus while attending work in your pajamas? You will."

[@lkrnpk]

Even in 2019 it would sound like FUTURE

[@johnalanelson]

Have you ever waited in line for 30 minutes to get toilet paper and considered yourself lucky that you actually got some? You will!

[@applescruff909]

COVID was a trip, wasn't it?

[@AliMuhammadAli]

Have you ever tried to hide from a robot for your life? .. you will and the company will get it to you is (All of them)

[@AliMuhammadAli]

Parth v so I will suffer least!

[@blindbrick]

LOL

[@AstroFerko]

from*

[@mickelodiansurname9578]

Ali Muhammad Ali why hide? You realise resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.

[@joedoe3688]

Even Hugh knew it: "Resistance is NOT futile..."

[@loggan90]

Have you ever driven a car? you won't

[@callum_boss]

I'll get a lot more enjoyment from my car when I can be legally drunk when it's taking me to my destination.

[@lohne87]

but but - how will i get my boat home from the lake or cabin? How will I drive away garbage with a car trailer? How will i get into the dirt roads / woods with a car? How will i get my car down to the beach(Dirt roads) ? How can i rely on a car to get my wife to hospital when giving birth? How can i not drive a car? I get you will have the possibility of automatic driving. But naaah - it will be a looooooooong time before selfdriving is norm.. I should know - i have an TMX with FSD (AP 2.5)

[@blorax5179]

California has a DMV "ATM." There's one in my local Ralph's supermarket. I've never used it though.

[@justsomeguy892]

Yeah, but you can only check and pay your registration

[@Espen.Johannesen]

Norway has photobooths for passports and DL. Now, that is 90 degree angle to the granny behind the counter, and human supervised, but still.

[@SuperRadio999]

The global virtual classroom may not have become a thing for kids but it has become that for adults. In 2006 I graduated Oxford having never stepped foot in a classroom on campus. The entire degree was online with virtual weekly classes, some of us were going to school in the dark. The standard of education was no less than if we had been onsite. Of course 2020 has made this a reality for many universities around the world.

[@BryanLeeWilliams]

Have you ever taken a nap during your commute to and from work without having a wreck? Have you ever had groceries arrive at your door that you didn't even know you were out of? Have you ever had you phone write a report from your outline jotted down on a cocktail napkin? Have you ever had a personalized teaching experience just for you and your pace? You will. And the companies that'll bring it to you? Google, Samsung, and Apple. Have you ever understood the order taker at a drive thru? Well we can't work miracles.

[@brandbryce]

Bryan Lee Williams good ones: except i don’t think it will be the existing status quo, any more than it was AT&T

[@Nyruami]

Your last one is way off. In less than 5 years the order taker at the drive-thru will be Alexa, you will understand her perfectly, she will understand you perfectly and just deliver your order to the cooking personal if they will still exist by then. There is absolutely no need to hire and pay a living being for this job. Btw: You will also be able to understand all support staff, none of them will be talking with horrible Indian accent anymore because all of them will be Alexa as well. And the company that will bring it to you? Amazon.

[@maniak713]

Have you ever noticed your fridge ordering food you hate? You will once your ex learns hacking 101. Because security on fridges and other Internet-of-Targets devices will still be ridiculous. Have you ever had your toilet bowl reminding you of medication you forgot to take? You will.

[@Danielhuren]

you forgot amazon

[@Nyruami]

Frank Winkhorst Technically yes, it´s almost done. Legally no, and it probably never will be allowed at all. There is too much uncertainty. Just imagine this scenario: Driver A, who is sleeping in the backseat, hits Driver B who is reading a newspaper or watching his favourite TV show. Who is to blame? Driver A says it must have been a problem with his car, as he obviously wasn´t driving the car. The car manufacturer says it must have been a problem with the software. The software manufacturer says it was a problem with the implementation of some sensors. The sensor manufacturer says their sensors worked flawlessly. Then a lawsuit follows that might take decades to settle. Meanwhile, driver B gets no money as the insurance of driver A refuses to pay as long as the lawsuit is unsettled. So it is pretty certain that self-driving cars will never be legally operated on the streets without a human driver who could take over every second, which completely destroys any advantage those cars would offer and that you would be paying for. I would maybe pay a hundred grands for a self-driving car, when I´m able to save time by letting the car drive while I do whatever else I have to do. But if I´m forced legally to permanently pay attanetion to the traffic while the car drives, which I assume to be way more exhausitng than just driving yourself, I wouldn´t pay a dime extra for it.

[@RubenKelevra]

7:33 actually that's how we do it in Germany. The key medical data can be stored on the card we get from our insurance. :)

[@nickcarnevalino7462]

japan also.

[@T0mmyAngel0]

I don't think they store our medical data but rather our insurance info on the card or in their systems which identify the card and the data is stored online.

[@richardhee]

Ruben Kelevra, in Germany it's stored like a bank card, it's not your actual bank account stored on the card, nor is your medical data stored there. However, it's darn close.

[@verlioeder]

In terms of having medical data in a centralised place, Australia recently tried to do this and the backlash was HUGE. Turns out there can be problems with privacy, security vulnerability and corruption if you let the government have access to all of your health records.

