The Most Boring Dystopia: 1999 Microsoft 'Home of the Future'

[@RussellSenpai]

"retirement living tv" were they trying to make old people mad by showing what life would be like after they were gone?

[@RustyShackleford051]

Exactly my thoughts 😂

[@arthas640]

Sounds like alot of reality tv on the discovery channel where they show young people doing stupid shit like small scale gold mining like they did when the old people were that age, so it kinda makes sense

[@grayzelfx]

I was thinking the same thing...

[@Kyuppin]

More like old people will see it and think “look at this garbage I wont be missing anything I can go in peace”

[@fauzirahman3285]

Nah, they're trying to make them feel better that they won't be around for that dystopian future where eating and other activities are split into "periods"

[@FourthDerivative]

Primitive savages: "Honey, dinner's ready!" Me, a futureperson: *THE COOKING PERIOD IS DONE*

[@grabowski5348]

COMMENCE CONSUMPTION PERIOD

[@TheLegonaut]

ENABLING DINING AMBIENT MUSIC

[@INWMI]

DINNING ROOM SEATS READY FOR ENGAGE ORGANICS

[@SherwinSeby]

Bruh I just spit my water.

[@mattdrives4757]

@@SherwinSeby WATER SPITTING PERIOD IS DONE

[@Amesang]

Microsoft "Home of the Future?" But where's the X-Box? Where's my _Halo: Cooking Evolved_ with the Master Chef?

[@Battleship009]

Good one! 🤣

[@acatwithafancyhat5782]

I want this game.

[@beforecuddlybunnylps841]

uhhhh they forgot it

[@loafry42069]

Cooking Mama more like Cooking Master amirite

[@KamepinUA]

Didnt Xbox release somewhere around then?

[@cstnfacu]

The most unrealistic thing is that the kid's computer is running fine with five tabs open on internet explorer in Windows millenium edition

[@spikeshartell4675]

on a computer with less than 512K of ram no doubt

[@MyHeadHz]

True

[@thabg007]

Sh*ternet exploder and Windows ME (mistake edition)

[@KeithBoehler]

How many takes of it crashing too?

[@EnigmaticLucas]

I’m surprised they accurately predicted that children would have their own computers, considering that family computers were the norm at the time

[@tommykarrick9130]

First half: “wow that’s surprisingly accurate!” Second half: “it’s just the last part of the carousel of progress”

[@rabbyssi4392]

If they ever update that why do I feel like the next cell of the carousel is their progeny banging on trash cans in an alley

[@rabbyssi4392]

@thatguyfrombefore lol sup boss ;)

[@ClipsNSnips]

I can't figure out why he's hating on this video... It all looks like a pretty impressive concept for the future, considering what technology was available to them at that ti e

[@tommykarrick9130]

@@ClipsNSnips I don’t think he’s hating on it, just making fun for how goofy it is and for some of the predictions that didn’t even make sense at the time

[@rabbyssi4392]

@thatguyfrombefore lol well I started playing hearthstone after I quit for a year and got legend rank yesterday for second month in a row. In top 1000 players atm. would you watch me stream that game if I started streaming it? would anyone?

[@katiemarshall8033]

Having microscopes connect to external screens is actually quite common in labs now - your eyes tire quickly looking down a standard light microscope

[@KillaAhmadilla]

I literally have that exact microscope in my garage.

[@chuckmakesit]

The microscope they show was an actual product you could buy at the time. Actually, so was everything they showed. This was less "future" and more a showroom of tech that existed, but few people actually used.

[@megaangelic]

They were common in schools already in 1999

[@ss6truks]

@@chuckmakesit exactly. They were working on smartphone tech like back in 2003 alot of the stuff we're getting now was in development for years but used for military first

[@Gatorade69]

@@megaangelic Not mine :(

[@mattdrives4757]

“In the future houses will have Windows.” *mind blown* 👁👄👁

[@rtmpgt]

Not if you want a place you can afford in a place like NYC!

[@DuskLegend]

See that one they were wrong about. Nobody uses Windows anymore

[@flyingstonemon3564]

Blown by cool air too from said windows!

[@ALIENwolve]

You could consolidate every one of these features into a smartphone.

[@bencontreras732]

Make an app then

[@joey199412]

Yep that was the real innovation that people didn't realize in the 1990s. I don't mean the smartphone. I mean that all innovations were software based instead of hardware based. In the 1990s they assumed everything would have its own gadget instead of those gadgets being just software programs running on a pocket computer which we happen to call smartphone nowadays.

[@AStonedLemon]

PocketPC*

[@PauaP]

@@joey199412 That is actually... a very very very solid and good point. Infact, its such a grand idea that I will now use this to my day to day life. Thank you for giving me big brain moment.

