One day my dad was at home and a package from Amazon arrived home. He handed it to me. It was really odd and out of nowhere since it wasn’t Christmas or my birthday or anything special. I opened it and it was a vinyl of this masterpiece album. Thank u dad I love u.
@fanpromedioderatatingaming3 ай бұрын
Bro got a gift form The universe💀
@GlenHam-j1vАй бұрын
W dad
@oldrockerkickinass55695 күн бұрын
What an awesome gift!
@TexturaI Жыл бұрын
One time I woke up to this in the middle of the night with headphones on and it was really an experience. Half-awake with alien sounding stuff is no joke lol
@migave9 ай бұрын
lol? que es eso?
@homelesshannah508 ай бұрын
I woke up one night with Fly Like an Eagle playing, freaked me the hell out.
@60187guy8 ай бұрын
Totally frickin' cool !
@brycelynds37688 ай бұрын
Tripped acid walking through abandoned train tunnels the first time I heard this song........ THATS an experience
@60187guy8 ай бұрын
@@brycelynds3768 / You were "riding" the "Soul Train" . . . . .
@catwrench311 ай бұрын
In my opinion this song was the beginning of the "electronic" music genre. I think that Pink Floyd has been a huge inspiration to some very big name DJ'S and producers.
@DrRobertBeatles10 ай бұрын
No it didn't begin with pink floyd Edit: I just realized I didn't elaborate. I was really bad at talking two months ago anyways look up John Cage and you'll see what I'm talking about. I'm not sure if there are any people before him that dabbled in electro music
@patricecharpentier13157 ай бұрын
You have to listen Terry Riley and maybe you will find that He was at the origin of Electronic music
@MarianoBeatlero6 ай бұрын
Emmm no. You don't hear Vangelis or Kraftwerk
@behelit19975 ай бұрын
Maybe listen to Silver Apples and Velvet Underground and you'll see the EDM and Indie inspos
@mizuko61325 ай бұрын
Funkadelic, Stevie wonder, a bunch of random 70’s jazz artists were making electronic music.
@bored_person Жыл бұрын
This track is so ahead of its time. It reminds me a lot of modern film scores.
@zshxrkie1210 ай бұрын
They recently used this on "The Black Phone"
@bennytran27805 ай бұрын
It sounds something out of TRON.
@gilliansmith91342 ай бұрын
In other words modern film scores take from Pink Floyd
@WarrenMatthews-f7oАй бұрын
And acid techno
@deflategate129718 күн бұрын
Naw it feels timeless
@jerrymarlow5453 Жыл бұрын
I'll never forget buying this album for the first time in the 70s. A timeless masterpiece. Love this track.
@hearttraveler15486 ай бұрын
Same....it came with a poster 🙂
@JustSomeKittenwithaGun5 ай бұрын
How many times did you buy it
@PrimitiveInTheExtreme Жыл бұрын
By far one of my favourite Pink Floyd tracks 🌈
@eilonschwartz3344 Жыл бұрын
They changed the music world and maked it better
@doingyourmommp3novirus Жыл бұрын
You have…Interesting taste to put it into words
@PrimitiveInTheExtreme Жыл бұрын
@@doingyourmommp3novirus 👂✨🎶
@BJcanal2708 ай бұрын
Same here
@getch1 Жыл бұрын
I bought this album for my birthday on April 4th 1973 , BEST BIRTHDAY PRESENT EVER ! ! !❤
@mr3n10 Жыл бұрын
Happy Belated Bruv, we celebrate the same day!!!
@bergdrache6957 Жыл бұрын
im born 3.april :D
@iamleeham Жыл бұрын
WE HAVE THE SAME BIRTHDAY :DDD
@getch1 Жыл бұрын
Hey everyone HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU GUYS TOO BUT I WAS BORN ON APRIL 4, 1959, I SHOULD'VE ASDED THAT WHENBI FIRST POSTED THIS. !
@BardTheDragonProductions Жыл бұрын
April 4th is my dogs bday
@sundarmann6167 Жыл бұрын
1973! Never listened to another album with such masterclass, since!
@juangomez1784 Жыл бұрын
I heard this a few minutes ago while I was on my way to pick my brother up from work. It’s very dark and cold out and I was the only car on the road and this song started playing and it almost felt as if I was driving into outer space or something. It was an amazing experience I must say!
