Retrofuturism: The Future That Never Came | Sleepcore

[@lagoliri2]

"The rearview mirror is actually a television screen." They got close enough with that one.

[@StanSwan]

I am pretty sure that was experimented with back in the days of mechanical television. The biggest issue is your entire trunk would be full of a giant camera and the tube was 3 feet deep to view it on.

[@efxnews4776]

Folks still preffer the old fashin mirror tough... i can't drive looking at a bunch of screens.

[@psyQuantum]

I feel the statement was dead on. Televisions are LCD or OLED screens are so are the screens in automobiles.

[@StanSwan]

@@psyQuantum The change is the resistor and microchips. Minerization of bulky tubes that used high voltage and produced heat. We had tube TVs when I was a kid. Those things could heat a room. Tubes were always burning out. Our local drug store had a "tube tester" in the store. You plugged in your tube and it would light up green for good or red for no good. Below there were trays of new boxes of tubes you matched the numbers up with. If the one you needed sold out you picked one "close enough". After doing this a few times you had to call the TV repairman to fix the mess you made. Just keeping vertical and horizontal hold was a daily adjustment needed two people. The brilliant people put the knobs on the back of the TV so you could not see the TV screen while adjusting them. Imagine something so unreliable in your car as a safety device? Not to mention early TV cameras needed insane amounts of light to capture accurate pictures. You would need high beams on the back of the car that would blind other drivers.

[@TheKaiTetley]

Some vehicles do use that technology. So yeah, close.

[@mmmm2s]

Retro people : think about future Future people : back to the retro

[@jovaneron]

Haha exactly

[@jaystyla629]

Can u explain what you mean please

[@rexjolles]

@@jaystyla629 use your thinker

[@austinmontgomeryofficial]

@@jaystyla629 what they’re saying is that people in the 50s and 60s were always looking towards the future; now us (the people in their future) are constantly looking back at the 50s and 60s

[@tobeannounced...8995]

Lol to true for school

[@vincentcastor5978]

When I was a kid I couldn’t wait to see what the future will bring. Now I want to go back to simplicity of living.

[@RXI63]

The future is literally gay

[@jeffcarlson3269]

my only regret is not truly embracing each moment of my youth... If I had known what the world of today would be like ..I would have definitely taken more mental images.. so my memories of those great yesterdays.. would not seem so foggy..

[@kwimms]

Nobody is stopping you but yourself.

[@jeffcarlson3269]

@@kwimms hmmmm... ok ... stopping me from what?.. not sure what you are referring to... reliving my past..? dwelling on the past? cherishing the past?. trying to remember the past? embracing this current day and age more? not sure what I am stopping myself from...? I have no unknown or unaccomplished dreams or goals.. if that what was being inferred... I am not trying to re-live the past because of any regrets.. other than.. the fact that I did not appreciate.. the simplicity of life MORE while it existed...unless you can build me a time machine.. Time is the thing that is stopping me from Not having regrets..

[@readyxxi]

i want to go backwards

[@JamesJLaRue]

I love the art in these. And I love how they foresaw many things yet not others, like self driving cars...that use punch cards.

[@Trump.is.a.nazzii]

Never saw AI coming 😂

[@corndog9482]

'they' didn't "forsee" anything. These are all known and planned in advance. Movies and other media reveal these things if you know how to look for them and know what to look for (predictive programming).

[@ejseabury]

When I was a kid in the 1970s, I was convinced life in our future would look like this and we’d have an opportunity to work and live on starships, like on the U.S.S. Enterprise from “Star Trek”.

[@averagegilo]

Today's generation are too worried about offending people if they exclude their gender pronouns on their Twitter bio XD

[@LoftBits]

I know... and now it's getting closer to the "Idiocracy" movie.

[@hemidas]

Now it seems our future would look like Blade Runner or Robocop. A cyberpunk dystopia.

[@richcity3573]

*Americans your government deceives you, the mafia is sitting there, which deliberately slows down the process of developing new technologies, you must win, then your future will become like in this film. I'm from Kazakhstan*

[@Horus070]

Well Science stopped being cool and while advance never stops it has slow down. Government is not longer competing/investing the way it did when Nasa was rushed to go to the moon

[@whm50]

The Jetsons and the Flintstones were both futuristic and prehistoric...in their own ways.

[@TheoneStanband]

The flintstones takes place after the jetsons when humans try rebuilding the collapsed and destroyed progress resulting from technological war. Create, destroy, repeat.

[@-oiiio-3993]

"Jane; stop this crazy thing!"

[@JcoleMc]

@@TheoneStanband I thought the flintstone took place in the same time as the jetsons

[@richardgraham5051]

According to publicity, George Jetson is listed as being born in 2022. The Jetsons cartoon debuted in 1962, and promotional materials at the time said it took place exactly 100 years in the future. So that puts it at 2062. In an episode that aired in December, George is told by a doctor that he should live to be 150, and George replies that he has 110 good years ahead of him. That makes him 40 years old in 2062. So yes, by that calculation, George Jetson will be born in 2022. Think about it!

[@garydarland5259]

And the Jetson's may have been more accurate.

[@julesgrapel1284]

Imagine living in a time where the future actually seemed bright...

[@rose4490]

You'd have to wear shades.

[@gregjones3660]

Go get yourself some cheap sunglasses

[@Alkatross]

It's a matter of perspective. They just won a world war so there was a desire to make things right.

[@Alkatross]

Ha, just got to 28:27. Not everyone thought the future was bright. I think this part more accurately reflects a human perspective.

[@gregjones3660]

Same ol humans... mostly to get a decent change them unidentified fly boys are gonna have to splice some better dna for us humans...

[@LostSoulsmusic22]

I am blown away by the kid who said he doesn't think there will be nuclear warfare but that there will be a problem with automation and that people will be out of jobs. Also that he doesn't know what can be done about the population problem. That kid is incredibly insightful for that time and age. Wonder where he is now.

[@needlesandsonics5819]

Probably a teacher turning your boy into a girl 😂

[@LostSoulsmusic22]

@needlesandsonics5819 lol what a random ass comment.

[@jeffross5424]

@@LostSoulsmusic22 exactly!...that kid should have added we will still have bigoted assholes walking amongst us still uneducated

[@kingcrafteroderderfahradtu7331]

​@@needlesandsonics5819what the hell are you talking about?

[@joeglennaz]

Yeah, we have a population problem, all right not enough people, the population is declining so fast the birth rates have been dropping beyond replacement rate

[@eaglevision9791]

“People will be regarded more as Statistics than actual people” Everything that young man said, is sadly, for the most part...Accurate.

[@itsmrme4951]

Ujkn

[@theroman2130]

Ujkn

[@eaglevision9791]

@@itsmrme4951 Ujkn?

[@mikewhite8272]

UJKN!!!!

[@mikewhite8272]

They real did psychological warfare on the British kids for them to be so pessimistic about the future that they almost feel guilty to be alive. I wonder who's interest it was to break down the confidence of the native populace. Perhaps the same people behind mass immigration?

