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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In0ZxpzetMk Welcome, to THE FUTURE here is a video made by Philco-Ford in 1967, explaining what 1999 would look like. They got some things right, and some wrong. mostly it was how the things would be. Watch Jr. do his homework electronically Mr. Everyman husband work on the Mars colonisation project or Housewife make lunch! instantly! (she was told to make a cheeseburger with fries and a cold beer, but makes "cold roast beef" wtf??) its a fun video of retro futurism, take a look, and post your take on THE FUTURE!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW-4LU79qbU
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Sep 29, 2016 02:13
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housewife can shop online! but, only the husband can approve and pay at his console. she better not spend all the money on shoes!! haha!
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Sep 29, 2016 02:13
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LBJ's Great Society turned out pretty good
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Sep 29, 2016 02:19
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-7v_6uGlWQ
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Sep 29, 2016 02:23
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lol now they're watching a puerto rican play drums.
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Sep 29, 2016 02:23
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I'll watch right after Law and Order SVU is over, Joe Biden is guest starring tonight.
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Sep 29, 2016 02:24
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H. G. Wells in 1936 thought the next century would look like this. Space travel was foreseen to involve being shot out of a big rear end gun so things aren't as rad as they thought they'd be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atwfWEKz00U
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Sep 29, 2016 02:25
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Here's another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avHo0-qU8xo From the AT&T Archives (filled with great stuff imo) its "Seeing the Digital Future (1961)" kindermord posted:H. G. Wells in 1936 thought the next century would look like this. Space travel was foreseen to involve being shot out of a big rear end gun so things aren't as rad as they thought they'd be. I'll definitely watch this.
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Sep 29, 2016 02:28
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DATA PHONE! MACHINE TALKING TO OTHER MACHINES! 
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Sep 29, 2016 02:33
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Please have the DATA PHONE mail me some Hustler magazines please.
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Sep 29, 2016 02:40
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Hector Beerlioz posted:Please have the DATA PHONE mail me some Hustler magazines please. OK. i need to get my punch cards in order first.
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Sep 29, 2016 02:45
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I really dig mid century modern furniture.
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Sep 29, 2016 02:58
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kindermord posted:H. G. Wells in 1936 thought the next century would look like this. Space travel was foreseen to involve being shot out of a big rear end gun so things aren't as rad as they thought they'd be. This is legit really cool, the special effects are super advanced for 1936. also engineered zombies
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Sep 29, 2016 03:01
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criscodisco posted:I'll watch right after Law and Order SVU is over, Joe Biden is guest starring tonight. Obviously.
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Sep 29, 2016 03:06
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most of these "tomorrowland" things get like 90% right. except cell phones, no one predicted cell phones for some reason. these old AT&T ads are almost entirely correct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZb0avfQme8
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Sep 29, 2016 03:25
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Rutibex posted:most of these "tomorrowland" things get like 90% right. except cell phones, no one predicted cell phones for some reason. these old AT&T ads are almost entirely correct: Whoa. Nice. I feel like at&t didn't want to admit that their thousands of phone booths and miles of copper wire would become obsolete so quickly to fiber and wireless broadband
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Sep 29, 2016 04:22
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmzpdd4pWvM&t=78s
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Sep 30, 2016 01:50
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shoophobo posted:Here's another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avHo0-qU8xo
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Rutibex posted:most of these "tomorrowland" things get like 90% right. except cell phones, no one predicted cell phones for some reason. these old AT&T ads are almost entirely correct: Yeah, the 1993 AT&T ads were amazing for how closely they predicted Skype, GoogleBooks, online education, having your personal data electronically held in an ID card, etc. Really the single most wrong guess is that people would be skyping home to check on their kid... from a phone booth. Aside from that really close, and partially correct for how they anticipated being able to just drive through a marked lane and your car would pay for the toll (correct) but in their version you have to pull out your credit card and swipe it through your dashboard while still driving at 60mph.
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Oct 2, 2016 02:25
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shoophobo posted:Whoa. Nice. loving drat
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Oct 2, 2016 02:49
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Don't forget, AT&T WAS telecommunications. They patented the basis of fiber optic in the 1890s and helped launch the first intercontinental communications satellite in the 60s. Cross oceanic phone communication still wasn't possible without fiber optic in the 70s despite us fuckin laying down a telegram cable between Britain and USA in 1850something
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Oct 2, 2016 02:52
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Better Fred Than Dead posted:Don't forget, AT&T WAS telecommunications. But, gently caress corporations, amirite millennials? 