[@Robbedem]

In Belgium this information is on our identity card. So if we go to the hospital, they scan our identity card.

[@NightsReign]

3:28 Instructor: "That's a surprisingly vague question." System: "Student 'Oakland' has been muted by a moderator."

[@woulg]

"Oakland this is a physics class, why do you always do this"

[@markmayberry5459]

9:00 "I don't understand why a kid in LA would be taking a class with a kid in China" Me, in 2021: Oh poor @Joe Scott, that's adorable

[@archdukefranzferdinand567]

It looks like elementary school though, which definitely doesn't happen

[@lkrnpk]

Well unless you take into account for example Ukrainians who are refugees, many still attend Ukrainian schools online from countries far away @@archdukefranzferdinand567

[@melllvar4262]

Have you ever taken a phone call, while getting in a car accident? You will!!

[@joeangell5652]

@Mellvar / Awesome!

[@nguyenduyphuc3924]

And the company that’ll bring it to you? AT&T

[@MarkSmith-tu9qr]

haha

[@GoSlash27]

I live in Iowa. Got my driver's license renewed at an automated kiosk in the HyVee supermarket, so that is a thing.

[@Robbedem]

Why do you need to renew your drivers licenses? What's the reason behind that? Where I live, you just get a license and it doesn't expire. You can ofcourse lose your license for things like driving a red light, speeding, drinking and driving,...

[@HighFrictionZone]

Part of the reason is that drivers license fees can be a potential revenue stream for the state. The bigger part of the reason is that how you look at 18 will almost always be different than how you look at 30, and you will most likely live someplace other than you did before. Since we have no national ID system, we rely on a patchwork network of state-level IDs and Drivers Licenses to provide identity services to citizens. Forcing people to periodically update their information means that it won't be completely useless for identification purposes. Despite this, of course, I still get people with old-ass drivers licenses with addresses they haven't lived at in years. I'm really frustrated with Arizona because those drivers licenses don't expire until the driver reaches 60 years old (whereafter they have to get periodic vision tests and the IDs expire semi-regularly to accommodate this requirement). I've had 50 year old men come in with their drivers license from decades ago and it's like I can't actually tell if that's actually theirs. You expect me to accept this for financial services when the picture looks nothing like you? No, get out. Yeah, in retrospect it's probably entirely because otherwise people would walk around with the ID/DL from when they were 20 and they'd basically never update it.

[@Robbedem]

@@HighFrictionZone Ah, ok. Since you don't have an identity card, it does make sense to use something else. Still baffles me why you keep working with such a patchwork system though. Do you know of any plans to start using a proper ID system?

[@davidrapalyea7727]

@@Robbedem doesn't your license have your photo on it?

[@Robbedem]

@@davidrapalyea7727 yes it has, but if someone is driving for over 30 years, it gets a bit outdated. ;)

[@peterpayne2219]

Found this old video, love it! I notice you missed the "virtual secretary" who sets up meetings which is what Siri is.

[@Lethgar_Smith]

I remember a TV special that came on around 1980, I think. I believe it may even been sponsored by AT&T. It's purpose was to showcase the latest technology that was just around the corner. Being a Sci-fi nerd then and in my teens I made a point to watch it. I remember it opened with the host, who may have been Hugh Downs of 20/20 fame, He's outside and talking into a "wristwatch telephone". It has a small telescoping antenna on the side. He finishes his conversation and pushes the antenna in and turns to the camera and says something to the effect, " Pretty neat huh? Well, scientists say we will all be using devices like this in a bout 10 to 15 years" Cool!, I thought. And sure enough during the 90's is when we saw cellphone technology take off. When I began to see those bulky cell phones carried around by rich assholes, I knew that was the wristwatch telephone they were talking about in that TV special.

[@lovedfriend2020]

There was a show called Beyond 2000 and it was SO COOL

[@Zoomer30]

One thing ATT missed on soooo big; ATT: You will send faxes from the beach Reality: What's a fax?

[@Konlath]

financial institutions still use fax on a daily basis.

[@hazonku]

A LOT of government & financial institutions still require faxes.

[@jdoexrayvision]

Hospitals and medical clinics too. Fax is still huge in the professional world.

[@riphihe]

@Oceanic Dangernoodle ?!?!?!

[@TheX-3d]

We still have fax servers in our datacenters, and they get used a LOT.

[@th3b0yg]

I love how well into the 90s fax was considered high tech.

[@katakisLives]

Fax was a perfectly serviceable system at the time! i never even got on the internet until about 1998! the idea that it would even be a thing i should think about let alone use never even crossed my mind

[@Tvirus12]

Companies still use fax. Earlier this year I had to place a phone terminal in a floor of the building because during renovations they tore it down and they then decided they wanted 5 fax lines.

[@gromm93]

Have you ever received a fax... on the beach? You will. And you will curse the idiot who sent you an illegible scan from the stone age when they could have just taken a picture with their phone.

