The Futurists (1967) | Scientists Predict The 21st Century

[@erikals]

The Futurists (1967) features a panel of experts and visionaries, including... Walter Cronkite - Bertrand de Jouvenel - Peter Medawar - Dennis Gabor - Daniel Bell - Walter Sullivan - Ritchie Calder - Gerard Piel - Buckminster Fuller - Herman Kahn - Isaac Asimov - Harrison Brown

[@DonaldBacon-l4x]

B I N G O ! !

[@dirtlevel]

@@DonaldBacon-l4xbot

[@asmukler]

The future changes much slower than people think it will

[@erikals]

@@asmukler...not really. it too is based on Moore's Law. though sure, there are wishful thinkers here and there.

[@MrPanetela]

universal attractors that determine the future are greed and paranoid-ed dominance. Very often these two have dictated nations courses for centuries. Bucky knew that, but he had hope a majority of leaders would seek the noble path...sorry Bucky its 2024 and todays leaders have yet to get the memo...

[@pooky1959]

I work in retail. We used to go to training seminars put on by various companies whose products we sold. In the mid 80’s we went to a seminar by Kodak. The person running the class held up a roll of film and said one day we’d be able to take a picture on a camera and send it to a person across the country in seconds! Remember, this was before the internet was accessible to us as it is today. Almost nobody owned a personal computer. We couldn’t wrap our heads around it and I myself imagined a vacuum tube sending a photo like bank tellers used at drive thrus😂 It was simply beyond our comprehension at the time. And yet, just a few years later…..

[@OneAdam12Adam]

Yeah, the corporate bean counters sold our American intellectual property to the Japanese as well as let the Japanese dump their film into the county with no tariffs.

[@5piral0ut]

And yet Kodak pretty much went bust because they failed to diversify away from photographic film?

[@monkmell]

Yes! I often try to explain to our two daughters what life was like before our smart phones, microwave ovens, streaming services like Spotify, record players, the Telephone Catalogue!They ask things like “what did you actually DO with all that extra time? They’re so used to just getting things “now!” and I worry for their, everyone’s sanity sometimes.

[@ricomajestic]

By the mid80s people were already communicating via phone lines using modems and sending digital information. That wasn't much of a stretch. The internet was already in use by the military.

[@pooky1959]

@@ricomajestic, I was pretty technically illiterate back then, so it was still a mystery to me.

[@CatchThe80sWave]

I miss the days when 2000 seemed futuristic and promising. I'm pretty disappointed by what has transpired since.

[@Pxrish]

To say that is crazy. If you bought back some of the knowledge and technological accomplishments from 2019/2020 these people would be perplexed

[@jamesbraine]

Im talking to you from across the world on a tv that's also a phone that has access to all the knowledge in the wold. Look up tokamak reactor for some wow tech.

[@Pxrish]

@@jamesbraine LOL! IKR

[@sevendaughs7d]

Polluted by propaganda keeping us all confused and fighting each other. If we are deprived of the truth, our ability to make reasoned choices is severely crippled.

[@empireofnoise2200]

divide and conqueir @@sevendaughs7d

[@someguy4911]

My father was a telecommunications engineer from the 1960s until he retired in the late 1980s. He told me stories about the early version of the internet which at the time was only used by the government between military bases and government facilities in the 1980s. Some of the servers he worked on were part of this early version of the internet. He used to tell a story about how one of his coworkers told him at the time that if this system went public, companies could advertise their products and services on it. My father's response was who would waste their money advertising on this? Little did he know 😂😂

[@colin7763]

My father was a telecom engineer as well in the mid 60s until he passed in the early 90s. One thing I remember the most is when he brought home a piece of fiberoptic cable home and explained to me how it worked. As a kid I thought that was so cool. Oh and the early Internet stuff he told me about was amazing too. Lol..

[@felixmadison5736]

Your dad was a true visionary!

[@Spiritualbike644]

talk about.... missed opportunities...

[@farmergiles1065]

It took much more than just making the system public for it to become a platform worth advertising on. And really, advertising is rather small potatoes compared to the whole impact of the internet. I did some work in the 80s that made use of ARPANET (the "early version"), and it was PRIMITIVE and problematic, but it worked. By the early 90s, I was using email across oceans, in business, and that was much easier and more intuitive. In a few years, the emerging internet was a different story, with the WWW application, browsers, and multiple file and data transfer protocols for sharing information. That decade was a revolution. Your father was right at the time. He just didn't have his focus set on what was at work in out-of-the-way places. Some others did.

[@R-Lee-]

I thought the internet was going to be a fad in 1998😢

[@randystone4903]

I remember 1967 very well and the social turmoil of the day. From my perspective we missed out on our society's intellectual progress when colleges became a profit center for oligarchs. Privatizing college loans, like creating our for profit healthcare, was beyond these good scholars imagination.

[@butterfacemcgillicutty]

Exactly. And convincing the electorate this stupid situation is good for them. Which is exactly what we have in America today.

[@BlackShardStudio]

I worked for Sallie Mae and saw the problem firsthand. For-profit and public funding are a toxic combination and should never mix.

[@aguerra1381]

God was up to something big but His plans were thwarted.

[@analyticalhabitrails9857]

Exactly....

[@MadScientist267]

Hard to imagine social bullshit more neck deep than today

[@ll7868]

1967 - "We're going to develop into an intellectual society." 2021 - "The Earth is flat and gravity is a hoax!"

[@OTB2002]

We are tho

[@jpremier5743]

The social engineers are the intellectuals mindf#$&+= society, and li’e he said, it’s probably won’t be a good thing

[@suzuzusu]

@@OTB2002 jokes on you

[@bradcurtis5324]

Oh my, sooo true. We've went backwards in a big way. Common sense is in short supply. Laughed hard at this one.

[@bonchidude]

2023 The Earth is flat and gravity is a ho.

[@markbowman5515]

Interesting how we all thought that everyone in the 21st century would be so intelligent, and ironically it's probably one of the most unintelligent societies we've seen in history...mostly by design.

[@staceymaudlin2415]

Idiocracy is a documentary

[@slowanddeliberate6893]

People keep getting dumber and dumber.

[@michaelsherron7815]

Yep! ABSOLUTELY!

[@happychappy492]

on purpose absolutely

[@nickguh1323]

No, the stupid ones are just louder now.

[@tomedmonson501]

In my opinion, Asimov (20:47) got it right when he said that the issues of the future were more issues of motivation and will and heart than of technology. If humans can’t learn to value each other and work together, then society will be destroyed.

[@leandrodavila5975]

Agreed. Maybe we could call it a spiritual revolution , in opposition to an industrial one. A shift from competition to cooperation, from the individual to the collective. I'm afraid that we will probably never see that happening.

[@Doo_Doo_Patrol]

Well, so be it then. What are you afraid of?

