How People In 1899 Imagined The Year 2000.

A lot of their predictions were absolutely spot on.
All images used in this video are in the public domain and available on Wikimedia Commons.

[@jonntischnabel]

Its quite amusing that they could imagine these technologies, but that fashion would not progress at all in 100 years. Everyone still has waistcoats , moustaches, and the ladies all have frilly petticoats etc. 😂

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Good point 😆

[@themightykabool]

Clothung styles are cyclical. Belbottoms Deminim everyhting Aviators Etcetc Aaaaaahaha Ohhoo the day when big hoop ball gown dressss come back.

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

You don't watch the same porn channels as me😅

[@laurencewinch-furness9450]

It's pretty much impossible to predict what the future of fashion will be. An attempt by Victorians to design "futuristic" fashions would probably look more ridiculous than just imagining future people dressed exactly like them

[@ivilivo]

All sci-fi is easy to spot when it's made based in clothing imagination. So as predicting future clothing, I guess humankind just suck.

[@colonelcustard.9883]

As a firefighter, I have to say, having a jetpack and a long hose would be a terrible idea. The jet reaction from a main jet hose is so strong that sometimes it requires to firefighters two prevent it lifting you off your feet. If it was one person holding the hose and balancing on a jetpack the result would be a firefighter snaking across the sky before crashing to earth.

[@verynearlyinteresting]

… and this is why I’m not a fire fighter. You, however, are and you have my utmost respect. Tez

[@TheVOIDKingHimself]

Yeah the hose alone could be a Jetpack (I’ve watched little rascals, I know everything)

[@user-cz7bu5qk8w]

Imagine if the hose and the jet pack were synced to provide exact counterforces in propulsion - again, pretty outlandish and unlikely.

[@Bitmaker64]

@@user-cz7bu5qk8w I think you would just be crushed by the forces at this point.

[@The38alt]

Man firefighters are tough. I had my firefighter training in 2019 and I found myself tired a lot of the time but had to keep going carrying 2 tanks, gear and mask while trying to hold down a hose lol. Thank you for looking after us

[@Snorlax108]

Its interesting how they drew so much about us going underwater but not outer space

[@Sailor11Sedna]

We’ve done some of both. Neither with the frequency or caution I would like.

[@nez9751]

Yeah. But at that time they thought they had conquered the oceans but not the skies. The intensive breeding of chickens is a bit sad, because it’s correct n a way But they did get so many things right…. Sort of

[@megapro125]

@@Sailor11Sedna they certainly didn't predict people would be using a cheap wireless controller to navigate some ghetto rigged uncertified deep sea submarine.

[@ewetoob1924]

Space was passe. Jules Verne wrote "From the Earth to the Moon" in 1865. By 1899 the interesting frontiers were air travel and and underwater.

[@HENRIDuRoy]

What is about drones... human flying

[@raffiart5121]

It’s amazing how they were obsessed with individual flying machines and spending time under water!

[@juliantheivysaur3137]

Makes me wonder if affordable commercial space travel in the year 2100 is realistic or if it's an unrealistic dream.

[@williamdiffin28]

That's just the French for you.

[@GreatRaijin]

We are obsessed with discovering and exploring new places, people 100 years ago thought we would spend all our time underwater and in the skies, now that we can explore both, we're talking about colonizing space and other planets in the future, who knows where humanity where go in the far future

[@bobjacobson858]

Some people are "underwater" today, but in a different sense--mostly having to do with autos and perhaps some other purchases.

[@kennethflaming8606]

@@juliantheivysaur3137 If ww3 happends , and it doesn"t go nuclear. technology will skyrocket to the point i think it will be doable around 2070-2080

[@goldenskeptic6309]

It's amazing how many actual concepts they got correct.

[@williambrandondavis6897]

If you study history it is not so amazing. All the things depicted were pretty common knowledge in 1900. Have you never read H.G. Wells or Jules Vern. The book "the time Machine" was first published in 1895 and the book "10,000 leagues under the sea" was first published in 1870. None of that was new concepts by 1900.

[@craftah]

@@williambrandondavis6897 its still amazing cause these stuff didnt exist back then dude

[@Narwhal12]

@@williambrandondavis6897That isn’t the point

[@tek87]

A lot of it was logical expansions on what already existed.

[@killerkraut9179]

I think the war and military stuff is often underestimated! Modern war helicopters are much more powerfull!

[@brick6347]

Although 1899 seems like an awfully long time ago, it really isn't. A ten year old child staring at those pictures could well have lived into the 1990s, and a few even into the 2000s (the last person born in 1900 died in 2017). It's quite possible, though perhaps unlikely, that one or two of them used KZbin. It also makes me wonder how much of it is self fulfilling prophes. Seeing those wild predictions in 1899 might have inspired some of those kids to go and make them true, so they came true. Much like kids in the 1960s who grew up watching Star Trek ended up making flipphones in the 90s.

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Brilliant observation and comment!

[@leodf1]

Great point. And you don't have to start exactly when the cards were released. They would easily have stayed current and collected for a decade or so. A ten year old in 1915 say, could certainly have admired them and seen the millenium and everything come true...

[@nathanaelsmith4251]

I often think about my Grandpa who was born in 1890. He was 13 when the Wright brothers first flew and in his 30s the first time he saw an airplane. Yet he watched on a color television as Neil Armstrong walked on the moon! He went from everyone traveling by horse and wagon on dirt roads to driving on interstates!

