How People In 1899 Imagined The Year 2000.

A lot of their predictions were absolutely spot on.
All images used in this video are in the public domain and available on Wikimedia Commons.

[@jonntischnabel]

Its quite amusing that they could imagine these technologies, but that fashion would not progress at all in 100 years. Everyone still has waistcoats , moustaches, and the ladies all have frilly petticoats etc. 😂

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Good point 😆

[@themightykabool]

Clothung styles are cyclical. Belbottoms Deminim everyhting Aviators Etcetc Aaaaaahaha Ohhoo the day when big hoop ball gown dressss come back.

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

You don't watch the same porn channels as me😅

[@laurencewinch-furness9450]

It's pretty much impossible to predict what the future of fashion will be. An attempt by Victorians to design "futuristic" fashions would probably look more ridiculous than just imagining future people dressed exactly like them

[@ivilivo]

All sci-fi is easy to spot when it's made based in clothing imagination. So as predicting future clothing, I guess humankind just suck.

[@brick6347]

Although 1899 seems like an awfully long time ago, it really isn't. A ten year old child staring at those pictures could well have lived into the 1990s, and a few even into the 2000s (the last person born in 1900 died in 2017). It's quite possible, though perhaps unlikely, that one or two of them used KZbin. It also makes me wonder how much of it is self fulfilling prophes. Seeing those wild predictions in 1899 might have inspired some of those kids to go and make them true, so they came true. Much like kids in the 1960s who grew up watching Star Trek ended up making flipphones in the 90s.

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Brilliant observation and comment!

[@leodf1]

Great point. And you don't have to start exactly when the cards were released. They would easily have stayed current and collected for a decade or so. A ten year old in 1915 say, could certainly have admired them and seen the millenium and everything come true...

[@nathanaelsmith4251]

I often think about my Grandpa who was born in 1890. He was 13 when the Wright brothers first flew and in his 30s the first time he saw an airplane. Yet he watched on a color television as Neil Armstrong walked on the moon! He went from everyone traveling by horse and wagon on dirt roads to driving on interstates!

[@timweather3847]

My father was born in 1891 (OK, he was knocking on a bit when he fathered me!), but though he lived into his 80s he would find the sort of technology that I now use utterly incomprehensible.

[@treadingtheboards2875]

In some ways, time is changeable to a certain degree. I was born in 1945, in 1955, 10 year old me thought the year 2023 was so far into the future as to be almost unreachable. Now in 2023, I look at 1955 as being only yesterday.

[@Snorlax108]

Its interesting how they drew so much about us going underwater but not outer space

[@Sailor11Sedna]

We’ve done some of both. Neither with the frequency or caution I would like.

[@nez9751]

Yeah. But at that time they thought they had conquered the oceans but not the skies. The intensive breeding of chickens is a bit sad, because it’s correct n a way But they did get so many things right…. Sort of

[@megapro125]

@@Sailor11Sedna they certainly didn't predict people would be using a cheap wireless controller to navigate some ghetto rigged uncertified deep sea submarine.

[@ewetoob1924]

Space was passe. Jules Verne wrote "From the Earth to the Moon" in 1865. By 1899 the interesting frontiers were air travel and and underwater.

[@HENRIDuRoy]

What is about drones... human flying

[@Lopyj]

My Grandma was born in 1899... she liked to tell me stories from her childhood when I was a kid - for example, that they did not have electricity in the house... although they were not poor, but hardly someone did have that in those days in her small town. Totally different times. She died in 1981... and saw so much happening through her liefe, technical inventions, two world wars...

[@valeok8357]

My mother was born in 1981, you really can’t buy time!

[@juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988]

How old was she?

[@acornsucks2111]

Amish still live that way.

[@leodf1]

02:40 The teacher doesn't have to present the lecture, he simply lets the students listen to the books. That's audio books, which we've had for a while and perfectly accurate. 06:15 Modern tractors and harvesting vehicles can process a field guided by GPS, without driver intervention. 07:00 I remember the Electrolux Trilobite robot vaccum cleaners came out in the mid 90's. 07:30 Speech to text transcription has been around a while. I had DragonDictate software in the 90's. 07:50 Internet communicaiton is clearly suggested. You can see they are in some kind of communcation room with phone lines on the wall. 08:50 'Electric rollerblades' are most definitelly a thing. The hoverboards and segways that were trendy these past years. The fixation with flying personal transport persists to this day, with every futuristic movie having levitating cars. Thanks for the video

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Great comment. Thanks so much, Tez 😊

[@mariateresamondragon5850]

I think the couple listening to the news (at about 9:00) is more like radio or TV, so from the mid-century, than anything newer.

