In the 21st Century it may be that people watch old film strips of Walter Conkite on their Computerized Communication Consoles.

Seems we spent the 60s & 70s looking forward to what would be in the 21st century......once we got there we spend our time looking back to how things used to be :)

It would be great if CBS released a "restored" version of this outstanding series. So many of us Boomers have fond memories of watching this. Then it would be great if CBS had a "follow-up" to each episode. They could discuss how closely the predictions in the 1960s came to reality today. And then also speculate on how "today's" early 21st century technology might look 40 years from now.

OMG I saw this as a kid, 9 years old. I used to watch these and wonder how much they would get right (or even if anyone would be alive then courtesy of a possible WW3). Kind of dispiriting how much has _not_ changed. Thank you for finding it!

I remember watching this as a little kid first run. I still miss the ambitious goals that designers had for your kitchen or living room or the futuristic home exteriors. We had the Apollo program back then and the futuristic future was in fashion. Now it feels like everything is falling apart and cutting costs is the goal.

Walter Cronkite lived until 2009. He lived long enough to see how these predictions were so off.

I genuinely wish that CBS would release this series. I'd buy it. I watched this show every week at the time and since then have been impressed with some of their descriptions of what life would be like today such as a computer in every home. On the other hand I also remember another episode that said there would be moving sidewalks everywhere. Only in airports .

It was good to see this program again....I was 10 when they first ran it:-) The sad thing is a middle class10 year old today doesn't have the same limitless expectations/possibilities that we had! Thank you for posting this video.

I loved this show when I was a kid. America was still in the Gemini space program. Working to get to the moon. Everything seemed possible. 'Home computers' and 'cordless phones' were a dream. The funny thing is... I'm watching this video on my laptop and sent it to my Smartphone to show a younger guy at work.

This was actually an extension of The Twentieth Century, with the focus on the future instead of past events. I noticed the McGraw-Hill Films at the beginning. Episodes of The 21st Century were shown in schools. I remember watching one in a science class in the late 1970s. The only thing I remember about that film I saw was that it was the first time I saw the 1939 GM Futurama To New Horizons film.

I remember watching this in 67 on CBS.

visionaries fascinating to watch after all these yrs.. I would love the rest of this series...

What I always liked about these programs was the awesome music over the ending credits.

.....Thank You Brian For Publishing This Classic '60s Video....Walter Cronkite Was a great Journalist And Commentator...It may Very Well Be That Our Future Has Already Disintegrated... How Depressing.....

I am glad that the vision of the 21st century, foreseen by some in 1967, did not come to pass for this kindergartener of '66-67. What a nightmare it'd be, now that I am retired... and in no mood for a "blow-up" easy chair.

I never missed this show when I was a kid!

This was a terrific series.

"In the 21st century, you will watch me doing this program even though I will have been dead for many years."

Thank you for sharing.

This was pretty accurate on several things and aspects of life now.

Remember watching this series growing up in the 60s. Now here we are in the 21st Century.

I remember this episode. It's fun to look at it all of these years later. Things didn't change a whole lot, other than the advent of the personal computer, from that time to this.

We had it wrong. 1967 was one of the great years, much better than today.

I remember watching these as a kid with my jaw hanging open. Microwave ovens in every home. NO WAAY Computers in every home. NO WAAY People working from home NO WAAY I have an inflatable chair, but it sprang a leak.

Microwave ovens came on the general market right around the time this show was broadcast. My mother was one of the early purchasers when she bought an Amana Radarange back in around 1969.

The only thing AMF knows how to make is pin spotters. (They were the one making the automatic fast food machine).

Thank you for the interesting video. I was looking for the opening music which fascinated me as a kid. I looked forward to seeing the series every Saturday. Cheaper, faster, smaller, and sometimes more convenient. Always look for the profit margin.

I had completely forgotten this show. I was born in 1960, and Cronkite's facination with history, science, and the race for space fueled my facination for all three.

Its year 2022 and still watching

I wish you could see all the Episodes, on KZfaq .

The 21st Century was series of programs, 1967-70. I would like to see other episodes posted. One I remember in particular was "Atomic Medicine."

It's surprising how accurate this turned out to be, this is probably this first time anyone predicted that the future would be built on computer chips and copper wires not rocket engines or nuclear reactors,

Thanks. I remember this from my childhood. Great program.

At 14:10 ..."By the 21st Century, home computers may be as common as today's telephones" ...Today, out telephones ARE our computers!!!

