10 Stunning Predictions That Actually Happened

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5 ай бұрын

Predicting the future is a hazardous business but when predictions are proved to be right it’s almost beyond belief.
Jules Verne, Arthur C. Clarke, John Elfreth Watkins and Morgan Robertson, amongst others, make it look easy.
They are amongst some of the geniuses that got the future right.
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@ME-zp9co 4 ай бұрын

I booked an appointment with a clairvoyant fortune teller and i knocked on her office door and she yelled who's there i quietly turned around and left

@22ergie 3 ай бұрын

Don't quit your day job...

@ingridscott6252 3 ай бұрын

🤣

@HappyLife-wv5ms 2 ай бұрын

😅😅😅😅

@mrsme33-cy7lf 2 ай бұрын

I went to a shop that had a fortune teller that worked there, with my sister and a friend of hers. The friend was overweight. The fortune teller asked her when she was due 😂

@johnwang9914 2 ай бұрын

A clairvoyant might see you not know who you are, now a telepath might know who you are...

@mareencope8421 5 ай бұрын

I'm nearly 75. Before I was born, Flash Gordon comic strips ran in the daily newspaper. This was before it appeared on television or in the movies. My father always told my mother we would have that wonderful technology in the future. Think how much of that has come true.

@artholyoke 5 ай бұрын

I’m 73 and my father loved Flash Gordon so much he was going to name my youngest brothers middle name Flash but changed it to Gordon. Trued story

@mariamalicek7794 5 ай бұрын

Unfortunately she wouldn't get videos like this cause she's not famous😢

@Fireworxs2012 5 ай бұрын

*Depends on what your idea of wonderful is. There are more than a few of technological "advances" that many people find less than "wonderful"*

@philiprice7875 5 ай бұрын

saw a scene from one "go get the emergency radio".. guy come back carrying a refrigerator sized and weighted box. the producers could not see radios getting smaller

@MrDaiseymay 5 ай бұрын

YERBUT---theres a different connetation to Flashing now, whether your names Gordon Dave or Jim, can get arrested I hear.

@NarwahlGaming 5 ай бұрын

_"The Earth will become a brain..."_ Yeah. But, then, it got dropped on its head. 😂

@fnzypnts 5 ай бұрын

This is too good!!!

@jodyharnish9104 4 ай бұрын

And parts of it have brain damage.

@normandunford5747 4 ай бұрын

The ones with brain damage ARE politicians.

@user-fc1zs1wh9g 3 ай бұрын

@@jodyharnish9104 only the brown spots are damaged ...might be best to just remove all the brown spots before it spreads

@johnwang9914 2 ай бұрын

And as with any group of people, the combined intelligence will be the lowest common denominator. To be honest, I associated the Borg, and the Cybermen as the result of transhumanism's integration with mobile communications, basically the hive mind will be the memes, misinformation and echo chambers of social media.

@carolesumler7986 5 ай бұрын

Fighting fire from the air is something we do in the US over forest fires. Helicopters and planes drop water. They also have drones that drop mail and packages to rural areas and hard to reach locations in the mountains. Plus, some local shops use drones to deliver beer and pizza to people out hunting. It is happening as we speak! 😀

@mehere8038 4 ай бұрын

Not in Australia, the drones had to be stopped, due to magpies attacking them lol blood tests, medications & various other items are now delivered via long range drones though, rather than the flying doctors having to take an entire crewed plane out for those sorts of things & fires obviously get aerial fighting in Australia too

@Jason_Fisher 5 ай бұрын

I remember reading about the Titan / Titanic similarities when I was a kid, back when your greatest source of info was a book, probably from the local library. Some fascinating coincidences there…unless of course Robertson really was clairvoyant or a time traveller!

@mehere8038 4 ай бұрын

not really, he just did his research properly & wrote about the most likely way a ship would sink

@VictoriaEMeredith 2 ай бұрын

When I was a kid in the 70s, my major source of entertainment at Grandma’s house was a huge collection of old Reader’s Digests and Reader’s Digest Condensed Books. (There were two boring TV channels on a good day, and no kids for several blocks around.). Man, did I learn a lot!

@charlesyoung7436 2 ай бұрын

I read his novella. It seems that the original story had been edited after the Titanic sinking to add details that made it more closely resemble the actual tragedy. Additionally, the story was extremely antisemitic. The most interest thing was one of Robertson's short stories included to fill out the volume. It predicted a Japanese sneak attack on the United States using submarines equipped with laser-like weapons.

