Yeah, they never thought a computer would become so small that it fit into pockets.

@@yinchuun lol. Or take pictures/make videos.

@@phatcat3705 Or trade in virtual currency with it.

@@ColtraneTaylor or what's even a virtual currency

To be fair they are predicting for 2001. Which is a pretty accurate assessment of PC's with internet at the time.

It know bday does by way of the internet and computers and smart phones

I love this working from home, I never want it to end!

Trust me... they did.

@@mynameisnotjerome1803 yup

That it's so true

Your landlord could have at least let you finish typing. 😂😂

@@HoustonRebel they power was cut off mid sentence. Lol

Hope your power is back on. Someone wants to talk to you about extending your vehicle warranty.

😂

Rent is hard on 2 salaries in 2023

-while we didn't do anything that was worth being paid to do the rest of the time.

your talking about humans here lol we can barely predict the weather moreless technology.

While sitting on the toilet

​@@joseventurausmcmy phone died so I had to take one of those 90s dumps.

@@roninshogun4eva did you read the shampoo bottle?

welllllllll we do have a variation of chairs 😂

All I need is a bed

We still do develop new variations of chairs tho.

Aren't we tho? Lol

Just like Sims!

True

Covid said hi

Little did they know

The Fun They Had - Isaac Asimov

oh no

Yeah where is my housework robot?

@@anneloving8405 Right‽‽

@@anneloving8405 Roomba is kinda close

As a kid visiting Montreal for the Expo, I thought Habitat '67 was weird and wouldn't have wanted to live in it. That sentiment remains.

@@spikespa5208 Man no doubt!

Actually, he was saying "robuts" which is how some people pronounce "robot". Back in the 1980s when _"The Transformers"_ were shown during the _"Bozo Show"_ the guy who played Cookie the clown used to refer to the Autobots as the "Aughta-buts". Sorry. That still annoys me all these years later.

@@themirrorsofmymind Damn I remember that, I used to set my alarm for 3am because that's when it came on on TBS over here on the west coast and I'd wait for that sweet sweet 5 minutes worth of Transformers goodness. Then I'd fall back asleep until it was time to get up for school.

It’s like dr. Zoidberg from futurama.

I used to make fun of my mom for saying it the same way, thinking she didn't know how it was pronounced. But now when I see all these old films, it was usually pronounced that way.

Mr. Cronkite also said that robots aren't coming to take over the world; I hate to break it to you, Walter, but they're coming to take over the world.

My house was built just before the First World War.

Yep, most of the homes were I live built before the 1960's.I;m lucky mine built 1968

Haha so true, my place was built in the 60s, as are most in auckland..

It's now very high-end, but there are people living in Habitat 67 even today. (Including the architect!)

So true! I live in an old southern mill village. My house was built in 1920! I think it’s charming and much better than these ugly “Jetson’s” abodes.

Like I’m doing just now lol

Me too.. It's what I'm doing right now. Damn prostate!!

Excellent comment 😊

1960: in the future do you have jet packs & no wars? 2020: uhhh, no we get into fist fights over fried chicken sandwiches & hoard 🧻.

@@DavidLLambertmobile ...toilet paper!

The biggest thing they were wrong about was getting away from urban sprawl and congestion.

@@ObsceneSuperMatt I’d say the 30 hour work week and a month long vacation! LOL! 😭

ME!! Very much so.

Very close although the microchip hadn’t been invented yet so they still pictured giant computers to be the norm

2001 we didn't have many things yet. No smart phones, etc...

I'd always snickered at that. For some reason they thought we were gonna just lay waste to everything older than 1999 vintage and we'd all be living like the Jetson's. Frankly the architecture of new homes today aren't far off from what they were back then, except that instead of looking like Frank Lloyd Wright designed them, they're designed to retain the flavor of the environment and history they're built in. As a consequence even newer homes look vintage in places. Go to NE and you find people enjoying the trappings of 21st Century technology from the comfort of their 300-year-old cottage or estate. This vision of the 21st Century obliterates the influences of the past and pretends the entire landscape will look like something from _Blade Runner_ or _Demolition Man._

I grew up in a lovely old home that my great grandmother saw being built when she was a girl. There was something magical about that house and we owned it for over 60 years. My mom grew up there as well. When they sold back in 2006, the people who bought were just interested in dollars and no family has lived there since. It makes me sad knowing that. I loved that home and just want someone to love it like we do. I have many happy memories there.