[@Vojtaniz01]

@@mariateresamondragon5850 Even earlier. In Czechia, we have just celebrated 100th anniversary of the radio this year.

[@stainlesssteelfox1]

For that matter, personal flight is closer than it's ever been before. Manned drones are a thing, if not yet commercially available, and Gravity seems to have cracked a jetpack design that has practical applications.

[@canadianman000]

At 9:30 the flyers with engines strapped to their backs is absolutely a thing. Powered gliders, Ultra-lights, and Para-Motors all bare a great likeness.

[@raffiart5121]

It’s amazing how they were obsessed with individual flying machines and spending time under water!

[@juliantheivysaur3137]

Makes me wonder if affordable commercial space travel in the year 2100 is realistic or if it's an unrealistic dream.

[@williamdiffin28]

That's just the French for you.

[@GreatRaijin]

We are obsessed with discovering and exploring new places, people 100 years ago thought we would spend all our time underwater and in the skies, now that we can explore both, we're talking about colonizing space and other planets in the future, who knows where humanity where go in the far future

[@bobjacobson858]

Some people are "underwater" today, but in a different sense--mostly having to do with autos and perhaps some other purchases.

[@kennethflaming8606]

@@juliantheivysaur3137 If ww3 happends , and it doesn"t go nuclear. technology will skyrocket to the point i think it will be doable around 2070-2080

[@szithaanu9934]

It's interesting that they could imagine such activities relatively accurately, but couldn't comprehend the technology beyond what they had available to them. Makes you wonder could we even begin to fathom what technology will be available 100 years from now.

[@MrChristianDT]

It's hard for me to imagine much more innovation, aside from continued research into AI & Space exploration. Maybe the lab grown meat thing might end up leading to innovations in direct cloning?

[@jsl151850b]

I've read several Sci-Fi magazines from the 30s and 40s. Except for Positronic Robots no one imagined the TRANSISTOR!!

[@srellison561]

@@jsl151850b Or solid state technology in general.

[@jarikinnunen1718]

Many inventions are born by accident. Teflon was born from an attempt to make super glue and penicillin, when a badly managed laboratory forgot the samples, left them on the table for too long to become contaminated with mold. The American continents were found in an attempt to find a shortcut to India. The Indians got their name from that mistake.

[@TheBeastCH]

We don't have jetpacks and aren't riding giant fish, but they still got a couple basic ideas right. Sci Fi from the 1970s, such as Star Wars has started to look weird. Those pictures look even weirder. At some point, the predictions made in movies like Interstellar or series like The Expanse will look just as weird to people in the future. Even when we do get stuff right. (like the french artists got airborne warfare right)

[@CatNolara]

That was really fascinating. I wish I could just invite people from 1899 to the world of today, they'd propably be speechless. But also makes you think about what's to come in the next 100 years, seeing recent developments a lot of SciFi wasn't that far off after all with how VR and AI tech is coming along.

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Totally agree!

[@Navra-sc2ws]

Yeah, nowaday human already face stagnation in their civilization development.

[@AnonymousFohYOU]

The last person born in 1900 died in 2017, so a few of them did see past the year 2000

[@YayRaven]

And it’s coming at a fast pace now! Our lives are no longer private and it’s getting worse. I share a personal text. I see ads on KZbin in relation to the contents of the text. I realise the only way to have any privacy is to send snail mail provided the receiver doesn’t take a photo or scan it into a device. Photos with text can be read word for word now even on my iPhone. I can highlight and copy text included on photos.

[@Lazare7782]

@@YayRavengo take your schizo pills, that isn’t real

[@mnnrandom8279]

Biggest inaccuracy: They though people would still wear clothes that covered a legitimate amount of their body. Even when swimming.

[@alichefortune862]

😂😂😂

[@thedbcooperforum]

They couldn't get past there own time..100 years later and still using exterior belts and gears, large rivits..

[@Allen-ps6bx]

​@@thedbcooperforum their not there.

[@PaulBorobia1619]

Most distorted part of us now

[@thedbcooperforum]

@@Allen-ps6bx Eye sea what ewe mean butt don't care as much as ewe wood..

[@goldenskeptic6309]

It's amazing how many actual concepts they got correct.

[@williambrandondavis6897]

If you study history it is not so amazing. All the things depicted were pretty common knowledge in 1900. Have you never read H.G. Wells or Jules Vern. The book "the time Machine" was first published in 1895 and the book "10,000 leagues under the sea" was first published in 1870. None of that was new concepts by 1900.

[@craftah]

@@williambrandondavis6897 its still amazing cause these stuff didnt exist back then dude

[@Narwhal12]

@@williambrandondavis6897That isn’t the point

[@tek87]

A lot of it was logical expansions on what already existed.

