Or just smarter than you.

@@andybaldman Well, she would have been around 11. So one can certainly hope!😉

or taking orders from his masters ?

​@@andybaldmanbut, lemme guess, not as smart as you?

@@AbeBSea I'm a slightly later generation. So we knew we'd have computers and do shopping online, when we were told it was coming.

Ironically it was better in the 1960s.

I wasn't born until the 90s and it is fascinating to see how fast a desktop computer has become a flat-screen and smartphones are so accessible

@@johntate5050 At the risk of sounding like an old timer, the 60s was a fabulous decade.

Of course we didn’t have that 30-hour workweek and 4-week vacation in 1967 like we do today! 😉

@@johntate5050 Ironically, posters online are no better informed about the past than before the information tsunami.

_Computers are today's telephones!_ Or, vice versa!

A guest can bring his own inflatable chair….. Out there are men and women focused on home computing but Carl’s engineering “Ballon Chair!” (But hey, I had one circa 1998, 6th grade, that I got from Spencer’s…. Thanks Carl.

I know, I wish I had known that when they called me back in the 80s to see if I wanted to invest and cellular phones. But I thought who would want to carry a brick around? Besides, if we were late coming home, no phone or dime to call. Lol

I chuckled when he said people would have four different screens at their desk to read the news, check the weather, stocks, call people and check security cameras in the home. What would they have said if they knew we’d be able to do all of that and more on just one screen

@@curtyeomans8446 Not only that, but being able to do all that with a single device that is small enough to carry around in your pocket!

That was in the 90s

2023 - Little Johnny has been suspended. Our system shows he bypassed the security program to access FeetFinders.

2023: Now the computer does the homework!

Please be informed that your school teacher has groomed your child, and they/ them now demands puberty blockers.

Wouldn't send my child to that school.

Twitter and TikTok isn't the future you imagined?

Me and my wife are running away from it...........I was a Dell warranty tech, a BOA migration engineer, I assisted with the Wells Fargo takeover of Wachovia and I was a corporate account installer for HP. I knew exactly what was going to happen 10 years ago and left the profession. Now I'm in logistics, work when I feel like it, and stay outside on my days off, living on three acres with farmers as my neighbors. Only computer I use is my phone. As soon as I can figure out how to live without it I'm getting rid of that too.

It wasn't until the 1980s when William Gibson and C. M. Kornbluth showed me that dystopia was the most likely future.

@@mankind8088 When you say you knew what was going to happen what do you mean?

What are you disappointed about?

Exactly. Best wishes.

You are the same age as me. My favorite episode from the summer of 1967 was when Walter played Asteroids on a mainframe computer. Imagine my surprise when Atari released it in 1979, only 22 years later and 21 years before the 21st Century! And on a computer much smaller than a mainframe.

@@KevinBrownAZ And Karen Colizzi Noonan -- the three of us are the same age. And over the decades, I constantly thought of Walter's 1967 show and what the heck happened. For a long time, the 21st Century program seemed laughably off, but as the home computer came along, Walter was shown more and more to be right.

WELL. guess you were dissapointed. didnt get to live in a sky dome and fly around in flying cars. Oh well.

Silly Silly KIDS! oh so cute!!!!! Wanna play with some tinker toys?

Let alone a 30 hour work week, a month vacation and a second home...

He was right on when he said in the 21st century the home would be unattainable to the average man. 21:25

“The house is a thing of the 20th century.”

I bought a home in 2023.

Right! "Robots are coming-not to rule the WORLD, but"-oh but they now DO. We have robot clerks, robot switchboards, robot cars, robot vacuumes, robot pets and $10/month buys you a digital partner. So yeah-not being able to buy squat-they never thought!

😂😂😂😂

But there's lots of STEREOPHONIC sound

Yeah, but where's my Computerized Communications Console?

I was born February 21st in 67 Gen X just like you and can only hope for the best in this day and age as well, but if I had a time machine I would go back to the 70's and 80's as well because those were fun happy times for me 😊❤

@@BeliaLastes 🙏 Wish we had a time machine, but at least we have KZfaq!

The only hope that matters is the one who purchased your salvation. Jesus Christ. The world is not going to get better because this world is not our home. Normal isn't coming back but Jesus is.

Well...Hamas kinda shot that hpeful peace- idea down,didnt they?

@@BeliaLastes Back to the womb emotions.

Am black so why the fuck would I want to go back to the 60s what so I can get lenched under a fucking tree

What??? You mean those Expo ‘67 housing modules can’t compare?