[@pbegley99]

When I was a small child, late 60s - early 70s, this was the future I was expecting while I watched the Apollo missions on tv. Instead we got clown world meets cyberpunk dystopia.

[@DSAK55]

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[@chrisdigital]

Unfortunate 🤡

[@donaldwycoff4154]

@@chrisdigital ... and entirely preventable.

[@kwimms]

You watching the Apollo missions were the first step in destroying your ability to see reality. You are dystopia personified.

[@MrG360oneX]

The american wasteland. Where everyone is just tryin to survive another dark day to earn a dollar

[@Timbo37]

They never predicted that you would watch a half hour video and have to watch 9 adverts. Nobody would have believed that madness!

[@jordanhanson5702]

Hehehe, I only have one X)

[@johnnygoodman2003]

And they never predicted there would be a public comments section where people will share conspiracy theories and argue with racist threats.

[@michaelhawthorne8696]

Tim G Get an add blocker, works for me, haven't seen an advert from youtube for years...

[@veep5712]

@Tim G Nailed it. If only we could have nice things, without people always messing it up to make more revenue. ;)

[@Wailwulf]

Half hour TV shows in the 70's had about three commercial breaks, with each break being about 90 seconds to two minutes. Three adverts per break and you would have nine adverts, and that is not even talking about the commercial break between shows.

[@lanedexter6303]

I was an excited kid when Glenn orbited, a thrilled teen when Armstrong and Aldrin landed. My parents had taken me to the 1962 “Century 21” Seattle World’s Fair, and these events seemed to bear out the bright predictions of the future. Boy, was I wrong! We have brought the next Dark Age upon ourselves. These predictions are fun, though. A great grandson of Jules Verne found a manuscript in a safe: “Paris in the Twentieth Century,” written in 1863, was so fantastic and unbelievable that his publisher rejected it. The book described a city thronged with carriages which moved without horses, the city illuminated by electrical lights…🙄

[@landibear6509]

I am from South Africa and I could only recently watch anything related to the Apollo missions, including the moon landing. I was born long after though, 1980, but even my parents generation could not see it because we only got television in South Africa in 1975 for the first time. I am glad you got to live it in the moment though. It is so cool for me to be able to watch now at least. Walter Croncite did a similar video to this one about the "future home".

[@alexneigh7089]

When they Just Stop Oil, the carriages that move without horses will become a silly fantasy again.

[@JerjerB]

Greed never sleeps

[@annabethkvenvolden7086]

Omg you went to The Seattle space needle opening?!? I went to the 50th anniversary back in 2012, I still have a coloring book from there.

[@Ryanstuff]

I love these old future films. The one thing they always got wrong was the massive amount of energy that some of the concepts would take to operate (cost/benefit) and how fat people would get by taking simple moving and walking out of the equation.

[@danieldaniels7571]

Wall-E nailed that

[@leecroft1983]

But the future looked so exciting... but now, meh

[@leecroft1983]

@@danieldaniels7571 It really did

[@danabrown4628]

Everybody would smoke, roo.

[@ygorlemes5712]

Americans use cars for literality everything, they cant even walk 1km

[@CrispimDaniel]

"people will be seen more like statistics..." that kid is a real visionary!

[@MatthewHerronplus]

Those British kids were geniuses!!!

[@marcelobravo4270]

Al Gore's rare footage found ...

[@klubstompers]

@@marcelobravo4270 Yep, pretty damn smart kids.

[@roseCatcher_]

People were always seen as statistics. You think kings sent their soldiers to fight wars over personal issues because the king considered the soldiers as individuals? XD. You think the Yamnayas ravaged Europe and inseminated thousands of European women because they wanted to have beautiful families with them? XDD

[@JesusProtects]

Souless.

[@billyburr1982]

Back then a husband could work one job and support an entire family, buying a nice house in just 15 years. Now the husband cannot find a job that pays a living wage, and even if he could, it would take two people working full time to pay for a house over 30 years, and that is 'if' they can find one that affordable.

[@Cernunnos_83]

@xxx ooo It don't work in the Covid pandemic.

[@gremlinn7]

@Yongo Bazuk Not sure where you get those as culprits. I would go with unchecked sociopathy. It's hard to design a society that harnesses technology for the common good when so many people are just out to benefit themselves.

[@eccremocarpusscaber5159]

@xxx ooo I’ll bet people LOVE you with your kind heart and generous spirit. What a dickhead.

[@gryla5290]

@@Cernunnos_83 I know a lot of people whose businesses are thriving right now in the middle of the pandemic. If the product is good, it will sell itself.

[@navyreviewer]

Inflation.

[@arthurzettel6618]

45 years ago I had dreams and aspirations of a bright future. I never would have thought people would be so shamefully violent and corrupt in the 21st Century.

[@nachnamevorname_the_original]

And 45 years ago was the world full of harmony?

[@dadevi]

People were just as violent and corrupt back then. You just hear about it all the time due to the internet. Crime has actually decreased.

[@a.grimes4202]

​@@dadeviGot any proof to back up that last sentence?

[@jackprescott9652]

and very woke too.

[@v.j447]

@@jackprescott9652 Give it a rest. So sick of this stupid rhetoric re "woke". Define woke... if you can.

[@1mespud]

I miss this kind of future. Imagination is everything!

[@SeeSawMassacre]

Exactly. Even the styling and design in the animated portion was very pleasing and imaginative. The general pessimism and gloom nowadays is making for a pretty uninspired and boring world by comparison.

[@flapjackpancake5486]

nowadays the future I see is closer to mad max than the jetsons

[@r.j.sdevelopment-gd7sy]

Now tech does it for us

[@shedjammer87]

@@flapjackpancake5486 I think it's closer to "Idiocracy" than Mad Max.

[@kwimms]

Imagination is evil. That's why it is promoted so hard in public school. Then you can imagine dinosaurs in space.

[@JamesWillmus]

There's actually a lot here that has happened in a way: urban sprawl 3D printing concrete self-driving cars zoom meetings sat-nav staring at a screen and not looking at the road car elevators shipping containers on road, rail, and boat mag-lev transport hyper-loop tunnels

[@17GabrielR]

Now if we can get rid of urban sprawl everything would be great or at least a lot more tolerable.

[@GathKingLeppbertI]

We're still ages away from weather free highways. At least they got the Roomba right

[@davestewart2067]

You want to live in an archology?? No way is some leftist progressive liberal going to dictate where one can or can’t live!

[@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent]

@@davestewart2067 As countries living area's take up more space archology's may be a efficeint alternative for many. You likely won't have a say in it anyway as it will be a century or more before any sufficent working ones are created and more than likely they will be in areas that have conditions that are difficult for human habitation to begin with or extremely crowded cities. There are a few prototypes. I believe there is a small scale one in Whittier Alaska. Its primarily republican conservative there. So um. yeah...

[@Zugfaehrtdurch]

And a 100% sedentary lifestyle. In reality that family would rather look like the people in Wall-E

[@SteelHorseRider74]

many things were better in the past - even the future...

[@WestCascades]

Well put.

