Featured Image Credit: Reddit / damnthatsinteresting
A bizarre video from the 1960s predicted what technology would be like in the year 2000 and it’s eerily accurate.
The rate that tech is advancing, it seems impossible to predict where we’ll be in the next 10 years, let alone in another 40.
But in the 60s, people were tasked with looking to the future and trying to imagine what could be in store for us.
In a resurfaced clip, it’s shocking to see just how accurate some of these guesses were.
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Considering that in the 1960s, homes were lucky to have appliances like microwaves, push button phones or a computer, it’s crazy to see how they were right on the money.
The footage begins with a father and son talking to the mother through video chat in two different rooms of the same house.
The scene isn’t too dissimilar to the way we’ll use FaceTime now instead of shouting downstairs.
The computer screen then displays their options for dinner, depending on the family’s nutritional needs and what is in the fridge.
This tech seems to be making an appearance in more recent years, such as using ChatGPT to figure out what to do with your leftovers.
You then see their plates lowered down through a tube, and their food, which is frozen individual portions based on each family member’s nutritional needs, being cooked in seconds.
Back in 2000, many families were having microwave meals and it also saw the rise of food delivery making it quicker than ever to have a hot dinner.
The narrator then reveals that the plates are actually color-coded dishes and are disposable, and the new technologies are part of the “instant society of tomorrow”. In 2000, people were becoming more environmentally conscious, so disposable plates weren’t really popular, besides at parties.
The video itself popped up on a Reddit thread called r/Damnthatsinteresting, and over 2.4 thousand users have rushed to the comment section.
Many praise the accuracy of the video, such as: “They nailed it, we have video phones, TV dinners, microwave and smart fridges,” and: “If you consider that the food machine could be replaced with DoorDash then they were really only off by 20ish years.”
But, commenters are shocked at the mom being portrayed as a housewife, writing: ”They seem to still want women to serve men in their 2000 future! Lol,” and: “Biggest thing they got wrong is the wife not needing to work.”
Users are also disappointed because nutrition is not a priority in our microwave meals, commenting: “Instead we got junk food, corn syrup and an obesity epidemic,” and: “I wish this was real - eating and cooking and groceries are hard to not just eat easy snack junk food all the time.”