[@killerkraut9179]

I think the war and military stuff is often underestimated! Modern war helicopters are much more powerfull!

[@an8-bitbatty907]

I wouldn't mind seeing a story or world with a plot based off of these artist depictions, like an alternate Modern year 2,000

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Wouldn’t that be great!?

[@themr_wilson]

You can, it's steampunk

[@_rat_5758]

Woah

[@johnhoney5089]

That's basically the steampunk genre. Modern Hollywood won't typically touch it, but Japanese studios have a number of times (such as Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water). Outside of movies there have been many books of the genre.

[@LasVegasDashie]

@@johnhoney5089you’ve also got Laputa: Castle in the sky. The movie features military tank trains, AND airships.

[@taytay4458]

The Roomba was released in 2002, so the autonomous cleaning machine prediction was actually spot-on!

[@aa1bb2cc3dd4]

dont forget about the vacuum cleaner. This woman was PULLING and controlling the device, which was the vacuum cleaner invented in 1901. They predicted a device made just 2 years later.

[@ysmith494]

Yep, I had one of the first models.

[@mrmichrom8553]

Also speech recognition program Dragon Naturally Speaking was releasen in 1997

[@ConnanTheCivilized]

@@mrmichrom8553Yep. I didn’t want to be constantly spamming “Well, actually….” so thank you.

[@skatertrix411]

No, two years earlier would’ve been “spot on”

[@CassieLopez]

Love the Victorian idea of the Roomba! And at 8:47 with the electric roller blades, I'm glad to see they included a picture of a guy falling flat on his face. Technology improves, but a klutz is still a klutz! Very fun episode -- thank you!

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Yeah I liked that bit too hahaha

[@alphagt62]

There are electric skate boards, even off road models, so it wasn’t far off.

[@vonnikon]

​@verynearlyinteresting sales of the first robotic vacuum cleaner (Electrolux Trilobite) started in 2001. And actually demonstrated as a prototype back in 1996. The iRobot Roomba was launched in 2002. I would say they got this prediction spot on!

[@MikeBarbarossa]

@@alphagt62 Yeah those looked more like spilt 2 feet skateboards than rollerblades they were pretty big

[@LendriMujina]

I imagine the kind of people who made these would have been ecstatic if they got a chance to see what we'd actually accomplished in that time.

[@impostorsyndrome1350]

Yeah 2 world wars amd a bunch of idiots after them

[@RobotsandMonsters]

Just watch their reaction when they see tampons in the men's room 😂

[@Sailor11Sedna]

Even the soap dispenser would blow their minds. “See, you put your hand here, and it breaks the laser beam-“ “It does WHAT?!” “This soap is liquid!” “Help, there’s a man in this toilet!”

[@DeathracerXD]

@@RobotsandMonstersthey wouldnt care

[@Profeshinal]

⁠@@Sailor11Sedna Yeah, kinda crazy to think how much insane technology we just take for granted.

[@Kokonatsunasanndo]

This video made my night. It shows how much creativity people had/have.

[@mysteryplayz9340]

5:20 hell naw that is an automated chicken farm from minecraft

[@someoneelse1534]

They didn’t know how right they were

[@mathelgar]

holy shit

[@GreatRaijin]

So what youre saying is they get half pts

[@IsaacFNghost]

Its so cool to observe these paintings. It’s like seeing into the minds of these gentlemen over 120 years later. Wonder what theyed say if they could see us looking at their paintings from little handheld devices all over the world nowadays

[@troybaxter]

If I knew someone 100 years in the future was looking at a drawing I made, I would find it really cool.

[@User-jr7vf]

@@troybaxter would you still find it cool even if you had gotten everything wrong. I would be very shy at best.

[@troybaxter]

@@User-jr7vf not at all. The fact that they get to see my own beliefs of how I visualize the future would make me feel honored. What I wrote down is just how I saw the world's direction in my life. There is no shame in that because I know that the ultimate path the world goes down is something I just don't know and never will know about.

[@Trobtwillis]

@typicalplayer9308 I'm watching this on my Android, and I was just thinking that too. 😊📱

[@CSLucasEpic]

They were not the only ones. In Tsarist Russia, in the year 1900, an artist did several pictures showing how the world would be in the future. They depict some very interesting things, like giant airships, monorail trains, and also motorized sled vehicles for snow roads (which is accurate and also makes sense considering how cold Russia is)

[@User-jr7vf]

Yea, but I'm afraid the hate against Russia will prevent them from showing work of Russian artists here on YT. Also, Americans like to promote themselves even when they are not the ones who invented something.

[@EricRomeoCooper]

This is probably one of the best videos overall on youtube. From the info to the delivery.

