Retrofuturism: The Future Has Passed | Sleepcore

[@oldshowfanatic77]

"You don't have to carry a passport, because a friendly computer knows more about you than you do." Scary thought but very true nowadays.

[@the80hdgaming]

I was thinking the same thing...

[@weetyskemian44]

They still want that passport though.

[@GenerateGoodInformation]

Or so we're told the computer knows more about you

[@jvolstad]

Will the computer ask me for a Google gift card?

[@GenerateGoodInformation]

@@jvolstad no it already knows you have one and will automatically deduct the appropriate funds for all the items it already knows you want.

[@the80hdgaming]

"Someday, we may watch television on large, flat panels"... how spot on is that...

[@trainluvr]

He also predicted, along with others, that we would all have our own television channels. Call it the PewDiePieBeast.

[@robroy6374]

i wasnt expecting you here, trainluvr!

[@QueenBee-gx4rp]

This is hysterical! No waiting at the airport!!😅

[@-jeff-]

It's amazing how so many airlines tried to forsee their future and like Pan American, Trans World and Braniff here, they didn't see their own end coming.

[@timothyharrison8953]

Corruption, and greed from deregulation killed all three of these companies. Of course there were terrible accidents too.

[@michaelodendaal5776]

They never knew we will watch this show on a phone in 2023

[@hopydaddy]

Wowhahahahahahahahaha !!!!!!!!!!!!

[@dajandosmith4509]

💯

[@weetyskemian44]

The idea that there might be no waiting at the airport! Utopian.

[@michaelgreaves2375]

Man!!! I wish we could get some of that revolutionary Tetra Ethyl Lead!!! That would be SPIFFY!!!

[@amazingentertainment9636]

Uh oh lead how bad was it?

[@gannman2001]

Yes, and some of that new asbestos insulation for our house, and some DDT mosquito repellent too !

[@richsackett3423]

@@amazingentertainment9636 You could absorb it just by getting leaded gasoline on your hand. Pretty damn bad, as it turns out.

[@panderjitsinghvv8199]

"... picture-phone system will expand I think". I have watched people sitting eight feet apart have a Teams/Zoom call on speakerphone.

[@waltdill927]

The Chevy Nova ad is the creepiest part of this video. It slips in, unannounced.

[@Notsosweetstevia]

Their concept of the ideal future is not far from the dystopian hellscape that is 2022. Be careful what you wish for. And remember, big brother is always watching. 😉

[@jayrogers8255]

It could’ve been worse!

[@aindoria]

"dystopian hellscape" lol sure, said the person living the best life ever possible in humanity's history.

[@arrow1414]

One thing: Can you all put the year produced on the various video and film clips? I would like to know exactly the year it was made, instead of getting a general idea looking at the clothing, hair and car styles.🙂

[@MKULTRA1701]

I f-ing love your channel ya f**k, I ment duck.

[@MrBROTHERFELDER]

There’ll be “no waiting” at the airport in the future! Hahh!

[@SMaamri78]

they didn’t anticipate the hellscape that is air travel today. People wearing pajamas. Nancy’s having freak outs. Police having to haul screaming people off of a plane so it can take off.

[@sundaywasabi]

You just put a smile on my face. Thank you, picsandportraits!

[@matthewbowen5841]

You can't tell because of the black and white, but literally everything in this video was either seafoam green or coral pink.

[@ktkat1949]

Absolutely right. And the funny thing is we all went to warm colours like avocado green and harvest gold then went to stark white. I saw an ad recently for pink, green, and yellow bathroom fixtures. It is all a big circle.

[@ferociousgumby]

The supersonic jet didn't work out so well. The constant sonic booms from breaking the sound barrier were a deal-breaker with the public.

[@tc-tm1my]

It's planning to be brought back. They're working on a design to fix that issue.

[@garyfrancis6193]

I want one of those reactors for my flying car.

[@hno6159]

I wonder if some people back then could have predicted many of the issues we face today and stopped them before they happened. This seriously makes me wonder.

[@ottosaxo]

That's a never ending dilemma. We always have and had to fight so many issues that we can't care about things that might become issues some day. Someone will show us the issues that have no time to wait right now. We don't stop hoping for a surprising solution helping us to get rid of future problems before they are urgent.

[@Psycandy]

in the past, many people were beset with the possibilities of the future, imagining what life would be like. In the 70's and 80's were TV slots like "Tomorrow's World' and we were promised RAY GUNS and PERSONAL ROBOTS and FLYING CARS or JET PACKS. Futurism today is commercial, be it sci-fi or concepts, but it does still exist.

[@ktkat1949]

I can well remember reading and watching programs in the 50s about rocket cars and the like. None of it ever allows for new inventions that change anything like the transistor. I remember my father buying one of the first transistor radios and everyone ooohing and awwing over it.

[@michaelnippert945]

We know now that the DC-3 will be flying for 200 years

[@oliviabb73849]

Watching Isamov talk about Poe 😻😻😸😸

[@garyfrancis6193]

Wow. I can’t wait for 1975.

