Well, they sort of have a few hits… Urban areas are expanding (sort of, into “suburban areas” and requiring more highway traffic), commuter ranges have increased, you can follow your progress with a Nav system but still have to do the driving… And we have underwater tunnels, just without huge interchanges like they predict and not transcontinental.
Where’s my solar powered floating car that drives on the ceiling?!
There’s no mention of foreign oil dependency crippling technology! I love how the sun eats up all the cars and roadways in the end. sounds about right.
The atomic car! That sounds like a great way to reduce dependency on foreign oil! Except for the lead bunker that would have to be built around the nuclear reactor.
It is really amazing how many its they actually had when you think about what technology they had at the time. GPS, RVs, urban expansion, video conferencing, rear view monitors, traffic monitoring, etc.
They forgot to mention the obesity problem. if you have all these automated ways of doing things and you only walk 5 yards to your desk surely it will be a nation of extremely fat people.
Whenever this was made, it was before the time when carbon had a footprint.
Seems like all these types of video include the phrase “blah blah fantasy to us, but commonplace to future generations”. Sooner or later we’ll learn that any sentence starting “In the future” is probably way off on most things, even if it gets a few hits. Whether we then stop making such predictions.. remains to be seen (In the future )
They forgot to mention that everyone is morbidly obese, it’s not safe to breathe the air outside of the conditioned tubes and vehicles, millions will die in wars over territory on which the new transport systems will be built as well as in the actual construction, and the life expectancy is 34.
If anyone is interested in this kind of stuff, i.e, paleo futures, there’s a blog dedicated to these kind of videos and other predictions from the last couple of centuries here; http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/ Look up some of the predictions regarding wireless video games from the late 70s – pretty cool to think we’ve blasted way past some things, but not others.
Why does “FATHER” get to program their destinations? And if he’s even half a second late for work he’ll miss the 200th floor parking elevator, then have to put his glass hatchback somewhere in the janitorial garage under the building. THEN walk up millions of stairs to his office.
Fun video. All I could think was how much freakin energy it would take to radiant-heat all those miles of highway. lol…
i’ve seen this before. good old classic animation. i wonder who did the v.o. though. i could picture a young orson welles doing it but i doubt it was him. anyone have a clue who the voice is?
I don’t like these old videos of crappy predictions of the future. They just arent well thought out. However, I must admit, the cliff-elevators touched my heart.
Yeah, that crap about “father goes to work while wife and son goes shopping” and “father chooses the destination” got me peeved. Sexist jerks. Just like the Jetsons.
Funny that Disney, maker of so many nature & wildlife movies, wouldn’t even mention nature or the side-effects of an ever-expanding suburbian lifestyle with roads and traffic disecting nearly every land ecosystem. Same goes for cultural sites, ruining every scenery just so people can drive through there?
OK, I guess it was a completely different time, a time of naive visions of a future, full of luxery, comfort, safety, peace and a neverending prosperity with just a husband’s 25 hour work week (plus atomic power) enough to pay for all the goodness.
Today millions are going to makeshift beds hungry, health care and a decent education isn’t something people can take for granted, a uncounted mass of children and young adults die or suffer in wars or from pollution of the environment and while the rich live in careless disneylike utopian islands with gems and gold, the rest struggles just to keep alive or pay their debts.
All i thought when i saw the car flying suspended from the upside down highway was ‘no way’ there’d be a lot of worried calls to breakdown companies, ‘er hello triple A? I seem to have broken do-Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!’
1. I have a rear view TV in my car 2. The road crusher does refinishing a lane as it drives along. Really cool and smelly to watch. 3. You can cut holes through rock with a lazar, but nothing too big yet. 4. In some places they have rotating parcking garages. 5. holy crap punch cards? This really is old.
And lastly, Too many people can’t drive well enough to handle change. Hell enough people can’t drive well enough to drive what they have and would destroy everything build in the future.