@marioincarnato89436 ай бұрын
🎉
@Number9Dream6 ай бұрын
I had a similar experience, but was driving through a snow vortex! It was so freaking cool
@marieblue Жыл бұрын
This deals with the pressures of travel, which Rick Wright said would often bring fear of death. The lead instrument being a synthesizer, “On The Run” (1973) is considered one of the earliest pieces of Techno Music. The keyboard that plays from beginning to end is only 5 notes being repeated at high speed. When Pink Floyd performed this in concert, a model airplane ✈️ would fly from one end of the venue to the other, crashing in a brilliant explosion. At about 25 seconds into the song, there is the sound of a voice on a loudspeaker : some believe it to be an “airport voice” calling notices to travellers. 🩷✈️🩷
@sadahzinia38 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the info,mate
@beyondmiddleagedman7240 Жыл бұрын
It is. It is announcing to passengers to be ready for Customs and to have their passports etc .
@MrUtah16 ай бұрын
And thematically it leads nicely onto Time. The pressures of travel can comes from the fear of missing your flight or train or from rushing too fast from place to place
@caeliamoonshadow3 ай бұрын
I saw them live at the gorge in George. They had a 747 fly over head. Epic.
@justmadeit22 ай бұрын
I’m nervous of flying myself 😬✈️
@60187guy11 ай бұрын
From ~0:59 to ~3:01 . . . the "beating heart" in the background . . . . . 💓🎶💓🎶💓🎶💓
@joeygouda Жыл бұрын
I remember driving around downtown Pittsburgh, BUMPIN THIS WHOLE ALBUM, I CAN PLAY ALOT THIS PF ON GUITAR
@markeastridge9260 Жыл бұрын
Same here been playing pink floyd songs on guitar David's solos are awesome
@juniperbreeze1204 Жыл бұрын
No one can do make music like this anymore! I am so glad i was born in an era where music could transport you to another world! Pink Floyd fan for life!❤❤❤
@stevenlawrence3614 Жыл бұрын
You are so right! I’m 74 years old now, but, I appreciate Pink Floyd and what they did for music!
@stevenlawrence3614 Жыл бұрын
You are so right!
@juniperbreeze1204 Жыл бұрын
@@stevenlawrence3614 keep on rocking on! Music back then just had a better message and/or music! PF FAM!
@RealProtigy Жыл бұрын
Learn how to write first, stoopid.
@J.RobertOppenheimer Жыл бұрын
what about wilbur soot?
@lukebingus9432 Жыл бұрын
This is the track that i always felt the most entranced by, and completely made me fall in love with Synthesizers, especially the Sequencer. It is so simple yet effective, just the coolest sounding instruments
@frostrussel15516 ай бұрын
Sitting awake at 4 am with this playing on a speaker while blitzed out of your mind is the only way to live
@stevencoardveniceАй бұрын
Absolutely.
@AmineElBour69 Жыл бұрын
Don't worry, you are not the only one who's listening to this masterpiece
@Nic560 Жыл бұрын
No shit
@DeterminismisFreedom Жыл бұрын
Who said I worry
@tomkelly-wi6mh Жыл бұрын
Correct
@DeterminismisFreedom Жыл бұрын
@@tomkelly-wi6mh You need Determinism
@kerryemmerson8954 Жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@marshallarnold-ep7nn Жыл бұрын
And now, for tonight's starting lineups. First for the visiting..
@JohnnyPatrick-e3z6 күн бұрын
Saw them in tn years ago f**cking masterpiece 57,000 people there no one had a cellphone amazing great band geniuses
@HarryHarshman8 ай бұрын
This is almost unsettling in the dark
@YunG0blivi0us27 күн бұрын
Listening to this album first time right now and couldn't agree more
@CRStoller Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the Chicago Bulls visiting team players intro back in the 1990s. Great memories
@netrade389810 ай бұрын
It was the sound of getting ready to have your ass kicked by Jordan, Pippen, and Rodman.
@CRStoller10 ай бұрын
@@netrade3898 exactly!!
@thebelissima6410 ай бұрын
This track was played in the background of a TV documentary about UFOs and aliens in the early 70’s. I was eight years old and that show scared me so much.
