The boy at 2:10 was 100% spot on on the idea of people becoming statistics and no longer humans. Exactly what we all are today, just numbers and figures
Right?! HoW DiD hE kNoW?!?! He must have been such an intelligent mind and so very well educated to draw this conclusion at the age of 12!!! It's like noooobody saw it coming, not even 20 y ago, but he saw it in the sixties?!? - Bless his soul
Paralyzed Nigga that's if they're alive, the interviewer or these kids could have died from reasons unknown to us like a car crash or something... if they were blessed enough to live to that age then it's very plausible that the then-kids are alive.
I was thinking the exact same thing! He was incredibly smart to have that kind of mindfulness at that age and time. The UN has a recent report that confidently predicts that Africa will surpass 4 billion people by the end of this century, which is more than 8 times the current population of Europe. The entire global population was around 1.2 billion in 1900 for reference. The majority of global population was equally spread, with slightly higher numbers in Europe, Far East and the Americas in 1900. The population of many developed countries then sat steady. Now the third world has swamped the planet and put itself into eternal poverty and all kind of national and global environmental problems. Our aid to such nations has been wasted, as enable them to feed 2 children and they then have 8. Overpopulation always leads to poor living conditions for the masses, with a few ultra rich at the top getting filthy rich from exploitation. This is why the politicians are opening the door and swamping their populations with third world migrants, they bring the third world economy via overpopulation so that the elite can be filthy rich and the masses see lowering of living standards. The same 1% class that ran the slave trade while treating their own people like common dirt, are the same class doing this to their country now.
@@net-ego just look up battery farming, its where animals are kept in buildings to maximise the ammount of food they can make, its more efficient but really shit for the animals.
I have a couple friends kids who speak like this or better, it tends to be home schooled kids. Its weird they are 7,8,9 and you can have full on conversations with them.
I came here to say this - my kiddos (10 & 12) do better than most articulating and vocalizing ideas, but they aren't nearly as engaged in critical thinking as these youngsters. I wonder what the kids in the video are up to these days...
Okay. These are obviously early teens in private schools with good backgrounds who've been specifically selected for their answers. You can find millions of kids these days that are this articulate, easy.
I'm almost 19 years old and feel dumb compared to these children. The child that guessed that cows and sheeps will be bigger and wont be walking to eat grass, predicted the future. 😨
@@homer88100 No if you remember correctly people were a lot smarter even 30 years ago. Go read the forefather’s writings. Of course the children of earlier eras were derivatively this intelligent. A combination of aspiring to be trashy, a dumpster fire dystopian culture, and a range of neurotoxins have made us all a lot less intelligent. This is no trick. It is our history and how the world has changed
The world population in 1966 was around 3.4 billion people. 50 years later (2016), world population hit 7.5 billion, more than doubling. These kids knew it was coming, but had different ideas on what it would look like.
Well it was common knowledge that population was rising at unprecedented rates at the time. It was like global warming now. Very commonly talked about. However, population growth has been slowing since 1977. And probably won't ever overtake 12B.
Probably not. Not because he didn’t deserve it. Life has a way of being a disappointment when you are encouraged to set your standards and goals high, only to have reality come and crash them down. There are times when I think of all the marvelous things I wanted to do, and tried hard to bring into fruition, and then failed, and I wish I had never had such dreams to begin with. I wish people had been more honest with me about how indescribably cruel this world can be.
It is how well educated English people speak. I am so perplexed as to why there is such a focus on the post abut how the children speak? To me it is normal.
Tell schools to implement that change. Lord knows they are doing the bare minimum to educate the future generations. I'm in high school right now and I can say with certainty that since the 3rd grade, I have not learned any important skills at school.
@@illusionfaderr5394 People in general were better spoken. Working class as well. They may have different linguistics but most people were much more knowledgeable about a broad range of subjects and took a pride in that.
@@raesmith2164 How about certain groups of people focus on changing their culture to be more oriented towards education? I think that will be a better start.
kristian r they are not smart they're afraid. Myself and children of today looked forward to the future and we're excited about the things that were to come these children are nothing but afraid
Sadly, every single child had a pretty accurate prediction. Sameness, oceans rise, over-population, computer control, weather changes, dense, boring housing, people treated as statistics, ongoing war, and we're still on edge over nuclear destruction.
Why do people always see just the bad things? I think people are smart enough not to use nuclear shit anymore cuz that wouldn’t be good for anybody. We have invented cures and great technology, inventions are made all the time and the problems we have are being solved, i think this is pretty great compared to past. 🤔
@@PurblePlacecomm2 no we haven't dipshite. All of your global warming end of the world in 5 years bullshit is getting old now. You green nutters have been saying since the 1980s. Oh look, nothings happened. Wanna fix climate change forever? Remove the fossil fuel power plants, and replace them with nuclear plants. There you go. Practically zero global warming. Oh wait, what's that? The world is going to get warmer anyways because of earths changing tilt? OOOPSIES
@@gorgono1 That can be true but not having enough food or medical care for your family is awful also. Greed fuels factories that run more cheaply while no one cares to figure out what to do about the negative impacts.
i'd like to live in a time like that, so classy, have manners, no technology, curious, not bombarded by distractions. I was born way after that but i'd love to live in that time
Wow these kids are so brilliant and articulate their words so well. These types of old interviews are fascinating to me to see how real people acted, thought, and looked back then especially their views about the future or other more advanced scientific topics. They were pretty accurate too and spoke about things most people speak of today. Goes to show that humans are aware of their own demise and even after all this time.. we’re still falling.
