The Most Boring Dystopia: 1999 Microsoft 'Home of the Future' 

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Bruh I just spit my water.

@@SherwinSeby WATER SPITTING PERIOD IS DONE

Oof. 💀

Exactly my thoughts 😂

Sounds like alot of reality tv on the discovery channel where they show young people doing stupid shit like small scale gold mining like they did when the old people were that age, so it kinda makes sense

I was thinking the same thing...

More like old people will see it and think “look at this garbage I wont be missing anything I can go in peace”

on a computer with less than 512K of ram no doubt

True

Sh*ternet exploder and Windows ME (mistake edition)

How many takes of it crashing too?

I’m surprised they accurately predicted that children would have their own computers, considering that family computers were the norm at the time

Good one! 🤣

I want this game.

uhhhh they forgot it

Cooking Mama more like Cooking Master amirite

Didnt Xbox release somewhere around then?

y2kpunk

@@adikumar6536 y2punk

More like Window spunk

It's basically cyberpunk but instead of Japan taking over the world, Microsoft takes over the worlf

@@graffiti9145 So we live in GooglePunk then?

Make an app then

Yep that was the real innovation that people didn't realize in the 1990s. I don't mean the smartphone. I mean that all innovations were software based instead of hardware based. In the 1990s they assumed everything would have its own gadget instead of those gadgets being just software programs running on a pocket computer which we happen to call smartphone nowadays.

PocketPC*

@@joey199412 That is actually... a very very very solid and good point. Infact, its such a grand idea that I will now use this to my day to day life. Thank you for giving me big brain moment.

@@bencontreras732 Why should they? There are already apps for pretty much all of these things. The Google Home app can control smart appliances like lights, Google Assistant devices, and thermostats, and things like Android Auto allow you to receive phone calls in your car through Bluetooth. AI image recognition can determine what you throw away, and you can already control smart televisions through Chromecast. Weather apps have been a thing for over a decade, and books can be read through e-reader apps and pdf viewers. I should note though that even if they wanted to, a super app containing all of those functions would be nearly impossible for a single person to make due to the Google Home ecosystem not allowing you to use/set-up devices with anything except the Google Home app. Chromecast is technically available to developers, but I don't think you can casually grab video from another app.

If they ever update that why do I feel like the next cell of the carousel is their progeny banging on trash cans in an alley

@thatguyfrombefore lol sup boss ;)

I can't figure out why he's hating on this video... It all looks like a pretty impressive concept for the future, considering what technology was available to them at that ti e

@@ClipsNSnips I don’t think he’s hating on it, just making fun for how goofy it is and for some of the predictions that didn’t even make sense at the time

@thatguyfrombefore lol well I started playing hearthstone after I quit for a year and got legend rank yesterday for second month in a row. In top 1000 players atm. would you watch me stream that game if I started streaming it? would anyone?

They would all run on Windows ME and their version Internet Explorer does NOT have a Private Mode.

@@theshlauf if crash it cut your pepe in half haha!

*comin to your tooooown*

It's funny because we have those. Phub searches get pretty weird during boring nights.

I let twitch chat control my…

Not if you want a place you can afford in a place like NYC!

See that one they were wrong about. Nobody uses Windows anymore

Blown by cool air too from said windows!

I literally have that exact microscope in my garage.

The microscope they show was an actual product you could buy at the time. Actually, so was everything they showed. This was less "future" and more a showroom of tech that existed, but few people actually used.

They were common in schools already in 1999

@@chuckmakesit exactly. They were working on smartphone tech like back in 2003 alot of the stuff we're getting now was in development for years but used for military first

@@megaangelic Not mine :(

Boss: we’re going to seek the future to the people to buy our products that we don’t have what are we going to do what would a family do Guy1: have the mom scan the egg instead of telling the dad on the phone Guy 2: have the kids get excited to watch Apollo 13 Guy 3: have the dad use web phone for the weather Guy 4: wouldn’t it make more sense for the kids to watch cartoons, mom text email dad the food item, and dad watching an movie or show like Seinfeld on the web phone Boos look at guy 4: you’re fired Guy 4 get thrown out window

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@@Lysergic_ valid point sir

Also it somewhat matches the idea of Amazon scheduled reordering too, which is a more reasonable alternative. Amazon also had their Dash buttons for a similar concept.