[@petermontoya1796]

I wish that I had a drink robot. You know that getting off the couch, getting an alcoholic drink is such a hard thing to do. Some these "Inventions" are just fun to watch, but not too practical.

[@n.miller907]

No worse than all the stupid current inventions like that expensive high-tech drinking container that tells you how full your cup is and whether it's cold.

[@Just.A.T-Rex]

Seeing minsky around the 20min mark was a great treat.

[@GodKing804]

First Zoom/skype/FaceTime call was pretty sick

[@Robalini1]

I really enjoyed this one. Thanks!

[@mackermaldrill2656]

I'm a little surprised that Gary "Baba Booey" Dell'Abate's Orgasmatron was not highlighted.

[@brianarbenz1329]

6:32 Dresden Nuclear Power Station. What an ideal name.

[@B-RollBooks]

23:30 That man is a wizard. He's low-key predicting KZbin decades in advance, and in the most conversational of tones.

[@ferociousgumby]

26:39 It's kind of fun watching Isaac Asimov fall asleep .

[@busterbluesun]

In a bolo tie no less!

[@Rickyrab]

😂🤣

[@bobb1870]

The future promised allot and delivered too. The problem is the human condition wants to live in the past, and the technology is used as a tool of maintain that human condition. Social media and it's tools is one aspect of a dysfunctional mess we have today.

[@Robalini1]

I don't believe you've ever done a video on the Xerox Alto, but the style of this reminded me of that, and it would fit your channel well...

[@BowWowVideo]

Stevie Wonder using a visual display? Cool.

[@PRH123]

Leaded gasoline and breaking wine glasses…. hmmm…. progress… :)

[@railgap]

Oohh, the Dresden plant segment did not age well. The first nuke power plant to be shut down because the whole thing was too radioactive to continue operating.

[@Lepidopray]

With a name like Dresden, what could possibly go wrong?

[@Ungeboren1988]

@@Lepidopray As long as you keep the brits away it should be fine

[@Rickyrab]

😂

[@tc-tm1my]

It's all propaganda. Future tech is fun when it's grounded and realistic.

[@markring4147]

enjoyed this video very much,thanks.

[@aaron2709]

This really hit the core.

[@panderjitsinghvv8199]

17:40. ‘We don’t really know, offhand". If you’ve been ‘studying’ something for a century and don’t understand it you shouldn’t say "...offhand". Probably it’s a tough problem and that’s why you don’t know.

[@dirtyd7931]

Awesome show once again!

[@shadovanish7435]

In the early 1960's, the fanciful & often absurd concepts of using advancing technology must have seemed a likely reality, within 5-10 years. The quest seemed to be to design the gadgets, dwellings & landscape in the childish spirit of "Buck Rogers", with the idea that these things would certainly soon become everyday reality, & with no real consideration of practicality or cost. I guess the idea was to appeal to the ignorant; engineers were creating advanced (& real) aircraft & spacecraft (& many other things) at the time, using practical knowledge, but these advanced machines (along with Hollywood "B" science fiction movies) inspired the fanciful ideas & expectations of the public, at the time (such as the personal flying car). Still, this video was interesting & fun!

[@shadovanish7435]

@Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus No, but the cupboard had a futuristic feature, which made it "better" & more desirable. Plus, it was effortlessly controlled by a cosmetic push button switch.

[@shadovanish7435]

Also, imagine how much repair, component replacement & adjustment all of the push button activation & remote control appliances & furnishings would need, along with the cost. In reality, several machines with "advanced features" were unreliable, & when these features failed, often people would use a machine's manual features-just to make the make the machine work at all.

[@mybachhertzbaud3074]

Stevie Wonder and Ray Kurzweil would have bust a gut back then, if they found out that kids today think that warbling abomination of noise is considered "Awesome"😜🙉

[@celtspeaksgoth7251]

1975 - supersonic aircraft is thing of the far future. Me - hmm well in the 80s the bungalow shook at 9pm as British Airways Concorde reached Mach 1 over the Bristol Channel on its way from London to NY. Obviously a different type of supersonic.

[@genelucci8881]

Unbelievable, I used to live in imperial point. In the late seventies. I had no idea I had entered the FUTURE astonishing

[@bentullett6068]

Concorde didn't look anything like that. It was cramped and expensive to get a ticket

[@JamesBrown-gv1vg]

LOL, "one of three different movies" on a flight, how quaint.😆

[@robinsss]

all electric living i think that is coming

[@joedirt7640]

Is the ability to play these videos or films at a steady speed beyond our current capabilities?

[@allisoncorona84]

1:52: WHAT⁉️⁉️⁉️ You only have THREE choices of movies 🎥 ⁉️⁉️⁉️🤣🤣🤣

[@olsencarl]

I had to stop watching half way as I almost pissed myself laughing

[@glennso47]

General Electric has been sold to Haier, a Chinese company.