@puliturchannel7225 5 ай бұрын

Pretty cool: at this moment 1/3 of your viewers have pushed the like button. That is well above average in yt-videoes. This channel really deserves more views, I was very much entertained by this video. You have a good concept and good ideas, so I hope you continue with these!

@verynearlyinteresting 5 ай бұрын

That’s so nice of you to say, thank you. Tez 😊

@iamjames8403 5 ай бұрын

@@verynearlyinteresting9 Days later and the amount of Views has surpassed the subscription stat.

@karenroot450 5 ай бұрын

He does deserve more views and I just subscribed due to the amazing information and the 1900 era drawings. Can’t wait to see more!

@pelicanvibe 5 ай бұрын

You cover the most fun and interesting topics in an engaging way. Enjoyed this thanks

@verynearlyinteresting 5 ай бұрын

Oh thank you that’s very nice of you to say. Tez 😊

@MrDaiseymay 5 ай бұрын

moonlandingthough ?@@verynearlyinteresting

@ingridfong-daley5899 5 ай бұрын

@22:33 "They thought that all of your barbering needs could be met with a flick of the switch." Flobee!!!

@NarwahlGaming 5 ай бұрын

Stan Lee in 'Ragnorok'. 😂

@dmikewilcox 3 ай бұрын

Funny!

@mham1330 5 ай бұрын

Some people at NASA must of gotten ahold of Verne's book and said "Let's do this!" 🤔

@verynearlyinteresting 5 ай бұрын

I am sure there is an awful lot of truth in what you are saying. Scroll down the comments and you’ll see a comment from someone who was at NASA at the time who was saying the same thing. Thank you so much for watching and commenting. Tez

@asmartbajan 2 ай бұрын

Exactly my thoughts.

@SuperDrLisa 5 ай бұрын

Odd that they didn't expect clothing designs wouldn't change.

@elizabethnavarre7972 5 ай бұрын

If you watch the Time Machine (2002), one of the things the main character sees from his time machine as he moves into the future is a store front window. The skirt on the mannikin gets shorter and shorter in fast mode as the machine goes faster and faster forward in time until it all just becomes a blur. I just found that particular way of communicating movement forward in time to be hilarious. Of course, you're still absolute right because that's a modern depiction and we know how fashions changed, but it's still relevant. There are a few, very few, predictions of future styles out there from the early 20th century, but they weren't serious - just in sci-fi movies, etc. There were a few fashion designers that tried too, but again, I think they were just doing that 'avant-garde' thing that fashion designers do, they weren't trying to predict the future. :)

@troyshore3357 4 ай бұрын

Not sure if now exactly great 😅 people looking so clean cut back then must have been so nice t go in stores and see sights of today. 😅

@Fauxrising2022 3 ай бұрын

My theory is if you look in past centuries fashion didn’t change that much (at least for women’s fashion). Look up a timeline of fashion in the 1700s or 1800s nothing drastically changed. The only reason that fashion did dramatically change in the 20th century were from the events of WWI and WWII. A lot of cultural and social norms shifted after the events. I really believe if those events didn’t happen I do think that fashion would probably be as depicted in the video. You had a great observation that made me ponder! 😊

@Catmom-gl5nt 3 ай бұрын

@Fauxrising2022 that’s completely untrue. Clothing design changed drastically in the 1609s, 1700s, and 1800s. The French Revolution alone had a massive affect on waist lines and overall structure. If you study historical clothing the 18th century is one of as much change at the the 20th century.

@professionaldebil 2 ай бұрын

well i suppose they did not expect fashion to evolve backwards

@mikaso 5 ай бұрын

Holy cow, not a dull moment in this production! And the narration is excellent too - hat's off!

@verynearlyinteresting 4 ай бұрын

Oh wow thank you so much, that’s very kind of you! Tez

@stuartm6069 5 ай бұрын

Tesla's predictions of wireless communications were not predictions but comments on existing technology. Radio waves were already being studied in the 1890's. By 1909 Marconi had already invented the radio and won the Nobel Prize. By 1928, Shortwave broadcasts were already widely used for communications around the world.

@pete275 5 ай бұрын

Ok but it's possible that the Jules Verne book inspired a lot of the details of the moon landing missions. Same with the iPad one. Still impressive

@ladyvincenza Ай бұрын

Yes, I think that's partly true. It doesn't change how impressive it is; just less clairvoyant and more life imitating art.

