AT&T 1993 "You Will" Ads

[gusem]

Amazing how many of these became true, and the others still can.

[lander77477]

@gusem Yeah pretty much all of these are real now, (except that opening a door with your voice thing, does anyone actually do that?) but back then this seemed to futuristic, today these gadgets are about as exciting as a microwave oven

[silentiumestaureum93]

Have you ever woke up with a hard-on, or wondered how it feels to be a black man? You will and the company that will bring it to you.. MtV

[mendezWTF]

Netflix, wikipedia and Facetime.  Nice :)

[DJBell1986]

Holy shit we are in the future! Still no flying cars >:(

[laxerbra3ad]

does anyone get creeped out in a weird way...

[PetertheAverage]

What's a fax?

[DannyJustiniano]

I've done all of that. :P

[Herestodinner]

0:36 A bunch of bridges has Fast Passes now.

[dragonmastermason]

This gave me the chills

[banjosvideos]

And the company that will inspire other companies and kick butt themselves, Apple.

[NitekMuscle]

That toll booth looked cold...almost out of an auto-centric dystopia.

[srnad88]

Who would have known that Magnum would have know all this stuff,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[desidono]

Wouldn't swiping your credit card in the car be dangerous?

[micoyeung]

That is kinda like the future

[KATYPERRYRULZ1]

we auctully have all this

[bawoman]

Usually these predictions are out of whack,but they nailed almost every one.

[sorcerio]

@bawoman I bet a lot of the "new & innovative" stuff we use today has been in planning for years and years.

[beachjungle3]

The one that didn't happen is that you were supposed to check-out at the supermarket all the items at once (with RFID tags or something), without having to get them out of the shopping cart to be scanned. Not shown here.

[plainOldFool]

@beachjungle3 No, not technically. But Stop & Shop has a handheld scanning device that you can use to scan the items as you put them in your cart (directly into a shopping bag). Then when you check out they download the data of what you scanned, pay and go, all without removing the items from your cart. It is a real time saver. The scanners also keep a running total of your items so it also helps with keeping food shopping within budget.

[HDvideosaregood]

It'll never happen!

[marino3d]

Whoa whoa in the one where they checked his medical history with a card that was an interracial couple having that child. AT&T you can't prepare us for that!

[chingsumcheung]

it's totally come true!

[enterpriseinterviews]

1:45 Khan Academmy. That's just starting to happen RIGHT NOW.

[NozeDive]

Huh. I guess they were right about everything except the AT&T part.

[Masha3221]

and Company that will bring it to you Apple Inc.

[nybabyy1000]

Amazingly accurate!

[inquiry10]

I remember watching these vids and thinking YEAH right...and here we are

[jsssm]

This was back in the 90s when ATT still had bell labs, inventing and researching cutting edge technology. ATT was not always the lame phone/internet company that we know it as today. They WERE the powerhouse research company. Bell labs invent the C language, UNIX and CDMA technology.  RIP Bell Labs.

[abates17]

“Have you ever tucked your baby in…from a phone booth?” What’s a phone booth??

[Oozie123]

In the future... you will tuck your baby in... twice. From a phone booth. So where did jazz come from?

[bey0nddc]

Pretty close to the reality consider this video was made in 1993. Good job AT&T although most of them weren't created by AT&T.

[CapmNobody]

Ha! Phone booths don't exist!

[cubicleboy]

was that jenna elfman tucking her kid in from a phonebooth?

[21sibs21]

0:03 Amazon-kindle 0:08 Garmin, TomTom, Magellan 0:18 Apple iPad 0:42 Most websites do that 0:49 Skype 1:04 Sorikey 1:11 MyCare Card 1:21 Cisco, Skype 1:35 Netflix Google them if you haven't heard of it. I had to Google some to.

[omma911]

Siri is black? I knew it! Awesome!

[slevyface]

If you're so smart, where were you for 9/11 AT&T?

[freecarllee1]

Gotta get one of those sweet fax pads! I also remember from this series of commercials they offered to go through the grocery store without having to check. Still waiting on that one. Hell, I'm still waiting on getting cell reception from my house! Come on AT&T...you can do it...little fella!!!