[@bonwatcher]

Exactly, that was very prescient of Asimov and we are pretty much destroying ourselves now.

[@Doo_Doo_Patrol]

@@leandrodavila5975 Exactly wrong, as it never goes as planned anyway. Collectivity is a recipe for the worst disasters humans know. Cases in point: recent China, Russa, Germany, Japan. Live and let live. Competition is good for human. All oif these guys, especially Fuller are full of themselves. The sky is not falling. Life goes on. Pull your head up out of the sand. Neither you nor they have a right to plan humanity, outside of you misguided opinions.

[@hensonlaura]

​@@leandrodavila5975 Socialism doesn't work. The problem is that somebody has to be in charge, control resources & organize and people are inherently self-interested. It's how we are made, in order to lookout for ourselves! We are inevitably corruptible, in the name of self interest. Look at ANY government, any bureaucracy, down to the DMV. Mindless systems of blanket rules enforced whether beneficial or apt, or not. Everyone in the system focusing first on their own benefit, lol. Humans will ALWAYS strive to get more for themselves & those they love & seek power for it's own sake. When you lock in a system of enforced equity, those people start working for themselves like busy little bees, and the rest of the population is yoked to provide for THEM. Soon their hoards beggar society & they despoil the environment for more, more, more resources. China the USSR come to mind. Venezuela. It is better people are free to provide for themselves, and contribute as a group for those not intelligent enough, or physically capable, of self support. And that system is corrupted too! Anything that has human beings involved is going to be corrupt. The trick is to keep the corruption down to a minimum. Keep government as small as possible and let people run their own lives. Have laws that protect us all and give us equal opportunity. Then your labor benefits yourself, not a bunch of f****** bureaucrat fat cats like we are being ruled by, not SERVED, now. Term limits!

[@michiganspencer6920]

"The FUTURE is NEVER what we predict...if it were....we wouldn't keep making the same mistakes!!!" - Mark Twain

[@ronelltaylor3140]

2023 VISION BIG FACTS 😎

[@kevinfahey5240]

Watching shows like this convinces me that we have actually regressed in the last 50 years. Hope so beautifully expressed by these great minds is gone now.

[@Dan-dy8zp]

I'm glad I live in the 2020's. We've added 20 years to the average world life expectancy since this video, and done many fascinating things with science. Democracy has expanded at the expense of colonialism, and women don't get told they need to bring a male relative with them to open a bank account in America any more.

[@garyfrancis6193]

@@Dan-dy8zpThat didn’t happen in the 80’s either. Stop thinking about things that ceased to exist 100 years ago.

[@Dan-dy8zp]

@@garyfrancis6193 I wrote "I'm glad I live in the 2020's. We've added 20 years to the average world life expectancy since this video". In what way did you misinterpret that to mean that I think people lived to be 100 in perfect health in the past? Until the 1974 ECOA law, it was legal and common for financial institutions to discriminate against people on the basis of sex. Not every single woman every time, no. Without colonialism (which involved lots of really gruesome mass murder) Africa would probably be much better off financially. Do you actually believe the only way to industrialize or build roads or acquire democracy is to be conquered? Do you think that's how the industrial revolution happened in Britain? Apartheid In South Africa ended in the 1990's.

[@biffwellington823]

Yeah, but they only had 2 genders to deal with back then.

[@zildjiandrummer1]

I think the number of idiots is roughly the same percentage, we just weren't aware of them before because they didn't have social media. Remember, you can only judge what you perceive, and all these snippets are from crafted tv shows and similar, not the average everyday conversations of common people.@@blackandcold

2019 over-worked. Underpaid. Over-taxed. Over-dosed. Narcissists. Depression. Anxiety. Addictions to money, drugs, food, drink, attention. Identity disorders. Drowning in debt while bombarded with corporate propaganda to consume 24/7... Science!

[@atlasshrugged2u]

Couldn't have said that better myself *smashing!*

[@jntj3007]

@@atlasshrugged2u Ditto.

[@90steenager89]

smashing your Mom Sadly your accurate 💯 percent

[@IceManLikeGervin]

Facts!!

[@7jandi7]

smashing your Mom don’t forget slow extermination of masses of people via endocrine disruptor‘s and an anti traditional family campaign

[@JonnRamaer]

Hey ReelBlack. Apparently lots of persons don't understand what you are doing...helping us.Some of us comprehend. Your work is appreciated.

[@johnhickum8967]

Yea even the part where is sooo obviously completely ignorant.

[@alphaomega8373]

@@johnhickum8967 Eat at Joe's

[@michaelmuhammad142]

If the veil is lifted , you truly hear and understand what your seeing. Thanks for the upload!

[@BiometricFileHasBeenCorrupted]

Got that right@@michaelmuhammad142

[@chipkrug4191]

Seriously - amazing panel. With the exception of most of Bucky Fuller's imaginings, the majority of the issues elaborated are things we should have been tending all this time. We've known better since at least 1967, and yet here we are.

[@fleedermouse]

Yes it’s amazing to see this perspective. It’s all crusty white dudes but they are all top level and our new world is ensuring they we capture more intelligence through diversity. I am watching this to gain insight as to where to go.

[@Its_Mango]

Some guy from the 20th century: "In 2020, we'll have flying cars." Me, in 2020: Bro, not even planes are flying right now.

[@JESEE818]

Just Google or KZbin flying car. People have accomplished more than you can possibly imagine. Don't forget to thank GOD

[@Its_Mango]

@@JESEE818 I'm not so sure if you get the joke mate...

[@JESEE818]

@@Its_Mango i didn't watch the whole thing. 😶

[@Its_Mango]

@@JESEE818 didn't need to. Coronavirus has forced planes not to fly as much anymore so not even planes are flying right now ._.

[@JESEE818]

@@Its_Mango yes they are buddy 🛫

[@brianarbenz7206]

The future isn't what it used to be.

[@GermanDisla]

Can I use that in a song?

[@orkaodyssey8926]

“Reality isn’t what it used to be.”

[@nordini3516]

Thats deep

[@actualideas8078]

Nice

[@EsoTownBizz6500]

@@orkaodyssey8926 Bingo..

[@JustASliceOfSweetPotatoPie]

I was 13 when this was made, and the possibilities of a brighter future was on the horizon. But know I am 68, and though the advaces made in Technology and in Science have made things convenient and we live longer, yet mankind refuses to consider the impact they have on others so that we still live in our small communities incased in a bubble. We see evenmoreso now, that if we don't change mankind will surely destroy themselves. This needs to be played in every classroom so that our children don't grow-up making the same mistakes we did. Just another reason teaching and learning History, Sociology, and Psychology really, really matters.