[@theenchiladakid1866]

How long has it been called "sleepcore"?

[@Rickyrab]

That Isaac Asimov conversation was pretty interesting

[@lymarie1974]

The video phone . Yep we have that now

[@YellowCase2024]

So good medallion was important to Westinghouse AND General Electric?

[@mikesavad]

i didn't know that Stevie wonder was deaf also.

[@genelucci8881]

I love u sleepcore , I ve arrived

[@simonf8902]

Tetra ethyl lead gasoline. When can we buy this ?

[@PRH123]

You can still get 100LL leaded avgas at your local small airport…

[@glennso47]

Anytime prior to 1975

[@glennso47]

I have never run a nuclear reactor but I have stayed in a Holiday Inn once.

[@simonf8902]

@@glennso47 close.

[@simonf8902]

@@glennso47 you used the Mr Coffee. 😳

[@lukehorning3404]

Really interesting

[@garywilloughby6893]

Is this 3 Mile Island?

[@ZombieGrandpa]

Pilot: "We recommend you set your mood to 19" as people turn a knob on what I can only assume is some sort of direct injection of drugs.... WoW. Of course that might cut downs on idiots and screaming kids on planes....

[@tc-tm1my]

Lol

[@NoName-zm1ks]

Folks, just wonder if the powers that be made sure that some of these things we won’t have, despite the tech being available now.

[@tc-tm1my]

High tech sonic jets but only 3 movies?

[@kennynvake4hve584]

Think how far DARPA has went...they look back at these robots seem like toys..

[@angelmessenger8240]

Fibreglass ceilings eeep!

[@timothyharrison8953]

Stevie Wonder's sounds of the future sound so tortured

[@JHV166]

Who knew that Steven Hawking worked with Stevie Wonder! 15:09

[@tc-tm1my]

That text to speech was revolutionary for the blind when it was invented.

[@teletherapy45]

Hello Compost As Take Out The Garbages/ My Friend Said once before She and Her Boyfriend and My Son threw out My Brother's Old Pizza for 2 Days Six Cans of Beer half used. They have to Go back and get back the Two Cans only.

[@tc-tm1my]

No machine is master of chess. Wait till they find out about go.

[@ZombieGrandpa]

Lol, General Electric- the company that pays no taxes.

[@nonmutualgroup]

The Future Is Dumb my first book

[@morbidmanmusic]

You may need some grammar skills first!

[@cruzcontrol1504]

Zzzzzzzzzzzz perfect !

[@anthonykoller4459]

Blade Runner had the Future almost Right, Crime and Dirt is part of humanity Future

[@tc-tm1my]

Crime is down.

[@charlesm.9858]

Lol!!! Man if they only knew lol 😂

[@PhilJonesIII]

Lead in petrol. That went well.

[@activelow9297]

It's essential for certain kinds of marine engines. We have to add lead when we gas up our boat.

[@PhilJonesIII]

@@activelow9297 No question but, you don't get too many people standing around or living near the boat when you are out sailing.

[@TXRBL]

65 was better than 75 and 75 was better than 2023.

[@tc-tm1my]

Based on what?

[@BlueSky-eb7ru]

1,500 luxury homes , compared to the homeless Vets, Seniors , families , the sick, etc.. sleeping on sidewalks , in Parks, in cars etc. GE does not bother with people like that .🤔

[@Justanobody8472]

90% of these are about cars

[@cathymiller2798]

Revelation 13:15 “And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” Transhumanists DO Not write the Future

[@tc-tm1my]

Um...what?

[@albertlopez6620]

Deja que los creativos agan imagenes y con sus delirios y diseños a ver si yo puedo ver el futuro que me espera en ellos Se dejaba a unis creativos diseñar fantasias y otros intentan ver si recordaban un futuro traducido del pasado que tuvieron Se mezcla la fisica atomica y intentan sacar del cekebro humano recuerdo residuales de el universo anterior por eso a algunos se les ayudaba a crear estas series documentales En los experimentos ti atomicos al colocarse gafas de sol para ver oas primeras explosiones se le da la idea diseñar aparatos casi imposibles en su época y ver si alguien conserva recuerdos del universo anterior Esto es una lupa similar al bahuaus alemán de diseño Una lupa por ara ver en el celebro humano Para mi si funciona en el 2022 si lo veo de pequeño y el 1960 me sugiere ideas de izquierda y posible secso Sexo restringido en el 60 o censurado mi celebro piensa que imagen de el futuro y con posible sexo no censurado ... Yo de peque si veo imagen futurista pienso en sexo no censurado por la época

[@garyfrancis6193]

Do you get the impression that the “ wow “ technology of the 1970’s looks pretty pathetic? I was there and computers were definitely pathetic and cars big bread boxes on wheels. Yet NASA went to the moon.

[@Akrafena]

The Waffle House has found its new host.

[@mybachhertzbaud3074]

Now we know who built the spacecraft in "Wall-E"🚀🚷

[@boldone3517]

Is the model number of the plane1 9 8 4?