[@PercyPanleo]

@@bencontreras732 Why should they? There are already apps for pretty much all of these things. The Google Home app can control smart appliances like lights, Google Assistant devices, and thermostats, and things like Android Auto allow you to receive phone calls in your car through Bluetooth. AI image recognition can determine what you throw away, and you can already control smart televisions through Chromecast. Weather apps have been a thing for over a decade, and books can be read through e-reader apps and pdf viewers. I should note though that even if they wanted to, a super app containing all of those functions would be nearly impossible for a single person to make due to the Google Home ecosystem not allowing you to use/set-up devices with anything except the Google Home app. Chromecast is technically available to developers, but I don't think you can casually grab video from another app.

[@Zmax15]

I love living in the future where everything interesting is boring

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

Boss: we’re going to seek the future to the people to buy our products that we don’t have what are we going to do what would a family do Guy1: have the mom scan the egg instead of telling the dad on the phone Guy 2: have the kids get excited to watch Apollo 13 Guy 3: have the dad use web phone for the weather Guy 4: wouldn’t it make more sense for the kids to watch cartoons, mom text email dad the food item, and dad watching an movie or show like Seinfeld on the web phone Boos look at guy 4: you’re fired Guy 4 get thrown out window

[@Lysergic_]

@@USSAnimeNCC- why did you choose to reply this instead of commenting it

[@lvrua3206]

@@Lysergic_ valid point sir

[@breadman32398]

That "smart garbage" is actually used in manufacturing to keep a constant stock of tools on hand for people to use. Except it works more like a vending machine with auto reordering when stuff gets low.

[@TheGrassyBush]

Also it somewhat matches the idea of Amazon scheduled reordering too, which is a more reasonable alternative. Amazon also had their Dash buttons for a similar concept.

[@heyitsevan758]

@@TheGrassyBush I think the focus should be on the fridge instead of the trash can. A smart fridge with Alexa enabled would essentially do what you said and potentially more.

[@kempoficht]

So its not what is here. Its the very opisit. A = when trown out. B = when taking for use. Where as B is used far more then only in manufactoring. Hell that is basic stock keeping for any buisness. Ths whole point is that A wouldnt be usefull, not only bc you have to trow out expencive sensors, you also idealy want stuff in on the day its going to run out and not when itnhas run out...

[@PixlRainbow]

@@kempoficht the sensors are actually really really cheap. They're only worth a couple cents. We have supermarkets here that stick them inside the price stickers so the checkout can automatically identify what you're buying as soon as you put the product on the counter, regardless of orientation or position; no laser aiming needed. They are so cheap that they are expected to be discarded in the trash together with the product packaging it's stuck to. They are not advanced position tracking smart-tags like the Apple iTag or the Amazon tags, but merely RFID data tags that have been used for close to a decade now. They're everywhere.

[@kempoficht]

@@PixlRainbow well yes and no, those have a diffrend porpuse, there like the anti theft tags on cloths etc. They are verrrry basic, and the only thing it does is being scaned. The chip in the vid is like a full fleshed chip that detects when its in the trash and re-oders the product, there is no wherehouse system. It will do it like this "Im in the trash, order this product to this adres". That chip needs to do more then the once you use in the store. They will just do "this unic code is on the scan". The system will pickup the code and do the rest. So that "chip" doesnt do anything. Its a static signal being scaned for by the rest of the system

[@superdays7933]

Windowspunk. A derivative of cyberpunk based on the 2000s visions of the future.

[@adikumar6536]

y2kpunk

[@Skimmy404]

@@adikumar6536 y2punk

[@rndmzr153]

More like Window spunk

[@graffiti9145]

It's basically cyberpunk but instead of Japan taking over the world, Microsoft takes over the worlf

[@darken2417]

@@graffiti9145 So we live in GooglePunk then?

[@Shovelchicken]

It’s actually incredible how much this got right. Perhaps not all the details line up exactly, but the general concepts all mostly came true.

[@Septimus_ii]

It's true because it's so conservative - most of the stuff there is just minor advances of what they had at the time and it had to be because Microsoft had to be able to build mockups of it

[@MichaelJordan-uo2ke]

True, they got ideas right but form factor and implication is off. Same time there are some things that are on verge of being as predicted. Example okay trash cans dont sense when things are gone and order, but smart fridges almost there. They already have displayed such ad CES and other places that will order when item is gone or about to expire. Though current smart fridges do allow you to order on fridge, and even keep track of experation dates, plus you can view via app whats in fridge.

[@GLnoG420]

Yeah it didnt went out to the clouds, like those who were saying "flying cars" n stuff. Only that they got the representation of it wrong.

[@monicarenee7949]

I find it interesting that most of these future shows knew that we would have some type of handheld computer and would use computers for everything, but they almost never envision us wanting to use the same computer for all these things (our personal phone).

