Retrofuturism: Nostalgia for the Future

Retrofuturism: Nostalgia for the Future | Sleepcore

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Жыл бұрын

Do you have nostalgia for the future? Well, Sleepcore has compiled another collection of retrofuturism to take you back to the future!
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• Fun With Mr. Future (1...
• 1960s futuristic homes...
• Visiona von Joe Colombo
• Joe Colombo Visiona 1 ...
• 1957 Monsanto House of...
• Visiona von Joe Colombo
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@Minalkra Жыл бұрын

I like how the first part thought we'd still be building home for regular people to afford to live in ... such optimism!

@CATech1138 7 ай бұрын

haven't met a plumber yet that couldn't buy a house

@yarsivad000.5 Ай бұрын

Tents! 😊

@yarsivad000.5 Ай бұрын

@@CATech1138Did I miss the plumber discussion?

@CATech1138 Ай бұрын

@@yarsivad000.5 no you missed the affordable house discussion....haven't met a plumber tahat couldn't afford a house...or an electrician....or a truck driver....or a carpenter....houses are affordable if you know how to do tangible work...

@yarsivad000.5 Ай бұрын

@@CATech1138 I work in a factory. Guess a dirt bag like me will get the tent?

@Ericthefilo Жыл бұрын

He was spot on about not needing to go to work and the work coming to us thats for sure haha

@brianarbenz1329 Жыл бұрын

I remember watching this series as an 8-year-old in 1967. I don't remember that many specifics from back then, but now that I've revisited the program, I want that monthlong vacation the unnamed government report projected I'd have. You can keep the inflatable chair, though.

@Midg-td3ty Жыл бұрын

You live in the wrong country then. I do have monthlong vacations. Europe ftw.

@Brian.001 9 ай бұрын

@@Midg-td3ty Europe isn't a country.

@mq172 9 ай бұрын

@@Brian.001 They didn't say Europe was a country. Just that we Americans live in the wrong country to expect things like a month-long vacation - which is common in European nations.

@TayWoode 8 ай бұрын

Most countries in Europe give you a month paid holiday every year and you can split it up however you want so long as you give enough notice

@brianarbenz1329 8 ай бұрын

To clarify, I was kidding about wanting the month-long vacation. I want pensions to be returned to U.S. workers, I want the anti-trust laws to be used again (which the Biden administration is starting to do). I want health care, housing and education to be affordable and accessible to all, and I want the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection provision to invalidate "money is speech." To say we can't afford these things because we would have no money left over to invade countries we do not need to be invading is a perversion of logic. Tax the rich like we did in the '50s, break up monopolies, limit the army to repelling invasions and putting down internal rebellions (to which the constitution limits it), build the mass transit we really need and want. Two weeks of vacation is sufficient.

@vylbird8014 Жыл бұрын

"Pleasant dreams. Now, this creature will be hosting your nightmares tonight."

@acb9896 Жыл бұрын

Machines dont make a home, Roe Butts do. - some 1950's announcer guy

@yarsivad000.5 Ай бұрын

This is famous news anchor Walter Cronkite. The most trusted man in America. After the Tet offensive, he declared the Vietnamese War un-win-able.

@michaelgreaves2375 Жыл бұрын

Monsato called it! Or at least, all the microplastics accumulated in my organs and muscle tissue are telling me to say that.

@AndreiTupolev Жыл бұрын

Gosh, look how it was 20 years ago. How quaint! ☺

@FirstLast-vr7es 9 ай бұрын

They were so optimistic... I wish we could have that back. Unfortunately, I think Blade Runner is closer to what will happen, minus the date of course.

@vylbird8014 Жыл бұрын

I notice the portable inflatable chair has a very non-inflatable framework to give it shape. It's more of an inflatable cushion.

@JaredConnell Жыл бұрын

Ya the acrylic frame definitely didn't fit in that bag

@brianarbenz1329 Жыл бұрын

It never caught on, but I'm guess it was modified to become the Whoopie Cushion, one of the great advances in technology!

@moobutt Жыл бұрын

30 hr work week!? I wish. Sweet Jesus do I wish.

@vylbird8014 Жыл бұрын

It seemed believable at the time. If technology doubles worker productivity, then they will only have to work half as long. But it didn't work out like that: It just means employers demand twice as much work for the same pay.