[dtownkid]

what's a phone booth!?

[nirvanafairie]

Thats crazy! I remember those!

[vsmcax1007]

What's w/ this baby from the phone booth shit? They kind of missed that one...phone booths? Maybe that's why the also couldn't foresee other tech. companies coming in and upsurping their precious phone booths!

[Kropa123]

"Where did Jazz come from?" - Student

"Maaan, shut the fuck up" - Samuel L. Jackson

[TomaxMindbender]

Have you ever furiously masturbated to wedding pictures of a girl you haven't seen since grade school who now lives seven states over? You will.

[mst3k24]

Send a picture of your dick to a friend who lives over 1,000 miles away? you will

[alreadydefective]

What's a phone booth?

[TikikahTheEagle]

@alreadydefective I hope you're joking. Nobody could be that inept.

[trojanpony]

I'm not sure what's more amazing - how accurate these ads turned out to be, or how far we've come technologically since 1993.

[theyeti101101]

Did you ever want to meet 15-year-old girls for sex?

Send a picture of your dick to your girlfriend from your phone?

you will

[gyroj3t]

Monopoly on telecommunications for the second time? "We will."

[agtac76]

What's a phone booth?! Just joking..I'm old enough to know what one is. It's pretty amazing how almost everything came true. The only thing that didn't was the medical history on a card that you carried. This one I wish would happen soon as it's annoying going over and over your medicals history with new doctors. Anyway, it's a awesome set of commercials...maybe soon we'll be flying around in our cars. :-)

[ironmantim33]

@agtac76 Some companies have medical history on thumb drives. Not common, true, but nowadays if it's an integrated medical record, it will be on a network as well.

[JCGver]

@agtac76 Ask your doctor for you medical history, dump it onto a $5 usb memory stick, and your done. Makes me wonder why there isn't a standard for this. It shouldn't be that impossible to make a multi-tiered system were you can see allergies and current medication without a password (incase of emergencies were you are not able to give clearance to your whole medical history), and a password protected detailed medical history.

Hell a micro SD card worn on a necklace could save lives.

[doddsino]

Apparently that baby actually died...

[CyborgNinja7]

@doddsino How did you learn that?

[nlimcrx]

God, I wasn't even born yet.

[JamalDOA]

@nlimcrx Kid.

[phonybeatlemania]

@nlimcrx WOW when were you born?? have you had internet your whole life? my mind is blown

[jswartwood]

And in AT&T's future, people are still using phone booths! The wireless company couldn't predict rampant cell phone usage? Good one.

[LondonLanguageLounge]

Have you ever been pestered by email to make your dick bigger? You Will

[keetonbob]

Have you ever anonymously driven someone to suicide with hateful slander? You Will.

[meegador2005]

@keetonbob In fact...I have. oh internetz

[UnpopularWisdom]

This was a different AT&T then. It was mostly an international telecommunications company before it was acquired by Cingular communications which took over the logo and company name. In it's heyday AT&T's labs competed with Bell labs in innovation. How far the mighty have fallen.

[Piornet]

@UnpopularWisdom This is a very good explanation of AT&T. It'd be even better if it were the least bit accurate. AT&T was broken up as a monopoly in 1984. The Bell Labs you say it once competed with for innovation was actually part of the original AT&T that was spun off after the break-up. The largest company to be broken off, SBC, eventually purchased most of the broken-up Bell companies before buying AT&T and starting Cingular Wireless, then changing the name back to AT&T.

[Piornet]

@UnpopularWisdom This is a very good explanation of AT&T. It'd be even better if it were the least bit accurate. AT&T was broken up as a monopoly in 1984. The Bell Labs you say it once competed with for innovation was actually part of the original AT&T that was spun off after the break-up. The largest company to be broken off, SBC, eventually purchased most of the broken-up Bell companies before buying AT&T and starting Cingular Wireless, then changing the name back to AT&T.

[23rice23]

have you ever tricked someone into looking at a picture of three old men performing sex acts on each other? you will.