[@mrpalaces]

My mom would adore if she could interrupt everyone's screens to announce dinner is ready

[@graffiti9145]

T H E C O O K I N G P E R I O D I S D O N E

[@AtariiWave]

"Why were these kids so excited to watch Apollo 13?" * me remembering being obsessed with that movie when I was 11 * [Nervous sweating]

[@mazadancoseben4818]

Cuz why not

[@yukonfarnsworth1688]

@@mazadancoseben4818 ?*

[@mazadancoseben4818]

@@yukonfarnsworth1688 yeah It's legendary

[@theylied1776]

The serious lack of sex robots is what stood out the most.

[@theshlauf]

They would all run on Windows ME and their version Internet Explorer does NOT have a Private Mode.

[@INWMI]

@@theshlauf if crash it cut your pepe in half haha!

[@petralizzy7383]

*comin to your tooooown*

[@soulzero22]

It's funny because we have those. Phub searches get pretty weird during boring nights.

[@The360MlgNoscoper]

I let twitch chat control my…

[@crispydiesel93]

I'd hope this was parodied to hell at the time. Like, she finds her husband at the strip club with the tracking feature, the mood lighting starts a rave, the house gets stuck repeating "garlic, a key ingredient" and she finds her children have changed the calendar to "on the toilet" at all times. Then she leaves the house in despair, and can't get back in when it's raining due to the system still talking about garlic

[@E4439Qv5]

"do not go gentle into that good night"

[@Mic_Glow]

"garlic is a key ingredient..." - LET ME IN "you know I can't do that, Susan"

[@tobyharrison4702]

I quite like this series of what people thought we would have by now. It’s always fun to find out.

[@AlcoholicBoredom]

I do hope we someday get multiple fax machines in our homes like in Back to the Future 2. We’re obviously not at that level of technology yet but maybe in another decade or so.

[@alphayun7401]

@@AlcoholicBoredom and even when we do get to that point it will be just as mundane as this video, funny how most if not all technology is boring and mundane at the end of the day, the only exception to that is vr, entertainment holograms, and maybe super advanced space travel depending on the destination

[@AlcoholicBoredom]

@@alphayun7401 Um, you realize my post about "faxes in homes" was a joke, right?

[@alphayun7401]

@@AlcoholicBoredom yes i do

[@AlcoholicBoredom]

@@alphayun7401 ok my bad lol

[@cameronmorris3347]

I also listen to smooth jazz while eating dinner, after watching Apollo 13

[@YeeSoest]

I preferred creole dancehall after Schindler' List but I don't judge

[@charlesevanshughes3638]

Personally, I prefer some Gregorian chants after watching 12 Angry Men, but to each their own.

[@rtmpgt]

Fun fact! They played Muzak in the capsules of Saturn V rockets and space shuttles to help calm down the astronauts during flight.

[@AtariiWave]

I personally prefer Paul Blart: Mall Cop after a nice consumption period.

[@FirestormMk3]

The cooking period is done. Commencing smooth jazz period to facilitate the absorption of ingested biomass to facilitate continued life functions.

[@PM-fh2sp]

The least realistic part of this is a family affording to live in a large home.

[@E4439Qv5]

Painful truth.

[@tearfulsmiles9901]

It was 1999. That home was probably about to be foreclosed on because they spent the mortgage on computers.

[@jjbarajas5341]

Move to the Midwest somewhere, houses there are quite bang for the buck

[@PaulGaither]

@@jjbarajas5341 - Without any jobs which can pay you enough to afford them, hence why they are empty.

[@brandonwombacher2559]

@@tearfulsmiles9901 😂 LOL

[@hunterkiller1440]

Remember they thought we'll have flying cars 6 years back? Good times.

[@bcubed72]

We've had flying cars since the 1930s. Nobody want them then, either.

[@Pentross]

@@bcubed72 yea the hardware already exists, they even keep coming up with new types; but still, nobody knows what to do with them

[@aldrichjosiah6495]

Considering how bad and damaging regular car accidents can be, I'm kinda glad flying cars haven't become widely available. Imagine just chilling in your house and suddenly a car just flies into your roof

[@bcubed72]

@@Pentross The problem (other than you average motorist has no business with a pilot's license) is that a flying car is both a crappy car, and a crappy airplane in one package, for more than you'd pay for a better car and plane, separately. It's the same reason people buy a sports car, and a boat, not an amphibious vehicle. You get more for your money that way! Combining a car and airplane is "bad" synergy: like j/o while riding a bike, it's a guarantee you do a lousy job of both.

[@define-infinity]

Spheroid tyre is the future

[@gododoof]

The dad putting on Apollo 13 for his kids is pretty cool not gonna lie.

[@albertjackinson]

Yes.

[@SocieteRoyale]

bearing in mind by the future, Apollo 13 would be a pretty old film

[@DoctorX17]

"We don't have 20 desktop computers sitting around our homes" Excuse me speak for yourself

[@Belboz99]

Yeah I honestly lost count of how many PC's I have here...