OMG I cannot believe I found this cli9 of the 21st century. I loved this show when I was a kid... I wonder if the whole series is available?

not BAD for a FUTURE view .. when you think of how many of these dieas were in the realm of fantasy and conjecture in 1967 .. it's back to the FUTURE .. 46 years ago CBS and Walter Cronkite took TV viewers on a tour of what might be in the 21st Century .. flat screen computers .. access to information worldwide .. home printers .. skype .. widescreen wall mounted TVs .. none of which existed at any house anywhere in 1967 .. THANKS for posting !!

By the time the Crawshaw daughters have grown up, they will be stone deaf from that cumbersome printer head bashing out their math homework on that piece of paper striking the cast iron backing plate.

Thanks for posting, Brian.

gotta love the classic 60s graphic design!

"A package for quick food might have a disposable electric plug. You just plug it in, the package would heat, you eat the food, and you might even eat the package. With all the wasted paper in the world, it's conceivable that if the package was heated, it would turn into part of the food." This is the kind of future that I've always dreamed of.

Forget the home of the future, where's my flying car!?

Sitting here in my home of the 21st Century watching Walter Cronkite tell me what my home will look like.

Very cool. I remember these shows.

I was fascinated by this show as a child. Of course predicting the future is fraught with error, but much of it came true. Some of the technology seems so dated today. Of course, McMansions weren't envisioned back then. And some of the technology, such as automated cooking, rejected by the public.

The designs for the furniture and the homes are so rooted in the 1960's that they remind me of the scenes from "A Clockwork Orange." At the time, they were unconventional and modern, but today, they look a lot like 1960's - early '70's relics. Not to take anything away from that movie, which is a huge favorite. And the one thing they didn't predict about the future was computer hacking which is evolving so quickly that I read that the computer scans are now outdated.

I love this stuff

I cant believe they got so many things right!, like it looks different, but it does the same things

I saw this episode when it first aired. Many ideas became our reality.

19:12 I feel like professor would have a heart attack if he saw what Boston Dynamics was up to in the year 2022

OMG! That's my family in this show! I haven't seen this since it aired. How do I get a copy???

I wish the 30 hrs a week was true!

Very few accurate predictions of the future. The World s Fair of 1939 had us much more advanced than we became.

My father, who died In 1971, once commented about this program "The Twenty First Century! Hah! I'm glad I won't be around for that.'

That looked like Fred Flintstone's house!

They got the 30 hour work week wrong. You either work 10hrs casual or 60 hrs full time per week instead.

LOL I was born in 1980..and the music at the end of the video reminds me of the Mr. Rogers Neighborhood shows of the 70s and early 80s I grew up with. :)

And that's the way it was, Sunday, March 12, 1967.

Dad works; mom's in charge of the kitchen. Right. Got it.

I watched this program every week as a preteen and found that it exposed me to near-term future that few of my peers and very few of the young people I know today are anticipating. What this program shows that did not develop as expected is even more interesting than what turned out as anticipated. All of the devices shown had discrete, dedicated switches with very limited graphics. The television show Star Trek, made about the same year, offered a view of interactive computing considerably closer to today's technology although touch screens had to wait for Star Trek's 1990's version. I expect that much of our technological vision dating from that time, was seeded in our heads by forward-looking writers. Note that the wooden props Mr Spock called "memory tapes" in that series were recreated as functional 3.5 inch hard, shell floppies in the 80's.

Remember how around the year 2000, the 30 hour work week became the norm? Me neither, LOL.

At 18:57 wouldn’t your downstairs neighbors love waking up to the patter of those not so little feet!

Still waiting for those Robutts

30 hour work week? yes please...

18:57 "...wake up to the patter of little feet. Robit feet." CLUNK! PNKCHNK-CLUNK! PNKCHNK!!

i love watching future view vids of the past because it shows how far we have come OR how far we should have gone... @Brian: I'm pretty sure that we would have flying cars by now if they were (nearly) as cost efficent as ground vehicles. But when I watch people driving i'm thankful as hell that flying cars haven't become reality (yet) :)

*The home of the 21st Century ~ as foretold by Walter Cronkite in 1967*

I wish I could live in that world...

By the time those robots get breakfast made, it will be lunch time.

Most of these predictions are partial hit or misses...But at 12:00 ...this is a home run!!!!!

At 14:16 ...Holy Moley!!! Walter predicted the Corona Virus would have students learning by computer from home?!?!?!?!