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Oct 2, 2016 02:57
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I wish my apartment was made of modular hexagons, I could really use a weight room/medical bay
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Oct 2, 2016 03:40
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VendaGoat posted:But, gently caress corporations, amirite millennials? Well we broke them up and still got cell phones and internet soo
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VendaGoat posted:But, gently caress corporations, amirite millennials? Even Marx said you must go through the industrialization of Capitalism to reach Communism so ?
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Oct 2, 2016 05:56
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:Even Marx said you must go through the industrialization of Capitalism to reach Communism so ? Get me a loving coffee and shut up.
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Oct 2, 2016 06:00
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VendaGoat posted:But, gently caress corporations, amirite millennials? Imagine the first trans Atlantic message between the president and the queen, that didn't take ten days but 16 hours Monumental. Historic. Until some fuckin moron (reputately british) hosed the cable up by over charging it. You see, American engineers believed the best method of maintaining the connection was low voltage that checked for spikes. Some chav disagreed and aimed to keep high voltage on the wire until the cable broke down in less than a month. The first successful trans Atlantic cable took three attempts to lay down. It kept breaking and scrubbing 12-15 day voyages. The cable was fuckin insulated with tar. After the chav ruined the cable in like 1864, it took loving 12 years for the company that laid it to get funding to do it again. To do it right. They laid shorter cables in the Mediterranean and stuff and figured out the specific tar / iron mixe to make it last longer. loving 12 years!!!
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Oct 2, 2016 06:07
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Now we can just launch satellites into earth orbit with the lowest bidding private company, and it takes like a year to work everything out and then explode the ship on the launch pad.
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Oct 2, 2016 06:09
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Yeah, the 1993 AT&T ads were amazing for how closely they predicted Skype, GoogleBooks, online education, having your personal data electronically held in an ID card, etc. i like the part where they figured out wireless internet, but the best thing they could think to do with it was send a FAX from the beach. also the lovely 90s style ipad. they didnt come up with that one their own though, that was star trek TNG
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Better Fred Than Dead posted:Imagine the first trans Atlantic message between the president and the queen, that didn't take ten days but 16 hours im trans atlantic
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Oct 2, 2016 07:56
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I can forgive them not figuring out that the future would actually be a technological hell of endless meme shitposting and that the generation responsible for this video would eventually horde all wealth unto themselves and begin starving the planet, I mean I can get that they didn't think their Logans-run sense of aesthetic would go out of fashion~ But none of them figured out that somebody would attach a wire to a loving typewriter and create a keyboard, huh? Computers are still dumb as gently caress mind you, every smartphone comes with 'Voice Recognition' on par with a mentally disabled elderly grandparent. I'm sure the people in 1967 wouldn't be impressed if you asked a computer a simple question like 'Nearest Coffee Shop', and the computer went 'Yes, searching for nearest poopy plops, there are 24 poopy plops in a 10 mile radius.' Ape Fist fucked around with this message at 08:05 on Oct 2, 2016 |
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Oct 2, 2016 08:01
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Ape Fist posted:
you're holding it wrong
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Ape Fist posted:I can forgive them not figuring out that the future would actually be a technological hell of endless meme shitposting and that the generation responsible for this video would eventually horde all wealth unto themselves and begin starving the planet, I mean I can get that they didn't think their Logans-run sense of aesthetic would go out of fashion~ I imagine if they had any idea, nuclear war would have been a real thing.
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we are not colonizing mars, elon musk is a horrible person, none of you will ever know what it is like to be in space (horribly boring and inconvenient)
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Oct 2, 2016 11:04
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Ape Fist posted:Computers are still dumb as gently caress mind you, every smartphone comes with 'Voice Recognition' on par with a mentally disabled elderly grandparent. I'm sure the people in 1967 wouldn't be impressed if you asked a computer a simple question like 'Nearest Coffee Shop', and the computer went 'Yes, searching for nearest poopy plops, there are 24 poopy plops in a 10 mile radius.' Dial-a-Dog posted:Now we can just launch satellites into earth orbit with the lowest bidding private company, and it takes like a year to work everything out and then explode the ship on the launch pad. 
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Oct 2, 2016 11:37
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"A society rich in leisure and taken-for-granted comfort" Nailed it.
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Oct 2, 2016 12:42
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Warm und Fuzzy posted:"A society rich in leisure and taken-for-granted comfort" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SY1gEgjtc4
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Oct 2, 2016 12:43
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laffo the future family don't even despise each other and themselves
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It's 1999, and a pill exists that allows full grown men to make love to each other. It's 1999, and as simple as using a typewriter, your goodly wife can find a black man and summon him to her bed from across town. It's 1999 and society dresses like the Solid Gold dancers.
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