Futurist from 1901 Describes The World of 2001 // 'Ladies Home Journal' (1901) // Primary Source

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In 1901 the 'Ladies Home Journal' published an article describing the advances predicted to happen in the next hundred years. Flying ships, x-rays, enormous strawberries - the success rate is surprisingly high.
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@VoicesofthePast 4 жыл бұрын

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@angebrowne1730 4 жыл бұрын

@@mattthorne8419 Thank you. Interesting.

@justsayupyours 4 жыл бұрын

Today Billy Meier is the most accurate predictor of future events.

@jaxongillespie6618 4 жыл бұрын

He also talks about war with China interesting

@unnamedchannel1237 4 жыл бұрын

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@pyrovania 4 жыл бұрын

These experts seriously underestimated the persistence of the cockroach, fly and mosquito.

@jrd33 4 жыл бұрын

I think it's more a case that they underestimated the problems with side-effects of chemicals, pesticides etc. And the chain reaction problem if you start wiping out species. There was a widespread view that any problem could be fixed if you just had smart people working on it with enough funding.

@computethis7128 4 жыл бұрын

@@jrd33 people still think that

@enricogolini5376 4 жыл бұрын

Or their necessity.

@davidwuhrer6704 4 жыл бұрын

Flies did become reduced though. And mosquitos could be eradicated with no damage and only benefits to the remaining ecosystem. What this expert underestimated is how big the world is.

@enricogolini5376 4 жыл бұрын

"mosquitos could be eradicated with no damage and only benefits to the remaining ecosystem." Could you source this?

@WildFreck 4 жыл бұрын

I feel like if this guy went to the future he would be amazed and disappointed at the same time

@user-mv3dc6yu3q 4 жыл бұрын

I think he predicted very well all

@depuntoapuntoenelmundo2408 4 жыл бұрын

I think all humans in all of history would be amazed and disappointed at the same time if they could travel to the future.

@jordandavis8875 4 жыл бұрын

Better than going to the past though

@badreality2 4 жыл бұрын

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

@MindBodySoulOk 4 жыл бұрын

He would be called a racist and antifa would beat him with a skateboard.

@pandastical9205 3 жыл бұрын

I find it quite interesting how these people essentially used ‘electricity’ to describe anything sci-fi and futuristic, like how sci-fi movies use ‘quantum’

@mrtony80 3 жыл бұрын

Does that mean that quantum whatever will be an everyday thing like electricity is today?

@danbreen839 3 жыл бұрын

@@mrtony80 Quantum coat hangers

@darkjak224 3 жыл бұрын

@@danbreen839 Never know if they really exist in your closet or not...

@Adam-qs5ir 3 жыл бұрын

And automobiles. All the new stuff was the future of the world.

@SlinkyStoney 3 жыл бұрын

Electric fan, electric stove, electric water heater, electric chair

@justinthompson5718 3 жыл бұрын

“Taxi fare will be a penny” Oh baby, no.

@calebfielding6352 3 жыл бұрын

Technically if you are on a gold standard they were not too far off.

@videogameguy101 3 жыл бұрын

Calculate inflation into the mix - a penny was a decent amount of money back then

@justinthompson5718 3 жыл бұрын

Regardless of inflation or what the gold standard conversion of a penny is, her prediction doesn’t come close to a drunken Friday night of Uber rides. I think lol

@jameswood231 3 жыл бұрын

@@calebfielding6352 exactly. The Gold Standard.

@Rhaenarys 3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking when he said that "maybe a gold penny..." lol

@onedinero705 4 жыл бұрын

Narrator: "Rats and mice will be exterminated." NYC Subways: 😭😭😭😭

@nesser52 4 жыл бұрын

Why I immediately assumed you were talking about another kind of Subway xD

@onedinero705 4 жыл бұрын

@@nesser52 nah Subways aight with me

@johnpooky84 3 жыл бұрын

Baltimore.

@MrColuber 3 жыл бұрын

One must wonder what will happen to the poor turtles, who upon reaching adolescence, will not know how to be ninjas.

@saloni22815 3 жыл бұрын

This problem is everywhere

@angiki9988 4 жыл бұрын

I can't believe that these 1900's scientists predicted Nord VPN sponsorships.

@savedbygodsgrace.9058 4 жыл бұрын

😂

@WalterVermeir 3 жыл бұрын

But I can imagine it could be predicted. 1901 the knew the new telephone and the telegraph was old tech. There was the postal mail and I believe also then there where strict laws protecting the confedelisaly of letters. The nature of human behavior is a constant. - "People will be able to send messages very fast to the orient and back by means of many erected signal towers around the globe. Private enterprises will sell the means to keep those messages private like it now common to secure a letter from tampering with a wax seal."

@MuadDib111 3 жыл бұрын

Hahahah

@dgh25 3 жыл бұрын

The hurdles of non adblock users... sigh

@frd8798 3 жыл бұрын

No thanks I just use Tomato VPN 😌

@triassicpark7906 3 жыл бұрын

Who the hell was responsible for destroying all the mosquitoes? You had one job. Just one...

@calebfielding6352 3 жыл бұрын

DDT. Government kinda stopped it.

@remliqa 3 жыл бұрын

@@calebfielding6352 There 're too many environmental problems with DDT. Thank to GM mosquitoes , we're now back on track to completely eradicating the mosquitoes (the Aedes aegypti to be exact), all without wrecking the environment.

@N.biebie8428 3 жыл бұрын

mosquitoes serve important functions in numerous ecosystems, serving as food for many species, helping filter detritus for plant life to thrive, pollinating flowers, and even affecting the herding paths of caribou in the tundra. Last, scientists are looking at the mosquito for potential medical treatments.

@remliqa 3 жыл бұрын

@@N.biebie8428 You are referring to native mosquitoes, not the invasive Aedes Aegypti. Not only are the Aedes Aegypti competing with the local mosquitoes speiess for those biological niche, but they are also responsible for the spread of quite a number of deadly diseases . FYI, the local mosquitoes displaces by Aedes Aegypti are not vectors for those dangerous diseases.

@Chanselor_Gowron 3 жыл бұрын

they heard wrong and went for the bees

@MaryAnnNytowl 2 жыл бұрын

It's quite amazing how they really did predict some things very closely to the actual results: •rockets, •bullet trains •the shortened type of communication that we see in not only texting but even in memes, •our submarines being so deadly •the ability to show pictures taken on one side of the world within minutes being shown in the news (though they missed the live feed) •breeding of cattle with no horns (a few of them) •breeding of extra-fast-growing & extra large food animals - we have meat birds like the Cornish Cross chickens and a few breeds of turkeys pretty close to them! •telephoning the other side of the world •free school, even college (okay, not college in the US, yet) and transport to school (school buses) •greenhouses being heated •central air and heat (though not exactly by taps) •ways doctors can peer into the body (sonograms, x-rays, CT scans, etc) Really, they did pretty good with a LOT of them! Wish they'd been right with the quiet cities, LOL, and a few others, but still - I salute them!

@mafiasquirrel15 Жыл бұрын

add to that what he essentially described as modern fast food/delivery

@nicholaskoenig3106 Жыл бұрын

Spoiler Alert! 😂

@wowjack8944 11 ай бұрын

Also height increase.

@rickden8362 11 ай бұрын

I'd day the biggest miss was mass, civilian air travel. I don't know how you predict large military and scientific use and no civilian air travel.

@alanjameson8664 9 ай бұрын

I am old enough (almost 80) to remember my parents working to figure out the smallest number of characters to make a telegram understandable--- the result was very much like the abbreviations used in text messages today. It must have been expensive--- telegrams were charged by the character (I think two characters were free-- period and full stop).

@alotofbaddecisions2046 4 жыл бұрын

They predicted food delivery, but couldn't predict paper plates, assuming people would return the dishes.

@IudiciumInfernalum 4 жыл бұрын

I guess it was more economical at the time. Also i had plastic in mind when he said that. No one yet knew what sort of stuff you could refine from oil.