[@timweather3847]

My father was born in 1891 (OK, he was knocking on a bit when he fathered me!), but though he lived into his 80s he would find the sort of technology that I now use utterly incomprehensible.

[@treadingtheboards2875]

In some ways, time is changeable to a certain degree. I was born in 1945, in 1955, 10 year old me thought the year 2023 was so far into the future as to be almost unreachable. Now in 2023, I look at 1955 as being only yesterday.

[@VictoriaTime]

It is ironic how basically every war invention was spot on.

[@crankychris2]

but few of the peace inventions...

[@rafsan1578]

Except nuclear weapons

[@VOTE_REFORM_UK]

Yeah but you have to understand that war planes and tanks were only invented about a decade or so after 1899 so those predictions were a lot closer in time and therefore more feasible.

[@drnkwiscnsibly]

Nothing speeds up the advancement of technology like war does

[@walterishere5864]

I guess 1899's version of going to space is to go into the oceans...

[@jerm7151]

Great viewpoint. Seems like the possibility of space travel was out of sight at that time.

[@taytay4458]

The Roomba was released in 2002, so the autonomous cleaning machine prediction was actually spot-on!

[@aa1bb2cc3dd4]

dont forget about the vacuum cleaner. This woman was PULLING and controlling the device, which was the vacuum cleaner invented in 1901. They predicted a device made just 2 years later.

[@ysmith494]

Yep, I had one of the first models.

[@mrmichrom8553]

Also speech recognition program Dragon Naturally Speaking was releasen in 1997

[@ConnanTheCivilized]

@@mrmichrom8553Yep. I didn’t want to be constantly spamming “Well, actually….” so thank you.

[@skatertrix411]

No, two years earlier would’ve been “spot on”

[@Lopyj]

My Grandma was born in 1899... she liked to tell me stories from her childhood when I was a kid - for example, that they did not have electricity in the house... although they were not poor, but hardly someone did have that in those days in her small town. Totally different times. She died in 1981... and saw so much happening through her liefe, technical inventions, two world wars...

[@valeok8357]

My mother was born in 1981, you really can’t buy time!

[@juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988]

How old was she?

[@mnnrandom8279]

Biggest inaccuracy: They though people would still wear clothes that covered a legitimate amount of their body. Even when swimming.

[@alichefortune862]

😂😂😂

[@thedbcooperforum]

They couldn't get past there own time..100 years later and still using exterior belts and gears, large rivits..

[@Allen-ps6bx]

​@@thedbcooperforum their not there.

[@PaulBorobia1619]

Most distorted part of us now

[@thedbcooperforum]

@@Allen-ps6bx Eye sea what ewe mean butt don't care as much as ewe wood..

[@NickAndriadze]

It is genuinely insane to me how correct they were about areal battles and gigantic steampunk looking airships that the world soon knew as Zeppelins. In fact, the airship predictions weren't predicting the 2000s, they were predicting 1920s and 30s, because Zeppelins very soon went out of fashion and the airplanes took over.

[@leodf1]

02:40 The teacher doesn't have to present the lecture, he simply lets the students listen to the books. That's audio books, which we've had for a while and perfectly accurate. 06:15 Modern tractors and harvesting vehicles can process a field guided by GPS, without driver intervention. 07:00 I remember the Electrolux Trilobite robot vaccum cleaners came out in the mid 90's. 07:30 Speech to text transcription has been around a while. I had DragonDictate software in the 90's. 07:50 Internet communicaiton is clearly suggested. You can see they are in some kind of communcation room with phone lines on the wall. 08:50 'Electric rollerblades' are most definitelly a thing. The hoverboards and segways that were trendy these past years. The fixation with flying personal transport persists to this day, with every futuristic movie having levitating cars. Thanks for the video

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Great comment. Thanks so much, Tez 😊

[@mariateresamondragon5850]

I think the couple listening to the news (at about 9:00) is more like radio or TV, so from the mid-century, than anything newer.

[@Vojtaniz01]

@@mariateresamondragon5850 Even earlier. In Czechia, we have just celebrated 100th anniversary of the radio this year.

[@stainlesssteelfox1]

For that matter, personal flight is closer than it's ever been before. Manned drones are a thing, if not yet commercially available, and Gravity seems to have cracked a jetpack design that has practical applications.

[@canadianman000]

At 9:30 the flyers with engines strapped to their backs is absolutely a thing. Powered gliders, Ultra-lights, and Para-Motors all bare a great likeness.

[@sm5574]

It's extremely difficult to predict disruptive technology, such as computers, video screens, etc., so I'm not surprised all of their futuristic gadgets were either mechanical or electric. I'm surprised they didn't predict wireless phones, though. It's a natural expansion of the telephone, even if the technology is very different. Great video!

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Good point and thank you. Tez

[@swagaw3some546]

At the time where these were made radio hadn't been invented yet they were off by two years, but I bet if they had radio they would have everything wireless

[@tommykebschull9439]

The transistor wasn’t invented until much later. I’m not sure any scientists at the time believed that it was possible to do. I don’t think radio was even invented yet.

[@Dinmc123]

I mean the purpose of the invention which was imagined in 1900 is still similiar to our tech

[@miniverse2002]

It's interesting because our own predictions of the future is usually based around the use of our own "background" tech as well. Who knows if something just as disruptive is around the corner that can't really be described as a run-of-the-mill computer.

