Future Shock (1972) 2/5

[wpl955g]

09:11 - 'They can solve problems that would normally require human intelligence'. Like, erm, knocking things over?

[edisonoside]

what is beautiful is disposable beautiful???

[edisonoside]

plastic time is so fake...color lightening system beyond the powder..

[edisonoside]

Artificial Organs?...How about a step further..How about an artificial brain...or partly?

[BeakyRed]

9:36 ooooOOOOoo

[mohroslan]

6:42 -skin color changing...the idea that michael jackson do...

[Autostade67]

RE: the background music. Just you wait, sweetie. The over produced digital synth driven music featuring the occasional "hip-hop lite" percussion behind most television shoes today will eventually sound as laughable, grating and cliché as you think this does.

[MrJacMac1986]

everything electrontic in this film looks extremely primative by todays standards

[xXdoctorXXGoNzOXx]

Orson Welles was ACTING here. Not voicinf personal ethos. GOD you trolls are annoying.

[astrialkil]

The pictures may be out dated style...but the words are more true today then it was then.

[exeuroweenie]

@astrialkil Yep,eerily so.

[acmedressform]

wtf is he talking about? How many times was Orson Welles married? & um he did not have a relationship with his children, all back in the 30s and 40s

[YorkTown1781]

6:47 jews are influencing the race's. you see hitler was right lol.

[ambientgreg]

This is so awesome.

[RiseofBane]

1:15 that's hippie for sure

[RiseofBane]

the age of DOS , now useless :) I remember using 386 when I was 8yrs old, but this computer is even far worse than that lol.

[CuriousMutation]

You mean Gil Melle's weird electronic score for this futuristic sci-fi documentary? Smooth background for the visuals? Not for this film, dumbass.

[shitdate]

Smoking in the airport. It's a shame to think all of those people are now dead from second-hand smoke exposure.... NOT!

[Comptekhs]

9:26 The Terminator

[Comptekhs]

8:30 Roomba vacuum lol

[Comptekhs]

hippies?

[eretzsus]

Pure genius at 7:22

[paulj0557]

I want another Orson Wells!

[mfashnick]

That girl, like, just likes the feeling of getting away, you know?

[cybersalad]

Man, hanging around in airports for fun. These hippies were a WILD bunch!

[Kalica]

I think it's hilarious (and sad) that they talked about extending somebody's life or giving an amputee a new arm in the same tone (disposable parts!) that they talked about turning people orange. It's a good development, Mr. Toffler. I'm sorry you weren't comfortable outside of the brainwashed 1950's. The rest of us are willing to move on.

[Caligula138]

I read about this all the time... H+ Magazine is a Transhumanist website... very interesting stuff! and no im not affiliated with them at all.

[avelione]

I hate this creepy music in the old films :/ It seems to attack ears instead of making smooth background for the movie visual.

[ThaWiseJester]

@avelione Yeah the music was eerie sounding,as if to suggest the future will be just this chaotic mess..Same shit just enhanced technology...

[Woggyflush]

@avelione

...the name of the film is "Future Shock", not "Future Smoothie"

[superblondiefan1]

wow she really looked fabulous after that lift!

[superblondiefan1]

I remember watching this in school back in the early 70s

[PAM2167]

Ok PPL choosing their own color! I don't think so. But artificial intelligence that's a reality!

[FuUberFu]

I Have a robot penis that does calculus and predicates non-agreement verb forms into sub-atomic wafer bars; it also comes in Viagra flavor.

[wolfchimneyrock]

yeah I saw this with much better production values ...

it was called 'Brazil'

[TwilightSylvestris]

"we can change colors... just like a fish" lol

[mccarrpo]

Thank god they outlawed fucking hitchiking. Nasty hippies. I can smell them through the fucking you tube.

[jmoon219]

What the fuck are those machines? Shit! Those idiots ever hear of a wireless device?

