What The Past Thought The Future Would Be Like.

[@sapphire13579]

When I was a kid, my father told me that when I was 20, we would be living like the Jetsons. Well, I'm 58 and I'm still waiting for my ding dang flying car.

[@stuckinthemud9226]

+janet lavergne Well if you ever get one, do you want to do some ding dang in the backseat of your flying car?

[@sapphire13579]

+stuckinthemud I may be 100 by then--but if you can, I can.

[@stuckinthemud9226]

janet lavergne Great, It's a date then!!!!!

[@johnburt7935]

+janet lavergne Flying cars and high-rise apartments are available -- it's just that they don't actually suit most people's needs (or budgets). I'd rather have high-speed rail and a 20-hour work week than a flying car, though.

[@TheMormonSorceress]

+janet lavergne My mom still wants a robot maid just so she can dress it like one and call it Rosie from the Jetsons and she to is pushing in her 50's

[@chairde]

I was born in 1946 so I remember videos like this. In magazines they would predict flying cars and cities under the sea. Those never happened but others did like GPS and IPhones, Internet which I just love.

[@chairde]

I forgot Amazon which is so cool.

[@chairde]

+Francisco Gomez , I'd tell them it will seem like magic. Wireless will rule the world and the people on the other side of the earth will have conversations with you for free. Many of the social problems will still be here. You won't need to go to a store to go shopping even during Christmas. You will buy and own your own phone and not rent it from Ma Bell. Cars will have telephone connections, maps and directions and a voice can tell you where to go and where to eat. No more ice skating at the pond or sledding in the winter. To earn money you must have some sort of marketable skill. Both parents have to work and it is too expensive to have a lot of kids.

[@chairde]

***** , Most of it except for the cities under the sea.

[@rodger3352]

u still alive ? :v

[@utopiaranaco6543]

Gerald O'Hare , And except for extraterrestrial cities on Luna Mars etc

[@freesci8863]

2:05 "Robo, answer the door." "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that..."

[@thinkfact]

FreeDoum It's pretty clear that robit is evil just considering the fact that it breathes fire. Good guys almost and never breathe fire.

[@nickb816]

My friend knows a fire breather and he seems pretty chill. I'll take my internet points now.

[@Dan-tv1sm]

Artificial intelligence is already dominant. Just look at our politicians. They've got an abundance of it.

[@Dan-tv1sm]

@@thinkfact Yeah, but some politicians expel it from their butt holes.

[@Loonaurtheworld]

Detroit : Become Human

[@vanaziz5995]

"Efficient house wives" LMAO...Can almost see that one day in the future someone will be laughing at us about the things we find normal.

[@Queer_Nerd_For_Human_Justice]

Like racism

[@TheESC1]

You are from the past

[@JeffDeWitt]

The "crystal lights" prediction was spot on, we call those liquid crystals and odds are the screen you are watching this on uses them.

[@TheOneGuy1111]

Well, to be fair, it's pretty easy for someone to say "This useful looking new technology will likely be useful!" That said, it's still pretty cool to see LCDs being first introduced.

[@bridgetbrownvargus]

Jeff DeWitt nope amoled is the future lmao

[@chizuagugo5094]

Mines oled

[@ritwikreddy5670]

Nope. Mine are leds . Lcds are displays of the past

[@nathanwarner4584]

TheOneGuy1111 I get that this is a 3 year comment but even so I have to say that I just love the way you put it. The simplicity of it but so very true "this useful looking new technology will likely be useful" lol

[@DrDeathpwnsu]

Am I the only one who imagines going back in time and correcting the people watching these videos as to what actually happens?

[@dengchier2139]

it would be bad

[@TechlyplusGames]

You'd change the future as people would focus specifically on what you said.

[@DrDeathpwnsu]

Yeah, but the look on their faces would be worth it.

[@TinkerTheCuteness]

+DrDeathpwnsu I can relate to you so much

[@PetroBeherha]

Nope, you're not. I was thinking of writing a letter to the past about what they got right and what they didn't, and of how impressed I am when they do get it right.

[@thisexists]

Most disappointing thing about the future: no Jaws 19.

[@thinkfact]

This Exists Agreed. The massive hologram shark was really top notch too. People really wanted the hover-board but it was Jaws 19 that was the true masterpiece of human creation in that movie.

[@nat0106951]

this time its really personal 😅

[@111olbap]

And if you're interested in dust, here's an item from the 1980's called a dust buster.

[@davincent98]

Shark still looks fake

[@danielr4640]

Yeah but Covid 19

[@RNS_Aurelius]

Am I the only one who was shocked that there was a black kid in an advert in the 40's?! Also in the recent past I think either 60's or 70's a load of "future homes" were made and they're still up for sale today they look a bit like fat UFOs

[@luxtenax9175]

Reece Swaby Racism in the 40's was mostly directed at germans (because all germans were nazis, of course) and the japanese, because of the WWII. It was during the 50's that the racism was re-directed once again at the african americans, just like during the 30's.

[@RNS_Aurelius]

Adrian Fahrenheit Yeah I know it got pretty bad towards the Japanese and Germans giving rise to slurs like kraut, slant eye and strangely a nick name for the male urethra, even bugs bunny and pop eye had racist cartoons made. But I never realised it died down towards black people. Maybe if aliens invade homo sapiens will finally learn to accept each other

[@rjones7276]

+Reece Swaby Yeah....only you. History is your friend.

[@UFBMusic]

+Reece Swaby I heard that Japanese people call it the German's Eye, because it never smiles.

[@thecauseandfx]

Sorry Adrian, you have no idea what you are talking about.

