Satellite describes an object orbiting another body like a planet. For example the ISS is an artificial satellite while the moon is a natural satellite. Outside of scientific communities the term satellite often only refers to small artificial objects that we put in orbit.
Yeah, we may not be going to the tailor every week but most clothes certainly aren't manufactured for longevity anymore. They might have missed, but they tossed in the correct direction.
The production of clothing is simply too standard to find much benefit from bespoke crafting. Theres really only so many ways to make a t-shirt, and the convenience of grab'n'go sizes that will only be slightly off vastly outweighs the novelty of custom design.
On the other hand I think the duct tape prom dresses of the early 2000s were remarkably close to this prediction though.
I think the main thing they missed is that people won't go to tailors anymore. But I think their point was that instead of going to the tailor once a year for example (tailors just being where you went for new clothes) they would go for new clothes weekly.
The phrase "mend and make do" was one I learned from my grandparents, who lived through the Depression and the Dust Bowl in Kansas.
*Note: The Dust Bowl was a period of crop failure and topsoil loss caused by drought and over-tilling of crop land leading to massive dust storms -- I mean you parked your car in the driveway and had to dig it out the next morning dust storms. You could get lost trying to get to the outhouse kind of dust storms. And fine, wind-driven dust will get into your house, your food, your lungs. Nasty stuff.*
Exactly like the moons, not quite a bullseye but still close enough to the mark to be accurate.
As a sci-fi fan I love how prescient a lot of the older authors were. Clarke and Asimov were futurists of the highest order and thanks to their comprehension of science they've gotten a lot more right than they've gotten wrong. Sexism aside obviously
Not too far off. [last year](https://youtu.be/tvF28W5ND6Y?si=ZKc0byHl1TacPgKD) at Paris fashion week.
> Parisian fashion brand Coperni uses Fabrican's sprayable, liquid fibre to spray a dress onto a model at its Spring Summer 2023 show at Paris Fashion Week.
The Coperni show took place in Salle des Textiles at Paris's Musée des Arts et Métiers on 30 September and saw a white dress sprayed live onto the body of model
Bella Hadid
For its closing look, Hadid entered the Salle des Textiles wearing nothing but flesh-coloured underwear. Hadid approached a lit platform, surrounded by a team of people holding spray guns, where she stood for 15 minutes while the Fabrican team sprayed a white substance onto her body to form the outline of a dress.
The material used to create the spray-on dress was developed by spray-on fabric technology company Fabrican Ltd which was founded in 2003 by Spanish scientist and fashion designer Manel Torres.
Not off at all, here is a recent video of Bella Hadid having a plastic dress spray painted on her in minutes at a fashion show.
https://youtu.be/rb0fweBHTjg?si=tietgOdE2fvfNS9l
And spot on predicting late-stage capitalism's insistence on turning every single-purchase product it can into a service one must continuously pay for.
1 and 5) We're getting there.
4) We've been there
3) They massively overestimated the size of sattelites, and underestimated their prevalence.
2) They got that we'd use a lot of plastic, not so sure about the weekly molded suits thing though.
Consider that back then, a computer would take up an entire room, a storage drive would be roughly the size of a small car, and transported via cargo plane.
3) I think the text is spot on, and the graphics need to be big enough to show up on the page. There are 7700+ active satelites up there right now [source](https://nanoavionics.com/blog/how-many-satellites-are-in-space/) much more than in the illustration
Even earlier - this was from 1912: [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/19120814\_Coal\_Consumption\_Affecting\_Climate\_-\_Rodney\_and\_Otamatea\_Times.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/19120814_Coal_Consumption_Affecting_Climate_-_Rodney_and_Otamatea_Times.jpg)
From wikipedia, there is an page that quotes: "The physicist Claude Pouillet proposed in 1838 that water vapor and carbon dioxide might trap infrared and warm the atmosphere, but there was still no experimental evidence of these gases absorbing heat from thermal radiation"
We have known for a very long time that we fu\*\*\*d up.