@@TheGrassyBush I think the focus should be on the fridge instead of the trash can. A smart fridge with Alexa enabled would essentially do what you said and potentially more.

So its not what is here. Its the very opisit. A = when trown out. B = when taking for use. Where as B is used far more then only in manufactoring. Hell that is basic stock keeping for any buisness. Ths whole point is that A wouldnt be usefull, not only bc you have to trow out expencive sensors, you also idealy want stuff in on the day its going to run out and not when itnhas run out...

@@kempoficht the sensors are actually really really cheap. They're only worth a couple cents. We have supermarkets here that stick them inside the price stickers so the checkout can automatically identify what you're buying as soon as you put the product on the counter, regardless of orientation or position; no laser aiming needed. They are so cheap that they are expected to be discarded in the trash together with the product packaging it's stuck to. They are not advanced position tracking smart-tags like the Apple iTag or the Amazon tags, but merely RFID data tags that have been used for close to a decade now. They're everywhere.

@@PixlRainbow well yes and no, those have a diffrend porpuse, there like the anti theft tags on cloths etc. They are verrrry basic, and the only thing it does is being scaned. The chip in the vid is like a full fleshed chip that detects when its in the trash and re-oders the product, there is no wherehouse system. It will do it like this "Im in the trash, order this product to this adres". That chip needs to do more then the once you use in the store. They will just do "this unic code is on the scan". The system will pickup the code and do the rest. So that "chip" doesnt do anything. Its a static signal being scaned for by the rest of the system

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It's true because it's so conservative - most of the stuff there is just minor advances of what they had at the time and it had to be because Microsoft had to be able to build mockups of it

True, they got ideas right but form factor and implication is off. Same time there are some things that are on verge of being as predicted. Example okay trash cans dont sense when things are gone and order, but smart fridges almost there. They already have displayed such ad CES and other places that will order when item is gone or about to expire. Though current smart fridges do allow you to order on fridge, and even keep track of experation dates, plus you can view via app whats in fridge.

Yeah it didnt went out to the clouds, like those who were saying "flying cars" n stuff. Only that they got the representation of it wrong.

I find it interesting that most of these future shows knew that we would have some type of handheld computer and would use computers for everything, but they almost never envision us wanting to use the same computer for all these things (our personal phone).

Cuz why not

@@mazadancoseben4818 ?*

@@yukonfarnsworth1688 yeah It's legendary

"do not go gentle into that good night"

"garlic is a key ingredient..." - LET ME IN "you know I can't do that, Susan"

Yeah I honestly lost count of how many PC's I have here...

@@Belboz99 , what's their purpose

@@mazadancoseben4818 To be built, and tinkered with

@@anivicuno9473 , I see So a new Revolution will emerge

yeah it's very easy to get hardware I both do and don't use. I have "6 PCs" If you count my 2 Raspberry Pis and an unused 10+ year old low-end Dell laptop.

I preferred creole dancehall after Schindler' List but I don't judge

Personally, I prefer some Gregorian chants after watching 12 Angry Men, but to each their own.

Fun fact! They played Muzak in the capsules of Saturn V rockets and space shuttles to help calm down the astronauts during flight.

I personally prefer Paul Blart: Mall Cop after a nice consumption period.

The cooking period is done. Commencing smooth jazz period to facilitate the absorption of ingested biomass to facilitate continued life functions.

We've had flying cars since the 1930s. Nobody want them then, either.

@@bcubed72 yea the hardware already exists, they even keep coming up with new types; but still, nobody knows what to do with them

Considering how bad and damaging regular car accidents can be, I'm kinda glad flying cars haven't become widely available. Imagine just chilling in your house and suddenly a car just flies into your roof

@@Pentross The problem (other than you average motorist has no business with a pilot's license) is that a flying car is both a crappy car, and a crappy airplane in one package, for more than you'd pay for a better car and plane, separately. It's the same reason people buy a sports car, and a boat, not an amphibious vehicle. You get more for your money that way! Combining a car and airplane is "bad" synergy: like j/o while riding a bike, it's a guarantee you do a lousy job of both.

Spheroid tyre is the future

I do hope we someday get multiple fax machines in our homes like in Back to the Future 2. We’re obviously not at that level of technology yet but maybe in another decade or so.