[@svenjansen2134]

68? Almost 69! NOICE

[@raenaldo]

@@svenjansen2134silly, 😂 but we would be remiss not to listen to and appreciate information from any elder. I. 44 rn and I AT LEAST process even the most ridiculous of takes because I gain perspective. Each one, teach… 🙏

[@bobwoww8384]

Please learn Earths disaster cycles. We’ve entered into one already. There are phony agendas currently propagated designed to keep consumerism/capitalism alive and distract humanity from comprehending the magnitude of the impending destruction. However all hope is not gone. Earth has endured these catastrophes for millions of years and humans also for as long as we’ve been on this planet. The greatest threat is living without electricity. Indigenous and aboriginal peoples will suffer less because they’re not dependent upon electricity. THIS IS of utmost importance. Knowledge is power

[@loadinginprogress2339]

"It's not that we have more knowledge, which we do. it's a change in the character of the knowledge"🤔

[@craigmoreland9569]

Good statement. Especially since People Have Moved further, and further Away from GOD-JESUS!

[@htos1av]

@youareonthetube1 I wish it would hurry up.

[@ronjones2266]

Entertainment and communication technologies have increased, while education, wisdom, and morals have fallen off the charts.

[@LegoGBlok]

Indeed.

[@JFmK-sh5nh]

Well said.

[@Alan-in-Bama]

Which is a compounding problem within our society.

[@ZDiddy7777]

Very, very, well said!! I'm gonna steal your observation.... Ill totally attribute you, haha

[@osamabad3597]

Yes, with all the racism, misogyny, and homophobia back then, but we’re less moral today because we use Instagram too much

[@srellison561]

Bell said that he didn't think gadgets would have much of an impact on the future. Personal computers, smart phones, broadband networking, and the growth of social media on those platforms completely changed the world. Few people foresaw the impact of solid-state technology and social media sofware.

[@maurianobaruso5859]

He said Opinion Control ...hmmmmmm that is definitely happening

[@chickenjuice4841]

Why do you think the internet was made public

[@rankcrush4374]

Hearts and minds???

[@rankcrush4374]

Arbeit macht frei is a German phrase meaning "work sets you free". The slogan is known for appearing on the entrance of Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps.

[@richardharris3423]

Johanis Ardnt, FACT. The Leftist Supremacist (fake) mass media like the Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, ABC-TV, CBS-TV, NBC-TV, MSNBC-TV, etc are definitely used to control public opinion by the Leftist Supremacists. They are definitely a cult.

[@pseudonayme7717]

This is from a time when you had nationalised free education funded by the state. It was a better time. Now we have sectioned off the 'best' schools for the useless children of the super rich, given degrees for sale and told they are clever regardless of educational attainment or ability. For evidence of this, see George Bush junior and Donald J Trump senior 😏

[@spydude38]

The one gentleman was spot on regarding clean energy and the development of batteries.

[@rossonerodiavolo8074]

9:45 Yeah, it's too bad there are corporate interest prohibiting the progress of this technology, even in Thorium reactors

[@ripdinecola7250]

Spot on? Or has been planned since man first sinned? Where are these "futurist" getting their information?....... Dark evil forces my friend.

[@devinangola3458]

In 1967 we had real problems with pollution, we cleaned that up with technology to improve efficiency and catalytic converters for exhaust emissions in the 70's. Clean energy would be fission that we are so stupidly afraid of, but I think he means fusion that has been promised for 80 years, it doesn't exist. Batteries were around in 1967, yes there has been improvement, but I'm thinking you mean the storage in electric car batteries now. Ever heard of entropy? Where/what is the energy source to charge that batterie coming from? Let me guess where all this clean energy might come from solar and wind? Dream on.

[@Sealight007]

@@devinangola3458 spot on

[@ChrisfromGeorgia]

@@devinangola3458 Even though I hate catalytic converters, your comment is right on!

[@brianmason9361]

I find it interesting how optimistic most of these men are about what science and technology will do to improve health and living conditions. The reality today seems different, maybe even the opposite, in some cases.

[@Ronhof72]

politics & greed

[@Dan-dy8zp]

Well, 20 years have been added to the global life expectancy since the video. Literacy rates have doubled from 40 some percent to nearly 90 percent, extreme poverty (i.e. can't get enough to eat or clean water) has declined from about 50% to 10% globally.

[@rikmichaels9233]

@@Ronhof72 which really means money Thanks for the boomers selfishness everything got fucked

[@rikmichaels9233]

@@Dan-dy8zpPoverty has been going up, drug addiction is increasing, overdose is increasing mental illness increasing, and suicides skyrocketing -all since BEFORE Covid

[@Cuinn837]

@@rikmichaels9233 Spoiled brats.

[@ralphsanchico2452]

"A liberated slave still dies in the ditch of hunger" That's deep and very profound as I can look around and see a lot of that going on right now in various forms!

[@Tertia_Optio]

Read The Fourth Turning if you want to know why.

[@curtiskryla]

You Know it Sad but True!!! Even in today's Sad World Juas As MLK STATED,,,. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER,,&. Power Brings Freedom,. So Why Do Politicians Treat Us Like Mushrooms By KEEPING US IN THE DARK. AND. FEED US BULLSHIT!!!!??!

[@Wis_Dom]

​@@Tertia_Optio Yes, slavery kept them from learning. Freedom and know-how are two different things.

[@missjade2940]

It was Isaac Asimov for me. His message essentially is "Come together and tackle the next century's issues or perish divided"

[@parkersmith7611]

Hello Cynthia how are you doing today?....Buckminster Fuller said "we're going to have to make all of humanity successful or none" and Alexandre Dumas replied "one for all and all for one". Nothing new under the sun.

[@missjade2940]

@@parkersmith7611 indeed Parker. Thanks and have a pleasant week ahead

[@parkersmith7611]

@@missjade2940 Thank you Cynthia same here...where are you texting from?

[@DaysOfFunder]

Agreed, I am creating a social VR application sort of like VrChat, and my god. The world has got so much smaller, and I can see that we have no idea as a civilization just how small it is about to become

[@dirtlevel]

How did you make his name able to be clicked on?

[@rsuriyop]

If any of so-called "futurists" lived to see the 21st century, I'm sure they would've been mostly disappointed by how it actually turned out.

[@TheAlchaemist]

Don't worry, they would be watching porn on the internet, just like everybody else.

[@crhu319]

That first list of outcomes was pretty dead on.

[@kelcey7579]

​@@TheAlchaemistlmao😂😂😂😂

[@williammchardy5881]

We're not even a quarter of the way into the 21st century, might as well make that same comment in 2005 and say "ah well it didn't pan out"

[@redneckshaman3099]

I'm addicted to pigger nussy

[@idesofmarchUNIAEA]

I am half a century into the future. I watch shows like this when I was a kid. I was expecting so much more of the 21st-century. It's not what you think it's going to be.