[@thinkfact]

Robits

[@mcgoldenblade4765]

Think Fact Robits.

[@vivianjames357]

why not zoidberg?

[@alexvonfrankenstein9280]

you kill me with the robit counter, that make my day

[@owenmcquarrie586]

Why no more robits?

[@Kiefa]

Think Fact "Did you put down the Paté de boeuf a la bergère"...

[@itobyford]

craziest prediction 5:49 "hummingbird wings on toast"

[@thinkfact]

Toby Ford I would personally like eagle wings on my toast. ;)

[@jimtilley1158]

It is a french toast recipe

[@Thundralight]

buil in toaster was a bad idea how do you clean it ?

[@DustinRodriguez1_0]

FanTASTIC video! I actually collect books and other things from the past that predict the future. I've got a pamphlet from a World's Fair in the 1950s for example, and seeing how they were radically off in some predictions but super close in others is amazing to me. They basically predicted Internet shopping in the pamphlet. One thing to consider about the 'misogyny' of the 'housewife' things from the early 1950s - World War 2 had just ended. Women worked tirelessly in factories producing weapons and other implements of war for years and years, while under rationing. No one was confused about the ability of women to be productive in the workplace. While there absolutely were a lot of antiquated ideas about the 'proper role' of women, not all of them were denigrating. In the 1950s, people were also very aware of what the world was like before the implementation of the 40-hour work week. Prior to that, the entire family, including children, had to work long hours 6 days a week just to earn enough to keep the family fed. People had to fight hard to get a situation where 1 person working only 40 hours a week was paid so much money that they could raise a whole family comfortably. They did not want to give that up! Unlike today, people actually thought workers should be paid well, and that the pay of the workers should come before any profit for the business or owners. They actively resisted attempts by employers to get more work out of workers without paying them anything more. It was seen as a despicable act for an employer. They also expected, and got, pensions to support them in retirement, more vacation time, and raises every year large enough that they could stay in one job for decades without having to change jobs every 3-4 years or constantly fight for promotions. Their ideas about work were more different than ours now than their ideas of women were different from ours. Their predictions of the future bear this out. They predicted that improvements with automation would enable 1 person working 10 hours a week or less would be able to earn enough to raise an entire family on comfortably. They did not anticipate that society would change so absurdly that all the gigantic improvements in automation would be met with people adopting the idea that workers should be paid less and that employers should actively pursue paying as little as possible, giving every benefit from automation to executives or shareholders. They would be horrified by how much we have thrown away. We're already at the point where raising a family in similar comfort requires 2 full-time incomes, and work weeks longer than 40 hours are the average. Plus no pensions. And hardly any vacation. And raises, when they happen at all, are so anemic that a worker has to change jobs every 3-4 years just to be paid fairly for their growing experience.

[@davidhirschv7903]

@Dustin Rodriguez sources???

[@Amalga_Heart]

2:13 I love how there's a button for "Get Hat"

[@Bongo2k]

SCRAM!

[@junbug1029]

Back in the 1950s it wasn't misongyny, it was the way labor was divided. Both parties had their duties to run the household and to provide for the family. I was born in the mid 1950s and while my parents had traditional roles, my mom wasn't looked at as less than or disliked or under valued by my dad. My parents were partners trying to raise their children. I wish we had flying cars, though.

[@ChristusRex081]

If we had flying cars a bunch of phycos would keep crashing into more buildings

[@jezuzmaximum7510]

I wish it was still like the 50s today

[@helentelehowski679]

I was born in 1950. Things were different then. All the modern conveniences have made things so common now, that to have to be without them, a lot of people would not know how to survive.

[@jrgilbert]

People seem to be missing you main point. I couldn't agree more. I blame men mostly. If they had truly TRULY appreciate and respected women, I don't think we would have had quite the backlash. Women who choose to be a homemaker should be lauded, still in today's day and age it is very difficult to pull off financially. Sad.

[@shoofly5557]

it was “misogyny “ men made sure they held more important roles so they could feel superior

[@nathanyoung3483]

"Hummingbird wings with some toast" lol what

[@nathanyoung3483]

About 6:20

[@BalancedEarth]

for reals though what did they think we would be eating xD

[@jimtilley1158]

It is a recipe for French Toast

[@AlbertaRose94]

ROFL! When it started about kids being educated via a computer in their home, it made me think about how many people whine that online and correspondence courses are NOT "real" education, a college or university education only counts if you have to go to the building.

[@joshuaespinosa462]

Buying stuff in the computer they pretty much predicted Amazon

[@kdrapertrucker]

Or Wal-Mart's online shopping.

[@eve_avery]

That prediction was 100% correct, except for physical card with online shopping.

[@yowza234]

Lmao at that 1950s video. "We'll never get 'er outta the kitchen, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there." xD

[@afgncap]

yowza234 I lost it with the start of housewives part xD

[@mountzod]

Lmao 😄😂

[@Kibaoftheleaves]

Fugitive is not pronounced 'figurative'.

[@thinkfact]

***** Good catch, for some reason when I was writing my script I put it in the wrong name. That may be because it made more sense in my head when I was writing it, I don't now. At least it's not that big of a deal. Thank you for the comment.

[@Kibaoftheleaves]

Think Fact You're welcome! :D

[@dkazmer2]

Think Fact you can always make comedic corrections as annotations.

[@Radi0he4d1]

That prediction from 1968 was spot on. I am socially inept and prefer isolation, but I have not gone bonkers yet only thanks to online communication.