@kenetickups6146 Жыл бұрын

@@vylbird8014 Typical parisite behaviour, never enough for them we could give them 10 times the work and still they want more

@tonywilson8577 Жыл бұрын

If free pizza is an acceptable reward for hard work you think it would feature more prominently in Ceos bonuses

@richardfinlayson1524 Жыл бұрын

Haha,forgot about capitalism,

@vincentleeadams 8 ай бұрын

The West is populated by LAZY LAZY people.

@jacobshort6528 Жыл бұрын

The Monsanto House of The Future was in Disney World back during the 1970s. The house has since been torn down for being a toxic fire hazard, and it's foundation has become a planter for some tropical trees.

@jacobshort6528 Жыл бұрын

Disneyland in the 1960s. Disney World had Epcot.

@brianarbenz1329 8 ай бұрын

@@jacobshort6528 Trees are more useful than Disney's distorted vision.

@atomiclisa 4 ай бұрын

Ah yes, the Monsanto, the 11 Billion dollar lawsuit of the future.

@AndreiTupolev Жыл бұрын

Some things, like being able to call up any sport of movie that we wanted, with surround sound (and all in color!) were pretty accurate, but they didn't seem to predict the miniaturisation of technology did they, they envisaged that every home would come with its own mixing desk to control everything

@cristinasydnor9509 Жыл бұрын

Google nest?

@jacobshort6528 Жыл бұрын

That "Mixing Desk" is just a non-miniaturized stationary Universal Remote Control.

@annother3350 Жыл бұрын

@@jacobshort6528 Yes, they didnt predict the miniaturisation as Andrei said

@ian_b 7 ай бұрын

This "stereophonic" music will never catch on.

@alexneigh7089 7 ай бұрын

A console for each task: now as all of us have hundreds of applications on our PCs, the 1967 futurists would think that our homes will be filled with hundreds of machines.

@jacobshort6528 Жыл бұрын

The plastic Monsanto house of the future was also sponsored by Standard Oil and DuPont Plastics.

@Datan0de 11 ай бұрын

What i love most about living in the future is laying around smoking and reading newspapers all day, having a giant white sphere dominate my living room for no discernable reason, and having a kitchen that's reminiscent of an airplane lavatory. Totally makes up for needing to haul around inflatable furniture wherever I go! 😅 In seriousness, the fact that food irradiation fell out of use is a travesty. It's the triumph of ignorance and propaganda over science, and it's cost lives.

@rorycarter7792 7 ай бұрын

This sounds nice but eventually reality had to hit

@sundaywasabi Жыл бұрын

Missed it last night, but it's just as great now. Thanks for doing what you do, picsandportraits!

@Retro80sMan1 Жыл бұрын

I'm disappointed that none of these predict video games!

@AndreiTupolev Жыл бұрын

25:28"And one for irradiated foods"! Eaten off plastic plates. 😋

@jacobshort6528 Жыл бұрын

My Grandmother didn't understand microwave oven controls, and set it to thaw and cook a frozen chicken patty for 10 minutes instead of the single minute it would've taken. The chicken patty burned a hole through the microwave-safe plastic plate and filled our kitchen with smoke!

@paulsto6516 Жыл бұрын

It's amazing how hard we tried to see that which could not be imagined.

@jacobshort6528 Жыл бұрын

That was a swingers bedroom, and the unibody bathroom made cleanup a breeze. Then the stainless steel kitchen counter with triple integrated sinks. The bathtub/shower is inside that big globe. I saw a circular kitchenette like that in a former grain silo on Extreme Homes. Yup! The swinging Pad of the 1970s hipster couple and their guests.

@naradaian 9 ай бұрын

No it’s a gay vision - plastic and lipstick red with lots of expensive tech

@TheTferrer 7 ай бұрын

It is fantastic to learn about what people back then thought about how the future would be. Now, in the present 2023, what was science fiction and vision is reality and innovation. We still need flying cars, teleportation pods, and food replicators.

