The Incredible Machine (1968) 

execlacli, dont worrey everythhang is allrite

It's true, never will work. A group of loosers (...)

Same with faster than light travel... god, these scientists eh?

It is ridiculous to see them teaching machine to speak.

@@ultrasparc That was 51 years ago, and for them it was new technology and they were researching computer science

Well I thought so too but if we were to go to a mayor tecnology company lab we would be looking at some 10 20 years plus cutting edge technology

Yep, future in the 50s and 60s looked closer than it looks today.

Sometimes it pays to take a step back before you move forward

It's definitely the optimism. Unlike back then we dread the future more often than not.

It's because of the CG visuals, early computer music, and speech synth isn't it? It's jarring to see a fair amount of technology we use today being very present in 1968... given its' VERY basic presentation... What's stranger is that all the components used in the computers are still manufactured today in one form or another.

Thanks for preserving this!

I know this was posted 6 years ago. But copyright claims that restrict videos to specific countries are so dumb.

what on earth kind of copyright claim could a European Television association think they had on a film made in Dearborn, Michigan?

Copyright has been twisted into a sick perversion. It's not at all, what it was originally intended to do.

@@davidpar2 They probably used a segment from it. Happens all the time. Sony used some footage from the 20s and claimed copyright on one of my uploads. They refused to budge. Can't do anything about it.

guys from Bell labs are amongst the most intelligent people alive that are constructively working on new innovations to better the world

My grandfather still insisted that even in the early 1990s!

Hey you kids, get off of my 16 baud communication trunk!

Yeah, imagine if people were mesmerized by them and stared at screens all day! What kind of life would that be for humans?

lol

ATH

The internet is for porn, as they say

Yo what the fuck? (A person from 1968)

Water resistant.

Speak for yourself.

@Blind Bob The shear inaccuracy, naivety and elitism displayed in that comment is honestly astounding. You've reached levels of ignorant douchebag I honestly didn't think were possible, it's damn impressive.

Fran GT i hate your avatar :D

Some do, some dont

I'm actually impressed, that they already had all this over 50 years ago, graphics and sound, smooth animation... These guys had a very good idea of what is going to happen in the future. My mother was born in the early 60's and she would always tell me, how there were no computers back then...

What’s more impressive is that they had planned out the Internet

Not much has changed since then, asides from the size, complexity, and processing power of systems. And naturally their storage mediums and affordability. Give me my quantum PC already...

01DOGG01 Well, not much changes between the brain of a lizard and our brain, aside from size, complexity and processing power. And we aquired new capabilities in the way of 'just make it bigger'. Like abstraction, language and logic deduction.

I what to history museum it'd all about 1968

The principle is the same today as back then. Processing of information. Input, process, output. A hundred years from now, much will be the same, only more powerful. We will have tiny microchips the size of a mm2, doing calculation at speeds of yottaflops.

once the transistor came out... BAM! everything changed...

-> 14:00 "Haya loya loy each on zeeb lag?"

MEH NO HOY MEE NEY NEYO NOY NEE NOY MEE NEW NEE HOY

Generic comment that isn't even true...

@@Stuit3rb4lJesus that was hard to understand going into it without knowing what the sentence was supposed to be.

I'm alive now and am still blown away by it.

Yes imagine.

My grandkids would probably say the same us.

I know a lot of the stuff shown is trivial on hardware currently available to us. But still I'm in awe of the technological advancements shown in this video. Would be amazing to play around with such a system.

It's still pretty mind-blowing, but in the inverse parallel way that, instead of being futuristic, it's retrospective.

Surely would have seemed like a work of magic to the primitives in this video.

Holy sh** its the Laughing Man!

LOL "Duck Flunk" yup.

Hermentotip I thought what I’d do was pretend to be one of those deaf-mutes... or should I?

Quattordici Montenapoleone - it is impressive when you consider not many years earlier their computer was the size of a warehouse and needed a small army of kids to run around replacing blown vacuum tubes...

The joke is, most people are busy arguing on Twitter, Facebook, and on RU-vid via devices that have so much more potential. :(

That is amazing, it is by far the most vivid accurate forecast I have ever heard.

Predicting the smartphone!

Genetic technology is where computers were 50 years, so keep your ears peeled.

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I agree.... I grew hearing that melody and I still feel relaxed heating it up until now

"Hey guys, let's take a break and hop into BF5"

Indeed. Jobs never invented a single thing. His ruthlessness was to simply monetize the inventions of others.