[@JoeBoxerNo1]

i honestly believe this is the case today because of the extreme focus on Global Warming, we are literally stifling the use of Energy, we are putting a COMPLETE HaLT on most inventions right now and have been drastically drawing down since 2001, thats why inventions and ingenuity are at an all time low. Our own governments and the richest people in the world all believe human population will continue to rise as it did during the last 1900s and it definitely will not nor can not, in fact, were already on course for Population Collapse due to the policies and laws introduced over the past 20 years. We are driving towards complete collapse of humankind with those in power currently, its sickening and pathetic. There is a real cancer in the heart of mankind, seeing ourselves as PARASITES. That is completely Backwards! We are Symbiotes to this world, we can, if we want to and put effort into it, make this world better on ALL Fronts.

[@brianmeen2158]

Agree and things are much more stranger these days than I expected. I often don’t understand what is happening or why

[@migovas1483]

right? is so disappointing with all the advance, how much more stupid society has become... is like they say, with good times, comes weak people...

[@harlow743]

We,ve GONE BACKWARDS

[@christopherbellore3511]

Meet George Jetson!🎶👾🔭 😂😅😭😢 no flying cars?! 😭😭😭 These BIG HEADS are all a bunch of STUFFED SHIRTS with FLAPPING JAWS and WAGGING TONGUES. BLAH, BLAH, BLAH!!! They all sound so smart. 😯😮😲😬😳🙄🤔🤓🤧🤥🤣

[@tigerwolf8338]

“It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future” - Yogi Berra

[@caezar55]

That sociologist was the most accurate. It was society which changed the most, not the "gadgets" or technology. Intellectual knowledge is now most valuable

[@johnaddeo2251]

They didn't seem to know that we'd be primarily watching porn on our cell phones.

[@totalcontrol154]

He mentioned WAN connectivity..😎

[@alishabazz5905]

John Addeo now we know what you primarily do lol

[@johnaddeo2251]

@@alishabazz5905 - That's how much you know. I watch on cable.

[@Monk-Amani.]

Yes they did.

[@scott6504]

Our libidos are being misdirected with pornography. Any men that are left try to stay away from that garbage.

[@Appolloscott]

Hey 2089 if you get this we knew Mark Zuckerberg was a robot all along.

[@CRYSP45]

I thing he is an alien

[@chasestickler4396]

Lizard

[@ERTChimpanzee]

Imagine someone reading your comment from the year 2089.

[@victorkreitner754]

Walter Cronkite lived until 2009 so thankfully he got to see some things develop like internet and social media forums in the 21st century compared to what these scholars were taking about in 1967. In some ways I'm glad Walter isn't around to see how stuff has turned to crap in 2023.

[@gymshoe8862]

Cronkite seemed to never tire of being wrong--about everything. He had a bully pulpit (TV)--he spouted off every night and we said he's the most trusted man in the world--but why? He was a thoughtless liberal and the TV culture gobbled him up--without a care that his ideas worked or not. Left wing ideas never work!

[@le_th_]

The internet was made public on January 1, 1983. Yes, seriously.

[@dorothywillms115]

The Great Reset after COVID. These guys would be rolling over in their graves hearing about all this crap and “our friends” Klaus Schwab, Putin, Biden, Trudeau and a certain King in England. Or that I could complain to everybody in the world on this contraption called an iPad.

[@dorothywillms115]

@@le_th_to whom? I heard the first one was called the beast somewhere in Brussels. They called it that not only because it was so large, they literally thought it would enter the age of the Anti Christ and was the image of the beast. Sometimes I wonder if that might actually be right.

[@Dan-dy8zp]

Do you really believe that the world suddenly turned to crap in 2023? Was 2022 better in some particular way? Why? Seems like the best year humanity has ever had yet to me. Like most years.

[@xfiler-gl7nc]

Opinion control? Fertility control. Wide communication. Household robots. They told people what they were doing .

[@muertovivo2156]

Fact

[@turecomuerde]

They still tell us but we are too busy watching games of thrones and reading Harry Potter to realize it.

[@1Earl100]

@@turecomuerde look at the baseball football and basketball stadiums

[@edwardyang8254]

Wide "band" communication... That's the technology that made cell phones possible.

[@derekmulready1523]

@@edwardyang8254 that was discovered in the 1940s by Ingrid Bergman but wasn't credited because 1, she was an immagrint 2, she was Female 3she was an actress and not to be taken seriously . Think how far we would be now 70 years on.......? Irish citizen

[@erinrising2799]

thank you KZbin for sending me down this rabbit hole, I just watch seven episodes of this. Now I'm nostalgic for a future that never was

[@hrundibakshi6830]

And the young man in the back is our intern, Steve Jobs, pay him no mind, he just brings us coffee and sweeps up after we leave.

[@joshualee272]

What part is that?

[@gaminglegend]

@@joshualee272 It's a joke

[@joshualee272]

@@gaminglegend stuff like that does happen. Like when steve jobs went to xerox/IBM i forget which one and saw the future of computers and they didnt know what they had. I dont think they even patented the mouse.

[@gaminglegend]

@@joshualee272 No, I meant that the other guy was making a joke about Steve Jobs being an intern, and it sounded like you didn't get the joke, because you asked what part is that?

[@brooklynred6762]

Hrundi Bakshi 🤣

[@annebowman5954]

He was optimistic about how valued scientists and intellectuals would be... The Scientific American guy had such good points about aid coupled with education. Asimov had it right when he spoke of mankind having to work as one to tackle problems, or not be around any more, and Harrison Brown was so insightful about the long term view being crucial and, unfortunately, how important it was to act back then, and so right about the dangers of putting off any action.

[@churblefurbles]

But none realized they had set up a game that rewarded corruption. Asimov was similarly deluded about human nature, and as this demand to work as one fails, we see them reveal their tyrannical nature, ever justifying "emergency powers".

[@1traphistory]

@@churblefurbles Not saying you’re wrong but I’m curious about if you think there is or was a better system being used anywhere in the world?

[@duellingscarguevara]

@@1traphistory the laws and conventions exist, but, the game became about circumventing compliance (“emergency powers”, never went away?).

[@myeyeswentdeaf6213]

@Trap History Speaking as an American I think Holland seems to be doing it right. Countries like Switzerland and like that.

[@duellingscarguevara]

@@myeyeswentdeaf6213 Success stories, of countries with universal health care, wont sell there. Let’s see how Britain’s nhs goes, now charley is in charge. I expect to see a few subtle changes,...let us see.

[@SimirJohnson]

In the future, i predict people will be watching this film on a small hand-held device whilst sitting on the toilet

[@jeanninestruck5203]

😂

[@iqnill]

That was television when people had interests and an attention span...