[meegador2005]

@23rice23 ....or seen a naked man spreading his swollen red gaping anus? I have. And you will.

[hectorosbert]

It's almost like the events that lead up to the future world of 'Demolition Man'. 

[oywidapoodles]

Man, I wanna live in this quaint 90s verison of now.

[SiliconeSlave]

Gotta love those touch screen CRTs!

[MonkeyZorr]

Have you ever done anything to save the environment?

[EnvelopeGenerator]

If they'd had the initiative to invest in some of these predictions, Microsoft and Apple would be ancient history, Google would never have existed and AT&T would be running the world.

[TheDrunkenwhale]

It's funny that half the stuff in this commercial actually happened, except AT&T wasn't a part of any of that... Just crappy internet connections and binding contracts.

Oh yeah, and Phone Booths don't exist anymore, our smartphones let us tuck in our babies with a mere touch screen.

[epitrochoid09]

what's a "phone booth" ?

[upkarsaimbi]

@epitrochoid09 there's a movie by the same name... if you want to know and be entertained as well :-)

[Lalo3001]

AT&T didn't bring you any of this.......Apple, Garmin, Samsung, Google, Microsoft, Motorola and others but not AT&T.

All AT&T is responsible for is obsolete landline service, dead slow DSL and contracts that lock you in for 2-3 years.

[AccessEvil]

@Lalo3001 True but they do provide the data connection for a lot of these devices. Also, Uverse would be AT&Ts answer to the VOD service mentioned in these adds. If AT&T was still structured like it was in 93 they may have brought even more of it to reality.

[TommyBNSF]

Damn it I still can't see a baby from a phone booth today.

[dminnich6062]

Have you ever ordered opiod painkillers - without a prescription? You will.

[icovada]

Funny how the "Have you ever paid a toll without stopping? You will" was actually 4 years after the system was implemented and widespread in Italy....

[stereomaster423]

@icovada Did not know that.... figures AT&T takes all the credit for all of these things that they didn't invent

[Mrpastry909]

Half this stuff you can do!

[thecomfortisnow]

HAVE YOU EVER seen your favorite videos.Without having MTV? You will.

[acsmith1972]

AT&T didn't bring us a single one of these things. It would have been nice, though, especially 18 years ago instead of a lot more of a wait than that.

[macdaddybill]

Have you ever wondered is that Tom Selleck's voice, and is he making a boatload of money.... you will

[DarthFastidious]

This commercial is downright eerie with its predictions. They weren't far off on ANY of them... Except the part about AT&T being the one to do all of it...

[OKWGCAPPAO]

@DarthFastidious AT&T Research and Development Labs were working on the chipsets that make all of these technologies possible back in the 90s, they just sold them off to people like Apple to bring them to market.

[ThatBoyBaked]

@OKWGCAPPAO or the companies did their own research and made their own chipsets.  that happened to you know.

[SevenFootPelican]

@DarthFastidious I know right... GPS, touch screen electronics, highway I-Pass, voice activated door openers.. I'm sure that back in the 90's leading technological companies like AT&T were working on making all of this sort of stuff as early as the 90's.. it just wasn't until the 2000's that this stuff really started emerging.. but again.. I'm sure that these companies knew (even back then) that all of this stuff was possible, it was just a matter of when they'd be possible.

[lukasiteq]

few things still remain to be implemented though :) Awesome visionaries at the AT&T by that time

[vm1886]

@lukasiteq Today's technology is completely capable of making these few remaining things happen, but it's the more human issues that make them impractical. Just imagine the privacy concerns that will result from carrying all your medical records on a card; or how remote lectures can't really replicate some of the classroom interactions that are essential to learning.

[lukasiteq]

@vm1886 I am sorry, I was just teasing :) you're right of course. We would think how amazing and helpful it would be, but at the same time we can't imagine anything like that applied in the real world. Funny.. But that video is really amazing!

[FizzleYap]

anybody else think it's ironic AT&T is advertising phone booths and not cell phones? considering cell phones were already invented...