Mikey McMikeFace may be... but applying pre-existing technologies in new context, combinations, forms or uses TOO is an Intelectual Invention! The interactive interface applicated into mobile device was a new concept! As Newton Said: "If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants". All scientific and technologic advances are stacked puzzles and dominoes pieces! Don't forget this fact!!! I'm inventor, composer, singer, musician, physic researcher, 3d designer, poet, novel writer, sculptor, and maybe more... for that reason I understand in first person and defend the work of an inventor and a creative. Please do not criticize without having experience and knowledge on the subject. Thanks!!!

@@mikeymcmikeface5599 And thank goodness that Steve Jobs and his stinky black turtlenecks are gone.

Despite being absurdly informative and curious, it's also very artistic. The light, the music, the narration, they all work together to create a very strong mood. And the fact it uses computer music and computer graphics all the time is just brilliant. This is an amazing video even for today's standards.

they weren't lying

1969s people can even imagine, that what with computing power like in 2019, regular people still can do only GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG GUCCI GANG!

@David Stunning no! You can do better! You can be better! Strive to be more than a just a drone. A little more then you were the day before! You can do it!! You humans have come very far in so little time don't give up now!

I'd like that. Now I don't have to get out of bed to interface with the network. Then I wouldn't even have to move my arms anymore.

@@mikeymcmikeface5599 or you're free to do other things while connected. I put my major UI and systems in my googles for a reason. You wanna be hands free when on the wing

Not a problem mate, I love stuff like this. I've had to cut back though due to bogus copyright issues. You know, the CIA built a dragonfly in the 70s. It used a fluidic oscillator as the engine, and gas as the fuel. It was guided by a laser beam and designed to deliver an audio bug to a taret location. It had its limitations though, such as a 100 meter range, and would not work in windy or even breezy conditions. Imagine what they have now! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TZ3spmVqnco.html

It's not a touch screen. They're using a "light pen". An old-fashioned input device that fell out of use in the late 80s to early 90s.

​@@NimsQuarlo I understand how it works, but question the accuracy of that allegation. I mean... can a voice really vibrate a window that much? Surely it would depend on shape, size, etc... The biggest issue I have is that there are other environmental factors which far overpower the impulses that a human voicebox generates. A car or truck driving past would vibtate the window a lot more than your voice. There's simply too much interference to be able to filter out such a tiny interference. If you can show me evidence, I'll be well impressed. But will probably miss it as I'm being swamped with comments now as the video skyrocketed in popularity overnight.

@@01DOGG01Veritasium made a video on something like this. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eUzB0L0mSCI.html

They still do that today in hacking scenes.

It was way more modern than the percussive rattling KLACKA-KLACKA-KLACKA-KLACKA electromechanical computer noises of previous decades.

@@Zwettekop in these days, they start a heavy acid techno song and make the actor write 500 words per minute in a keyboard.

The internet, every smartphone in the world, and Macs run entirely in technology started by Bell Labs (UNIX, Linux, Android, et-all)

@@alobosk You could word that better as neither Linux nor Android have anything to do with bell other than their operating systems are descended from UNIX.

I swear some company must have made a ufo with how advanced they were at the time

@@kwisatzhaderach1458 We can easily make a UFO. But is it cost effective and efficient? No. Our planes are still 60s-70s models with a few modifications.

Yes, Bell threw almost unlimited resources to projects without regard to feasibility. Plus they added lucrative pay for individuals in such programs.

StuG III is a sniper schnitzel

Back when engineers actually engineered, and weren't just constructing piles of java.

@@mikeymcmikeface5599 Engineers still engineer, just because the medium has changed for many doesn't mean there's less merit in the field.

@@CockatooDude bah

@@mikeymcmikeface5599 Whaddya mean bah!? It's not like engineering has gotten any easier. People were pushing boundaries then just like people are pushing boundaries now.

I was stuck in the middle with BASIC, and later FORTRAN.

My mam learned to program on punch cards the same as ur dad and it just seems like such an archaic technology to me

@@carpetsomething My dad also started programming on punch cards, in the 1980s.

... I used to program in FORTRAN IV on punch cards, and years later had many telephone conversations with Bjarne Stroustrup about how C++ should be designed.

@@JiveDadson That's really cool! For some reason, FORTRAN was easy to me, but I could never grasp C++.