[@hankkingsley2976]

Fax was way ahead of its time. Radio stations tested faxing newspapers overnite In late 30's and was the primary way for ships at sea to get weather until recently.

[@hankkingsley2976]

Still have to fax a few government documents, but not many in the US

[@logiticalresponse9574]

Ill go fifty years . Have u ever rubbed two sticks together to start a fire 🔥 you will

[@gonun69]

thinking 25 years forward? Now during C-word quarantine you'd be lucky to know what's going to happen in a month lol

[@Dreaded88]

Have you ever fought-off a Mutated Badger, armed only with Kitchen Knife for a Short Sword, in the radioactive ruins of New York? You will!!!

[@daveleo78]

From the year 2020: it's not the radiation that you have to worry about.

[@SPQSpartacus]

1996 I wrote an article titled ’fantasy’ on a university paper. In it I described a gadget, which was basically an IPad: handheld magazine size, web browser, video calls, etc. Much on the article was off, but I’m proud of most of it.

[@alakani]

Well, that is the same year the Webbook was announced and the Palm Pilot and Fujitsu Stylistic 1000 tablet were released. And 3 years after the Apple Newton, which was their inspiration for the iPad. And all of those people got the idea from Star Trek :p

[@1Nida]

In 1990 I read a science fiction book with the same concept. The Slate in Enders Game.

[@edwardrhoads7283]

In 2012 I published an ebook (A Space Odd-yssey) where I predicted that the New Horizons Probe would find cryovolcanoes on Pluto in 2015 and it did! Predicted the first human on Mars would be a Chinese female and big news today people predicting first person on mars most likely will be female.

[@marccolten9801]

So you watched sci-fi

[@abandonedmuse]

Me too but I imagined a phone where i could do it all. I wrote it in a diary though not a formal paper. I tell people about it sometimes.

[@Sembazuru]

2 years later... * Driver License renewal kiosk: Been in Delaware for at least 2 years now... * Voice activated doors: Doable, not advisable... Have a "smart lock" on the door and trigger it by yelling through the door at a nearby Google Home or Alexa. You could activate it from your phone, but that is hard to do in the scenario of the video where the home owner's arms are full of groceries.

[@joshuacollins385]

My 25 years from now predictions: Computers, phones etc. will just be screens, batteries, and a network card. All processing will be done in the cloud. Your passwords, your photos, your text files, all of it will be on a server somewhere a thousand miles away, and you'll just access it with your super slim, incredible battery life phone. Most things will be subscription/licence based. You'll have access to every movie, game, song, and the most useful pieces of software ever made, for a yearly price and for signing an impossibly dense eula. There will be the first major lawsuit over a eula being so long no human can even theoretically read it. There will be a movement against this, surprisingly mostly made of young people. You remember how 35+ used to be the group who looked down on social networks the most, and now they're the ones who use Facebook compulsively without considering possible consequences? This will be the same. The people alive now will begin saying that they'd never use this stuff, then the idea of a mobile phone battery lasting two weeks and being able to play Fallout 6 and TES:NIRN will win them over. It will be under 30s who start the offline movement, mainly custom making hardware and hacking old commercial software so it thinks it's always getting approval from a server that hasn't existed in 15 years. With no other response, companies will lobby to make piracy a felony, claiming that its actually a national security priority that they stay profitable and operating their services, and then extending this to claim that their competitors are a national security risk. Not having an account with them will actually be used as evidence against people. Despite how bad this all sounds, it will actually turn out fine, although it will leave one hell of a mess. *Hello digital archaeologists of the future, yes I called it.*

[@michaelfink64]

Actually, by then I don't think we will even need those. We will all have implants, thoughts will be transmitted by radio - i.e. telepathy - and audio and video (maybe other senses as well) will be directly input into the brain with electrodes. In some sense, we will become the machines.

[@joshuacollins385]

@@michaelfink64 25 years from now I doubt it. It will be possible, but it will be so prohibitively expensive and unreliable to that no commercial products will use it. Think of voice recognition in the 80s. It took a long time to work the kinks out to the point that people were comfortable giving it control of their TV and lights, but once it got reliable enough for that it was a very short time before people were comfortable giving it power over their front doors and Amazon accounts. I don't think 25 years is soon enough. I don't think we'll even see self driving cars become more common that human driven cars

[@cynvision]

This makes me want to go back to the Max Headroom future and see how it held up. (Minus the whole dystopian future part.) I recall you just had a metal bar and the access to everything was on kiosks. Looking back at 1987 a keychain fob was the nearly the first payment dongle actually being used at that time so this made sense on TV. The insanely long-lasting idea sticks around that you own and have on your person some sort of physical token to prove ownership. Physical scan (of whatever part of a person) might get around this. And the Millenial mind-shift that you don't really want to own too much stuff, if you get the same value from renting it for a short time. For prediction how a mobile device that can do everything I go back to Roddenberry's show Earth: Final Conflict for the digital device that rolled the screen up. We're *so* close to that kind of device. The continuing Achilles heel to this concept of the cloud is the sudden breakdown of the network. Remove the connection and Pfft! you've got a dead device and nothing. (It still was a plot point in both TV shows IIRC) Maybe we're not to the point humans bounce around like mindless idiots when that network fails, but pretty much you have a few generations who are conditioned to need that device operating and in hand to not feel left out of the social groupmind. It seemed in 1987 pretty silly that in Max Headroom there was no off switch on their media. But time has shown that a power grid and network that robust is still science fiction.