In 34 years, I wonder how things will look in 2055

These programs can be fun to watch, but I have to wonder if we don't believe in the future anymore. In the 60's we wondered how the population of the world would survive when it doubled ( which it did ), and how so many people would live, and how they would eat--and yet programs like this one were popular, and envisioned a bright future. Now programs about the future are more likely to be dystopian than utopian, or even realistic.

The 21st Century Brought to you by Union Carbide-“The Discovery Company”

I remember watching this show back 50 years ago in Atlantic City N.J.off the CBS tv affiliate in Philadelphia WCAU Channel 10 Sunday's at 6 p.m.Back then being 11-12 years old I thought the show & info was cool.I wish the entire series was on DVD or uploaded on KZfaq.May favorite was the cars of the 21st Century which now is somewhat eerily accurate.

Robots would help us with our housework - Roomba.

Who could have foreseen that the greatest changes the future would bring would not be technological but social?

This show was part of the regular Sunday lineup of Lassie, Mutual of Omaha's Live Kingdom, and the Disney show.

Flying cars! Where's our flying cars?! They promised us FLYING CARS!!! Ugh...

Computers are going to have to get a whole lot quieter if we're going to have them in our kitchens. And never mind how loud the robots are!

Sure would like to know what happened to that 30 hour work week.

I loved this show!

3:17 the opposite would happen in the 21st century, individual homes would get bigger while families would shrink

Pretty fascinating stuff. And it gets some of it as close to accurate as they could've hoped. The blow-up chair? That could be the Aero Bed. The console and all the computers? Yep, we can control everything like that, but we do it with our phones. This was fun to watch.

This is great! Like Vahmrick60, I was wondering what happened to the 30 hr. work week. :)

Amazing that we have surpassed the predicted living conditions for the 21st century. We now have a robot, Sophia, that is a citizen of Saudi Arabia.

This Is A CBS News Special: The 21st Century. Reporting From The Year 2001 Here Is Walter Cronkite.

Wow!!!!!!!! 😊

I was 13 when this show was on TV, and I remember being fascinated by the possibilities that awaited us. It strikes me that no matter how wrong man has been with previous predictions of the future, we keep thinking we can say what is going to happen. Maybe that helps us make some things happen. I just like to see what futurists have to say, and then wait to be surprised.

"the 21st century"with walter cronkite was obviously a fabulous show,i'm sorry i never watched it!

The majestic closing theme music has haunted me to this day.

Waiting for Rosie the Robot from the Jetsons.

"Americans will only work 30 hours as a rule..Ha Ha Ha" Maybe 30 hours at 3 different jobs just to live in the slums. Thats how it is in NY anyway. One thing they didn't take into account as efficiency increased was human greed. Sure, we could all only be working 30 hours a week and all have moderately luxurious lives, but why? That would only cut into the top 10%s profits and the Governments taxes.

All this future-tech stuff looks like the set of Woody Allen's "Sleeper". About as silly too. Cronkite's somber voice-over makes it even campier.

At 19:00: THAT'S what you consider the "pitter patter" of little feet?!?! Yikes! LOL I love this show. This is positively engrossing.

Being a 1950s sci-fi movie buff I have to chuckle a bit when I see navigation for trips to the moon and planets being plotted using slide rules. But I do have to admit that Dr. Wernher von Braun and his rocket team performed engineering wonders with their slide rules and the mechanical Differential Analyzer before electronic calculators and computers were available.

Need to find 21st century "Shape of Films to Come." by Cronkite

I remember watching this when I was a kid.We do have a 30 hour week with a month vacation now.It's called the Socialism.Working less with less money.The housing on the outside looks like HUD.But the inside of the home is somewhat similar to today.Great video.Thanks for uploading this.

"You might even eat the package... It is conceivable that when the package is heated, it would turn into part of the food."... Yeah, right. It's not as though the package was placed on the grocery shelf for days, where anyone could have touched it.

Architect Philip Johnson, at 2:36, knew exactly what he was talking about and spoke words of wisdom. Although, I don't think he meant that we should all live in super structures either. Dense development, on LOGICAL GRIDS, with parallel parking and sidewalks that go somewhere worth walking to--local pub, bank, post office and corner grocery, for example--all built in the same architectural style of the residences that surround such a compact, largely automobile-free, mixed-use zone. And remember, highways and superhighways should CONNECT cities and towns, NOT PASS THROUGH THEM! Towns and cities are for people, not cars.

Guess the inflatable chair didn't catch on.