@spaced94 4 жыл бұрын

In South Korea, I think, the plates get picked up if you get food delivery. Not sure if its nation wide

@PascalSWE 4 жыл бұрын

What he describes is closer to pre-cooked food than delivery imo.

@mr.bnatural3700 4 жыл бұрын

Let me explain something to you efn' morons;....Trump was put in place by God to be a God. Truly, Trump is the blessed HOPE of what was foretold by all Prophets from the beginning of time. Trump is what the Universe has been yearning since the beginning of creation 6700 years ago. Trump is a Co-redeemer with Jesus and so-creator with GOD. ALL Christians and theologians agree to these glorious FACTS. All Christians agree; It is now proper to Pray To Trump the Savior....Can I hear a Loud Efn' AMEN? (Satire)

@MrTristanryan 4 жыл бұрын

You have peaked my interest Sir but I’m not convinced,Tell me more about your ideas and who you received these revelations from. God bless

@hydrogenone6866 4 жыл бұрын

"City's free from all noise", sounds nice.

@jokuvaan5175 4 жыл бұрын

Once electric cars take over the cities will become much more quiet. The guy's prediction is just off by at least half a century

@Lenin95 4 жыл бұрын

And free from flies, mosquitoes and roaches...

@misiddiai 4 жыл бұрын

Could I also get a people-free city? That'd be great... 😑

@thezipcreator 4 жыл бұрын

@@misiddiai I like what this guy's saying

@Alusnovalotus 4 жыл бұрын

they even predicted Chernobyl.... remarkable.

@gregerfulgerman7802 3 жыл бұрын

When a guy from 1901 tries to predict the future he’s a “futurist” but when I try to I’m “stoned” and “have to stop harassing people at target”

@alicewhitelhpw7517 3 жыл бұрын

because you're not sharing 🤣

@fewerbeansplease 3 жыл бұрын

I had the same problem...I was only a bit stoned.

@timbillings6884 3 жыл бұрын

I was extremely stoned had no problem at all! 😁

@Pravda_Z 3 жыл бұрын

That is TOO FUNNY!

@WickedWest512 3 жыл бұрын

I just spit my coffee 😂🤣😂🤣

@ozzni1 3 жыл бұрын

The main thing they got wrong was assuming the government would be making reasonable decisions

@Noone-rt6pw 3 жыл бұрын

The government is much more knowledgeable than you could imagine. Politics appears as a pacifier. But the Department of Labor has projections I've seen accurate. All agencies foresee far ahead. Now internet can be altered, but consult with different agencies and you might be surprised.

@tlanimass952 3 жыл бұрын

@Alex Wheeler The 'quality' of government was much better, because the 'quality' of the electorate was much more stringent, only the rich and educated actually voted. While our government is obviously much more democratic today, the quality of our politicians is lacking.

@Noone-rt6pw 3 жыл бұрын

@Cali Girl In Costa 😂😂😂😂. Thanks😂😂😂

@fard9577 3 жыл бұрын

@@tlanimass952 Wrong. If it was because only the rich voted, your government would be much better today. Policy wise, the democrats and republicans have no difference. Their only difference is petty aesthetics. In reality they are bought and paid for by the same people. Multi-billion industries. They serve the same rich minority no matter who you vote for. If they don't have funding for rich people, they'll never win the election. Your vote doesn't count. Politics is a distraction. Nothing changes. You live in a huxleyan dystopia.

@ricatoni2 3 жыл бұрын

innocence! You nailed it! Back than the government at least pretended to work for us and answered to us..now they could careless if we know what there up to ..question them and what direction there gonna lead us to? Ever been to Niagara falls?? The humble sheep that know Jesus will be meeting him wherever heaven is ..the goats that think they know it all and Lucifer is gonna show God whats up ? Will be goin south over falls..without the 💧 or parachute..and he'll fire will await u..buh 👋bye..😆

@c0baltblue 4 жыл бұрын

"a languange of condensed words expressing condensed ideas" Ah, the memes.

@feefee6889 4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@DipsyMum29 4 жыл бұрын

Lmao ikr

@enthusia492 4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@MM-Iconoclast 4 жыл бұрын

And tweets. (And texts too, for that matter.)

@itchytastyurr 4 жыл бұрын

text shorthand omg

@lorddeathspit1124 4 жыл бұрын

“English will be compressed and shortened.” Some time traveler showed my man twitter.

@andredeketeleastutecomplex 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, and it's aweful. A period behind a sentence is now considered offensive. Guess I'm just a jerk because I paid attention at school.

@Caercutta30 4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@TheCubicplanet 4 жыл бұрын

ikr..?

@CadetGriffin 4 жыл бұрын

@@andredeketeleastutecomplex I've seen jail spelt "gaol" and hiccup spelt "hiccough", but I can't be sure if I've ever seen "awful" spelt with an E before.

@FacelessQueenie 4 жыл бұрын

@@CadetGriffin the word awful did come from the word 'aweful' but the correct spelling is awful he's just trying to rile people up but clearly didn't get very far. I'd say I'm pretty educated for a 17 year old but I couldn't give a rat's arse if people speak a certain regional or cultural way. I'm from Yorkshire where people say things I've started realising aren't right but if I can understand it perfectly from growing up with it (despite not talking regionally myself apart from an accent) then I don't see why people need to change ahaha. People can talk however they like, snobs and people with a strong 'us vs them' complex will still find something wrong with it like anything else.

@gorilla_go_stupid 3 жыл бұрын

1:45 ”a penny will pay the fair“ Im still waiting on that one

@yannikoloff7659 3 жыл бұрын

If you convert their salaries to ours, you will see that this is happened as well

@gorilladisco9108 3 жыл бұрын

They didn't know inflation in 1901?

@robertmackey520 3 жыл бұрын

$2.75 in NYC

@goldennuggetz5312 3 жыл бұрын

@@gorilladisco9108 nope, money still had a gold standard back then.

@gorilladisco9108 3 жыл бұрын

@@goldennuggetz5312 It didn't prevent them from inflating the money. The stock market crash in 1929 was said to be caused by deflation, but what was almost never talked about is it was preceded by massive inflation during 1920s. And of course, they did use gold standard back in the 1920s.

@Ypog_UA 3 жыл бұрын

Me when he gets something wrong: "What an idiot!" Me after he gets it right 5 seconds later: *"TIME TRAVELER CONFIRMED!!!"*

@AMAINE207 2 жыл бұрын

This is the only comment that made me laugh, thanks.

@msoda8516 4 жыл бұрын

I’m a brain tumor survivor and and listening to this make me think how the medical care I got to survive was beyond the imagination of anyone in the early 1900’s.

@ladlegs 3 жыл бұрын

congrats man!

@ub3rfr3nzy94 3 жыл бұрын

Some day we'll be getting comments from paraplegics similar to this one. I wish we could live long enough to see the future. Humans lives are too short :(

@LordPrometheous 3 жыл бұрын

@Lbot beenthere That is where you have strict requirements for child-bearing permits (post-high school education, acceptable median income over a period of years, criminal background check, and credit check), in addition to the cost to create a baby, because males will all have vasectomies at birth that will have to be reversed, only in approved medical facilities. No doctor will dare do this on the side, at the risk of imprisonment and losing the license to practice. So no more accidents, multiple baby daddies, paternity tests, etc. You ain't having a baby unless you really want and one and have valid reasons. Two is the absolute limit (two girls--too bad) unless one child is hopelessly disabled and has no chance of living independently. That'd be the ideal future, IMO.

@MsGreenlamp 3 жыл бұрын

@@LordPrometheous you are communist-level crazy. You can simply educate people and throw a safety net.

@MsGreenlamp 3 жыл бұрын

@Lbot beenthere No, it doesn't. There are many constraints on the size of population but none of them is hard one.

@berendharmsen 4 жыл бұрын

Some of this stuff was pretty uncanny. They basically predicted the whole internet/network thing and a number of other technical innovations. Their main unrealistic optimism lies in how easy it is to tame nature. The whole 'we'll get rid of all the annoying flying bugs'-thing showed that we clearly hadn't quite figured out the whole 'everything is connected' aspect of the biosphere. Otherwise, not a million miles off I'd say.

