People in the 80s Making Fun of Predictions From The 60s 

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So, where are your predictions for 2043?

I mean you can get a radio in your phone it's not that hard. Though it'd just be easier and simpler to do the Spotify or Pandora or just RU-vid.

Yeah that was the best prediction but they weren't ambitious enough. When you pair it with a phone we don't just have radio earings. You can choose from nearly any song or album ever made, books that talk to you and actually anyone can make their own radio show now (podcasts) that you can listen to whenever you want, not to mention talking with friends and family. It would've blown their minds

@@cathalmp now I’m imagining a plummy 60s voiceover saying “its a portable telephone, personal phonograph, radio, intercom to your (virtual) assistant, and more. Technology is amazing isn’t it?”

I have had headsets with radio on actually, they exiqted briefly and never caught on really

Yeah comon Husk, do us proud.

@DoubleNN Did you read the description? The man shed some light on that possibility being limited.

@@osvaldolemus653 I want to know about smart rats

I second this idea

@@osvaldolemus653i think you overestimate the amount of people who would check the description without being promoted by someone else

Absolutely!

especially if they are real now

I think that's what's facinating about predictions from the past, they were often wrong but not the same way and realizing what was a completely ridiculous idea vs what wasn't even scratching the surface of the way things actually turned out is really cool

I think the biosensor was too optimistic. It seems possible, but it would take some serious tech to create an automated lab to detect any possible ailment, shrink it to be comfortable under the tongue, prevent it from being destroyed or giving off any taste, and power it by biological magic.

@@JB52520 Theranos has entered the chat 💀

they never thought corporate management and bureaucracy would not be something people deal with 4 hours a day. look at the boomers now. They STILL think life primarily revolved around powerpoints, reports and getting various documents signed. That was what they did. That was the job that slowly 70% of western people came to have. Lol, that's why the economy declined.

portable printers did happen though they are used in restaurants to print receipts... well they were like 6 years ago

weve been doing this since language evolved because that led to oral histories. so its been a human tradition for at least 100k years to make fun of old predictions

We did it. We made a prediction that will be correct!

Bro I see you in the Shadiversity discord all the time, what are the chances of seeing your comment here lmao.

Earbuds are really close espacly to Apple fans who think they go with thusend dollar suits.

I think headphones that connected to the radio was around since the 80s or earlier though, ive seen them.

@@ThePaperKhan Yeah those definitely existed. But I mean headphones that have a built in radio in them. So no need to connect them to anything. Which I think is what's being depicted in that 60s video.

They definitely had them in 2007. I remember McDonalds had a Spy Kids promotion that for like $15 you could get a wearable FM radio

true. electronic data is annoyingly ephemeral for certain use cases

Yeah, electronic data is vulnerable to breaches of any software that it relies on, which can happen from anywhere on Earth with next-to-zero evidence left behind. To get papers from an office, they have to _get into_ the office, (hopefully) bypass some security measures, copy/take pictures of the files, and leave without leaving any evidence. Is that doable for entities that really want to do so? Sure. Is it harder to do? Yeah. They can try guessing a password a million times, but not breaking into an office a million times.

If I need to read plans or drawings, I have to print it out

@@bane2201 That's why you're advised to have long passwords with different character types. They can go ahead and guess a million times when the number of possibilities for a 16 character password is so large it would take like a billion years of computer speed guessing to get it right. Far easier for them to just ask to be let in under false pretenses.

Seriously, just WRITE DOWN YOUR PASSWORDS.

Smell-o-vision is one of those things that sounds better than it would be in reality. If it really existed it would suck!

If I recall correctly, they're trying to make it a thing again because they don't have much imagination. It's enough I already saw an outdoor tv when getting myself a new computer to replace my old one

@@randomtinypotatocriedOmg, really!? How the hell would that even work, lol?

There has been some attempts to make stuff like this for VR, but most of it seems to be "in development" or just really obscure, unpopular (and unsupported). I'd like to write more, but youtube keeps deleting my comments.

@@MatthewTheWanderer Electrically melted tiny containers of scented wax. You can begin to see why it doesn't have much traction.

The charliecard website probably hasnt been updated since 2007 lol

I totally forgot about those. I remember like half the time it never wanted to work for me

@@Dunmerdog def lol

Even as early as 2000, schools in the UK were using them as payment cards for cafeterias (can't steal a kid's lunch money if it's on a card with their name written on it). And honestly, I'd rather carry a dozen smartcards than have to install a dozen different godawful mobile apps to access basic services.