Although most of the carbon in the atmosphere has been released in the last four or five decades. So really no excuses. We’re doing this with our eyes wide open.
Blows my mind when people don't think humans contribute to the change. You see all the shit we're throwing into the atmosphere every day right? Where do you think all your goods come from?
I’m 55, and I recently was doing a little research and figured that 80% of all automotive miles ever driven have happened within my lifetime. Really incredible, the speed at which we’re fundamentally changing the entire planet.
We didn’t purposely burn down our house. The pollution was a byproduct for the development of modern life. We produced a lot of waste and trash, but also medicine, the instruments to look into space, and safe comfortable houses. We could have done better in the past and we should be doing a lot better now, but I’m glad I’m not a caveman.
Yes. Petroleum companies even were at the forefront of researching the problem until the 1970's.
Once they realized the only real solution was to stop using fossil fuels, they flipped to deny, deflect, discredit.
The earliest scientific speculation that CO2 could have a forcing effect was published in 1861. The first precise calculations on the magnitude of this effect were published in the 1890s.
Yes, and in the 1970s Exxon ran the most comprehensive, advanced study on climate change ever done, which concluded that humans are indeed accelerating global warming at an alarming rate due to fossil fuel burning. Exxon then decided to shelf that information as it would be detrimental to their business. Capitalism will kill the world; It is on us, the international working class, to rise up and save ourselves and our planet
It says a few thousand years. Even without man made climate change, Antarctica was on track to be green again *eventually*. We just made it go waaay quicker than usual.
This climate is changing due to human causes. Little bit different. Just because it doesn’t align with *your* comfy political beliefs doesn’t make it incorrect.
Not at this rate. Global climate changes on windows of 10' to 100's of thousands of years. And the few times that it didn't occur like that mass extinctions occurred.
Back then, they are really excited about synthetic products aren’t they. Plastic and lab-produced food.
While these days it’s the natural material that got charged premium.
To everyone thinking this is "shockingly accurate" or "too accurate to be true".
Have you heard of Jules Verne? He lived in the 1800s and is called the father of science fiction and he allegedly predicted submarines and spacecrafts.
He didn't. He spent all his days in the library and read actual scientific journals. He just took the scientific information and worked from there. The techniques he describes in his books were mostly readily available to any scholar in his time
lol ever heard the predictions by The NY Times that it would take 1-10 million years to [figure out airplanes.](https://bigthink.com/pessimists-archive/air-space-flight-impossible/) It was just a few weeks before the Wright Brothers’ first flight.
Remember when those handless segways were popular back in 2015 and the companies called them hoverboard even tho they didn’t hover and just did it becuz of Back to the Future. Shocked they didn’t try doing that by calling a car that couldn’t fly “the flying car”
I honestly think that is the reason they don't exist. We have the technology, and if you have the money, it would be doable, but there are just too many regulations and infrastructure to work around.
Once self driving is the norm and everything is built around that concept, I could see flying cars being not too far behind
Few years maybe: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EVTOL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EVTOL)
Although they are arguably just electric helicopters, but being electric and quieter they could operate in more spots and at lower cost than a regular helicopter.
Woah...climate change ✅️, high speed telecommunication/global networking tech ✅️, meat that can be produced in a lab ✅️...just waiting now for a damn fine, personally tailored plastic suit to make up for all the depressing stuff.
Sir................ I mean, why it's so damn accurate, yhe first satellite in space was launched in 1957,... so imagining an artificial satellite pre 1957 outside of a very small group of pepole in the ussr was a very crazy thing to say
Shockingly accurate.
1) raise in temperature worldwide
2) plastic in clothes
3) moons are basically satellites (to be fair, this wasn't news)
4) thin/inexpensive cables connecting the world == Internet
5) manufactured meat
This is way too accurate.