[@xx_ronaldreagan_xx7779]

People don’t even watch much television for it now you watched it we all did, our attention is just fine it’s about putting out the media on the device and technology at hand, they put quality media on television because they had no other option, I watch media on my computer through the internet because that’s were I spend my free time and where I find high quality media because the world chose the internet over the television, why wouldn’t they went it’s instant and reaches people faster

[@ScottyKirk1]

Really appreciate whoever transferred this to video. Great job on the video and especially the sound. All about the telecine and the capturing device used. This is a very cool video also! 😉

[@Research0digo]

Yeah, man ... Eugenics is cool.

[@farmergiles1065]

I watched this show as a kid, and we're now almost a quarter of the way through the 21st century. I like the mention early on in the episode of how one futurist did not make predictions, and wouldn't have liked seeing what things would be like 35 years later. He wanted to live his values and influence what would happen for the best (as he saw it). Looking back at it all, it's only too clear that intelligence shapes what happens less than we think it will, and that technology may make far-reaching changes, but the consequences are a mix. It should give us pause looking at this video. It shows clearly how "progress" is a phantom. What comes is what we do to ourselves, and many times it's not pretty. How much care we should take, then, to appreciate what is good and kind when it appears!

[@Harryjohnson689]

The year is now 2019 and we have twerk contests....

[@V12_smoke]

Dang 🤣

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

John Disbro - lmao! 😂 😂

[@anthonyb7949]

Like that Mike Judge movie, idiocracy!!!

[@atlasshrugged2u]

LOL!

[@friendswitdadealer]

And we thank black baby Jesus for that.

[@Riogi]

I am taking my time going through your other postings, Mike. Your site is a true treasure.

[@MiticDane]

Your smile is the only treasure..

[@richard169]

If (as Isaac Asimov says here) the "one thing" we cannot control is the human heart, then all of us must acknowledge we are in service of that center of feelings and dreams and yearning to find wholeness. Also, on a totally different subject, love the unintentional distortion of the music at the end.

[@tomwilliams4885]

Despite all of the technology available, for the most part, humans do not improve. Mentally, physically or spiritually.

[@tomwilliams4885]

@steal threaded good for you. What was this video about anyway. That's right. Who cares really. I wasn't needing feedback. I don't dwell on this stuff. And I'm done thinking about it. Have a good day. I'm going to.

[@rayjr62]

He also talked about the loss of identity. Dr. McLuhan claimed we are returning back to the bi-cameral mind as well as becoming collective and tribal, without any individual consciousness whatsoever. As we become closer (via the Information Age / Globalization) we become more tribal as we lose our identity.

[@tomwilliams4885]

@@rayjr62 That may be true. Interesting. Thanks.

[@imwinningthisone7613]

@Truth the average knowledge that a person has has gone up significantly due to the technology available to the common folk, I believe humans were getting smarter and smarter because they kept making better and better technology and getting better ideas... It's just after they did so, everyone kind of layed back and doesn't want to think because we can just search anything up on the internet in order to know it, iq is going down but overall knowledge per person is going up

[@imwinningthisone7613]

@Truth I'd say knowledge is literally knowing something and intelligence is based on what you can make and think of by yourself

[@pablolsanchez4021]

I saw visionary, inventor, engineer, architect, scientist and Harvard dropout Buckminster Fuller lectures at Hunter College. Fuller was on a different level and preferred to speak to the youth because he knew they were more receptive to innovation!

[@gymshoe8862]

They had skulls full of mush and would listen to his ideas without a hint of wisdom. They would accept him easily.

[@pablolsanchez4021]

@@gymshoe8862 Adults tend to be too judgmental sometimes without giving you the a chance. Buckminster Fuller was and outsider with new ideas and was ridiculed for it. Young people never called him a “quack pot”!

[@Research0digo]

@@pablolsanchez4021 quack pot or crack pot? :) I've been a huge fan of Fuller's for as long as I can remember. His earth (globe) projection is superior to the Mercator as Richard Petty was to every other race car driver - til this day.

[@pablolsanchez4021]

@@Research0digo “Crackpot”🤣! Your so right, Fuller was way ahead of his time and a true humanitarian.

[@pablolsanchez4021]

Today with social media’s worst, anyone can discredit by posting falsehood!

[@sneakyquick]

Phones information sharing and gathering and computing power did exponentially change over the time from 67-2000. Almost everything else was already invented but was simply improved. Cars planes phones tv etc.

[@stacks1548]

Damn, they wouldve never thought of people watching them on a phone right now

[@feodiente9460]

One of them did im sure.. They're paid to think futuristic..lol

[@Nekotaku_TV]

Isaac Asimov probably did.

[@GearsinMotionGraphics]

Interesting documentary on what is the past within the present. Energy cannot be destroyed

[@atlasshrugged2u]

This is how I know we don't really die. We have souls, a spirit, or in today's terminology *"energy"* Our bodies break down and give out, but the soul can not. So let me go ahead and finish that phrase you quoted by A.Einstein. *"Energy can never be lost or destroyed, only* *transferred from one [place, time, dimension] to* *another"* Or, as the bible puts it *"Just as a man is* *appointed once to die, and after that to face* *judgement"* Hebrews 9:27

[@totalcontrol154]

@@atlasshrugged2u you took the exact words out of my mouth, I was just about to comment and say the same. Except for the bible phrase, everything else I understand..

[@atlasshrugged2u]

@@totalcontrol154 That's because great minds think alike *Tony!*

[@Jj-rq9sp]

T Davis cool i see what you did there

[@Research0digo]

Many years ago I had an interesting dream about what 'heaven' really was. Frequencies & nothing more, hence our 'immortal' souls. :)

[@seanquaint3258]

Hearing the editor of Scientific American acknowledging the horrors of the Industrial Revolution and advocating for economic aid is so refreshing to hear.

[@DavidMcdonald-df8tb]

It bothered me. He sounded like a toxic socialist

[@jeanninestruck5203]

Yes! That got me too.

[@rayveilevans9213]

This was already a plan in action

[@Research0digo]

CBS & RAND - yep.

[@atlasshrugged2u]

Exactly!

[@misma9596]

HalleluYAH

predictive programing and social engeniering 101..

[@atlasshrugged2u]

@ From the cradle to the grave. You're right *Cyro!*

[@williamdillard5060]

They never imagined that we would be able to watch this program on a hand held phone and You Tube.

[@alfredobracero8314]

And we never imágened, that in the midle of the 20th century, scientists, would predict, a lot of modern inventions used today...

[@mediathreat]

in a way they did, on the board it mentioned watching canned lectures from professors on TV :)

[@valentinius62]

It's not that miniaturization wasn't an ongoing thing. These men saw radios with vacuum tubes shrink to hand-held radios with transistors. Even TVs had gotten smaller in their lifetimes. They probably simply couldn't fathom why the hell anyone would want to carry a phone around with them and read electronic telegrams on them 24-7. Chase Manhattan put up an ATM in 1939. They removed it a few months later...lack of interest. People didn't see the need to have access to cash 24-7. The key is to predict changes in society, not advances in technology.