Yeah, rich people have always been able to afford longer-lasting houses.

@@penultimateh766 Even the wealthy today couldn't duplicate the Victorian town houses for their wealth of materials and craftsmanship. The main reason is these craftsmen don't exist anymore!

My grandfather designed, hand cut and installed parquet floors at around the turn of the century. I think there will be eventually younger people who are bored with or tire of technology and want to bring the uniqueness of some of these crafts back. probably with more modern hand tools, but with similar ideas of individual design not mass produced. I loved the description of your house, thanks..Lucky you! I lived in a small apartment in an old brownstone in the 80’s which I loved. The fireplace was defunct but looked amazing. On the ceiling was a decorative plaster cap (not sure what you call it, or how to describe). I’m now in a modernized old building, but the bay windows, outer building, and arched entryway facade with columns on each side and balustrades on top are intact and wonderful! Flowering cherry trees (in May) right outside my upper floor front windows. Reading your comment reminds me of how I appreciate where I live too. When I was younger I lived in various neighborhoods with ugly houses and buildings, little to no trees-wastelands really. Pity some developers have no creativity or imagination even with limited budgets (or little motivation in that due to greed). I also appreciate some 50’s modernist homes. Some of those can be interesting..not like those modules in the vid though.

My home as well...I was fortunate:-)

He was beloved because he didn't know any more than you did. When it finally !! dawned on him Vietnam was unwinnable and he said so, LBJ told his inner circle the war, and the election, was lost because "when we lost him, we lost America". This series is painful to watch; the level of astuteness is ridiculously low. A lot of his work was similarly lacking in depth and clarity, unlike the much more intellectually-gifted Huntley and Brinkley. Yep, like Captain Kangaroo. A security blanket for superficial thinkers.

Turns out Cronkite was no more than a deepstate mouthpiece. Like Cooper

Think of how further ahead you and your classmates would be if they aired Star Trek, the Original Series and/or 2001: A Space Odyssey

You had a good elementary school.

They got pretty much every detail wrong other than microwaves that already existed at the time.

@@tarstarkusz Look up Arthur C Clark products the future. He was a science fiction author. He predicted the internet and modern communications in 1964. Also home computers and our telephones.

@@johanvangelderen6715 He was a pedo and got almost everything wrong. I've read like 1/2 or more of his books.

it could have been. look up *"Roadmap For A New American Century"* that should clue you into what the 'social masters' had planned for america in the 21st century...so far things have been going as planned for them.

I wonder how the game between the Woodmere Wasps and the Stoneybrook Samurai came out.

@brianarbenz1329 Timely comment; perfect distraction in an imperfect world. You might recall that Stoneybrook's goalie was injured in the last game. His substitute blocked two of Woodmere's attempts to score the melon, but only because of performance enhancing drugs, so he was disqualified. But that didn't stop Stoneybrook from crossing the 5000 meter line as the steam whistle blew, and claiming their fourth Weedgie Trophy in a row. Hail Stoneybrook!

@@richardblayneamerican8149 That explains their long reign on the Wheaties Box!

@@brianarbenz1329 Second only to Michael Jordan. ✌️

Honestly, the Jetsons were prophetic. Video calling. Online doctors. As a kid, I always wondered why they NEVER showed the ground, though. What happened?? Did the Jetsons predict climate change? LOL

Me too!!

I like how the big screen TV is just a really large old 60s tv

@@bemhibbits4157 You're wrong. The Jetsons did show the ground.

Europeans are a lot closer to it than we are here in the USA.

@@someguy2135yea but we have a better standard of living here in first world nations like the US and Canada because we work harder. Europe is a second world hellscape of communism with 13% unemployment rates because of their low work hours and regulations mandating low work weeks and unionization. Not saying us Americans don’t deserve more but the average European lives in a crappy apartment and can’t afford kids or a car. The average American can afford a mcmansion, 2-3 cars and 2-3 kids (well pre 2020 that is)

​@@LucasFernandez-fk8se You sure know a lot about us, Europeans. Make sure to visit Norway, Switzerland or Monaco next time you're here. You'll be surprised AF.

​@@LucasFernandez-fk8se I think you better do some more investigating because I know a lot of European people and it's not true. But they really do have a lot of vacation. If you want a hellscape try Africa or maybe Russia. And, at the moment, parts of Ukraine.

​@@LucasFernandez-fk8se I am willing to bet a large sum of money that you voted for the Donald and tbelieve everything you're told without question. Oh- and I have a bridge for sale if you are interested - being American you can of course afford such things.