2007* lol

@@assassinaria 1965 actually. Although it wasn't patented until 1969

We had touch screens in radar school in the Navy back in the early 80's. We used them to practice troubleshooting radar systems.

They already did in the 1980s!!

Me watching this on a touch-screen device: “indeed”

I was able to get on the PC bandwagon in the early 80's. Someone brought in an external hard drive slightly larger than a house-brick. We all wondered who could possibly use 20 megs of disk space. 20 megabyte: That's not quite enough space for two photos from my camera.

Pretty much

If it helps any, when I was in college studying computing in the mid-nineties when the internet was just starting to become a thing normal people had heard of, I confidently predicted that it would just be a fad and that after a couple of years, most people would quite happily go on to whatever the next big fad would be and the internet would just go back to being full of computer programmers and academics. I don't make predictions any more.

The mainframes will allways more powerfull, than the device at your hand. Have computing power at your hand will be allways more expensive, then call a mainframe and wait for the result. Nothing much to predict;)

@@goiterlanternbase you know i think you are onto something.. The invention of the internet was really cern intranet spreading.. A network of processors connected to deal with the vast array of raw data... Great heat dispersion.. But the cheapest way to have it grow.. Get the global public to pay for it... So crypto mining is actually what microsoft Has been doing for years having background processes syphon off your performance to web process for firms.. Which is the inverse of this idea... Lets say everyone had Screen they did actions on.. All they want to see is a result.. A super cooled quantum could serve all of those monitors .. Whether hand held or home pc... And it would be like nothing changed you just wouldnt have a radiator at home called a cpu.. The reason they wont do this is the same reason tesla was killed over "free" persay energy. Consumers pay for and offer free bug reports. Instead of allowing people to have a better life on the majority giving earths inherent abilities.. They would rather industry thrive on the majority benevolent people whom there will be someone somewbere who will do a job for free just to be apart of the web and we do.. We buy up old tech whilst tech we should have now is sitting in a warehouse somewhere. They incrementally increase control performance and find new ways to limit perception of what a fast computer is.. Syphon off the rest etc.

While you're right in the fact the term pixel hadn't been coined yet, they wouldn't need to use the word. The displays used on the computer are vector displays which don't use pixels. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_monitor "In a vector display, the image is composed of drawn lines rather than a grid of glowing pixels..."

@@bluskos and that is exactly why you cant use the nintendo light gun on our new tv's the light gun required the vector display to work.

@@hardwirecars Not exactly. Light guns require CRTs as they simply detect the moment the electron beam hits the photo detector inside the gun. Since the console knew where the beam is at any moment it could deduce where the light gun was pointing at. However CRTs are not vector displays. Old CRTs didn't have pixels though as they were quantized only vertically in lines and horizontally they didn't have any quantization: the horizontal resolution was limited in an analog way by their bandwidth (and that of the input video signal). Later color CRTs started having horizontal 'pixels' due to various grids they needed for the RGB phosphors. Vector displays are a different beast entirely.

@@catalinvasile9081 thank you

The computer folks wanted use a nonstandard term. So instead of a dot matrix, someone came up with the term pixels, which meant picture elements. All this just to be different. very odd.

*A foldable cellphone

They'd want to see a flying car.

They wouldn't be able to use it.

it's not how you'd think. i've learned LISP, haskell and COBOL this semester. they are miserably lame compared to higher object oriented languages. the functional languages are just that... no variables just a very complicated twisted sideways inside out ninja recursive function and COBOL is kind of a nice attempt at structure and scripting but it sucks. suggest the possibilities of java or python or C# and they'd cry. they'd think our brains are the size of a walmart compared to them and be scared of our computers, realizing a potential that looks like a galaxy compared to a solar system of a few registers and limited memory.

@@Toleich m'afraid not: they'd learn using it in no time and take it beyond what you and most can grasp!

um...when were you born? I haven't seen a typewriter except for when I was a kid and there was one in our grandmas study

That's up there with being able to pick up a phone and write a movie. Seems awfully cumbersome, but when you're The Phone Company, everything is seen as a way of extending the scope of your product. It's like when people thought that the ultimate goal of information technology was being able to fax pictures and documents instantly.

they made a song when they made the transistor ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8ZGDW-Q2J_A.html

Yeah, cool tech but I wonder how many got brain aneurysms from working so close to those cathode ray tubes all day

@@Cyba_IT None.