[vm1886]

@FizzleYap They probably envisioned video calls being processed similar to TV signals, so a tv-sized machine in a phone booth would have made a lot of sense at the time. Video calls today run on internet connection, and the combination of the internet with cell phones (which were used solely for voice calls) was something that most people in 1993 didn't see coming.

[Papillon942]

Is that Jenna Elfman as the mom at the phone booth? at 0:54 and 1:55.

[servize]

The future in 1993 (by AT&T, JR)

[Ollides]

Have you ever experienced a dropped call wherever you are? You will. And the company that'll bring it to you? AT&T.

[bwworld]

I remember this ad and thinking, well, if 50% of this happens, that would be pretty cool. Sad irony that AT&T is really SBC these days, and is no longer the innovative powerhouse it once was.

[Razorback613]

Too bad AT&T didn't see the Telecommunications Act of 1996 coming... which radically changed communication networks in the US and is likely the reason why AT&T was left out of the loop of many of these technological advances that they predicted in these ads.

[Civsuccess2]

ATT suck ball. They are all about sitting there and do nothing. That's why NOBODY in ATT cared to invent any one of those technology.

[thescrounger1]

@Civsuccess2

They didn't need to invent them. They let others pay the cost to research and develop these technologies and get to overcharge users for the privilege of using their network to deliver it.

[10minsoffame]

I got goosebumps while watching this.

[TheEricholler]

Sully , AT&T has been around since Thomas Edison said "Watson come here I need you." or a few days later (188? I forget and I worked for em). The company that was broken up to make all the baby bells in 1983 AT&T. Cingular was AT&T Cell Service, then Cingular then AT&T wireless, all to boost profits. Shoot there was an SNL skit about AT&T and the Death Star Logo in 83

[bisek]

Even these breakthroughs, which have all come true today, already seem a bit quaint. Who knows what we'll see next.

[simonsryd]

att

[jaypatterson6197]

not sure. Hope its true

[merdalurfsa]

It seems all the tech entrepreneurs out there saw this commercial and then headhunted all the AT&T engineers away from AT&T to make themselves rich....

[merdalurfsa]

The voice is Tom Selleck, and Sullyreviews, you are a disgrace to Sully's everywhere...AT&T stands for American Telephone and Telegraph....think that telegraphs are older than Cingular?

[SullyReviews]

have you ever noticed this is fake? or that att wasnt att in 1993 it was cingular?

[blender124]

@SullyReviews AT&T was founded in 1983

[geearf]

@SullyReviews Simply beautiful!

[SimpleVisionVideos]

what the hell is up with the phone booth one?

[LittaGangsta]

is that agent mulder i hear

[EpicSoulSurvival]

Whats a "phone booth"!

[toucansam3]

Have you ever bought an $800 IPad just to play Solitaire on it? You will!

[dariowortiz]

have you ever spent all day building your virtual cities and farms with no time for anything else? You Will!!

[tsaweeos]

Have you ever suffered from pointless, over-priced fee's on bandwidth because of Usage Based Billing? You will...

[abehammy]

Have you ever shown your bare dick to someone thousands of miles away? You will. And the company that will bring it to you: AT&T

[beavisdude999]

Thanks Drunk Tank.

[OhshitPositive]

Drunk Tank!

[hardwinder]

LoL @ 'tucking your baby in from a pay phone' ....look around, they're all covered in cob-webs and dust, if you can even find one!

[butterpoop]

holy shit all those things really did happen! Except the companies that brought them to us were Apple, Skype, Net Flix, EZ Pass, and Tom Tom

[acksponies]

I almost pooped my pants when it shows a young black man asking "so where did jazz come from".

[BeefNoodleand1]

DRUNK TANK!



[boradis]

Have you ever lost a connection three times in a five minute call? You will. And the company who will bring it to you ...

[freefalling89]

Crazy shit.

[TheFallingVengence]

at&t looked into the future, only they didn't realize that it wan't them who made the ipad, tom toms, and touch screen macs, but it was apple who did! lol

[KyleKyleBensen]

I love how all these things are made now, but none of them by at&t. Then the ones that at&t does do are done much better by anyone else.