Imagine if he knew about the Psychic Friends Network!

But most of them are not

Well, Mick (Sir Mick, now) and "Keef" are still touring and have a new album out, Van Morrison was nominated for an Academy Award last year, Bob Dylan is still on his Never Ending Tour and Diana Ross sung at the celebrations for King Charles III at Windsor Castle. As for Dionne Warwick I saw her myself in concert last year. She was fantastic!

​@@tracieh215all of them are

Walter would have cracked up

Right! With the month long vacations. With the way things go here, we’d leave for vacation and come back replaced by robots.

Funny that one of the demands of the current Uaw negotiations is a 32hr work week. The continuous weakening of union power over the past 40+ years is largely responsible for workers getting less pay, less benefits, less paid leave, less vacations, etc. The only way for workers to improve these is through group power, ie organizing via unions, guilds, etc

Whose going to support our billionaires' life-styles?

It has! I have 30 hour week and 8 week vacation in my completely normal mid-range european job. Only $70000/year, but free healthcare and very cheap kindergarden for the kids. Am I an union? Yes I am. I adore unions.

​@@hepphepps8356curious which country you are from, Europe varies quite a bit from what I've gathered.

It was all guessing. If you throw enough darts, you hit a few bullseyes.

​@OMGWTFLOLSMH Some of it made practical sense in terms of being more efficient. I think those ideas are more than mere chance.

Exactly!😂

Do you think this is staged?

@@freetruth123 nope. Predictive trends are tough

@@KeytarKris Yes, I see what you mean.

Yep looks 1977.

How many hours you work does nothing to the total length of a holiday. But yes, why not? What barbaric country do you live in that hasn't got fair employee rights and standards in law yet?

He knew kids would be called " its" in 1967 . But not throwing them away .

🤣😆 'The Throw aways'- could be a new episodical 📺 series about a dystopian world were the gettos are being over run by the networks and every one at home is stuck watching, while kids get thrown out before they grow up if your kids can't find their own damn chair.. filled with enough retarded politics, comedy, drama and of course plot armour to beat any House of cards episode any day!

The first thing I think about after seeing the furniture is IKEA.😂

I wonder if in 2001 we had a device to work remotely on. I imagine most people didn't yet. Nowadays, sure, but the future being imagined is set 22 years in the past from now...

You mean the late 1960s

Well, we’d only use it on special occasions like if we broke something and it needed to be replaced 😅

And me when I said we'd be able to get whatever porn we liked at the flip of a switch on our video screens.

We had water on the wall in faucets . Hot and cold . When i see people buying water in bottles i wish my dad had given them a quarter . 🤧

@@EmeraldView If we're all being honest with ourselves, porn was the starter fluid for the internet.

@@wizardmix Meaning for adolescent males.

@@653j521 You can keep telling yourself that if it helps you sleep at night.

You get an 'A' for optimism! 😀

enjoy the kool aid. Moon .haha

I remember watching this when I was a kid too. I was fascinated by it!

There will be more social/gen experiments and more of everything for sure but not for the "peasants", only for the stealing corpos using "AI" to control your every move and punish you for wrong think/talk through your social score and bank account, great future 👍🏼

Walter Cronkite died in 2009, so he did live to see the 21st century.

Advancements tend to come in batches. We are overdue for another batch of world changing tech. I think AI will make it happen

And don't forget this show was talking about life in 2001, not 2023. KZfaq hadn't even debuted, and perhaps wasn't even conceived as a concept in 2001. There were no smart phones, no 3D TVs as they reference in the video, hardly any electric cars....it was a world closer to 1967 than it is to 2023. Put that time traveler in 2023, and depending on what you show him/her it might be an amazing experience for them. Take them directly from their time machine and put them into a fully electric Tesla or brand new Mercedes with its full digital console and voice recognition commands. Drive to your modern house with Google home or Alexa or any other voice command system that allows you to turn on lights, TVs etc. Watch them step over your robotic vacuum and turn on your 120" 4K smart TV with 100s of channels, Netflix, KZfaq etc. or hand them an iPad or smart phone and let them play around with it. Take them for a walk in an ultra modern city like Tokyo or Times Square in NYC with an overwhelming display of multiple large video screens.....let them fly over Dubai with its megatall buildings or any number of Chinese metropolises with their Blade Runner like aesthetics, video advertising adorning skyscrapers etc. Put a high end VR headset on them and let them walk around on the surface of Mars or the Moon or play any number of amazing video games. Show them Boston Dynamic robots in action or have them speak with Ameca, the robot with lifelike facial expressions. Sure, you could also put them on any inner city suburban street that hasn't changed much in 50 years and have them be very underwhelmed but there are many things you could show them to blow their minds...

