News Coverage of "1999 A.D."

[DocGerbilzWorld]

we are limited only by our imaginations... and physics.

[deanmullen10]

@DocGerbilzWorld and yet if u think about it one could imagine a machine in the future able to imagine greater than we can now or way to increase our imagination, now you realize we are pretty much not limited at all.

[SailorSaturn69]

Most everyone who saw this was watching something on Chrono Trigger.

[salexo9]

Why is this supposed to be surprising? Of course today's realities were envisioned decades ago. What I find entertaining about the 1999 AD film is that they got the the basics about internet etc right, but reality of it all wrong. Like using seperate computers and monitors for all the seperate functions in the household. Or the reality of gender roles in 1999.

[ilovemayo123]

i don't think that it's all that amazing that they got it right. There were so many predictions flying around... all of disney's were way off in left field. Someone was bound to get somewhere close!

[MyYTFaves]

This seems to be an expounding on the Bell Picturephone, and early ideas of computing, databases and the Bell Dataphone, all from the early 1960s. Here they are envisioned as refined and practically applied to daily life. Today they are a reality. A bell labs video from the 1962 Seattle Worlds Fair accurately predicted switching stuff off and on via telephone. Something that's common on today's smartphones.

[Ditherliss]

Hey 9 News, just because someone is smarter than you or more imaginative doesn't wean their a Witch. I though we got over this over 200 years ago.

[DestructorKoopa]

LAVOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS

[TheAb0rtionist]

@DestructorKoopa BUT THE FUTURE REFUSED TO CHANGE

[thelostrune]

@TheAb0rtionist Lol you're CT fan =P

[fromthesidelines]

The only reason KCAL covered this as a "news story" is because they, like other stations eager to capitalize on YouTube and other postings featured here, want features that will "grab the viewer" and HOLD them for the remainder of the "newscast"...such as they are these days. I'm shocked the KCAL news staff believed, for even a moment, the film was a "hoax". No, most of what passes as "news stories" these days ["...yes, this footage from our new show appearing tonight.."] are the REAL hoaxes.

[recto89]

CNN ran with this video on Cambell Browns the Future. I noticed that the reason that the KCAL9 producers thought it was a hoax mainly because most of the porducers were born in the 1980's and never saw this film until it came to this site. They only saw 1990's films about the future.

[fromthesidelines]

The narrator of the film was actor/announcer Alexander Scourby, who had one of the most distinguished voices ever heard in documentaries, "promotional films" and commercials during the '50s, '60s and '70s- he died in 1985, so I can assure you it wasn't a "hoax".

[beducorn]

hey i bet the people who made the video were Time travelers LOL

[SergeantLuke]

Microwaves were invented in the 40's...

[xanafanadu]

scary.... to think it only happened some 40 years later...

[RealDeepInSight]

this is mind blowing....

[Asiadventure]

I watched this in my first-grade class in 1970. I remember how some students argued that few could afford the seemingly expensive computers shown in the movie. I said at the time that someday computers would be as ubiquitous as TVs and telephones in the home. Well, here I am surrounded by 4 PCs in my home office - where I also do a lot of online shopping as shown in the film. I've not yet bought the wall-size, flat-screen TV seen in the film - but that's next.

[mobius1234]

Theeehhheeeehhhaaaaa

Don't you just loooveee being right :P

[Kevbox2008]

This is SO FRICKIN' COOL!!! Where can I find the full video??? :^)

[sweymore]

It's no suprise that a film made in 1967 mentions microwave ovens; the first one went on sale in 1947.

[nicemiceonice]

I remember seeing this in junior high school around 1970, and everyone laughed at the idea of computers in every home. Our teacher joked that it was about a 'family of millionaires.'

Having forgotten the title, I've been searching for this thing for years. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the inspiration for the Microsoft mission statement of having 'a computer in every home, and Microsoft software on every computer.'

[lochmabon]

I remember watching this as a kid!!!