[@johnalanelson]

The main thing they got wrong is that we don't have dumb terminals attached to a main central city computer, instead we have desktop computers more sophisticated than the main frames of the 60s and 70s. Of course we also have laptops and tablets. Guess we are kind of spoiled, like that tween girl who didn't know how to hang up a standard phone. at 13:02 they correctly predicted that today's students would be just as dumb as the school's of their day :)

[@OriginalPiMan]

+John Alan Elson But if you think about it, it is the computers elsewhere that do much of the work. Most uses of computers these days take advantage of internet functionality, such as cloud storage (or the trend is in that direction).

[@johnalanelson]

Our computers still do a lot of things on their own and they aren't connected to a central city computer. The internet is decidedly decentralized.

[@hans_normal]

Thanks for showing respect for the originating videos by linking them. Great Video. We live in the future of our past!

[@thinkfact]

+Herr Inkognito I feel it's important to give credit where credit is due, when possible! Thanks for taking the time to watch!

[@mikehudson8884]

+Herr Inkognito Great statement, couldn't have said it better myself, Dale has done a GREAT job here.

[@JennieWrenStar]

Your comments were witty, thank you. The first comprehensives in some of the UK were horrendous. I should know I was forced to go to one in 1972, I missed the 11+ by one year. Needlework was a nightmare. During the first few year of some comprehensives girls didn’t do any science, except domestic science. (Mostly cookery). My father bought our first computer when I was in sixth form collage, so my children grew up with computers, while my grandchildren are growing up with phones and tablets.

[@mina86]

The robits where actually quite accurate. There was an automatic tap (or a flush) which you can find in some public places or offices. A Roomba (or whatever it's called). “Smart” offices where light and shades are controlled automatically. And security sensors in factories.

[@thinkfact]

mina86 It definitely seems like they we're let so trying to be innovative but rather capitalize on the ideas that the technology would most likely be used for. The actual robot one was rather innovative though I would claim to be highly impractical, especially considering how slow and clunky it is. Haha Thank you very much for the comment!

[@SpatsirkSpart2.0]

Good damn robits

[@thinkfact]

SpatsirkSpart They are coming to take your jibs. Literally.

[@iamjimgroth]

+Think Fact oh ni, our jibs!

[@rebeccabuckland8311]

The 60s got the wall to wall t.v right. I mean the bloody size of it!

[@Perdido-Eléctrico]

Aww... The 80's... The time when 2015 was all about Flying Cars and Evangelions... But we can't even ride a hoverboard, a shame indeed

[@thinkfact]

***** Well if anything, the video games are far more advance than what was assumed in most 80s predictions. As well as the efficiency of computer technology and phones. So we got that going for us. Haha

[@Perdido-Eléctrico]

Think Fact Yeah, and we have the Internet too, but I would give up almost everything for a hoverboard, I mean, who wouldn't?

[@johng6080]

Yeah but one thing most people dont and didnt consider is the price of doing these things. The price of making just one flying car would be insane let alone how much it would cost to purchase and to fuel it with whatever fuel it would take. It would be too costly to make a flying car to have them as a norm. And same with a hover board tbh. It would just cost too much. I mean look at how much “hover boards” (the ones with wheels) cost today. Its not cheap. Now imagine how much one that actually had the power to levitate and hover like back to the futures hover board. It would be so costly that u probably would never actually see one because the average person would never be able to afford it. Same with all the fancy kitchen appliances in this video. They make it seem like when this stuff comes along that every average family with have one in their homes. In reality you would probably only see this in a millionaires home and maybe not even then. Alot of this stuff is good ideas and fun to think of, but when it comes down to it they would never actually be implemented or invented in general because of how costly they would be. I dont think anyone alive right now will ever see flying cars like some of their predictions simply because it would cost too much to make let alone the research u would have to put into it to see how to make it hover and safe.

[@AlanCringLtd]

It's interesting to me that it was really only a few years after that prediction about the proliferation of LEDs that it began to happen. At the time, it just came out of nowhere. By the mid-1970s, quite a few of us geeks were abandoning our much-revered slide rules for the total awesomeness of the Texas Instruments SR-70 and SR-71. The visual graphical displays depicted in "2001: A Space Odyssey" did not come along nearly as quickly, though (the scenes of computers displaying spaceship navigation-related visuals were entirely animations). We were still using deck cards and getting print-outs for more than a decade before real graphical representations started showing up in earnest. The computers in the videos you featured produced only text, pictures, and television-like shows... oh, wait, that's what people use their computers for these days, anyway: Facebook, LOLcats, and Netflix. I guess those old predictions got it right, after all.

[@BourneAccident]

Many people in the 60's actually thought that by the 80's we would have flying cars like the Jetsons did in that cartoon series.

[@alexegus71]

The Past never calculated how politically incorrect they would be in year 2020.

[@Lizbetstyle]

The extra leisure, I don't think that is really working out.

[@buahball960]

my grandpa have been waiting for the future but when i show him my tablet he always asks me how to use it 😂

[@ismt9390]

BuahGaming 1245 It's nice that your grandpa is open minded. My grandma doesn't know how to read messages on her ancient Nokia, doesn't want to touch a smartphone and hasn't used a computer in her life... she doesn't know what KZbin or Facebook is. I don't know what to do....