You probably also remember how blatantly they actually disregarded the past in the 60s as well (cough Penn Station cough). I guess they just assumed that would keep going haha!

@@Zeoytaccount That's the way it had been for millennia, especially in the. US . If it falls down or is too costly to repair, just build a new one. At least that obvious crime started the historical preservation movement. I'm sure I was once in the old Penn Station, but I would have been very young. My mother & I were seeing her parents off on a train journey, that dates it.

Right on

You mean your smartphone?

I mean, there’s literally no other way to watch this anymore lol

@@futavadumnezo whats a smartphone? is it like a pay phone? or does it got a number pad on it

@@tysontitus3332 hilarious

@@futavadumnezo woosh!

Do you lack the social skills to do those things?

@@oldcountryman2795 have you seen society today? 😂

@@oldcountryman2795 I don’t know in what nice suburbia or whatever you lived in, but where I grew, everyone in the neighborhood seemed to purposefully avoid each other like the plague. Kinda like saying, you do your own thing and I’ll do my own thing.

@@kaleycooper9111 You must be one of my neighbors 👋😉😕

@@oldcountryman2795 I and countless millions just like me.

I remember for my 7th grade birthday party I got a purple inflatable chair. I was so excited. This was 2001. So they were accurate with that prediction.

Too bad they couldnt make it through the hey-day of smoking haha

I guess people back then thought no one had cats in the future 😅

It was really only something for kids .. adults weren't sitting on those things with each other.

haha. yeaaaah

Everyone is rich today. Just not as rich as some.

And white🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@daphnerockzaic9096 ???

Be it through trickle down economics or redistribution a la Europe (in a stronger form), in the past we tend to think that everyone will collectively reap the benefits of future tech and prosperity. Instead these benefits all go to a few instead of being divided among many is the unfortunate reality.

When the fast food production line bit is running we suddenly got nice mp3 clean stereo jazzy music. My first thought was What has old Walter said in this section.....

Why is this kind of music so disturbing I wonder? Something about this entire era is unsettling in a way I can't quite put my finger on.

@@skonked it's made in such manner. Also the bitrate of the recorded audio maybe a reason

@@skonked twilight zone is why it creeps me out lol

Ah, the ass-flute, one of the creepiest instruments known to man

lmao the family was going downhill in the 60s. Grow up

What does the demise of the family even mean. You just need more money to have a family now and less people are having kids at 15.

"The demise of the family" is very true, I'm afraid. I have no numbers but I'm sure as a unit we spend less time together now more than before.

@@TheSilentMajorityNation 🤣🤣🤣 I don't have numbers but heres my bullshit💀

@isaiahbowers3712 🤣 this kids pressed because we said families don't spend enough time together anymore. Hit too close to home for you, I see 🤣

Yeah I had one of those

So so true

I had a Britney Spears one😭

I had a Blue's Clues one when I was like 3 or 4 lol

Made in China

Microwave meals are extremely common

I can hear it in his transatlantic voice lol

It's pretty interesting when u think about it, microwaves are insane pieces of technology

Top commemt

I looked up the origins of microwave ovens and found an article "A Brief History of the Microwave Oven" in IEEE Spectrum (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. ) "at the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago, Westinghouse demonstrated a 10-kilowatt shortwave radio transmitter that cooked steaks and potatoes between two metal plates." I had heard or read about someone finding a candy bar melting in their pocket while testing radar components. Early ovens (1940s and 50s) were about the size of a refrigerator and used so much power that heating up a meal would likely pop ALL the household fuses in the average home of the era.

I just couldn’t 😂

Too bad in the 60s apparently these engineers hadn’t invented the wheel instead of noisy machines attempting to walk…

It's also really, really close. In 2021 the urban/rural ratio was 86%/14%

DEFINITELY not cars, though, i hate how cars look like bubbles now

Not in 2001. A lot of stuff was rounded if I recall correctly.