@TOOKSTAH 5 ай бұрын

I really want to hear you say “Ah! Dr. Bravestone! Welcome to Jumanji!” 🙏🏼💙😇

@verynearlyinteresting 5 ай бұрын

😆

@raymondmuench3266 3 ай бұрын

Watkins prediction of the death of trolleys was spot on.

@esmeraldapooner751 5 ай бұрын

I think the person who said certain letters would disappear was coming close in a sense because today we type in letters and handwriting is not really taught in school, nor is cursive writing.

@mehere8038 4 ай бұрын

na, I think they missed the mark. I saw a joke story many, many years ago about Russians accepting cold war defeat & being willing to adopt English as their national language, conditional to a few changes, these changes would be initially ..... followed by ..... the next year & then ...... the following year. Those changes were the removal of certain letters & replacement of other letters with different ones, as that story went on while using the changes as outlined, the English language more & more morphed into Russian. I think that is what the person with the letters is refering to, a removal of certain letters, so as to head towards a more universal language, kinda similar to how the US has chosen to remove a lot of letters from English words, such as from colour, favour etc & to replace letters with different ones, such as realise, apologise etc

@Louis-kk3to 3 ай бұрын

I'm 60 years old and my grandchildren can't read my perfect cursive , not even their own names 😢

@mehere8038 3 ай бұрын

@@Louis-kk3to so teach them

@ingridfong-daley5899 5 ай бұрын

E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" was published in 1909 and i'd argue that its predictions (both concepts AND methods of application) are the most comprehensive and accurate I've ever encountered. It's a 45-minute read (and there are several good readings on KZfaq if you like audiobooks) but he covers EVERYTHING from ipads and satellites/the internet to living conditions and resulting human consequences. I read it my senior year in high school (1994) and was scared to hell of using email/the internet for my first year in college... i could see how his predictions of human devolution would be an inevitable consequence and it was terrifying. But early internet was just too much fun so i caved in a year later :)

@jenniferpearce1052 5 ай бұрын

And thus, the devolution began! 😉

@greghall_The_TechEditor 5 ай бұрын

I second E. M. Forster's book! He got it so right! People that are tied to their screens all day and can't even function without them!

@ingridfong-daley5899 5 ай бұрын

Hairless and pasty, hollering their opinions above the oblivious functions of the Machine... :) @@greghall_The_TechEditor

@deesmith4800 5 ай бұрын

This book came to mind when I started watching this too

@user-sj2ns8fk6j 5 ай бұрын

I read it in high school in the early 1970s and it is one of the most fascinating books that I've ever read.

@hackman669 5 ай бұрын

Titan prediction is frighteningly accurate. 😆

@verynearlyinteresting 5 ай бұрын

It’s crazy isn’t it 😵‍💫

@mehere8038 4 ай бұрын

It's really not though, it's just someone doing proper research into how a ship would most likely sink I mean you make a prediction on that for a time when the US/UK route was the main transport route in the world & when ships are all heavily reinforced in their front, to the point of being effectively unsinkable if head on hitting something & while you're at it, come up with a name for the biggest ship in the world that reflects it's size huge wave or sea monster are the only real possibilities to use other than what was used in that story & what happened in real life

@fredwmanzo8580 5 ай бұрын

The butler was delivering an Edison Cylinder for the gentleman’s gramophone. As he invented it in 1877, it wasn’t that much of a stretch to think they’d be used to deliver “email.”

@wandapease-gi8yo 5 ай бұрын

The gentleman receiving his morning mail at the hand of his manservant is getting a freshly made wax cylinder to fit into his phonograph.

@ladyvincenza Ай бұрын

I heard that Edison developed wax cylinders more for a "voicemail" purpose than for entertainment.

@themadwomanskitchen9732 5 ай бұрын

First prediction was amazing, but I imagine the scientists probably looked at Verne's book for ideas. Star Trek would also inspire future technology, including flip phones.

@Fireworxs2012 5 ай бұрын

*The Jetsons were first*

@themadwomanskitchen9732 5 ай бұрын

@@Fireworxs2012 sure, but I watched a documentary about the affect of ST and the man who invented the flip phone was directly inspired by the OG ST communicator.

@uselesscause3178 5 ай бұрын

@@themadwomanskitchen9732 He would love the communication at hospitals now. They wear a tag on them, can talk with the tag and it calls others when needed. I kept saying it just needed to be in the right shape heh.