@davidwuhrer6704 4 жыл бұрын

Everything being connected was well understood, probably more so than today. And technically it would have been possible to get rid of mosquitos, but a surprising number of people seem to prefer to be bitten, kept awake at night, and risk a malaria infection.

@stargazerspark4499 4 жыл бұрын

given the impressive mosquito eradication effort which made possible the construction of Panama canal such optimistic predictions are understandable.

@Germatti13489 4 жыл бұрын

True

@Sykohsis 4 жыл бұрын

Lets get rid of all bees while we're at it.. What's the worse that can happen? Oh wait...

@tissuepaper9962 4 жыл бұрын

@@davidwuhrer6704 Eradicating species willy-nilly isn't progress.

@info_bot 3 жыл бұрын

"University will be free for all" Nearly everyone: _Cries in student debt_

@thepriestunknown3999 3 жыл бұрын

In America, that is.

@thepriestunknown3999 3 жыл бұрын

@@sanvirel6182 free schooling? Yeah.

@AmericanIdiot7659 3 жыл бұрын

@@thepriestunknown3999 Laughs in 5 minute google searches

@yannikoloff7659 3 жыл бұрын

@@AmericanIdiot7659 There is a half of countries in world that offers free education

@AmericanIdiot7659 3 жыл бұрын

@@yannikoloff7659 yeah google

@jp8649 3 жыл бұрын

I start feeling proud of him for getting something right, then he expands on it and it goes laughably wrong.

@margaretthemagnificent 3 жыл бұрын

“Automobiles will replace all transportation... and have as much power as two horses.” I had to pause to get all my laughing done. Laughably wrong is right. :)

@Amokra 3 жыл бұрын

@@margaretthemagnificent hey that how much horse power the electric cars have *ba dump*

@theninjamaster67 2 жыл бұрын

@@Amokra That joke is definitely bate cause electric cars are dope but sure I'll bite lol.

@Amokra 2 жыл бұрын

@@theninjamaster67 they are cool I just hope they start getting more than 300 miles or faster charging because right now having to charge them over night just for long distance driving makes them definite no goes for me of ccooooourse it's bait :)

@theninjamaster67 2 жыл бұрын

@@Amokra I mean battery tech will get better in the future and we already have faster charging as most newer electric cars can be brought to a full charge in 40 minutes the main thing that needs to be made better is the size and weight of said batteries cause more weight means more power needed so if we start using some really cool tech that is in the testing phases as of now like power lines in the street that can passively charge your car as you drive and/ or solid state batteries we'll be in a pretty solid spot there's also this dope ass early tech where they can have super thin batteries made of carbon fiber that holds a charge so future battery tech is kinda exciting lol

@KelnelK 3 жыл бұрын

"children will ride in automobile sleighs in winter" Wow he just tore apart the entire hobby of recreational snowmobiling.

@joanl.7543 3 жыл бұрын

Their vision seemed to have been that this would be universal transport, not a rare hobby. Much of what they predicted didn't materialize, or looks quite different than what they said.

@Hito_Hito_Fruit_model_UncleSam 3 жыл бұрын

@@joanl.7543 actually most of what they predicted happened just slightly different than how they predicted for some of it. And if America was more active more of it would have come true

@e.s.6275 3 жыл бұрын

Sledges?

@HalkerVeil 3 жыл бұрын

@@Hito_Hito_Fruit_model_UncleSam Meanwhile, health nuts are everywhere.

@kennethobando5755 3 жыл бұрын

Probaly mesning for real snowy areas, in which case hes not wrong as that describes the snowmobile.

@serbiancrusader7813 4 жыл бұрын

"A man or woman unable to walk 10 miles will be considered a weakling." Modern America: Hol up

@sinisterminister6478 4 жыл бұрын

No kidding. I swear my wife would drive from the living room to the bathroom if she could get the SUV into the house.😂😂😂

@Alusnovalotus 4 жыл бұрын

Well. He was right about simpler language and people not using standard grammar. Who’d of thought people predicted Ebonics way back then.

@MARfilms 4 жыл бұрын

I feel called out

@Filo127 4 жыл бұрын

He roasted the entire population of the developed world 100 years later without realizing it

@Ficmon 4 жыл бұрын

@@Filo127 Truly the Maddest of the Laddest

@ThatJohnKillion1970 3 жыл бұрын

"I SAID CITIES WILL BE FREE FROM ALL NOISE!!!"

@rentacowisgoogle 3 жыл бұрын

"Farm animals will only produce meat." "Farm animals won't have muscles." Pick one

@medexamtoolsdotcom 3 жыл бұрын

Perhaps he meant they would produce meat, just meat, not as muscle, but just as meat tissue.

@teboggkga4816 3 жыл бұрын

I think that he meant that they will no longer be bred naturally for muscle purposes like farm animals back then...now they are genetically bred for dinner

@ivartheboneless5969 3 жыл бұрын

He meant animals would be bred too have lots of meat on them instead of muscles, since their work would replaced by machines, and they would change from work animals being on farms too loads of fat pigs and cows and shit.

@ivartheboneless5969 3 жыл бұрын

Literally shit

@sampsonsimpson1040 3 жыл бұрын

@@ivartheboneless5969 it’s actually true have you seen the Frankenstein chickens that are breed to grow ridiculously large extremely fast and can barely hold themselves up. This person thought this would be an achievement. it’s one of the worst things humans have used science for, to use and abuse animals like never before.

@MizantropMan 4 жыл бұрын

It is interesting that all his predictions about warfare had been exceeded a hundredfold way before the hundred years deadline, while the cultural/political ones either kinda happened to a degree or went a completely different way.

@03jkeeley 4 жыл бұрын

thats what 2 world wars worth of weapons research funding will do

@kylebarton778 4 жыл бұрын

We're control focused apes. This means war :/

@Betrix5060 4 жыл бұрын

Warfare tends to be more rational than culture or politics. Mostly because you tend to suffer a terminal existence failure if you aren't objectively better at it.

@carl8703 4 жыл бұрын

It's super easy to use a new technology to blow shit up. It takes a bit more effort to use it constructively. Nigh near impossible to change human behavior or politics, especially when there's no technology to cause a fundamental change to the situation.

@mr.bnatural3700 4 жыл бұрын

@@carl8703 "Nigh near impossible to change human behavior or politics, especially when there's no technology to cause a fundamental change to the situation." Great Observation.! ....Is it Einstein mused in technology surpassing human morality?

@leviathan-supersystem 4 жыл бұрын

People thinking they got few things right, but honestly under the context of 1901, they got a lot of subtle things right.

@ghaithghazi6748 4 жыл бұрын

exactly they were almost 100% subtly right if I might say.

@Hortifox_the_gardener 4 жыл бұрын

It's almost scary. Just a few things were wrong at all.

@ministryoftruth8499 4 жыл бұрын

More striking than how much they got right imho is their optimism.

@jinjunliu2401 4 жыл бұрын

@@ministryoftruth8499 I mean things did definitely improve a lot in terms of quality of life, so wouldn't really say it's too optimistic compared to reality

@ministryoftruth8499 4 жыл бұрын

@@jinjunliu2401 Yea, we know that now (it's past) but they couldn't know that at the time (it was in the future for them). I mean they seem full of optimism compared to us in 2020. It seems to me that we never had it better than we do now, yet are very pessimistic.

@ben6574 3 жыл бұрын

Really crazy how long NorgVPN has already been around. I mean, if even the gentleman from 1901 was sponsored by them, who knows how old the company actually is!

@DSan-kl2yc 3 жыл бұрын

I think it already existed by that time. It was just ... insane. If you watch that woman that does "x in victorian/gilded age" thing

@hydrolito Жыл бұрын

They have advertisements not everything is from 1901.

@georgeshriver5216 3 жыл бұрын

"everyone will own an automobile"... "everyone will be able to walk 10 miles" Why the hell would someone walk 10 miles if they own a car?