[@Rickity2345]

Ha those crazy old timers. computers will never become a common household item that everyone has easy access to

[@rosieoutlook24]

I visited the House of Tomorrow in 1965 at Disneyland (I think it was sponsored by Dow) and it was amazing because, even at age 10, one was fully aware that it was heavily promoting 'better living through chemistry' (which was actually its 'tag line'.) I wish the dishwasher (first video) actually existed (though it would need TWO racks - one for clean, one for dirty because even melamine dishes won't hold up to repeated cleanings, even sonic ones!) You can tell it was designed by men (for example, the dishwasher's single rack and the lack of a window!) Please be aware that your little comments pass too quickly to be read and the longer ones require multiple rewinds (or whatever the digital equivalent is!) I liked the 'joke wright themselves!' I bet you got lots of corrections but it is actually good as is. Wright means 'maker' as in playwright or wheelwright. ( I put this for the folks who didn't understand my comment.)

[@weskos]

I love paleo-future stuff! Thanks for putting this together. I think the most accurate prediction is how our tvs would be flat and bigger than your bed.

[@thinkfact]

weskos I have definitely seen massive TVs similar to the one shown, it's pretty fascinating how we not only made it possible but making large TVs very affordable. Paleo-future stuff is very fascinating, I love thinking about what the world could've been. Or at least assumed to potentially be like. Thanks for sharing!

[@rcmz0]

I really like when you put some humor in your videos like in this one!

[@thinkfact]

Antoine Richermoz I make a lot of serious videos so I think it can sometimes be forgotten that I can be a funny guy, so it's nice to change things up once in a blue moon. Happy you liked it!

[@rcmz0]

Totally agree with you

[@stagger9660]

one thing i noticed about future predictions is that the future always ends up looking like whatever time period the prediction was made.

[@samuelfisher5002]

My prediction - We will create AGI(Artificial General Intelligence/Strong AI) by 2035.

[@mariobruh5403]

No we won't

[@cathyvickers9063]

When I was a kid in the 70s, everything in science fiction presumed a central computer. People needing to do research from home would access the central library. The home office consisted of a built-in computer console & screens connected to the city (or colony) central computer! The biggest fail, in this prediction, is the failure to understand that computing power didn't HAVE to be centralized! But, since the internet was, as yet, unimagined, everything followed the centralized model, including the home office with built-in computer terminal. In the 70s, it was assumed all anyone would own was a terminal! Compare that with the reality that the internet & DECENTRALIZED computing opened up! The popularity of videogame arcades naturally bled over into the new medium, which software designers quickly realized meant entirely new markets! Initially, PCs were used primarily for bookkeeping, research, & games. When consumers demanded more practicality & flexibility, the laptop was introduced, allowing you to take a PC-type device on the go. When people complained the limits of laptops, especially for watching videos in the backyard or in bed, the new generation of smaller devices were developed. And, as the technology was added to cellphones, we now live in a world the futurists of the 1970s would have found unbelievable. I live in an age of wonders! By the way, I'm in bed enjoying KZbin videos on my handheld tablet: held easily by my left hand, typing this with my right.

[@ArcadeGames]

7:41 eBay or Amazon the early years.

[@IsraelLuisGeerRivera-ff4cg]

That child in the second video was so precious

[@thekaiser4333]

This computer nonsense will never catch on.

[@measonweard4538]

The "Robit" predictions are mostly things we do have but would never consider a robot.

[@electromika]

Cough. Back to the Future. Cough.

[@1Duegon]

Sulthan14 Cough. He not using science fiction, only predictions about technology. Cough.

[@electromika]

Михаил Щербатых Cough. T'was a joke. Cough.

[@Hehehe-fj9uz]

Cough ok cough

[@thinkfact]

Sulthan14 Y'all need some cough drops up in here.

[@electromika]

Think Fact Yeah man I think I'm gonna fain

[@bethy-lou3307]

Love this video, it brought back some fond memories. Thank you, Dale. BTW I like your hair too. Remember never quit learning and teaching! You're so interesting.

[@mumustelids8657]

the Robits are attacking

[@adithyabhat6622]

Great videos! I think ull channel will grow alot! Keep those videos coming!

[@bobert4him]

That's the earliest footage of James Burke. Pretty accurate too. Isaac Asimov was no slouch either.

[@RosheruCell]

Also the light sensitive sensors that know when to turn on when the room gets dark. Isn't that how most street lights work?

[@thinkfact]

Rochelle E Scorgie Indeed it is! Good call.

[@luxtenax9175]

Comments about how in the future they are going to laugh at our current day's predictions have been made over and over, so i am just going to say, remember that in the past, a lot of predictions came true at the end, so, some of our current day predictions may come true as well... and i think this balance between positivism and realism is what should fuel the advance of human inventions... so long as we don't say things like "with this new invention, girls will be da perfect housewives!!" or stuff like that. Also, i've never heard of robots being called 'robits' but i read in TV tropes that Isaac Asimov used the word 'robotics' in his early Robot stories, assuming it to be a logical extension of the word 'robot'... it wasn't, but it stick nonetheless, and the word comes from 'robota' the Czech word for "forced labor". Thank you so much for the video, i always get excited when i see one of your new videos in my newsfeed

[@thinkfact]

Adrian Fahrenheit That's definitely a good thing to bring up. We will have predictions that will be right and will be wrong, but so long as we do have that balance we may very well surpass it or at the very least not be discouraged if we don't get to it. I had absolutely no idea of the origins "robot" that is very fascinating and thank you very much for sharing that, I will never forget that now. It's kind of a weird word now that I think about it. And I'm really happy to hear, if you're interested in Vine I have just started up my account and will be posting little information, thought-provoking, and fun videos from time to time. On KZbin I want to see if I can bring back Minute Fact Monday without it being too much to handle. But if not I'll be posting videos every other week to the best of my ability. Thank you very much for your comment, I really appreciate it! Have a good one.