In the future, people will waste as much of the space they are paying for as possible

@@jaysleezy5464 me too It’s so ugly. Bring back the rectangular bumpers and regular cars

@@jaysleezy5464 You’re gonna LOVE the Tesla Cybertruck.

We also have TVs the size of the wall, just like he showed.

@@mexicanspec Accept the fact that 3D tv's died 4 years ago.

@@dennisschnobrich9288 What does that have to do with the size of current televisions? They are up to what, 85 inches now?

@@mexicanspec I'm just saying that 3D tvs don't exist anymore.

@@dennisschnobrich9288 3D TVs still exist, they're just not popular because it gives a handful of people headaches. I love 3D blurays and games.

I was 8....

I was 11

It was just 15 days before my eleventh birthday

I think they had far, far, more vision than anyone today, seems capable of.

I was 16.

In another 50 years, People wont have privet cars or privet homes. All jobs and everything else, will be issued to you via the standing government...Dam. That sounds so commy, doesn't it.

i dont think 50 years from now will be that different, i mean, i hope it is but i dont think it will

@@trashcan2088 If you ask me you are just 'hedging' your bets... 🤣😉

Me in 50 years: 'Get your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty apes!'...😉

This was filmed about 60 years ago.

Why the long pause? Sounds like this person is giving Alexa the command to kill them!

@gyrergd wtf.. that's hilarious to imagine Alexa answering "daddys" 🤣

@@NovaRanger007 What's wrong with that? Mine calls me Master.

Oh funvk hahahaha I laughed out loud and woke my husband hahahaha that was hilarious 😆😆😆😆😆😆

Stop with the sex talk

Only true in a few European countries who are in severe economic trouble.

I know, right. They did have multiple TV channels back then, so why not make that leap?

Technology took space, mechanics, records and tapes, bulky CRT screens, energy, they generated heat and were heavy and expensive, and that was true even up to the early 2000s when TV was still analogue, you watched a movie on disc, listened to music on a stereo, went to your PC to get online, or got out your CD collection that you’d converted onto your iPod via your PC to listen to music. It wasn’t until we got flat low energy screens, efficient batteries, fast computing, tiny affordable solid state memory and super fast wireless data connection that we could even conceive of small digital devices doing it all and that’s only occurred in the last 15 years. For 2001 they did ok.

Yeah, I got a screened device for viewing the weather. It’s called a window.

Yeah... I had the same thought. Remember, though, that the concept of a personal desktop microcomputer was still a bit of a stretch, much less one that could incorporate all of these functions in a single device. Software and operating systems like iOS and Windows that provide convenient access to all these functions didn’t exist yet, and were probably well beyond the ken of most people.

Jarrod Baniqued The best comment here.

Oh then don’t come to Norway

you mean can't afford rent, let alone a home.

I extremely agree with you..houses today are expensive.. STILL HOMELESS POPULATION RISE

It's about 65% home ownership now, vs 63% when this was made.

If only

There’s the Samsung Galaxy Z series that can either fold or flip. Neither one is cheap.

@@SWalkerTTU I was imagining something that could be rolled up like a newspaper.

That said, there has been a need to smooth out their edges, literally.

yeah but my computer could store all the data they had in the world in the 60s, including physical media, like books. probably. (i mean, it's 8tb)

@@GraveUypo ppppft... my phone could store yours and the 1960s data on it

my home was built in 1846

@@roonilwazlib3089 Pretty sure your phone has 64 or 128 GB, which is like 60x less storage than 8tbs..

@@GraveUypo meanwhile my iPhone storage is full, because I did some photos xD

Haha hellz yeah they were, I had one!😅😝

@@ReikiLightLanguage even my Barbie had one! xD

They’re very uncomfortable and would get punctured easily

werent these inflatable outdoor sofas a thing like 2 years ago?

yeah but you didn't carry them around. and if you once sit on it ther where 2 possibilitys, you sat ther forever or you instantly fall of. nothing in between. and never sit on them on a hot summer day with shorts...will end in possibilty number one...

And still living in homes built when this video was fikmed.

That means I’m turning 20 this year and I’m not okay with that

It’s because the elites stop us from growth

@@nolinm7640 Shall we eat them?

