Halas and Batchelor - Automania 2000 

You can see allegories in this.

And now it's being reversed again to bigger and better SUV's, luxury trucks and minivans!

They did indeed

​@@NetworkDistributing Quite a reminder of what could happen, especially with the rise of AI.

Oooooh, maybe!

This isn’t true at all. People aren’t living in cars stacked up to the skies,nor are helicopters delivering drivers alcohol and we aren’t eating food pills and don’t have cars that reproduce themselves. It’s just a very imaginative cartoon satirizing mass consumerism,social status through materialism,and overpopulation.

what were the 90s like?

Haven't seen this since early 1967 !

I remember watching this in primary school and that must’ve been around 2009-2011 since I remember it!

It's always a little odd when they don't credit for narration sometimes (an earlier Halas & Batchelor short "The History of Cinema" would credit Maurice Denham for commentary).

Christopher Sobieniak i think Maurice would have been a 'name' - wasn't he in Much Binding in the Marsh? Ed was just a jobbing actor with an American accent and not worthy of credit perhaps. He had a good voice and did a fair bit of v/o work, even The Two Ronnies at least once!

Yes, that's correct. I'm sure that was the reason.

It is him, I came here looking for this because of that

@@ChristopherSobieniak he sounds like billy west for some reason

It’s essentially a criticism/satire on consumerism

@@fredrogers4717 And a bit of a concern for the future as well (assuming where we go with A.I. for instance).

Materialism. Everyone wants more than they have we have become a culture of consumers that does nothing but buy stuff just to have stuff.

??? The point of the short is that society does things without examining the results of their actions. Scientists and big business sit in literal ivory towers designing items without thinking for themselves (computer does the work) and people down below buy and do things without thinking about the greater consequences outside themselves. Instead of cleaning up the cars and solving the issue, they refuse to change their worldview and instead put more cars on top of the pile. Consumerism/materialism is a tangential point.