Yes it's absolutely fascinating to listen to, my grandmother is currently 97 years old, born 1925. Yesterday i spent all day with her talking about all of the changes she has seen in her long life. She remembers seeing a television for the first time and being scared of it. Only one person in the whole town had managed to get one and every person in that town would go over to that persons house just to see it. The entire house full of people, even the street was filled with crowds of people trying to look through the window to get a glimpse of the television.
The groups of kids eating tide pods (majority of them doing it for attention) is much smaller than the fraction of mindless idiots who believe the Earth is flat. Media tends to exaggerate these things.
@@ZeloticMemes it will be boring soon because AI will surpass us and do everything we do but much better. we are seeing the inklings of it now with chatGPT and image generators like midjourney but it wont stop, it will just increase, exponentially until even the most advanced jobs are done by AI. thats what they somehow knew was coming. kids have good instincts.
Tell me about it. I'm surprised kids were such downers back then, but I guess the fear of nuclear war doesn't do wonders to one's mind. That was mere 4 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The real takeaway here is that he was so brilliant, I wholeheartedly believed him. Wherever he is in life now, hope he had an amazing career - that’s one extremely bright child.
The fact that we have to explain to you that a 9yo ^isnt^ a biologist is why their predictions were totally right...you’re an idiot just as predicted 😂
Hand-selected brilliant kids interviewed for a TV show.,..and many of the opinions/predictions appear to be things they were fed by teachers, or by people who prepped them for the interview.. You can tell from their comments they were all "taught from the same textbook," so to speak. This was the era of the fear of the "population bomb," for example, so that's a dominant theme they all refer to.
Kids today look up to piles of trash of knocked over dumpsters. “Of that’s the cool way to be!” No my dear child, that’s absolutely an embarrassment and your ancestors weep from the heavens.
LMAO they were right? 75% of them said the world would end before 2000, and wars are almost non existant nowadays, only small wars that kill a few thousands compared to a few dozen millions
@@ZeloticMemes None of them said the world would end. Wars aren't nonexistent either, countries just refer to them as "peace keeping oeprations". The lower mortality rate is just due to medicine.
@@ethanrosenberger8883 the boy in 0:40 said that a nuclear bomb would reach the center of the earth and melt the whole world. he even went as far as saying that it would explode like a supernova the next kid said said that someone would take control of the bombs and blow the whole world up. the next kid said something similar did you watch the video?
"These kids are so smart!" Yes, kids from affluent families sending them to private schools tend to be more education than kids who go to public school.
Is that still an argument, because the internet could provide all the education material they could dream off.. Information data spreads faster today, as well.
Morph Verse we are talking about the kids from the 60s or whatever time these are from. And no, it would not be an argument. I didn’t realize kids with out Internet should in the same level as kids with
@@Zoza15 a little late but internet is not that cheap for every one also good luck getting a job saying oh yeah spent 3 hours on Google learning accounting no actual business will hire you
It's a shame that you would think the internet is sufficient for knowledge and wisdom, firstly the internet accessible to us is literally the tip on a large iceberg, secondly the internet still remains vulnerable to inaccuracy and hackers, and if you do read any type of literature, you would realise they offer far more than just the information you could receive on the internet
This was part of an episode of Tomorrow's World, which was a British television series about contemporary developments in science and technology. This episode was originally broadcast on December 28, 1966.
🦁 It seems like kids 60 years ago had a clearer perspective and much a more articulate way of expressing their feelings. What happened? What did they put into us to dumb us down? 😢
Because flying cars are a dumb idea. We could literally have superintelligent AI, colonies in other star systems, and subatomic engineering and we'd still not bother with flying cars.
I’d love to see a retrospective video of these kids today. See what their reactions are to their predictions and if they still think they’ll happen at a later point in the future
These are the children from a television show called “Seven Up”. Every seven years another episode would be revealed with the children seven years older. They were asked questions on life, love and the meaning of everything. It documented their growth and how they changed throughout the years. Some prospered while others came upon tragedies and hard times. It would be fascinating to know what happened to all of them.
We had the same show in USSR but the first episode was filmed in 1990 so it kept being filmed in post soviet countries. It's been only 4 episodes until these kids got 28 y.o
Actually, I don’t think this is from Seven Up, which featured interviews with kids from varying backgrounds. These kids are from something similar, but the uniformity of the accents and clothing makes me think they’ve all come from the same school.
This isn't from 7 Up. It's similar but 7 Up used children from diverse social groups and from different parts of the UK. The 7 Up children were a year younger than me I think, which would make them 67/68 now. Please correct me if I'm wrong!
Maybe not them but people working with computers had a pretty good idea about the potential of the computers and had some predictions about a some kind of connection throughout all of them
The one kid..."we will be statistics and that animals will no longer graze but be put together in large houses..." was a true visionary. He was right....