[@navyreviewer]

Especially the future. : /

[@oatseawong6664]

evrything better in the past....you known life expectancy and the suriveved rate of new born baby in 50s and 60s are lower than now, although in develop countries.

[@kodakwhite1696]

@@oatseawong6664 ofc everything was better in the past, that’s why you can’t write a proper sentence without making a spelling error🤡😂 I had a fucking stroke reading that💀😭

[@jaystyla629]

@@kodakwhite1696 bahahaha

[@bighuge1060]

These visions of the future look to be done in earnest. Imagine how their creators would react if it were possible to show them the actual future. I think they would be severely disappointed and shocked that so much of their present was still visible instead of the total reconstruction they envisioned.

[@matthewfusaro2590]

I love how these visions of the future show how technology can work for the masses and not against the masses. Now we know better.

[@klaasj7808]

be glad, i dont want that future or the wef future

[@daniellafferety4025]

Wifi and KZbin eliminated the reason to drive. Yet them parks, movies, theaters, groceries stores, general purposes stores. And schools and many other road required structures remain in use today in 2023. That should have been eliminated by cellular/ computer and drone deliver platforms. So the need/ desire for the thrill of driving your personal vehicles remains. Thus supporting gas, oil, car manufacturers, etc. Who loby congress to maintain the status quo. Only in them parks like Disneyland is this fantastic theme of tomorrow 1950s possible. Not economy possible.

[@popsfereal]

Imagine finding out that most of these people are still alive and see what's going on around them right now lol. Oh you don't have to imagine because it's true.

[@kwimms]

Their creators were fools who lived in their imaginations, just like you.

[@dudemetoo2053]

There was a time after WW2 where society had a very utopia looking view of the future of how it would benefit all people. This was seen in part of the inspiration of Disney’s original view of TomorrowLand. This utopia view began breaking down from the mid to late 60’s when corporate America began moving labor jobs out of America, when Corporations began doing away with retirement packages, inflation began rising out of control of daily wages earned, corporations stopped investing their profits back in their work force and instead increased the salaries and benefits of the top executive branches, and when high tax cuts started going to to corporations and the wealthy placing the government’s burden of operating cost to a strained middle class America who continues to have less spending money from year to year.

[@End-Putler4eva]

Obviously u.s. based propaganda

[@ADreamingTraveler]

4 terms of FDR and the New Deal Coalition's effects that extended from the 1940's all the way through the 1960's were instrumental in creating the American golden age we experienced back in the 1950s and 1960s. It wasn't until the end of the 1970's where laws were changed that benefited corporations more and more and also we started taxing the very rich less and less. From after the great depression to the 1970s we were taxing the rich more and the entire country benefited. The 1980's under Reagan's administration did even more to screw over our country. Then in the 1990's Clinton and his adminstration screwed over workers and sent the rest of our manufacturing jobs that were leftover onto China. Since the 1980's it's been nothing but a downhill slope for our country as a whole and the quality of life of its people.

[@calibos3329]

​@@ADreamingTravelerCry about it.

[@ADreamingTraveler]

@@calibos3329 I too like everyone suffering

[@mysticalvomit]

Lmfao

[@SandraLily2]

LOVE the 85 mph "safe driving speed" 😂😂😂 I also love how he doesn't even bother to mention the cost for all these innovations, like if they need money in the future, they'll just print more...oh, wait.

[@michaelcaron7659]

Yea where’s my Jet car? 🤔 Lol

[@GEOGigalot]

They just do not need money in the future. Money become outdated there.

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

money is never a problem where men are working for you

[@rgolab3174]

In America any driving speed is not safe.

[@MrZillas]

@Sandra F. - Here in Germany 185 mph is normal and 85 mph is boring.

[@kttalks8156]

They forgot to consider one element in their equation- money. We actually have technology to do a lot of these things. But the cost is higher than what's worth!

[@bengagnon2894]

Georges Orwell was way more accurate on his description of the future he saw for his fellow humans. We live in a neoliberalism dystopia. Endless wars with enemies of vague description. Inequalities never seen before between the rich and the poor. A virtually infinite surveilance state. Dumb masses mostly unaware of what's going on around them. And much more...

[@kttalks8156]

@@bengagnon2894 sorry this is a mouthful than what you asked but the problem was when they thought that everyone will be able to work 30 hours a week and have a luxury of affording such things completely overrides the basic principle of economy. When everyone is able to afford it and wants to buy it, supply-demand and inflation. They were developing technologies back in those days working 40 hours a week in hope of one day providing less work hours and more luxury for the future. But the rule of thumb is always that everyone will eventually not be able to buy it. We actually got poorer than them while being forced to work longer hours. Meanwhile, the absolute "suppliers" came in to play, hence the rich-poor space got wider. Our wars, greed, politics, diplomacy, everything is pretty predictable while in this type 0 civilization. Hence, this time, we don't really spend money on developing technology for the sole purpose of luxury but for the scientific advancements. However, greed, politics and diplomacy will always be the key players slowing us down. And boy are you so right about the dumb masses!

[@GhostSal]

I was going to comment on how technology advancement isn’t just about the cost of developing the technology, it’s also about the lost revenue from the old technology it replaces... but the greed and corruption comment was already well articulated.

[@RetroFan]

These things could be if there wasn't so much wasteful spending, money given carelessly to other countries and so much wasted on secret projects.

[@kttalks8156]

@@RetroFan it's going to be a mouthful if I explain why but I don't agree with you at all. And no I am not a liberal 🤷‍♀️

[@DT__1]

I started to watch this and instantly had a thought how beautifully people envisioned the future not so long ago… WHAAAAT HAAAPPENED!!!!

[@bogusmogus9551]

When I was a kid I really believed this would be the future and was enthusiastic about it Now the future terrifies me.

[@aninternetnpc7759]

@@bogusmogus9551 if everyone keeps looking at the dark sides then that will only keep terrifying people

[@samsmom1491]

I'm touched by those children at the end, both by their hope and dread of the future. It would be interesting to have those children, now adults - even possibly grandparents, watch themselves today and give their perspective of how things turned out.

[@theexchipmunk]

Suffice to say, that one boy would say "I told you so".

[@nessamillikan6247]

Uhh, “possibly grandparents”? Those kids were born in the late 30s/early 40s. The ones who are still alive are great and great-great grandparents by now.

[@samsmom1491]

@@nessamillikan6247 Pretty sure this was filmed in the 1950s. Look at the clothes.

[@TheBrunoleocoelho]

Some of those children at the end seems like crazy, with some speeches very pessimistic.

[@wolfie819]

Their hopes and dreams got crushed like ours. Don't worry about it 😆

[@ivanj.conway9919]

There seemed to be no place for nature in this version of the future.

[@-oiiio-3993]

We ate it.

[@jonathanbyrd90]

Kill nature

[@nebroskitheraut6705]

"Kill Nature" - Jonathan Byrd

[@joshuajespersen3336]

why did I read that in the narrators voice?

[@linkislost2931]

Not tru

[@staceyme1480]

It is good to rewatch these vids because perhaps they will inspire the right person... some things are already in use in some way/shape/form or have already been disproven.