@edharmicar6227 Жыл бұрын
Bought this when it came out in the ‘70’s.Took it around to audio shops to test audio equipment before I bought.Back then it was enjoyed with nickel bags of Colombian,Thai Stick and Acapulco Gold.-Boy Howdy,Happy Trails.
@Baphomet2311 ай бұрын
Now all we have is 'skunk'.
@denateheide3 ай бұрын
I've bought this Masterpiece for the birth of my daughter. Now she (45) is still listening!
@thebrowithnoname1703 Жыл бұрын
Bought this on audio cassette and listen to it for the first time in the mid 90s. It was around Christmas time.
@johnbroker327 Жыл бұрын
I'll never forget the first time I heard this!
@rooms1028 Жыл бұрын
I can't remember most of the times I listened to it.
@legodread5 күн бұрын
Thank you dad, rest in eternal peace!
@Eclecticwarrior19673 ай бұрын
Listen to this with headphones on....mind-blowing!
@stevencoardveniceАй бұрын
@0:56
@Eclecticwarrior1967Ай бұрын
@stevencoardvenice it dances all around your head doesn't it?
@stevencoardveniceАй бұрын
@@Eclecticwarrior1967 That filter sweep sound effects was a staple of the house and techno in the rave scene 20 years later. Here it comes again @1:52
@jennytrejo5793 Жыл бұрын
Pink Floyd una super banda legendaria conocidos en todo el mundo 🌏
@hepinizdennefretediyorum Жыл бұрын
psychedelic masterpiece
@stevencoardvenice Жыл бұрын
It goes big
@Droid-hy9vj Жыл бұрын
21st Century Schizoid Man!
@mikereiss4216 Жыл бұрын
Do you think King Crimson is psychedelic too?
@adanz-sg8ke3 ай бұрын
No tiene nada de sicodelico más bien de surrealista
@jasonmedaris21212 ай бұрын
You must not know much about Pink Floyd… 😂🎉 They did psychedelics and one of them went crazy, and had to be institutionalized… so it’s definitely not psychedelic (sarcasm) 🤣🔥🐬
@mnc3656 ай бұрын
The Black Phone used this so brilliantly
@LARSENALmtl3 ай бұрын
I was about 15 y/o when I first heard this album. I was at a party in some dude's home. A couple of us had decided to drop acid, smoke glorious amounts of weed and listen to Dark Side of the Moon. My acid kicked in when On the Run started. I was automatically teleported way out there. I woke up some time later laying on my back in an empty exterior hockey rink. To this day I have no idea what happened between the room and the rink.
@nivandovasconcelosmartinsn1333 Жыл бұрын
A sonorização do Universo. Pink Floyd a melhor banda musical q passou no nosso planeta. ❤
@Twofloorbluebird Жыл бұрын
Os Beatles são melhores.
@BJcanal2708 ай бұрын
Totalmente de acuerdo
@BJcanal2708 ай бұрын
@@Twofloorbluebirden tus sueños
@zurk96678 ай бұрын
@@TwofloorbluebirdIf you want to vomit instead of listen to good music beatles are awesome!
@lucasbitencourt707 ай бұрын
@@Twofloorbluebird Deixe que cada um decida sua banda de preferência cara. Gosto dos Beatles e to gostando de Pink Floyd
@rosanadiasselas6682 Жыл бұрын
🎸🤘🏻🤟🏻✌🏻🇧🇷 precisamos comemorar sempre essa grande Banda Pink Floyd todos os dias ! minha grande paixão 🥰♥️
@MarceloAlexandre3D Жыл бұрын
Um amigo meu tinha este LP quadrifonico...este foi o primeiro disco do Floyd que conheci....e esta música foi a música que eu disse...sou um fã pra sempre!!!!!! Fui abençoado em assistir Floyd uma vez...Roger Waters seis vezes...e Brit Floyd ( cover band)....13 vezes...duas vezes esta semana...(20 de julho 2023 em Stockton e 23 de julho 2023 em Saratoga)...moro na Califórnia a 42 anos...The lunatic is in my head...🤓🤓🤓
@LucasAlmeida-dz5xh7 ай бұрын
I don’t suffer from schizophrenia, but this song reminds me of psychosis. The distortion and terror, the feeling of being watched and even chased, and the anxiety
@skyofthelivingdead2 ай бұрын
Reminds me of an acid trip, and if that’s what they were going for, it succeeds. I wish I HAD listened to this when I was dropping acid.