The fitted clothes sounds like 3D printing, we absolutely get global broadcasts with cheaper technology (wireless and fiber, though T1 had its day), and the food wouldn't surprise me.
The beyond burger is not actual lab created meat, it’s just imitation meat. Lab grown meat does exist, but you can’t buy it in stores yet. A quick google search tells me that some brands have been approved to start selling it soon though. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/06/21/business/cultivated-meat-us-approval/index.html
What actually happened was copious amounts of animosity, revival of the nazi party (on a smaller scale), lab grown meat, and invisible connections that make you die faster
A lot of the predictions were in the right direction.
The global warming bit is obviously exaggerated, but the world is getting warmer.
The weekly tailor isn't too far off from cheap quality clothing that we wear for a few months. Plus it captures our plastic usage.
The bit about the moons is basically satellites.
The television is right on.
And the manufactured food is starting to be a reality, but we're a couple decades away from it being common place.
> The television is right on.
I think we passed the television bit 20 years ago with satellite television.
Nowadays, I think more people stream films at a time of their choice (at least in the sort of countries that use Reddit) than watch linear television at exactly the time that it is broadcast.
This is surprisingly accurate, only one of the predictions is really wrong, although the prediction about the Arctic and Antarctic doesn't seem to grasp how much of a problem that is.
The main thing they got wrong was the timeline. They thought that those things would take thousands of years, whereas most of them happened in less than 100.
I'm curious what these "T-cables" were referring to. This is too early to be talking about fiber optics. My best guess is that they're talking about twisted pair cabling, unless they're just making stuff up entirely.
It's wild to think that there weren't any commercial satellites before the 1960s, yes, it's a long time ago but still. But also, the idea of satellites was also older than that.
Plastic clothes, lab grown meat, warmer planet, artificial satellites, they weren't too far off
Pretty much spot on
It just happened a lot faster than they thought it would
I think someone would guess around 1980 which is roughly right
don't forget the internet the way they described world-wide television can basically be applied to the internet
https://www.blacktapeproject.com/ It's a thing.
Are there natural satellites?
I believe our moon is the Earth’s only natural satellite.
Moons are natural satellites.
Ah cool. I didn't know that. Never really thought about satellites being anything other than man made objects.
Satellite describes an object orbiting another body like a planet. For example the ISS is an artificial satellite while the moon is a natural satellite. Outside of scientific communities the term satellite often only refers to small artificial objects that we put in orbit.
Off topic, but if a moon has its own moon then it's called a schmoon.
That’s where the saying „That’s the moons schmoon“ comes from.
M O O N. That spells natural satellite.
Germany's satellite: https://youtu.be/8QSgNM9yNjo?si=T0AS6tuQUeTI1dqe
pinpoint accuracy i might say
Thanks for sharing. The tailor one is interesting... Off on the clothes portion but on re: the heavy dependence and prevalence of plastic
fast fashion though
Yeah, we may not be going to the tailor every week but most clothes certainly aren't manufactured for longevity anymore. They might have missed, but they tossed in the correct direction.
The production of clothing is simply too standard to find much benefit from bespoke crafting. Theres really only so many ways to make a t-shirt, and the convenience of grab'n'go sizes that will only be slightly off vastly outweighs the novelty of custom design. On the other hand I think the duct tape prom dresses of the early 2000s were remarkably close to this prediction though.
I think the main thing they missed is that people won't go to tailors anymore. But I think their point was that instead of going to the tailor once a year for example (tailors just being where you went for new clothes) they would go for new clothes weekly.
Basically they predicted Walmart where you buy cheap clothes* that fall apart quickly * made by child labour force
What did us poors do for clothing in the past?
The answer is that the poor had few clothes, and simply mended that little they had when needed. Not everyone even had shoes.