[@milansimovski6372]

this was back when ppl thought that earths resources were infinite

[@veep5712]

Cool designer-grade dreams..

[@Havagood1]

Wow!I remember the 78 Futura commercial!What a strange trip to see it almost 50 years later!

[@mr_wright_official_]

I'm obsessed with this style

[@ordy6914]

Me too

[@sometf2player752]

a lot of people are hence the art syle for games like fallout

[@AMPProf]

errrr uhhhh ohhhh

[@pottertheavenger1363]

Atom punk

[@IneffableEntity]

me too i love it.

[@DannyS177]

I didn't know that I needed this, but I really needed this!

[@johnbockelie3899]

When's all this supposed to happen ?.

[@johnbockelie3899]

This is all film from the planet Krypton. It was found in a crashed rocket.

[@-oiiio-3993]

@@johnbockelie3899 Tomorrow!

[@ScottHarbison]

Me too.

[@chubbiMommi]

Sames

[@hemidas]

What we expected: Star Trek, Jetsons, Buck Rogers. What we got: Judge Dredd, Robocop, Akira.

[@covenawhite4855]

Hopefully the Future will be a mixture of both

[@changer_of_ways_999]

Mostly 1984, 1984, and Idiocracy

[@voctur]

Idiocracy and Demolition Man

[@ixiahj]

Robocop? We don't have a heroic cyborg cop fighting for us. All we have is OCP and future Detroit.

[@SeanThomasCross]

Akira tho

[@steverudder3321]

Sleepcore....... It's 4am July 4th, 2023, and I've been awake all night. How appropriate for me to stumble upon this "Video for Insomniacs!" 🤗 I see that there are a few more of these videos in this series, so I will subscribe. 👏👏👏👏

[@fredlandry6170]

Imagine a person from the 1960’s seeing our traffic jams and roads that are falling apart and people shooting each other over a parking spot.

[@popsfereal]

People from the 60s are still around genius. Imagine that.

[@vylbird8014]

@@popsferealAnd we get to yell at them for destroying public transport and neglecting essential infrastructure to fund tax cuts.

[@QuikdethDeviantart]

Whirlpool predicted the roomba in the late 1950s!

[@Crushonius]

more accurately whirlpool the jetsons and other futuristic shows inspired the roomba and it could be build because technology caught up as in microprocessors and microcontrollers got so cheap and easy to programm that some students from MIT could combine modern batteries and chips to make it affordable

[@newtoni7992]

Video recording is a truly time machine A view to the past, present ,and a clear vision to the future

[@Rave2020]

BEST COMEDY SHOW I'VE WATCHED, HANDS DOWN.! 😆😂🤣

[@tony.r8039]

Funny how back then future was a great thing and today we don't want to talk about future 'cause we know there is no positive future ahead.

[@allearth2760]

Stop with the Pessimistic talk. (I'm not calling you out.) I mean EVERYONE cut out the pessimistic talk! We are no worse than the World War 1 or 2 generations, we don't have bombs constantly falling on us like the air raids in Britain. We don't have rampant crime in the streets. We're no worse than those during the Great depression! We don't have soup lines on every corner, and families who've lost everything on the stock market. We don't have filthy living situations and squalor everywhere. We don't have civil war and families being torn apart through violence! We don't have actual dictators in office, scapegoating groups to the point of mass genocide! And we no longer enslave millions of people! America is in a better place than a lot of previous generations, AND YES we certainly have big flaws and failings. But all this doomsday talk needs to end. Imagine how prior generations felt about REAL trials and tribulations! Furthermore, a video like this one, showing beautiful visions of the future from a past perspective should give us hope! It's up to US to make these sort of things a reality, and not "a future that never came". Come on America, let's do this!

[@uberZanneth]

@@allearth2760 What I hear: C'mon guys it's not like we're being bombed!

[@crankychris2]

@@allearth2760 We have more deaths from Covid 19 in 12 months than in WW2. Those numbers will double by summer. Once you lose a family member, you'll understand. Until then, study US history. Your ignorance is startling.

[@crankychris2]

@@Osgfkqgvsu Agreed. The virus pandemic of 1918 killed many more Americans than both World Wars did.

[@efxnews4776]

@@allearth2760 nope! Come back to reality buddy! WE ARE LOCKED INSIDE OUR HOMES, we CAN'T WORK, WE don't have more money to do anything... The future keeps getting worse and worse by the day! Did your realize that theres massive built up of fleets of warships in the south China sea RIGHT NOW! And they keep sending ships to that area? Did you realize that more than 4 million die from a virus all over the world? Did you realize that our economies are in shambles right now?

[@sidekickgarage9276]

OK, can we all just agree, that the preictions of the kids at the end is freaky accurate. Everything is automated, less and less of work, people in flats instead of houses, artificial farming, people stuck in technology and life boring..

[@goldilocks3593]

Wow - listening to them now - amazing.

[@tilleylepew5944]

Yeah , but they missed the collapse of the family unit.

[@venth6]

The future is endless, hopefully the best future will be when we build beside nature, imagine waking up in a protected dome around your house and everything has reverted back to wood and stone, futuristic but as an old fashioned way, everything is connected naturally and humans are no longer the only intelligent life forms, we live besides descendants of native creatures that gained sentience such as the rest of the primates and dogs and horses that can now speak and think and laugh and they all have equal rights no racism or specism and everyone is wholesome there is no higher power we all have our own dreams and ambitions

[@sand0decker]

Where do I sign up for this "less and less of work?"

[@livi8225]

You can tell not only by their accent but by their predictions they must of had a good education but what good did it do? These children are now our mothers and fathers, why haven't they helped stopped this dystopia nightmare unfold

[@BillHosko]

The last segment... so thoughtful those kids were... and so correct on quite a number of things. Thank you for posting this.

[@veep5712]

Agreed! Perhaps they would be happily surprised, it worked out better than some feared.

[@yusuke502]

A lot of their futuristic concepts is still very FUTURISTIC even for our time. I won’t be surprise if many of their prediction comes to life, perhaps another 100 years.

[@Herroroe]

YUSUKE URAMESHI!!!

[@Ninnjette-]

America probably won’t be around in 100 years.

[@dylanmurphy9389]

A lot of these are already possible but they only invest in things that makes profit

[@martiguesmarc819]

the mirror for the rear is already a television 1:58

[@TEXAS-SMITH]

No. Greedy corporations with narcissistic CEO's such as Bill Gates plan on their heirs only, having the entire world as their playground. You and your heirs are not invited. Satan has them thinking riches somehow makes them above the rest of us but they bleed just like the rest of us.

[@lazyrrr2411]

Nothing ages worse than our visions of the future

[@frankesposito2182]

Not true....."nothing ages better!" That's why your watching....

[@lazyrrr2411]

@@frankesposito2182 No Frank ; it's aging like milk , not wine ... and you have no idea why ℹ watch - - -

[@frankesposito2182]

@@lazyrrr2411 I do have an Idea,...why you watch? You watch because you Find "Retro-Futurism" to be very facsinating...not just the things they got right,..but the things they have yet to build ....because we lack the money or imagination to do it. Now grant it....some of this stuff may never be within our lifetime...but how about the next generation....