Automated cooking is already a thing.there is robots that do this or even veining machines

Lol, imagine time travellers from that time their journal possibly would read - 'They did it! They finally did it!! Damn you.. Damn you all to HELL!!!' - Planet of the Apes 1968, Oh just the irony if it.

Plastic furniture was uncomfortable and sticky in the 60s why did they think it would be widespread in 2000?

Yes - when they said that we might be awakened by the pitter patter of robot feet - that sounded more like a Terminator...

​@@MommyDontSeeMeYour comment gave me a really good laugh...thank you for that!

Bender the Offender!

you mean "Robits" I love the old pronunciations for robot lol

I rather have them become sentient than being controlled by corpos.

@@theblubus the pitter-patter of tiny 'robit' feet... *>CLUNK< >CLUNK< >CLUNK

@@theblubus I imagined the pronunciation as "robuts". Either way, it sure is funny to hear

Walter Cronkite lived to 2009 you say? That's an impressive age! 👍🤣

Me too. And a robot servant that does more than vacuum the floor.

I WANT MY FLYING CAR!

Go back to 1985 or 2015. 😂

@@stevensuarez4843 ok thank you

If you drive fast enough over a speed bump, your car is technically "flying" for a moment.

please shut up... I already feel old.

Funny how my teachers always would remind us that we need to learn math problems and show our work on assignments since we won’t be walking around with a calculator!

I bet he's deceased already because your insight and his denial did him in.

Businesses used to be closed on Sundays, when they changed that is when they took the wrong turn on that idea 🤔🤷‍♂️

Was the show not on air when you were 11?😊

My father met Walter Cronkite. In the 1950s, Dad was interviewing for a starter out news clerking job at CBS. During the interview, the door opened and Walter, _the Walter_ popped in to talk to Dad. He said he heard Dad was living in Albuquerque and asked him a few questions about the Univ. of New Mexico’s communications school, which Cronkite said he was considering endowing. Eventually, it became the Walter Cronkite School of Communications of the UNM. But Dad not get the clerking job; it didn’t pay enough for living as a married man in NYC anyway.

@@brianarbenz1329 too bad he didn’t get the job. Hopefully found something better. Thanks for the story.

@@bennylloyd-willner9667 sure was.

@@milesbrown2 ahh, so you just didn't watch with wonder at 11 then. (...10 or 12 year...)😁

Yeah I feel like Walter was just blowing it out his arse for a lot of this stuff. like disposable and inflatable portable chairs… it doesn’t take a genius to see the inefficiency behind that idea, and that’s dismissing all the waste that it would create just to sit down for 5 minutes.

Basically that's the path we've been always on.

Uh, the future was awesome. We have great medicine, better education (too bad some people don't participate), safer and more comfortable/fuel efficient cars, electric vehicles, heated floors in our homes, dishwashers, computers in our pocket, giant TVs, access to almost anything with the click of a button, etc.

@@OMGWTFLOLSMHit is a bit disheartening that the issues we face today with housing cost and availability are a natural outcome predicted in the first segment of this video, “in the future, urban sprawl is unsustainable”. Well, we found out.

the only dark path is negativity, every year humanity is getting better than the previous year. would you prefer the crusades? of 10th century south america? or middle age european plague? or growing in siberia? ...sheesh. the current in as awesome as it can get and things are continuing to get better.

Lol, imagine time travellers from that time their journal possibly would read - 'They did it! They finally did it!! Damn you.. Damn you all to HELL!!!' - Planet of the Apes 1968, Oh just the irony if it.

@ElonMusk

As a pilot I don't want the vast majority of idiots that drive cars to fly anything. The amount of people that do not know how to drive yet somehow possess a license disturbs me greatly. Then we have to talk about what people always forget about with their cars... MAINTAINENCE, oh the horror stories.

@@Spartan536 Ok, but none of that is the point of that quote.

Living the western lifestyle in western countries is almost unreachable for retirees in 2022. I'm in a 4br townhome in the Philippines with all the modern conveniences and able to live comfortably on a US SS retirement check..