@@AlcoholicBoredom and even when we do get to that point it will be just as mundane as this video, funny how most if not all technology is boring and mundane at the end of the day, the only exception to that is vr, entertainment holograms, and maybe super advanced space travel depending on the destination

@@alphayun7401 Um, you realize my post about "faxes in homes" was a joke, right?

@@AlcoholicBoredom yes i do

@@alphayun7401 ok my bad lol

Painful truth.

It was 1999. That home was probably about to be foreclosed on because they spent the mortgage on computers.

Move to the Midwest somewhere, houses there are quite bang for the buck

@@jjbarajas5341 - Without any jobs which can pay you enough to afford them, hence why they are empty.

@@tearfulsmiles9901 😂 LOL

Yes.

bearing in mind by the future, Apollo 13 would be a pretty old film

Agree, we use that in university, it's very useful for when the professor wants to show us how to search for specific things under the microscope or just to not have my back all messed up after 2 hours 😂

Same goes for telescopes. Eyepieces just suck.

The Phillips Pronto could actually do this. Granted, you needed an entire server room and a programming degree to do all the tasks. Although, the Logitech harmony is pretty close.

Back in 2011 my family got a "universal remote" with a touchscreen, and you could program menu buttons onto the screen that would do some combination of turning on different devices and changing the TV input. So we had a button for TV, each console, and the Firestick. So yeah, that prediction 100% came true.

​@@augustday9483 Harmony remote. That was literally the only way my wife could watch a movie on my system when we were dating. Turning on the stereo and changing inputs completely flummoxed her.

I don't understand people with "smart" homes. The electric stuff costs thousands, fuse box looks more like a fuse room and there is just so much stuff to break. Not to mention the 24/7 surveillance (audio, video, diet, day routine etc.). Really dystopian sh1et.

why tho

@@Mic_Glow since my earlier post I’ve sold everything ‘smart’. Now all that’s left to watch my every move are the orbiting satellites, high altitude drones, CCTV cameras on every street corner, google street view cars and my mobile phone. I feel so free.

Google Home still understands: "What's the temperature and humidity" only 50% of the time.🤬

@@BoltRM the magic of switching to cloud processing instead of using on-device (on smartphone or on smart home speaker) processing Thanks Google, Amazon, and Microsoft for fucking up our voice controlled futures.

If the wife's cooking was terrible you could even add... "Minimum safe distance, five kilometres."

The evacuating period period is done

I do hope that would be made user customizable: I would much prefer the more poetic "Once again, the time to shit has come and gone."

Mine would just say "Time to make the doo-doo".

“Output complete. Microbial cleansing sequence engaging in 5…4…3- 🚨 ALERT: Output cycle INCOMPLETE🚨”

Not without the 3 seashells.

In the 80s, I only had to Space Camp to fill that need.

That's exactly what I was thinking!

I never saw Apollo 13 - mine was The Right Stuff.

Ah yeah, who knew the Humble Apple Newton would be the device we all would eventually use.

It is

I think the idea was that the standards for education would be higher in THE FUTURE, with total emphasis on STEM subjects and everything more intensively funded so students would have fancy education props. I think that view match what geeks thought at the time. That it didn't worked out that way... well make of it what you will.

in our future kids wont need to go school neigther

But it was set in the future. So it wax expected education standards would be much higher and, in some ways, more professional. It's a common and charming thing to expect.

@@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179 Honestly, I still think that might be education some day :D

@@INWMI You sure didn't go to school

It’s easier to take photos with. You ever tried aiming a camera down the eyepiece of a microscope?

@@TheDolphinTuna I can only fucking imagine how hard that would be

We had exactly one at our high school until I slapped a webcam onto a normal microscope out of sheer anger in biology class. After that and a conversation with the lab tech we had 30 that performed even better than the extremely expensive one and could even shoot colour video.

I had a cheap 100 dollar video microscope as a teen that broke right after I finished being gobsmacked by my swimmers.

I have a 50 dollar stereo microscope thats basically a dashcam strapped to a lens that output to a monitor. I use it for detail parts on models and doing precise soldering

so no painkiller by judas prists? it does make the food go down faster, hurts the jaw though

@@LillyP-xs5qe Clearly it was the soundtrack of 2004 Runescape, the only classy dining choice.

Well what if one of your neighbours wants to talk to you?

@@Somajsibere Or like, fireman's trying to let you know to evacuate? Or maybe that fancy fridge of your ordered groceries and now the eggs are rotting on the porch?