[vamfv]

At :33 in the background you'll see a white building with a rainbow arch on the roof. That's George's Market in Topanga, California, my old workplace. Memories as insane as this fucking movie of working in that place. Everyone did their grocery shopping at George's from time to time, Jack Klugman, Jacqueline Bisset, John Houseman... on and on. John Mutter, an old Vegas bartender owned the place from the late 70's into the 80's. Weird place. I loved it. Demolished a few years ago. RIP George's.

[DeimosSaturn]

THe thing about skin color isn't entirely unexpected. Anyone who has ever played Second Life will see the avatar's of some people having all sorts of colors and shapes. Not to mention the furries. Yuck.

The movie Surrogates kinda touched on that a little. Ghost in the Shell depicts a future of 100% prosthetic bodies and even cybernetic brains, so changing bodies in the year 2035 is totally ordinary.

[00MORDRED]

she likes to hang around 1:26 airports.....to feel like she's away.....yeah....yeah man.

[pauswa1966]

Yes, we can change man's color. Michael Jackson did it. :)

[pauswa1966]

Today's feeling of getting away is enabled by the "medication nation" we've become. So many people on "antidepressants."

[pauswa1966]

I love cell phones and the internet. I can get future shock every day. :)

[fukufools]

Did everyone who were professors and doctors back then have english accents??

[posttristerorobert]

Wells narration is sublime.. universal human transmogrification.

[spectergohan]

haha orson's super serious paranoid narration is either hilarious or scary, sometimes both.

[00MORDRED]

@spectergohan  it totally is BOTH!!

hahaa funny as hell.

5*****

[Sylphqueen1968]

part 2 yes:)

[AlexSpalex1]

7:19 So in the future we can turn are selves into Navi's & Oompa Loompa's.

[scafleet]

We may someday reproduce man:  his ability to walk, vacuum, mow the lawn...

[Urdoxa]

travelers to places never seen? who sings this song?

[Composer1777]

LMAO @ such shit technology. I'm so god damn glad I live in the 2000's

[melissacarterTS]

Diggin the music yo

[Sundrownpaw45]

Lol, i don't think freedom is defined by a loss of sense of belonging..

[FractalBolt]

Some of you fools seem didn't get the message. This is not a technophobe's manifesto. It is just stating things the way they are: Not long ago there was a stronger sense of community and familly, a consciousness of these things. None of that exists anymore. People (specially clueless women) keep destroying relationship after relationship in search of the mythical "one" that will fix their shit out.

[cctampa33617]

@FractalBolt

Oh ok, and I suppose that technology has nothing to do with why people now prefer to communicate with eachother over the internet, thus losing that sense of community you described. No, I suppose we should blame that too on "clueless women". Get real.

[ybunnygurl]

Hippies! I don't think freedom = lost of belonging, but I know what its talking about in the short term with relationships. There was a Sociologist and his wife who advocated love ins and moving around a lot, Most non-hippies thought this was the end of the word.

And man they are really hating on all medical advances, however the skin color one was slightly creepy.

[chrihern]

these soundtack is killing meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[wifiman1]

crazy !

[CTHULHUSURVIVOR]

The death of permanence?

Nothing is permanent. (Maybe if you were a rock on the bottom of the ocean, things would seem pretty permanent there.) Everything else is now and always was in a state of constant change.

The replacement of man by artificial parts?

I wonder if Toffler considered the face that one's cells are in a perpetual state of replacing themselves cell by cell, from conception to death?

[dfirest1]

As the people change, the culture changes, and the world changes. Life is what you make it to be.

[alinkyng]

technophobe

[cito423]

1:27 "I hang out at airports just to get the feel of getting away...." that's f**kingsad.  I have a couple of free southwest tickets I'd be happy to give you if your still there hanging out at the airport. LOL.

[NotCrazyLikeU]

Everyone should stay where they were born. Don't move for a better job, or better schools. And be afraid of technology. It only makes life worse. Nothing good ever came from change.

[cito423]

Too funny!!!