@salty6pence672 Жыл бұрын

In the year 2000 🎶

@moobutt Жыл бұрын

I miss Conan

@igorschmidlapp6987 10 ай бұрын

singing... in the year twenty-five twenty-five.... LOL

@igorschmidlapp6987 10 ай бұрын

@@Xiado Unlimited soup, salad, and breadsticks is the best lunch deal yet! ;-)

@brandonleroux6059 Жыл бұрын

I discovered this about a year ago and watching these vids has been my dirty pleasure.

@acb9896 Жыл бұрын

You made it weird.

@brandonleroux6059 Жыл бұрын

@@acb9896 I did. Things are weird here in my dimension. How about yours?

@michaelgreaves2375 Жыл бұрын

Dirty pleasure? Why? What are you doing?... no, don't tell me.

@MitzvosGolem1 Жыл бұрын

Not much changed but the device we are in watching this..

@larry785 Жыл бұрын

Why do I feel like strangling Mr. Future???

@lbec9487 Жыл бұрын

He’s a primitive Clippy 📎 😂😂😂

@silversurfer3202 Жыл бұрын

🧐 I'm still waiting for my damned Jet Pack!!! 😠😡

@jammer2isme Жыл бұрын

and flying cars too!

@CraftyZanTub Жыл бұрын

Your consolation prize is a computer in your pocket, referred to as a smartphone.

@0neIntangible Жыл бұрын

Dresses will make a comeback... IN THE FUTURE!!!!

@ferociousgumby Жыл бұрын

One very weird thing I have noticed, which no one has ever mentioned before, is the way people used to pronounce the word "robot". In all the old sci-fi and futuristic videos, they always say "RO-bet". I am not sure why they did that, as it's obvious how it should be pronounced, or when it changed. Or why.

@jacobshort6528 Жыл бұрын

I've watched old ancient reruns of Lost In Space where Will Robinson kept saying Ro-Butt. Weirdos and strangeness.

@joemccarthy4270 Жыл бұрын

ROE are fish eggs, bet is to wager.

@BillOweninOttawa Жыл бұрын

@@jacobshort6528 The pronunciation of words is constantly changing.

@TayWoode 8 ай бұрын

Different accents say words differently then others copy them. Especially now, I’m noticing people saying things like “discussing” for “disgusting” and they are two entirely different words with different meanings, not even just one word pronounced differently

@LuMaxQFPV 8 ай бұрын

"Row-Butt" from The Twilight Zone

@11moonshot 8 ай бұрын

With the "home office" they were right on the money...50 years ago! Not bad!

@scottparis6355 9 ай бұрын

Only the man of the house works at his home work station. I guess the lady of the house just cooks those microwave dinners.

@moobutt Жыл бұрын

Ro’butts

@theoldar Жыл бұрын

That was a very common pronunciation of robot then. You will hear it a lot in older videos.

@moobutt Жыл бұрын

@@theoldar - I know. But it’s always amused me. Sorry, ghees.

@iwthswlosl Жыл бұрын

They saw the future as being very sterile

@TheTechOwl Жыл бұрын

Oh ny God. I think I've played too much Five Nights At Freddy's because Mr. Future at 8:51 reminds of the endo animatronics from the game. God help me lol.

@jacobshort6528 Жыл бұрын

That switchboard is just a non-miniaturized stationary Universal Remote Control.

@sachie53 6 ай бұрын

Thank you♪Retro future design is interesting♪

@SevenDeMagnus 8 ай бұрын

A cool watch after a hard days work or on a chill sunday after Church :-) Nostalgia and the golden age when people were more humble and kinder. God bless.

@AndreiTupolev Жыл бұрын

The home office was quite prescient, although it's taken rather later than predicted here for it to become common. The flatscreen monitors are quite interesting too - and we've finally got the video telephones that they were predicting for decades! 🤗 Not sure about the Master of the House being able to monitor every room by CCTV, though 🤔

@BillOweninOttawa Жыл бұрын

Indoor cameras are everywhere now. I have two.

@annother3350 Жыл бұрын

@@BillOweninOttawa I hope you don't monitor other house members though

@michaelgreaves2375 Жыл бұрын

Okay, Dammit. Ya got me... Subscribed.

@KuDastardly Жыл бұрын

17:12 lol the Donna Reed show theme song!