@@Belboz99 well ,obviously you'd just say "House, delivery expected, alert me." As for emergency services, there's such a thing as emergency override you know. They'd be an exception. As for the neighbour, what's wrong with texting "mind if i pop over in a bit?" If you agree, it'd just be "house, Bob's coming, white list for one hour."

@@Somajsibere why would any one want to talk to their neighbours?

@@AndrewHalliwell “text before you call” is already a norm today, and I like people to let me know when they’re close by if they’re visiting so I can expect the doorbell and not get surprised. So yeah tying that stuff together seems pretty neat. Especially if you can program it to let them in by their phone (or maybe biometrics) or somesuch.

They can get even cheaper over time considering they can use old equipment from TSMC, Intel, etc. that is no longer competitive for CPUs and memory

Ya I was thinking the same thing I'm pretty sure they already use something similar in automated convenience stores. The tags are just more advanced and a lot cheaper. Also the scanner is the size of a doorway. I also remember seeing a tech demo of a in-home sensor for locating things like cell phones jewelry etc using computer vision. Honestly was pretty impressed by some of the predictions.

I would too.

Seems reasonable

Ha nerd!

That still seems very wasteful. Are they even at all recyclable or biodegradable?

Apple tags are Uwb RFID these are more expensive then passive RFID used in store security, around £20 each tho that will fall cos mass-produced now

@@salsamancer Yes most RFID tags are made from paper with very thin (like 1 micron thick) copper ink. Essentially it's just paper and you'd need like a million tags to have the same waste as throwing away a single remote control or smartphone.

@@salsamancer It's just a ceramic microchip and a copper antenna affixed to some paper/fabric/plastic. Packaging itself is worse for the environment than the RFID tag.

@@salsamancer RFID tags are also reprogrammable and reuseable. if you have a system of reuesable packaging the container will likely wear out before the tag does. Your trash can could even sort out recycling, trash, and reuseables with RFID tags.

hi

Cool

The watch TV setting is to adjust the lighting, curtains, turn on the tv, and the surround sound. Most of the pre-programmed functions are supposed to be shortcuts for multitasking.

Man dude this audio is complete trash. It's almost worse then having the audio in only one channel.

Lies

Sorry fam there's no rebuilding. Only war in our future.

we wouldn’t have to rebuild if our politicians didn’t lie about the china virus

“You will own nothing, and you will be happy”

Yes, let the people who destroyed everything rebuild everything. Either the aliens are gonna invade, we are gonna go to war with China, or the rapture will happen. So fuck it.

Bit dramatic mate

Lmfo

Yeah he does sound like Jim Henson.

I subscribe 3 years back to a Photo magazine, of which I got a microscope which could be connected to the computer, this was significantly smaller than those on this video( A little thicker than a pencil) with this Microshope I could zoom in on the computer to take pictures.

never heard of them before - nice chune - not many songs mention Robert Z'Dar

@@restcure I wasn't aware that any other song mentioned Robert Z'dar

I've got 29 open, oops

**checks** _One hundred and sixty three!_ **laughs maniacally**

I have 153 tabs open

I always have about 50 tabs open

But who wants all the exact same products to be forever ordered?

@@JohnSmith-wx9wj you could set that up as a necessity on your PC, that way you could get them delivered, I suppose a typical product list would be stuff like: milk, yogurts, cheese, ham, eggs and anything you buy weekly.

@@JohnSmith-wx9wj maybe only the stuff you subscribed to would be reordered, like if you were a soda addict or something, and other stuff would be logged but not immediately reordered?

No youll eat corn and be happy.

That's what I say all the time. I don't need the fridge to tell me when the milk is about to go bad. Problem is if the fridge knows, is almost inevitable that so will others, like Mr. Hacker or Mrs. NSA.

Well some of them have cameras inside so you can see what you need from the fridge when you go shopping.

I always assumed it was because people can't predict what people accept and reject. I mean disk were usable back in the late 70s but VHS became the dominant format because people saw more value in recording media at the time.

This prediction wasn’t too far off though.

For those interested, the browser tab was invented in 2001 and was in Phoenix (which became Firefox) and came to Safari and Konqueror in 2003 and it wasn't until 2006 with the release of IE7 that IE got tabs.

@Nigel Lush I'm not sure what drug you're on with all that nonsense I just had to read but it must be bliss.

Ah samsung has their fridge that scans the content aswell.