[lambchopxoxo]

And no, no one values permanent relationships much anymore. we all want to meet that new person that can help us, help us get ahead. Its called networking. Knowing people where you have no idea who they really are, and probably dont care

[lambchopxoxo]

but now we travel around the world pretty easily. we have a lot in comparison to back then

[siadbarrbar]

name of artist/song title of the song that goes "travelers to places never seen"?

[meh97]

72...amazing' i thought about it for a second after watching and realized 'yea everything is disposable' products are made to breakdown so you buy more' ive tried contacting old friends and shrugged off and vise versa. shit' cant stop the gears i guess

[Marx1958]

Excellent predictions of what we are today.

[dandelionpaws]

This documentary was made at the end of the last progressive period in American society. This whiplash could have been the catalyst for the great thirty years of darkness to follow. Look at what little has been accomplished beyond the predictions of this documentary! I guess "Future Shock" accomplished it's objective, "shut it down!"

[waitew]

Did that chick say,"email my parents" !!wasn't this made in 1972?!

[galinneall]

Actually, she says, "... and, you know, my parents...". This is about the time that "you know" was starting to make its way into the language. A decade later it would be expanded to "...like, you know...". That's progress, like you know...

[nuMbERsRuNN3R]

This face lift she received looks better than the ones they are giving people today.

[bradominus]

HAHAHAHA... The hippies having a love-in at the airport... God, can you see that today? Or what about the hitchhikers?!! My dad used to pick them up; NOT ANYMORE!

[koabr3gn]

I wish everyone in these films were still alive to see what the modern wold has become.

They'd shit their pants!

[technomeister]

Essentially this is what the film is demonstrating.

[trentcreek]

Look at all the hippies hitch hiking to Canada ;-)

[MrJacMac1986]

@trentcreek at least you could hook up with hippie chicks easier back then.Now with the sex revolution over its more difficult

[Druidbw]

WTF...Hippie highway! I have never seen so many hitchhikers on one stretch.

[XxSTICH666xX]

LOL @ the first member of the Blue Man Group 7:23

[XxSTICH666xX]

OH MY GOD THIS MUSIC IS TERRIBLE. Don't get me wrong, I love all genres and decades but what the fuck. These songs suck!

[Druidbw]

Agreed!

[Teflon65]

The girl says she likes to hang out in airports.  One better not try that now!

[Druidbw]

Hehe.. TERRORIST! HA!

[Hias74]

death of attempting to achieve permanence.

[Elentaurel]

"death of permanence" he said .. this made me think. Permanence? When has there ever been real permanence? It's impossible, the world changes, it always has. There are some periods where change occurs rapidly. This is not the first time it's happened.

[gergsar]

yes, but not as fast...

[psychicwhoosh]

It's not about change itself, it's about the rate of change and entering into a time where culture changes so fast it is emotionally jarring to keep up with it. Think of the speed with which the internet and advanced communications have altered social patterns of behavior, business, education, politics etc. Humanity has never seen this sort of acceleration.

"There's nothing stable, nothing static, nothing to stand on, nothing to cling to. There are no maps for these territories."-W. Gibson

[POWERequalsGOD]

The more things change the more they stay the same. People realize this change cant change things that do not change. Change seems illogical when the same results are discovered over and over again.

[bertfw]

I don't get where the "shock" part comes in. I remember when the book "Future Shock" first came out. I was a little kid at the time, but even then I thought the concept was laughable. I guess people were really afraid of change.

[nipheon]

Especially "love" the quote "freedom - the loss of a sense of belonging". This is scary shit.

[trentcreek]

Obama voter ;-)

[justme632]

This is pretty cheesy

[galileo1957]

The past always seems cheesy to the know-it-all punks of the present.

[justme632]

I'n not a know it all punk of the present.I was 11 years old when this was released.This is overly dramatic garbage.Read some reviews,I'm not the only one who feels this way

[0n0jin]

it is a lil hard to take it seriously when it sounds so much like an episode of Charlies Angels! it makes some valid points, but it was made on the back of the times, we had just gone to the moon, people thought we would all be living like the Jetsons in the next few decades, unfortunately for them and us, they were mistaken!