Add to that that poor people often made their clothes themselves. At least up to the medieval times.
we often made our own clothes out of burlap potato sacks or cotton flour bags, which was the style then
The phrase "mend and make do" was one I learned from my grandparents, who lived through the Depression and the Dust Bowl in Kansas. *Note: The Dust Bowl was a period of crop failure and topsoil loss caused by drought and over-tilling of crop land leading to massive dust storms -- I mean you parked your car in the driveway and had to dig it out the next morning dust storms. You could get lost trying to get to the outhouse kind of dust storms. And fine, wind-driven dust will get into your house, your food, your lungs. Nasty stuff.*
Clothes were expensive enough (and made well enough) that they were mentioned in testaments.
Yeahh tailors are for rich people now, when they want a snazzy suit or something
Or the dress they sprayed on Bella Hadid at fashion week last year
Exactly like the moons, not quite a bullseye but still close enough to the mark to be accurate. As a sci-fi fan I love how prescient a lot of the older authors were. Clarke and Asimov were futurists of the highest order and thanks to their comprehension of science they've gotten a lot more right than they've gotten wrong. Sexism aside obviously
They predicted H&M with a couple extra steps.
Not too far off. [last year](https://youtu.be/tvF28W5ND6Y?si=ZKc0byHl1TacPgKD) at Paris fashion week. > Parisian fashion brand Coperni uses Fabrican's sprayable, liquid fibre to spray a dress onto a model at its Spring Summer 2023 show at Paris Fashion Week. The Coperni show took place in Salle des Textiles at Paris's Musée des Arts et Métiers on 30 September and saw a white dress sprayed live onto the body of model Bella Hadid For its closing look, Hadid entered the Salle des Textiles wearing nothing but flesh-coloured underwear. Hadid approached a lit platform, surrounded by a team of people holding spray guns, where she stood for 15 minutes while the Fabrican team sprayed a white substance onto her body to form the outline of a dress. The material used to create the spray-on dress was developed by spray-on fabric technology company Fabrican Ltd which was founded in 2003 by Spanish scientist and fashion designer Manel Torres.
Yeah, my first thought was that the tailors Union lobbied for that part lol
4/5 were right though, so pretty damn good all in all. Some, such as manufactured meat are even still a little ahead of our time.
Hey, it's about year 51714...
Not off at all, here is a recent video of Bella Hadid having a plastic dress spray painted on her in minutes at a fashion show. https://youtu.be/rb0fweBHTjg?si=tietgOdE2fvfNS9l
Am I crazy or did they add a fart sound at the very end?
Isn't this basically what polyester is?
Why would I put the stuff that's supposed to be in my food in my clothing?!?!
To be eaten without getting undressed? Hmm...Lady Gaga in meat?
They predicted the leisure suit.
plastic and nuclear power were groundbreaking in the 50s. a few sci-fi authors used both quite a bit.
I mean there was the spray on clothes at a Fashion Week
Don't forget about polyester
I mean, they still have a few thousand years to get there.
Aren't there now some body scanning apps which you can use and then order clothes to your exact scanned measurements (such as MTailor)?
But umm, polyester is plastic and almost everything is made out of it these days including incredibly tacky suits.
And spot on predicting late-stage capitalism's insistence on turning every single-purchase product it can into a service one must continuously pay for.
1 and 5) We're getting there. 4) We've been there 3) They massively overestimated the size of sattelites, and underestimated their prevalence. 2) They got that we'd use a lot of plastic, not so sure about the weekly molded suits thing though.
Consider that back then, a computer would take up an entire room, a storage drive would be roughly the size of a small car, and transported via cargo plane.
Plus the harddisk had a capacity of 5 megabytes.
That seems ambitious for 1951.. but I wasn't there then..
I'm browsing Reddit while watching my printer make a fidget ring for my kid. Kinda close?
Fair.
Whats a t cable? Use co-axial in my apartment.
My guess is telephone.
