Retrofuturism: The Future We Dreamt Of | Sleepcore Stream 

Yogi Berra was right: "The future ain't what it used to be."

Yes, yes, we all go to school in rocket ships now 😆

1940s: "In the future all cars will be like airplanes!" 2020s: "In the future all cars will be cellphones with wheels that track your every move and sell all your data!"

When I was a kid, I watched Star Trek with my Dad who was a futurist of sort. He always predicted we would have all the stuff we saw in the movies within a few years. I gave him an Apple Watch two years ago but he told me still prefers the old mechanical watches of his time. Futurism is great for young men; old men prefer the past.

They forgot to mention how everyone in the future has a wireless phone glued to their head and we all hate each other. 😃

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The fact that this vid has less than 1,000 views is criminal, honestly. Like Eric said earlier, it's incredible to see the predictions that the past made of the future. At the exact same time, that ties into how WE believe the futre will go. The reason these productions didn't predict social media and the like is because, with their society, it was bear impossible to conceptualize a whole new method of communication that could almost redefine the way our relationships with others _function._ It's like trying to think of a new color. One can only wonder what will happen in our future, how much will be inaccurate in our hypotheses. To what level will technology advance? How will the quality of our broadcasting systems improve, if at all? If we've already got cameras so realistic we can see the pores, amazing quality sound systems, even VR equipment, it can be hard to imagine how any of these ideas can be revolutionized to add on to what we have now. I love retrofuturism. It's a study of human prediction, and while it teaches about the thought processes of yesteryear, it helps us to develop questions about our culture today, and what kind of future we may be creating now. I also just want to say that I love the concept of making a video for the sleepy vibes of late-night television! I think I'll be falling asleep to this video later tonight~

I remember how pissed off I was as a teenager when my dad wouldn't buy me a rocketship either.

It's so interesting to see these videos I think... the way a generation imagines the future... it's says so much about them. So much about what they thought about , their values as well as their expectations of technology. I mean, it's funny that in all these TV shows, and movies and all those concept videos... Most of them didn't imagine things like social media, they sort of imagine this future were we had amazing technology, like in the Jetsons: they pretty much had the technology of the internet, but... nonetheless... they didn't had like social media, they didn't had youtubers, they had TV. So, it's pretty interesting to watch this and seeing a version of the future that never quite happen

Ahh, good ol days... I wish I could experience it. These days only old fallout games give a similar world feel. This video should get more views.

42:18 "Asbestos! The Magic Mineral!" XD

The optimism of the past haunts me to this day. Where did we go so wrong.

I turned 8 years old in 1980 so I spent most of my childhood in the 80s. Tech started booming and I remember we kids would sit around and talk about how cool it would be to be able to see each other on screens when we called each other on the rotary dial phones...😂😂

POV: It’s 2am. You struggling to fall asleep. You’re scrolling through recommended on RU-vid, and you come across this gem. You learn about the expectation of society in the 40s and 50s. While at the same time feel a nostalgic warmness, that induces relaxation. The one-two punch of the century. Good night all. - Yesterday’s tomorrow

Nothing ages faster than our vision of the future.

Love these stuffs. The american/soviet/japanese/nazi retro-futurism featuring industrial diesel punks, post ww2, post cold war type of stuffs. This is my type of porn!

Retro Furturism is just so fascinating! Its actually inspiring something in the world of a project I am making.

What happened to futurism? Nobody seems to be interested in making this kind of thing anymore, silly as this one was. Maybe we're not so optimistic anymore.

Well, they got one thing right about the future, commercials.

Who in their right mind would complain about too much steak? You can never have too much 🥩.

No pandemics or murder hornets in their future just sunshine and lolipops.

They would be so disappointed if they saw the actual "future".

Unfortunately the future isn´t what it used to be.

Retro-futuristic/ atomic age is my favorite theme. I would love to have my house be like those old commercials of prototype kitchen ideas and home ideas that never came to be. Some of that stuff was so dope. A self sufficient cross between fallout and the LOST bunker is my dream home.

it's 2020 and we still don't have bloody flying cars. We just have Xbox's and flat screen TV's.

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Meantime in my 1890's neighborhood, we still live like the 1940's. These people would be sorely disappointed except by our TV's, phones, and dryers.

A super rocket plane to fly to school in ! Gee willikers!

"We can't afford a rocket ship!" Yes, what teenager in 1960 didn't hear that disappointing refrain? It was the great bane of our generation that all we had was a lousy helicopter.

In the future some people will chose to stop using electricity and go "off grid". People will be fascinated with the ancient ways while others ask where is my flying car.

Spit it out, Electro-Man. I ain't got all day.