[@voxhominem]

I doubted at first but honestly this sounds incredibly accurate. I do think that it will be more popular with young people but open source/Linux have been around for a long time and are probably going to turn into old sages giving free classes on decoupling from the network

[@hecticenergy1233]

@joshua Collins exponential growth.. look at technology over the last 100 years in 25 year increments... I wouldn’t rule out effective implants... though the issue may be the lack of our understanding of the human brain more than the technology itself.

[@ZappyOh]

Have you ever sought shelter from your machine overlords? You will ...

[@mrjava66]

Ole Sauffaus I built a robot overlord at my last job. 99% of the tactical decisions of the company were made by it. Everyone was happy to obey. We fight with computers in movies. In real life, we happily obey. When is the last time you navigated on your own??? Nuff said.

[@berndspencerrositzka8295]

will they find you instantly cause of their tech? they will.

[@zamarcc]

@@mrjava66 I use google map and I don't always follow it's route, but just to see how much time I saved by going my own route.

[@ulysses2162]

Skynet

[@Natalie-ox7xm]

Dude, in 1993, a long distance phone call for free was a pipe dream. I'm talking about within the continental US. We had NO IDEA about the leaps technology would make in such a short time. I'm writing this in Feb. of 2020. For posterity, please let me know how things are years from now.

[@Butt_Slayer]

A lot has changed since Feb20. I'm writing this in June 20.

[@Natalie-ox7xm]

@@Butt_Slayer Damn, too true.

[@raffaelevalente7811]

@@Natalie-ox7xm It went even worse than everybody could imagine. (Sept 2022) And here fascists are back. Democratically, this time Cheers from Italy

[@kjsmith1125]

You wouldn’t need people to let you know bc you’d be alive for them to tell u lol

[@Axemang]

Well everything got shut down two months after your comment, and now Elon Musk owns Twitter, er, "X"... But I can make a doctor's visit remotely via video call while sick at home, get a drug prescription, and go pick it up at my local pharmacy within an hour's time, so that's cool, I guess. It's possible to construct an AI-rendered video of Joe Biden and Donald Trump talking shit to each other over Xbox Live chat while playing a video game, so that's fun. 2023 has been weird.

[@zoestraw6444]

In 25 years AI and procedural generation will allow a virtual Dungeon Master to design detailed virtual role playing scenarios with the kind of depth and reactivity that is currently only possible in a modern tabletop environment. Instead of game designers having to script and plan out every possible narrative path (which limits the complexity of CRPGs) the AI will be able to dynamically adjust to player choices and create believable outcomes for anything the players can come up with.

[@Jess-pr1xf]

The gamer part of me is saying "Yes,Please!". The D.M. part of me is saying "Thank you for the ideas AI, I was drawing a blank to day." J.K. I like your idea.

[@kotalee2106]

that sounds absolutely awful

[@sebione3576]

Chat gpt can write stories instantly and it's progressed to the point Hollywood is considering using ai instead of humans to write scripts.

[@Rennrogue]

We're most of the way there in 2023. I'm sure we'll get there by 2025. ChatGPT.

[@helloxonsfan]

*Great! But don't know about the next 25 years, but another 50 years from now...* *... Instead of physically operating a device to achieve whatever action we want...* *We'll be able to mentally think it all into happening...!!!* 👍🏽 👍🏽 👍🏽

[@monumentalbasser]

Have you ever sent a "voice message" just by thinking via neuralnet? Accessed the internet in your mind? Become too distracted to even live by the inescapable temptation of having all the pleasures and comforts of your cell phone and more within your own head without even having to lift a finger? You will... and the company to bring it to you? Neuralink*

[@williambreton5801]

Neuralink* not Tesla, same guy not the same company.

[@juliewatt678]

You, my friend, win the internet today!! You had no idea how accurate THAT was!! 😳😳😳

[@LoreMIpsum-vs6dx]

Uhm, thanks. That hit so close to home already that I'm logging off now and going for a run....

[@nathanschmick9681]

Have you ever pooped in a toilet and gotten a notification that you need to eat more yogurt? You will. In 2019. Done. Predicted.

[@garetclaborn]

singularityhub.com/2009/05/12/smart-toilets-doctors-in-your-bathroom/#sm.001m16dzgvp6egs10g41q6mg54a8d

[@iamunamed5800]

Maybe, if yogplait made a toilet and it just always says that when you flush

[@messman10]

Japan already has that, along with built in bidets. What's missing is camera to check to see if you have hemorrhoids.

[@adamotto8513]

Who uses a toilet?

[@allanrichardson1468]

Sometimes the odor alone gives you that information!