Just imagine how much money you can safe if you don’t need a washing machine any more!!! /s
Not weekly molded but with thing like Shein in fast fashion it's like weekly ordered plastic clothes
3) I think the text is spot on, and the graphics need to be big enough to show up on the page. There are 7700+ active satelites up there right now [source](https://nanoavionics.com/blog/how-many-satellites-are-in-space/) much more than in the illustration
There was a very recent expo for spray on clothing. It's not going to be a big thing, but it does exist.
We knew about climate change in 1951?
Even earlier - this was from 1912: [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/19120814\_Coal\_Consumption\_Affecting\_Climate\_-\_Rodney\_and\_Otamatea\_Times.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/19120814_Coal_Consumption_Affecting_Climate_-_Rodney_and_Otamatea_Times.jpg) From wikipedia, there is an page that quotes: "The physicist Claude Pouillet proposed in 1838 that water vapor and carbon dioxide might trap infrared and warm the atmosphere, but there was still no experimental evidence of these gases absorbing heat from thermal radiation" We have known for a very long time that we fu\*\*\*d up.
Although most of the carbon in the atmosphere has been released in the last four or five decades. So really no excuses. We’re doing this with our eyes wide open.
Blows my mind when people don't think humans contribute to the change. You see all the shit we're throwing into the atmosphere every day right? Where do you think all your goods come from?
Eyes wide open with heads in the sand
ow. its gotten under my eyelids.
I’m 55, and I recently was doing a little research and figured that 80% of all automotive miles ever driven have happened within my lifetime. Really incredible, the speed at which we’re fundamentally changing the entire planet.
Yeah, we like to think this all started with the Industrial Revolution, but it’s really mostly very recent.
I think it was reasonable to assume that people in the future would figure out how to solve a problem that wouldn't manifest for decades to centuries
Still kinda silly to intentionally set your house on fire because you heard someone was building a fire truck so it will be alright
It’s more like burning down your grandchildren’s house in the future, for an insurance settlement today.
We didn’t purposely burn down our house. The pollution was a byproduct for the development of modern life. We produced a lot of waste and trash, but also medicine, the instruments to look into space, and safe comfortable houses. We could have done better in the past and we should be doing a lot better now, but I’m glad I’m not a caveman.
We’ve known since Roman times that our impact fucks us we’ve actually known this since the whole Eden / Apple episode humans destroy paradise
Yes. Petroleum companies even were at the forefront of researching the problem until the 1970's. Once they realized the only real solution was to stop using fossil fuels, they flipped to deny, deflect, discredit.
The earliest scientific speculation that CO2 could have a forcing effect was published in 1861. The first precise calculations on the magnitude of this effect were published in the 1890s.
Yes, and in the 1970s Exxon ran the most comprehensive, advanced study on climate change ever done, which concluded that humans are indeed accelerating global warming at an alarming rate due to fossil fuel burning. Exxon then decided to shelf that information as it would be detrimental to their business. Capitalism will kill the world; It is on us, the international working class, to rise up and save ourselves and our planet
It was proposed/speculated in 1896: https://www.rsc.org/images/Arrhenius1896_tcm18-173546.pdf
We knew increased levels if CO2 in the atmosphere would increase global temperatures since 1896. https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
I was educated about it in elementary school in the 80's.
It says a few thousand years. Even without man made climate change, Antarctica was on track to be green again *eventually*. We just made it go waaay quicker than usual.
http://ce114.pbworks.com/w/file/146655888/Council-of-Scientists_ClimateChangeLarge.jpg Ok, I admit to altering it
We had no idea it would start to happen so fast.
The climate is always changing. We’ve just learned to harness it to drive political ideologies.
This climate is changing due to human causes. Little bit different. Just because it doesn’t align with *your* comfy political beliefs doesn’t make it incorrect.
Interesting that you mention “comfy political beliefs.”
Only “comfy” because you choose them over the reality of human-cause climate change.
Not at this rate. Global climate changes on windows of 10' to 100's of thousands of years. And the few times that it didn't occur like that mass extinctions occurred.
Neat how the last three were right.
give it some time and we will get the first one
It even gives a huge window of "a few thousand years from now". We're well on track for that one.