[@mazadancoseben4818]

@@Belboz99 , what's their purpose

[@anivicuno9473]

@@mazadancoseben4818 To be built, and tinkered with

[@mazadancoseben4818]

@@anivicuno9473 , I see So a new Revolution will emerge

[@formerlycringe]

yeah it's very easy to get hardware I both do and don't use. I have "6 PCs" If you count my 2 Raspberry Pis and an unused 10+ year old low-end Dell laptop.

[@Bogwedgle]

I actually have a usb microscope and it is pretty useful to have it displayed on the screen instead of looking through it because looking through a microscope for a long time is awkward, uncomfortable and gives me migraines and it lets me take screenshots of interesting/important stuff.

[@portugueseeagle8851]

Agree, we use that in university, it's very useful for when the professor wants to show us how to search for specific things under the microscope or just to not have my back all messed up after 2 hours 😂

[@whatelseison8970]

Same goes for telescopes. Eyepieces just suck.

[@deesnutz951]

Still kinda weird, but the "Watch TV" button that the guy presses, it also controls the window shades and lights. Directly to the left of the TV in the cabinet is a stack of stereo equipment, I suppose it hypothetically turns on the necessary components from that too.

[@DGTelevsionNetwork]

The Phillips Pronto could actually do this. Granted, you needed an entire server room and a programming degree to do all the tasks. Although, the Logitech harmony is pretty close.

[@augustday9483]

Back in 2011 my family got a "universal remote" with a touchscreen, and you could program menu buttons onto the screen that would do some combination of turning on different devices and changing the TV input. So we had a button for TV, each console, and the Firestick. So yeah, that prediction 100% came true.

[@notreallydaedalus]

​@@augustday9483 Harmony remote. That was literally the only way my wife could watch a movie on my system when we were dating. Turning on the stereo and changing inputs completely flummoxed her.

[@jsteinman]

I used to tell google “let’s watch a movie” and it would turn on the tv, adjust the lights and go to Netflix. Quite fun as a party trick. After the second day of screaming at Google, I deleted all the routines and now pretend none of the smart home devices exist. My life is better since that day.

[@Mic_Glow]

I don't understand people with "smart" homes. The electric stuff costs thousands, fuse box looks more like a fuse room and there is just so much stuff to break. Not to mention the 24/7 surveillance (audio, video, diet, day routine etc.). Really dystopian sh1et.

[@kabrep]

why tho

[@jsteinman]

@@Mic_Glow since my earlier post I’ve sold everything ‘smart’. Now all that’s left to watch my every move are the orbiting satellites, high altitude drones, CCTV cameras on every street corner, google street view cars and my mobile phone. I feel so free.

[@BoltRM]

Google Home still understands: "What's the temperature and humidity" only 50% of the time.🤬

[@formerlycringe]

@@BoltRM the magic of switching to cloud processing instead of using on-device (on smartphone or on smart home speaker) processing Thanks Google, Amazon, and Microsoft for fucking up our voice controlled futures.

[@Fragolux]

Ah, Dial-up Punk. Gotta love it.

[@JenniferinIllinois]

"The cooking period is done" - that's some dystopian speak going on there! What's next? "The evacuating bowels period is done"? LOL!!!!

[@PixlRainbow]

The evacuating period period is done

[@restcure]

I do hope that would be made user customizable: I would much prefer the more poetic "Once again, the time to shit has come and gone."

[@tearfulsmiles9901]

Mine would just say "Time to make the doo-doo".

[@INTERROBANG-by7ys]

“Output complete. Microbial cleansing sequence engaging in 5…4…3- 🚨 ALERT: Output cycle INCOMPLETE🚨”

[@yukonfarnsworth1688]

Not without the 3 seashells.

[@themachineeatsitself]

Microsoft: "THE HOME OF THE FUTURE" Tyler (and most other people): "I live in an apartment"

[@SirCrimsonTusk]

6:00 "Is somebody going around and changing the brightness of the lights in every room?" Do you have kids? sounds like kids lol

[@thewanderers97]

6:57 hey don't diss apollo 13, I genuinely loved it as a kid into science

[@lajya01]

In the 80s, I only had to Space Camp to fill that need.

[@albertjackinson]

That's exactly what I was thinking!

[@restcure]

I never saw Apollo 13 - mine was The Right Stuff.

[@theshlauf]

If they are going to flash the dinner notice on every screen I would program it to announce it like a self destruct sequence. **Nostromo alarm blares:* THE DINNER TABLE WILL BE SET IN T-MINUS... FIVE. MINUTES.

[@AndrewHalliwell]

If the wife's cooking was terrible you could even add... "Minimum safe distance, five kilometres."

