Anything seemed possible in the 1890’s and thankfully we still have a record of the future that they expected. This is how people in the 1890’s imagined the future.
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A lot of these "predictions" were inspirations for what came later. Making a prediction is easy compared to actually producing the object.
I wonder 🤔 if Jules Verne met a time traveler
Not only did I LIKE this, I SUBSCRIBED!!!
Geo engineering they can control the weather. And they have DEW direct energy weapons. They have had this stuff for long time.
cool
To be honest, growing up with the Jetsons I thought there would be a lot of flying cars by now.
But I still want Rosie the robot.
You scoff at the flying machines. Maybe they are yet to come in 2100.
Antigravity machines are not common place yet, but maybe in 100 years
Have you read, Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy? Published 1888.
That's funny going by Halley's comet one I can probably only see it once in my lifetime hell I don't think I've even seen it the first time yet I was born in November of 86
It's all about travel/transport – which is probably the one thing that hasn't improved for over four decades i.e. People can still fly, get a bus, train or drive.
There are heavy transports of Buildings today min 5.23!
I wonder how many of those things came about because once they had been envisioned people then worked to make them happen. If that is what did happen should we try to envisage a future where all creatures are happy and fullfilled?
Funny how they thought children would still be sweeping chimneys and we’d still be dressed like goofballs. Also, outside of how the craft is structured NASA had to to influenced by Jules Verne. That’s just too on the nose.
In the 1970s and 80s people imagined flying cars in 2000…. I am still waiting
All of the predictions appear to be a product of western culture. Free market capitalist democracies of Christian core ideology. Am I wrong? Are there similar examples from other cultures?
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1890s. No apostrophe.
Predicciones asombrosa 😮
Learning plus fun! Very enjoyable video. Thanks 😊
Pretty cool that our great grandparents were imagining this stuff.
8:15 Jules Vern also wrote his novel “From the Earth to the Moon”, yet so far none of the 19th century predictors seem interested in space travel. Perhaps his book was considered so far fetched no one considered space travel remotely realistic and hesitated to make such predictions for fear of being mocked ?
12:44 I spoke too soon, but still, only one space reference , limited to the moon. Space exploration doesn’t seem of much interest though but now that I think about it, after the 1969 moon landing we today don’t seem all that motivated to push out further which is strange since sooner or later our continuation as a species depends on it.
BTW. I just discovered your channel and find it both interesting and funny to laugh at ourselves. Times change, people don’t!
9:53 I can’t help but wonder why the gentleman in this red air vehicle, waiting for his parcels is holding a whip!? It’s not for horses, there are no horses pictured. He’s either very impatient with his servants or he and his wife have some sort of BDSM fetish planned to pass the time during their air voyage! Mind you, I’m not concerned, she won’t feel a thing through her whalebone corset, besides, he’ll never get the damn thing off with all the inflight turbulence….especially with the seatbelt and No Smoking sign 🚭 on.
20:31 I’ve read almost every book Jules Vern wrote. They are much more in-depth than the films made about his novels would suggest. His predictions were accurate because he based them on scientific information, economics, intelligence and common sense. He wasn’t just guessing. He powered his Nautilus and moon rocket on force X for the rocket and submarine on what he called “The energy that powers the universe, which I feel was his most intelligent prediction…..nuclear energy. Vern wasn’t just a good writer he was a brilliant man with a vast knowledge from marine biology, physics and chemistry to nuclear physics. The amount of Maine biology in 20,000 Leagues Under the sea he writes about is astonishing and his understanding for the need to overcome the power of gravity to break the bonds of earth in “From the Earth to the Moon” is proof he was well educated and very intelligent. H. G. Wells wrote some highly accurate predictions as well, including the risk of nuclear war! And yet Nostradamus gets more attention and credit for his obscure hidden nonsense than Vern or Wells, neither of which hide their predictions in suggestive disguised verse or quatrains that where subject to interpretation (or more accurately) misinterpretation!
Sincerely,
Doc
Once again, I love your channel, I was fortunate to stumble across it by chance and subscribed immediately. I recognize a good thing when I see it!
Geez, why was this channel recommended to me? It's like mainstream smut.
Is it out of the realm of possibility that the moon landing was based of the book ? And subsequently filmed in 1969
My prediction is soon tattoos will light up with tiny LEDs imbeddedin the skin.
Beer looks good.
Why are you walking around with the microphone extension? Why don't you just carry the microphone? Like the content.
Let's not forget Sci-fi writter P.K.Dick and his way of seeing virtual reality, eyescanners, moving advertisement almost everywhere and many more neat technologies that came roughly 50 years later.
Having the title every story is very distracting. I do like the content.
John Adams predicted the American Civil War. He said that if the issue of slavery wasn't settled right away, the nation would turn against itself within 100 years. (The war started 85 years later.)
Nicholas Fauch was not that much of a prophet!
Fab.
Blazingly astonishing video here m8, people in the past were definitely 'optimistic' to say the least. I DID 'like' and I DID subscribe and one of the main reasons is that it would seem you actually read our comments and reply to them. Good on ya m8, good on ya. Much success to you, looking forward to seeing more videos.
I’m still waiting for my Jetpack from the 1960s predictions
Wonderful video Sir.
Should have included H.G. Wells (author of War of the Worlds and others).
He predicted aircraft, tanks, WWII, moon landings, nuclear weapons, satellite communications, world wide web.
It's not "Hailey's" Comet. 🙃