@rickdelaet1193 Жыл бұрын
I CAN STILL REMEMBER LISTENING TO THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME WITH MY BRAND NEW STEREO WITH THE HEADPHONES ON CRANKED UP. WOW...
@endo1185 Жыл бұрын
When I was in high school, I listened to Pink Floyd when I smoked cannabis for the first time to try to understand musicians better. This song gave me a bat trip.
@katieturows12376 ай бұрын
This song reminds me of my childhood.
@GroundPilotsMusic Жыл бұрын
The greatest album ever made ...
@BlazeofGloryYT7 ай бұрын
The meaning of this song is about how we are on the constantly on the run from death until it takes us.
@sidharthanuroop60307 ай бұрын
1:58 that sound gives me chills
@Mynamesalexa8 ай бұрын
An Alan Parsons Production Bought the LP in 1973 1st record I bought in my new home Sears on Johnson Highway Norristown, Pa
@RhoyM7 ай бұрын
Allan Parson, trabalhou tambem com os Beatles, onde ele começou.
@elizabethnavarro69153 ай бұрын
Es como estar flotando en el espacio en medio de supernovas y naves espaciales y millones de galaxias lo digo por los sonidos mas que una obra maestra es una genialidad ni a picazo u o otro artista habría inventado tal genialidad❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@Leandro-js2mb Жыл бұрын
Muito obrigado PINK FLOYD por tudo de tudo
@74SD455TAАй бұрын
I was in my very early of smoking grass, probably less than my 10th time, and me and buddy put on "Dark Side of the Moon" (1st time I was hearing the whole album) and when "On the Run" was being played, I thought I was in a different universe....maybe I was, those first few times getting high were the best as was this album. Both the album and myself are still smoking 50 years later!
@Ryan_Hansen Жыл бұрын
this song just makes my brain so happy and how it melds into the next track.
@TiqerboyАй бұрын
I remember when I first heard this. A friend gave me a recording of Pink Floyd's Darkside of the Moon on Casette and I popped it into my Walkman and listened to it while riding the TTC Subway late at night to the end of its line in what I think is Scarboro. It felt surreal listening to this music, late at night on a subway train car with hardly anyone in it.
@stevenlawrence3614 Жыл бұрын
I just love Pink Floyd!
@Bruhhhh4011 ай бұрын
I remember this song from the movie: the black phone
@kaliboo60 Жыл бұрын
If I had but one album...this is it. With headphones only!!
@Alert66 Жыл бұрын
Это настоящая музыка никогда не устареет.
@Polyglot_English Жыл бұрын
Оптимист
@Alert66 Жыл бұрын
@@Polyglot_English Пессимист?
@МаринаСветлакова-л3з Жыл бұрын
👍👍👍Это и есть настоящая Музыка.
@Polyglot_English Жыл бұрын
Нет, это просто ностальгия
@АдельКапитонов-с2ъ Жыл бұрын
@@Polyglot_Englishесли бы это была просто ностальгия, люди бы не открывали для себя эту группу из поколения в поколения. Поэтому смотри как сейчас у молодежи котируются гиганты 70ых-80ых как Eagles, Van Halen и прочие, и как котируется бессмертная музыка Флойда и Битлз
@alancooper89122 ай бұрын
When we was growing up I used to lock my brother in a bedroom in our hanted house with this album playing ha what fun we had
@spacetitan2198 Жыл бұрын
My favorite album, and it was released before I was born.
@marciofreitas9449 Жыл бұрын
❤
@susanboyd547110 ай бұрын
Oh wow! I was 10. Glad you enjoy the music .❤
@Lucy-AnneVasconcelos9 ай бұрын
a lotta people i saw rating this song said its bad. i think its the most beautiful sound i have ever heard in this album. the dark side of the moon is the best album to hear in an airplane flight. Someone agrees?
@tto05088 ай бұрын
Ikr
@mikedrinan5223 Жыл бұрын
Very sharp and clear, down to the nanosecond 😉
@Spacemonkey12411 ай бұрын
I love listening to this while I’m on the road.