Well. This was, in a word, fascinating. I realize parts of it were designed to be hokey, but many times those parts missed the mark in that respect. This vid was something I idly clicked on while waiting for NASA to screen the Perseverance landing, which was successful. (YEAH!) The contrast was stunning; in fact, the reality blew the predictions away! But I have a beef: the audio. The people who mixed this evidently decided to make the soundtrack more "authentic" by adding a ton of wow to it; this doesn't do much to the narration but it makes the music sound terrible. This was noticeable throughout the entire video, and especially during the 1939 World's Fair segment. I'm old - 73 - and I happen to be familiar with the sound equipment used to produce soundtracks in the 30s 40s, 50s and 60s, since my career has involved the servicing/restoration of such equipment. Much of this gear was built by Western Electric, and the specs on it were astonishingly good - and still are - even by today's standards. Playback gear - discs, magnetic tape, movie projectors (which used optical soundtracks) would often produce a bit of wow until they mechanically stabilized after two or three minutes of warmup time and delivered near-flawless performance after that. It is simply not natural to hear huge amounts of wow throughout an entire hour-long production - this has been ADDED to provide "authenticity," to give a "vintage" flavor/sound to the video, much the way film scratches and frame skips are artificially added to otherwise excellent videos to make them look "old" or "authentic." "Wow," for those unfamiliar with the term, is a mechanical flaw in audio playback equipment which causes a cyclic pitch variation in the soundtrack. Early 33rpm "long playing" discs often exhibited this due to the center hole being punched off-center during production, which caused the groove speed to slow down and speed up throughout the entire playback process. This made the pitch of the music rise and fall periodically, and it's infuriating. A touch of this might be artificially added in a suggestive fashion to provide a little old-timey ambience, but to use this effect for an entire one-hour production is unconscionable. It's something an amateur would do, and it spoiled an otherwise excellent video. If by chance the producer *didn't* add this effect, he was certainly aware of it and should've applied a software solution to remove it. As a piece of trivia, I'll add this: At 45:45 of the vid during the "Futurama" segment, we hear a rather rare instrument - a Hammond Novachord. This was one of the earliest (1930s) polyphonic subtractive synthesizers, and it had 160+ vacuum tubes, thousands of capacitors and resistors, and it weighed over 500 pounds. It was designed/built by Laurens W Hammond, the inventor of the Hammond B-3 organ, the spring reverb unit, and the hysteresis synchronous motor, which made electric clocks possible.

It's kind of amazing that they got quite a few things right.

Yeah I remember books I had from the 60s saying in 2000 we'll have bubbled cities with flying cars & robots LOL. I was a child of the 80s myself. Those were the days. Wish I were a kid again. Adult life is too hard ;p That time capsule is pretty cool. Never saw one on the news during my current day though think similar things were sent on a space satellite. So.. uh.. are people going to remember to open it in 6940 or what have you? LOL

We need to bring back this enthusiasm

Now Johnny I told you before......we can't afford a rocket ship!

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wow. this is amazing. some of this technology is better than what we actually have. people had big dreams back then. now we are so focused on daily survival we dont dream anymore

In fifty years from now our current ideas about the future will seem like a joke too.

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I would have absolutely LOVED to visit something like the 1939 Worlds Fair today. Visiting displays that would have technology and scientific achievements that would seem so advanced and mind blowing as teleportation or a fully sentient synthetic cyborg or something on that level might be for us today. This was the time when technology was advancing so fast and the future was full of such limitless possibilities. Flying cars in 50 years, living on a base on the moon or Mars in a mere 70 years.

Didn't like the world of tomorrow segment as much as the atom bomb segment. Amazing. Thumbs up, keep those old documentaries coming.

it's kind of crazy how our vision of the future has changed so much.

They predicted "undesirable slum areas" in the future, and they nailed it. 45:57

People don't look at the future anymore...they don't believe there is going to be one

Now I think I'd prefer to go back to 1944 technology.

The vid is really linked to consumer culture, notice how city is high above ground level probably because of segregation from garbage dump people and contamination.

8:31 He was gonna backhand his kid just for saying he wanted to watch something else. 😂

We are indeed a curiously naive delusional species. Edit: Interesting to consider how dark our own visions of the future are now, though, compared to back then. Post-apocalyptic, dystopian, etc.

22:42 Almost 3d printing concept. Even it is not yet mainstream, printing houses is a reality now.

God if those people back then could see the hypercars we make today, I wonder what their reaction would be.

30:36 This also ended up becoming a pop culture icon of the 1980s and it’s still a popular concept today within the 1980s nostalgia community! Also the thumbnail image was also used in the game Portal Stories: MEL for a framed painting in the Aperture Science facility lobby at the beginning of the game in the year 1952 so it’s possibly a genuine futuristic painting from the 1950s or 1960s that was just licensed out to the game developers to be used in the game! :)

Oh yeah, I'm not gonna lie, a ten hour version of this would be awesome. This type of content though, old school futuristic stuff.

Did the makers of the Jetsons cartoon get their ideas from here or vise versa? Not sure which came first, this or the Jetsons cartoon lol

I wish we are more optimistic about our future like these people in the 50s. What a feeling it must have been....

It's like Rocky and Bullwinkle and the Jetsons had an "American Dream" love child. I'm riveted and charmed and horrified at us. :)

Man I'd settle for the damn hydraulic jack, self contained under the car for tire changes

The future we dreamt: "Space. The final frontier" The Future we got: "tHE eaRTH iS fLaT!!!!!!"

Just found this video today! Sleepcore? Nah, I’m gonna watch all of these religiously! I love retrofuturism!