[@comdam]

we dont dress as nice as they used to

[@thewr0ngchild]

Retrofuturism is fascinating!. We should do the same thing today. Could even be a public competition to have your name and artwork put in a time capsule for people in the year 3000 to learn about our crazy ideas of what their time would be like.

[@GneissAlucard]

We already did. It's called Star Trek and Star Wars

[@an8-bitbatty907]

I wouldn't mind seeing a story or world with a plot based off of these artist depictions, like an alternate Modern year 2,000

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Wouldn’t that be great!?

[@themr_wilson]

You can, it's steampunk

[@_rat_5758]

Woah

[@johnhoney5089]

That's basically the steampunk genre. Modern Hollywood won't typically touch it, but Japanese studios have a number of times (such as Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water). Outside of movies there have been many books of the genre.

[@LasVegasDashie]

@@johnhoney5089you’ve also got Laputa: Castle in the sky. The movie features military tank trains, AND airships.

[@szithaanu9934]

It's interesting that they could imagine such activities relatively accurately, but couldn't comprehend the technology beyond what they had available to them. Makes you wonder could we even begin to fathom what technology will be available 100 years from now.

[@MrChristianDT]

It's hard for me to imagine much more innovation, aside from continued research into AI & Space exploration. Maybe the lab grown meat thing might end up leading to innovations in direct cloning?

[@jsl151850b]

I've read several Sci-Fi magazines from the 30s and 40s. Except for Positronic Robots no one imagined the TRANSISTOR!!

[@srellison561]

@@jsl151850b Or solid state technology in general.

[@jarikinnunen1718]

Many inventions are born by accident. Teflon was born from an attempt to make super glue and penicillin, when a badly managed laboratory forgot the samples, left them on the table for too long to become contaminated with mold. The American continents were found in an attempt to find a shortcut to India. The Indians got their name from that mistake.

[@TheBeastCH]

We don't have jetpacks and aren't riding giant fish, but they still got a couple basic ideas right. Sci Fi from the 1970s, such as Star Wars has started to look weird. Those pictures look even weirder. At some point, the predictions made in movies like Interstellar or series like The Expanse will look just as weird to people in the future. Even when we do get stuff right. (like the french artists got airborne warfare right)

[@Kokonatsunasanndo]

This video made my night. It shows how much creativity people had/have.

[@EricRomeoCooper]

This is probably one of the best videos overall on youtube. From the info to the delivery.

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Wow. Thank you so much Eric. Tez

[@spidermaninky]

One correction I would make is that speech to text actually was a thing in the year 2000. Dragon dictation software was released in 1995, and printers obviously already existed at that point.

[@UL439]

Also, I bought a Roomba vacuum cleaner in early 2000s

[@Amos_Lee]

I had DNS too back then

[@aarong19]

@@UL439yep, they’ve been around since the late 90s

[@Danielle_1234]

Yeah. You could do speech to text in the 1980s too. In 2001 I used speech to text to write essays for school, because i thought it would be easier to do it that way. It wasn't.

[@soulcafetv]

alot OF WHAT HE SAID WAS 2023 PREDATED 2000

[@CatNolara]

That was really fascinating. I wish I could just invite people from 1899 to the world of today, they'd propably be speechless. But also makes you think about what's to come in the next 100 years, seeing recent developments a lot of SciFi wasn't that far off after all with how VR and AI tech is coming along.

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Totally agree!

[@Navra-sc2ws]

Yeah, nowaday human already face stagnation in their civilization development.

[@AnonymousFohYOU]

The last person born in 1900 died in 2017, so a few of them did see past the year 2000

[@Wizz21]

​@@AnonymousFohYOU There was a woman born in 1880 and died in December 30th 1999. 💀

[@YayRaven]

And it’s coming at a fast pace now! Our lives are no longer private and it’s getting worse. I share a personal text. I see ads on KZbin in relation to the contents of the text. I realise the only way to have any privacy is to send snail mail provided the receiver doesn’t take a photo or scan it into a device. Photos with text can be read word for word now even on my iPhone. I can highlight and copy text included on photos.

[@KwaAur-hx9tw]

Hey!! Loved the video!! Great commentary!! Amazing music and music choice!!! Keep it up!!! 😁😁😁😄😄

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Thank you so much! Tez 😊

[@Rad4thewin]

I love the presenting I love your persona I love the background music I love the silly comments!! It just reminds of tv programs growing up! You’re the best (: best wishes

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Ah thanks so much, what a lovely thing to say. I’m so delighted to read this comment, how nice of you. Tez 😊

[@CassieLopez]

Love the Victorian idea of the Roomba! And at 8:47 with the electric roller blades, I'm glad to see they included a picture of a guy falling flat on his face. Technology improves, but a klutz is still a klutz! Very fun episode -- thank you!

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Yeah I liked that bit too hahaha

[@alphagt62]

There are electric skate boards, even off road models, so it wasn’t far off.

[@vonnikon]

​@verynearlyinteresting sales of the first robotic vacuum cleaner (Electrolux Trilobite) started in 2001. And actually demonstrated as a prototype back in 1996. The iRobot Roomba was launched in 2002. I would say they got this prediction spot on!