[@FrancoDFernando]

That home center is very similar to Noom where it registers that you’re home and you can set it to a certain lighting mood when you get home

[@BenYork-UBY]

We have all this technology today. Just not built into our houses. Back in the 1990s the total domination of the smartphone wasn't really anticipated. It wasn't imagined that you could have all of this computing power in your pocket instead of being built into the wall. But once it was, we could all tell that it was far better to have this kind of home tech mobile and carried with you, rather than having to leave it all behind the next time you leave the house

[@rtmpgt]

Ah yeah, who knew the Humble Apple Newton would be the device we all would eventually use.

[@ChickenFingers42]

3:38 I love how Paint Thinner is the very first thing on the list. Like they huff that stuff and have just run out. It's very important.

[@TroubleZxHCT]

It is

[@mutestingray]

“Siri, what’s on my calendar for today?” “Today, at 2am, you scheduled time to eat a mozzarella.“ “Darn this modern life; how can anybody keep up?!”

[@justcallmenoah5743]

Actually there are very fancy microscopes that output to a computer, as I don't need one, I don't know why you would want it. They do sell though.

[@TheDolphinTuna]

It’s easier to take photos with. You ever tried aiming a camera down the eyepiece of a microscope?

[@justcallmenoah5743]

@@TheDolphinTuna I can only fucking imagine how hard that would be

[@inventor121]

We had exactly one at our high school until I slapped a webcam onto a normal microscope out of sheer anger in biology class. After that and a conversation with the lab tech we had 30 that performed even better than the extremely expensive one and could even shoot colour video.

[@cortster12]

I had a cheap 100 dollar video microscope as a teen that broke right after I finished being gobsmacked by my swimmers.

[@anivicuno9473]

I have a 50 dollar stereo microscope thats basically a dashcam strapped to a lens that output to a monitor. I use it for detail parts on models and doing precise soldering

[@JakeLikesTech]

Microsoft employee #1: "What's the best way to tell people dinner's ready?" Microsoft employee #2: "How about 'Dinner is ready!'" Microsoft employee #1: "That's pretty good." Microsoft employee #3: "How about 'Cooking period is done.'" Microsoft employee #1: "There's the reason we hired you Bucco!"

[@theankotze1292]

Somthing that confuses me in that show is why the hell does a kid need a microscope to do homework!? Even high school biology students doesn't have or need that. Never mind kids his age

[@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179]

I think the idea was that the standards for education would be higher in THE FUTURE, with total emphasis on STEM subjects and everything more intensively funded so students would have fancy education props. I think that view match what geeks thought at the time. That it didn't worked out that way... well make of it what you will.

[@INWMI]

in our future kids wont need to go school neigther

[@albertjackinson]

But it was set in the future. So it wax expected education standards would be much higher and, in some ways, more professional. It's a common and charming thing to expect.

[@albertjackinson]

@@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179 Honestly, I still think that might be education some day :D

[@staz3014]

@@INWMI You sure didn't go to school

[@playstionproblems]

With regards to having specific dinner music, in the early 2000's my dad had a curated playlist on his first gen Ipod that was what he and my mom considered an appropriate BPM to chew to.

[@LillyP-xs5qe]

so no painkiller by judas prists? it does make the food go down faster, hurts the jaw though

[@darken2417]

@@LillyP-xs5qe Clearly it was the soundtrack of 2004 Runescape, the only classy dining choice.

[@bangscutter]

If you have a "Do Not Disturb" mode on your home, why would you ever change it to anything else? Imagine a world without salesmen or Jehovah Witnesses knocking on your door.

[@Somajsibere]

Well what if one of your neighbours wants to talk to you?

[@Belboz99]

@@Somajsibere Or like, fireman's trying to let you know to evacuate? Or maybe that fancy fridge of your ordered groceries and now the eggs are rotting on the porch?

[@AndrewHalliwell]

@@Belboz99 well ,obviously you'd just say "House, delivery expected, alert me." As for emergency services, there's such a thing as emergency override you know. They'd be an exception. As for the neighbour, what's wrong with texting "mind if i pop over in a bit?" If you agree, it'd just be "house, Bob's coming, white list for one hour."

[@SocieteRoyale]

@@Somajsibere why would any one want to talk to their neighbours?

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@AndrewHalliwell “text before you call” is already a norm today, and I like people to let me know when they’re close by if they’re visiting so I can expect the doorbell and not get surprised. So yeah tying that stuff together seems pretty neat. Especially if you can program it to let them in by their phone (or maybe biometrics) or somesuch.

[@vista2304]

I think the throw out and scan could be like RFID chips considering they’re pretty cheap and could probably be used in that application.

[@109Rage]

"She has like 5 tabs open" - Funny way to say "windows". IE didn't have tabbed browsing until around 2006, with IE 7.

[@_vallee_5190]

5:40 Long live Oceania, the cooking is complete we are increasing the rations of chocolate.

[@mrfrikki0]

The garbage sensor wound not be so expensive as RFID chips are pretty cheap but for the cookies too expensive.