@medexamtoolsdotcom 3 жыл бұрын

No, what I want to know is how he predicted everyone would own an automobile in 1901, when it was supposedly invented in 1903 and the word "automobile" shouldn't even exist yet.

@georgeshriver5216 3 жыл бұрын

@@medexamtoolsdotcom Actually the first automobile was patented in 1901 www.history.com/topics/inventions/automobiles#:~:text=The%201901%20Mercedes%2C%20designed%20by,fifty%2Dthree%20miles%20per%20hour.

@timbillings6884 3 жыл бұрын

Well it olny coust 1 Penny to get to work! 😂

@mrtony80 3 жыл бұрын

I think they meant that in the event someone who owns a car found themselves having to walk 10 miles, they could with no problem. But they were wrong.

@timbillings6884 3 жыл бұрын

@@mrtony80 Some people walk a lot further than that! Like through hikers on the application trail ! Pacific crest. Contenetal trail! Etc. 🤔 But most people wouldn't walk one mile these days!🤷

@Duke_of_Lorraine 4 жыл бұрын

Interesting to see that by 1950 several points were already reached, like having a life expectancy of 50.

@johnpepin5373 4 жыл бұрын

Penicillin achieved that.

@windywendi 4 жыл бұрын

.Also "bombs that eradicate entire cities". Th e A bomb!

@joea.9969 4 жыл бұрын

TheHalfBlackReaper life expectancy and lifespan are not the same thing.

@ArnoldDarkshner99 4 жыл бұрын

@@joea.9969 Exactly! Infant mortality throws one off but not the other IIRC.

@Klipse11 4 жыл бұрын

We’re definitely ahead in some areas and behind in others. Still waiting for my Futurama tube transport system....

@user-ed9qu5im2y 4 жыл бұрын

"There will be no more wild animals." Well that's grim. But I get the feeling people back then would have thought of it as "progress".

@puncifikator3870 4 жыл бұрын

well yeah cause in 1900 still more people were killed by wolves than people killed by sharks throughout the entirety of recorded human history getting rid of wild animals was priority #1 for everyone

@baneofbanes 4 жыл бұрын

Well consider for a moment that this was only a decade after the US government declared the frontier “closed” and the Wild West as we think of it ended, and you can see why.

@theturniptress805 3 жыл бұрын

yes. they say by killing wild "beasts" they believed they were civilizing the people living near them too. That's why sooooooo many tigers were hunted,shot by kings for the thrill of it in south asia during colonial times

@BigBangAttack-mt6pz 3 жыл бұрын

In a sad sick way, it's moving in that direction

@faithlesshound5621 3 жыл бұрын

Some of that is going in reverse. Beavers are being reintroduced where they were extinct, bears are being placed in wild parts of Europe and white settlers are talking of freeing wolves in the highlands of Scotland.

@rickershomesteadahobbyfarm3291 3 жыл бұрын

The person listening to this 100 years ago: “does anyone actually believe this crap?”

@richardkirka5977 3 жыл бұрын

This sounds like something written in 2020, using the language of what the writer assumes would be current in 1901, pretending to look forward to 2001. Amazing accuracy, feeble new vocabulary, and no mention of other technologies developed in the upcoming century to make this come out right in the imagined 2001. IOW, cheating, to make the assumed 1901 dead-accurate predictions come out properly for 2001, modified by a slight haze of imprecision. It's predictions for 2001, written to sound like 1901, but in 2020. You'd have plenty of history to make sure your faux 1901 and 2001 tracked to the desired degree, based on 2020 facts. 100% accurate, without even a single major howler to include, just to make your predictions sound just a bit more human by being a tiny bit imperfect. Somebody flunked their creative writing class.

@user-iq7mk3gb9w 3 жыл бұрын

@@richardkirka5977 The reason nobody replied to this except me is because only I am as stupid as you."100% accurate, without even a single major howler to include". Don't you even see how dead wrong they are ?

@littleferrhis 3 жыл бұрын

“Automatic instruments reproducing exact music will bring music to the families of the untalented”, the first time I heard this I was like he predicted SoundCloud, until I realized he was just predicting radio.

@toshow237 3 жыл бұрын

I mean he basically predicted modern music when he mentioned electric and automatic machines producing a wide range of sounds

@engelhaust 4 жыл бұрын

"English will be a language of condensed words, expressing condensed ideas" omg wtf lol

@Not-Great-at-Gaming 4 жыл бұрын

Rofl

@VoidLantadd 4 жыл бұрын

Lmao ikr

@DSDaly 4 жыл бұрын

😱🤯💯‼🎯

@zwigoma2 4 жыл бұрын

Abhainn M Ha hahahaha

@dayra6425 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe he was talking about emojis

@MissShembre 4 жыл бұрын

"housekeeping will be important studies in schools" Me: had one class in 12 years, and they still never discussed balancing a budget and credit.

@spooniesarah 4 жыл бұрын

Everything about public schools and education was an achievable ideal which just isn't being achieved. Free books, supplies, medical care, glasses, etc for poor students? HA!

@leifleoden5464 3 жыл бұрын

I was taught some of this, but that's more a failure of the central planners of the curriculum than a bad prediction.

@SkitSkat674 3 жыл бұрын

Home ec.

@whenthedustfallsaway 3 жыл бұрын

@@spooniesarah Note that he specifically said the "provably poor" and "ambitious" students will receive free books, board, and transportation. More qualities than just "poor"

@MorrowindES17 3 жыл бұрын

@@spooniesarah sounds like a good idea on paper but schools to sound like form of controlling the population.

@luigidisanpietro3720 3 жыл бұрын

"In the future, the masses shall be educated." 2020 people: *THE EARTH IS FLAT.*

@rindyanstee3221 3 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha 🤣

@masondill1950 3 жыл бұрын

"Then the plates will return where they will be washed" nah we just throw it all away

@twistedchuy 4 жыл бұрын

"A man or woman unable to walk ten miles with a stretch, will be regarded as a weakling" Here I am too lazy to make coffee

@faithlesshound5621 3 жыл бұрын

Physical fitness must have been his pet peeve. In the UK it became a national problem when so many Boer War volunteers were below the standards for weight and height. Did the same happen elsewhere?

@SleepyMatt-zzz 3 жыл бұрын

@@faithlesshound5621 Oh you know... Every common-wealth country.

@clumsiii 3 жыл бұрын

hey, a 1901 girl can dream

@user-hm9uq8gk5x 3 жыл бұрын

Now they're considered supermen lmai

@yannikoloff7659 3 жыл бұрын

Do you still able to drink coffee?

@frenchfriar 4 жыл бұрын

I think many of the predictions that people are saying they got "wrong" are only wrong about details, like we can indeed have strawberries for Christmas, though they may be frozen; we may not use pneumatic tubes, but we certainly do shop and have packages delivered straight to our homes. The horse may not be nearly extinct, but we certainly have a lot fewer than in 1900, and they are raised by wealthier folk for sport. If you look at the lifestyle they envisioned, they weren't that far off in many ways. The devil is always in the details, but looking at the broad strokes, they got more right than we might have expected.

@natrone23 4 жыл бұрын

You can get fresh strawberries anytime of the year in America. He was absolutely correct.

@ArnoldDarkshner99 4 жыл бұрын

@@natrone23 They are not uniformly huge as was predicted though.

@jinjunliu2401 4 жыл бұрын

@@ArnoldDarkshner99 We can't say that unless we know how big apples were in those days. I'm sure they've grown quite a bit, albeit not that much that it used to be current big strawberry size

@YSLRD 4 жыл бұрын

Some low income Americans have pet horses.

@jesusmora9379 4 жыл бұрын

@@ArnoldDarkshner99 the ones from brasil are

@s.h.4241 3 жыл бұрын

Futurist:” College will be free” 2020 grads: 😂

@yannikoloff7659 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, college now IS free

@OatmealGrillBlazer 3 жыл бұрын

college history if you're not from America

@justinfacer6332 3 жыл бұрын

It's never free. The tax payer still pays for it even when it "free".