@@Dunmerdog Just saw this comment. you're probably right!

I was thinking of something similar, but for the present. In the US, some public events (like concerts) require clear purses and bags so security can see there isn't a gun in anyone's bag.

​@@gabrielhermesson9926where do you get clear Sanrio purses?

If there is, I hope there's something fun in there. Not just A.I and Cloud Computing.

@@ericsparrow6286 In 2050, cloud computed AI will have fun (without you).

Wireless charging becomes so normal it’s regulated as a national utility. Self driving cars are just 2 more years away still. People wear phones like fanny packs and control them with their mind. Wearable tech includes sexual enhancing devices. AI disinfo is so common local news makes a comeback from Facebook neighborhood groups. They eventually become AI disinfo. VR gaming is extremely immersive but the infrastructure behind it requires an arcade business to provide it. Everyone works physical labor jobs because AI replaced expensive office workers in most professions. Min wage is still cheaper than building a robot to flip a hamburger. Air travel is dead after the events of 2028. Everyone travels by supersonic ekranoplane or rail. Thermonuclear warheads are discovered to be a very safe and reliable power source. It’s not our idea of a fusion reactor, but it just works. AI is so good at predictive marketing that you don’t even notice the ads, you already pay for everything you want. Fallout 3 soon.

They make predictions about the future all the time, just only about the climate. And you will be surprised to learn that previous predictions have been about as accurate as portable printers

Most people just accepted that there won't be any real radical advancement in a lifetime, The only major advancement that changed the world in the last 20 years is probably the smartphone

Not if one has transparent pockets.

Where's his check?

Hello ground news any interesting ground events happening lately

Do you have any news about the ground?

Erm yes hello ground news, how's the ground?

How's the weather down there?

Type 1 diabetic here and the Minimed was the first diabetic implant. It came out just before the year 2000. There were no diabetic monitors in the 80s.

exactly @@hicknopunk

I only remember the fingerprint scanner being widely implemented on certain cars as a secondary unlock feature, but I don't actually remember when they did that. It doesn't look like they kept it a thing for very long.

Also, mag stripe cards were “smart cards” in the 80s (much like AI it’s a moving target), so it didn’t need extra chips to “count”. Definitely the average credit card of 1999 (or a MetroCard) would’ve qualified as a “smart card” for the purposes of that prediction.

Funny how picture phones went from "lol who would want that, what if you're half undressed?" to "hey Skype me"

probably might be even better than the current way in terms of ecofriendlyness. Paper degrades quickly, and wastes a lot less resources in the manufacturing and distribution.

I want to say you can use cryptography to make sure they don't get your actual fingerprints but I'm not sure if that actually works with fingerprints or anything else that needs to be fuzzy matched, or just with passwords that need to be matched exactly...

There needs to be a rule or something though. If it's possible to pirate music using an emerging technology, then that's what it will be primarily used for. Applies to radio, cassette tapes, the Internet, Bittorrent...

Apparently it's already a requirement for backpacks and bags in some schools in the _current_ dystopian USA, given they're still generally heavily armed, there's a lot of deep resentment, zero-sum competitiveness, and conspiratorial thinking stoked between working-class citizens to keep them distracted from the corporations and politicians picking their collective pockets, they still don't have proper physical health care, much less mental health care and the lack of stigma required to actually make use of it, and going violently postal (even without a clear strategic target) to "make someone pay" is still seen as a common and virtuous way to lash out against perceived injustice. Grim. Though not pockets specifically yet, as far as I know.

We're tired of liberating folks. Can someone please liberate us?

Already is in some schools, for bags not pants/shirts though

Outside of techbros, it does look like most predictions nowadays are about doom and gloom lol

@timelessdays that's what sucks, because we can make a lot of progress

"Steal my wallet? From my transparent pockets?" I love when videos sneakily self reference

There are flying cars

Tomorrow's World was taken off the air in 2003. Unfortunately they never made it to 2007. It was such a good show as well.

@@gcooper642dang

I feel like people have ceased wanting to know, anymore. Don't know if that's because of doomsayers, or because all the most famous predictions are the bad ones that never happened.

I was wondering the same