[@srpenguinbr]

They can get even cheaper over time considering they can use old equipment from TSMC, Intel, etc. that is no longer competitive for CPUs and memory

[@nicholasgrippo1754]

Ya I was thinking the same thing I'm pretty sure they already use something similar in automated convenience stores. The tags are just more advanced and a lot cheaper. Also the scanner is the size of a doorway. I also remember seeing a tech demo of a in-home sensor for locating things like cell phones jewelry etc using computer vision. Honestly was pretty impressed by some of the predictions.

[@soullessleftover8427]

Home automation is one of the most dumbest ideas, it isn't necessary, it costs more, it breaks more and doesn't have any security or privacy. Some things are just better not automated. Your fridge doesn't have to have, nor should have a screen built in, it doesn't need an app to run. All it's supposed to do is keep the food and drinks and other items in it cool, that's it.

[@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179]

That's what I say all the time. I don't need the fridge to tell me when the milk is about to go bad. Problem is if the fridge knows, is almost inevitable that so will others, like Mr. Hacker or Mrs. NSA.

[@octoberboiy]

Well some of them have cameras inside so you can see what you need from the fridge when you go shopping.

[@knowledgehusk]

I have a second channel. Go watch it if you want. I dont control you. kzbin.info

[@AxxLAfriku]

hi

[@jdowg494]

Cool

[@malikmalak4631]

The watch TV setting is to adjust the lighting, curtains, turn on the tv, and the surround sound. Most of the pre-programmed functions are supposed to be shortcuts for multitasking.

[@appleseed8282]

Man dude this audio is complete trash. It's almost worse then having the audio in only one channel.

[@JoaoPedro-ki7ct]

Lies

[@sznio]

Apple Tags are expensive because they're from Apple. RFID chips are extremely small and cheap, especially the read-only ones, and many stores actually tag all their products with them. This makes checkout really fast: you just ride up with your cart and all the items are scanned as you pass through. If RFID instead of barcodes became prevalent, your fridge and trashcan could certainly autonomously run inventory for you. The RFID chip could also contain the expiration date of the product, allowing for the fridge to inform you about the soon expiring items.

[@salsamancer]

That still seems very wasteful. Are they even at all recyclable or biodegradable?

[@alextaylor9746]

Apple tags are Uwb RFID these are more expensive then passive RFID used in store security, around £20 each tho that will fall cos mass-produced now

[@joey199412]

@@salsamancer Yes most RFID tags are made from paper with very thin (like 1 micron thick) copper ink. Essentially it's just paper and you'd need like a million tags to have the same waste as throwing away a single remote control or smartphone.

[@sznio]

@@salsamancer It's just a ceramic microchip and a copper antenna affixed to some paper/fabric/plastic. Packaging itself is worse for the environment than the RFID tag.

[@inventor121]

@@salsamancer RFID tags are also reprogrammable and reuseable. if you have a system of reuesable packaging the container will likely wear out before the tag does. Your trash can could even sort out recycling, trash, and reuseables with RFID tags.

[@nicolas3r14]

Most of this smart home stuff exists today, Microsoft just doesn’t play a part in it.

[@lmbtcs1879]

The 2000’s optimism to the future is what we need now to rebuild after covid

[@matthewmelson1780]

Sorry fam there's no rebuilding. Only war in our future.

[@Sicilianus]

we wouldn’t have to rebuild if our politicians didn’t lie about the china virus

[@acatwithafancyhat5782]

“You will own nothing, and you will be happy”

[@forsaken841]

Yes, let the people who destroyed everything rebuild everything. Either the aliens are gonna invade, we are gonna go to war with China, or the rapture will happen. So fuck it.

[@thompsonevergreen8006]

Bit dramatic mate

[@mickmickymick6927]

'That must've seemed preety futuristic but now that's just, a car' Yeah, that's the point of predictions, they imagine things that are futuristic now that will be normal in the future.

[@MisterN1]

I love this series of sh!tting on futurism. People have a tendency to forget our predictions of the future are usually half true and half sugar coated. It's still impressive to see some predictions did happen.

[@RebeccaGunn]

Man imagine your getting to the really good part in a movie or that TV show you like has a big reveal only for "THE COOKING PERIOD IS DONE" to flash on the screen...

[@peteranderson037]

Call me nerdy, but I would have chosen Apollo 13 over Austin Powers at that age. I didn't get invited to many parties back then.

[@albertjackinson]

I would too.

[@007megaoof]

Seems reasonable

[@ss6truks]

Ha nerd!

[@TheFriendOfLucifer]

4:10 - RFID tags with a computer that reads them in the garbage disposal system. That way you need only one computer.

[@mathieuleader8601]

Here's a fun fact on microwave Raytheon credits the discovery of microwave cooking to a grade-school-educated engineer named Percy L. Spencer. One day in 1945, Spencer was walking through a radar test room with a chocolate bar in his pocket; he came too close to a running magnetron tube and the candy began to me

[@Jinzouningen36]

the comments about the husband arbitrarily turning the lights off while in bed killed me XD

[@LimitedWard]

It was honestly a really good prediction. You can tell the ideas existed back then, but the technology had yet to catch up. And while the UI was clunky, I think it would have been hard to determine how these devices would have worked without them being real.