@user-wm3bf7pi3u 4 ай бұрын

@@uselesscause3178 I believe Shatner said he was given one of the first flip phones... people flipped out when he used it in the airport. Plus I think there are a couple of X-prizes for a Bio-bed and a Medical Tricorder.

@bobbyjohnson4002 4 ай бұрын

Don't forget the big screen TV Star Trek Enterprise had a huge screen to watch the world in front of them 🤔

@TheDanishGuyReviews 5 ай бұрын

My favourite prediction is Jules Verne's In the Year 2888. He predicts a kind of video phone with no lag between talking in New York City and Paris. Today, I would call that invention Skype.

@verynearlyinteresting 5 ай бұрын

Oh wow. That must have seemed so incredible to him that he allowed 1,000 years for it to be worked out 😵‍💫

@diamondjim7560 5 ай бұрын

@@verynearlyinterestingWell, to be fair he didn’t anticipate the reverse engineering from the downed alien spacecraft. 🛸🪐 😂😂😂😂

@hydrolito 5 ай бұрын

Early Victrolas played back sounds that were recorded on cylinders before the record player.

@Jamessmith-xk3fh 5 ай бұрын

I knew Mark Twain was born when Halleys comet appeared and he went out with Halleys comet

@mehere8038 4 ай бұрын

Do you know haleys comet is visible for months, not just one day?

@Mayaman67 4 ай бұрын

Great mate. I hate channels that have someone talking and a constant flow of images that have a tenuous link to what's being said. This vid has a perfect balance between shots of you and pictures.

@verynearlyinteresting 4 ай бұрын

That’s such a nice comment to receive, thanks so much Keith. Tez

@mysmirandam.6618 3 ай бұрын

Your voice, accent, topics, and editing, are an awesome combo!

@verynearlyinteresting 3 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you! That’s so nice of you, Tez

@mysmirandam.6618 3 ай бұрын

@@verynearlyinteresting of course!

@themeantuber 5 ай бұрын

My 1999 PC had speech recognition too.

@cardiaccuse9orng4lf82 5 ай бұрын

At the 17 minute mark, the device they predicted was accurate as far as the head gear. In my senior year of Spanish, the classroom we were in had something similar to this. The head sets came down from the ceiling. We had to listen to the entire class this way.

@Louis-kk3to 3 ай бұрын

Our school had rubber tubing with hallow ear phones coming from a nother hallow plastic canister placed over a speaker connected to the record player , we sat at tables that were round and the group would take turns listening while the rest of the class took a different subject , cool huh !❤

@farfaraway4285 4 ай бұрын

I wish Tesla was alive today. He should see how much recognition he is getting now.

@Bravo-ry9st 5 ай бұрын

21:43 is actually correct. Dragon speech recognition software came out in 1997.

@Urbanmoon 5 ай бұрын

But Dragon first released Dragon Dictate in 1990 which then became Dragon NaturallySpeaking, I remember using that in 1997 when it first came out. Speech-to-text was here long before 2023 and is not thanks to Google and Apple as stated in the video. Heck, I even remember when Google first started around 1998. It was very, very basic, very grassroots and really not at a point where they were branching off to things like speech-to-text. So yeah, Dragon was the leader here, and quite a long time ago.

@lancerevell5979 4 ай бұрын

And we were playing with Text-To-Speech in the early 1980s. I had a program on my Atari 800XL that did it. 😊

@johnrowley4410 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for another Very Nearly Interesting (in fact just very interesting presented in an aumusing way) video . I look forward to more.

@verynearlyinteresting 5 ай бұрын

Ah thanks John. I appreciate that, Tez 😊

@JohnSmith-cn4cw 3 ай бұрын

Almost 20 years ago, I was traveling down a road in west Texas at about 70 miles per hour while talking to my wife outside of Tokyo in a rental car also moving, to this day I haven't forgotten how much of a miracle that is.

@erictaylor5462 5 ай бұрын

24:00 The reason we wouldn't do it in airplanes these days is because we have helicopters. But until the late 1940's it was none in airplanes. In WWII many a shot down pilot was rescued at sea by flying boats.

@juliahyatt5838 5 ай бұрын

Speech to text has been around for several years now BEFORE 2000! Before the internet, planes carried peoples' letters etc

@silverwater211 5 ай бұрын

Telegraph

@GnrMilligan 5 ай бұрын

This was the first of your content I've seen. Good job Sir! A Like and a Sub for your efforts. And as you mentioned Arthur C Clarke, he also, in one of his books, described a machine that digitally converted a picture of photo into a signal that could be transmitter down a telephone line. He called it a facsimile machine.

