AT&T You Will Ads From 1993 - Amazingly accurate predictions

[Charlozilla]

and the company who will bring it to you ... is NOT AT&T :)

[ValentinTify]

so well SIRI was suppose to be a GUY ...@1:40

[InSainMuzik]

APPLE DID IT.

[thechosen1228]

Some of the technology we have today is more advanced than the ones in that commercial.

[feachador]

What's a "phone booth"?

[fujifrontier]

what kind of GPS unit was that?

[dmitrislepovitch]

My presumption is, at the time there were really smart people at AT&T. But this company tends to rather rip off their customers than put forward innovations and listen to the people who are foreseeing 5 and 6 steps ahead. And it is very possible that the people who stood behind those brilliant ahead-of-time ideas just left for Google, Apple, Microsoft, Skype, etc. AT&T... YOU WISH.

[foxh8er]

Student : "So where did jazz come from?"

Professor "GTFO"

[CrixMakin]

0:50 scientologist alert!

[WhoaKaela]

AT&T WAS ROBBED! lol

[MrIvanKite]

They didn't predict 9/11 did they?

[UberT0mm]

props to their concept team. balls to their execution team.

[TRYER25]

This video is pure witchcraft. AT&T will burn at the stake for this={o

[derman077]

Have you ever had a monthly phone bill upwards of a thousand dollars ? You will, and the company that will bring it to you....

[DJMikaelito]

Its not accurate they had that technology but the pigs want to make more money and more money and more money....so they bring the technology with a really slow speed.

to make more money of course...fking capitalism

[nakamichiguy]

The basis for many of the technologies we take for granted now were pioneered by AT&T's Bell Labs. It was really an amazing company. The real shame is that they just couldn't monetize it.

Sad fact: Kodak invented digital photography in the 70s and marketed the first practical digital SLRs in the 90s. They're all but heading for bankruptcy now.

[jojopuppyfish]

Have you ever given a computer an orgasm with your tongue? You will. And AT&T will make you that whore.

[uneventom]

Have you ever waved your hairy dick at hundreds of unsuspecting strangers from the comfort of your basement?

[StarFieldsCo]

Have you ever watched a hot naked lady, 4000 kilometers away from you in her bath tub? YOU WILL.

[marky456x]

Who is the narrator of this? He sounds SO familiar!

[ericklaw]

@marky456x Magnum PI himsef Tom Selleck.

[sqrka]

@marky456x he also sounds a lot like david duchovny to me, especially when he says "you will" ;)

[aeuiono]

This AT&T doesn't exist anymore. Back in 2005 they were bought out by SBC, who just uses the AT&T branding now. Didn't see that one coming, did ya, Nostradamus?

[Chad9976]

They were predicting GPS and iPads but somehow PHONE BOOTHS were still in the picture!?

[BentTV]

@Chad9976 They got half of it right thought because of video conferencing on your mobile vs a phonebooth

[BKV0Damien]

@Chad9976 Superman needs a place to change, you know. >_>

[2007spam]

Commodity that already existed in 1993(Though the quality is bad).

1993年に既に存在した商品（品質は悪いが）

[subsynchronous]

There's no indication of a prediction as this is assumed by the viewer. It's just a fine piece of futurology art.

[cleoparker]

So there's a phone booth - do you think ATT wanted those to go away? Wireless PCs were OK in their future - wireless phones, not so much

[masoncat1]

You'd think in the "future" with the big flat screen television, the kid would at least have a remote.

[statesman024]

@masoncat1 if you noticed, the tv was touch screen.

[masoncat1]

@ 1:12 = Juwanna Mann

[Nae00]

The Phone booth made me "Lol"

hahaa.

[MsGeek703]

Phonebooth was wrong. Yeah, it's all cute and Blade Runner Vidphone but nobody realized people would videoconference over IP.

[hoyle1911]

This really wasn't that "predictive" back in 1993. The tech existed back then, it was just a matter of adoption and economy of scale. Like how Apple behaves like they invented video conferencing on a mobile device with their iPhone, when Japan/Korea have been doing that already for years. Just a matter of who successfully markets it first.

[shwhjw]

Some company should do these sort of adverts again. Get people drooling over what sorta technology is coming.