[@MikeBarbarossa]

@@alphagt62 Yeah those looked more like spilt 2 feet skateboards than rollerblades they were pretty big

[@mysteryplayz9340]

5:20 hell naw that is an automated chicken farm from minecraft

[@someoneelse1534]

They didn’t know how right they were

[@mathelgar]

holy shit

[@GreatRaijin]

So what youre saying is they get half pts

[@toby1439]

How people in 2012 imagined the year 2025: CoD Black Ops II

[@queuedjar4578]

A few years ago I talked to someone involved in R&D for military contracting, and he said that almost every sci-fi war technology you can think of either already exists or has existed in some form, just that most aren't practical or are ridiculously expensive. So even though we're a year off from BO2's timeline now, a lot of what's in the game probably already does exist despite not being prevalent.

[@Cormin]

What a lovely video, thank you!

[@LendriMujina]

I imagine the kind of people who made these would have been ecstatic if they got a chance to see what we'd actually accomplished in that time.

[@impostorsyndrome1350]

Yeah 2 world wars amd a bunch of idiots after them

[@RobotsandMonsters]

Just watch their reaction when they see tampons in the men's room 😂

[@Sailor11Sedna]

Even the soap dispenser would blow their minds. “See, you put your hand here, and it breaks the laser beam-“ “It does WHAT?!” “This soap is liquid!” “Help, there’s a man in this toilet!”

[@DeathracerXD]

@@RobotsandMonstersthey wouldnt care

[@Profeshinal]

⁠@@Sailor11Sedna Yeah, kinda crazy to think how much insane technology we just take for granted.

[@Magicwillnz]

The most remarkable book of the era was Paris in the 20th Century by Jules Verne, written in 1860. Verne was remarkable close not only in terms of technology (he predicted the Internet amazingly accurately) but also a media obsessed culture that puts money over every other consideration. One of the most prescient books ever written.

[@aritrachowdhury5357]

only that vern was was incorrect about the source of power and that was also natural for in his time no one could have thought about the technology or even the basic science behind the splitting of an atomic nucleus by fission can convert mass into energy or fusion of lighter nucleus can be even more efficient when made possible in near future . as a side note i would like to add that coversion of sunlight into electricity directy through multijunction solar cells and storing the excess energy by chemical reactions via flow cells or as hydrogen or superconductor coils and making the grids joined worldwide as predicted by vern in his days may not also be a very far off idea .

[@johnhoney5089]

Credit must also be given to the works of Albert Robida, who wrote a trilogy of futuristic novels at the time (and wrote 520 illustrations for the futuristic novel La Guerre Infernale). Among his predictions was WW2 (down to Japan vs America and Britain vs Germany), flat-screen TVs, tanks, 25/7 news, social advancement of women, pollution, etc.

[@robokill387]

Part of that is that Paris in the 19th century was already those things.

[@idontevenhaveapla7224]

Pretty sure they also put money above every other consideration tho

[@achangedman20]

@idonrevenhaveapla7224 ahh, OP has a red rose as his profile pic

[@Trobtwillis]

I ❤ this! The predictions were a glorious blend of accuracy & fantasy. They nailed factory farms, robotics, video conferencing, mechanized music, astronomical telescopy, microbiological microscopy, phonography, audiobooks, housekeeping machines, nuclear energy, dictation machines with speech-to-text, airmail, aerial warfare💔 with blimps, helicopters, & airplanes, amphibious flight, double-decker buses, mobile homes, electric trains, motorized foot transport, etc.

[@neversaynever5157]

Great Video Thanks👍

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you. Tez

[@ahoj7720]

Those were drawn in France. At that time, the trauma of the defeat of 1871 to the Prussians was part of the popular state of mind. This explains the number of war machines in the series (on some of them the French flag is clearly on display).

[@DieFlabbergast]

"Trauma"? Nearly thirty years before? Come on! War was on EVERYONE's mind at the end of the 19th century: and it came true only 15 years later.

[@edwardspencer9397]

Please remember that air taxis and self powered human flight was possible since a long time. Just that we do not have the infrastructure, the money and the logistical support to make this possible yet on a commerical scale.

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

Frogs and Jerrys

[@TheVOIDKingHimself]

Yeah there are helicopter taxis and people own mechanisms where they can just fly

[@cpp3221]

@@88heiling And then we cooked them, but they cooked us, but then... It kinda persist to this day through some competition in the EU, but at least, we're not bombing each other to oblivion.

[@IsaacFNghost]

Its so cool to observe these paintings. It’s like seeing into the minds of these gentlemen over 120 years later. Wonder what theyed say if they could see us looking at their paintings from little handheld devices all over the world nowadays

[@troybaxter]

If I knew someone 100 years in the future was looking at a drawing I made, I would find it really cool.

[@User-jr7vf]

@@troybaxter would you still find it cool even if you had gotten everything wrong. I would be very shy at best.

[@troybaxter]

@@User-jr7vf not at all. The fact that they get to see my own beliefs of how I visualize the future would make me feel honored. What I wrote down is just how I saw the world's direction in my life. There is no shame in that because I know that the ultimate path the world goes down is something I just don't know and never will know about.