[@francisdec1615]

I was born in 1971 and I first didn't like the PC (except for playing games on) and the mobile phone. And I still use cash sometimes and drive a manual car.

[@EdwardoEdwardo-d2w]

@@mediathreat So they predicted VCR's.

[@JerryDLTN]

22:43 Harrison Scott Brown (September 26, 1917 - December 8, 1986)

[@kirkjohnson9353]

"We're gonna have to make all of humanity successful or none." Damn, that IS some futuristic thinking.

[@_ata_3]

And we are still to accomplish that.

[@sistersamich2075]

Hell yeah!

[@AnakinandPadme1231]

He ain't wrong

[@setoalgorytgm2748]

Your joking?

[@aerobique]

🌏🌎🌍✊

[@bethmincey6998]

WIW! JUST WOW! I Just came across your channel today. It is more than obvious that you have put a lot of RESEARCH and an overwhelming amount of VERY HARDWORK in to it. THANK YOU. Though I was PERSONALLY aware I did see some of your clips that will help the (unaware) become aware. The clips brought up (FRESH) feelings about our past and should make (any) CHRISTIAN (any) AMERICAN have feelings for some things in our country's past. Even with those particular clips, I have (seen) NO attempt by you to be political or ideological. You seem to be making an EARNEST attempt at merely provide the HISTORICAL INSIGHT TO THE PAST and let the chips fall where they may. Thus far, I have seen a wonderfully unadulterated and insightful channel that does not appear to be a tool of grievances but rather of education and awareness. We must preserve NOT destroy the past but we also must recognize our sins (and) how far we have come. Recognizing that will allow the sins of the past to (be) forgiven so real healing takes place. Thank you for your contribution to that preservation and most of all EDUCATION.

[@telcobilly]

Great comment! Very insightful, I totally agree..

[@JerryDLTN]

14:30 Richard Buckminster Fuller July 12, 1895 - July 1, 1983

[@Samgurney88]

I’m very grateful for this upload. I greatly admire Medawar as both a brilliant scientist and a supremely gifted (and perhaps underrated) science writer. I have never seen footage of him until now!

[@remmymafia3889]

"what do you WANT the future to bring" (Medawar)

[@dichebach]

Medawar was one of my heroes.

[@msmuse7483]

Issac Asimov, spot on! (At 21.11) He spoke so presciently about the greatest threat to our world and future, which we are seeing play out in real time today.

[@patrickfitzmichael5940]

Cronkite had a look on his face like "what that n****a saying?"

[@rorimckinnon2875]

Scary

[@DaysOfFunder]

Absolutely! He nailed it.

[@soundmindbodydivine]

Today is both yesterday's tomorrow, and tomorrow's yesterday. It is all a gift, that's why they call it the 'Present'...

[@Goosnav]

One of the first glimpses at the ideology of globalism.

[@SundayGravy812]

You noticed.

[@Americansikkunt]

steal threaded Oh, you really don’t like the truth being exposed!

[@Research0digo]

Have you read Perkins' books about Economic Hitmen?

[@اممقداد-ق2م]

OMG! Second day on your channel. Where did you find all these old videos but are extremely describing us today! Lord bless you! I am hooked 😳

[@thepunadude]

I MET BUCKY FULLER IN THE LATE 70S .. EXTRA ORDINARY INTELLECT .. HE TALKED ABOUT THE 'TRINARY' COMPUTER SYSTEM THEN, USED NOW IN QUANTUM COMPUTING .. A VISIONARY!

[@gerardguitarist]

I remember figuring out how old I would be in the year 2000 when I was in junior high. Like 3 years older than my parents were at the time. It was incomprehensible. And now 2020 around the corner. Also incomprehensible...

[@60-second-HACKS]

I remember reading Orwell's 1984 and thinking that it seemed impossible for us to reach that year.

[@roodborstkalf9664]

Time flies

[@thomasewing2656]

I remember the new issue of Mechanics Illustrated in the mail: "The New 1966 Cars Are Here!" My brother and I gloating over it before dad even got to see the issue. I was 10. I read 1984 before 1984.

[@bighomie404able]

@@60-second-HACKS I remember Conan's in the yr 2000 skit.

[@williamanderson7074]

@thomasewing2656 I liked the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado, it looked so futuristic for the time.

[@double-you5130]

2019 most are debt slaves, those who aren’t struggle daily to keep up...

[@actualideas8078]

witek thank the Federal Reserve and CFR

[@usefulidiot2842]

Also the fabians DARPA tavistock trialteral commission the royal and rawles society SRI pentagon BIS world bank imf the Ivy League schools the high end schools in Britain the CIA MI5 MI6 all the clandestine groups all psychological warfare departments and on and on the list goes

[@BonzoDrummer]

Star Trek came out in '66. They were already thinking about transporters, space travel, and synthesized food, but couldn't imagine not having to have a pencil and paper handy on which to take notes.

[@Research0digo]

That's what cheap stenographers were for.

[@Uarehere]

Yeah, Bucky, I'm still waiting on my transporter! 😄

[@Fenstrosity]

Not so much predictions of the future, but plans for the future.

[@_ata_3]

That's why it is more valuable knowledge.

[@brooklynred6762]

Always thought the 2000’s be like the jetsons.... man I’m pissed lmao

[@tfarley34able]

I did too growing up!! 🤣

[@kcfrancis94]

Nothing's changed but holding small computers that also make calls. Well, inability to FUNCTION w/o them. Smh.

[@jeremiahmitchell5312]

@99 overall Stoner Please explain how people have gotten dumber? Scientist are out here doing research while you bitch and cry saying "people gotten dumber", if we gotten dumber then why is our technology 100 times more advance than 1967?

[@charlespeterson348]

What do you mean. No black people

[@brianarbenz1329]

You mean your dog doesn't say, "Ri Rove Roo, Rooklyn!"

[@FROBcom]

So sad @22:10 it’s not been a century yet but it’s extremely clear which way we’re headed

[@zanderpop5517]

I wish I could go back and tell them that people are commenting on this video 54 years later on technology they never could have envisioned.

[@Phantom-darkness]

But nobody in university can define what a woman is.

[@kaduisaui4596]

Mike Judge made a spot on prediction about the future.

[@pdcdesign9632]

Idiocracy is the most important movie of the last 30 years. Young people nowadays don't even know the difference between TO and TOO.

[@catholicdad]

I see what you did there. "I like money."

[@Phantom-darkness]

Brawndo it’s got what plants crave.

[@catholicdad]

Don't worry scrot. Lotsa tards livin' really kick-ass lives.

[@catholicdad]

@@Phantom-darkness brought to you by Carl's Jr.