[mbenzgt]

@s73ban Yea that company that spent billions to build innovations and networks is a "joke". Me me me ... Grow up

[Fifdog1998]

Have you ever attending a meeting in your bare feet? They must be predicting the recession where we won't be able to afford shoes.

[Appleunbox1]

i guess in this ad at&t=apple

[ricarleite]

We have all of those, and they look even better today, except for a video payphone. They were way off: if I had all this portable technology, and there were cellphones back in 1993, why would they think we would need to stop at a payphone? Just grab your cell phone! But video conference on a cell phone, I still believe it's not too practical. I rather just talk to that person.

[jonhamsjohnham74]

That souned strangely like agent Mulder.

[badgarok]

have you ever watched porn for free? you will

[Daubster]

@badgarok Amen.

[BennyB5555]

I remember watching this in 1993! I remember the girl and book on her screen thinking, how dumb. In 1993 I did have a senior class that my teacher was 300 miles away through a television monitor. She could see the classroom and she knew what was happening. So we had the technology. I remember using these pay phone booths to check email. They assumed everyone would be FaceTime by then. Wow almost 20 years ago! Crazy...

[LAPropper]

So... anyone know the song used for this campaign? :)

[toweronepower]

I want to have Fax on the beach

[Ajbolt89]

It's interesting that "Tucking your baby in from a phone booth" warrants two plays, while online classes or meetings only get one. I'm pretty sure phone booths won't do that.

[Nullsleep]

I think they forgot porn...

[gravino555]

Its funny how almost all those ideas in the ad exist today, but none of them from AT&T :)

[ModernMWEntrtainment]

@gravino555 Interesting thought, that. LOL

[wisefelipe]

@gravino555

It's interesting how they knew everything that would work in the future but did not produce a single one of them...

[narso310]

@gravino555 AT&T provides the network service that brings a lot of those things to people though. I think that's what they were getting at.

[rstandrew7]

did any of you guys see the new at&t ad i think finlly listing to people!

[rstandrew7]

and most of the suff is made by other commpenys!

[Jukanator]

DRUNK TANK... little late but still

[mmm4466]

Wow, this was surprisingly accurate.

[randmiller88]

Awesome video quality...looks like I'm watching in on a 1993 computer!

[jgrimsley2000]

‎"....tucked your baby in...from a phone booth?" Mommy will be home from her Astro-meeting on Space-Tuesday. Now GTF to sleep!

[Awelbeck]

Yes Yes No I don't use fax and I hate beach ... What do mean 'I will' ? Is this some kind of threat ? No, I still have to slow down a little. No ! Why use phonebooth ? Cannot she afford a mobile ... and did the baby had to wait before the cam all day ??? Yes by howling outside until my father opens up and neat the shit out of me. Yes No, I wore socks and AT&T won't be able to make me remove them ! Stop menacing me ! Yes Yes Seriously, can't she just go home? And NONE thanks to AT&T

[eragonrex1]

@Awelbeck Dude. Almost no one had a cellphone in 1993. Shut up.

[Awelbeck]

@eragonrex1 : I'm answering to the video.

If you don't like my answer, go away.

If the video doesn't want answer, it must stop asking questions.

[TheSalt619]

would you trust your life over the internet, you will

[thesailormercury1]

at&t got the predictions for the tech of the 21st centery right on the money

the only prediction they got wrong is finger plate key for the door .

[MrRetardaCons]

@thesailormercury1 Actually my cousin works for a company working on that in phoenix. Of course its a little different (no voice control).

[alucard1931]

0:38 The ad kinda predicted EZ-Pass, just without sliding a card to pay a toll.

[flauterfli]

Lol.

"Brought you by AT&T..."

Oh, wait. Typo! They meant Apple.

[StoneCold75]

Have you ever masterbaited to a woman with three breasts in Taiwan, while ordering a pizza from your office cubicle in Los Angeles...YOU WILL

[StoneCold75]

I havent tucked my baby in from a public pay phone yet.,.and my insurance card wont download my brain scan yet...but the rest Ive done ..thanks AT&T you predicted the future

[Heiryuu]

about 3/4ths of what we just saw has happened or will happen soon wierd...