[johoyouknow]

everything looks like blade runner

[cesarkohl]

Have you ever played a video game with all your friends where all of you are farmers and to keep things going on you will need to spend money and wake up several times on the middle of the night?

You will.

[DoggySpew]

Well, the prediction came true. Except which company would bring it to us.

[bummers]

Kinect @ 1:35

[luckyfukr]

AT&T predicted those things pretty well, but Star Trek had all that shit even before 1993..

[Joeey]

ATT prediction: In 2011 you will have ATT DSL internet that is so slow that it won't even stream a YouTube video. ATT will bring it to you. Welcome to USA with third world internet. And the company that will bring it you, AT&T.

[koolkeef]

@Joeey You've just offended third world ISPs

[viirtuosity]

i wish 1:45 went like this..."Now any questions?.... Oakland?" "So where did jazz come from?" "Good question... ma nigga...."

[clintisiceman]

They loved the video phone booth so much they used it twice, and it's one of the three or so things that didn't actually come true.

[PsychoFreke]

I don't know about AT&T bringing it to us, but that is pretty amazing since in 1993 a lot of that was science fiction. If any of it did exist, I'm sure it was out of reach to the average consumer and only affordable to the upper class.

[67tr876]

@PsychoFreke All that stuff has been here seen the 1960s you make it sound like its the 1800s only for the rich lol They are just trying to say they will bring it all to you and just them. Are you like 10 years old ? you should know they had cell phones in the 70s.

[PsychoFreke]

@67tr876 I'm aware that they had cell phones in the 70's but some of that technology displayed in the commercial would've only been within the financial reach of the elite back in 1993. Are you really that bored that out of all of these comments you skipped over a couple of pages just to reply to something I posted 5 months ago? Get a life, dude.

[67tr876]

@PsychoFreke Well fuck you too then.

[PsychoFreke]

@67tr876 Your not my type. You're boring and you spend long periods of time on the computer looking through pages of comments to reply to. 

[67tr876]

@PsychoFreke You're an asshole. And thats all that can be told to you.

[PsychoFreke]

@67tr876 I've been told that before, probably get told again *shrugs* If that's the worst thing I ever do, then I'm good :)

[grace317]

Well, it's not "amazing" because this shows what they aimed for, and other companies etc would take these ideas too. It IS interesting though

[captainpiccard]

Only one that didn't quite come true is the medical information one. At least here in the US... Also, the phonebooth one, but we actually surpassed that one with FaceTime and Skype...

[Creeporia]

Anybody notice that the woman in the phone booth is Jenna Elfman?

[1jbong]

ILLUMANTI ALL OVER THIS

[xpensfanatic2009]

Lol who would go on a video phone at a public phone booth?

[galadax]

Turkcell'le bağlan hayataa

hayataa bağlan Turkcell'le :P

[solidkingcobra]

WE"RE IN THE FUTURE GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[killerbng]

we still dont have the video phone booth..well atleast that I know of...maybe in tech savvy japan they might though LOL....any1 know?

[GuyEndore]

Where did jazz come from?I need to know!?!

[xispas2008]

hahah funny but all true

nice predictions! wrong company!

[blogbat]

A lot of this was common sense, but I did enjoy the irony of the one thing AT&T failed to properly predict: the cell phone. The only part of the ads that was off was that people would still be using phone booths.

[catokeeffe]

@blogbat Cell phones already existed long before 1993. The reason the woman is using the phone booth is because AT&T didn't predict VIDEO cellphones, which are still a relatively new phenomenon.

[blogbat]

@catokeeffe My point was regarding the ubiquitous cell phone, not the $1000+ variety. But you make a good point in mentioning they also failed to anticipate video mobile phones, as well. Something any reasonable mind would have reasonable anticipated based on trend.

[mrbunnylamakins]

At&T brought us none of this Tech MAJOR *FAIL!*

[VVhizz]

Is the woman in the phonebooth Jenna Elfman from Dharma and Greg?

And lol, sending a fax. Never sent one in my life, not even from the beach.

[silasmcleoud]

Think about it people...these things aren't made a year after the idea was thought of. All of these were already in the works. Remember, the government always has technology ten years more advanced than us. Also, why do you think that every smart phone that comes out ends up having bugs and a year later they come out with a better one? Guess what? They already have one that doesn't have bugs but how would they keep making money if they put that one out right away?