[@toyguy1956]

Kind of ironic this was shot on 16mm film transferred to video uploaded to KZbin and I was watching it on a phone in 2023 22 years from the time in 67 they were talking about

[@type1008mm]

The power of the RAND Corp think tank and it's reach is mind blowing. They made 2019 to their desire - Mankind is now consumer based with no real purpose.

[@thomasewing2656]

And Monsanto is killing all the pollinators...

[@johnpapiewski8232]

Ha. Read Camus. The only purpose is the one you make.

[@anhiirr]

pre "internet age" bs like MTV were responsible for DEFINING entire Generations sense of IDENTITY. And with the advent of the internet age....the hegemony/powers that be have only quadrupled down on such a concept. IDK i remember "pre-meta" bs like Trading places or wife swap...as shows...ppl would GENUINELY be fans of watching PURELY for the TROLLING....and now ppl claim to be aversive towards the concept of trolling...as if both could be true. As big as reality tv is or tik toc...or broadcasting self aggrandizement seemingly also become part of the status quo since then.

[@deejaye2647]

​@@johnpapiewski8232Camus was a pedofile

[@Research0digo]

That's what capitalism is.

[@samsonsimpson7648]

great video. covering alot of what I've researched and want to know more about.

[@JerryDLTN]

8:31 Walter Seager Sullivan, Jr. (January 12, 1918 - March 19, 1996)

[@BrettCaron]

The Monte Carlo technique is also used around every D&D table, these guys really rolled random society generator tables

[@doughaffner5087]

And nobody rolled Trump for President. They missed the saving roll vs narcissist.

[@markfoster1520]

@@doughaffner5087 omg

[@Sol-Cutta]

I remember sitting in a school lesson in what would been maybe my 2nd or 3rd yr at secondary which was somewhere like 85/86 , thinking how far off the year 2000 was and working out how old I would be then.. I remember it seeming a lifetime off..it passed and now 22yrs on top with is my whole school life and a half...madness..time flies and you don't realise til it's passed.

[@SirAntoniousBlock]

Think about this, we are as close in time to those gentlemen as they were to 1911, with masters & servants, before radio, before womens rights and before the Great War which changed everything.

[@JerryDLTN]

19:00 Herman Kahn (February 15, 1922 - July 7, 1983)

[@TheRoland444]

At one time in the past I trusted the academicians, today I know better to trust absolutely nothing from the "authorities."

[@sidecar7714]

Unless you become gravely ill, then you'll be all over the authorities.

[@sidecar7714]

Like I said, when the rubber hits the road you will love authorities, who have done little to earn your contempt.

[@htos1av]

@@sidecar7714 Six of one, etc. I went to jail eight times because a court clerk stole all my support payments. She committed suicide when I caught her. I have an abject HATRED of anything municipal! I HATE them TO DEATH!!!!!! They had BETTER pray the electricity NEVER goes off and the diesel stocks NEVER run out at the jails and courthouses.... hehehehe........

[@apubakeralpuffdaddy392]

What? You mean all the mistakes about climate change, transgenderism, & covid made you distrust 'the science'? Tsk, tsk, tsk, we must unquestionably believe our moral & intellectual superiors at all times. JK 🤣😂😅😃😁😄😀

[@Research0digo]

Welcome to the 60s.

[@jasonmorgan7844]

Buckminster Fuller said "we're going to have to make all of humanity successful or none" and Alexandre Dumas replied "one for all and all for one". Nothing new under the sun.

[@empireofnoise2200]

frick the amazing stuff will be lost in the Malaise ........we all love each other! ....yeh we are closer than we all can imagine!!

[@SundayGravy812]

Equality is against the laws of nature.

[@SirAntoniousBlock]

Or particularly apt these days, if anything can be true, then nothing is true.

[@Research0digo]

And nothing new under the sun comes from scripture. :)

[@sean_wells]

…think the eerily distorted music at the end - that of course was originally composed as regal and triumphant - sums things up perfectly.

[@nightwind7022]

From Futurism to Idiocracy in one generation 😞

[@markanderson4176]

Yeah amazing what they can do with processed foods and under educating people 🤔

[@MadScientist267]

That's a Zillenial, yep 😉

[@Sc0pee]

People have always been idiots. It's just more evident to everybody nowadays thanks to internet.

[@Mike1614YT]

dumbing down the population is their plan. it's working

[@LiamGallagher-x9h]

Just for us. Wouldn’t believe what the wealthy and connected have access to

[@k2sportsande.n.t501]

Dude hit it on the head when he said " the intellectual" age. And the push button society (facebook)

[@reelblack]

Marshall McLuhan doc is even more accurate in that regard. Have you checked that one out yet on the channel?

[@mikesanders3246]

that "Dude" is Walter Cronkite. Look him up

[@htos1av]

Push button means dopamine hits for those who are stuck in a cell phone. I'm SO glad I never got addicted!

[@attlee2010]

K2 Sports and E.N.T we’re being trained like dogs through Facebook triggered dopamine hits.

[@peacheskong2245]

@@MrJones-em7ub bootleggers?

[@svenjansen2134]

'Your film is now ready to be shown'. I wasn't ready for the film being ready. Ready just now? Editing and all? That's amazing! So fresh I can smell the celluloid 😆. Sorry, it's a great film.

[@rossonerodiavolo8074]

0:14 A round of D & D ? ? ? 0:35 Personality controlled drugs ( quetiapine, lamotrigine, Alprazolam, Xanax ) & Household Robots ( Siri, Alexa, Google Asst, rumba etc ) 1:24 Wireband communications ( Fax, Cell Phones, Video Calls, Internet ) 2:02 Music sounds like Kraftwerk (german 80's electronica band) 9:45 Batteries, Fuel Cells, Clean Energy, Thorium Reactor 11:39 A worthy listen 16:06 Talking about Robotics and Automation replacing Humans as workers and only being consumers 18:43 The formation of the G7 (Group Of Seven ) 20:47 World Wars leading to One world governments and One currency (Bitcoin?!)

[@carloschu7127]

20:47 CBDC. In other videos found in YT. Since 1950s, Democrats specifically, wanted to control population using cryptography. From the Economic view, ( inflation, devaluation of fiat USD, geopolitical problems and religious in the Middle East ), we are close to WW3. BRICS is accepting KSA ( Saudi Arabia ) to join in 2024. Petro is very close to de-dollarized.

[@loneprimate]

Man, I want to live in the 21st century. It sounds so cool.

[@somedumbozzie1539]

I will swap places with you I would not mind going back to 1974 but then again I can remember everything the stock market did since then anytime in history is cool if you're loaded

[@DiogenesOfCa]

It actually sucks.

[@katharsis3754]

Ok

[@c.eb.1216]

Just imagine! You could even get yourself a machine allowing you to talk to people on the other side of the world.

[@debswatching]

Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

[@scottgardener]

I love how it opens with a D&D game.