[@gustavom.m.9646]

that profile pic tho (that face)

[@notfittolivekillme2004]

One big difference tho is the rate of technological advancement in our era. Computer processing power grows exponentially, doubling every 16 months or so. So it's easier to see large leaps in our technology in the not so distant future. Once we reach a level even close to a true A.i. things are going to change DRASTICALLY

[@Timtheguy123]

I'm glad that this channel is growing this fast. I remember when Dale had less than 1k subs and I was like "why is nobody subscribed to this??"

[@thinkfact]

Timtheguy123 It has its spurts, but I just try to keep at it. Unlike a lot of big KZbinrs it can be a bit of a challenge balancing KZbin with my everyday life considering this isn't a job it's still a hobby. But I'm very thankful for how far it has come, and I definitely plan on taking it more seriously as I go through college. I appreciate the comment, have a good one!

[@steamfans]

What if someone hacks your refrigerator's computer to send out spam?

[@kdrapertrucker]

Easy enough, you just keep the spam in the drop down cabinet. It doesn't need refrigerated until the can is opened.

[@mintgumdropz1]

"Luncheon " ?!?! I haven't heard that term since 1939. Wow. Oh and the tv ? See !? It WAS mounted on the wall. Accurate ? Homeschooling done on conputers. The wall-mounted tv. Crazy ? Frozen food in individual portions. ha !! Oh and that car, premaking food ! I want !

[@erictaylor5462]

5:20 What if she wants to be an engineer, or a doctor, or a scientist or (god forbid) an airline pilot?

[@philipmcniel4908]

+Eric Taylor Oh, there already were a number of females in each of those professions (hey, there'd even been female fighter pilots in WWII!), but I think people wanted to go back from the "Rosie the Riveter" days because they were still a bit uneasy about leaving family matters, such as the raising of the children, to people outside the family. The "housewife image" that society at that time accepted was, in my view, due to a desire specifically to avoid anything like a modern daycare. That, and the fact that such duties were considered a part of society, rather than a retreat or confinement from it as many see them today. (Not that I think it's right for girls to be denied opportunities to become engineers, doctors, or fighter pilots--it's just that seeing such dreams as "bigger" or "higher" than that of the full-time wife and mother is an indicator of messed-up priorities.)

[@erictaylor5462]

Philip McNiel There were female pilots, sure. But no female AIRLINE pilots. The first one wasn't hired until the 1970's. My dad encountered her and was very pleased when he heard a female voice from an airliner. We had a plane when I was a kid, Dad was loading the plane but there were no ramp lights. A 727 parked near by turned on its landing lights so he could see better. My dad called on the radio to thank the 727 pilot and was surprised but pleased to hear a female voice say "you're welcome"

[@kdrapertrucker]

But you see in those days one person made enough money at work to cover all the family bills, so the wife would usually take the domestic work on. Husband's and wives were teams back then, the husband brought his pay home and the wife usually handled the money. Most of your ideas about traditional families are heavily distorted by Hollywood and the feminist activists.

[@TheEvilVargon]

oh my god this video was hilarious with all the notes added. Shots fired at comcast, pc master race, and ribbits everywhere. Not as educational as your regular work, but seeing as you were very busy lately its understandable :P

[@thinkfact]

TheEvilVargon I'm happy you thought so, I thought all of those little notes would be a great way to keep the video interesting as well as introduce a bit of humor into something that would potentially be a bit dry. It's nice to do something a little bit different from time to time, but I'm excited for my next video which will be very informative! Thank you for the comment, have a good one!

[@luxurious0346]

9:57 Has flying cars everywhere, and a typewriter

[@RosheruCell]

Not all these examples are far fetched. I saw vacuum cleaners, fax machines, Skype, online shopping, online education. Also the last video predicted frozen/microwave meals and modern refrigeration. I knew I had to brace myself for the 1950's though - what girl doesn't aspire to being a good housewife and having a hi-tech kitchen?? The built-in toaster was cool though...

[@thinkfact]

Rochelle E Scorgie Indeed, a lot of the footage that was made available for me to take I found it typically predicted a lot of accurate stuff which might be part of the reason why it was made available. What I would like to do is dig around and see if I can find footage of truly crazy things. The 1920s one was really special though. :) Thank you for the comment!

[@NobodyNowhereKnowhow]

What are these "computers" you speak of? They seem to resemble the porn machines from my home planet.

[@richt1750]

Robits? I didn't know Zoidberg was in this video.

[@bluelamboblackpresident6111]

2:00 When the mixtape about to drop but it's too fire

[@thinkfact]

Young ReeZy And that's how robits are going to take over the world. One mixtape at a time.

[@bluelamboblackpresident6111]

Damn, that's a deep thought. But who knows? Maybe the revolution has already begun....

[@kenlamtsz]

I find the 1968 to be most accurate about computers connecting people to friends and workmates and about most food being stored in containers and being able to find nutrition suggestions on a computer(internet).

[@davidking6242]

The one where you could talk to co workers via a computer, it is already happening right now so they got that one right.

[@thinkfact]

kwadwo baidoo Indeed, and it is funny how crazy futuristic they thought that was!

[@fartzinwind]

Centralized computing... Damn they came up with that one a ways before we actually started making it a thing.

[@m9078jk3]

11:30 in the video was pretty spot on accurate like buying something online except there is no need to put a credit card in a reader.I am 57 years of age so I grew up in the 1960's. While it's interesting to look at past predictions of the future from the past,the next 50 years will transform into a world that is a lot bleaker than today with the collapse of the fossil fuel based economy,a energy poor future and a world with extreme global warming and the Holocene 6th extinction of life on Earth.Most nations will face collapse.