@Dizzychick_MN 5 ай бұрын

I think that many of the predictions here that have come to fruition may have acted more like inspiration for those things. A painting or story describing something that was likely unimaginable to create at the time, coming about at a later time when human knowledge had expanded. When technologies and materials had advanced sufficiently enough for those ideas to be made viable. Kind of a chicken or the egg situation.

@ghood7445 5 ай бұрын

Great first video of 2024. For me, Jules Verne was the standout prediction, with an incredible amount of accuracy in so many aspects.

@verynearlyinteresting 5 ай бұрын

Thanks GH. Yes I agree … the Jules Verne predictions really defy belief don’t they?? Really appreciate your comment as always, Tez

@ulrikof.2486 5 ай бұрын

Vernes sf stories are nice and classics. However, his predictions were very unprecise, many false. Even if sth came true some way, he imagined it not correctly, be it regarding technology, looks, or time.

@cheriem432 5 ай бұрын

I'm French, and I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't realize that Verne is French.

@larrykershner5266 5 ай бұрын

Where are you filming? It looks familiar to me.

@charlesyoung7436 2 ай бұрын

The only thing incorrect with this presentation of the Jules Verne prediction is that it did NOT include a Moon landing. It is more correctly comparable to the December, 1968 voyage of Apollo 8, which only orbited the Moon before returning to Earth.

@LisaApril 5 ай бұрын

There's already a kiosk that will paint your nails. You select your color from those available at the kiosk and put In one finger at a time. these are being tested at different locations in San Francisco. They're also testing a machine you sit in and two little arms put in your eyelashes, but there still needs to be a human there to go over the work and add eyelashes if it the computer missed anything. There's also a kiosk for getting your own personal shade of make up. All these are up and running but they're still in the testing phase.

@patchouleigh_ 5 ай бұрын

I predict this channel will have a million subscribers within a year or two.

@verynearlyinteresting 5 ай бұрын

Aww that’s a lovely thing to say, thanks so much Pat. Tez

@IanM-id8or 5 ай бұрын

Jules Verne was an incredible nerd. That's why he could figure so much out so far ahead of time

@olsmokey 5 ай бұрын

Verne described an enormous GUN in his story, not a rocket. It wouldn't have worked of course. The passengers in the projectile would have been smooshed (technical term) to a paste at 'launch'.

@briancohenthepfjmassive.4769 5 ай бұрын

Get real !!! Apollo 11 knew about the names and that's why they used them.

@kathlake4009 5 ай бұрын

Nerd power!! 💪🤘👐

@mehere8038 4 ай бұрын

@@olsmokey ever heard of a launch loop or space cannon or one of the many other proposals that use similar principals to guns to "fire" people into space?

@stephaniec3619 5 ай бұрын

As usual, you manage to make an interesting video, yet again! I love all of your videos and always look forward to the next one!

@verynearlyinteresting 5 ай бұрын

Hi Stephanie! Thanks so much, that’s lovely to hear. Speak soon, Tez 😊

@themeantuber 5 ай бұрын

Robotic vacuum cleaners started coming out in the 90s.

@harveyabel1354 5 ай бұрын

Why can't they just keep their sexual preerences to themselves?

@ruthm.6071 4 ай бұрын

I feel like this has been my lifetime. As a kid in the 1960s we got excited over a long distance phone call (on the heavy black dial phone that was wired into the wall). And yet with amazing computerized lives, in 2024 human lives are still devastated by floods, droughts and fires.

@paulis7319 5 ай бұрын

I was tired when I started this and predicted I'd be asleep by the end of it. Sure enough, I was out by the fourth or fifth story.

@verynearlyinteresting 5 ай бұрын

I do that all the time 😆.

@erictaylor5462 5 ай бұрын

The ship would have suffered a great deal of damage had it struck the iceberg head on, and many of the passengers would have been injured, with some even being killed, but the number of dead would have been much less. If you were standing up at the time of impact you would have been knocked down, but at the time of the accident, most of the passengers on the ship were laying in bed, asleep.

@cheriem432 5 ай бұрын

I will *never* understand why professional seamen seemingly did not know this! It seems so much like common sense.

@EqualOpportunityDestoroya 5 ай бұрын

I remember reading a Jules Verne book about flooding the Sahara.

@teaburg 5 ай бұрын

Can you imagine the force of the fire hose sending the jet pack firefighter soaring backwards?