[catokeeffe]

@silasmcleoud Yeah, I was with you until you got to the whole planned obsolescence mass conspiracy thing. See, for your stupid little idea to actually work, all the companies would have to get together and collude to release faulty products at the same time. That's not the way the world works. People are far too stupid to plan stuff like that and actually keep it a secret. Please develop some common sense. It'll serve you well in the long run.

[silasmcleoud]

@catokeeffe I'm not going to be rude because I am on the internet like you are doing, but I'm simply going to state that you have no proof that they would have to all be working together. Not to say that I have proof but it seems a little more sensible that they WOULD do this. It doesn't have to be some huge plotted out thing it's actually quite a simple idea. It's all about supply and demand. It's not some big evil conspiracy theory it's a marketing strategy.

[silasmcleoud]

@catokeeffe Also, do you think that the moment they test it, see that it works correctly, then slap a cover over it they're going to release it? I know you don't but you're really coming off as a really one sided asshole. Just an observation. It's always good to brainstorm ideas to try to come to a conclusion. That is the way of progress. Progress does not occur when ideas are tossed aside without a closer look. Don't become another asshole internet surfer, treat others with respect.

[silasmcleoud]

@catokeeffe After you shed that superiority complex of yours maybe we can discuss this and come to an agreement or agree to disagree.

[catokeeffe]

@silasmcleoud It's not something that has to be "agreed on." It's a simple matter of fact. If companies didn't collude, then they would try to out-compete one another by selling superior products (which you claim they have) to get a better hold on the market. Moreover, if they were colluding (which is illegal btw), it's totally ridiculous to believe that such widespread, flagrant violation of the law would go unnoticed and ignored by everyone except for you. Why don't you shed your stupidity?

[catokeeffe]

@silasmcleoud Anyone with even the slightest amount of intelligence or relevant education can tell you all that. The very nature of supply and demand, which you clearly misunderstand, would lead to the exact opposite result of what you claim happens. Go back to playing your guitar and leave the economics to people with an IQ over 45.

[silasmcleoud]

@catokeeffe Haha alright. I still don't see why you feel the need to be rude. You know if it was in person you wouldn't do the same. Just to let you know you're really big and look really cool talking shit online. For real! Congratulations!

[catokeeffe]

@silasmcleoud Actually, if you said something so astonishingly stupid in person, I would act the same. Oh, and great job dodging the issue, buddy. You still haven't backed up any of your conspiracy theory argument with anything besides "OMG, you're mean! That's not nice!"

[silasmcleoud]

@catokeeffe I haven't. It's more of a culmination of what I have learned in the last five years so to go into it would be a little tedious besides the fact that there is honestly no point in talking to someone like you on here. All I get back are insults, not anything useful. I'm sure you will turn that around and say that I don't have a clue what I'm talking about. I offered discussing this in a cordial manor but you just lash out on me so this is the last comment. You're always right! ;)

[xanafanadu]

wow these ads are 18 years old and almost all of these things came true... ezpass, ticketmaster, webcams, netflix, ebooks, GPS systems, video chat from ur cell phone , voice recognition, medical records are being digitalized- all of these things really do exist, and we all own these products or have used them before. this ad was predicting a future that didnt exist yet and they finally do. anybody kno abt the fax thing? seems kinda useless once we have email and scanners (or even camera phones)

[TheDoorknob1]

@xanafanadu shut the fuck up

[xanafanadu]

@TheDoorknob1 umm did i say anything to offend you?

[TheDoorknob1]

@xanafanadu yeah, because you are captain obvious you fucking moron. Reread your comment so you realize how mentally unstable it sounds. Fuck off

[ShmorgelBorgel]

I remember these ads from when they first aired, they showed them a lot...it doesn't even seem like too long ago

[IMPMAC]

It was just good ideas

[SocksInPanic]

Its amazing what information companies have, that will take the rest of us years and years to even THINK about.

[shackupyourstruly]

The company that will bring it to me, AT&T, or Sprint, or Clear, or Optimum, or ...

[flandmines1]

Whatever you want to say about AT&T, they were right about almost all of this stuff.