[@danielshults5243]

I think much of their "failed" execution is really just altering the vision to make it easier for a 1993 consumer to understand what they're getting at. For example, a credit card swipe is a quick way to communicate "payment" - even if they had envisioned RFID tags, it wouldn't have been wise to put one in the commercial, as the viewer would not understand how the payment was being made. Same goes for the digital library. We all know a big building with books and tables is where you go to research and learn... when you only have 10 seconds to get an idea across, it makes sense to put your "the future of studying" commercial in this kind of setting. I think the better question to ask is why the future is so dimly lit and smoky. Is it really wise to base your optimistic vision of the future on some blend of Bladerunner and 1984?

[@RichardBronosky]

Daniel Shults this reminds me of the commercial for the touch screen BlackBerry that showed an arrow mouse pointer floating above the user's finger as they moved it around the screen. Then they lifted their finger and did an extra tap to click.

[@joinedupjon]

AT&T bought ATM maker NCR in '91 which is probably why they were so keen on getting them involved in everything. Today ATMs are disappearing in much the same way as phone booths went a while back. TBH I think AT&T envisioned having a different piece of hardware for every task that wasn't practical on an ATM - you'd have a machine for faxing from the beach and a different machine for controlling your home automation and another different machine for making video conference calls from your beach hut.

[@MadScienceWorkshoppe]

@@joinedupjon you obviously don't live in NYC, where stores are being closed and replaced with banks of ATMs.

[@bruhdabones]

Daniel Shults on point. Was about to say all of that until you came along.

[@tobe3906]

ultimately loss of freedom and privacy should have been one of their commercials. but nobody would have believed them back then.

[@uoppsdnsu4266]

3:22 10/10 predicted the future, I’m watching this instead of online classes right now.

[@davidx.1504]

Joe 2018: "Not that we're all taking telecalls..." Joe 2021: *You will*

[@grn1]

I was an "essential" worker, I kept going to work and store as usual (granted I wore a mask at the store) and the government gave me jack squat for "risking my life" to give that "essential" service (the tax credit comes nowhere near what I would have gotten it I could stay home and collect my base paycheck plus $600, not to mention the opportunity cost as many people used the opportunity to improve their health and learn new skills).

[@israelwolstein9351]

You will: Never plug anything anywhere in 25 years. Not your TV, not your lamp, nothing.

[@gimcrack555]

I actually dream this, that I invented this. I made a today prototype. Where You put this cube about a size as a ottoman in the middle of your house. Use these square things to plug into with your current AC appliances. Until the technology is built-in the appliances themselves.

[@sproketjennings]

Google Energous... It exists

[@kleuafflatus]

@@gimcrack555 that, or in the last of us scenario lol

[@secularmonk5176]

@@kleuafflatus At first, I thought that was his point XD

[@volundrfrey896]

@@sproketjennings inductive charging has existed since the 1800's and it really hasn't come very far since then... energous is far from being a good functional solution. In 25 years we might have something good.

[@1djtraxx]

Actually, for several years now, we’ve had special classrooms at colleges that allow several classes in different locations to view the class live with video and audio in both directions.

[@nickhutter9330]

heh heh welcome to 2020

[@monicarenee7949]

Yeah I was doing that in about 2003 for Spanish class in high school. We met with students in Mexico. We had to all go to a big room that had the screen we could all see

[@Railerik]

Im watching this in June, and somehow you guessed right, I was drinking last night. You predicted the future too!

[@matthewkagan6921]

I am so old I actually remember these commercials. So wild!

[@b0tterman]

Have you ever traveled coast to coast by train? In two hours? You will. Have you connected to the internet using your thoughts? You will. Have you ever replaced your damaged organs with one 3d printed using your own DNA? Have you ever bought physical and intellectual advantages for you or your children using gene editing technology? Have you ever spent a week in a hotel, in low earth orbit? You will. Have you ever flown to your vacation in a plane that has no pilot? You will.

[@justintrefney1083]

Jim Fields and Elon Musk will bring it to you.

[@billyrigby4839]

Jim Fields you get, man...lol I said watching the sun rise in low earth orbit and be home in time for dinner lol great response though!

[@KalRandom]

Have you ever went hungry making 100k a year, you will.

[@smartart3097]

Kal Random lmfaoooo Nyc bro

[@dee5298]

Not where I'm from.

[@mrjava66]

Food security has increased steadily in each of the last five decades. It will be fine for much longer as well.

[@MichaelSHartman]

In 25 years $37,000 to $50,000. Oh, you meant after taxes. 😊😁

[@PacesIII]

Kal Random If you're making six figures and starving, it's time to reassess your spending habits.

[@secretpanda64]

The toll booth one I just imagined his card being declined and he hits the tire things that stop you while he was just booking it and the car flips and explodes into flames 😂 Edit* I have a dark since of humor lol

[@bearcubdaycare]

Yeah, I'm not sure how they thought that would work. If you don't already have a working card on file, that whole scenario doesn't pass a few seconds of thought.