@lancerevell5979 4 ай бұрын

Would any firefighter chance getting close to a fire while wearing a tank of rocket fuel on his back? 😮

@peggysuedavis3395 5 ай бұрын

This is my first time on your channel and I am now subscribed. Very informative and I also enjoy the original pictures in between articles. Great work 😊 Thank you for details.❤

@lennychorn147 5 ай бұрын

How do you mention Author C. Clark and not mention Gene Roddenberry the creator of Star Trex? So much of that show is now just normal part of life.

@1crazypj 5 ай бұрын

Good point, I think Star Trek inspired many scientists to actually find a way to make things from the show. Flip phones possibly the best example of 'communicators'

@lennychorn147 5 ай бұрын

@@1crazypj Motorola actually field tested a combadge type cellphone. It failed at the time. But with modern voice control and Bluetooth, I bet they could make it work now.

@barryfong2844 3 ай бұрын

❤

@adamm2366 3 ай бұрын

Top man. Just found your channel. Definitely a recommend.

@verynearlyinteresting 3 ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you Adam!!Tez

@randybourdon2791 5 ай бұрын

Great video, thanks for sharing!

@verynearlyinteresting 5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much Randy. Tez 😊

@SweetChicagoGator 5 ай бұрын

Thx Mate ! Awesome, fabulous, & astonishing clairvoyant drawings and predictions ! The mind of humankind to fortell is astonishing !!

@brianwolent9593 5 ай бұрын

always awesome. thank you..... loved it

@verynearlyinteresting 5 ай бұрын

That’s so nice of you, thanks Brian. Tez

@user-uj9cc5ch5p 5 ай бұрын

One way to begin prophesying is to observe science fiction and know that today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact. Mr. X

@johnrodgers2171 5 ай бұрын

Maybe a few percent of science fiction became a reality. We're definitely not living in giant cylinders orbiting the sun. No chance of personal flying cars ever happening at least for more than 20 minutes. FTL travel won't happen or time travel either. We have smartphones and algorithms

@AleynaWolfe 5 ай бұрын

Fascinating! 🌼

@teekuepie2536 4 ай бұрын

Thanks!!! Very well put together, and organized in an easy to understand manner! I thoroughly enjoyed Ur presentation. BPM

@sugarplum5824 5 ай бұрын

I love the vintage music.

@grokeffer6226 5 ай бұрын

Fascinating.

@karenroot450 5 ай бұрын

What I truly loved about this is the ingenious pictures of the future. They are amazing drawings. Great story made me subscribe. Keep it coming young man

@carolgibson-wilson4354 5 ай бұрын

Had a blast, thank you!😊

@Alex-in8tk 5 ай бұрын

Excellent documentary, first one I've seen. Very interesting and great narration. Subscribed

@verynearlyinteresting 5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much Alex, that’s very kind of you. Tez

@koltinn 5 ай бұрын

8:34 Watkins also predicted computers...

@pimpozza 5 ай бұрын

Watching now.. Love this channel! 🙏❤

@beverlyderiggi2570 5 ай бұрын

I love this video, the first I’ve seen from your channel. I did subscribe and I also want to tell you that I love the choices of music!

@cuteanimalseverywhere7620 5 ай бұрын

Arthur C Clarke didn’t just predict iPad, he designed the concept.

@georgeolson3996 5 ай бұрын

Take a read of Nevil Shutes books. They are a "wonder- full" mix of kene observation of people and an engineers extrapolation of the challenges of the future and good peoples moving through life. NOTE our friends in Australia said that the Forewords in his books were "needed" for they knew the events and personalities he drew on which made the events and characters intensely real. The predictions of the impact of WW2 on civilians were as the phrase goes "spot on*. The predictions of Aircraft Aluminium fatigue failure in an airplane were the straightforward understanding of his knowledge as an aircraft designer.😊

@lesallison9047 5 ай бұрын

Very nicely put together documentary. At least four times more information than the average TV show!!! Thank you and well done 👏👏👏👏👏

@luzma9109 4 ай бұрын

Absolutely well done with a superb delivery. Thank you so much!

@verynearlyinteresting 4 ай бұрын

Oh thank you! That’s very nice of you to say. Tez

@cardiaccuse9orng4lf82 5 ай бұрын

Also, the making of your clothes instantly machine. We do have 3D Printing and have had it for at least 15 years now. Not 2000 but I don't think this one is very far in the future.