[flyfatassfly]

these comments are killing me lol

[HollyxDolly12]

O.O

[mirtheous]

Haha, "send a fax"

[jedispy]

@mirtheous Technically there are applications on portable devices (iPhone/iPad, Blackberry, etc...) for sending fax documents

[herodsfeast]

Have you ever put peanut butter on your hairy ballsack - from 1500 miles away?

You will.

[LihAniaih]

So basically we have AT&T predicting that they are going to pioneer the iPad, Skype/video conferencing, online ticket sales, EbscoHost, GPS, on-demand TV, and automatic tollbooth payment systems. All of which were created and popularized by other companies.

They get points for innovative thinking and high hopes, but a zero in execution.

[MaxHedrm]

@LihAniaih Actually, they are saying they will bring those things to you. Since they are a huge chunk of the network, they were spot on. None of that hardware (perhaps with the exception of the phone booth) had an AT&T logo on it.

[Lalo3001]

I clearly remember these ads, 17-18 years ago.

But the companies that brought you this stuff are: Apple, Google, Garmin, Microsoft, Motorola, VIZIO, Samsung, a ton of small tech start-ups........BUT NOT AT&T.

All AT&T has been responsible for is obsolete land line service, dead slow DSL and multi-year contracts with steep cancellation penalties as Satan'sSpatula mentioned.

Still futurists got most of the stuff right. I like the LCD HDTV at 1:34. But the Phone Booth?......LOL!!

[MaxHedrm]

@Lalo3001 Actually, they are saying they will bring those things to you. Since they are a huge chunk of the network, they were spot on. None of that hardware (perhaps with the exception of the phone booth) had an AT&T logo on it.

[tomellor11]

@Lalo3001 maybe AT&T didnt engineer the hardware (unless you take into account the massive impact that bell labs had on all of these devices such as coughcoughtransistorscoughfibe­ropticscough) but they did "bring you" this stuff in terms of bringing the content via their networks.

[AkimboJoe]

If there's anything truly insightful about these ads, it's that the people interacting with the technologies don't notice them or point them out. The tech has become an accepted and normal part of all of their lives and the scenarios instead focus on how basic human behaviors are impacted by emergent technologies.

I kinda wish when it said "have you ever tucked your baby in from a thousand miles away" she'd have tucked it in with robotic hands though. That woulda' been badass.

[AkimboJoe]

Did anyone else notice the television the kids were watching the movie on? In 1993 I don't remember hearing anything about LCD or wide screen displays. And they included it in this commercial without even acknowledging the television itself was another projection. I would love for whoever made these projections back then to make more of them now. And then I might immediately invest in whatever they cooked up.

[limesparks]

@AkimboJoe Laptops had 'em in '93...

[samfromportadown]

@AkimboJoe

It could be a plasma display. The first LCD tv was introduced by Sharp in 1988 and had a 14 inch screen. Plasma screens had existed since the end of the 70s but were mostly monochromatic. The first full colour plama tv was introduced by Fujitsu in 1992. But all through the 90s and the early 2000s plasmas were superior to LCD's. It's only in the last 4 years or so that the quality of LCD tv's has caught up. Some people say they still haven't 100% caught up.

[cijackson1]

Past MIND=BLOWN in the future!

[avispa987]

INCREDIBLE! The guys that made this ads had a very open and brilliant mind

[merdelune9]

Hey Those cash machines are now REDBOX and those $1 movie rentals in every 7-11!

[enigmalady777]

What's a phonebooth? *snort*

[gothatway09]

80s and 90s predictions of the near future were far more accurate then 1950s, 60s and even 70s predictions of the 80s and 90s. I am proud of that.  Look at how silly the 1960s got the 80s and 90s.

[Tubeboy732]

did anyone stop to notice that there is a 42" LCD TV in a video made in 1993? Just Curious...

[Ebenoozen]

Though most of these prediction DID come to past, little, if any of it, had anything to do with AT&T, past the forecasting aspect. Did AT&T sell out? Did other casting corporations secretly have these "dreams" on their drawing board, before these commercials? Or did an AT&T exec. mumble the dreaded words... "We forget ot get the patents".

[Tubeboy732]

@Ebenoozen after watching all these videos it's either that or AT&T secretly owns owns more than just all the phone lines...