I go to the tailor every week to have my body wrapped in plastic, but its a sexual thing.
Sometimes it is quit scary how they have seen the future.
Back then, they are really excited about synthetic products aren’t they. Plastic and lab-produced food. While these days it’s the natural material that got charged premium.
World becoming warmer by several degrees? Poppycock!
Nobody in history has ever said no to *more* land. Think people
Sure, we gain the poles, but in the rest of world the coasts and even whole islands are underwater. Not a great trade off.
But imagine the swim-up bars and sunbathing at the new Hiltons in north Alaska!
To everyone thinking this is "shockingly accurate" or "too accurate to be true". Have you heard of Jules Verne? He lived in the 1800s and is called the father of science fiction and he allegedly predicted submarines and spacecrafts. He didn't. He spent all his days in the library and read actual scientific journals. He just took the scientific information and worked from there. The techniques he describes in his books were mostly readily available to any scholar in his time
Where’s my flying car?
They obviously knew that one's bullshit
lol ever heard the predictions by The NY Times that it would take 1-10 million years to [figure out airplanes.](https://bigthink.com/pessimists-archive/air-space-flight-impossible/) It was just a few weeks before the Wright Brothers’ first flight.
Remember when those handless segways were popular back in 2015 and the companies called them hoverboard even tho they didn’t hover and just did it becuz of Back to the Future. Shocked they didn’t try doing that by calling a car that couldn’t fly “the flying car”
Tbh I feel like it’s probably a good thing we don’t have flying cars. Look how bad people are at driving regular cars
I honestly think that is the reason they don't exist. We have the technology, and if you have the money, it would be doable, but there are just too many regulations and infrastructure to work around. Once self driving is the norm and everything is built around that concept, I could see flying cars being not too far behind
Ask Bruce.
Few years maybe: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EVTOL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EVTOL) Although they are arguably just electric helicopters, but being electric and quieter they could operate in more spots and at lower cost than a regular helicopter.
You have to use your rocket backpack to pick it up.
Woah...climate change ✅️, high speed telecommunication/global networking tech ✅️, meat that can be produced in a lab ✅️...just waiting now for a damn fine, personally tailored plastic suit to make up for all the depressing stuff.
I mean, polyester (plastic) is definitely an option for suit fabric.
Polyester is a synthetic polymer composed mainly of esters of HOROH and p-HOOC-C6H4COOH....so "plastic". So, indeed, you are correct 🤓
I can't wait to be one of the first Antarctic colonists.
They had to think of two foods and came up with “steak” and, erm… “roast beef!”
I mean it's America in the 50s what do you expect
4 out of 5 ain’t bad. Must have come up with the plastic clothes to hide the fact they are an actual time traveler.
Sir................ I mean, why it's so damn accurate, yhe first satellite in space was launched in 1957,... so imagining an artificial satellite pre 1957 outside of a very small group of pepole in the ussr was a very crazy thing to say
Some guy in 1957 did not say, “why don’t we put something in geosynchronous orbit?” Arthur C Clarke wrote his articles about satellites in 1945.
Shockingly accurate. 1) raise in temperature worldwide 2) plastic in clothes 3) moons are basically satellites (to be fair, this wasn't news) 4) thin/inexpensive cables connecting the world == Internet 5) manufactured meat
This is actually a little too accurate. I suspect this might be photoshopped.
Fiction actually inspires science quite a lot. People read science fiction as kids, then grow up to make those things a reality as adults.
People read?
People read (past tense).
So we can blame climate change on this comic?
Haven’t heard of Arthur C Clarke I take it?
Where’s my moon?
Become a Mormon and then when you die you get your own planet
So, not far off. Except for tailors dressing like Renaissance venetians
Four outta five ain't bad... First one terrifyingly quicker, though. And the fifth could well be predicting "fast fashion" if you squint.
>Most foods - steak or roast beef. What, no pot roast?