[@rustyshackleford2605]

The garbage reader thing can be done cheaply today using NFC so it's not at all cost prohibitive. Amazon could release a "smart garbage can" with automatic ordering built in and you get that functionality.

[@Lloyd_lyle]

I mean some people actually do have background music when they eat, when we first got our Alexa we experimented with playing music while eating diner (more soft orchestra or smooth jazz type music) So I don’t think it too out of the ordinary if some people do just listen to music while they eat.

[@paolaanimator]

My prediction of the future now that it is 2022: No one will be able to have access to homes except those who are already wealthy. Majority will just keep on renting. Jobs will become more challenging to get in (especially well paying jobs) due to multiple degrees/certifications requirements and lots of job interviews. Therefore families end up in poverty... Oh wait I guess it is happening already today but it's just going to get worse.

[@Osamathegamer]

"Alexa, play background dining room music!" "Playing Two Trucks by Lemon Demon"

[@restcure]

never heard of them before - nice chune - not many songs mention Robert Z'Dar

[@Osamathegamer]

@@restcure I wasn't aware that any other song mentioned Robert Z'dar

[@WhooptyDoo]

Not sure if I missed a joke but that was definitely not windows me. You can tell by the color of each window's header and desktop background that it was 95 and 98 in different shots. I actually spent some 3 years tweaking the hell out if the ME on my home PC to make it at least a little more stable. Didn't want to switch to XP too fast because half of my games wouldn't have worked on it

[@DampeS8N]

She had 5 tabs open? Those were other applications, not tabs. Browsers didn't _have_ tabs. They could have been other browser instances, though. Hard to tell.

[@DampeS8N]

For those interested, the browser tab was invented in 2001 and was in Phoenix (which became Firefox) and came to Safari and Konqueror in 2003 and it wasn't until 2006 with the release of IE7 that IE got tabs.

[@NWinnVR]

*1999:* Let's put computers and panels EVERYWHERE! *2021:* Yeah so I have a _Smartphone..._

[@svantos7096]

7:26 "Also she has 5 tabs open" Me with my 10 tabs open: smiling nervously

[@SocieteRoyale]

I've got 29 open, oops

[@restcure]

**checks** _One hundred and sixty three!_ **laughs maniacally**

[@Pasi123]

I have 153 tabs open

[@zekiz774]

I always have about 50 tabs open

[@r.coburn3344]

I remember attending a futurist talk in which the speaker said that refrigerators and trash cans could be fitted with barcode scanners to tell when something was going to expire or when we needed more of it.

[@Maxi25554]

My computer bluescreened at 0:13 and I thought it was part of the video for a few seconds.

[@LJSW-rp6xm]

I was 17 in 1999. You’ll never convince me this was 22 years ago.

[@mikaxms]

I believe Amazon has automated shopping like shown in the video, and smart printers can also auto order new ink when it's running low.

[@Buttertoast1103]

We've been setting light scenes in our house for different situations using Hue lights since 2014. Controlled with switches, apps, and most recently Alexa. It's one of my favorite future home techs.

[@enzoperruccio]

It's funny how many of these ideas did end up getting implemented into the modern home. I guess these old videos do serve as inspiration for tech designers today.

[@chocodoco4855]

I unironically loved Apollo 13 when I was a Kid.

[@forsetigodofjusticeexcelle7506]

6 minutes in and I realised this video is being narrated by Kermit the Frog in casual speaking mode, rather than showbiz persona.

[@strongarm852]

That microscope was a real piece of technology that existed. My girlfriend in highschool had one that looked very similar to the one shown back in 2002. It hooked up to her computer via a USB connection.

[@zebare726]

I subscribe 3 years back to a Photo magazine, of which I got a microscope which could be connected to the computer, this was significantly smaller than those on this video( A little thicker than a pencil) with this Microshope I could zoom in on the computer to take pictures.

[@ServerDestroyers]

Its like kermit the frog trying really hard to sound like a regular dude

[@yukonfarnsworth1688]

Lmfo

[@coffee115]

Yeah he does sound like Jim Henson.

[@Buttertoast1103]

Alexa is great for setting background music for meals, doing chores, lots of different things. Family uses it all the time. Not weird.

[@ZontarDow]

The one constant in predictions about the future is how consistently wrong they are.

[@zenoblues7787]

I always assumed it was because people can't predict what people accept and reject. I mean disk were usable back in the late 70s but VHS became the dominant format because people saw more value in recording media at the time.

[@TheDolphinTuna]

This prediction wasn’t too far off though.