[Tubeboy732]

@Tubeboy732 that I agree with

[fa3ilkhair]

wow

[kingj2038]

It's the future of the past!

[iBoy2G]

Have you ever heard of such a clever monopoly that even the FCC could not figure it out? This monopoly would have complete control over the most popular smart phone on the planet for an infinite period of time and even when your contract expired you would not be able to unlock it and use it on another network. You will... and the company that will bring it to you, AT&T.

[creolefreak22]

Phone booth. 

[shadow12312gx]

No you won't AT&T!

[dontwalkhand]

Fax on my iPad :D....with AT&T 3G.

[Ponicalica]

video 1: lol fax

video 2: lol cash machine, lol phonebooth

video 3: not too bad

video 4: again, lol phonebooth

[trancerobot]

1:44 is pretty much the Access Grid We use that for remote class instruction at UALR.

[Jonnybarbs]

lol faxing on an iphone

[sleeplesseye]

Accurate predictions... except that AT&T isn't the company that brings it to me.

[websnarf]

I was actually working for AT&T Microelectronics in 1994 as was part of this whole nonsense. There were indeed numerous internal projects inside of AT&T to do just this. But the projects all got cancelled, and I left immediately after.

I think "hobbit" was the only thing that anyone would recognize from it. It got rebranded as the "BeBox", which made some headlines in the late 1990s, bu which itself also ultimately disappeared.

[dawkinsfan41]

Have you ever had your phone company participate in a criminal conspiracy to let the government spy on your phone calls without a warrant?

You will.

[Ifeelphat]

@dawkinsfan41 Does it matter? Its not like your hiding something or anything right?

[SatansSpatula]

Have you ever been trapped in a multi-year contract that promises you unlimited data transfer, but later get your bandwidth capped? You will. And the company that will bring it to you? AT&T.

Also: LOL phonebooth!

[hufnmouth]

IS THERE ANYTHING MAGNUM P.I. CANNOT DO?

[MeatFarley]

What the fuck is a "phone booth"?

[cctampa33617]

Those weren't predictions- it was stuff that was already invented and possibly already created, but wasn't released to the public yet- seriously, look at that flat screen at 1:36. And they're creating stuff now that they won't be releasing for the next 15 years.

[NUBZEE91]

sunpass...pay a toll with out stopping

[michael1166]

Well now that we have all this tech here in 2010, are we happier because of it? I don't think so.

[Rejexted]

Oh, that's funny, I wasn't aware that AT&T possessed the ability to time travel.

[romulusnr]

But notice those huge screen monitors are whopping heavy (and round as a bubble) CRTs, not panels. And today's standard monitors are not nearly as big.

[RaptorFag]

Did people really call ATMs "cash machines"?

lol

[dtvfan15]

@RaptorFag Cash machines is what correct UK meaning of ATMs

[planetantonio]

i vividly remember all these commercials when i was 21. I remember how it seemed far fetched, but hopeful. at the same time, i miss the days before we relied on all these amenities. we all think it would be a grave inconvenience to return to those times.

[gothatway09]

1993 suddenly doesn't feel all that long ago what with the amazingly bullseye stuff they got right, pretty good graphics too. 1993 predictions are far more accurate of today then previous decades silly predictions for the 90s.

[juanososa]

no predictions this is just the technology they have available to us now but its been around

[yetanothermacblog]

Predictions Correct:

1. Ebook Reader

2. Webcam

3. Wireless Faxing

4. The card carring your medical History

5. e-meetings by cisco

6. On demand Movies

7. Live Tutorials

Great Job On the video

[AndrewFaulds]

electronic ticket machines as well, in fact you can now buy airline tickets from home and print them yourself

[Zain844]

You forgot electronic ticketing and GPS we have thoe things to :)

i agree it's scary how accurate it is

[monicannabella]

And the toll paying thing...E-Z Pass :)

[waterlizardz123]

@monicannabella we have Electronic transponders to pay tolls here in Ontario, Canada. had them since 1997 i think...

[Tubeboy732]

@waterlizardz123 yeah in NJ we call them EzPass

[VigilanteAgumon]

@Tubeboy732 In Florida, it's called SunPass.

[BentTV]

@yetanothermacblog and web conferencing (not just webcam but sharing data with video)