[@lazyrrr2411]

@@frankesposito2182 alas , but it were true 😔 for nought we struggle to endeavor ... suffering the storms of outrageous fortune 👐 Nevermore , quath he - while the wind blows all as the leaves of autumn 🍁🍃

[@frankesposito2182]

@@lazyrrr2411 Nice Poem,...but not a precursor for Fact....if that were the Case POE would have helped alot of people see the Future and hit the Lottery!

[@Pandidolod]

I can't imagine living in a time of prosperity. I've never experienced that. Since I've been born, it's just been higher rent, higher temperatures, and lower wages. I can't imagine a world where things get cooler, sleeker, and better. Seems like things just get cruddier, flimsier, and less accessible.

[@tonyn3227]

You are right. But the video was done before all greed took over.

[@rocco3560]

These films were only propaganda 😖🙏🤌

[@Gecko....]

You never actually realise how much better you have it when you're living it. We live in a time of incredible technology, like us watching any video imaginable from the past on these little computers in our hands, before you simply couldn't see the past unless you went to a library and looked at old newspaper. We are living longer than ever, medical advancements means things like cancer and hiv are not death sentences and we can replace pretty much every organ. Violent crime is as low as its ever been in the west. Workers have rights and a minimum wage. If you think things are bad today, you don't know your history. You just need to go back to the 70s to see hardship, mass unemployment and an energy crisis that resulted in a 3 day work week in Europe because there wasn't the electricity to power workplaces. People have a much better safety net now, poverty today is not what it was 20-30 years ago, poor people now have enough to eat, shelter and even smartphones. Sure we currently have high inflation but thats the result of shutting the world economy down during covid, it shows how far we have come that we were able to deal with covid without catastrophe. Go back to previous pandemics and you'll see how they sent the world into decades long crisis. I love the time we live in, technology is advancing ridiculously quick, for me it feels like science fiction is finally here with some of the AI, robots, and the nuclear fussion discovery. People just love being negative though.

[@JT-rx1eo]

You want to see cooler? Wait around for the next ice age.

[@jeffcarlson3269]

@@JT-rx1eo your statement... "You want to see cooler? Wait around for the next ice age." we won't see the Ice Age..... Jesus will come before then... we may see Hell on Earth first though...hope you have plenty of lotion handy...

[@freddylubin]

I was at the GM exhibit at the New York World Fair! I was 12 at the time, and was really excited about the future they were promising us. As with everything else at that fair, the message to us seemed to be "Keep on being good and passive consumers, and this will all be YOURS".

[@contron2611]

Ha ha

[@veep5712]

@Freddy Lubin what year or decade was that? That is an interesting observation. It was possible, although Idk how "being good" would deliver it.. maybe working hard or intelligently. Do you believe they treated people more like children back then, or now?

[@Wailwulf]

@@veep5712 The World's Fair shown is from 1964/1965

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

Let's please note, you'd get a pension, very good medical insurance, dental you name it...and enough to buy a house and 2 cars, often on one salary.

[@squeaky2384]

It sounds just like the American criticisms of communism. “Just let the government do stuff and we’ll take care of you.”

[@corndog9482]

“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.” ― George Orwell, 1984

[@BarneyHefner]

4 legs good......

[@ernestomercado4479]

Some of the English kids had such a depressing outlook, I was about their age and I remember the cultural upheaval of the 60's when we realized the future didn't always hold a better quality of life and environment. Come the 70's and 80's and we just got jobs and became materialistic like our parents, goodbye 60's.

[@michaelmerck7576]

If you survived Vietnam just living a normal life would feel like heaven

[@bentullett6068]

A few of the British kids were right about computers taking away jobs from the people with lower education grades. In the UK supermarkets they are gradually removing the manned tills and replacing them with self checkout or app based scanners where only one human is required to come over to unlock the over 18 alcohol product purchases.

[@icecreamforcrowhurst]

@@bentullett6068 yup with Brexit the Americanization of Britain is not far away.

[@veep5712]

@icecreamforcrowhurst ? For you from California, you mean Europe still has cashiers? We do here, but every grocery chain and most fast food (not food but i digress) chains try to get you to pay at computerized kioskis. Some cafes and juice bars literally refuse to take cash. Yet others across the streat are cash only. Lol.

[@EV6CrashCam]

Oh the 60s, how I wish I could’ve been alive in such a time of dreaming. The architecture, the cars, the fashion. They all make me feel nostalgic for a time that I never even existed in. I study googie architecture often and it really is the 60s vision of the future, just realized. I would love to preserve it one day.

[@daviddickey1994]

I didn't have socks or running water in the 60s

[@LarsRyeJeppesen]

The racism, the sexism, no Internet, no communication, no good cancer treatments.. .yeah truly great

[@trashking1867]

@@LarsRyeJeppesen don't you wish people dreamed more? The 21st century is fucking depressing.

[@cristinasydnor9509]

I always tell my parents they were lucky to grow up in the 60s!

[@1977TA]

Everything went to shit on November 22, 1963. From there things only got worse. The country pretty much was coming apart at the seams. The 1960's were only good if you were lucky enough to be born into a financially secure white family who could ignore all the crazy stuff that was happening outside of their safe suburban bubble.

[@cashcreators]

I remember as a kid at the library. I saw a book that talked about how life will be in the year 2000....it said cars would fly. They DO have cars that fly now, but it's hardly taken off yet (no pun intended).

[@rpvitiello]

The prediction of highway reshaping cities was accurate and exactly what happened. They left out that it would be a dystopian of endless traffic, crashes, and social isolation.

[@ViraL_FootprinT.ex.e]

I feel like we've become so desensitized to auto accidents that the gravity if how many deaths are actually caused by them gets collectively ignored and/or overshadowed.

[@rpvitiello]

@@ViraL_FootprinT.ex.e auto companies intentionally did that. They intentionally wrote articles for news papers and referred to them as “accidents” to make them sound like unavoidable acts of god. They didn’t want them called crashes, cuz that means something went wrong.

[@Limonelguey]

​@@rpvitiellowe really should have invested more in mass transportation. Like how japan has those bullet trains.

[@rpvitiello]

@@Limonelguey except for the one region in Japan the USA heavily influenced, which is a car traffic congested mess like the USA.

[@TPOrchestra]

I saw the GM Futurama II exhibit at the NY World's Fair. I never thought I would ever see a complete film of it. It was a mind-blowing experience.

[@oneoftheninetynine3953]

As a child of 4, I watched the first moon landing, and remember my much older siblings and parents telling me there was no doubt I'd be living on the moon by the time I was in my 30's. Somewhere it turned into fracking, monster trucks, phone addiction, predatory drug companies, hairless ear-backed mice, the pacific gyre, melamine baby formula, melting icecaps...it's hard to think about the dark future kids are going to have to face because of where technology has really gone. Over the years it's transformed these sort of 'bright future' retro films from cute to bittersweet to tragic.

