Incredible. I graduated high school in 2001. I started working on my Bachelor's Degree in 2003 from an Army base in North Carolina entirely online. 10 years later, I was able to finish grad school online at a regionally accredited university.

Funny they never predicted tuition would increase by 800% in 30 years

As a teacher, I found this documentary fascinating and insightful. It was so well thought out that it not only showed the future teaching tools in action, but made sure to highlight the recalcitrance of the teaching community towards them and the potential drawbacks for education when implementing them. Teachers, like all other people, can be averse to change. This is pointed out by the late Fred M. Hechinger at 17:06. There seemed to be an inordinate focus on keeping the lecture as the primary educational tool. I'm not an expert in the history of teaching requirements, but from what I've been told, during this time to become a teacher you needed to have a degree in the field you were teaching and little more. So, a teacher's understanding of how students best learn (data on the effectiveness of lectures by length of time, etc.) was simply not in consideration because they had no training in it. Which only makes what happens at 18:33 even more amusing. The professor, likely a staunch believer in his lecture-based methods, sees himself teaching for the first time and realizes he's, "just up there talking."

In 1967 I finished college in electrical engineering, e.g in electronics we spend a lot of time on vacuum tubes, only in the last year transistors were introduced. After conscription in 1969 I started to test prototypes of main frame computers. The top model had 512KB of core memory (1 MHz), optionally it had up to 4 large cabinets with 2MB (0.4 MHz) core memory each. A system had typical 2 to 8 disk units with replaceable diskpacks. Initially they were 7.5 MB, later we had 30 MB and 60 MB disk units, giving us a whopping ½ GB of disk storage. The characteristics of the pentode vacuum tube allowed to produce high quality audio. The characteristics of the transistors were much worse, so they told us, that in the design we should maximize output not quality, since those transistors were mainly used in portable transistor radios used by noisy teenagers. In my first job I used the first chips (integrated circuits DTL = Diode Transistor Logic). There were very few transistors and diodes in one chip.

The farther you go in education, the more you teach yourself.

It is the year 2023 and almost 2024 and life is a whole lot different than it was in the late ⏰ sixties. I also graduated high school 🏫 class of 2001 born in 1983.

I learn by watching old films that have been digitized and uploaded on You Tube!

It was impossible for people in the analog 1960s to possibly imagine the digital world of 2000. To them all media was print, film, TV, magnetic tape, records, slides, or phone calls. To be able to watch this 1967 film on demand from anywhere in the world would seem more like 22nd century technology than 21st in 1967. Our instant and virtually free global communication would stun people in 1967. A long distance call in the US cost $0.58 per minute in 1967 which is $5.34 per minute in 2023 dollars.

Oooh, I want to learn radio and television repair! Think how much demand there will be for that in the 21st century!

This documentary is very interesting. I love computers with a typewriter keyboard, it gives a style like in the film "Brazil"!❤

And now we’re watching all this on our phones

It appears that speculation about future systems appear to be spot on at times, but never take into account miniaturization. Videos always show huge computer terminals and monitors.

Imagine how they’d react if they were told students would take online courses where you log in and take a test or submit class work

Zoom 🏎️ classes now in universities especially since the Covid-19 pandemic 😷

The discussion around 20:00 is very interesting. That only the best lecturers whose personalities can really help to deliver content ought to be bottled up on film and used for generations, while the Live teachers are more focused on open discussion with small groups. Amazing insight and yet 60 year later we still have montone, rambling, disengaged lectures at some of our most prestigious universities.

Plato. The same name they used for the educational system they created for TI Home Computers and Apple II. The 80s version was a crude interactive power point system. They are still valuable lessons that are tough to find a replacement today.

Took a statistics course thru the television back in 2004, yes the picture was clear in one of those huge ass 250lb SONY 37" CRT TV's. It wasn't high def but you could easily see the board he was writing on. Sound was also spot on, gotta give credit to Columbia State's Franklin branch for getting the technical aspects of this remote feed "just right".

Oh good Lord! Check out those old video machines with reel-to-reel and computers. Those are worth a fortune these days.

On his I-phone a serious student has more information at his fingertips than Penn State did in 1967.

I miss that show. Wish it could be re shown and see how things back then turned out in future.

Wow 🤩 I graduated class of 2001.

I was the class of '01, didn't see a computer until the end of 2002

Education in the 21st century: Kids will just Google stuff. Roll credits.

While the futuristic vision from earlier decades may not have materialized exactly as depicted, our world has still seen remarkable progress in many areas, enhancing our quality of life and addressing various global challenges.

I was 12 back then.. How things have changed...!

They projected 15 million seniors graduating in 2001, but it ended up being 2 million. Off by 87%, 1960's journalists!

Oh the Megabytes ... never gona happen. Next thing you'll tell me is they will work from home.!

In the 1980's video recording used the classroom

Spot on.

@ 03:10 do I see cigarette-smoke rising from the bottom of the screen?

I wish today’s professors recorded and watched themselves.

Funny how in 2000 tech was far beyond what they predict.

Nice video one

Bill Gates was just a 12 year old boy when this was produced. 😉

What was the 80's movie where class was given on one those big tape recorder machines. It was lame so the guy always cut class 😂

The quality of education in the 21st century : Graduates know their sexual pronouns but don't know who is on the one dollar bill

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Hey that’s my class

Everyone smokes! Students and teachers alike.

I wonder who made the electronic music for this film. Could it be Raymond Scott?

great cars that year

🥰🥰🥰😍😍🤩🤩😘😇😇.

1:23- "'THE 21st CENTURY' is sponsored by *UNION CARBIDE* ........ 'The Discovery Company'."

It's all onlime today

mastering physics / online based math courses are at the peak of the dystopian future. what were they thinking. this is not the way to do this

More schools for more students for More Science High

Well ,you may have a degree, but it's bs because your teacher graduated 79th out of 79.

What did he mean by the class of 2001? Usually when we speak of Class whatever year it means the graduate in that year not those starting that year.

What does this have to do with the 21st Century? This just shows old stuff in 1967.

Im too cool for school

There was never a teacher shortage. Shows how wrong predictions can be.

Nobody disliked Walter, so those thumbs are ludicrous😄

You can hear the indoctrination even back then.

No one drifts off to sleep on the computer... it keeps me awake learning Things I will never use. Wow two gold molecules traveling at light speed crash into one another in a magnetic "bottle" 21 miles long. And there are sensors that can Read the results... jfc. I wish I was young, younger I wouldn't wanna live forever but the next 500 years you bet ya! Have fun kids, I grew up when Hate and ignorance was a thing. ❤

All of the instructors and professors portrayed in the documentary were white males. One of those funny things.....

I think AI will soon do away with most teachers. And teachers know it. Students use computers to get their knowledge today. They aren’t interested in critical thinking anymore, which is a shame. I think this is why many teachers teach their personal opinions. Because it’s the only way to stay relevant to students needs. Groupthink is here. What a mess.