[@natechilders5027]

Lol this whole scenario would cause so many wrecks literally distracted driving lmao

[@autney]

25 years from now I will be watching videos of Answers with an older Joe

[@mishamarx6997]

I wish 1993 me (I was 9) could see 2018 tech. I’d be so much more impressed than watching its progression over 25 years. My little 9yo head would explode! I do remember watching something on TV when I was little about digital notebooks where you could read newspapers on a screen and carry it with you. I remember thinking how cool it was and hoping that someone would invent it before I died. I’m still waiting on my flying car though.

[@venomousicon8855]

Flying cars have been a thing for a while now, but they are prototypes.

[@mishamarx6997]

Venom I know. But I wanna buyyyyy one

[@alakani]

I'm so jelly. I've been waiting for decent tech my whole life, and it's still half baked and fueled by corporate narcissism. At least you can buy any kind of flying car that you want, you just don't get the economy of scale discounts, and you need a pilot license. Which, maybe that's a good thing, have you seen how people drive?

[@jl.7739]

Misha Marx flying cars are a thing for many decades now, they’re called helicopters. And they didn’t get much more affordable since they where first invented 😒

[@hazonku]

I was 10 at the time & remember these ads. We got all this crazy sci-fi tech but still no flying cars or hoverboards. I'm with Elon on the flying cars though. That's just an accident waiting to happen, but dammit I want my hoverboard. I mean sure the LN2 ones are a thing & they're cool but I want what Bob Zemeckis promised us in Back to the Future II in the eighties.

[@tevvya]

Have you ever taken a virtual reality vacation without leaving your home? You will.

[@oliverrepp131]

I mean you already can

[@filthynice88]

Already a thing ... At least visually ...$5k price tag but it's free the second trip

[@abandonedmuse]

tevvya that sounds terrible lol

[@Shojikitsune1]

And have you ever been overdrawn at the memory bank? You will!

[@agentsmith4782]

Without stopping working

[@danielvivian3282]

Great videos Joe, thanks. I've never recommended a documentary style video like your's on fb before, but this one is so engaging I have to recommend it to my friends. Thanks.

[@timothyswag3594]

There are also door locks that use biometrics to grant access, although this is more of a "tech nerd" toy than anything. I spent a summer with some folks that used a biometric scanner in order to grant access to their house. Pretty clever actually, and it worked well.

[@TheMsLourdes]

Yeah the only reason we don't have the voice locks is because a high quality digital recording makes it easy as sin to bypass. We definitely have the capability, it is just insecure and therefore, stupid.

[@grn1]

​@@TheMsLourdesUnfortunately a lot of the other smart locks are also easy to bypass. Some you just need a magnet. There is a funny thing though in that electronic/computer engineers won't buy smart locks because they're easy to hack and mechanical engineers are more likely to prefer smart locks because of how easy mechanical locks are to crack.

[@lkrnpk]

so now I will use both... imagine surprise for a thief if it just cracks the electronic one but there is a physical one still, or vice versa :D Then again it just would be a hassle on my part to do this every time@@grn1

[@chrisgarcia6098]

Joe Scott at 1 billion subscribers in 25 years

[@jamesfarrell8339]

Chris Garcia Brilliant.

[@snipervictim]

Chris Garcia yup

[@headq100]

Pfft he wishes

[@theraven5767]

93 was a bender year, I don't remember any of these. The company that brought that, Budweiser......

[@roberrplatt4214]

Wine coolers for me. Remember them? I don't, because of wine coolers.

[@ulysses2162]

I may have alzheimer's... but at least I don't have alzheimer's...

[@Desertfox92308]

Crazy, I vaguely remember Tom Sellecks voice, but drew a blank on most of the commercials?

[@duckslayer92]

"Bud"........"weiser".....🐸🐸🐸

[@mattharvey78]

Two years plus after it was posted, this video is still interesting! Totally ironic that when I did a job interview over my phone on vacation in Hawaii that I didn't think I was living in the future.

[@jeffersonmp4]

we don't realize we are living in the future until we see the past.

[@robertfletcher]

I know this video is almost 3 years old, but I still love looking back to those commercials, because I still remember those commercials from the early 90s. I believe the 2 top technologies that made these predictions possible were the Internet and smart phone/tablet. It's pretty Ironic that one of these technologies became available to the masses (and I'm surprised that AT&T couldn't see the writing on the wall) just 2 years later. Of course it did take almost 15 years for the smart phone to become popular. Even though this is 3 years old, I'm still going to put in my predictions for 2046. Crossing my fingers that I will still be alive then (I'm 54 years old now), I'll try to remember to look this comment up at that time or tell my children to look it up. I will phrase the questions the same way that AT&T did: - Have you ever turned your whole wall into a TV or a collage of family photos - Have you ever taken public transportation to a short detitanation that could get you there as fast or faster than if you owned your own car - Have you ever watched a feature length film that was produced fully on the moon - Have you ever eaten a protein bar that gave you the benefits of exercise - Have you ever had a pizza cooked and delivered without any human intervention You will

[@xpndblhero5170]

Protein bars that give you the benefits of exercise¿! Somebody get this guy into an AT&T meeting or something.... This is the tech we need right now because Americans are getting too close to the Wall-E future than an AT&T ad. 😂😂

[@NickRoman]

Have you see the Colin Furze video where he made a motorcycle with a pizza oven on the back so that he could cook pizza on the way to deliver? lol It's hilarious. People have had projectors that could take the place of a tv by projecting an image onto a wall for many years. So, I guess the quality of the light, resolution, and the quality of the wall are what's in question there.