@videogameguy101 3 жыл бұрын

@@justinfacer6332 Better to have millions of people put a few dollars into it than one person pay $100,000 lol

@justinfacer6332 3 жыл бұрын

@@videogameguy101 I can get on board with that as long as the billionaires pay their fair share in taxes.

@bigbigape7637 3 жыл бұрын

1:14 We got taller....just in the other direction

@andrewmazar4921 4 ай бұрын

We actually have gotten about 3in taller on average for the same reasons they cited. But yes, also... wider :(

@hellothere4858 4 жыл бұрын

Funny that a place with lots of electrical devices used for cooking food wouldnt be considered a kitchen but a lab.

@baibinsheesaivinshee599 4 жыл бұрын

well when you take step back and look at cooking as a whole it does resemble working in a science lab especially if your trying to make a new recipe.

@aForkfulOfGold 4 жыл бұрын

Not too far off the mark, in my opinion! My chemistry teacher in school used to always say, in all sincerity: Cooking is chemistry in its quintessential form. Edit: Also consider that modern kitchens, with all their electrical equipment and accessories, would absolutely look like a lab out of a sci-fi story to people from 100+ years ago.

@TheZapan99 4 жыл бұрын

Modern industrial kitchens are indeed called preparation laboratories, he was right.

@goyonman9655 4 жыл бұрын

Cooking is science (at least it is more of a science than psychology). But it's not considered such becase it is not sciencey and geeky

@mr.bnatural3700 4 жыл бұрын

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@genm4827 4 жыл бұрын

It’s interesting to see how certain predictions are so fantastically off, while others, such as those about telecommunication, come off as mighty modest.

@matthewb5364 4 жыл бұрын

Overall, I'd say he shows a lot of optimism for people (fitness, education, social services) and didn't predict the laziness that would arise from mechanizing hard labor, cooking, etc. The city-destroying shells were about 70 years early, and powered aircraft that outstrip trains, balloons and ships were even quicker to appear.

@goodmaro 3 жыл бұрын

@@matthewb5364 Don't say "70 years early", because nowhere did that prediction say it would take the ENTIRE century to get THERE.

@ungrave5231 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I don't think he could have predicted the devastation that was the world wars. Kind of changed everything.

@ian_b 3 жыл бұрын

"The average American will be wider, by 1 to 2 feet."

@rednecked7462 3 жыл бұрын

You met my ex wife huh.

@HalkerVeil 3 жыл бұрын

Not what he said at all.

@thejurydoctor6097 3 жыл бұрын

Said taller by 1-2”

@ian_b 3 жыл бұрын

@@thejurydoctor6097 It's a joke.

@samuelantolick9053 2 жыл бұрын

*meters

@ike10577 3 жыл бұрын

1901: rats and mice will be exterminated 2020: 6ix9ine

@kingkyleiv7960 3 жыл бұрын

_you know what I'm saying_

@Pravda_Z 3 жыл бұрын

They didn't understand ecology and the interconnectedness of all living systems. But we do.

@videogameguy101 3 жыл бұрын

Lmfaooo

@sampsonsimpson1040 3 жыл бұрын

Bruh that’s offensive...to rats and mice

@mercster 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine watching a video as interesting as this, and all you can think of is a rapper.

@pixelprincess9 4 жыл бұрын

1901 Futurist: In 100 years, we will have guns that can destroy entire cities. 1940s Nuclear Scientist: Way ahead of you, fam.

@MeteoricStoneofShatteredSouls 4 жыл бұрын

I think 1901 was ahead of the 1940s. And the a-bomb was being developed in the 30s.

@MeteoricStoneofShatteredSouls 4 жыл бұрын

@@sg-yq8pm Idk ask your mom

@philipocallaghan 4 жыл бұрын

1901 Futurist: There will be air ships but only used for war. 1903 Wright brothers: Meh!

@emil7117skate 3 жыл бұрын

@Grime Fork pics or it didnt happen

@tinadustyrose 3 жыл бұрын

@@MeteoricStoneofShatteredSouls The science was being worked out in the 30's, actual physical development was did not start until the 40's.

@Starbat88 4 жыл бұрын

I'm feeling a bit chilly. Better go crank my hot air spigot...

@TiffyVella1 3 жыл бұрын

They predicted steampunk roleplay

@leonssims3470 3 жыл бұрын

Why does spigot sound like a slur

@Starbat88 3 жыл бұрын

@@leonssims3470 Because it sounds like a combination of "spit" and "bigot"?

@Hito_Hito_Fruit_model_UncleSam 3 жыл бұрын

@@Starbat88 im going to call ppl spigots now or spitgots 😂😂😂

@drcl7429 3 жыл бұрын

Central heating is basically what was described. The thermostat and the radiator controls are spigots.

@guitarguru.3572 3 жыл бұрын

That’s the job I want, to be long gone by the time everyone figures out that I had no clue what I was talking about.

@rafhaelquerijero1146 3 жыл бұрын

These Futurists must've been depressed knowing they wont see their predictions.

@Pravda_Z 3 жыл бұрын

Conversely - I am SO HAPPY that I won't live to see mine. phew!

@jobdylan5782 3 жыл бұрын

no they were just bored

@BiffWebster100 3 жыл бұрын

They were probably depressed at the two world wars they had to live through

@mattyvarnas1736 3 жыл бұрын

I wanted to travel through time.

@khfan4life365 3 жыл бұрын

Fascinating how accurate some of the things were, like “airships”, “wireless telephones”, electricity helping with gardening, and how food is kept fresh. There are inaccuracies but so many things did come true.

@scheewheed8285 3 жыл бұрын

The airships were a little too far off, especially with how widespread he thought it would have been

@Pdor_figlio_di_Kmer 3 жыл бұрын

For airships they meant Zeppelins. On THAT they BOMBED majorly, but not for their fault, 1901 was 3 years away from the first flight of the Wright brothers and 36 years away from the Hindenburg disaster that condemned all balloon-based airships to obsolescence. What made me smile was the foreseeing of super-fast sea ships that seemed, by the description, hydrofoils connecting London to New York in two days. What would they say had they known that today... well, more or less, coronavirus be cursed into hell... we do that in 7 hours and we slowed down since the 80ies and 90ies, when the Concorde did it in 4 hours instead.

@Catcrumbs 3 жыл бұрын

@@Pdor_figlio_di_Kmer *two years

@nowhereman6019 2 жыл бұрын

He did ask experts who probably knew better than anyone else what advancements would likely be made in their fields.

@hydrolito Жыл бұрын

French had already invented airships before this.

@AmericanIlluminati 4 жыл бұрын

Worked in fast-food kitchen as teen, from this point forward, telling everyone it was an Electric laboratory. #Win 😤

@UATU. 2 жыл бұрын

I love that the predictions were so positive. I don’t have such a good outlook for our next 100 years.

@artisticevan2358 3 жыл бұрын

Well a lot of these are pretty spot on... expect the fitness 😂

@scott2452 4 жыл бұрын

I guess “battles in China” were on his mind as the Boxer Rebellion was ongoing when this was written.

@direofchaossavior1058 4 жыл бұрын

Well there is still battles in china like rising tensions (to other nations like china, Phil, india,etc) and the trade war maybe not on full on weapons but a war on global influence

@boozecruiser 4 жыл бұрын

Not really, China was unstable and faltering long before that

@oliverlaw02 4 жыл бұрын

@@boozecruiser The only stability they had was mass opioid addiction and mass starvation and famine from (export of food corps) during the late Victorian holocaust.

@voidofspaceandtime4684 4 жыл бұрын

@Not Todd Howard Sad that they won't be able to buy the 700th release of skyrim

@maldoran9150 4 жыл бұрын

I skipped a bit ahead and was VERY supprissed by the VPN prediction!

@geth7112 4 жыл бұрын

Oh then you miss the part before when they predicted raid Shadow Legends.

@mohammadhazim981 4 жыл бұрын

Wait until you hear about the one where Epstein didn't kill himself

@boomstick4054 4 жыл бұрын

mal doran ...Don’t surpriss yourself.....LOL

@jasonw4932 4 жыл бұрын

I’m waiting to see 8g within my lifetime like they predicted.

