Kids in the 1960's predict what the year 2000 will be like

[Uncle Joe]

[dslyahoo]

1. Dark perspective

The kids of the 60s certainly looked towards a very dark future. Not sure that was true across the board. I was about 5 years younger than the ones in the video and thought the 21st century would offer more hope. Looks like maybe they were more right.

[Uncle Joe]

2. I was thinking it was probably because of Vietnam along with the Cold War

being at its' height.

[LeftInTX]

3. I could never get past that I was gonna be 43

I was gonna be a "grandma"..I was gonna have a hunched spine and need a cane.
I was gonna be old.

I never could get past that image..LOL

[smirkymonkey]

4. K&R

[hfojvt]

5. 1:55 is pretty amazing

What is that kid 14? He's so serious and thoughtful. Also very well dressed (absurdly so).

Then this kid, who presumably has not even graduated from High School (or even Junior High?) says "If I wasn't a biologist ..."

Reminds me of when I was perhaps 19 and for some reason was cutting a milk jug with a paring knife. I said jokingly "I should have been a surgeon." My mom shot back "You haven't been anything yet."

[Uncle Joe]

7. I felt the same way hfojvt.

[bluecollar2]

8. They're wearing school uniforms

It's a thing in England.

I had to wear one. Grey slacks/shorts, white shirt, school tie, blazer with school crest...

In 1960 we were still digging up unexploded bombs dropped during the war. Lots of bomb damaged buildings still not rebuilt etc..

[hfojvt]

6. I recently re-read Blade Runner

It was set in our past, and earth had had some nuclear war, but also had androids, flying cars and a colony on Mars an obsession with animals and a new religion using an empathy machine, and also a machine to control your own mood.

Somewhere I saw a timeline of the dates of major science fiction works, but cannot find it now, but find this list of predictions of the future

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stories_set_in_a_future_now_past