[@itxofficial8281]

11:30 100% accurate Amazon prediction!!!

[@Amestrian]

1:32, that fountain drink that they thought we'd have since 1940? we have that actually... it's that fountain that fills up your water bottle. You put your waterbottle in front of the eye and it automatically fills it up . you pull it away and it stops on its own!

[@jamespoppitz3336]

Boomer born in 57..longtime american studies guy...no one knows shit but the study thereof is a great display of the hopes and fears of a society dreaming within the narrow boundaries they've been given...fun to review and you can gain some perspective....but what do you think the 3 plus Billion people of "Asia" are dreaming of.....steady food,stability,intellectual freedom... alot of this future dreaming keeps us from the real progress we could be making.

[@GaryTrinh]

I want ice cream in my car.

[@RonN448]

This was a tremendously fascinating video, Dale. I remember many of those predictions, myself, because I grew up in the 1950s. Having worked as a dispatcher for a nearby police department, I used to use one of those terminals shown in the video when running license plate numbers, drivers' license numbers, and other information. I could both send and receive messages from the same terminal. Being an Amateur (Ham) Radio operator, I has one of those machines to send and receive messages via radio, too; but, I never got it hooked-up. I also remember as kid seeing a regular weekly feature in the newspaper which showed a drawing and an explanation of "things to come." The article was aptly called, "Closer Than You Think!" Wish I could have saved all those articles! Thanks for posting this "blast from the past." I'm anxiously awaiting your next installment! Hope you're doing well, Dale!

[@urbfilms]

I dunno, man, don't make fun of Robits. They seem like the future, in fact, we need a robit in every household! Anyways, to answer your comment question, the one I found to be the most accurate was the one in which the girl buys items off of an online store, and the one I found to be the creepiest/scariest were the robits. I mean, they don't sleep, they watch over you when YOU'RE sleeping, and they can breathe fire if they want to. Having a pet robit certainly doesn't seem ideal.

[@thinkfact]

Urbfilms We don't want to make the robits mad, that's for sure. Haha. I feel like those are very good answers, and only further provides a reason for me to no one does 1940s robots in my house. They actually seem a very useless, not going to lie, they don't even have fingers. Haha Thank you for the comment, always nice to hear from you!

[@daxxonjabiru428]

I have been alive for a fair bit, and yet you -- somehow -- managed to show me things I had not seen before. This seems to be a regular occurrence on this channel. Kudos!

[@Matthew_Haas]

Nice dig at Comcast.

[@roneyandrade6287]

This video was a really funny video and a great sequel for What The Past Predicted We'd Live Like Today? I'll say the most spot on is the last short and the craziest was the aluminium automobile. I wonder if even back then they think that car was ugly or maybe they only liked the "futuristic" look of the car. Hey Dale i'm finally going to live in USA; i'm going to land there 1 of September and study my senior year of school in New York. Wish me luck! And also hope everything is cool in your college.

[@thinkfact]

Roney Andrade Thank you very much, I'm happy you thought so! I definitely thought the "alumimobile" was extremely tacky. I'm very happy our vehicles ended up not looking like that! That's really awesome, good for you! I hope you have a blast and wish you the best of luck in your studies! I'm looking forward to college, I can't wait to get back! Thank you for the comment and keeping me up-to-date! Take care and have a good one, Roney!

[@Jabrils]

interesting upload Dale, thank you. damned robits.

[@thinkfact]

SEFD Show I am happy to hear you thought so, and you're darn right!

[@idot3331]

11:35 When what people in the 1960s thought websites would look like looks more like websites of today than those of the 90s - 00s.

[@suralos]

At the 4:39 mark it seemed odd that the students using a metal lathe was not wearing protective eye wear Even by 19590's standards that seemed sort of dangerous!.

[@Daehawk]

Those shelves are too slow and I bet that toaster is easy to clean lol.

[@rstevewarmorycom]

The film said "Fugitive Futurist", not "Figurative Futurist".

[@MilkScrew]

The eerie music over the different machines flying through space gave me a chill! I was half expecting the Twilight Zone theme to start!

[@Quadsie]

Today, the future is always sleek things or mechanical looking things and efficiency. Our perception of the future seems to always be a mirror of today.

[@thinkfact]

RandomExplosions That is something I totally agree with! It does seem that the future tends to mimic a lot of modern-day society, and that's what makes it's very hard to predict the future. Though I can say I expect our future to be a lot more tolerant, I do see that play a lot into modern-day predictions. Great comment, thank you for sharing!

[@wallywutsizface6346]

It's scary how accurate the 1960s were.

[@daveed2589]

"We may not be able to get her out of the kitchen, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there" TRIGGERED

[@kdrapertrucker]

Yeah, because God forbid that there be a situation where both parents do not have to work 40+ hours/week to make ends meet so that one of them can concentrate on maintaining the home & giving the children a stable, well adjusted home. How awful!

[@maurogonzalez6609]

The Fugitive Futurist has to be my favorite due to how interesting and crazy it is, but I think draining the Thames River would be very useful at the time due to the pollution. And you could say it is realistic by the global warming bit. :P Also, besides the 20's being a bad time for minorities, it was also a bad time for farmers, the latter half of the 20's started being bad for workers in general, also most of Germany wasn't having a good time, the Russian famine of 1921, the Russian Civil War was still raging, and all the fallout of WW1 and the Paris Peace Conferences which usually lead to war. So, not a good time for a lot of people .

