They're pretty accurate to be honest, the Dad even has 3 monitors set up for the ultimate gaming experience.

Impressive how they predicted online classes down to the crippling boredom as reflected in James' entire body language

It's funny how they imagined this type of life to be cool and we are now sick of isolation, processed foods, instant meals, and too much screen time.

I can't wait till 1999 gets here.

In 1976, my 8th grade history teacher told us that one day our TV's would be like a framed a picture that we would actually hang on our walls to watch. Our families being owners of console TV's and Sony Trinotrons, we laughed. That said, this video is pretty darned accurate!

Narrator: "And here we see billy, hiding from his parents, watching shota manga on his mobile device."

1:12 they even predicted online classes lol

Shockingly accurate, they got online shopping, online communication, banking, classes... about the only thing they didn't predict was that all of those things would use one unified system, the internet.

1960 : I bet there will be flying cars in the future 2018: Eating tide pods challenge

These predictions weren't even bad. Most of them were quite accurate.

They forgot to show that dad had to change his password again due to a security breach, but forgot his pin code.

All things considered, they didn't do too badly. Remember that the Internet was years away, and computer networking was in a primitive state. Having even a single computer in a home was science fiction, as they cost as much as an average house. Actually, the most amazing thing is that the "History Channel" showed some actual history, instead of nonsense about Ancient Astronauts and UFOs.

I wonder what these actors in this film thought when they actually experienced 1999 and remembered this film

RIP to the actress that played the mom. Marj Dusay (1936-2020)

Thats how you realize how technological advances are much easier to predict than social ones 😂

Most of their computers are all in our smartphones lmao

It's funny because even though they are talking about a digitalized world, they are still very connected to the real world. Take the "online shopping" for example, in their scenario, they are looking at a video of the real world, the physical store is still involved, whereas currently with online shopping, you don't even need a physical store.

And hear you find Jimmy watching “the hub” on his family central computer

I love how the online store had absolutely no UI or even pricing information

1960s: By 2020, flying cars 2020: Planes don't fly

We're living in the time people could only dream about and yet we can't stop fighting.

They got some stuff right

Son: "Mom, I'm hungry!!!" Dad: "Yeah, how 'bout some lunch!!" Actual 2021 Mom: "F--- that! Get it yourself!"

1960: I bet there will be flying cars in the future 2019: egg

The car at the beginning looks like "The Homer".

They predicted small microwaves, flat screen TVs, computers, online classes, online shopping, emails, and fax machines all in one go. They even predicted Skype.

This was so insightful for the 60's. But as a child watching the Jetson's I seen all these thing's we have today! Very cool to see none the less!

We actually have a lot of this stuff today. Home post offices, on line shopping, smart refrigerators.

That was AWESOME. Come on History Channel. Ya' gotta' produce "The Home of 2050."

"Master James" lived a rather sheltered , isolated life

wildest off the mark is the assumption that the traditional family will still exist, with Mum dutifully providing the dinner and the son and Dad lording it up.

1960 : cars in the future be like 0:15 2019 : tesla cybertruck

The dad was played by later game show host Wink Martindale, who is still with is as of October 2023.

I predict 2099 we'll be having computers in our heads

Heck, The Jetsons cartoon series in the 60s predicted we'd have video chat. We were off to such a good start. What happened?

the subtle humor in this is great. they really werent far off in many concepts...and downright dead-on in others.

This is actually crazy accurate

Reality is more spectacular than imagination. I wonder how someone watched this as a kid feels, if he's alive today.

Live long and prosper to the Dad, Game Show Host Wink Martindale now in his 90’s.

My goodness…this is great. I was smiling during the entire video while watching this on my iPad.

Some say he is still counting for lunch

Feel sad watching this, how time flies and these people never got to see how 21st century looks like

They just predicted online learning 20 years too early... And it hasn't turned out so well...

Me watching this in 2022, as I take meat and vegetables I previously bought from driving to the store, out of the fridge to cut up and cook the same way on the stove or in the oven as my grandmother did 60 years ago. Some things don’t change…

1:50 oh boy this wont be okay today. 3:13 lol, no

1:34 Results of your test: 3 Wrong: You F L U N K

That’s amazing technology

What the wife selects on her console the man will pay for on his console 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

They predicted zoom lol

Pretty spot on.... at first I thought the boy sitting in front of what looked like a huge flat-screen was going to be the computer or smart-tv equivalent but it wasn't

>watches this instead of doing schoolwork on my computer. It’s an abstract kinda feel

It’s funny that in this film the wife/mother is still the one in charge of meals and the husband is the one in charge of paying for her clothing selections. They didn’t imagine that she might be able to make the payment herself through the computer.

Incredible how they show flat video monitors everywhere, when the concept of liquid crystals hadn't been developed yet, and neither LEDs hadn't been invented yet. The first flat screen in a movie was the display of a tablet computer in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" which premiered in 1968, when Cathode Ray Tubes where the only technology available for a decent display...

That's actually just online classes and modern smart housing into one. How accurate

Mr Brown and I got along famously...

Most of this didn't exist in '99 in everyday homes, but instead in 2019.