[@Trobtwillis]

@typicalplayer9308 I'm watching this on my Android, and I was just thinking that too. 😊📱

[@davidjoyce1536]

I really enjoyed this video, thanks. And I love that it was presented from a Co-op car park 😅😅😅

[@verynearlyinteresting]

😆. You might not believe this but I was actually having a beer outside a pub. I didn’t really think about the Co-op behind me 🙄. Thanks for watching and commenting David. Tez

[@davidjoyce1536]

@@verynearlyinteresting Haha that's even funnier Też

[@noremac7216]

2:37 nah they just casually predicted modern hentai

[@ClasherofWorlds]

it is pretty cool that they thought about a lot of stuff like sea life because back then, the sea to them would have been what space is to us today in its potential for the future. If we were to make a list of predictions for 100 or more years into the future, a lot of it would probably be space related. But who knows, just like how sea life didn't really develop, maybe something else other than outer space would become a bigger topic, just like how people in 1899 thought the sea was the big topic.

[@sawedoffshotgun8462]

Good point.

[@fishyfinthing8854]

It was a big topic when they had a few centuries discovered the world by sea travel. So they thought going under sea would be the closer thing than reaching out for planets much father away.

[@sequillawilliams8809]

I think it's going to switch places they thought the sea would be a big thing but it turned out to be space and we think space is going to be a big thing but it may turn out to be the sea

[@radroy92]

In 1990, the company Dragon released Dragon Dictate which was the world's first voice recognition system for consumers. In 1997, they improved it and developed Dragon NaturallySpeaking. With this solutions users could speak 100 words per minute. In 1996, the first voice activated portal (VAL) was made by BellSouth.

[@alphagt62]

I was going to say the same thing. The Roomba vacuum goes back a ways as well, the newer ones are much better, but they did exist.

[@AndyZach]

My disabled daughter was using Dragon Dictate in the 90s.

[@new-lviv]

@DrZook You are inside of this system. Voice recognition is built in any phone. KZbin has a microphone on top.

[@smallhelmonabigship3524]

@DrZook I used to use Dragon Naturally speaking. It was far from perfect but it was faster than typing. At least for me it was. You just had to go back and correct the errors in the text.

[@snarkfinder2621]

And in 2020, I was still not able to get any speech recognition system to understand me, even if i speak slowly. I haven't tried since then.

[@Infinite160]

Surprised how close some of them where. It be pretty much impossible to predict the Internet 120 years ago and how entwined and dependent modern society is on it. So Kudos to them. Really great video btw!

[@habitpunk]

1.3 million views!! Wow. I've been hoping your videos get some success and really made up for you. That's amazing.

[@verynearlyinteresting]

I know 😵‍💫😵‍💫. How mad is that?? It’s thanks to people like you that support the channel that’s made it happen, without a doubt. Tez 😊

[@habitpunk]

@verynearlyinteresting it's inspired me to get to work on my videos. Got at least 10 crackers in my head haha!! Looks like your having fun too! Good on you.

[@LuckyBird551]

They were not the only ones. In Tsarist Russia, in the year 1900, an artist did several pictures showing how the world would be in the future. They depict some very interesting things, like giant airships, monorail trains, and also motorized sled vehicles for snow roads (which is accurate and also makes sense considering how cold Russia is)

[@User-jr7vf]

Yea, but I'm afraid the hate against Russia will prevent them from showing work of Russian artists here on YT. Also, Americans like to promote themselves even when they are not the ones who invented something.

[@josephb8268]

7:08 The first robot vacuum was invented in 1996. I will give them that one.

[@JoaoFernandesPT]

I know people are giving a lot of credit but the funny thing to me is how incredibly "incorrect" all of them were on a design but also functionality perspective. This actually shows me that we're quite unable to predict future inventions. All the inventions are somehow all related to products that they have, but automizing those, instead of creating new devices for such tasks, pretty incredible video!

[@castonyoung7514]

I think it is safe to say that some if not all of the artists didn't really take the job too seriously, (like even if someone thought that we could put information into brains by 2000, they wouldn't think that you could just dump the books into the machine). But that may be because of the impossibility of the task.

[@TBStudios91]

Wonderful video! Liked and subbed!

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Oh thank you! Tez 😊

[@twylanaythias]

It's worth noting that these predictions were all from a technological standpoint - still a 19th Century society (even to the point of women playing underwater croquet wearing a full dress with petticoats). Or with the school... They basically predicted Skype/Zoom meetings, but still expected schooling to be on-location. Likewise with the theatre... Essentially the old AdLib/Trackers from the 1980s yet as a live performance. And while we don't have outside verandas on RVs (and they don't travel anywhere near so slowly), most modern Class A motor homes have comparable views from within and you can do everything you could do in a house while it's on the go. As a side note: We may not have ever had radium fireplaces, but around 20% of US electricity (largely used for AC and heating in homes) is supplied by nuclear reactors. So you kinda have to give them at least partial credit in that regard.

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Wow, great comment thank you. Tez

[@stevipedia]

If WWI never happened, then the advancement of technology and culture would have taken a radically different route, especially the clothing. After all, clothing is where art, history, and culture all intersect. The aftermath effects of WWI on those three aspects of civilization was earth-shatteringly profound. A fun little theory that sadly could never be tested would be to think about how the "retrospective grading for accuracy" of these images would be different if WWI never happened. Perhaps more of the images would have been accurate (or not), especially the clothing lol. I love the late 19th century leading up to 1914. Such an overwhelmingly creative time full of optimism for the future. WWI was the greatest tragedy to ever hit the 20th century (considering the events that it caused afterwards like WWII). Very Nearly Interesting, this is a great video. Thank you for showing us this gem of history. That "like" button was definitely pressed.