@Lindas5811 5 ай бұрын

well done thank you

@verynearlyinteresting 5 ай бұрын

Thank you Linda, Tez

@ArtJourneyUK 3 ай бұрын

17:39 "We dont sit on balconies whilst on the move though".... but we do have open-topped buses!

@PullupaPugh 3 ай бұрын

I have just discovered your channel and I have watched a few videos but will aim to watch them all. I have one observation to make though, you should call your channel Very Interesting because the ones I have watched so far have been fascinating!! I do appreciate that you are not taking yourself too seriously though, by calling it Very Nearly Interesting. While watching the time travel one, I thought that I would go back to the Summer Fete in Woolton, when John met Paul. I subsequently noted that you have made a video about this encounter. Not watched this one yet but as I am a massive Beatles fan, it is next on my list! 😊

@zyrinaz 5 ай бұрын

My prediction for 2100 is way too dark:/ what few humans survive WWIII and WWIV... I'll just leave it at that... This vid was really 😎 awesome! I was familiar w most of those, but the Ladies Home Journal one was very interesting, and completely new to me, as was the drawings at the end. Thank u 4 sharing this very fun video! Some of the drawings predicted the show "The Jetsons" 😅

@alphadog3384 5 ай бұрын

I remember reading a book 60 some years ago saying we would read and see stuff in the palm of our hand. Bingo we have done it.

@chellebird71utube 5 ай бұрын

How wonderful. An interesting channel with good, fun and definitely interesting articles. Thanks😊

@user-ro9zx8mk5h 2 ай бұрын

Excellent predictions 👌

@timhogan9282 5 ай бұрын

I like the fact you said why you want likes. You hear them all say like but never why. I just though it was because the got more money for likes but i now know the real reason. Thank you

@verynearlyinteresting 5 ай бұрын

Hi Tim. Thank you, yes it’s definitely one of the metrics that is used to judge if more people might like to see a particular video. Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoyed the video. Tez 😊

@ontheroadaustralia-soleman1911 5 ай бұрын

Wow amazing, thanks for this great video and info mate.

@verynearlyinteresting 5 ай бұрын

My pleasure! And thank you, as always, for your support. It’s really appreciated. Tez 😊

@ontheroadaustralia-soleman1911 5 ай бұрын

@@verynearlyinterestingkeep up the great work Tez😊

@howardhales6325 5 ай бұрын

Great video! I just loved the drawings at the end.

@kaileim970 5 ай бұрын

First time here! Loved it, subscribed.

@erictaylor5462 5 ай бұрын

Arthur C. Clarke was not just a writer. He was also an engineer and he invented the communication satellite. The transition from the Dawn of Man segment of the movie takes place when Moon Watcher (The name of the leader of the ape tribe) throws his bone club into the air. and the camera follows it until it becomes a satellite. That satellite was a platform for launching nuclear weapons. A prediction that Clarke got wrong, thankfully. But he had a hand in making that prediction not come to pass as he was a strong supporter of the treaty that prevented the stationing of nuclear weapons in space.

@sthavoc8 5 ай бұрын

Didn't work, America and Russia have nuclear armed satellites...

@Grundewalt 5 ай бұрын

"a satellite for launching nuclear weapons,..a prediction Clarke got wrong" . Are u sure ? while the west use nukes as de detterent, the autocratic kleptocratic regime nuts are really thinking of using them. So here goes their respective doctrine: announce it to detter, or NOT announce it to use it by surprise. China/Russia/Iran/NK are actively militarising the space, as they waged an uninterrupted hybrid war while the poets in the west helped them getting the funds for it(CH RU at least). my2Cents

@seyioyetade 5 ай бұрын

Hi, pls wat is the name of the music playing in 7:15 pls

@randalmayeux8880 5 ай бұрын

Good show! Keep it up.

@verynearlyinteresting 5 ай бұрын

Thank you very much. Tez

@lynnthomas5795 5 ай бұрын

Loved your video!

@Derideo 5 ай бұрын

So, basically jules verne wrote the script for nasa...

@user-gu2yy6kq9y 5 ай бұрын

2 wrongs don't make a right. But 2 Wrights make an airplane. I will never forget that. Lol

@Screwpipe 5 ай бұрын

Don't you mean AEROPLANE ?. They weren't the first, Gustav Weiskopf beat them by two years, learn your history correctly.

