The 1960s Idea of "The Home of 1999" | Flashback | History 

They're pretty accurate to be honest, the Dad even has 3 monitors set up for the ultimate gaming experience.

Impressive how they predicted online classes down to the crippling boredom as reflected in James' entire body language

It's funny how they imagined this type of life to be cool and we are now sick of isolation, processed foods, instant meals, and too much screen time.

1:12 they even predicted online classes lol

I can't wait till 1999 gets here.

1960 : I bet there will be flying cars in the future 2018: Eating tide pods challenge

Shockingly accurate, they got online shopping, online communication, banking, classes... about the only thing they didn't predict was that all of those things would use one unified system, the internet.

In 1976, my 8th grade history teacher told us that one day our TV's would be like a framed a picture that we would actually hang on our walls to watch. Our families being owners of console TV's and Sony Trinotrons, we laughed. That said, this video is pretty darned accurate!

Narrator: "And here we see billy, hiding from his parents, watching shota manga on his mobile device."

All things considered, they didn't do too badly. Remember that the Internet was years away, and computer networking was in a primitive state. Having even a single computer in a home was science fiction, as they cost as much as an average house. Actually, the most amazing thing is that the "History Channel" showed some actual history, instead of nonsense about Ancient Astronauts and UFOs.

These predictions weren't even bad. Most of them were quite accurate.

I wonder what these actors in this film thought when they actually experienced 1999 and remembered this film

Son: "Mom, I'm hungry!!!" Dad: "Yeah, how 'bout some lunch!!" Actual 2021 Mom: "F--- that! Get it yourself!"

RIP to the actress that played the mom. Marj Dusay (1936-2020)

Most of their computers are all in our smartphones lmao

They forgot to show that dad had to change his password again due to a security breach, but forgot his pin code.

Thats how you realize how technological advances are much easier to predict than social ones 😂

1960s: By 2020, flying cars 2020: Planes don't fly

It's funny because even though they are talking about a digitalized world, they are still very connected to the real world. Take the "online shopping" for example, in their scenario, they are looking at a video of the real world, the physical store is still involved, whereas currently with online shopping, you don't even need a physical store.

And hear you find Jimmy watching “the hub” on his family central computer

We're living in the time people could only dream about and yet we can't stop fighting.

I love how the online store had absolutely no UI or even pricing information

They got some stuff right

1960: I bet there will be flying cars in the future 2019: egg

Live long and prosper to the Dad, Game Show Host Wink Martindale now in his 90’s.

The car at the beginning looks like "The Homer".

We actually have a lot of this stuff today. Home post offices, on line shopping, smart refrigerators.

This was so insightful for the 60's. But as a child watching the Jetson's I seen all these thing's we have today! Very cool to see none the less!

wildest off the mark is the assumption that the traditional family will still exist, with Mum dutifully providing the dinner and the son and Dad lording it up.

Me watching this in 2022, as I take meat and vegetables I previously bought from driving to the store, out of the fridge to cut up and cook the same way on the stove or in the oven as my grandmother did 60 years ago. Some things don’t change…

"Master James" lived a rather sheltered , isolated life

The dad was played by later game show host Wink Martindale, who is still with is as of October 2023.

Heck, The Jetsons cartoon series in the 60s predicted we'd have video chat. We were off to such a good start. What happened?

1:34 Results of your test: 3 Wrong: You F L U N K

In most cases, all this is true today. Remote learning, microwave cooking, prepackaged individual meals in minutes, telecommunicating via cellphone and zoom, auto pay and auto billing, flat screen TV, remote payments. I can hardlt wait to se what our future holds in store in the next 20-plus years.

Pretty spot on.... at first I thought the boy sitting in front of what looked like a huge flat-screen was going to be the computer or smart-tv equivalent but it wasn't

That was AWESOME. Come on History Channel. Ya' gotta' produce "The Home of 2050."

What the wife selects on her console the man will pay for on his console 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I predict 2099 we'll be having computers in our heads

1:50 oh boy this wont be okay today. 3:13 lol, no

Some say he is still counting for lunch

They just predicted online learning 20 years too early... And it hasn't turned out so well...

the subtle humor in this is great. they really werent far off in many concepts...and downright dead-on in others.

My goodness…this is great. I was smiling during the entire video while watching this on my iPad.

Reality is more spectacular than imagination. I wonder how someone watched this as a kid feels, if he's alive today.

Feel sad watching this, how time flies and these people never got to see how 21st century looks like

They predicted zoom lol

If you watch the entire feature , this family lives a very rigid , controlled life and " master James" seems rather sheltered

"All the information about this family is stored in the central home computer" LOL!

It was a good estimate of the future, because he worked with the fact at the time that the technological platform of things would remain the same (luck was not taken into account). For example, if you want to predict the development of light bulbs in the age of light bulbs, it will still be a light bulb of various designs and many improvements. It was not taken into account that by chance we can discover a semiconductor junction PN, which will emit light, which immediately leaves the concept of light bulbs and creates a completely different development path of the luminaires. It's the same today, because development always turns to different tracks thanks to some new findings, and that's why we still don't have what we promised fantastically in the 1960s and we have something we couldn't come up with at the time. Some people who do not understand futurology may argue that, for example, when there was no television, people were able to predict it. Yes, but only when Nipka's disk and Baird's experiments appeared. This only stimulated the imagination of various technical solutions, because it was feasible. This is how Julius Verne "predicted", because his publisher supplied him with the latest news and experiments of the time from all over the world, and Verne only "improved" it. That's why Verne's novels with technical descriptions are "realistic" and that's why we liked these books very much.