[@thinkfact]

Mauro Gonzalez It's really interesting to get perspective that early in time! I personally like the 1920s due to the massive change in society and some of the first pushes for equality. There was definitely a lot of bad around the world during the 1920s, but when I make my comment it's mostly from an American perspective. It really seems like the 20s is what truly jumpstarted having modern technology in many everyday households. Refrigeration, television, most houses being linked up to electricity, indoor plumbing becoming a standard, and so much more. It has a certain charm to it, it's probably why liked books like the Great Gatsby so much. I wouldn't want to live in the 1920s, my definitely have a lot of admiration for in terms of it is jumpstarting many humanitarian concepts. Thank you very much for the comment, you do bring up a very good point!

[@maurogonzalez6609]

Think Fact Very true, it's the first few years that most remember, the American upper class was filled with Gatsby like characters, businessmen, Great War veterans, and journalists. Lavish parties spreading into major cities of the US, but the capital of this was New York of course. These men and women (mostly men) controlled stock after stock making millions, journalists will tell their tales once back from Europe, the veterans themselves relive in the war in stories, though it is a pain to tell. This picture of the upper class is stereotypical, almost, but for a while it was true. I guess what I was getting at is that in this picture of the 20's many miss the economy starting to fall, minorities being treated the same since reconstruction, etc. But yes, from an American perspective this was a magical and charming time, it was the beginning of the modern house, lavish parties, and everyone somewhat richer than before. And when this was true, for those few short years, it was truly a Golden Age for Americans.

[@JeremyWS]

I'm a boy and I can crochet (at 5:02). What does that say about me? My dad does most of the cooking my family (at 5:34). What does that say about my family?

[@limerence8365]

If u can crochet. Good for you. People should b able to whatever they like (long as its not harming anyone) ur Dad cooks. So does mine. My mum actually complains about it cuz she loves cooking....

[@JeremyWS]

Limerence That's cool. You have a great point. I agree with you.

[@mikehudson8884]

Love watching your videos Dale. Keep it up. I have subscribed. Great channel.

[@evanfulton4150]

For the last video, why did the wife look so busy if the future "will be based on leisure", or whatever they said to that effect? Also, would anyone really want a cupboard that drops down at the speed of slides on a camper?

[@thinkfact]

BLAH!-EvanFulton The whole video still plays off this concept of having a stay-at-home mother, so she was more busy simply because you're witnessing her in her personal workspace. Good question!

[@Lenny-ue8hk]

Fun fact: the word robotics was coined by Isaac aimov

[@vivianjames357]

I just want a future like futurama

[@thinkfact]

vivian james I feel like that would be the craziest feature ever. Haha

[@vivianjames357]

that may be so but its just about the most awesome one ive ever seen

[@ericpa06]

Hi, youtube just suggest me this video, and I see another videos from your channel.. It's very good! You have some awesome work!

[@thinkfact]

+Eric P. Alvaro Thank you, I appreciate your comment and you taking the time to check out my other stuff! I hope to see you around! Take care. ;)

[@weskos]

+Vlad Vol (Although you've hidden behind a no-reply wall) Welcome! I’m your friendly noob-troll wrangler, and I’ll be assisting you today. First tip: Cultivate your youtube account, even if it's only for amateur trolling. Make the effort to put a profile pic up, real or not, and like a few random videos. That way, it doesn’t look like you rush on to make one or two aggressive yet measly pleas for attention now and then. Secondly: Subtlety is your friend. If you simply vomit abuse from the get-go, people will recognize you as a noob-troll, and dismiss you out of hand. Lead into the trolling by at least feigning sincerity for one or two comments. Thirdly: Be at least a little bit original. People will spot a rehasher from a mile away. Simple attacks on personal appearance, e.g. haircuts etc., which have nothing to do with the video itself may give away your simple-mindedness. Keep the topic video-centric, and people might give you more than a pat on your exceedingly low sloping forehead. Finally: Purchase a nice thick carrot, not too old and not to fresh. Carve a good ten or so notches in it, and coat it generously with Tabasco or Sriracha sauce. The notches will add texture as well as serve to channel the burn. Then proceed to vigorously fuck yourself raw, only stopping to recognize your self esteem can’t get any lower. Have a nice day now! And here’s hoping this little bit of, “someone’s actually talking to me finally,” will allow you to face your affection starved life for one nano-sec more.

[@Son0fSmallFace]

Ha ha ha. Now THAT'S how you write a comment.

[@Radi0he4d1]

+weskos I have done all steps but the last part, I cannot find a thick enough carrot, what do I do?

[@BaronVonQuiply]

+Radi0he4d1 Sir, this is why science invented rutabagas.

[@nobodyatall6620]

Your hair smelly

[@weskos]

This is still my favorite video of yours, Dale.

[@AA-hy6nb]

Hi, Think Fact! Thank you for the wonderful educative videos. And, by the way,- WE LIKE YOUR JOKES! They are clever and funny! Keep up the good job and never listen to those, who hate you, because you are more intellectual, than they are. Good luck!

[@thinkfact]

[@M-Soares]

Another excellent video, Dale! Keep up the good work.

[@thinkfact]

M Chibana I'm happy to hear, I appreciate you taking the time to let me know! Thank you. :)

[@Exxcessivve]

If you enjoy this stuff, I recommend the blog paleofuture

[@thinkfact]

***** Thank you very much, and I did check that out. Very interesting, a 1950s fifties like future! I feel like that would be a great basis for a video game that is not necessarily like Fallout. Thank you for the recommendation!