@adenihil 7 ай бұрын

Teh!!! They really got it straight ; I just so happen to be watching this on a Computerized Communication Console… 😂

@53kenner 7 ай бұрын

What they often missed was that some things just didn't need improvement. We still eat Cheerios, Wheaties, oatmeal, and so on ... because the alternatives aren't better. Homes developed the way that they did because they were comfortable and practical -- you can make things drastically different but that doesn't mean it's a huge improvement.

@ralphriffle1126 8 ай бұрын

Ha ha. Turned out to be a tent on the side walk

@theoldar Жыл бұрын

Excellent title.

@jacobshort6528 Жыл бұрын

I remember that inflatable furniture was a pop culture fad for children, tweens, and teens twenty-some years ago.

@naradaian 9 ай бұрын

What are you smoking ? It was in the late 1960’s and early 70’s - it’s 70 years ago

@TayWoode 8 ай бұрын

@@naradaian What are YOU smoking? Late 60s and early 70s definitely isn’t 70 years ago. At least get simple facts correct if you’re going to be pedantic to someone else 🤷🏾‍♂️

@nealbradleigh5069 9 ай бұрын

The synth ditty that serves as the intro theme for this CBS sunday show comes to you courtesy of the the legrndary RAYMOND SCOTT. This is the guy that also gave you the hilarious comic musical themes that put W-B LOONY TUNES on the map (research POWERHOUSE, for example). Scott's collaborations with other creative visionaries ushered in the era of digital music. This show's theme was produced with the assistance of none other than ROBERT MOOG (yeah, THAT MOOG. Enough said)!

@flossygalloway5967 3 ай бұрын

I had that blow up chair really cool . An the bean bag chair

@mcassar1 Жыл бұрын

Totally addicted, is the opposite to sleepcore for me, could watch foŕ hours with pleasure

@akoww1000 Жыл бұрын

2001 came and gone, where is my house of the future? :P

@jacobshort6528 Жыл бұрын

Either you or your neighbors had some of these things. CD stereos, digital music players, stereophonic speakers 🔊 🎶 👌 and those lima beans called cars.

@CraftyZanTub Жыл бұрын

The real home of the future is the box for your homeless butt.

@juanar4305 7 ай бұрын

Thank goodness the future turned out to be more fun.

@-jeff- Жыл бұрын

Yes visions of future homes back then came with everything. Except a price tag.

@jacobshort6528 Жыл бұрын

Considering how much less things cost during the Mid-Century Modern Era before 1970s inflation, that home probably would've cost between the average home price of $25,000 and the mansion price of $50,000-$80,000.

@KutWrite 8 ай бұрын

That's because they were actually selling Socialism. Don't mention the actual cost. Make everything seem free!

@KutWrite 8 ай бұрын

@@jacobshort6528: Yes, and the average salary was - maybe - $5k, pre-taxes.

@lindaeasley5606 Жыл бұрын

Some of this turned out to be utter fantasy

@alltheworldsastage. Ай бұрын

The 1% had all that especially the otis t carr flying maching

@joestrike8537 Жыл бұрын

I used to love this show when it was first on...interesting what happened...& what didn't happen in the far-off future of 2001!

@VictorianMaid99 9 ай бұрын

I remember watching this as a child.

@litoboy5 7 ай бұрын

Great

@kathyflorcruz552 9 ай бұрын

Lockdown living, Mr. Cronkite. Yay. 🤖☠️

@AndreiTupolev Жыл бұрын

The living room of the future looks like a cheap chat show set. Interesting how these visions of the future so enthusiastically embraced the wonderful world of plastic

@jacobshort6528 Жыл бұрын

They were sponsored by the petroleum companies.

@KutWrite 8 ай бұрын

Yeah. Philco's actual TV of the time, the Futura, looked better than that expensive, hokey set.

@donh7909 8 ай бұрын

Once a futuristic notion, now for the most part, reality.. 50 years, and still advancing..

@donh7909 8 ай бұрын

I remember watching this series when I was a teen..! Bit of a nerd or (pre-nerd)..

@gondwanalon 7 ай бұрын

That huge monstrosity of a work area fits in the palm of your hand nowadays and you can take it about anywhere. That would have blown Walter Cronkite’s mind if he only knew.

@Kriswixx Жыл бұрын

thanks.