[@micahrutland9021]

I'm sorry, the moon landings were a hoax. We can't even do it in 2023.

[@knerduno5942]

Watch that TV series "For all Mankind." It makes a new timeline from the Apollo days if the space race never ended.

[@JB9000x]

We are incapable of controlling bad things. The human race is flawed, as it always has been. War, greed, selfishness and the pursuit of pleasures that set us back as a species. The main focus of the many is hatred and envy, reached its nadir with trump and social media, sowing hatred and mistrust in the minds of the populace

[@tonyhogg9839]

They always made you think living under the ocean would mean great scenic views through clear glass walls. Ocean water is murky and you'd be lucky to see ten feet into it.

[@lolatmyage]

Yeah the most excitement you'd get is when a weird fish bumps your dome out of nowhere

[@Teporame]

Not in the Riviera Maya. It is absolutely clear.

[@KenLinx]

If they are able to achieve such futuristic sceneries, surely they'd be able to filter some water so they're less murky.

[@venth6]

Your so wrong, the Pacific oceon, the most beautiful place you can imagine

[@magardunoe]

Main Environmental Concerns!:kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4LQoIyNobOnm5Y

[@ADreamingTraveler]

0:01 This commercial is essentially what a car from 2023 is. I was checking out a new car that had a MASSIVE touch screen that went across the entire dashboard and it was essentially what this commercial was. Some of this future did eventually come, it just took decades longer than we thought.

[@thelostcosmonaut5555]

They had cars like that back in the 80s and 90s but none of them were mass produced. They were mostly just proof of concept models.

[@markh.6687]

Actually in the first few minutes of the video, a number of things came true. a) Vehicle radar, b) rear view/backup cameras, c) digital dashboards, d) bridges built on the ground and lifted into place in one move (one was done for a South Shore railroad bridge near the Chicago, IL Ford Plant; video is online). It's Deja Vu all over again! :)

[@ksurah]

"A future not of dreams, but reality." No wonder most of this never came to be. Today, we can't even agree on what reality is, let alone have shared dreams anymore.

[@markh.6687]

That's because you refuse to believe in all the conspiracies that don't actually exist, let alone the ones that do. I was never here, and you never saw me.

[@ksurah]

@@markh.6687 I think, therefore I am.....I think?

[@markh.6687]

@@ksurah Yes.....or no. It depends. Maybe.

[@rommix0]

@@ksurah What is this a Moody Blues song?

[@chuckbisbee7520]

@@rommix0 sure was. On the Threshold of a Dream album I do believe. Your reply gives your age away.😉😉

[@bobtepedino5661]

And instead we got Tic Tok and spray cheese...

[@JustinHallPlus]

You typed your message with your thumbs on a pocket sized super computer and put it on the internet where nearly everyone could immediately see it. And yet you're still salty about what the future became...

[@bobtepedino5661]

@@JustinHallPlus I note your smartass condemnation. You perfectly illustrate how, even in the presence of shiny new toys, the human condition has not improved. Indeed, it has degraded: people are now so "connected" that they have become isolated in the crowd - cocooned in their private world of 24/7 streaming videos and other stultifying, deleterious mental stimulation, with diminishing interpersonal skills, less empathy and measurably decreasing language and communication skills.

[@JustinHallPlus]

​ @Bob Tepedino I just thought you sounded ungrateful. Many of the things in this video were invented, like autonomous vehicles (a work in progress) and zoom meetings. The inventions that don't exist are for the best, because most of the ideas would be very inefficient and have a huge carbon footprint. I'm not on the tick tock, and I don't use the spray cheese, but I think the future turned out better than the people who made this video expected in many ways.

[@ditsokar4168]

Gone are the days

[@Андрей_Комментатор]

@@bobtepedino5661 I read your name as Bob Torpedino LOL )))

[@erinmalone2669]

They are pretty spot on for cars having safety features, automatic breaking and self driving.😊

[@bogusmogus9551]

Only thing is, this is what it was supposed to be like 23 years ago (2000)

[@andrihusainsudra]

2:44 They actually got close to that! There is a big machine that stacks precast concretes like lego to build bridges or highway overpasses quickly. I've seen one in my country! It looks like a giant printer head lol

[@Anvilshock]

what is a "printer head lol"?

[@Tryingtosex]

@@Anvilshock the head of a printer

[@Anvilshock]

@@Tryingtosex I just call that a printer head, or a print head, not a printer head lol. Because there is no part in a printer that has "lol" in the name.

[@ecstazyrm]

I have that machine

[@ohh1065]

@@Anvilshockthere is no part where you should act like a dick but you still did

[@jpq6257]

When I was a child people went to the moon and the next step was planned to be Mars. Now we haven't returned to the moon for almost half a century....

[@richcity3573]

*Americans your government deceives you, the mafia is sitting there, which deliberately slows down the process of developing new technologies, you must win, then your future will become like in this film. I'm from Kazakhstan*

[@judemelroses9920]

@@richcity3573 I totally agree.

[@harlow743]

Because aliens warned us not to return

[@erika002]

the first three comments are just.... bruh

[@erika002]

@@Osgfkqgvsu yeah totally mate, like wtf and who is this "mafia" entity in the first place? Last time I heard that a mafia influenced at least a part of US was in 1920's with Al Capone during the height of Prohibition Era....that was just the police being influenced by bribes and whatnot. And aliens? bruh, that's another stereotype conspiracy bs (unless he's joking).

[@brothergunns5055]

Elon Musk : Write that down, write that down

[@kodakwhite1696]

😂😂

[@ezboi5768]

L

[@ryche.rising]

Lol

[@fella9293]

But sir u already had the Tesla

[@solidstateresistor2485]

He can pretend he has bought another innovation to the market, just like all his other companies. Not an original thought in his head.

[@Voidpiercer]

On principle I typically wouldn’t sit through 24 obligatory KZbin ads, but this kept my interest pretty well throughout.

[@TeganCantEven]

Those futurism animations are some of my favorite things Walt Disney ever produced.

[@jdssurf]

me too, awesome

[@herejust4cars723]

The quality of the animation is AMAZING. Many bits looked almost exactly like the stuff we have nowadays

[@TeganCantEven]

@karaqakkzlwhere were The Jetsons in this video?? The opening segment is from Walt Disney’s Disneyland tv series

[@Scooby-bf4bp]

@@herejust4cars723 animations gotten worse since then

[@blainemason8218]

If only! This is futurism stuff is something I really ate up as a kid.... hmmmmm, I guess I still do 🙂 I’m so ready for a brighter future. Thanks for the post!

[@mariic2]

Cause it's gonna be the future soon And I won't always be this way When the things that make me weak and strange Get engineered away It's gonna be the future soon I've never seen it quite so clear And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and it's already here

[@nozecone]

"Advances in technology will give us more time for leisure" - how many times did I hear variations and elaborations on that statement as a kid in the '60s ... ? ....... Such naivete ....