@@Amygondor Yes! The beginning of this could easily be Google map footage

They killed that off to give us everything else speculated on a handheld screen.

Ok use small imagain and think of future re-vented something we used in 1990's tacgoloy that persons will use in 2060-70's but won't you live longer enough to see how many things you got wright or wrong and what tacogoy will use in the future

@@annamariapiotrowicz511 Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?

@@annamariapiotrowicz511 You really need a spell check before posting a comment if you want to be taken seriously

The American dream moved to the People’s Republic of China. They have over half a billion of people in the middle class, social healthcare and welfare benefits.

And people think we are living in the greatest time ever but they don't realize the people that lived before technology are the real lucky ones.

@@loadedhot1034 lucky? When they survived wars and then uncurable illnesses....

@@utej.k.bemsel4777 the literal same can be said about us idk what you’re poppin off about

I'm sure this was the case for most people that were born in 1890 and lived for 70+ years.

@@utej.k.bemsel4777 yep, everyone knows if you have technology you are immune to disease and war🤦‍♂️

he's dead, lol

I work for a company that gives me 300 hours or about 2 mounts of vacation. Tho I work a lot more than 30 hours a week

​@@billolsen4360#BestPresidentEver!

Why should that stop him? LOL

@@billolsen4360 Well, they let brain-dead people run for president.

Hahahahahaha, yup

the device will be on you at all times notifying you of new cat videos

Lol

🤣🤣🤣

For brainwashing

ICE CREAM CONES! 🤟🏻💯🍦

🤣🤣🤣

Damn I didn't think i would find so many laughs in these comments.

😂😂😂

Or a roti, patty or empanada

Thx for the laugh 👍

People were probably doing that back then there was just no internet to put it on

@@SK-pw9id Back then sniffing glue was an all too common pastime for teens who couldn't access alcohol.

@@lilRadRidinHood 🤣

It seems like people get dumber as time passes

I wish I could even own one home. 🏡 Hopefully someday. 🙏🏻

😂

IKR.😭

True haha 😂

america moment

My thought, too.

Interesting 😖.

Reminds me of Disney World Carousel of Progress

Agree

😂

hey we put wood paneling in my room in early 2000 and it's pine and looks really really nice 😠

Somewhere....some archtect designed a house back in the 60s and said "ohh they're going to LOVE this brown wood paneling. It'll go GREAT with this yellow tar colored paint, green shag carpet and cigerette colored kitchen

@@murkypuddle33 My Dad went all in on the panelling trend in the 70's. My childhood home, which my mother still lives in, is ensconced in paneling. lol

@@murkypuddle33 lmao best response

Better than the boring plain painted walls

The Great Reset in 2030 they say you will own nothing and be happy about it.

@@hlinville6034 we will be forced to be happy about it. We’ll will be forced to believe it ... the great pharmaceutical rollout ...

I wonder if it’s do to being so dependent in this time as now most of us lost knowledge of how to build a house ourselves. Back in the day I think we were more independent. I seen a guy almost not spend a dime after he bought some land and built a log house 🏡 peacefully in nature and solar panels roof.

@@KevinBourque like many things there’s always a *tradeoff* , as you live in a city and become more and more specialized in your activities you gradually lose the ability to be self-sufficient. Civilization is powerful and efficient but very fragile.

@@hlinville6034 does that reset my student loan debt too? If so, sign me up.

Very true. There are limits.

They may have underestimated the ability for people to adapt to tech, and the level of planed obsolescence required for implementation of tech. People aren't as fascinated with home automation as they thought, or it may have happened sooner. It took decades for computers to find their way into every home.

I wouldn't say they overestimated, they just estimated according to what they knew. After all, the internet is one of the most incredible inventions in human history. In combination with cell phones, almost everyone has immediate access to an unfathomable amount of information at all times. One device which we use to learn, network, socialize, and entertain ourselves. So after hearing this guy gush about an inflatable chair, I'd say they didn't overestimate; they simply estimated incorrectly.

The scientific community has often been composed of large numbers of fools who hold vast book knowledge in very small areas of a specific field.

@@gotouguts2066 I agree, I think we just can't predict or sometimes even comprehend what will change/hold importance/be the way of the future.