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Wow. Thank you so much Eric. Tez

[@stevipedia]

If WWI never happened, then the advancement of technology and culture would have taken a radically different route, especially the clothing. After all, clothing is where art, history, and culture all intersect. The aftermath effects of WWI on those three aspects of civilization was earth-shatteringly profound. A fun little theory that sadly could never be tested would be to think about how the "retrospective grading for accuracy" of these images would be different if WWI never happened. Perhaps more of the images would have been accurate (or not), especially the clothing lol. I love the late 19th century leading up to 1914. Such an overwhelmingly creative time full of optimism for the future. WWI was the greatest tragedy to ever hit the 20th century (considering the events that it caused afterwards like WWII). Very Nearly Interesting, this is a great video. Thank you for showing us this gem of history. That "like" button was definitely pressed.

[@CaribbeanWarrior85]

look at the nazis they invented the first fighter jets,assault rifles,fanta,adidas alot of stuff

[@TheRecklessBravery]

The bright side that now after that , war is considered as the worst sin possible.

[@bennynagon9322]

@@TheRecklessBraveryit all depends on where really. In Europe and USA yes, to start a war in a different country? Not so much

[@ravivyas7532]

As an Indian world wars were boon. Those wars among imperialist countries led to the freedom of India. Like they say in every religion everything happens for a cause. Be it invention of nuclear weapon or modern day terrorism.

[@joshanderson9391]

@@TheRecklessBraveryWhat world are you living in lol. That’s not close to being true

[@ClasherofWorlds]

it is pretty cool that they thought about a lot of stuff like sea life because back then, the sea to them would have been what space is to us today in its potential for the future. If we were to make a list of predictions for 100 or more years into the future, a lot of it would probably be space related. But who knows, just like how sea life didn't really develop, maybe something else other than outer space would become a bigger topic, just like how people in 1899 thought the sea was the big topic.

[@sawedoffshotgun8462]

Good point.

[@fishyfinthing8854]

It was a big topic when they had a few centuries discovered the world by sea travel. So they thought going under sea would be the closer thing than reaching out for planets much father away.

[@sequillawilliams8809]

I think it's going to switch places they thought the sea would be a big thing but it turned out to be space and we think space is going to be a big thing but it may turn out to be the sea

[@joaofernandeszk]

I know people are giving a lot of credit but the funny thing to me is how incredibly "incorrect" all of them were on a design but also functionality perspective. This actually shows me that we're quite unable to predict future inventions. All the inventions are somehow all related to products that they have, but automizing those, instead of creating new devices for such tasks, pretty incredible video!

[@castonyoung7514]

I think it is safe to say that some if not all of the artists didn't really take the job too seriously, (like even if someone thought that we could put information into brains by 2000, they wouldn't think that you could just dump the books into the machine). But that may be because of the impossibility of the task.

[@MrEsMysteriesMagicks]

The one about the mail is actually accurate to a degree. Yes, we still have people walking the beat, so to speak, to make the final delivery, but an awful lot of mail travels by air between cities if the distance is great enough to warrant it.

[@noremac7216]

2:37 nah they just casually predicted modern hentai

[@josephb8268]

7:08 The first robot vacuum was invented in 1996. I will give them that one.

[@alanw2687]

The most amazing thing is that people from year 1899 predicted live video call

[@angrycatowner]

Speech to text was around in year 2000. Nuance Communications' Naturally Speaking Dragon was first released in June 1997. It was the first commercially available speach to text software for home computers. An early version of the same software was initially produced way back in 1982.

[@henrykujawa4427]

I had a friend in Wales who lost his sight. The last 10 years or so before he passed away, we kept in touch by e-mail. He had software he could speak into, and that would also generate a voice from text. I know our e-mails meant even more to him than before in those years.

[@iqbal_pradana]

1:14 camera beauty filter 2:39 audio book 3:39 digital audio samples 4:12 our personal data already in the cloud 6:29 Sketchup & Autocad

[@comdam]

we dont dress as nice as they used to

[@ian0903]

The one thing that everyone failed to predict (from 19th century drawings to movies in the 1980s) and is yet the center of many of our lives today is the smartphone. It’s amazing how literally nobody could predict it.

[@stormysummer162]

Or the internet

[@t-mar9275]

Stylistically, these look like they could have all been done by a single artist, rather than various artists.

[@noiselabproject9659]

I guess that they probably were after he had been feed by the ideas of others perhaps

[@carlin3297]

This is slightly before the 20th century when our modern Idea of many different art styles arose. Around this time you stuck to the ways the art schools thaught you or you would be considered a bad artist.

[@t-mar9275]

Since my original post I've done some research on the subject cards and they are all attributed to one freelance commercial artist, Jean-Marc Côté.

