Found this searching for the full length version of “1967 film..” but no luck.
Such huge devices!
fiizok on
This is from a TV series called The 21st Century. It’s hard to imagine now but in the 1960s there was a lot of excitement and optimism about what the future would bring.
Kriss3d on
Its amazing how accurate they managed to get a lot of things. Except one thing that think tanks always gets wrong in regards to the future. Culture.
Ive been to lectures and seen documentaries and read articles about what the future would look like from the perspective of aprox. 100 years ago give or take.
What they all get wrong is things like genderroles, and cultural norms.
Its quite facinating.
One in particular I remember was an image with the dad of the household smoking his pipe in the livingroom with big flatscreen tv. The older son returning home from a trip with a helicopter. The mother ofcourse doing the cooking and the teen daughter gossipping with a friend on facetime while laying on the kitchen counter.
Typical classic 1950s style looks all the way.
Thats the one thing that never seems to change according to most the people who speculate in the future.
I also love how computers in almost all visions of how things are going to be are controlled by knobs and buttons rather than programmable interfaces.
Drongo17 on
I love all of these old predictions, it’s a fascinating snapshot of the sentiment of the time.
Dexller on
Back when labor rights still mattered. It’s crazy to look at how utopian they thought the future would be – shorter work weeks, work from home, more time for home, family, and leisure – compared to how much we’re told we can’t have those things now that we *do* live in the future.
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Found this searching for the full length version of “1967 film..” but no luck.
Such huge devices!
This is from a TV series called The 21st Century. It’s hard to imagine now but in the 1960s there was a lot of excitement and optimism about what the future would bring.
Its amazing how accurate they managed to get a lot of things. Except one thing that think tanks always gets wrong in regards to the future. Culture.
Ive been to lectures and seen documentaries and read articles about what the future would look like from the perspective of aprox. 100 years ago give or take.
What they all get wrong is things like genderroles, and cultural norms.
Its quite facinating.
One in particular I remember was an image with the dad of the household smoking his pipe in the livingroom with big flatscreen tv. The older son returning home from a trip with a helicopter. The mother ofcourse doing the cooking and the teen daughter gossipping with a friend on facetime while laying on the kitchen counter.
Typical classic 1950s style looks all the way.
Thats the one thing that never seems to change according to most the people who speculate in the future.
I also love how computers in almost all visions of how things are going to be are controlled by knobs and buttons rather than programmable interfaces.
I love all of these old predictions, it’s a fascinating snapshot of the sentiment of the time.
Back when labor rights still mattered. It’s crazy to look at how utopian they thought the future would be – shorter work weeks, work from home, more time for home, family, and leisure – compared to how much we’re told we can’t have those things now that we *do* live in the future.