@lordsesshomaru8960 Жыл бұрын
To see the year 2023 alongside this... It almost makes me admire past chaos.
@davidhemphill24094 ай бұрын
I listened to this while speed-walking to my connecting flight a few months ago. An experience I'll never forget. Made to my gate just in Time. 😉
@jeremiahmoreira507 Жыл бұрын
When I heard this track for the first time I was imagining flying through a neo-city like blade runner. Just imagine, it’s nighttime, the architecture reaches high into the clouds, neon lights bathe the city, large hologram advertisements speak out seemingly directly to you, other spinners are flying all around you passing you from above etc. all headed to their own destinations. You are trying to blend in with the traffic as you are being pursued by someone working against your favor. As he gets closer you start to maneuver in through traffic as best you can. Tensions rise until the inevitable crash. I like to think I got successfully away while the pursuer crashed. But that’s the beauty of art you can think whatever you want
@dwayneandrews2059 Жыл бұрын
On the run, an exercise in lunacy. Scared me to death as a child in the 70's. Still evokes that same feeling of uneasy excitement even 50 years later. 😵
@davidking3699 Жыл бұрын
One of the original experiments in the art of stereo mastering - headphones give this a whole other dimension...
@RubenGreenshadow Жыл бұрын
My favorite part of Darkside. Wonderful sound now!
@gatitosdefresa Жыл бұрын
Best band ever
@BJcanal2708 ай бұрын
F...yeah
@patkelly83093 ай бұрын
It's been Remasterd about 10 bloody times! It doesn't need it at all it never did
@kevingill64824 күн бұрын
IMO The greatest album ever recorded! loved it since it's release in 1973.
@randomguy61174 ай бұрын
I seem to be in the minority on this, but I actually think this is the best cut on the album. It's brilliantly conceived and put together.
@skyofthelivingdeadАй бұрын
I agree
@blancatorres1047 Жыл бұрын
A masterpiece just like everything Pink Floyd does ❤
@xsm5525 Жыл бұрын
ummagumma? endless river?
@TheCubeOfficial77 Жыл бұрын
@@xsm5525ummagumma has some good songs and endless river is underrated
@bridgetsylvesterprice7379 Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of that Sesame Street skit from the 70s-80s where the man’s nose, chin, and forehead change shape to sounds like what’s almost exactly in this song. There’s a female version too with higher pitched sound effects, I’m sure some of you know what I’m talking about…..
@chasey2327 Жыл бұрын
a spooky but great track when u first hear it on the album - and the 'making of ' with roger in the studio for the Pompeii video is fantastic seeing an innovative work in progress
@FurryWrecker9116 ай бұрын
When people give me funny looks for listening to drum and bass, dub, techno, etc, I point at bands such as Pink Floyd because they were figuring out how to do it long before electronic music took off as its own genre. These guys shaped my interests as a kid.
@alesrupnik88833 ай бұрын
Couldn’t agree more! Also was fascinated that Deadmau5 mentioned on the Shawn Ryan Shown that the Pink Floyd were one of the first bands who actually made electronic music.
@thefrontline22 Жыл бұрын
PINK FOREVER AND EVER FLOYD
@MikeeHollMartz Жыл бұрын
This masterpiece of music took Black Phone to a whole other level.
@spudlee3547 Жыл бұрын
The Tribe ❤️ is Strong mate 💪❤️🎶🎶🎶🎶
@BernardFiguiere7 ай бұрын
🎼 It's my favorite part of the album, we're a bit in the atmosphere of the Tangerine Dream albums of the time, I love listening to it with the in-ear headphones 🎶
@IBEROTIPS Жыл бұрын
This track made me feel scared when I was a child.. because most of the time the news on television used this song when they addressed the UFO Phenomena.. Now I enjoy this masterpiece.... But I remember how scary i was..
@readventurekids11 ай бұрын
It's just an explosion of pure unadulterated ecstasy this set. Relentless waves of euphoria and darkness in equal measure. By the time that Van Halen guitar in the Jem 77 tune kicks in followed by that insane breakdown I am in literal tears.
@randy52111 ай бұрын
Listening to On The Run, on acid in the 90's...what an epic time to be a kid
@maltlickey7 ай бұрын
I remember going to work with my father when I was a little boy and we sometimes listened to this song and pretended we were running from aliens in the car.