[@TopFix]

@@t-mar9275 I feel as though the artist was one person, but the collection of ideas were from a group of people.

[@jochenstacker7448]

Actually, speech to text is correct for the year 2000. IBM's Via Voice came out in 1997 and was a speech to text program, so the prediction is spot on. What I find amazing is that there are still people alive who would have known someone who was alive in the year 1900 and that this would not be uncommon. If someone is 80 years old today, they would have been 10 years old in 1953. If they met someone in 1953 who was 80 years old then, that person would have been born in 1873. So we still have quite a direct link to those days. I'm 53 and I have certainly known people who were born in the 1800s, I would have met them in the 70s and 80s as a child, so it's far closer than we think.

[@Infinite160]

Surprised how close some of them where. It be pretty much impossible to predict the Internet 120 years ago and how entwined and dependent modern society is on it. So Kudos to them. Really great video btw!

[@didgedoo9679]

Funny how they thought we'd still be in victorian fashion 😂 really enjoyed this thankyou x

[@verynearlyinteresting]

They didn't think about updating the clothes did they?? Thank you so much for commenting. Tez :)

[@NinjaNezumi]

4:31 actually American police bikes do have riot shield compatibility, and wind shields/wind breakers that are bullet proof. So it is almost right on.

[@someguy4911]

I remember back in the early 1990s I came across a book that was published in 1993 which was a compilation of essays written at the 1893 World's Fair. At the World's Fair, they put out a question to various people from many backgrounds like scientists, teachers, economists, etc. stating what will the world be like in 100 years from now (1993)? Just like this video, it was interesting reading how some essays were way off and others were spot on. I remember one essay stating the main mode of transportation in 1993 will be hot air balloons. Another essay actually described television in detail. I remember that essay stating people in 1993 will be able to sit in the comfort of their own home watching an opera displayed in a box.

[@JayKarpwick]

About 15 years ago I stumbled on a post of a 1929 film that described the World of 2000. Among the things it described: > A united Europe > Offices with screens that let people hold teleconferences. > Wall displays of news and weather forecasts. > Desks with built-in communication and writing surfaces. They did get a number of BIG things wrong like "no more wars", but still ... Unfortunately I've never been able to find the film again despite repeated searches.

[@davestorm6718]

We had commercial speech to text in 1997 - I used it myself (Dragon Naturally Speaking) and it was pretty darn good. It was in research in the late 1980s. 3D printing was invented in the 1960s and was used in some industries in the late 1980s (GE) - it was absurdly expensive. They had a vacuum attachment for cutting hair in the 1970s - so some of that came true

[@MementoMoriGrizzly]

Machine learning also goes as back as 1956 with the Logic Theorist.

[@m0urn1ng5tar5]

Shoutout to that one guy who thought radio was going to be revolutionary 21st century technology, when in reality it was only a few years away. 😂

[@kennyalwaysdies1]

I like to imagine an alternate timeline where modern technology is like these paintings instead of what we have now.

[@Cat-Daddy]

that's called steampunk my dude

[@General_Belu]

@@Cat-Daddy Except there isn’t as much steam here.

[@kassaken6521]

​​@@Cat-Daddy Nah, more like retro futurism. The idea of the future being imagined by a previous era being made a reality. Fallout series and bioshock games come to mind.

[@juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988]

@@Cat-Daddy It sounds as if we are in an alternate reality 1880s where technology steam is far more advanced than reality

[@s.deegan3740]

The 'voicemails' guy, I have an alternative idea as to what is being depicted: The guy walking past the door is a mailman on a foot route. The structure we're seeing inside of is actually a private residence. The woman who just received the wax cylinder from the mailman is now handing it to her husband, who sits at the family cylinder player in what looks like a living room. None of the technology shown in this particular ones didn't exist at that time. But I do think a few implications are being made here, mainly socioeconomic ones: In a.d. 2000, every household will have a cylinder player in it, which will lead to In a.d. 2000, everyone sending cylinders thru the postal service as a common way of communicating. Another great video man. You are such a delight, please keep it up!

[@Trobtwillis]

I ❤ this! The predictions were a glorious blend of accuracy & fantasy. They nailed factory farms, robotics, video conferencing, mechanized music, astronomical telescopy, microbiological microscopy, phonography, audiobooks, housekeeping machines, nuclear energy, dictation machines with speech-to-text, airmail, aerial warfare💔 with blimps, helicopters, & airplanes, amphibious flight, double-decker buses, mobile homes, electric trains, motorized foot transport, etc.

[@MysticMike]

@7:27 The text to speak being not available in 2000 but is by 2023 would be incorrect. Dragon Naturally Speaking was a PC program released in June 1997 that did voice to text. There could be others but that is one I do know of.