No flying cars, just SUN POWERED FLOATY CARS that can go upside down. yeah that would work…
Geez, who asked Disney to put this together? General Motors? I get that highways are the way of the future, but this looks like it was made during a time when petro fuel was ‘unlimited’ (so, like the 50′s). And wouldn’t it be nice to have an atomic powered car. Man, what an age we live in.
I would say about 40%-60% of any of this came true, placing aside the punch card factor and the space race. The concept of urban sprawl though was somewhat of an oxymoron in this video. Sadly enough we don’t have international tunnel ways yet, and trucks haul a lot more than this video can depict.
Lets see, video conference, navigator systems and safety systems integrated to the car dash are becoming common nowadays, and RV’s are pretty common now, save for the kind that transform in to hydroplanes. And turbine engines run hot, and jet engines would probably too impractical to maintain.
This video places a lot of faith in automation, when nearly every thing today contradicts this piece of film save for a few key concepts.
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Ahhhhhhh… back when Disney was also not just a money grabbing whore like it is now.
Lovely lovely future
if only we had unlimited energy… cold fusion or something along those lines… then most of this wouldn’t be a problem… sigh…
Well, they sort of have a few hits… Urban areas are expanding (sort of, into “suburban areas” and requiring more highway traffic), commuter ranges have increased, you can follow your progress with a Nav system but still have to do the driving… And we have underwater tunnels, just without huge interchanges like they predict and not transcontinental.
Where’s my solar powered floating car that drives on the ceiling?!
What is it with visions of the future and round video monitors?
Ah yes, punch cards! Data storage of the future!
There’s no mention of foreign oil dependency crippling technology! I love how the sun eats up all the cars and roadways in the end. sounds about right.
The atomic car! That sounds like a great way to reduce dependency on foreign oil! Except for the lead bunker that would have to be built around the nuclear reactor.
Propaganda machine for the highway builders and oil companies. GOOD STUFF
Someone needs to post “Victory through Air Power”
“Ah yes, punch cards! Data storage of the future!”
Ha!
Honestly though, we DO have the rear-view camera!
It is really amazing how many its they actually had when you think about what technology they had at the time. GPS, RVs, urban expansion, video conferencing, rear view monitors, traffic monitoring, etc.
So every time they invent a new “car” it requires massive Highway overhaul, sounds efficient to me….
They forgot to mention the obesity problem. if you have all these automated ways of doing things and you only walk 5 yards to your desk surely it will be a nation of extremely fat people.
Sixty…that was my first thought…that they hadn’t drawn the people fat enough!
lol @ cargo rocket
Scott, when was this made? Is there a date on it somewhere?
It’s all so close yet so far away.
Whenever this was made, it was before the time when carbon had a footprint.
Seems like all these types of video include the phrase “blah blah fantasy to us, but commonplace to future generations”. Sooner or later we’ll learn that any sentence starting “In the future” is probably way off on most things, even if it gets a few hits. Whether we then stop making such predictions.. remains to be seen (In the future
)
They forgot to mention that everyone is morbidly obese, it’s not safe to breathe the air outside of the conditioned tubes and vehicles, millions will die in wars over territory on which the new transport systems will be built as well as in the actual construction, and the life expectancy is 34.
Ah, the future…
I think the maker of “minority report” must have grown up with this.
lol, love the flying ambulance, those landing gear dont look fragile at all
Philip K Dick was probably watching stuff like this.
If anyone is interested in this kind of stuff, i.e, paleo futures, there’s a blog dedicated to these kind of videos and other predictions from the last couple of centuries here;
http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/
Look up some of the predictions regarding wireless video games from the late 70s – pretty cool to think we’ve blasted way past some things, but not others.
Yeah, okay sure, but how do they breathe?
The hits: simpler highway signs, forward-looking display, traffic bulletins, rearview car cameras, navigation display, in-car teleconference, recreational vehicles, container cargo, and cheery busybody theme music.
Maybe not the last one.
I love it. Instant classic.
Why does “FATHER” get to program their destinations? And if he’s even half a second late for work he’ll miss the 200th floor parking elevator, then have to put his glass hatchback somewhere in the janitorial garage under the building. THEN walk up millions of stairs to his office.