One thing about the 60's, some of the coolest car were made...GTO Chevelle Cuda Roadrunner Firebird 442 Cutlass Lemans GS Charger Challenger Mustang Nova LeMans Tempest etc etc

Internet shopping was a thing in 1999, along with home schooling too. It wasn't as fancy as it was today but we got by. What it doesnt show you is that wife decided to get her own career and the kids and husband had to learn to fend for themselves.

Most of this didn't exist in '99 in everyday homes, but instead in 2019.

That was pretty much accurate. I always have wondered. What the fascination with gull wing doors and a car that looked like it was an oversized Buick with a plexiglass dome was.

Well just think.. This is the generation that put man on the moon. If we'd have stayed with the same way of thinking, there's no telling what life would be like now.

>watches this instead of doing schoolwork on my computer. It’s an abstract kinda feel

"hey mom I'm hunr-" "Did you just Zoom call me from another room to ask for a snack!? Sweetie please just walk 10 feet to the kitchen."

They almost got it right in this film! Most films predicting the future were usually amusingly wrong (jet cars, robot servants etc.) The only obvious omission here is any mention of recycling or home energy efficiency.

The online classes part was accurate, but not in the way they imagined lol. They’re also not tailored to the mental capacities of the children they’re teaching

1960 : By the year 2000 and beyond people will flying cars and wearing space suits. 2021: Some dude riding a scooter in flip flops

Mr Brown and I got along famously...

1960 : cars in the future be like 0:15 2019 : tesla cybertruck

I remember watching Knight Rider in the 80's and thinking a car with a tv monitor was the coolest thing ever, but I'll never own one.

That's actually just online classes and modern smart housing into one. How accurate

I was 21 in 1967 & loved movies about the "near future", i.e. (far enough away to experience change, but not so far that I wouldn't live to see it!) 1950's & 60's "Sci-Fi" films predicted vast changes to occur by the 21st Century, but since we are now 25 years past 1999, other than advances in communication devices, I think that the world has ultimately failed to live up to those predictions for the future, that were made in 1967, 57 years ago!

The Simpsons predicted we would be watching this video predicting the future.

It’s funny that in this film the wife/mother is still the one in charge of meals and the husband is the one in charge of paying for her clothing selections. They didn’t imagine that she might be able to make the payment herself through the computer.

2:57 “What the wife selects on her console would be paid for by the husband on his counterpart console”😂 I guess they didn’t see a future world where women would be able to pay for their own stuff using their own money

coolest video clip ever!

One of the most big blast masterplan for the future,it's being created in the past. Of course certainly in 1960s. Wonderfull......wooonderfull.......!! 👏👏👏👏👏

I would feel depressed as the narrator, knowing that I wouldn’t be around to see this come to fruition :(

The predictions were quite good from a technological point of view, the casual sexism was sort of funny (in an ironic way, as they made all these predictions of the future, but assumed that women would still be housewives and their husbands would earn the money and approve purchases)

I presume this sort of concept is lifted from Britain on film series from BBC Scotland. Where the subtitles were used to highlight the contrast between the past and present related to the subject matter of the presentation! That too is an excellent series to watch. This happens to be the American on film series a good mockery but with a positive outcome! A fan and an admirer from Pakistan.

That’s amazing technology

I always like the way they put an extra set of tires on cars

I really wish I could show the producers of this film what we have in the early 21st century

They predicted small microwaves, flat screen TVs, computers, online classes, online shopping, emails, and fax machines all in one go. They even predicted Skype.

so cool that they imagined all these diffrent computers for diffrent uses but now its just 1 computer for EVERYTHING and WAY more!

The Mom looks like the actress Marj Dusay in the "Star Trek" (original series) episode "Spock's Brain."

Most future predictions I've seen were wildly off, but these are surprisingly accurate. Edit: Yes, not for 1999, but it's still not WILDLY off.

The turn of the millennium seemed so far away back in the 60s didn’t it. Yet it’s also ironic to think that the 60s were as far away from the 90s as the 80s were from the 2010s

1960: flying cars are the future 2019: fornite dance 🕺🏼

Alot of this is pretty true, but most families are still not on board the microwave every meal train. And they said the dishes were disposable, which we are trying to get rid of. Its interesting to see what people of the past thought of computers. Im sure they would be slightly disappointed but extremely happy with what we have computer wise

Crazy to to think that we are almost as far removed in time from 1999 as 1967 was to 1999.

I’ve made fun of this film in other postings, but this video is the closest to being accurate about the way computers would be used in homes in the future. Sure, there was no Internet available to the public and HTML had not been invented yet, but this video accurately predicted online shopping today.

I regret not going to the army back in 2010

This is a dream project. Ito ang tinutupad natin ngayon.

Wow its going to be brilliant!!

If they just predicted that all our technology would just be flatter and smaller they would have got 90 percent of predictions right

Incredible how they show flat video monitors everywhere, when the concept of liquid crystals hadn't been developed yet, and neither LEDs hadn't been invented yet. The first flat screen in a movie was the display of a tablet computer in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" which premiered in 1968, when Cathode Ray Tubes where the only technology available for a decent display...

Ah, when computers had dip switches and lights ... And, the Nixie Tubes ... classic.

Interesting.

Narrator guy sounds like the original voice of KITT, only with a lower pitch/tone

seems we should have stayed bounded in the 60s

1960s video about 1999: "8 year old Jamie calls his mother on a video phone. He's hungry and wants food while he studies." Actual 1999: "8 year old Jamie hides away from his mother and ignores her calls for lunch because he's too busy viewing pornography." 🤣🤣🤣

I didn’t see that in 1999. All I saw was the debate over the Y2K bug and Ricky Martin Livin’ La Vida Loca

they couldn't predict twerking

@:48 A smart home! WOW Lol

Pretty amazing stuff. SO, tell me about the world of 2099, when I will be most comfortably resting as compost for worms.

They rlly predicted the quarantine online class lmao 1:16