@jamesstevens2362 9 ай бұрын

Seems like we got stuck in the wrong split in the time line.

@janetcraft Жыл бұрын

I'm "living the dream!" (For the future that is).

@DanielMartinez-lz3ot 9 ай бұрын

9:37 Funny, they did build homes with enough electrical power outlets, we still plug too many devices into the wall outlets.

@ujwalsmanhas1093 6 ай бұрын

In future we will work much harder to acquire gadgets to become slaves to.

@cyberGEK Жыл бұрын

19:47 Super Mario Bros. music 🍄🍄🍄

@BillOweninOttawa Жыл бұрын

Plastic everything, a nightmare that came true.

@al3k Жыл бұрын

💗

@michaelgreaves2375 Жыл бұрын

I WANT MY 30 HOUR WORK WEEK!!!!

@jacobshort6528 Жыл бұрын

That little girl was imagining a bed with wedge cushions, under a mirrored ceiling. Fiberglass curtains bring fireproof chicness to the boudoir.

@draugrdraugr 5 ай бұрын

4:07 by 2000, 30 hour work week and month long vacations. How corporations fucked all of us

@jacobshort6528 Жыл бұрын

That integrated stainless steel kitchen in the round wouldn't have been out of place in those flying saucer homes of the 1960s. And purple shag carpet covered walls for enhanced insulation and sound absorption.

@BillOweninOttawa Жыл бұрын

"PLASTIC dishes of course". Yeah, the world did not get plasticized by mistake, they had a plan.

@entropicnic6892 Жыл бұрын

I wish this video came out sooner! I idiotically signed a 5 year non-compete for an internship :(

@crazyedo9979 7 ай бұрын

I like these old films when the people were optimistic about the future. But what happened to that dreams? They turned out to became barbaric horror and destruction.😢

@michaelgreaves2375 Жыл бұрын

Cronkite Layin' down the Futurism!!!!

@igorschmidlapp6987 10 ай бұрын

And he didn't say "Alexa" once! LOL

@ducks93 Жыл бұрын

21h ago to the 21st Century 🛰️

@fench1234567 8 ай бұрын

Someone needs to go back in time and tell the people to enjoy their lives. The "future" officially sux! Oh yeah... We still haven't discovered "time travel".

@boondockingamerica 6 ай бұрын

Well this worked out

@jameslanclos568 8 ай бұрын

Walter Cronkite....Wow!

@greganderson1681 8 ай бұрын

Try retirement. Working pretty well for me!

@daneehispano1985 7 ай бұрын

American dream WOKES american nightmare ... To be continued

@tc-tm1my 4 ай бұрын

30 hr work week and month long vacation. Maybe in Europe, but not the US. Lol

@PapaSchlumpf78 9 ай бұрын

21:26 in der vollautomatischen Küche win der du alles selbst machen musst!

@tc-tm1my 4 ай бұрын

What is a 3d TV screen?

@hollisspear6278 8 ай бұрын

Wait... isn't that the same guy who narrated the DOD nuclear blast videos?

@ogawasanjuro 7 ай бұрын

30 hour work weeks and 1 month of vacation???? There are people who only get 30 hours a week because the companies don't want to make them full-time... then the workers have to cobble together a few of these part-time jobs.

@S500- Жыл бұрын

Many Predictions are Correct Like home Computers internet , and Entertainment ,inflateable Chairs

@igorschmidlapp6987 10 ай бұрын

I love how futurists get one or two right, and so many wrong... ;-P

@KuopassaTv Жыл бұрын

Instead it's podlife with bugburger and mystery juice

@DennisFreitas-bn7nh 8 ай бұрын

The Future is the End.

@radikusmanov7574 7 ай бұрын

it's XXI century now. How many coincide? :-)

@hasaheadachenow 9 ай бұрын

So everyone will live inside a camper! So funny

@Brian.001 9 ай бұрын

By the 21st century we will have sliding breakfast tables! I'm struggling to believe that. And buttons instead of dials on our phones. No, that's going too far. But wait - speakerphone capability!! OK, this is a joke, isn't it!

@Gray-Today 9 ай бұрын

Our views of the future were generally positive until the 70s, when Soylent Green and Planet of the Apes were made. That was also when Offshoring and Feminism got going, coincidentally.