[@Belboz99]

It's funny that people could envision a future where a PC would fit in your pocket, but not a future where that PC in your pocket replaces the car phone, PC phone, kitchen PC, Smart Home Control Center, and virtually every other "smart" device gadget in this house. Like, if your lil' kid has a PC in her pocket to text... and you're a grownass adult... wouldn't you text her with one of your own? Why the need for a PC in the kitchen?

[@the_real_Kurt_Yarish]

I mean, Amazon's employee-less grocery stores that use cameras and sensors to detect what you're buying without you actually having to go to a checkout station/cashier isn't horribly far off from a garbage disposal system that detects what you throw out, tracks it, and automatically orders a restock. The technology is quite a bit far fetched for a modern home (even more so from 1999's perspective), but it at least exists in a functional and conceptually similar way today.

[@zvndmvn]

Retirement Living TV? *THE LIVING PERIOD IS DONE*

[@abyssalboy8811]

An alternate timeline where microsoft dominates the world, and not google.

[@117johnpar]

"Greetings: Husband Retrieve: Garlic From location: Store And return to location: Home For activity: Dinner"

[@marekw4524]

The garbage can computer could work the same way cashierless stores in China work. With cheap RFID stickers and strong RFID readers.

[@JohnSmith-wx9wj]

But who wants all the exact same products to be forever ordered?

[@marekw4524]

@@JohnSmith-wx9wj you could set that up as a necessity on your PC, that way you could get them delivered, I suppose a typical product list would be stuff like: milk, yogurts, cheese, ham, eggs and anything you buy weekly.

[@PixlRainbow]

@@JohnSmith-wx9wj maybe only the stuff you subscribed to would be reordered, like if you were a soda addict or something, and other stuff would be logged but not immediately reordered?

[@yukonfarnsworth1688]

No youll eat corn and be happy.

[@Dumb-Comment]

"How much future you want in the future?" "20 years later"

[@ThePumpkinToad]

This was fun to laugh at, but overall many of the predictions weren't that far off. If only they had realized pretty much all this stuff would be done by smartphones and not pocket pcs, landline phones, or tiny touch screen controls on the wall. Maybe it makes a little more sense now why Microsoft was so late to the smartphone game... They were in denial for decades

[@BrandonNevermind]

IRT your point around 4 minutes in, in China there are "cashierless" stores, where all the products have tags embedded and the entryway acts as one giant scanner -- you just walk in, grab what you want, and go, and you're automatically charged for whatever you took out with you; that's the closest analog I could think of.

[@ZeusTheIrritable]

Dude, I loved Apollo 13 when I was 12. ...probably would have watched Austin Powers though...

[@zayseeu8337]

One of the best KZbin channels one here and I can attest to that till my passing !

[@reallyWyrd]

Windows ME is far too crash prone to run a house.

[@noobethgamingtonthethird]

this is the most accurate prediction of the future besides the trillions of windows me computers

[@rissogus15]

In case you want to know the cost of having the modern version of everything you saw in the video, you can buy it for around $ 30,000 or $ 40,000 plus installation if you want the cheapest option (does not include the car)

[@Adam-qs5ir]

I ran across your channel like 4 days ago and your videos are great. Good stuff man, keep it up!

[@LordRayken]

I know you're playing it up for comedy but this video is actually surprisingly accurate to what we have nowadays. The touch screen in the car, controlling media for the whole house by a computer, cell phones/GPS tracking, ordering online when supplies are out, etc. Can't say I fully agree with some of your comedic takes here.

[@PhrAntoine]

I visited the home in 2009 and it was ahead of its time. Filters, AR, and VR were big components of the home. It was kind of hard to fully understand some of the concepts because they didn't have the technology to showcase it all. For example the "Magic Mirror" / workout mirror was a component, but flat panel displays were too bulky so they used LED lights to help show how mirrors will become computers.

[@JustSomeGuy900]

This is actually one of the most accurate predictions of the future i've ever seen, they pretty much nail almost everything.

[@Dajaxon]

They have a smart scale by Amazon that senses when something is running low and automatically orders more based on how often you use it.

[@amadeus_ex7505]

I remember my cousins house looked like this circa 1999-2002, such a weird ass period tech and fashion wise

[@grantlauzon5237]

5:35 that happens but only because people aren’t watching TV they’re watching TV while paying attention to their phones.

[@iscaela]

Just wanted to add two notes: Passive RFID tags are much easier to produce than active tags like trackers, cost on the order of a few cents, and are already everywhere from disposable transit tickets to packaging (that's why bookstores have those anti-theft sensors you have to walk through). Amazon tried the whole "scan your household products to reorder them" thing with the ill-fated Alexa device/barcode scanner/fridge magnet combo, Dash Wand, which was finally shut down last year. www.slashgear.com/amazon-dash-wand-to-become-a-useless-stick-next-month-21625682/

[@JackHGUK]

Ah samsung has their fridge that scans the content aswell.

[@Ganglo-Saxon]

Mr hub has returned