[@CaribbeanWarrior85]

look at the nazis they invented the first fighter jets,assault rifles,fanta,adidas alot of stuff

[@TheRecklessBravery]

The bright side that now after that , war is considered as the worst sin possible.

[@bennynagon9322]

@@TheRecklessBraveryit all depends on where really. In Europe and USA yes, to start a war in a different country? Not so much

[@ravivyas7532]

As an Indian world wars were boon. Those wars among imperialist countries led to the freedom of India. Like they say in every religion everything happens for a cause. Be it invention of nuclear weapon or modern day terrorism.

[@joshanderson9391]

@@TheRecklessBraveryWhat world are you living in lol. That’s not close to being true

[@Laradox...]

u just gained another sub!

[@advancetotabletop5328]

5:45 : Considering all the additives put into food nowadays, they were entirely right on that one! :O Thanks for the video!

[@MrEsMysteriesMagicks]

The one about the mail is actually accurate to a degree. Yes, we still have people walking the beat, so to speak, to make the final delivery, but an awful lot of mail travels by air between cities if the distance is great enough to warrant it.

[@didgedoo9679]

Funny how they thought we'd still be in victorian fashion 😂 really enjoyed this thankyou x

[@verynearlyinteresting]

They didn't think about updating the clothes did they?? Thank you so much for commenting. Tez :)

[@FunnyTerrierPuppy-un8xq]

The robot slave catcher schematics section was big crazy

[@Brasswatchman]

5:12 Well, we *do* use artificial incubators.

[@NinjaNezumi]

4:31 actually American police bikes do have riot shield compatibility, and wind shields/wind breakers that are bullet proof. So it is almost right on.

[@iqbal_pradana]

1:14 camera beauty filter 2:39 audio book 3:39 digital audio samples 4:12 our personal data already in the cloud 6:29 Sketchup & Autocad

[@dylanhenson3039]

I just stumbled across your channel. The first video I watched was the one about our brains being biased. Then i clicked on this one and at the beginning of the video you had a text disclaimer that you were sorry about the noisy children who were getting out of school. Anyway i found myself only focusing on those sounds at first and made the connection that maybe my brain was being biased. It was kind of weird to recognize what was happening. But then again maybe i am crazy for thinking this lol 😆

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Oh wow 😆. I totally get what you mean though because that happens to me as well!! I’m glad you stumbled across the channel and thank you for your comment. Tez

[@Tom-uv7ry]

Priceless content

[@AmbiguouslyGray]

Speech to Text has been around in some fashion way longer than you think. First accomplished in the 50's, I personally witnessed it, as more novelty than anything, in the 80's on the (Commodore 64) and became more commercially viable in the 90's, but simply didn't have the speed or accuracy to keep up with your average secretary until recent decades.

[@deadturret4049]

ViaVoice from 1997 was actually surprisingly fast and effective.

[@presidentkiller]

The funny thing about these predictions is how the social conventions of 1899 were still considered for the year 2000: the clothes, servants, the roles of men and women, and even depictions of different races (the men from around 6:50). If they knew anything about history, is that those things also change with time.

[@TopFix]

The roles of men and women are still generally kept in more traditional countries, such as those in Southern/Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

[@presidentkiller]

@@TopFix Yes, I'm aware of that, but these were made in France. For being the country where the Century of Lights was unfolded, they sure didn't have a clue.

[@damian9303]

The clothes do look much more 1920s-1950s which may seem a little strange for late 19th century, but these ideas of for the future was always built upon throughout the decades as the gliders became engine-powered once those were more developed. During that time, combustion engines were primarily used for powering fossil fuel so no one would have thought of the innovation until it actually happened and they became used to power vehicles and airliners.

[@donloughrey1615]

Way cool. 11:09 looks like a Blériot from around 1909 or so. Louis Blériot crossed the channel in it. He was inspired by the Paris exposition. Great video, thanks.

[@lankey6969]

The screaming kids made this so much better

[@goldbullet50]

I love your narration and the background music. Gives very cozy and positive vibes.

[@josearellano203]

It's astounding how there have been predictions of these to have come true and a few that are coming up. And they didn't imagine passenger planes, which are comfortable.

[@Mr.SpongeGlockAK47Pants]

This is what KZbin should be used for! New sub!

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Thank you so much! Tez

[@donutello_]

this feels like a video posted from 2010. Not in a bad way, I feel very nostalgic. I miss when videos were made like this

[@angrycatowner]

Speech to text was around in year 2000. Nuance Communications' Naturally Speaking Dragon was first released in June 1997. It was the first commercially available speach to text software for home computers. An early version of the same software was initially produced way back in 1982.

[@henrykujawa4427]

I had a friend in Wales who lost his sight. The last 10 years or so before he passed away, we kept in touch by e-mail. He had software he could speak into, and that would also generate a voice from text. I know our e-mails meant even more to him than before in those years.

[@t-mar9275]

Stylistically, these look like they could have all been done by a single artist, rather than various artists.

[@noiselabproject9659]

I guess that they probably were after he had been feed by the ideas of others perhaps

[@carlin3297]

This is slightly before the 20th century when our modern Idea of many different art styles arose. Around this time you stuck to the ways the art schools thaught you or you would be considered a bad artist.

[@t-mar9275]

Since my original post I've done some research on the subject cards and they are all attributed to one freelance commercial artist, Jean-Marc Côté.