[@SpydersByte]

like the above reply mentioned, you can already pretty easily turn your entire wall into a TV with a projector and thats been a thing for a long time, but in addition to that now we have AR that can put a whatever size screen you want in front of you superimposed onto a full color passthrough. The Oculus Rift has had passthrough for a while but the image is black and white and the resolution is pretty bad, but with the newest ones they have multiple full color cameras that give you a passthrough that is much closer to actual reality. Granted, you need to be wearing the goggles, but Im sure it wont be long until theyre miniaturized enough to basically be a pair of glasses instead of the clunky headsets they currently are.

[@prismstudios001]

If AT&T isn’t the evil empire, why is their logo the Death Star?

[@elias_xp95]

Outside of America, no-one thinks about AT&T

[@thebleakoverview4227]

Great video. I give this a 10/10 for the idea, and a 7/10 for the execution. Some videos that you do, you tend to ramble on, but this one you're on point.

[@koother]

If he's on point then how is it a 7

[@DasPreem]

2 /15-minute videos a week and doesn't overlap content and somehow I'm still balls deep into everything joe's saying. Joe's ramble is what makes it worth it, I mean for him and for us. Being more concise and analytical takes a lot more energy and time. Time he may not have. If this channel ever takes the turn to something that looks like 'Work" ill probably stop sucribing. Take this guys advice with a grain of salt.

[@namelesscynic1616]

You must be one of my hotel guests that raves about their stay then gives me 7/10! There was nothing wrong with the presentation or the idea - both merit 10/10.

[@DasPreem]

❤️

[@nopenadda]

ooooo the complimentive burn 9.5/10

[@SyBabyProductions]

The 1990s optimisum of the 21st Century had to be experienced to be fully understood. I was a teenager in the 90s, and the ideas of what we could one day have was a very reassuring feeling: the future was going to be a-okay. It's now very comforting to look back on those days. "Beyond 2000" also helped contribute to the thrill of what could be.

[@realdavidadams]

1) remote learning - when I started my CS master program be cause I did have to go to remote classroom with other students where we could contact the instructor in realtime. So AT&T was just not thinking it ahead far enough. By the way it was using AT&T service. 2) It was AT&T that brought you all of this via their division Bell Laboratories. 3) I could open a door with my voice though through my watch/phone. Though I have not found a need to turn on the feature. 4) in Michigan you can go to a kiosk in some supermarkets and renew your license. Well enough for now.

[@jeffersonmp4]

Damnn you are living in the future man, lucky you

[@Citizen_of_the_Verse]

At&t will bring you everything! Except the right amount on your bill...

[@teddysurf]

iPhone 35 apple invents the headphone jack

[@catalyst3713]

It'll be called..... "AppleJack"

[@teddysurf]

Some Guy V hahahahahahaha

[@messman10]

No, they invent a dongle for your dongle that will control your dongle. All sold separately.

[@frowlinian8175]

By then they wouldve already invented that then gotten rid of it again... theyll proabably be inventing magnetic tape by that point

[@prismstudios001]

Why? It’s called Bluetooth. I’ve never used wired headphones with a phone after I discovered wireless...

[@AbandonedMines11]

This was pretty cool! I don’t remember these commercials, though. They were a good idea. Wonder where we’ll be 25 years from now in 2046?

[@demcomp]

Floating in space on a giant marble, spinning around at a thousand miles per hour. :)

[@willh2739]

I wonder if he finished the video with that same question,,,,

[@Jacob_Overby]

Dead more than likely lol

[@Joel-ry7ez]

@@willh2739

[@stephenellams272]

Hey Joe, I haven’t seen one recently, but here in Ontario Canada we did have kiosks to update drivers licences/annual registration stickers, very handy.

[@mickelodiansurname9578]

Did they not do that one where... "Have you ever needed to collect a pension but found out your retirement fund was spent by your employer? You wont...but unfortunately its legal and the company that will bring it to you is negligent...." Or "Have you ever needed to have your private information sold to the highest bidder? You won't, but the company's that will bring it to you and not give a shit are Google, Apple, Facebook and AT&T!"

[@smfe]

There is actually a app called SeatGeek that will show you the view from a concert/sports seat

[@kimberleyhosmer5997]

Colleges also use virtual classrooms that are basically just videoconferencing, but still have most students coming into Physical classrooms that are then linked, as opposed to homes linked.

[@Dyltone]

Hey Joe... Thanks for pointing out this video. I enjoyed how insightful and in some cases, how out of date 2018 is to late 2023... I guess that's the point.

[@StanleyOrchard]

Have you ever had a machine pick the particles of plastic out of the stomachs of the fish you catch? You will!