💀💀💀💀

F

HA! I'm in a double-wide trailer home built in 1954. "Renovations" seem infinite. I do love my pink bathtub and sink though.

bruh moment

Same here lol

Except for cars. 90% are now monochrome.

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@@astrogirl7616 dude no need for such a comment on a video related houses like plz 🙂✋

crazy how everyone lived in black & white back then.

@Joseph Lomeo did you not get the joke or are you just spamming without reading the comments?

Hello Erica how are you doing

@@fredjohnson5458 simp , you not gone hit it dawg

@Erica you're so beautiful, have a good day

@@alanmtz.8495 beautiful name, have a nice day

@@fredjohnson5458 nice beautiful and i think. @Erica is beautifully fine

Haha omg I just busted up reading this.

it was actually popular in early 2000s. its not around anymore because its uncomfortable af

Imagine trying to get the air out of your chair at the end of the night so you can put it back in it’s little bag for the trip home 😂

@@mixzoe6228 and was easy to pop😫

That's what I was thinking.

I had the same thought.

Still the future to them 🙆

@Kiki r/TechnicallyTheTruth

Dam that was funny. LMAOROF!

Well the furniture made from paper concept is a pretty close truth just shop at IKEA!!! ---junk

And UKposts videos from Russians telling us that we are not pooping properly. And Russians not necessarily being bad guys looking to nuke us to defeat the Capitalist West, but instead join it and leave the ex-USSR behind, like Putin’s old boss’s boss at the Museum that puts out the Spycast podcast. Remember, this describes 2001, not 2021. The iPhone is still in the future, and the Blackberry screenless.

Soon you can ditch the inflatable doll, there are better options, soon can have your own AI doll companion

some of what they predicted came true. sadly most of what they predicted that came true was the worst case scenario, but one has to still admire our technology has most definitely made life far more simplified for certain things at home.

ROFL! Sad, but true.

Or if I go back to work, im not going to be able to afford health care insurance 🙃 might as well stay jobless 🤪 on Medicade and draw disability but some get turned down, like I did, so working to death is the only option.. uhh

10.08% of the population is on food stamps. 2021. Majority of those on food stamps live in California.

@@orated762 California only has the most of all states because it has the highest population of all states (9th largest economy in the world just as a single state alone)...which is expected statistically, so lmao who cares. More effective information would be the state percentage of those on welfare per the population of the state; ranked from the highest would be: 1-New Mexico, 2-West Virginia, 3-Louisiana, 4-Mississippi, 5-Oklahoma, etc... California doesn't even come close to the top 10, in fact, California actually ranks way down in 32nd place out of all states regarding those on food stamps as a percentage of the population. Not sure what you were trying to convey, but the majority of those on food stamps do NOT live in California...

Scientists forgot to predict the GREED of those who run corporations, stockholders, and small business owners when making this utopic prediction of a shorter work week. Isaac Asimov is guilty of the same thing. He talked about more leisure time for people coming in the near future... I call his prediction the Great Sci-Fi Lie.

It must be entirely made up of preservatives lol

@@nikajinpusno9563 Instant ramen

Mountain House just entered the chat

😂😂😂

Indeed i am a robot

That's why my house work never gets done!!!

?? This is a confusing statement

@@xPOWERx-ne1jr He means that we as humans encounter "btos" every day on internet which ask us "are you a robot" and ask us to do crazy 'captchka' to prove that we are not robot.

Lol. True. Back in the '90s when I was growing up, everything was its own separate device, and they were these big, heavy, blocky monstrosities that only public places, such as some schools, have. That wasn't that long ago, but even back then we couldn't imagine a pocket-sized device that could do all of these things, either. Now people can't imagine life without smartphones, lol. (And if you're like myself, who does not own a cell/smartphone -I only borrow the one I'm using now -people look at you as if you're an alien, lol).

@@phatcat3705 I don't own a smartphone too but I still have a phone. I'm blessed to have my childhood in the later half of 90s that gave me a chance to be exposed to outdoor plays with neighbors. It's great to experience the great days of 90s and also be there in the tech age. I get to experience the best of both worlds.