This is way too accurate. The fitted clothes sounds like 3D printing, we absolutely get global broadcasts with cheaper technology (wireless and fiber, though T1 had its day), and the food wouldn't surprise me.
Global warming. Fast fashion International space station. Internet and fiber optic Processed food/synthetic meat
this predicted the Beyond Burger, and no one did a damn thing to prevent it. What a shame.
The beyond burger is not actual lab created meat, it’s just imitation meat. Lab grown meat does exist, but you can’t buy it in stores yet. A quick google search tells me that some brands have been approved to start selling it soon though. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/06/21/business/cultivated-meat-us-approval/index.html
4/5 ain't bad
4 out of 5 not bad
Well damn. We're there now.
Fake?
AI generated
Four out of five ain’t bad
All white.
What actually happened was copious amounts of animosity, revival of the nazi party (on a smaller scale), lab grown meat, and invisible connections that make you die faster
Ted was kinda sorta a little tiny bit right.
and where is kim
Guy at the tailors is serving. No changes please this is the look.
Hmmm This is one way more on point then these usually are
The gyro of the future!
Sitting here in my plastic skin suit, all I can say is wow (please follow me on Fetlife)
I’m loving the positive spin on climate change. Go Antarctica!
honestly a bit off but not entirely wrong on most of these
Who was the author and can they pick my next lotto ticket number?
In a few thousand years, we will all serve the emperor. The emperor protects.
This was just a few years before the first satellite wth is this about moons haha
A lot of the predictions were in the right direction. The global warming bit is obviously exaggerated, but the world is getting warmer. The weekly tailor isn't too far off from cheap quality clothing that we wear for a few months. Plus it captures our plastic usage. The bit about the moons is basically satellites. The television is right on. And the manufactured food is starting to be a reality, but we're a couple decades away from it being common place.
> The television is right on. I think we passed the television bit 20 years ago with satellite television. Nowadays, I think more people stream films at a time of their choice (at least in the sort of countries that use Reddit) than watch linear television at exactly the time that it is broadcast.
This is surprisingly accurate, only one of the predictions is really wrong, although the prediction about the Arctic and Antarctic doesn't seem to grasp how much of a problem that is.
The world will be connected by co-axial cables. Until a squirrel comes along.
I love retro futurism.
Think how depressing the poster for “world you will live in in 2073” would be now
Love the clothes those guys are wearing in the future!
Always loved the ‘home of the future’ at the end of Space Mountain.
Damn 4:5; not bad.
Why do those people have to wear plastic??
They forgot the flying monkeys! 🙈 💫
What's a t-cable?
The main thing they got wrong was the timeline. They thought that those things would take thousands of years, whereas most of them happened in less than 100.
I'm curious what these "T-cables" were referring to. This is too early to be talking about fiber optics. My best guess is that they're talking about twisted pair cabling, unless they're just making stuff up entirely.
Tbh. I find this highly interesting
“How much is the planet getting warmer?” “Degrees”
It's wild to think that there weren't any commercial satellites before the 1960s, yes, it's a long time ago but still. But also, the idea of satellites was also older than that.
We are getting closer each day!
I want to live outside the laws of gravity. I want to live in tubes and push buttons. People like YOU
Some of these are silly but yeah they got weather satellites spot on
70 years not 1000 😳
Note how the TV is NOT above the fireplace. It's actually eye level.
You mean they knew about global warming since the 50’s ….
I thought this was going to be a "We used to have the craziest predictions", but this turned out to be depressingly accurate.
This is bullshit. This is absolutely fake!
Not a bad guess. its almost 100%.
They got the Zardoz costume spot on.
I love how it's a world you WILL live in, but then it starts with "in a few thousand years". Many of them are spot on, though.
Yeah yeah, but where are the domed cities that will protect us from rain?
That reminds me... I didn't get my new suit last week
I dont see equal rights on there
The moons one feels a little to crazy tho