[@herrschmidt5477]

you don't eat the stomach anyways ;)

[@shoogie1994]

hae you ever seen an ocean devoid of fish? you will

[@faust7756]

have your oceans become salty and miss your iceberg, you will

[@herrschmidt5477]

@@faust7756 wtf oceans are always salty

[@gayatri555]

good idea

[@markcaporale2559]

Who else recognized the voice in the commercial as Tom Selleck?

[@rays7437]

Me!

[@triciamallett5531]

Oh snap

[@LJKing-pd4kq]

Had to check comments just to see who else caught that!

[@MyCatFooed]

4 rizzle!!

[@tootall1488]

Yep, had a major Magnum P.I. flashback ;)

[@edgy22]

I’m from 2020, and we have zoom classes now.

[@elck3]

I'm from 2021, the world is still shut down

[@litesaber54yi3]

These are my favorite bcoz commercials. I loved them when they came out and I watch them all the time even now on KZbin. What really is amazing thought is the sound track for these commercials. The music is amazing.

[@lutraman1]

One thing I think you were dead wrong about is the kids talking to other kids on their tablets.They're practicing a foreign language and this does happen now! And also have been happening for at least 10 years when I was in high school.

[@seraphina985]

Indeed good way to give far more students the opportunity to benefit from interacting with real native speakers of the language they are learning, after all it's not like going on a foreign exchange year is anything like within most families budgets so technology offers the next best thing for more people I guess.

[@davidwill1320]

Yes...I think these programs are also intended to offer some cultural exchange.

[@joer8854]

@@davidwill1320 He was wrong about the medical thing as well. It's not a thing in the USA but it is in Canada. You have an OHIP (or equivalent) card which the hospital swipes and it gives the hospital access to all your medical records and yes even your Xrays and stuff.

[@buffalobigfoot7982]

Plus just because one kid is Asian doesn't mean he's in Asia. One kid may be in Maine and the other one thousands of miles away in San Francisco. Racist Joe.

[@mugwump7049]

@@joer8854 In France too (and I'm guessing by extension Europe).

[@janm20]

Hey Joe, can you do still do the follow-up on this video with a collection of the best You Will ideas?

[@adlockhungry304]

I’ve come from 2 years in future: You Will, be under shelter in place orders due to a pandemic!

[@bigtee2000]

This was a trip! I didn't realize I remembered these commercials until rewatching them and it was wild.

[@hazonku]

That feel when you have to pause the video briefly at the GPS part because your GPS in your phone is telling your Grubhub is almost here.

[@bvg129]

Imagine everything that we have now in our pockets will be connected directly to the brain? You will

[@agentsmith4782]

Oh shit, l have a screwdriver in my pocket

[@upperleftcoastchelseafan7718]

Should probably take my weed and my pipe out of my pocket.

[@Scribnastyman]

Someones been watching too much Black Mirror... Lol

[@billionai4871]

No Thanks! Information Security is sooooo bad right now that even considering how much better it got in the last 25 years and how it could be better in another 25, is still too big a risk of brain hacking

[@bvg129]

@@billionai4871 you always will be able to switch it off, if you wanna think about something personal

[@qibble455]

This vid just popped up on my front page. Not sure how or why but I enjoyed it never the less. 10/10

[@Vizhonary]

My favorite one that would have been like 1/10 and 0/10 came out in '96 or '97 when they had gone to pretty much one more involved prediction per commercial. It basically predicted food teleporters with a promise that went something like, "Have you ever imagined of being sent dinner from your mom from across the country?" then the scenario that plays out is the old mom talking to the adult daughter on the phone and asking her, "Have you tried the turkey and stuffing I sent you yet?" and the daugher replying, "Not yet, mom. I just got home." then she walks over to a box about half the size of a small microwave oven and basically materializes the food like it's a fax machine.

[@SpydersByte]

I dont think thats quite a 0/10 now, there are 3d printers that use different types of foodstuffs as filament and thats basically the first step toward being able to just print out a meal

[@nutsandbolts432]

Have you ever mourned the death of a loved one on another planet? You will, brought to you by Space X.

[@rmichaud47]

Too soon

[@williambreton5801]

@@rmichaud47 what do you mean too soon? SpaceX plans to send people to Mars by the end of this decade

[@washcloud]

@@williambreton5801 In the words of the master himself : "....yeah, right..."

[@williambreton5801]

@@washcloud who?

[@washcloud]

@@williambreton5801 Joe

[@tylerlarson9491]

Have you ever erased a memory that was holding you back in life? You will!!

[@mehdisaddem286]

Oh wow that is a good one! Good thinking!

[@rmichaud47]

Good old alcyhol 🍸

[@druid139]

For decades now 🍻

[@minicineastemovies]

Have you ever have the courts show you video footage of you doing what you claim to have forgotten, and then gone to jail for it? You will!

[@robynsmith4164]

🎉 HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022 JOE! 🥳

[@RichardHartness]

I know this (9:00 ish) is a 5 year old video, but with COVID and a large push for homeschooling, my daughter (11) takes classes online, video chat is important, and she has class members, literally, all over the globe. That's another 10/10, just in 2022 (and on.)