@nx8481 4 жыл бұрын

geth 7/11 💀

@Impostor39890 3 жыл бұрын

"House flies will be exterminated" House flies: Haha wings go bzzzzzz

@s.m.4995 3 жыл бұрын

The thing is, this guy was actually basically spot-on with his predictions. Most of what he got wrong was actually just him not knowing how public opinion would shape our society in weird ways. He guessed that we would use zeppelins for certain tasks that planes aren't suited for, but we were scared of zeppelins so we invented helicopters, and we don't erradicate all pests, simply because we don't like the idea. He also underestimated how useful some technologies he himself brings up and then applies a different technology to solve an issue.

@DensetsuVII 4 жыл бұрын

"The automobile will have practically replaced the horse in American society" Yeah, pretty much. "All parts of America will be connected to the rest of the world by telephone wire" Very true, mostly. "A university education will be free to every man and woman." *cries

@spk1121 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, we're stuck with only 13 years of free education instead (K-12)

@DensetsuVII 4 жыл бұрын

@@spk1121 I mean, they also had free and compulsory education to that level; it's just that back then you didn't need a degree to get a good job. At least we have free healthcare for the poor-...ohhhh

@BlueGamingRage 4 жыл бұрын

@@DensetsuVII you still don't need a degree to get a good job. If anything, a degree can be a detriment since it costs time and money that could have been used to gain practical experience

@spk1121 4 жыл бұрын

@@DensetsuVII: College has become a form of gatekeeping. You have to go through "the system" in order to be considered acceptable to the overwhelmingly leftist HR depts across the country. Really think about this: Have jobs changed _that_ much since the 1950s, that they require a degree? Secretarial jobs require them now, for crying out loud! And it would be very easy to adjust curriculums to add opportunities to earn certificates in fields like coding, no different than offering AP classes for college credit. That's why they "teach to the test" nowadays. Not too long ago, high school prepared you to enter the real world. Today, it is almost entirely focused on getting into college. It's why so many college students are clueless about so many things. They've had little to no grounding in the real world.

@jinjunliu2401 4 жыл бұрын

@@spk1121 hurray to the Google degree then lol

@byzantineboi8345 4 жыл бұрын

“Mexico and the Central American countries will join the union” someone’s been watching alternatehistoryhub

@noppornwongrassamee8941 4 жыл бұрын

To be fair, states were still joining the Union at the time. Hawaii and Alaska weren't even States yet!

@sergtrejo5617 4 жыл бұрын

I could be wrong, but I think he meant like an agreement, like free trade. Then again the mindset then...

@hieratics 4 жыл бұрын

And south America would join European Union

@aubreyhuff46 4 жыл бұрын

@@sergtrejo5617 Genuinely the Union was used for the US before the 1900's during the civil war I believe.

@zephyrprime 4 жыл бұрын

They have been joining by moving over here individually.

@erikagehm2805 3 жыл бұрын

Was right about people getting taller and living longer. Scary accurate about modern telecommunications and some of the agriculture. This guy was very accurate in many ways.

@alannothnagle 3 жыл бұрын

These predictions were amazingly accurate in most points. I wonder how precise our own predictions of life in the 22nd century will be.

@Itssarahterry 4 жыл бұрын

“Our great great grandchildren will eat strawberries at Christmas time” True!

@goodmaro 3 жыл бұрын

...the size of apples. One will suffice for your fruit course." Oh.

@imjustmetoo7419 3 жыл бұрын

Never had that happen. Lol. I've had cherries on Xmas...

@alexandriamaguire8224 3 жыл бұрын

@@imjustmetoo7419 times are changing

@imjustmetoo7419 3 жыл бұрын

@@alexandriamaguire8224 I'm not so sure I want things to keep changing. It seems to get worst and worst for the people and better for the crooks.

@erikakathleen509 3 жыл бұрын

I just ate strawberries. Dec. 7, 2020 NYC Suburbs. 😀🍇

@mentei7384 4 жыл бұрын

I wish we could revive this guy and show him the achievements of the last 100 years

@kimmer6 4 жыл бұрын

Sure, and take him from New York to England on an Airbus 380 and see how he likes it.

@kingsaintides7227 4 жыл бұрын

He'd die again instantly the moment someone showed him a cellphone and pull up this video

@niko4618 3 жыл бұрын

He'd be like: What's with all the horses ffs...

@johnpooky84 3 жыл бұрын

Introduce him to Elon Musk.

@saloni22815 3 жыл бұрын

Especially to Bill gates ad

@lindawoody8501 3 жыл бұрын

This was pretty interesting work. Some did come true. I liked the fast food and home AC and heat forecasts. The warfare was also pretty accurate. Train travel not so much and same about the passenger ships. The information about instant photography and photos being sent easily across the globe was also spot-on. Video and music also very well forecast.

@tygs9326 2 жыл бұрын

It's really cool to think that people like this guy predicted all these things, some spot on, others not too far off, and here we all are, using technology to listen to his very words.

@SneedEnjoyer 4 жыл бұрын

"giant guns will fire 25 miles or more" Paris gun 13 years later could fire 81 miles.

@rookieflame5971 4 жыл бұрын

Well i mean, they arent wrong. 25 miles or MORE

@mqbitsko25 4 жыл бұрын

Gun that can fire more than a mile are obsolete.

@ric84 4 жыл бұрын

@@mqbitsko25 What are you on about? Arty is as valuable as ever saving soldiers asses on the daily.

@wattlebough 4 жыл бұрын

Mickey Bitsko Do some research. Your opinion is way out of touch with the military reality of today.

@Joshua_N-A 4 жыл бұрын

Next will be railguns. I wonder how many miles with direct fire in full power?

@toyotatacoma1616 4 жыл бұрын

Some of this is so strikingly accurate and then you get shit like “America will absorb Mexico”

@leodf1 4 жыл бұрын

It was an educated guess. California and Texas were originally part of Mexico. It was natural to assume the United States would continue to annex the whole of Mexico.

@fuckugplus 4 жыл бұрын

flipp it

@Sunshineonmymind714 4 жыл бұрын

In a way it’s true, we have absorbed Mexico. More and more come thru the border everyday. Maybe not the land, but a majority of the people for sure.

@rumcookie12 4 жыл бұрын

I looked at a map. Did you know there IS a New Mexico that didn't exist until 1912?

@nemrody7828 4 жыл бұрын

It is a logical assumption, because at the time Mexico was just entering a period of instability, and it was well known that Mexican instability facilitated the conquering of California and Texas by the US

@Digi20 3 жыл бұрын

I find it extremely interesting how (in their naive way) spot on many technical forecasts were, however almost everything regarding living and society shaped out really different.

@alannothnagle 3 жыл бұрын

It's intriguing that they had no conception whatsoever of computers or even any sort of high-speed data processing.

@abbythings 3 жыл бұрын

14:27 he would be so dissapointed to hear our songs😭

@nnnyel 4 жыл бұрын

"A penny will pay the fare" that would be nice

@wnphn7653 4 жыл бұрын

Adjusted for inflation, our current fares are roughly equal to a nickel in their day.

@kwj_nekko_6320 4 жыл бұрын

It is/was actually realized in some small countries and communist countries. Communist countries tended to spend a lot in mass transit systems.

@georgethompson913 4 жыл бұрын

@@kwj_nekko_6320 unfortunately not nearly as much in the not starving systems

@leifleoden5464 3 жыл бұрын

Check the EU, Singapore, Japan, Thailand, really any country that doesn't suffer from massive incompetence and corruption at all levels of government.

@kwj_nekko_6320 3 жыл бұрын

@@leifleoden5464 Unfortunately Japan has quite expensive mass transit fare. It is a dense country, but construction cost is expensive because of land and labor cost.