It's pretty much what the internet is now

Could they have imagined viewing movies in real time over telephone line? I really doubt that.

I did my first 'work experience' from school in the 60s at a computer center that processed wages. The programmers didn't have screens at all. They did however send digital images to each other on the printers. (usually pornographic, one guy got the sack while I was there). Same principal, not fast but the idea was already there.

gifs

DSL and 3D SRS ...

Wow ! that's HIM !

You fools!! That's LORE!!

That's exactly what I was thinking!!

Looks eerily like data in the episode "Phantasms" where he has a recurring nightmare that a phone is ringing and when he tries to speak, he opens his mouth but only a a strange electronic screech comes out.

Heh. YT went ahead and flagged like 100 comments as spam. One of them was yours. I just approved them all. Unfortunately they shut me down and told me that I had to post original content, even though this is in the public domain. They took away my revenue from my own videos, such as my lockpicking one that has millions of views. It really pissed me off.

10:02 that sounds like bonzi buddy

It has to be!!!

@Strange Faction Lichlider made sounds from a computer drive to sing too.

It started more than 10yrs earlier .

Thought the same thing. Creepy AF

He was ahead of his time though....and right....we still haven't completely reached what he has foreseen but we are enough there to know he was right about a lot although his solution to these problems were't the greatest. He was extremely intelligent and could work out with foresight much of what is happening today and will begin to happen in the near future

@@DweeD1516 you should really think about what you say before the FBI arrests you for sympathizing with a terrorist, ok?

@@johnhenrymills4517 No

Imagine all the greybeards holed up in isolated shacks today, hiding from AI.

I was looking for this comment

are you cry too?

A warm and cozy family of slendermen.

Yeah. But here we are making snap chats and Instagrams.

X Harmonic …and tablets…

It has advanced beyond 10 fold today

Devin Harris imagine 21 years after the first functional quantum computer goes online

in 2007 my brother went to work for bell helicopter he promptly told me about this bad ass room he went in where a projection of a part would show up that he could interact with in real time. for reference we are just now getting hmd vr and my brother got to play in a damn holodeck.

@@hardwirecars I wouldn't doubt it.

The had VR around that time too

@@emanuelmonterroso1667 Yeah! I saw that. Very interesting!

Haha...try to scan it with your phone!

@@primovid what dafaq it gave me a $500 amazon gift card

@@primovid It gave me a $200 discount on thailandese girls.

@@-Vitalis- YOU CANNOT JOKE ABOUT WORLD PROBLEMS!!! I usually never talk to people in this way but this is revolting.

@@mz7315 cry baby

Same here😂

Now prepare yourself to forever find it on your watch i again feed....

Did you mean 51 years old video?

it's to make you grateful that computers don't stuck as much.

You’re simultaneously watching this in 1974 and commenting on it in 2019?

zooblestyx Haha🤣

😂😂😂😂

@@NimsQuarlo this is scary I tought the very same thing

XD

@@NimsQuarlo Bullseye

Who wasn't back then Tom? I know I was. But hey cocaine isn't all that bad, it took the CIA to really make it bad.

It was 1968.

Ryan Nutter same

Its attached to a typewriter, that's why its so loud.

and his answer was "no u"

You look like Jesus

now thats a hip-hop level of mumble!

Just listen to the early works of Stockhausen and you'll see how normal the "entire musical score of this film" was.

@Mish Elf, that was 1968, it wasn´t that obvious back then, this people made all modern technology possible yet here you are, using all this marvelous developments to show the entire World how moronic you are.

Electronic music... 1930s... Okay.

That can produce nearly endless variantions of sounds.

lol that part made me laugh too although I know back then a listener would have to be told.

The beginning of this video is used at the beginning of the album Trevor Something Does Not Exist. I remember four years ago I tried to find where the quote from the intro came from but was unsuccessful. Today I clicked this video out of curiosity and was pleasantly surprised to finally have my answer.

Pat Jaffray ahahaha thank you for pointing that out!

Those aren't auto-generated captions. The auto-generated ones have no text for that area.

@@userPrehistoricman I've often wondered how RU-vid captions were generated. I assumed it was digital based on the high error rates. Too bad. There was something nice about one computer misunderstanding another computer. Maybe payback for all my auto-correct faux pas.

Google's one is good actually. Speech recognition is getting very good these days and big tech companies do it on a massive scale with apparent ease.

