Predictions of tech's future from 1992 | Michael Crichton

[@MarkNeri]

Michael Crichton talks about "unplugging" back in 1992, and we're still talking about it today. TED should reword the title for this video, though. You're kind of expecting a list of predictions. Instead, this talk is really more of his view on an interesting human problem brought about by modern technology

[@northbeachfilms]

he was talking about the future. we are living it now. and he saw it coming. :)

[@omalone1169]

​@@northbeachfilmsthere was Ted Talks in 1992. Surely that's when Neil Postmans book came out

[@browngirlinaclownworld2077]

4:00 - He's talking about a famous 1992 ad featuring Humphrey Bogart, Louis Armstrong and other actors digitally placed into a Pepsi ad alongside contemporary stars like Elton John. Not exactly a deepfake, but a progenitor.

[@omalone1169]

Where is the proof this exists?

[@ryanellis4474]

Genius So far ahead of his time Was his cancer brought on by a diet of seed oils? I wish Crichton lived today!! What would Michael Crichton make of the current era? This fellow would be ahead of OUR time if he was alive today What forward-looking ideas would he have at the moment if still with us? I will pray for America. Please pray for me. God Bless you.

[@renee-mariekrugkrug3989]

Michael could be thought of a modern day Prophet of sorts...think of all the topics and studies /pseudostudies etc., he had the insight...warnings ....nice

[@Joejoeanoejsfy]

long live crichtonsaurus the dino named after this man he did not deserve to die

[@Death_Jaw]

what a legend

[@omalone1169]

Interesting how the man who exposes the sexual harassment industry would talk on technology

[@thanksfernuthin]

In case you didn't get the wheelchair joke, Michael is 6'9". There's tall and then there's "Holy shit! Look at that guy!!!" He was one of those. And he was as brilliant as he was tall.

[@ChrisInToon]

Taller than a Velociraptor then. With that kind of height is this why Jeff Goldblum was cast in the movie to be like him. Thanks,

[@drownthepoor]

This man had a strong influence on me, despite never reading his books. His ideas, and the way film-makers portrayed them was the stuff of a young man of my generation's dreams. But to look into him, and find we had so many odd interests in common. I also enjoy coding, but I really was shocked when looking at his art collection. Computers and technology are something I've been extremely passionate about, but I see the effect it's had on people and society. Yes, it's had great effects, and has put people in a position to learn and do things we'd never had before. But it has ruined people in the most fundamental ways, and disconnected so many of us. I've been a big art fan most of my life, and a digital designer. I've painted, but I lack the technique to illustrate things like people. I'm better at procedural production, and a lot of the artists I enjoy used a mixed-media approach. Chrichton's collection featured some of the works by my favorite artists. Particularly Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns. It surprised me.

[@northbeachfilms]

we love you michael crichton. thank you. it is also worth watching his 2007 interview. which describes the world today: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqHGm3Wug6eggaM

[@callusdoc]

He was a much better writer than a speaker.

[@ap47ල්]

Rimcd

[@healthymealthy775]

Hopefully, there is more of Michael Crichton.

[@northbeachfilms]

2007, he died in 2008: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqHGm3Wug6eggaM

[@healthymealthy775]

@Mr Cheese I know. I mean videos.

[@BuckRolly1]

It was great until the slide show... at which point I zone out and skipped through that part because it was boring. I don't see the point of the Disney slides or maybe I have missed something

[@bobbifreedman2435]

He had five wives. That’s what my dad called a five time loser. Brilliant. Effed up.

[@omalone1169]

Jack Kammer would disagree as would Mel Feit but I'm guessing you don't want to hear their views ?

[@thanksfernuthin]

Most brilliant people are effed up. You don't get unique thoughts and ways of looking at things by being normal.

[@blackmancer]

dude talking about making a movie in the early 70s in the early 90s while looking like early 40s

[@burnsloads]

Guys. He's just lambasting deepfakes.

[@omalone1169]

10:00 The Disney Land of its day.

[@soundproductionandadvice]

Oh so you do allow comments on 'some' videos. Just not the ones where speakers are seriously suggesting that humans be modified to become intolerant to unhealthy meat. Any credibility you had went years ago. It's quite pathetic.

[@Tarotb]

17 minutes in and I'm still waiting to hear any real 'predictions'. He made a point at the start about focusing on the artificial spectacle over the natural...and then everything has been supporting that.

[@cursedfakenewscfn967]

Huh he was talking about deep fakes in the first 10 minutes

[@Bronco541]

thanks for mentioning that i didnt even think about it in that way...

[@matthewalexander9453]

4:06: mentions the using of past footage to support an idea that the people in the footage were not aware of/do not support, which we see constantly on the news and in political ads. He also mentions the transformation of intellectual property rights around here. 5:20: his recommendation to educational institutions to "digitize" and to use the simplest and newest technologies, which are qualities now touted by almost every institute of higher education. 6:32: "pervasive sense of technology" is likely to grow worse, which it has. 9:30: "technologically dazzling" creations that are "tremendously stimulating and arousing" lose their charm over time and the pervasiveness of that technology mentioned earlier will grow into a yearning for its absence. He uses the term "unplug" and its use in developing alternative perspectives. There are others if you would take the time to listen closely.

[@omalone1169]

​@@matthewalexander945307:20 John Schully on invisible technology

[@blueclex1222]

Hey

[@em7pug26]

First

[@trienos3040]

That's 25 minutes i'm never getting back

[@agelessorca]

Yep

[@supersouth94]

He's talking about deepfakes and owning your own likeness

[@reddchan]

Did you normally get time refunds?

[@trienos3040]

@@reddchan Its just an expression me old mucker

[@thewealthofnations4827]

He predicted the ipod in 94 page 15 in Disclosure

[@HoratioTalbot771_a]

Westworld ...brilliant

[@omalone1169]

But what about Future world