[@jeanninestruck5203]

My thoughts exactly! Only they gave the dice a fancy name to pretend they were doing science😂

[@valentinius62]

There's a video around here made in the mid 1960s that pretty accurately predicted PCs, the internet, online shopping, looking up weather online, digital video/audio recording and implied peer to peer data file transfer. It was shockingly prescient. The earliest film I've seen of internet capabilities was made in 1969 and this was a few years before that.

[@Johnjohn-gq3du]

Futureshock is the book, made into sorta lame documentary narrated by Orson Welles.

[@uscdave1124]

You're thinking of an AT&t commercial and it came out of the early '90s

[@valentinius62]

@@uscdave1124 No. It came out in 1967 and was called "The Home of 1999". It was made by Philco-Ford. It's here on KZbin.

[@idolhanz9842]

BBC program in england..tomorrow's world was good.

[@9852323]

Yeah and those aren’t even new technologies anymore.

[@nubianfx]

they were so spot on its astounding..but as they said themselves : the future is going to be what we put effort into it being.

[@donaldcarpenter5328]

"spot on"??? Thats PURE 21st. century SPIN! They were DREADFULLY WRONG on MOST of their predictions!

[@JerryDLTN]

10:26 Sir Peter Brian Medawar 28 February 1915 - 2 October 1987

[@gorgeouslady5612]

Where are the Jetsons!. I have Been waiting for them for 45 years to Pick me up And take me to the Aerodynamics And Aerospace convention!.

[@otisrush8110]

@moon shadow there car is Tesla and your robot is DARPA. AND she's more than a maid.she's a soldier.

They decided to spend all their time inventing redundant series of iphones, instead.

[@atlasshrugged2u]

So you goin to space if it's offered to ya *Gorgeous Lady?...

[@kevinboone2178]

U2...lol.

[@sehlordhorr8540]

Space is fake.

[@larryfinley9221]

As a child of the 50s and 60s, I would say that nearly all physical and technological things have improved dramatically since then. What has digressed to some degree is morality and spirituality in individuals, and society. These things benefit the individual and society in general. For example the war in Ukraine. Great and fantastic technological weapons, but wouldn’t it have been better for everyone if the decision to invade and kill to gain had been rejected because it would not be pleasing to God and my fellow man? Is it better to love and do good to others, or to hate and do evil to others? If you want a better world, start by making better, and more moral people.

[@nightwind7022]

I think that when most scientists see a new technology, they think in terms of human progress---not realizing that somebody else sees it as a commodity that they can use to make a fast buck.

[@Research0digo]

You 'make' better people when they learn to imitate what they see Mom & Dad do. Please don't put teaching kids wisdom & morals off on other people or institutions. You yourself as a parent are who is responsible for how your kids turn out - no one else.

[@kubrickenigma7977]

I would argue that architecture has progressively gotten more boring and cheap, at the same time it has gotten more drawn out and expensive. So much of Post-WW2 architecture is baffling and temporary. No heft, no permanence in the events of disaster. Little beauty. Disposable.

[@robertward8035]

Actually more educated would be better. Religion has been around in various forms since the dawn of time, and it's the failure that has proven the definition of insanity. Our next major growth, will be when we put away our imaginary friends.

[@MrCcragg27]

lets just call you a barney the purple dinosaur lover. anyone that brainwashes children with religious propaganda is the enemy.

[@radar0412]

In the 21st century we no longer try to predict the future. For the future is here

[@jrileycain6220]

The future looked optimistic from 1967. We could have created a utopia. All the technology has advanced yet the United States has regressed into intellectual and political idiocy.

[@AverageHuman7026]

Issac Asimov died of aids he contracted during a blood transfusion. Not a lot of people know that. He was also a really great science fiction writer.

[@captur69]

Indeed....hundreds of books...Great man..

[@gkrish6550]

Aids is just an immune deficiency learn about it

[@maureenobrien4807]

Was he into little boys? Arthur C Clarke so sorry.

[@rexfreeman4981]

​@@maureenobrien4807 The Clarke rumour has long been refuted.

[@idolhanz9842]

He also diring world war 2 saw that the libraries in the USA had removed the journal bulletin of atomic scientists and corrected summized the US was developing nukes )Manhattan project) and that the removal of the publication was a security measure.

[@davethomas1241]

Wow the way they talk is so much more interesting and intriguing compared to today we're people are now spoken down to like we're stupid I wish people still talked like this today

[@Research0digo]

Did you mean to say you wish people spoke like this today?

[@laszlozoltan5021]

I remember I had an early 70's comic book that showed folks wearing special full body suits (tights) to protect against harmful rays from the sun. I dont recall if it was a marvel or dc; Im pretty sure it was one of those, but a good collector might find it. It is interesting to note that that one seems to have provided the most accurate prediction of the future we live in now

[@harleyray4654]

There was a DC comic published in the late 40s or very early 50s with a feature that predicted large screen TVs , TV shopping, microwave ovens in homes and the first moon landing would take place in 1974 and would be televised in color. But I'm still waiting for the Space Taxi !! :)

[@ijazahmed6430]

Who is here after Mooro's suggestion??

[@shariqsaeed8789]

me

[@murrgibaigh9792]

fuck u bro

[@ijazahmed6430]

@@murrgibaigh9792 same too u😎

[@zohaibnaseer.05]

I am.

[@ATk857]

🤚

[@NobodyOfTheTardis]

I love how sociology and the nature of time are addressed first before any ideas for the future are discussed.

[@jsbethke]

If we look at this as a competition for most correct predictions, Isaac Asimov starting at about 20:47 seems the closest to "winner". Today's futurists looking 50 years into the future surely couldn't do better.

[@shanibloome]

Asimov was so on point…he is very well known

[@marcusleja7133]

The cyberpunk futurists of the 1980s speculating upon the 2020 - 2050 time period have been bang on the mark so far. Including the sociopolitical breakdowns within previously functioning nation-states.

[@tuakhuraur3480]

Well at least we know now we don't control our own destiny if our future is invented...good information

[@shinehy403]

In the beginning, when it explains about the RAND corporation studies and experiments, he calls out the planned 'features ' of the future... "Personality control drugs, household robots, fertility control, lifespan control, nuclear power, man machine symbiosis, wideband communications, opinion control, and continued urbanization."

[@anonymoususer6334]

They had a clear idea of the challenges and opportunities ahead but underestimated our ability to evolve or perhaps the direction we were headed. Bucky sure nailed it dead on, consumerism he said and so we became. It is sad that our species learned so little from our past, instead of building a future with promise we followed what came, bleating to be fed and so doing led ourselves to slaughter.

[@wadeoden8464]

and Asimov alluded to that too, speaking of carrying on into the future with the mindset of those to whom a small town was its own world. He would be crestfallen to know that globalism is a nasty word now, and nationalism is on the rise.