@jeaniechowdhury6739 4 жыл бұрын

They did not realize how the car companies would squash the development of mass public transportation in the USA

@trolololololololololololol6124 4 жыл бұрын

Never underestimate Corporate Lobbying. Laws mean nothing

@Philtration 3 жыл бұрын

And the oil companies would spend fortunes trying to stop electric cars

@leifleoden5464 3 жыл бұрын

Airlines helped out a lot, of course none of that could be done without the help of government subsidies. Although, now that so many of us are working from home on the internet, he was kinda right but via a different mechanism.

@zaiancomix9756 3 жыл бұрын

@@Philtration Electric cars are over rated. The only good thing about them is no air pollution from exhaust.

@Artman1 3 жыл бұрын

@Evilpimp I would prefer to spend my money on a better house and use public transport.

@DeathSithe92 3 жыл бұрын

Oh man so many of these are so overly hopeful and bright for the future, it breaks my heart to see how far we failed to rise to them.

@user-tk2lf1dv3s 3 жыл бұрын

Wow some of these were uncanningly accurate (bakeries, US population nubers, horse fly near-extinction; the speed of communications (photographs in just an hour being published), color photography, cheap cars, no coal locomotives, fast travel (air vessels not being used for that seems stupid), they predicted tanks, arial reconnicens, modern meat production, transcontinental telecommunication, electrical music Pretty impressive

@adawnhowell9256 4 жыл бұрын

"People will deliver cheap cooked food to your house in an automobile" hello predicting GrubHub, Door Dash and many other delivery services, lol

@DSDaly 4 жыл бұрын

Or just plain ordering takeout.

@heidiwilkes1 4 жыл бұрын

True, although he stated they would be cheaper than cooking your own food, which is false.

@heidiwilkes1 4 жыл бұрын

@@app103 Good point! I forgot about cheap pizza 🤔

@joellaz9836 3 жыл бұрын

It ain’t that cheap though

@goodmaro 3 жыл бұрын

@@heidiwilkes1 This was also in Bellamy's "Looking Backward" about 15 years earlier. n Bellamy was very big on economy of scale, as well as quality, saying centrally produced meals would be BETTER than most people would make themselves.

@gregorysagegreene 4 жыл бұрын

The technology advanced well beyond expectation, while the humanity and society made questionable progress.

@bfboobie 4 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately you're spot on

@hstpresident7551 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know I think I could definitely argue that

@hstpresident7551 3 жыл бұрын

people are more equal than ever and that is a fact.

@gregorysagegreene 3 жыл бұрын

@Anzu Wyliei 'Division of Mind Training' ?

@gregorysagegreene 3 жыл бұрын

@Picolas Cage Yer, and from totally defeating Socialism ... ... to wanting it

@kulturfreund6631 8 ай бұрын

Really great and well put together video. Thanks a lot. A number of predictions came true, sort of. Some even were topped. Cheers from Berlin.

@carsonpearce5980 3 жыл бұрын

13:00 yeah i think we are all used to long distance camera communication now

@gabesteinberg6244 4 жыл бұрын

Just to clarify, the “50 years versus 35 years” lifespan includes high child mortality, and is not a literal human lifespan. Throughout most of history, if an individual lived past 6 years, he would likely survive into his 60s, barring violence, disease, or accident.

@ExtremeMadnessX 4 жыл бұрын

It’s annoying how many people don’t know what that actually means...

@ownpetard8379 4 жыл бұрын

Must remove "barring disease" as an exception. Few people die of old age in their 60s and very few children die at a young age except for diseases, then or now. So, I do not agree with what you said. The average person born in 1880 (would be 21 in 1901) would likely live into their mid-50s, or less. That is average. If you do not count those who die before 6 years old, the average will be higher and yes, that average might be close to 60. Now, the averages will be higher, yes.

@TheNinetySecond 4 жыл бұрын

Which is also the reason why old historical individuals weren't these ancient über-mensch, living three times as long as everybody else at the time. As you say, those that survived lived at least beyond 50. Incidentally, this dynamic was also the reason why children weren't nearly as precious as they are today. If most of your kids had a 50/50 chance of making it past the age of five, it makes a lot more sense to invest in your grown kids, and having a lot more, so that you're ultimately left with at least two grown kids who can take care of you in your old age. Whenever people bring up "human nature", I like to ask them whether they think it's human nature to be as fiercely protective of our children as we are. Sometimes things _feel_ natural and morally unambiguous, when it's really just a product of our time and society.

@none.892 4 жыл бұрын

It's really irritating how hard it is to find the average lifespan verses the life expectancy.

@MrRugbylane 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Gabe for saying what ive been blue in the dace saying for decades! (Im a mortality risk professional). About 90% of "Average Life Expectancy" is entirely due to a truly miraculous reduction of infant mortality.

@thepagemaster2963 4 жыл бұрын

its surprisingly accurate. as if hes looking through a curved lens

@capnsteele3365 3 жыл бұрын

@ShaunDoesMusic 20 years* alot of his technology we already have in a way

@Elyseon 3 жыл бұрын

They really had a thing for pneumatic tubes.

@demilembias2527 3 жыл бұрын

you say they couldn't predict the internet but "English becoming a condensed language for condensed ideas" and "telegraphed photos allowed a battle in china to be photographed and published in American papers an hour later" seem pretty damn close to me

@mercster 2 жыл бұрын

Yup.

@spankynater4242 8 ай бұрын

Not to mention, the telegraph was already common technology at that time, and even spanned the oceans.

@alphonsocarioti512 4 жыл бұрын

“English will be compressed and shortened.” WTF? lol!

@dayra6425 3 жыл бұрын

🤙😕😔👹👿🤢💀👻👍👍😻👎☝️👎🤏🏻🖕🏿🦾🖐🏼👎🤯😷😄🤣😂

3 жыл бұрын

ikr

@amitkumar-sz6ze 3 жыл бұрын

Lol ikr

@akunlama89 3 жыл бұрын

It's called memes

@TheAmubis 3 жыл бұрын

@matthewtheobald1231 3 жыл бұрын

A lot of this is pretty spot on actually, but no one could have imagined the computer or internet

@eklipsegirl 3 жыл бұрын

Alan Turing did that spot on, but 40 years later.

@brunoeumememoroni 3 жыл бұрын

Like most of us can’t really imagine how surprising will be AI and how unprepared humanity is for it, as most of the owners of AI are billionaires caring their own distant interests surely in misalignment with the true goals biosphere and humans 😔😔😔😔

@brunoeumememoroni 3 жыл бұрын

The AI wars 🥺😔

@jamesworley5725 3 жыл бұрын

@@brunoeumememoroni yeah you don’t really know what AI is do you

@millantronni3242 3 жыл бұрын

Th reason is that yo uhave a bias nad only thinks of 1. what existing things could be better and 2. What would I like have right now

@mikeorclem 3 жыл бұрын

i doubt if we would be any better predicting 100 years from now....interesting subject and presentation...thanks

@thejurydoctor6097 3 жыл бұрын

So close yet so far, no one imagined having a super computer we can binge watch these predictions on and share our opinions instantly.

@That-Google-Guy 3 жыл бұрын

Man, those guys in the turn of the century REEEEALLY LOVE pneumatic tubes. “Everything that lives and breathes will become pneumatic tubes”

@thememoryhole9355 3 жыл бұрын

Well we got the Hyperloop coming .. that's sort of retro in a way. And maybe we should consider pneumatic tubes instead of drones flying constantly over our heads to deliver stuff .. which is what they intend to do. They always fail to adequately consider unintended consequences. Like those Starlink mini-sats. They're already fouling up the night sky and they plan on putting a whole bunch more up there.

@hedgehog3180 3 жыл бұрын

They were kinda right though, it just didn't last that long but like in the 50s, 60s and 70s every office had an interoffice mail system based on pneumatic tubes and even entire cities had it, Berlin had a system like that for example and so did London. They just couldn't have possibly predicted that this would end up being replaced by the internet. Few people today just remember those systems since they disappeared just as quickly as they were installed but if you watch movies from that time period they often show up.

@HalkerVeil 3 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile at the bank...

@ollielong630 3 жыл бұрын

I noticed this also. They thought it'd change everything for centuries to come.

@dischord547 3 жыл бұрын

Pneumatic Tubes and Electricity.