@I’m eating cereal I've watched Social Dilemma. It's basically saying companies used psychology to get you hooked and create demand on their products. Targeting your very core habits. If you know how habits work and how it is created you can still have hope. You can still control your life even if you are surrounded by this Technology. I've read the book Atomic Habits and Power of Habits before I ever encountered the movie and so I kinda understand the whole movie how these technology creates great divide among people by feeding them with more information related to what they are seeking like how a confirmation bias happens.

😂😂😂

Where's my flying car? I really thought it would happen. 😕

Did you check the carrying bag?

People working essential jobs can't work from home. People need to work in grocery stores and be nurses and doctors in actual hospitals. Get real.

@@dystopiaisutopia what

You must have missed the part where Walter explained, that the cats of the future will have their own computers with images of your furniture so they can digitally sharpen their claws.....geez, pay attention😃 Besides, most of the cats would be crushed by the tiny feet of the robots.

And also fat people.

@@GFI888 Belted Radials.

And that kids would stop jumping on furniture and not bite it

Or that you would have to sit on them in Florida in the summer.

To be fair, the phone might as well be a Star Trek control panel

"Cell" phone

iPad on the wall there you go

@@Lee-km7qq Exactly, but the difference is in appearance mostly, at least that's what Id think hes saying.

i’d happily take a star trek control panel instead of a phone lmaoooo *twitter for star trek control panel*

Also people "using the force" on automatic doors.

Bad doors are everywhere by Vox. It's a good video.

Something to help, most doors are pull on the outside and push one the inside. The reason for this is because there was a fire in a club once, and everybody crowded near the door. Unfortunately, the door was a pull door from the inside and the people couldn't get out because the door had no room to open. So now most doors are required to be a push door on the inside for easier escape access. I think that doors that aren't like that are illegal in some places.

@@laylacox77 I didn't know the history but assumed it was for safety. But why do doors in private houses open to the inside?

@@nativeafroeurasian not sure.. maybe not a high risk for a lot of people to escape..?

ehh ehh ehh :)

I talked about a little tiny turtle I used to have when I was a kid and on Facebook I got an ad for exotic pets and said are you looking for turtles?

I Googled "internal temp for meatloaf" last night. This morning there were 30 recipes for meatloaf in my UKposts recommendations. This has to stop.

😂😂😂😂

@@csabo1725 I looked up the song “money” by Pink Floyd and now am getting investment ads and ads for TurboTax and money management. UKposts and google gotta stop😂😂

Yeah, like the gadget that held the egg. For what purpose ?

@@jimmyzhao9748 to uhh... hold egg

@@jimmyzhao9748 progressiveness is some sort of madness

@@jimmyzhao9748 lol so you can put the egg into its grip... only to know its waiting for ya later. Yes.. I know it's a demonstration of robot dextarity .. but still funny. The microwave predictions aren't even predictions as the first microwave sold was 1946.. which meant development even going back as much as 10 yrs.. kinda crzy

@@vxcvfyutube4957 some things should change, just not tasks that are easy by hand

Affordable housing hasn't been invented yet, I suppose.

@@fyr3st0rm65 come to malaysia lol affordable houses is so easy to get here and the houses is pretty compact yet comfortable 2 room 2 bathroom 1 kitchen and 1 living room and a garage

It's about 65% home ownership now, vs 63% when this was made.

im sitting in one of those 60s houses watching

home ownership rates have stayed relatively the same since this was made

You can only predict so much change in a 40 year span based on current technology

Hush, they're trying their best

Bar stools looked Morden. At least I seem some what looked like that

Some... retro style ones, maybe 🤔

Please create your video predicting what the future will look like in 40 - 50 years and send me the link

Nah, not really. There already were microwave ovens, stereo, and frozen dinners when they made that.

People have a hard time looking beyond what is currently fashionable.

OH YA 🤔🤔😂😂🤣

What “aesthetic”? That rounded house was considered bad taste back then, and the “prefab” houses were recognized as just mobile homes referred to in a fancy way. They might have been popular in California, but no one but California thinks that anyone there has good taste.

It's unavoidable. Go back to the Fifties and their "Home of Tomorrow" had a full-size humanoid robot to do the job of a Roomba.

I remember watching this show when I was a little kid in the 60s.