[@Gsoda35]

A+ for imagination B- for aerodynamic understanding.

[@jessehinman8340]

We already have drone crop harvesters that can either be remote controlled or set to follow a programmed path using GPS. 6:22

[@Zardman7]

3:40 they got that one right, accurately describing the theater organ

[@chrismukai4284]

I remember commercials for Dragon talk to text for your computer. We definitely had it in 2000.

[@ANDYMCNET]

I do believe the gadget @ 3:55 is a Wax Tube Phonograph cylinder, google tells me they were available in 1889 so I think that was one, shown again in another painting @ 9:00

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Oh wow thanks Andy. Tez

[@sturmovik1274]

11:24 Apparently they also envisioned imminent air crashes.

[@_Doctor_14]

These are the issues we face when we try to predict the future. Some predictions are correct, but we see them with our current fashion in mind. Those people back then thought that we would have automatic instruments, but we don't need them, we have the internet. The clothes are also different. They didn't know our fashion.

[@brandoku7003]

The roomba first came out in 2002 so that one was pretty accurate, speech to text became a thing in 1996, I'd say both those were basically spot on with their predictions. We do have electric roller blades and there have been drones developed for fighting fires. The video was pretty good and interesting but these were a few of the things I caught when watching.

[@troybaxter]

Also, some of the technology occurred well before 2000s. Like in the case of the radio one. That became a standard part of the house for decades, and it is still a part of our cars today. Plus, TVs and Computers are just improvements to that technology.

[@marcotrosi]

I agree, and also for me 2000 and 2023 is the same. I don't think they meant exactly the year 2000 without any deviation. Being off by a few years for such predictions is nothing.

[@whytebearconcepts]

3:55 Is a wax Phonograph cylinder, this actually existed in the late 1800's and several still exist. The oldest is from 1888, Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Cord". In the early 1900's the material was changed to a sort of celluloid, which lasted longer and had better sound.

[@urbangorilla33]

I noticed that too. So not really a prediction, just an extension of a current idrea.

[@Brasswatchman]

5:12 Well, we *do* use artificial incubators.

[@reaganmonkey8]

7:49 In the video call, he has a telephone, but where is hers? She can't hear or speak to him.

[@ghood7445]

Really great we got to see these predictions via beautiful drawings. Good level of accuracy in the predictions too!

[@CJ-442]

It’s kind of crazy how much technology advanced in the 20th century. These guys in 1899 thought that military reconnaissance in 2000 would be some sort of mini-helicopter/flying crow’s nest using portable film cameras, but when the year 2000 finally did roll around we were already using satellites in outer space to send live images of locations on the other side of the planet. Also, what was their obsession with underwater development?

[@stephaniec3619]

How do you find all of these great topics?! This was a very interesting (very nearly) video. I love your content and am always excited for the next video! Thanks for sharing this one!

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Thank you Stephanie that's so nice of you! Tez :)

[@ProximaCentauri97]

for a new channel, your editing is amazing!

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Thank you so much!! Tez

[@TheXev]

7:39 No, this prediction was correct. Dragon NaturallySpeaking was already available and sold by the year 1997, and was the first voice dictation software available to the public on PC.

[@DeltaMikeTorrevieja]

Tez, you shoukd do a follow-up video of predictions from yourself and your viewers for 10, 25, 50 and 100 years from now. Future generations will forget about them and hopefully rediscover them later. Future Tezs (or is it Tezes) can make their own videos immortalising you.

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Hi DM! Hope you're well. And yes what a good idea haha!!!!

[@DeltaMikeTorrevieja]

@@verynearlyinteresting I see you avoided the conundrum of how to pluralise Tez. Interesting. Very nearly, at least. Lol 😂

[@FunnyTerrierPuppy-un8xq]

The robot slave catcher schematics section was big crazy

[@robertgraybeard3750]

04:10 the late Victorians imagined us spending a lot of time in the air. Well . . . at any give moment over a million people are in commercial airliners with quite a few of them on multi-hour intercontinental flights even trans Pacific flights.

[@Tenajeh]

In the year 2000, heck, even in 1995, there were already speech-to-text applications. I played with one on my Pentium-95 PC and kinda hated it (because I don't like talking very much). But it worked. Also, shaving machines aka electric razors absolutely do exist and have had existed for a long time even back in 2000. They just had to be held by the face owner and weren't mounted on robot arms. And we do have electric roller blades.

[@FabbrizioPlays]

Yeah if there's one thing they overestimated it's how much we'd want machines holding sharp objects against our skin.

[@way2dawn853]

Its always weird that these predictions never account for things getting smaller Every invention is still very big and has huge levers and buttons needed to press

[@gluffoful]

Speech-to-text and robotic vacuum cleaners certainly existed before the year 2000. I remember using Microsoft´s speech-to-text with a Soundblaster card on my 386 in the early 1990s. And Electrolux demonstrated the "Trilobite" robotic vacuum cleaner in 1996.