@Jay_to_Jay3 ай бұрын
The laughing that starts at 2:52 is eerie af
@enriquepastor36267 ай бұрын
I fell in love instantly with this track as a kid, I used to ask my dad on long car trips to put on the cassette with the "clocks" and "ufos and horses" songs, and I sat in the backseat while listening to this, closing my eyes imagining I was hiding in a dusty abandoned store, in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere, looking through the broken blinds how all this mayhem happened outside: crazy people fighting, skeleton bikers from hell and ufos flying by and shooting laser and wild horses running away.
@kriscaitanya Жыл бұрын
Listening this while driving is such a real experience
@JaydanMata2024 Жыл бұрын
Let gooooooo pink floyd forever
@ShinotheblackcatАй бұрын
My second favorite song on this album.
@Lemontarts01 Жыл бұрын
I was at an electronics n stuff store the other day with my mother. (Im 22) Saw the album and i freaked the fuck out. She then freaked out and was like "you know pink floyd?" My response was "I may not have had any LSD experiences yet, but these guys are the reason i want to😂😂" I love you guys. The music you made was so unique
@MelioraCogito Жыл бұрын
♥it. … though, there is something missing when the track abruptly ends and nothing happens (i.e. the next track _Time_ doesn't begin … 😓). Let us not forget the invaluable contribution and collaboration of Alan Parsons in the engineering of this album. Clare Torry's vocals in _Great Gig in the Sky_ still gives me goose bumps. The entire album is still 50-years later, an absolute masterpiece (gawd the '70s was a great time to grow up in).
@johnPapineau-x3lАй бұрын
The time sequence music for this kicked ass too
@blancatorres1047 Жыл бұрын
I have seen the laser show for Dark Side of the moon at the Flandrau Planetarium in Tucso, Az like 2-3 times with my son, the first time he was still a child, so glad I taught him to love great music ❤
@JustJeph33Ай бұрын
Plane came down the cable, explosion on the screen- made to look like it was mere centimeters from the screen.. awesome! L.A. Sports Arena '75.. during chief Ed Davis' war on drugs. Y'all remember that? Guys in the bathroom getting frisked whilst takin a leak
@stephenhauser9440 Жыл бұрын
So ahead of their time
@Bloodybloodworktimesapjasper Жыл бұрын
Best track on the album
@GaryPlayer69-f9iАй бұрын
We Used To Love To Drop Acid And Put On The Headphones And Trip Balls, Big-Time, To This Album!!😂😂😂😂😂
@eddiebazan6411 Жыл бұрын
I had to explain to one of my contemporaries that “on the run” and “run like hell” were two different songs by the same gift from god.☮️
@subooking Жыл бұрын
On the run like hell
@fwoomp6664 ай бұрын
People in 1973 were NOT ready for this
@TheJimbomull12 ай бұрын
Some of us were. I was heavily into early Krautrock at the time. I thought the Floyd album was too commercial lol. Sounds great now though.
@michaelblair55662 ай бұрын
I was 1 year old when this came out.
@Baphomet2311 ай бұрын
By and away the best track on the album.
@johnsmith-qw8zv Жыл бұрын
A breakthrough album. No band has anything like it (sorry guys, but it's a fact, deal with it).🎸
@susanlaurence8745 Жыл бұрын
Haha, yes!!!
@reberali6930 Жыл бұрын
And no one will do for the rest of the human race!! Hands down
@guts9160 Жыл бұрын
Pretty boring band
@Thealex97 Жыл бұрын
Try listening to Shpongle and let me know
@predeterminedmeat5024 Жыл бұрын
Flaming lips soft bulletin
@Goatchild909 ай бұрын
Crazy how they included a Plane crash into this album and it doesn't disrupt the vibe of the album sonically. That's hard to do. Shout out to 70's recording technology.
@deylopezllanos Жыл бұрын
Smoking a joint right now with this masterpiece ❤🍁
@rooms1028 Жыл бұрын
What's great about this album is you don't need to.
@beza6825 Жыл бұрын
0:00 part 1 1:00 part 2 1:57 part 3 2:41 part 4
@jencasemusic4 ай бұрын
The beginning of electronic music 🙏🖤
@thejrm420 Жыл бұрын
50 years later into the21st. century way ahead of time