Fun video.
All I could think was how much freakin energy it would take to radiant-heat all those miles of highway. lol…
i’ve seen this before. good old classic animation. i wonder who did the v.o. though. i could picture a young orson welles doing it but i doubt it was him. anyone have a clue who the voice is?
I don’t like these old videos of crappy predictions of the future. They just arent well thought out. However, I must admit, the cliff-elevators touched my heart.
Yeah, that crap about “father goes to work while wife and son goes shopping” and “father chooses the destination” got me peeved. Sexist jerks. Just like the Jetsons.
But what about my personal jetpack?!
Has anybody made a game based on this “Jet Punk” style of technology? The closest thing in mainstream entertainment I can think of is Venture Bros.
I would love a Bioshock style game that is set in this sort of time and thinking, punch card activated security bots for the win!
This vision of the future spnsored by Shell and GM.
Yes, disney was a money-grabbing whore back then too…
Well of course it’s sexist; It’s the fifties.
Funny that Disney, maker of so many nature & wildlife movies, wouldn’t even mention nature or the side-effects of an ever-expanding suburbian lifestyle with roads and traffic disecting nearly every land ecosystem. Same goes for cultural sites, ruining every scenery just so people can drive through there?
OK, I guess it was a completely different time, a time of naive visions of a future, full of luxery, comfort, safety, peace and a neverending prosperity with just a husband’s 25 hour work week (plus atomic power) enough to pay for all the goodness.
Today millions are going to makeshift beds hungry, health care and a decent education isn’t something people can take for granted, a uncounted mass of children and young adults die or suffer in wars or from pollution of the environment and while the rich live in careless disneylike utopian islands with gems and gold, the rest struggles just to keep alive or pay their debts.
TANSTAAFL, somebody always pays the price.
@ princessincognita here is your jetpack: http://www.jetpackinternational.com/ if your rich and dont mind dumping alot of money into one.
@ Serveck – Fantastico!!
It’s called the Magic Highway, USA Segment, made in 1958.
I’m still waiting for the day when scientists invent magic.
All i thought when i saw the car flying suspended from the upside down highway was ‘no way’ there’d be a lot of worried calls to breakdown companies, ‘er hello triple A? I seem to have broken do-Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!’
Ah… when times were simpler… and there were no side-effects to ANYTHING.
1. I have a rear view TV in my car
2. The road crusher does refinishing a lane as it drives along. Really cool and smelly to watch.
3. You can cut holes through rock with a lazar, but nothing too big yet.
4. In some places they have rotating parcking garages.
5. holy crap punch cards? This really is old.
And lastly, Too many people can’t drive well enough to handle change. Hell enough people can’t drive well enough to drive what they have and would destroy everything build in the future.
No flying cars, just SUN POWERED FLOATY CARS that can go upside down. yeah that would work…
Geez, who asked Disney to put this together? General Motors? I get that highways are the way of the future, but this looks like it was made during a time when petro fuel was ‘unlimited’ (so, like the 50′s). And wouldn’t it be nice to have an atomic powered car. Man, what an age we live in.
if only socialism worked, this would too.
For this to happen the gov’t would really need to be in control and be accountable.
just like communism though, great on paper (in video) nearly impossible in practice.
I like how “Father” has to go to work while “mother” and the child shop all day.
Also, punch cards? really?
I would say about 40%-60% of any of this came true, placing aside the punch card factor and the space race. The concept of urban sprawl though was somewhat of an oxymoron in this video. Sadly enough we don’t have international tunnel ways yet, and trucks haul a lot more than this video can depict.
Lets see, video conference, navigator systems and safety systems integrated to the car dash are becoming common nowadays, and RV’s are pretty common now, save for the kind that transform in to hydroplanes. And turbine engines run hot, and jet engines would probably too impractical to maintain.
This video places a lot of faith in automation, when nearly every thing today contradicts this piece of film save for a few key concepts.