True. The housing situation in the UK now is largely a result of post war planning restrictions which have prevented a free market in housing, combined with politicians who believe in a free market for housing but have forgotten that the planning laws prevent it. So the number of houses constructed per year has fallen from 0.5 million + in the 1950's to as low as 0.25 million now, whilst the population has risen significantly. In addition the cost and availability of public transport and lack of construction of road capacity (no significant motorway construction) has meant that many houses are effectively cut off from working locations., and the transport problems have also constrained productivity and enterprise. Two problems, that will not be adjusted until the politicians have the will to tackle the problem, and that is difficult because it will mean reducing the real cost of houses, which will make the current house owners unhappy. It is a more or less self inflicted injury as only 3% of the land is actually occupied by housing, and that has barely changed over the last 100 years. The solution is obvious and we could return to building "proper" houses quite easily. But it will not happen.

The first "desktop consoles" for the home were brought out in the mid-70s, although they were glorified calculators until 1987-88, when 16-bit computers that were actually capable of anything much started to come out.

Dumbphones where already here in 2009.

Oh yeah! Produced by Isaac Kleinerman, the same man that produced the CBS epic Victory at Sea

The ending music was always a big plus for the program. I wonder who composed it.❤

Please. He was a teleprompter reader like everyone else. But he was no journalist. The real journalists started to disappear between the two World Wars. By the end of WWII they were gone for good.

Yeah, chopped up inefficient small rooms, lead pipes, knob & tube wiring with no grounding, wasteful plumbing & heating fixtures, poor insulation, no double glazing, air leakage, nothing level or plumb, creaky floors, lead paint and plenty of asbestos. So great. I've owned both and I'd much rather have a new home.

@@OMGWTFLOLSMHYeah built with drywall and subpar lumber all put together by the cheapest bidder.

No you're gonna walk in and see me sitting there telling you some bullshit about the future that doesn't exist.

@@bunjwunj7042 Yeah, but we'll always have that Empty repetition and tasteless sterility!

If it happened to me, I think I'd pay money to see my face. 😁

In the 21st century, Walter Cronkite will be replaced by hack, partisan journalists.

Good? I'm afraid I don't, actually...but I do remember when people thought it would at least be BETTER than old Twentieth. (Certainly just as, if not more, exciting.) 🧐 👽

Yes. Mid-20th century optimism was great! Sadly, they didn't see the Baby Boomers getting wasted and trashing everything.

The first 23 years of the 21st century have been much more peaceful that the first 23 years of either the 19th or 20th Century. Recall that during Walter Cronkite’s main job of presenting the nightly news he was reporting around 300 American soldiers dying each week in Vietnam and that American cities were frequently exploding in riots.

@@howtubeable troll

@@653j521 everyone knows it's true. The boomers just don't want to take any responsibility for it.

it was really popular but a lot of injuries were caused. I don't know why they could just put a railing in

Sounded like he said "robutt" lol

I aksed my mamma and she tol' me to agree wit cha!

People want the government to think for them

@@stevengallant6363 nah man, its the ads we see. I work next to a prison I snap a photo of the sign behind where i was parked and they taged me on FB, the have hidden trackers in the ads you see on the web, no matter if you click on them, they just have to be a paid advertisment on the site you are on IE FB, youtube.

If people know you don't want to think for yourself, they'll consider you no better than a lump of muscle. And we all know what muscles are chiefly good for, don't we? (Hint: tee-oh-eye-el.) 🧐

They won't be able to ask chat gpt to do their job for them.

I was saddened on Friday to learn that the Algebra 2 that my students are learning does not include Trigonometry, as it did when I took it over 30 years ago in the same district 😩🤷🏽‍♀️😢

Not good

This was when America was at it's peak and the majority were middle class.

Simple stop being poor lmao

Some of the 1960s and 1970s is coming back. Mid century modern furniture is making a comeback in some ways. I just remodeled my bathroom with modern tile and got non slip shag rugs!

what middle class...

Oh dont be such a sour puss. You are brain dead as well. You are just as bad because you do like these silly kids do...stare at a screen. You have been doing that your whole fucking life. And then you have an "opinion"? oh! YOU had something to say right now? Think about it. You are no more good or bad than these kids just having fun. being obnoxious. and giving you the fuckin middle finger. Let them be kids. They will grow up someday. And someday you will grow up to be A BIG KID TOO!!! YAYY!!

Thank you for your support.

Don't let anyone tell you that stupidity is not contagious 😵‍💫

I'm fine with the F150 becoming more expensive. It should be a tool for commercial use, not how most people generally use it as an overpriced, oversized commute car.

Who?

He was involved in the ritual