[@TopFix]

@@t-mar9275 I feel as though the artist was one person, but the collection of ideas were from a group of people.

[@adamcowan6850]

i absolutely LOVE the art style they used in those drawings, it reminds me of simpler times when books used to have them

[@ian0903]

The one thing that everyone failed to predict (from 19th century drawings to movies in the 1980s) and is yet the center of many of our lives today is the smartphone. It’s amazing how literally nobody could predict it.

[@stormysummer162]

Or the internet

[@kennyalwaysdies1]

I like to imagine an alternate timeline where modern technology is like these paintings instead of what we have now.

[@Cat-Daddy]

that's called steampunk my dude

[@General_Belu]

@@Cat-Daddy Except there isn’t as much steam here.

[@kassaken6521]

​​@@Cat-Daddy Nah, more like retro futurism. The idea of the future being imagined by a previous era being made a reality. Fallout series and bioshock games come to mind.

[@juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988]

@@Cat-Daddy It sounds as if we are in an alternate reality 1880s where technology steam is far more advanced than reality

[@jochenstacker7448]

Actually, speech to text is correct for the year 2000. IBM's Via Voice came out in 1997 and was a speech to text program, so the prediction is spot on. What I find amazing is that there are still people alive who would have known someone who was alive in the year 1900 and that this would not be uncommon. If someone is 80 years old today, they would have been 10 years old in 1953. If they met someone in 1953 who was 80 years old then, that person would have been born in 1873. So we still have quite a direct link to those days. I'm 53 and I have certainly known people who were born in the 1800s, I would have met them in the 70s and 80s as a child, so it's far closer than we think.

[@speeddemon341]

What a fun video! Mille you don't pronounce the "e" at the ended you just go: Mil This is so interesting

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Thank you for you kind comment and good point on my poor French pronunciation! Tez

[@basmeisters3]

This was absolutely great! thank you for showing it to us. Fascinating to see how they sometimes had the right idea but were far off the way it would look, like the dictaphone. On two things all pictures missed the future. They are all still wearing victorian costumes and the pictures still very much reflect the victorian class society, where alle thes inventions would only be for the happy few. I FOUND IT VERY INTERESTING!

[@jeffarmstrong1308]

The thing I immediately noticed in the various undersea scenarios (eg the croquet game at 1:42 and 2:32) was the use of something resembling SCUBA invented by Jacques Cousteau in 1942 although the term itself was coined in a 1952 patent.

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Oh yes, good point Jeff.

[@whitewolf3051]

Though the predictions of any of the underwater activities is impossible. That being how the human body acts and behaves underwater. None of those are possible in the depth of the ocean floor. We *could* ride large enough fish, dolphins, turtles *if* it’s allowed, but that’s near or at the surface, not the the bottom.

[@paulkennedy8701]

​@@whitewolf3051 The "ocean floor" could be at any depth. I imagined them to be quite near the surface. For one thing you would need adequate light from the surface to see the jockeys and croquet balls.

[@whitewolf3051]

@@paulkennedy8701 That still means they're too deep for any of the activities, save riding large fish or dolphins, for them to do. Water and buoyancy of some objects, or lack of with others alone are factors.

[@dennismccarty7728]

self containd under water breathing apperates scuba.

[@hansoak3664]

The "gadget" is a wax cylinder; a common recording medium of the day. So, receiving morning voicemails on the common recording media of the day, silicone memory today, is accurate. Frankly, I'm shocked that the channel didn't realize that was the common wax cylinder recording media from the time. 🧐

[@JillC]

3:55 Yes, records used to be cylinders. Not a gadget! Haha. Before my day, but I still knew it!

[@hansoak3664]

@@JillC 🙂

[@tresenie]

I know it from the series Allo allo but i understand how many people wouldn't know it.

[@hansoak3664]

@@tresenie I saw them in operation firsthand but I of course don't expect everyone to know. However, the video should have had a modicum of research before its production. I'm trying not to be too critical but I thought that was basic knowledge for a video of this topic.

[@hansoak3664]

@@tresenie "Allo 'Allo!" was an awesome sitcom; even for a lowly onion seller such as me. 🙂

[@24hoursstagefright]

A lot of the stuff is still in the making

[@mukundkharade906]

Very interesting. Imagination is the strength of human intellect. Thank you vry much wonderful video

[@marvindebot3264]

A couple of corrections: Electrolux introduced the first robotic vacuum cleaner, the Electrolux Trilobite in 1996. The first version of Dragon Naturally Speaking was released in 1997 so speech-to-text also existed by 2000.

[@SonicStealth]

I find it interesting that at that time they were probably starting to investigate the seas and thought we'd be living there, and since the late 60/70s we've all been imagining how we'd live on the moon or other planets, since the moon landings. Very interesting to see how we've all had a desire to be able to fly ourselves, maybe that's why superhero movies are popular, because it's a built in trait of ours. What else is interesting is the planes they depict, much more advanced than the Wright brothers but using the propeller a decade before their first flight, but then you look at old sci-fi films and the technology that's happened after. Great video 👍

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Great points there @SonicStealth. I really enjoyed reading that, Tez 😊

[@carlosadiaz]

I think the interest in living underwater has to do with Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," which was published in 1870. Verne, of course, is a Frenchman.

[@TheXev]

7:39 No, this prediction was correct. Dragon NaturallySpeaking was already available and sold by the year 1997, and was the first voice dictation software available to the public on PC.