@smashingrecords9685 4 жыл бұрын

Me: "Pff, he's gonna be so wrong about these." Narrator: "In the year 2001, the movie Shrek will become a mass-market success." Me: "How Did He Know!?!"

@henrymcdowell3103 4 жыл бұрын

He's a Shrexpert.

@romaliop 4 жыл бұрын

Shrek is inevitable.

@solid-state 4 жыл бұрын

🎵 Somebody told him 🎵

@u2bAriel 4 жыл бұрын

@@henrymcdowell3103 you mean Shrekspert... They got rid of all c, q and x ;)

@jesusmora9379 4 жыл бұрын

i see this as an absolute win

@Fae_van 3 жыл бұрын

Omg he predicted NordVPN sponsorships, truly amazing 😔🥺

@pikafan7 3 жыл бұрын

didn't know they had such good quality microphones back then

@annatamparow4917 4 жыл бұрын

NEVER ever forget the futuristic predictions of French writer Jules Verne, who at the time predicted that Europe would become a Union with Paris (Strasbourg close enough) as the seat of the president, and the British PM (1901 being the height of the British empire) would complain about European charges (Brexit), and he is consoled by the President that Britain still holds Gibraltar!

@pietromeroni2023 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the British acted arrogant even back then

@Pollicina_db 3 жыл бұрын

He also predicted submarines and rockets.

@thedoublessymbol 3 жыл бұрын

@@Pollicina_db Submarines were invented a whole century earlier

@lievenvanloo6011 3 жыл бұрын

Well there are 4 capitals of the EU, and there isn't a sole president. It seems mostly a french wet dream, nonetheless there is some truth in it.

@mh8795 3 жыл бұрын

France rolling over for Germany once more and begging to be loved. Sad.

@michaelparisi6789 4 жыл бұрын

I couldn't even imagine telling somebody at this time about the atomic bomb. They thought we'd be using lightning bolts in 2001, try telling them we'd be able to drop miniaturized sun cores not even 50 years later.

@andrew_stamps 4 жыл бұрын

reverse sun cores (atomic weapons are fission based) as for lightning bolts tasers maybe?

@quillquickcard8824 4 жыл бұрын

To anyone familiar with physics at the time it would not be too difficult to explain. You would simply tell them that in only a few decades, the process by which molecules function and maintain themselves will be understood, and that it will be discovered that breaking them apart releases massive quantities of energy. This knowledge was adapted to both civilian and military use, allowing both singular bombs with the power to destroy whole cities, and energy production of a scale greater than any other in history.

@davidwuhrer6704 4 жыл бұрын

They didn't know how the sun keeps burning back then.

@Dave-ks9fi 4 жыл бұрын

@@andrew_stamps the H-bomb is fusion

@DavidStirm 4 жыл бұрын

Ha ha miniaturized sun cores

@davidjohnston6705 Жыл бұрын

Very well done sir thank u. Just so far it's very well thought of lots of time spent

@FlorinSutu 10 ай бұрын

It is worth to read "The Machine Stops", a science fiction short story by E. M. Forster, published in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909). The action happens in the future, and that author got very close to many of the aspects of our life from our days.

@dale6947 4 жыл бұрын

"American audiences will view in the theaters will view upon huge before them the coronations of kings in Europe, or the progress of battles in the Orient" Royal family mania and news about the endless wars in the Middle East, amazing how accurate some of the predictions are.

@BangFarang1 4 жыл бұрын

The battles in the Orient at that time were in China (The Boxer rebellion 1899-1901). Orient means Asia. People feared the Yellow Peril (Asians invading Europe and North America).

@-haclong2366 4 жыл бұрын

@@BangFarang1 "The Orient" actually means Asia + North Africa, which is a huge area stretching from Morocco to the Moluccan islands.

@BangFarang1 4 жыл бұрын

@@-haclong2366 Orient means East. North Africa got an oriental culture due to being part of the Ottoman empire, but has never been called Orient.

@user-hh2is9kg9j 4 жыл бұрын

@@BangFarang1 In that time "The Orient" means the eastern world as opposed to the western world. Which includes Near East, Middle East, Far East, and even North Africa. Orientalism for example evolved to mean almost exclusively imitation or depiction of the middle eastern cultures.

@bar-1studios 4 жыл бұрын

@@BangFarang1 To be fair... they weren't worried about the Vietnamese, the Burmese or Thai... Just even back then people realized China was @$$hole. Which means at some point, people must have asked the Vietnamese, the Burmese or the Thai or Cambodians or Koreans or Laotians their opinion of the Chinese....

@ED-yy4te 4 жыл бұрын

"Americans with better athletics." "There will be no C,X or Q" Now: Extra THICC

@tr4nsd0n4ld3 4 жыл бұрын

😸🍕

@godlovesyou1995 4 жыл бұрын

@Done with you thik

@sparrovski 4 жыл бұрын

Sik, Korrekt, tekting. Predikshons. Thikk.

@TopaT0pa 4 жыл бұрын

Caesar Salad with Xtra Q-Cumber

@bookmouse2719 4 жыл бұрын

This has happened in English before....getting rid of letters but then they added the W. Is this why the Clintons took all the Ws off the keyboards when George W came into power?

@Tydusis1 3 жыл бұрын

It's kind of amazing how the lack of planes colors the prediction

@jeffyoung60 10 ай бұрын

In the year 1900, middle school students somewhere in America - I forget, either Midwest or New England - were asked by their teachers to draw on paper what they thought the future would look like in the distant year, 1960. I saw one of the drawings on the Internet. It was so quaint. The child depicted people in flying cars. The flying cars were elevated by a large box kite on each end of the sausage-shaped air car. One such aerial car of the future showed a late middle aged contented couple in the front seat. Both were dressed in 1900 clothing.

@wfobeor 4 жыл бұрын

interesting to see that they predicted nord VPN all those years ago

@jonathoncaldwell9064 4 жыл бұрын

"All major KZfaqrs will promote Nord VPN or Raid Shadow Legends."

@voidofspaceandtime4684 4 жыл бұрын

@@jonathoncaldwell9064 *All popular fimographical telegraphers will net their pay through the promotion of corporations that obscure one's real world location, and others that share a shoddily constructed game that can be played on the mobile telegraph device.

@jonathoncaldwell9064 4 жыл бұрын

@@voidofspaceandtime4684 that was awesome man. If I hadnt had said that on my day off drinking at 2pm I may have came up with something half that witty. That was really good off the cuff bud. Kudos!

@bfboobie 4 жыл бұрын

This made me lolol

@ddshocktrooper5604 4 жыл бұрын

Man, I wish tabloids these days were this well researched before printing.

@andrewscott8892 4 жыл бұрын

I wish mainstream news organizations were this well researched

@kma3647 4 жыл бұрын

The 24/7/365 continuous news cycle precludes it. There's so much competition to be first, they don't have time to verify their sources. Their audiences don't hold them accountable for spreading overt lies and the abject rumormongering, so we're sort of complicit as a society. We don't even hold them accountable if they fail to correct or retract false stories later - because we collectively have the attention span of a gnat and keep getting distracted by the next flashy thing or consumed by the next faux crisis. People still keep trusting untrustworthy people, so we get more of them while the demand for trustworthy sources decreases.

@andrewscott8892 4 жыл бұрын

@@kma3647 agreed.. one person sees something on Twitter and writes about it, then the rest copy and paste changing the title just slightly. Steven Crowder called one to ask about falsehhod in their story on his re monetization and she said quote " we consider a national news source like CBS, to be strong enough first party without having to corroborate against two or three sources."

@MightySheep 4 жыл бұрын

It's only natural standards would dip as their relevance, influence & income dips

@the1anonymouse 4 жыл бұрын

It was much harder to print things back then so if you were gonna print something you wanted that thing to be good

@rollinggoronable 11 ай бұрын

Honestly one of the most accurate future times predictions I've heard. Usually its some outlandish shit, but they were quite spot on really. Pretty impressive for whoever made these predictions, they obviously did a lot of research and data collection.