[@lindseylindsey9200]

How accurate was the speech to text

[@kinoshkiwa]

The whole under water prediction seems understandable in why they thought that would happen because many people today imagine somewhat similar things but in space.

[@disklamer]

Hair trimmers, curling irons, hooded hair dryers and blow dryers, thermostatic shower for hairwashing - plenty of gadgets in the hair salon :) A lot of the airborne stuff can be split between helicopters or UAVs. As a fireman, the forces in play between a jetpack, a pressurized hose, and the inevitable draft and turbulence created by fires would be comparable to wrestling a giant octopus in a hurricane.

[@jonasaman9104]

"They predicted electric trains" Not hard to do 1899! 6:44 The first electric passenger train was presented by Werner von Siemens at Berlin in 1879. The first electric railway in Great Britain was Volk's Electric Railway in Brighton, a pleasure railway, which opened in 1883, still functioning to this day. The City & South London Railway (C&SLR) was the first deep-level electric tube railway. It opened in 1890, initially running between suburban Stockwell, south of the River Thames, and King William Street, near Bank on the northern side of London Bridge.

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Great comment, thank You. Tez

[@Rad4thewin]

I love the presenting I love your persona I love the background music I love the silly comments!! It just reminds of tv programs growing up! You’re the best (: best wishes

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Ah thanks so much, what a lovely thing to say. I’m so delighted to read this comment, how nice of you. Tez 😊

[@johncostello3174]

8:06 This will also remove your hair. Two in one.

[@VicTuten]

They did an impressive job with what they had to work with.

[@langbo9999]

And some of the ideas actually become reality very quick.

[@3DJapan]

3:55 That gadget is a wax cylinder, which preceded records.

[@Deepthought-42]

11:09 They didn’t predict the breathalyser - Don’t drink and fly 🍷🤣

[@spookybells5099]

XD

[@u1zha]

"Predicted electric trains" nah, that picture must have had some other aspect in focus, electric trains were already rolling for a few generations

[@weakw1ll]

4:25 im not an artist but these tires are craaaazy

[@kd8opi]

We should recognize that from a practical purpose the technology we had in 1920 (cars, planes, radio, movies, telephone) has stayed basically the same. In fact, if you look at it, with the exception of television; life didn’t change much practically from the 1920’s until the internet was born in the early 90’s. Think about it. Everything about life was fundamentally the same in 1990 as it was in 1920 with only a few exceptions. An alarm clock woke you up, you picked up the morning paper, you listened to the radio as you drove to work, you put in a days work, drove home, listened to the radio or watched tv, went to movies on weekends in a theater, called your friends on the home telephone, went to stores to do your shopping, rode bikes and played outside as kids. In the 1920’s we had electric toasters, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators (ice boxes were on the way out), and washing machines. None of that changed for 3/4ths of a century except these things became accessible to even the poor. Despite amazing technological achievement (quantum physics, nuclear power, the space program, even home computers and video games in the 1980’s), life didn’t change much until computers, the internet, and cellphones became powerful enough that they changed the way we consumed media (goodbye newspapers and to a lesser extent printed books, radio is dying, broadcast tv is dying, movie theaters and the film industry are being forced to adapt), shopped (goodbye malls, goodbye small retail, everything is bought online and delivered), and socialized (online dating, social media). We are on the cusp of automated transportation, AI generated stories or even actors, small scale industrial or home robots (fast food work, laundry). Really most of the change depicted in 1899 happen ether after 20 years of after 100 years, with only gradual improvements in between.

[@cavesalamander6308]

It would be nice to make such predictions 100 years in advance, say, every 10 years. This would be an interesting public opinion poll that would also be of scientific interest.

[@stop8738]

This really makes me want to go back and finish my playthrough of 'We Happy Few' looool. (Stopped playing at least 6 months ago so it has been awhile now).

[@trevorhaddox6884]

The problem with jetpack firefighting is simple Newtownian physics getting in the way. The 3rd law of motion means the hose would want to push you around like a rocket, so you'd need a constantly changing counter thrust to keep steady. Theoretically you could have a computer control that forward thruster to keep you still but that seems scary enough on it's own if it goes wrong, let alone near a blazing fire.

[@dmrr7739]

Have you seen videos of people using water- powered jetpacks? If you could run one off hydrant pressure, you could use the exhaust on the fire.

[@jennhoff03]

@@dmrr7739 Ooooh, interesting!