[@rolux4853]

And now we are working more and harder than ever, „thanks“ to that wonderful technology.. Burnout is always around the corner since your reachable every second of the day. I want to go back to the 50-70s. I’m a white, straight, middleclass male - these where the times for someone like me!

[@brodriguez11000]

Video game growth as well as online streaming during 2020 Covid-19 lockdown. So yeah we have plenty of leisure.

[@pterafirma]

The future is already here, it's just not equally distributed. -Bill Gibson

[@senseofstile]

A lot of innovations over the years "up until" the 60's did save time and people thought that trend would continue.

[@tilleylepew5944]

Yeah , we just won't know what to do with ourselves.

[@43madnox]

i think art like cyberpunk or bladerunner are like this, just a product of our zeitgeist. this is so incredibly fascinating.

[@parkmallbaby]

Bladerunner and Cyberpunk are dystopias.

[@43madnox]

@@parkmallbaby yes, definitely. but i like to think that the reason we have so many dystopian visions of the future is our zeitgeist. if you know what i mean

[@parkmallbaby]

@@43madnox I gotcha.

[@POLONDO]

Beautiful reflection of children, especially that of a girl about boredom. Beautiful compilation. Thank youuuu! 🤖🤍

[@Climberfx]

Drawing design is superb. Loving watching retro future! Thank you for sharing!

[@Subhumanoid_]

_"..this atomic reactor literally melts rock as it makes molehills out of mountains"_ *imagines thousands upon thousands of tons of radioactive rock vapors solidifying on surrounding nature * Ahh... the 60's

[@SpecialAgentJamesAki]

The manual for my 68 impala says dig a hole in your backyard and pour the old oil in it 🤣

[@Subhumanoid_]

@@SpecialAgentJamesAki For real or are you pulling my leg?

[@SpecialAgentJamesAki]

@@Subhumanoid_ yeah it also said the old oil will be “gone” by the time for your next oil change that part really gave me a kick. Gone as in it’s in the water table now hahaha.

[@shottytheshotgun]

Bruh, how can you be smart enough to know radioactive smoke is bad, but dumb enough to not know what a heat exchanger is?

[@hlk5887]

I love the fact the atomic reactor had a giant tail fin. Very stylish lol!

[@Telmarine55]

These future projections are in stark contrast to fantasy futurism in the early 21st century which is almost universally dystopian. Also, a lot of this is possible today, but prohibitively expensive.

[@deslaya7777]

I like that the super car of the future still has a hole punch mechanic

[@TerryInUSA]

Yes, in the future you can still get a job as a keypunch operator.

[@rikkwolfe]

this whole series makes me feel old yet i cant help watching lol thanks for the revisit of memories

[@joinmeh]

I only wanna say "JETSON YOU'RE FIRED"

[@samurai-butterfly7393]

they got a few close enough. it's just fascinating seeing the vision our grandparents had for the whole world. truly a shame things aren't going as we optimistically hoped.

[@kwimms]

Our grandparents were idiot sheep that just did what they were told and believed whatever the newspaper said.

[@dadevi]

A lot of the issues are infrastructure. These concepts were dreamed up by engineers, who seldom think practically. For example, having automatic tracks for everything means that people wouldn't be able to live in those areas while the tracks are being constructed.

[@RSEFX]

I haven't read a lot of the comments, but I'm sure I'm not the first to say I'd love someone to track down the kids in the last segment and see what they think of their predictions, and find out what thoughts they now have about the future as seniors.

[@1rcuya1]

They dead

[@RSEFX]

@@1rcuya1 Why do you say that?

[@popsfereal]

@@1rcuya1 You should have paid attention in school.

[@steveairport]

They got the miniature computers and easy communication right, at least. The other stuff, well... we really missed out on the shark fin cars, that's all I can say

[@ttgexe]

The fact that the children from these times seem so intelligent and much more well spoken than the adults I encounter in my day to day life makes me very saddened and depressed.. I’m a 24 year old living in the USA but feel very out of place at times. I have no problem fitting in and adapting to the current trends of today’s culture while at the same time being very curious and educated in most subject matter. It seems as if people today don’t even think for themselves or ask questions like these kids do. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had conversations with full blown adults many years older than me that seem to be less intelligent and know nothing about simple subjects compared to these children speaking at the end of this video. I tend to blame the internet for the dumbing down of our civilization.. But at the same time I have to admit that without the internet, I would be just as dumb as most of the people I encounter. I guess it really just comes down to each individual. Some would rather take in useful information and learn. Others would rather watch mindless tik-toks just to pass time. Unfortunately the majority of the population fall into the latter category…

[@AngstG]

it all boils down to 'mind AIDS', better known as Acquired Reasoning Deficiency Syndrome, or ARDS...

[@NobleWolf33]

We’re the same age bro…smh we old af now

[@citizenblue]

I'm 41 and I struggle to envision a future that is something worth looking forward to. But your comment and many like it by others your age gives me hope.

[@ttgexe]

@@citizenblue there is still hope my friend. It may be a losing battle right now, but there is still hope for the future.

[@TheGravygun]

You will own nothing and like it and you will eat the bugs and be happy now return to your hive

[@ryanmorrison3699]

1:50 Some of these features sounded very familiar. Turns out, a lot of modern passenger railway has these features implemented via an in-cab signaling system! Kinda cool that these features did become reality in a different form of transportation.

[@richardhedd3080]

We were so optimistic back then. I forgot what that felt like.

[@northshore1000]

Can’t help but appreciate the optimism and hope for an amazing tomorrow as seen in the animated portion at the beginning. The lively music, the cool technology rendered in the visuals, the cheerful narration. Just splendid!

[@brodriguez11000]

Future if one was white.

[@MrSneaksful]

I agree yet im overwhelmed with sadness because this couldve been, but will never be.

[@sometf2player752]

@@MrSneaksful or will it you never know

[@ColoradoStreaming]

I think part of it was nuclear energy really made it seem like limitless cheap power was possible and it would revolutionize society. Now we are still dependent of fossil fuels which creates more pessimism every year.

[@Inkling777]

Why did these futurists think people in the future would like to ride around in wrap-around glass cars?

[@naya6593]

🤦🏾‍♀️

[@judemelroses9920]

So people can have a great view.

[@-oiiio-3993]

Who wouldn't? George Jetson did.

[@cesare6442]

I want one of those cars

[@Vlad544_]

Welp, this cars were the fashion in the 60's and they exist so...

[@mathew21686]

Remember what you thought of the future and how you couldn’t wait it to be apart of it and witness it all happen? And now we’re here wishing for the past but at the same time the past couldn’t wait to see the future.

[@aceofspades-r2b]

Grass is always greener on the other side

[@kwimms]

The future does not, never has, and never will exist. There is only the eternal now. Everything else is an illusion.

[@Angela.Perkins]

@@kwimmsI'm a time traveler from the future.

[@amrx76]

17:30 "...and extensive aerodynamic testing"...... that car was a damn brick!

[@musicloverme3993]

$4267 for a brand new car. LMAO

[@lukestrawwalker]

@@musicloverme3993 Back before your car had more electronics than a space shuttle, and when money was still actually worth something... OL J R :)

[@VoightKampf]

I remember watching the first animation program with my dad when I was a kid. We both could not wait to drive on those futuristic highways.