[@Exxcessivve]

Think Fact Would absolutely love a new retrofuture videogame. Glad to share it :)

[@weewooweewoo906]

Wow, great video! The commentary made me laugh a lot xD Huh, the online shopping really surprised me. And all I can say is I really want to be able to make ice cream in my car. Dx

[@thinkfact]

Xiao Mei I'm happy you liked it, I like making comedy stuff from time to time. I think sometimes people forget I can be a funny guy. haha It was interesting how often that comes up, there was another video I ended up not using that also covered shopping by means of something very similar to how you would do it online. It's pretty fascinating. Having ice cream dispensers in the car would be an amazing, the only part that would stink is having to refill it. Haha Thank you for sharing, always nice to hear from you and have a good one!

[@weewooweewoo906]

Think Fact Yeah, sure thing man! Nahh, your videos always have a kind of refreshing, classy humor to them. Your humor is strewn in very nicely with the factual material you present. Just because it's not constantly in one's face (like most humorous videos on the internet lol) doesn't mean it's not funny! I really appreciate the work you put into your videos to make them both interesting and entertaining. You have a good one too, and take it easy!

[@Ryanator]

7:46 Miley Cyrus anyone?

[@thinkfact]

Ryanator She's aged horribly. hehe

[@mrmacedon]

A bit optimistic aren't we!?

[@adamburgess7890]

Reminds me of Fallout

[@key099able]

Of course, because Fallout lore is based on what people thought technology would be in the 50s and never evolved from that form of style and thinking.

[@adamburgess7890]

Yup lol

[@thinkfact]

Adam Burgess I was thinking the same thing.

[@soccerfanatic634]

Awesome video! Always love your videos no matter what you talk about :)

[@thinkfact]

Lillie Hill Thank you very much, I appreciate that!

[@Viraqua]

How the hell does misogyny have anything to do with this? You do know it means hating women, right? Not working to provide them appliances that make their jobs, in the atomic family archetype, easier. Back then, only one person had to work to provide for a family, and since it was still the time of the industrial age, it was usually the man, let alone traditional family views. Then the U.S. turned into a country of consumer whores, and the second parent took to the job market. Traditions fade, dynamics evolve, so stop trying to demonize them.

[@thinkfact]

>>How the hell does misogyny have anything to do with this? You do know it means hating women, right?>Back then, only one person had to work to provide for a family,>and since it was still the time of the industrial age, it was usually the man, let alone traditional family views.

[@AA-hy6nb]

Dear Think Fact, you are totally right! Women were working at home as horses or donkeys in 1950-s,- many of them have not even had the need to train to be very slim, since they did ENORMOUS amount of physical job every single day,- unpaid job, by the way! The female suicide rate was very high in 1950-s, because many women hated their subordinate position and boring heavy housekeeping job. They tried to work on factories, in offices, in the clinics and schools during the WWII, and have realized, that job "outside the house walls" was actually much more interesting&fulfilling, than housekeeping job,- and in addition it was PAID,- so they could provide themselves and spend their own money without asking a greedy husband for every cent. After the WWII was over and many women had to return to housekeeping job, been actually kept in four walls, cleaning, washing and cooking, almost all the time, besides rare lunches with other housekeeping wives or even more rare dinners out with husbands. Bored and tired, many women got desperate,- they felt imprisoned by these so-called "traditional values". Values, which some stupid jerks are so fond of even now. So thank you, Think Fact, for being clever and brave enough to protect the modern life style, which gives more or less equal opportunities to both sexes. More or less,- but still MUCH better, than in 1950s.

[@Viraqua]

As Horses or Donkeys?? Were they welding? Working in foundries? Repairing machinery? Constructing roads? Maintaining the sewers? Running Power plants? Lumber Mills? Building skyscrapers? Building cars? Steel Mills? Hazardous conditions with little in terms of safety standards or workers compensation? What the hell do you think the men were doing while the women were "slaving away"? And are they today? I know very few female mechanics in my industry, and I work in an international chain. How about all the others? Again, a few. Not the numbers that you seem to have dancing around in your head. Most of them went into other fields. Medical, clerical, food processing, and the like. And many, not because they wanted to, because they HAD to. Back in the 50's, there were things that didn't exist, like electronics, and consumer culture. You had one TV, no cable bill, no internet bill, no cell phone bill, no newest game console, no newest and greatest tablet, your car wasn't bluetooth linked to your phone and attempt feebily to "auto pilot" itself for thousands of extra dollars, and if one of your primitive electronics broke, you took it to a repair shop, not throw it away and buy a new one. Now, it takes two incomes to run a household or you're under the poverty line. Kids are raised by someone else and their views of life than a parent's, or raised on the streets and a life of crime, which has gone through the roof, the war of the sexes of today makes the war of the sexes of the seventies look like kitten play, and your "equal opportunities" for both sexes, is, quite bluntly, BULLSHIT. /watch?v=TPihPrNseAo Go ahead and try to downplay that video, I have plenty more I can throw at you. So, to sum it up. Your modern lifestyle of increasing stupidity, increasing obesity, increasing ignorance, decreasing birth rate, decreasing relationships, decreasing common sense, and decreasing morality...can go suck an egg.

[@AA-hy6nb]

There is a lot of anger in your writing, and very little knowledge of both history and modern economy. For the first I recommend you to visit a psychiatrist, and for the second,- read more books and write less nonsense. Further comments from you I will not answer, and so will do any sensible person.

[@Viraqua]

A A There is no anger in my writing, just a strong opinion against your own, and you have shown an inability to stand up for your own opinion so by all means, slink back into the shadows, cover your ears, and pretend your in your safe space.

[@MrDeadBlade]

Sorry for the double post, but thank you for a amazing video (as usual)

[@thinkfact]

MrDeadBlade No worries at all, thank you very much for taking the time to let me know! I appreciate it. :)