Wasn't a touch screen at all. The "pen" is reading the dots of light on the screen to tell where it's pointing. Same way Duck hunt worked on the original Nintendo

@@Moxxuren i understand that

Oh we are probably 40 years behind.

@@Moxxuren so... a touch screen.

After this we invented a "laser" touch screen which worked by breaking the lasers path to tell where you were touching. Modern touch screens use a capacitive method to translate your touch into electrical energy.

technically he's the unsung dictator of the entire modern world :))

And, how many modern movies are currently being written on cell phones, made on laptops and tablets connected to the internet. They described the modern internet, and 3d graphics... in a time when computers where struggling to render pictures, and struggling generate any halfway watchable graphics. And that.. sound synthesis. Eech. It is truly incredible

He wasn't totally wrong. Go to any train station or airport and see how many people are doing work on their laptop computers while sipping coffee waiting for their layover to end. He mentions movies as an example, but being able to work while mobile is what they were really getting at. For a while we had Blackberries and now it's smart phones. Bell Labs was always thinking way ahead.

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." - so is Ken Olsen DEC's founder and CEO alleged to say in the 70s. www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/computers-in-the-home

the internet is just a fad that will die off in a few months -my dad 1995 (still love picking on him for that one)

You might also like On Guard! The Story of SAGE (~1956) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-euL4y49mGqw.html

Or if you're into sound stuff, I've got a couple of videos about 4-track tapes and such.

@@01DOGG01 Thank you! Subscribe for sure :)

@@01DOGG01 Then you probably remember seeing light guns from that movie. BTW, the way these work, notice that when the operator touches the screen with the pen (1:35) , a '+' cursor shows up. The pen contains a photodiode, and the computer knows what symbol it was drawing on the screen when it started getting pulses from it. It then started drawing the '+' cursor in order to fine-track the pen in X and Y.

At the moment.

Same feeling!

our computers are still primitive we just don't realize it, in 50 years our computers will be laughable. Ha Ha they are amazed by self driving cars how charming life was in the early 2000s

Our modern computers are basically thousands, even millions of these old computers combined.

BILLY agreed. Just look at how we laugh at the dinosaurs of 10-15 years ago.

Still we don't have flying cars, self tying shoes and self drying jackets

virtualatall we go have self tying shoes Nike makes them

…and some pixels happen to be swastikas. Yikes.

yea my jaw dropped on that one...

It is, a variant! 😎

coincidently, 2001 was released the same year!

The book was published the same year. Hard to know who influenced who. I tend to believe that Arthur C. Clarke must have seen a demonstration of computers and included the Daisy song in his book.

@@kurenan4564 seems reasonable

I once read that the IBM singing Daisy Bell influenced the choice to include an homage in 2001.

Like the haircut on the guy with the pen.

Mito Luil yeah I’m blown away...

It's not touch screen, it's light pen :) Amazingly simple thing: it's just a photodiode with a button. But because CRT screens show just one point at time (it travels left to right, from top to bottom), by the time this photodiode got its pulse we know at which part of monitor it was! But yes, result is the same, even more precise actually. There is no way it can be miscalibrated! Really strange this became obsolete at PCs.

@@allmycircuits8850 I made one (lightpen) to use with my Commodore 64 when I was about 15. It was in the era where you could actually do computer stuff AND be active outdoors with football and more😁

@@allmycircuits8850 It is actually touchscreen. The definition of touchscreen is that you can control the computer by touching the screen (doesn't matter if it's a finger or a tool like a photodiode pen). They actually had a god damn touchscreen in '68. I'm fucking impressed.

Yeah we definitely had enough tech to land on the moon

What was that used for in this video?

WTF, 6:26 "promotion republican" these are subliminal messages from the past!

Pretty good example of how computers have gotten faster, but not necessarily better.

I find it fascinating that so much of the actual speech is terribly translated.

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Fucking creepy.

Nothing so exciting as dropping 2380 sequential punchcards, and having to resort them to load into the computer, thank God for reel to reel tape storage. Wonder when the 360k 8" floppy will come out.

humaid alqubaisi - No they won't. They will erase the memory of humans as their creator. Or if they do it will be heavily sanitized.

@Viggen lol

I wandered the comment section, endlessly, for days, searching for "Orson Welles". There were times I thought I wouldn't make it. I ran out of food. But then, there you were... 😭