They almost got it right in this film! Most films predicting the future were usually amusingly wrong (jet cars, robot servants etc.) The only obvious omission here is any mention of recycling or home energy efficiency.

That was pretty much accurate. I always have wondered. What the fascination with gull wing doors and a car that looked like it was an oversized Buick with a plexiglass dome was.

If you watch the entire feature , this family lives a very rigid , controlled life and " master James" seems rather sheltered

The online classes part was accurate, but not in the way they imagined lol. They’re also not tailored to the mental capacities of the children they’re teaching

One thing about the 60's, some of the coolest car were made...GTO Chevelle Cuda Roadrunner Firebird 442 Cutlass Lemans GS Charger Challenger Mustang Nova LeMans Tempest etc etc

coolest video clip ever!

If they only knew that everything in that home office was going be shrunk down into something that it's in a pocket.

This is a dream project. Ito ang tinutupad natin ngayon.

Love the narrator mocking billy

Wow its going to be brilliant!!

Gosh, it's incrediblle how acuratte they are!

If I had a time machine I would go live in the 60s this was more simple back then and people actually talked to each other in person and looked forward to the future and had morals

I was 21 in 1967 & loved movies about the "near future", i.e. (far enough away to experience change, but not so far that I wouldn't live to see it!) 1950's & 60's "Sci-Fi" films predicted vast changes to occur by the 21st Century, but since we are now 25 years past 1999, other than advances in communication devices, I think that the world has ultimately failed to live up to those predictions for the future, that were made in 1967, 57 years ago!

I would feel depressed as the narrator, knowing that I wouldn’t be around to see this come to fruition :(

Bruh these are spot on

I'm actually stunned how well they got this...

The Simpsons predicted we would be watching this video predicting the future.

One of the most big blast masterplan for the future,it's being created in the past. Of course certainly in 1960s. Wonderfull......wooonderfull.......!! 👏👏👏👏👏

Internet shopping was a thing in 1999, along with home schooling too. It wasn't as fancy as it was today but we got by. What it doesnt show you is that wife decided to get her own career and the kids and husband had to learn to fend for themselves.

The mom name is marj dusay she actually bragged to us that she was an actor for 1 of these but never could find it

1:07 : me dragging myself to attend a zoom class

I really wish I could show the producers of this film what we have in the early 21st century

It was a good estimate of the future, because he worked with the fact at the time that the technological platform of things would remain the same (luck was not taken into account). For example, if you want to predict the development of light bulbs in the age of light bulbs, it will still be a light bulb of various designs and many improvements. It was not taken into account that by chance we can discover a semiconductor junction PN, which will emit light, which immediately leaves the concept of light bulbs and creates a completely different development path of the luminaires. It's the same today, because development always turns to different tracks thanks to some new findings, and that's why we still don't have what we promised fantastically in the 1960s and we have something we couldn't come up with at the time. Some people who do not understand futurology may argue that, for example, when there was no television, people were able to predict it. Yes, but only when Nipka's disk and Baird's experiments appeared. This only stimulated the imagination of various technical solutions, because it was feasible. This is how Julius Verne "predicted", because his publisher supplied him with the latest news and experiments of the time from all over the world, and Verne only "improved" it. That's why Verne's novels with technical descriptions are "realistic" and that's why we liked these books very much.

The predictions were quite good from a technological point of view, the casual sexism was sort of funny (in an ironic way, as they made all these predictions of the future, but assumed that women would still be housewives and their husbands would earn the money and approve purchases)

Well just think.. This is the generation that put man on the moon. If we'd have stayed with the same way of thinking, there's no telling what life would be like now.

0:59 Im amazed they basically predicts Onlines classes cuz of Virus outbreak imagine James and his Child doing online classes at 2020

I presume this sort of concept is lifted from Britain on film series from BBC Scotland. Where the subtitles were used to highlight the contrast between the past and present related to the subject matter of the presentation! That too is an excellent series to watch. This happens to be the American on film series a good mockery but with a positive outcome! A fan and an admirer from Pakistan.

I regret not going to the army back in 2010

Most future predictions I've seen were wildly off, but these are surprisingly accurate. Edit: Yes, not for 1999, but it's still not WILDLY off.

They did a pretty good job of predicting.

I’ve made fun of this film in other postings, but this video is the closest to being accurate about the way computers would be used in homes in the future. Sure, there was no Internet available to the public and HTML had not been invented yet, but this video accurately predicted online shopping today.

Well they got the flat panel TV part spot on.

Thus video was Damm near perfect in accuracy

The turn of the millennium seemed so far away back in the 60s didn’t it. Yet it’s also ironic to think that the 60s were as far away from the 90s as the 80s were from the 2010s

this is interesting

"All the information about this family is stored in the central home computer" LOL!

Interesting.

I want that car!

This is actually interesting.

The computers show pictures of paper invoices.. lol

I remember watching Knight Rider in the 80's and thinking a car with a tv monitor was the coolest thing ever, but I'll never own one.

I always like the way they put an extra set of tires on cars

They didn’t predict the people wouldn’t be that clean dressed and well hair styled

The husband paying for the wife’s shopping looked very stressed out. 😁