@user-gu2yy6kq9y 5 ай бұрын

@@Screwpipe what? Lol Honestly I didn't hear anything you just said. And just to let you know, I learned that in school,so if you want to give someone a history lesson, go tell every elementary school that their wrong. Screwurpiper. 🤣

@Screwpipe 5 ай бұрын

😡😡It is an ABSOLUTE LIE about the Wright Brothers being the FIRST powered aeroplane to fly on 17 Dec 1903. ✈Gustave Albin Weiskopf (Whitehead) 01 Jan 1874 - 10 Oct 1927 a German immigrant to the USA, made his first flight in Connecticut on 14 Aug 1901. This feat was widely publicised in local newspapers at the time. The Wright brothers actually used a modified Whitehead engine on their Flyer. The Wrights were smart enough to have their attempt being photographed and filmed. 🏴‍☠In a deal in 1948 with the Smithsonian Institute and the Wrights it was a condition of first flight recognition, that they must recognise that the Wrights were the first to conduct heavier than air, controlled, powered flight to be able to own and display the Wright Flyer. ✈Janes Encyclopaedia of Aviation also recognise Whitehead as the first person to fly such an aircraft.@@user-gu2yy6kq9y

@St63420 2 ай бұрын

And... three rights make a left.😂

@Screwpipe 2 ай бұрын

☺@@St63420

@samueldelgado1458 5 ай бұрын

Jules Verne is a wildly popular writer among young scientists and physicists... I think that his influence played a possible role in launch sites and system control centers.... but definitely the naming of the Columbia, similar to the Space Shuttle Enterprise for obvious reasons

@allangibson8494 5 ай бұрын

And Nautilus…

@klootzak587 4 ай бұрын

Like the content, thank you VNI team. Recently I saw footage of Frank Zappa and George Carlin making similar"spooky"spot on predictions in regards what we are going through right now.

@cyndirankin 5 ай бұрын

My Mother passed on 1982. She told me that money was going to become plastic. Look where we are now.

@aconsideredopinion7529 5 ай бұрын

This guy sure does like the sound of his own voice…

@cathiehutcheson6556 5 ай бұрын

All the predictions that scientists made back in the 1970s concerning fossil fuel consumption and climate change have all come true.

@IvanKosta-dv5mw 5 ай бұрын

It’s known now that the oil industry knew about the grave damage they were doing to our planet decades ago but buried those studies.

@penaarja 5 ай бұрын

This was really intreresting, even seen some of these earlier. Thanks

@rpow6861 5 ай бұрын

This is a great channel, love it when s video comes out

@verynearlyinteresting 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! Tez

@teaburg 5 ай бұрын

Had to laugh at mail being delivered by a flying human. That went the wrong way...have to walk to the community mail boxes now, it isn't even delivered to our doors.

@R4D4_ 5 ай бұрын

I would love to see a movie set in a society based on those pictures from 1899!

@MrDaiseymay 5 ай бұрын

What made me larrf though was the Clothes, All that creative brain power, and , despite clobber worn under water etc, they were still in their Victorian / Edwardian clothes.

@mikeplott4817 5 ай бұрын

Great Job and Great Information 👍👍🙏

@user-zr7zv6sx2y 5 ай бұрын

..ok..I had to subscribe.."very nearly interesting " love the title!

@luisreyes1963 4 ай бұрын

And to think I believed what I saw on The Jetsons cartoon as a kid would come to pass by 2000. 🤭

@verynearlyinteresting 4 ай бұрын

😆

@Spaceman-jb7hf 5 ай бұрын

I wonder if people took ideas from these books. Anyhow, Another great video.

@verynearlyinteresting 5 ай бұрын

I think you have a point … how many ideas have been taken from science fiction??

@Spaceman-jb7hf 5 ай бұрын

Another good point.

@trevormustey4418 5 ай бұрын

@@verynearlyinteresting If you've ever watched a Dick Tracy cartoon you'll see where they got the idea of smart watches

@rl42382 5 ай бұрын

@trevormustey4418, many of us lived to see this technology become reality

@carmelmhennessy9738 5 ай бұрын

My kind of video. Thank you

@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk 5 ай бұрын

Why don't firemen fight fires from jet packs says someone who has never felt the force of a fire hose.

@mham1330 5 ай бұрын

The flames from the jet pack still might set your pants on fire and possibly would not be able to hover in one spot.🤔👨‍🚒🪓🧯

@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk 5 ай бұрын

@@mham1330 You still completely missed the point. No jet pack technology we have ever had could counter the force of a water hose operated in the air by a fireman.