[@StudleyDuderight]

-Some of the more advanced predictions, like speech-to-text, came true well before the year 2000. -We don't have powered skates for very similar reasons the powered pogo was banned. -They weren't far off the mark with airmail. Replace the aircraft with a telecom tower, the mailman with a radio signal, and the mail with a mobile device. -Jetpack technology is still at least 20 years away from being reliable enough for common use. It'll take even longer for humanity ready for that though.

[@zeph0shade]

As for the flying firefighters... Those hoses are heavy, have you ever seen how several big guys can sometimes be needed to manage each fire hose? And the huge amount of water that comes out of them pushes back on the hose pretty hard. If you were trying to use one while flying, you'd call it "thrust" like it was a jet/rocket engine pushing you away from wherever you point it.

[@Rigel_Chiokis]

Speech to Text: Actually, Dragon Dictate was released in 1990. You could dictate to a microphone, the software would type it in the word processor and (of course) you could then print it out. I verified the release date using the service you claimed was responsible for speech to text. On another note; I wonder what their obsession was with everything not only being done underwater, but fully dressed in street clothing?

[@NoThisIsntMyChannel]

I was born in 1995, I can only imagine if I get to live until 2100 I may hear people next to me saying that us people born in the late 20th century have experienced life even before the smartphones and AI

[@johnnydev9318]

They had advanced imaginations, but the innovations they foresaw were depicted as being delivered by late-1800s technologies. Whale-powered underwater activities - conceived in a time where an animal (horse) was still the primary driver of land transport

[@mromg8282]

Why are the so many unneccesarily airborn/underwater activities? Airborn tennis? Underwater cricket? Just... why?

[@coolhand67]

This was a period where Jules Verne wrote 2000 leagues under the sea and the early days of flight inspiring people in the possibilities of conquering the deepest oceans and the skies.

[@Joe-th7kf]

Because we can

[@sysghost]

2:39 - Book machine to feed knowledge into the kids? Fairly accurate I'd say. One can scan books. convert them into speech and have a podcast made out of it. a.i. even makes this easier and quite good.

[@skytiger6446]

1899: teachers will feed knowledge to students through machines 2024: gedagedigedagedao

[@Risingtide930]

They weren’t expecting much progress in fashion, particularly for women.🤣

[@verynearlyinteresting]

😆

[@possumpatrol45]

I wouldn't call the change in fashion since then "progress!"

[@gavinsimmonsmccullum4219]

6:18 is definitely a technology in use right now. Agricultural robots are getting common

[@Speyde]

They really liked it underwater

[@Kizhebrrrrt]

I love this sooo much, especially 11:16, imagine bringing a person from the 19th century to a modern airport. Imagine them seeing an A380 and hearing the jets roar. They could not visualize flying higher than a few hundred meters above ground. Just think about what would go through their minds finding out that we landed on the moon and seeing actual footage of it. And its only been less than a 100 years between their imagination and our accomplishments.

[@MarcusZepeda]

I love your videos so much. This video is very educational and entertaining. I'm learning to be a fashion historian. and they did get one thing right is the clothing being the same. because some people now still dress like how they did in the 19th century but now in 2024 and it's really cool

[@ontheroadaustralia-soleman1911]

I really enjoyed this video, well done.

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Thanks again! Hope you’re well, Tez

[@paulmeade4862]

09:00 was this kind of predicting the radio?

[@luxel3607]

All the technology seem very mechanical and big, with levers. This is so curious because it reflects on the technology back then , and the inability to picture the use of electricity as it is now! Really cool!

[@misslady2639]

1:29 Submarine 1:57 World War 2 (planes with bombs) 2:10 World War 2 (tanks) 2:41 Audio book and headphones 3:19 Caravan 3:36 Syntesizer 4:07 E-Mail? 4:26 Motorcycles 4:36 Vaccination 5:00 Mass producted clothes 5:28 War plane (again) 6:20 Tractor 6:31 3D Printer 6:47 Electric trains 6:57 Roomba 7:39 Speech to text technology 8:00 Video call 8:06 Heater 9:00 Radio 9:42 Air plane 11:38 Aerial battle (World War 2 again)

[@justin_your_cousin9273]

The one that absolutely gets me is predicting Zoom in 1899!

[@ShadowEmpathy]

ALTERNATE TITLE: ARTHUR MORGAN PREDICTIONS FOR 2023

[@therealtimmyiy]

i find it awesome and concerning that the predictions for everyday things, like education and transportation were overestimated, and that we're still a bit away from achieving their "predictions" because of our technological state, while everything related to warfare was extremely underestimated.

[@smokeynedith3555]

1:45 Underwater and she's still wearing a dress.

[@verynearlyinteresting]

😆

[@PeteQuad]

Speech to text technology existed before 2000 and Roomba was released in 2002.