[@Darkbirdy]

So many hilarious predictions - and then we get to that kid at the end - the one who didn't assume an apocalypse. He nailed every single thing he said. I'd love to know what became of him.

[@ut2k4wikichici]

Probably joined wef

[@SahiPie]

Dead

[@RetroJack]

@@ut2k4wikichici What's a "wef"?

[@jayshomer4191]

Brilliant visions and nostalgic for the Jetsons like time period. Thanks for sharing !

[@am74343]

5:36 "...More time for leisure..." Mhmmm... We work longer hours now than we ever did before!

[@zizyip6203]

I wish it did look like this. A retro future look would be amazing.

[@dw3403]

We have had a foretaste with computer driven stuff. It costs more to replace the computer board when your washer stops working then to go and buy an old fashion one. PFTTTTTT

[@zizyip6203]

soft_dicc Nope. Because things back then were made to last. Today they are made to break so you have to buy more. So are technology is far inferior, then what the technology would be in a retro future.

[@jamiebraswell5520]

Some of the children at the end were very intelligent and insightful, coming rather close to the reality we see today. Some, on the other hand, were way off. None of them could have imagined the internet and its impact on the world, education, information, culture, social skills, etc. Overall, it is hard to believe that people were so naive and optimistic about the future. Oh science will bring humanity together into an age of prosperity. Not quite. These perfect ideals of the future forgot one major factor, the ignorance of humans. No one could have imagined how much dumber and idiotic society would become. I was born in 1970. Even then, we had some of these expectations. I thought 2001 A Space Odyssey was really going to be what things would be like. Now twenty years have passed and 2001 came and went. I thought we would have flying cars too! We children were easily influenced by these ideas, but the future in many ways has been a massive disappointment to behold. The corruption of mankind will never allow for a functioning utopia.

[@melsop54]

Nailed it. The idea that humans would become more advanced along with technology...when in reality, the easier life was made by technology, the dumber and lazier humans have gotten. If they only had the ability to peer forwand and see such amazing techological advances...and a society that no longer understood what a boy or girl was...

[@rogerrendzak8055]

It's not all, a massive disappointment. Better medicine's, more efficient cars, and for example, texting/reading this conversation, from your hand-held phone, connected to the internet, and with the convenience of doing so, from the comfort, of your own domicile. The corruption of mankind you're referring to, is because of money, politics, and religion. Unfortunately, until societies wake up, from basking in the ignorance of money, politics, and religion, NOTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE 🙄…………

[@AMPProf]

time travel rules! once you break the time line run away!

[@AMPProf]

everything is none all is faux

[@rvw3022]

Religion is the source problem

[@robertlussier2944]

All these energy intensive ideas make one think that the engineers didn't understand a thing about resource depletion.

[@aerystargaryenii2565]

Back in the good old days. Trash would break down from the sun and trees regrew in days

[@davestewart2067]

The GM “city of tomorrow” was what was proposed for both the Lomex ( 78 the lower Manhattan expressway) and Philly’s 695 cross town expressway. Combining a transportation arterial with shopping parking and housing.

[@meh11235]

so many hints to history in this, most of which has come to pass... amazing

[@dimitriwolfs9370]

Wow those kids in the last part were frighteningly astute in their assessments ,lol,haven't heard that much sensible stuff from anyone that it was refreshing in its truthfulness and vision. We sure did not disappoint them .

[@karina-oh7826]

And the Brit kids all were such a happy bunch, weren’t they? They were so sullen and spoke with no excitement, like kids usually do. And, they all had dismal expectations and no hopes to speak of. Once they started speaking, they had a lot of negative things to say, as though they had already spent much time contemplating the abysmal future to come.

[@bogusmogus9551]

@@karina-oh7826 Right on. They were pretty accurate on a lot of stuff. When I was a kid in the 1970's I had a really optimistic view of the future. Now I just fear it

[@tashiwallace5338]

All those 1950's? school children spoke with an ASMR tone of voice. Amazing!

[@Witchygirl22]

For some reason this really reminds me of my childhood. Lol not sure why. Maybe so many trips to tommorow land at Epcot or religiously watching the jetsons. It's nostalgic to me. 🥰

[@DialHForHorror]

1960 : Conputers will make life easy and wonderful... 2021 : Siri, give me directions to the nearest gas station. Siri: Getting you to Moscow, Russia. 192 hours to arrival.

[@nillazilla22]

XD

[@LarsRyeJeppesen]

Lol Siri,,.really? .. lmao you're truly a sheep

[@Void_Dweller7]

Google Maps: Am I a joke to you?

[@mcfrisko834]

@@Void_Dweller7 Yes! Google maps is a joke.

[@muddlasvegas]

No progress due to lifetime politicians

[@Tom-cn4cm]

Yeah, but it was the voters who made them lifetime politicians.

[@jaygill5582]

(WE the people) must limit their terms to just two, like presidents and governors.

[@mikepastor.k6233]

@@jaygill5582 the masses WANT to be ruled and told what to do from cradle to grave so progress will never happen like it should in the ideal future

[@mikepastor.k6233]

If goverments weren't their tyrannical greedy selves that thwart every move citizens try to make we would have millions of Elon Musk's doing everything to progress and evolve into what we consider the ideal future civilization. Sorta like the Star Trek world.. but alas, too much interference and all is just dreams.

[@dragonhold4]

I agree with Mike-real change most often comes from industrious and inventive people instead of politicians. Government is best when it's mostly in a state of stalemate not taking away freedom, while leaving the people alone to make substantive, bottom-up change. ex: the Wright brothers didn't need $50,000 to create the plane; the Empire State Building only took 13.5 months to make; California government's high-speed rail approved in 2008, still hasn't laid a single track, meanwhile Brightline is already in service ...

[@sergioreyes298]

At 0:38, that's the voice of Robby the Robot! Actor Marvin Miller. Unmistakable.

[@denisestover2416]

I loved these cartoons when I was growing up! I loved the ideas of tomorrow and I could watch these for hours! Going to Walt Disney World and into Tomorrowland was great! I miss being a kid and enjoying the future of tomorrow!

[@gregoryhagen8801]

AHH, the good old days. When we trusted the government, & corporations to lookout for our best interests.

[@IeamNoon]

Same here ☹️

[@Olivia54984]

Actually a lot of the "future" came to be if you look at function and goal versus what it actually looked like: select your route = GPS, Video conference = Zoom, moving sidewalk = people movers in airports, separating cars for different functions = small 2 people cars for certain places, etc.

[@oneeyewanders]

Once again, things that I haven't seen, and this stuff is my entire jam.

[@oneeyewanders]

Here's one that I had to hunt down the VHS for😍 kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZXadnqZlMxpfdk

[@johnbockelie3899]

"George Jetson to Spacely Sprockets, Jane and Elroy to go shopping".

[@de_cre_vi]

They pretty well predicted the roomba! Of course, I still can't imagine hosing down living room furniture, lol.