[@chrismukai4284]

I remember commercials for Dragon talk to text for your computer. We definitely had it in 2000.

[@chirkankshitbulani4342]

Okay, so I am listing my observations regarding the pictures. First, almost every military application they envisioned has come true, showing how humans realise our military needs by any means possible. While innovations like the worldwide web have been a boon for civilians as well, it's disheartening that we don't really innovate unless the incentive is killing another person. Secondly, many of the observations by those artists have been off the mark in 2000, but many times spot on in 2023. It's no surprise that the internet is called the 4th age revolution, where progress has been made faster than anyone could imagine. And it seems scary as to how far we could go. Talking about AI, accepting new technologies is not hard anymore, as AI as technology was just restricted by its perfection and not by its adoption. Once the technology is perfect, unlike before, humans accept it more freely in this era.

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Wow that’s a great summary

[@GodofToast]

It’s interesting. Another example is with guns Guns and gunpowder had existed in Europe since the 13th century but weren’t particularly deadly compared to what already existed for a long time. Even so, generals throughout the 14th and 15th centuries saw potential in gunpowder and gradually adopted it despite this. It developed and well the rest is history

[@Jerotero]

Instead of saying humans only innovate to kill I think a better phrasing would be most humans innovate in order to make more money. Not every invention has had bad intentions there's always going to be someone out there that desires more power.

[@loicduchesne6891]

Thanks for this video. I grew up in the 90s fascinated by a couple of these images.

[@alanw2687]

The most amazing thing is that people from year 1899 predicted live video call

[@johnny5805]

They thought we'd be wearing Victorian clothes in the year 2000 ?

[@razzytack]

To be fair, there are a lot of dystopian novels that just put their characters thousands of years in the future into just jeans and a tshirt

[@pimpozza]

Fascinating video! Really enjoyed it.. and congrats on the viewings, Tez.. nearly 400k! 👏

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Glad you enjoyed it and yeah 400k is crazy! Tez

[@glennchampion2074]

5:28 looks conspicuously like a helicopter to me...

[@Klp-13]

Chinese spy balloon

[@khalil2069]

nice vid boy

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Thanks 😊

[@0x8badbeef]

In 1968 they predicted we would casually go to space like in 2001 Space Odyssey. We are not even close.

[@ghood7445]

Really great we got to see these predictions via beautiful drawings. Good level of accuracy in the predictions too!

[@davestorm6718]

We had commercial speech to text in 1997 - I used it myself (Dragon Naturally Speaking) and it was pretty darn good. It was in research in the late 1980s. 3D printing was invented in the 1960s and was used in some industries in the late 1980s (GE) - it was absurdly expensive. They had a vacuum attachment for cutting hair in the 1970s - so some of that came true

[@MementoMoriGrizzly]

Machine learning also goes as back as 1956 with the Logic Theorist.

[@henrycarlson7514]

Interesting , Thank You

[@verynearlyinteresting]

You're welcome. Tez😊

[@ProximaCentauri97]

for a new channel, your editing is amazing!

[@verynearlyinteresting]

Thank you so much!! Tez

[@montecorbit8280]

At 7:41 Speech dictation.... You said they were off for the year 2000, I seem to remember Dragon Dictate another software like that being available in late 1990s....so "spot on" for that too.

[@justin_your_cousin9273]

The one that absolutely gets me is predicting Zoom in 1899!

[@Tom-uv7ry]

Good stuff

[@ADumbMidget]

3:40 they got that one right, accurately describing the theater organ

[@scoshgg]

5:47 traffic stop in mid air 💀

[@macklee6837]

Wow! Very cool!

[@mromg8282]

Why are the so many unneccesarily airborn/underwater activities? Airborn tennis? Underwater cricket? Just... why?

[@coolhand67]

This was a period where Jules Verne wrote 2000 leagues under the sea and the early days of flight inspiring people in the possibilities of conquering the deepest oceans and the skies.

[@Joe-th7kf]

Because we can

[@TopFix]

I just find it interesting how even though the plane wasn't invented yet (in the U.S), they envisioned it (in France) as not only being a working thing, but eventually common.

[@johnhoney5089]

Because gliders had been around since the 1850's, and France & Germany were in a race to invent the airplane for themselves since then. The first successful glider was built by the "father of aerodynamics" George Cayley in the 1850's, of which his servant and a local child got to ride in. Afterwards Otto Lillienthal perfected gliders and in the process created the world's first aircraft company, and other aspiring aviators were influenced by him. Sadly he died in 1896 when one of his gliders stalled, which for a time discouraged inventors in Europe. I had read an 80's book, "The Road to Kitty Hawk" that covers that whole timeline of events in greater detail. I'd recommend it, it details the Wright Brothers themselves as well as various pioneers and gliders who came before. Many at the time thought that sticking an engine on these gliders would result in an airplane, to diminished results when Hiram Maxim (inventor of machine guns) tried to build something like that for himself.

[@cnitevedi4832]

what is interesting is that they predicted propeller in front

[@johnhoney5089]

@@cnitevedi4832 That was less of a prediction, as inventors at the time were already starting to put propellers on their attempts at aircraft. The problem was that their propellers were modelled after those of boats, making them less effective at propulsion in the air. This would be solved by the Wright Brothers when they tested their own in a wind tunnel.