Art deco worlds fair 1930s cool

The reversoscope didn't bombard them with stupid ads. It must before Google bought them.

I used to have a Chevy Cavalier, it was so bad, if you drove it off a cliff, you’d still have to get out and push!

what happen with the timecapsuel at 28:40 ?

Regardless of what they planed or hoped for poverty, homeless and hunger are still with us and getting worse.

They imagined all the things they would try to do tomorrow. Today, we're more concerned with holding each other back.

It's 2021, and no one is using the phrase "it's the ding-dong truth".. That's the real crime which i intend to change! And THAT'S the ding dong truth!!!

1:30 this joke was probably so funny at the time. I remember a Futurama episode where fry locks himself in his room listening to “classical music” all day long, as you can hear “I like big butts and I can not lie” blasting from behind his room’s door. Classical music to the year 3000

Ha ha!! Who does that robot Electro remind you of...?? "I AM A SMART FELLOW, AS I HAVE A VERY FINE BRAIN." (20:28). Hhmmmmm....

so, the father is 70, the mother 28 and the son, 18 ???

Kids, being your folks down to the General Motors factory this weekend! We're showing off our newest invention, the fusion reactor! Revolutionary, and safe! Go on kids, put your hands in the fusion! Mom and Dad will love it!

This is really cool man! Congrats. It's not always easy to find something worthwhile on RU-vid or the internet, but this is golden. Great concept. I need to get RU-vid on my TV and let this run in the background. I want to watch it all too, but it would be awesome background noise too. The part about the atom bomb around 13 min left reminds me of old Tom and Jerry or Looney Tunes where they have a piece that has no characters we know in it. There was an episode of one of the two where they were showing future cars where one could raise up on its wheels and drive over top of traffic. Another car had a big scoop on front so you could run everyone over and a glass floor so you could see who you hit. That's what some of this reminds me of. Might even be a good clip for you to add to one. Really cool work, thanks!

I love that "21 CENTURY CAAARS!" and when the 21st century came it was just a Toyota Camry

Not even 100 years have passed since the time capsule was buried in 1939, and a number of the items in it will already have badly deteriorated. The chances of it being intentionally unearthed someday are very slim, and even if it's successfully opened then, not much recognizable will still exist inside it.

Now I know where Firesign Theater got so much of their retro creativity.

Wow, the year 2000 sure will be spacey.

I wonder if any of us pause today to consider how ridiculous we'll look in the future with all our cancel culture rubbish?

ahh the past, back when we still had faith in capitalism

I love this so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My beautiful childhood

Electro is so advanced and smart. I wish I had a robot like that to impress all my friends. 20:25

Young people today are hard-pressed NOT to under-estimate how LARGE and VAST the World seemed generations ago (no more than 2 Billion people on the planet, remember), and how much wanderlust people had on the possibilities of science and the future. Back then the World, Science and the Future seemed unlimited. (I wish I was living back then.)

What have we done with the future we have been handed? We could be living in a Utopia. Wh haven't begun to touch the vision of the world they had then.

19:20 once this robot started walking i was laughing so hard at how slow it walked

When he said "You all living in the year 2000" I FUCKING LOST IT 15:55 After all that hubub about how terrible the past is and how much it advanced and how in the future we have flying cars and 4 hour work days, to suddenly say that was 20 years behind us is just hilarious.

These videos are absolutely amazing

I don't know if the boy is just an actor, but he looks like today's 30 something year olds

grampa died , grandma got a dish washer ...me! all in the time it took that robot to take a step

Lies all lies where's our flying cars & jetpacks

Yeah...but how come no one even thought of different races living together at all?? Only Star Trek was showing different colours in their show back in the '70, and it was designed to look in the far, far future

Do you think they'd be disappointed in the fact that we NEVER got those flying cars right? They had so much faith in future people!

Just imagine being able to take a Boston dynamics Robot back in time to meet Electro.

"Gee Ward, I think something's wrong with the Beaver."

**hears "Those of you who live in the year 2000 are fortunate"** **In 2021"** COVID-19: MWAHAHAHAHAAA!!! I GOT THE WHOLE WORLD UNDER SIEGE!!! We're so fortunate to have you, Coronavirus!

Well we do ask gently before over-taking, don't we ?

It's quite interesting (to me anyway) that this video was uploaded in 2018. This was before drones and AI had become mainstream. The pandemic hadn't come along meaning that huge numbers of people became homeworkers overnight (including me) and never went back to an office.

I can't even begin to describe what a nightmare having millions of self absorbed people flying cars overhead!!! Cities would have to go underground to avoid the debris.😱😱

October 5th in 2000 was a Thursday, Just saying!

4:59 I wonder how they worked out that 2000-Oct-5 was going to be a Monday. It’s actually a Thursday.

Reverse-a-scope, the internet with any music website/app!

30:31 - Containers for coins, keys, and candies for cuties! This, for the groom wearing a telephone and radio to his wedding ceremony. Bizarro! Thanks for the video!

The same people cutting you off on the freeway doing 60 is now doing the same in 60 000 feet.