[Bondianwolf]

justme632 - you're just as stupid now as you were at 11. Is a 1957 corvette cheesy to you? A 1942 telephone? A 1922 sailing yacht? To relegate all things not contemporary to the cheesy file is stupid on your part. I'm gonna go admire the cheesy ceiling of the Sistine Chapel - idiot.

[loveunderlaw]

Agreed, +1!

[229095]

thank you, galileo1957!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[loveunderlaw]

Well said!

[athriaxo]

I want my hippies back! Why are the ppl living today such smartass wankers?

[zx2012]

What ever happened to all those hippies..

Oh , I forgot , ...

There running the Country...

[Elmeromero1]

So much for their change, now we have a different change, if you know what I mean....or a little of the same, with a different facade.

[yaosio]

You heard it here, freedom is the loss of the sense of belonging. Orson Wells is a great troll.

[generationboom]

AACK Smurf people! o_O

[tjmickquickeldickel]

Ah to be able to smoke in the airport :P

[scorpdan]

I doubt if Orson believed all of the pessimistic stuff he was saying.

[p717]

You should give Toffler's books a read. It's some intriguing stuff, both pessimistic and optimistic.

[functionalschizophr]

"we are witnessing the death of permanence"....when in hell has human history had any permanence...we usually are adjusting to the result of so many people messing shit up...and change to survive...

[11Jamie11]

No, he's right -- at least potentially. It used to be that you could go into a profession and hold that job with one company for your whole life. Now? How many people do you know who have the same job even for 20 years, let alone their whole life?

[RedDirtReporter]

Hitchiking hippies? Now that's shocking!

[revnstpaul]

ha ha then the hippies became the yuppies and sold us down the river ha ha

[aduecey]

sold us down the river while selling us our organic granola at their yuppie grocery stores.

[receiver2005]

hmmm are the hippies now backpackers?

[tubedweeb]

@revnstpaul you obvious don't know what the hippies were all about. They were generally against big brother technology (Much like the end-times weirdos are today). Yuppies were just the kids who were into hip culture because it was the "in' thing and after it passed they went back to being 'normal'. You shouldn't talk about things you do know about. ha ha

[troyalpod]

wow this was 1972 look at us now not much has changed.

[mmr11027]

I didn't know robotics were so advanced at the time of filming. You would think that by now, it would be far more advanced given the technology which was around in the 70s.

[splintercell99]

... the generation going through the change is the LAST TO KNOW of any changes occuring

[peterproscia]

This film is even more relevant today.

[00MORDRED]

@peterproscia,... absolutely...today is a shining example...

that whole incident at walmart....that man was killed because

a bunch of grown ass adults wanted to "BUY THINGS"...

perfect example eh??

[AcidTrout]

Wow, technology in 1972 was a lot more advanced than I thought it was. I didn't even think future shock would have been an issue in the 70s. But before you diss this film, try to think where this man is coming from, this stuff would have seem f**king crazy to him.

[shoegooguru]

1972...when you could (and we did!!!)get and smoke pot with ease. NOW...the govenment wants you to ONLY see what they put out for you to see...and go where they have built roads for you to go...to buy what they have allowed us to buy. fight back!!! Get High. It is a public service. Cultures FAR older and wiser than US(who were thankful for weed) cannot be wrong. Now...we just hope the ever more militarized police won't break down our doors for no real reason.

[edgar8459]

I saw this film in 1979 when I was in high school, when my technophile technology teacher showed it to us. While some of it may seem exaggerated and paranoid today, I think that the basic substance of Alvin Tofflers analysis and predictions is quite sound.

[nhilst600]

Is that Bill and Hillary at 1:15 ??

[tennyc]

Pt. 2 is an over the top psychedelic generation gap campfest, ThANX for posting this !

Genuis, he does predict everything , this doc is amazing.

[danyellemortera14]

such a stupid video :P

[GlobalFilmmaker]

Oh my gosh, we're going to have heart transplants and kidney transplants and shock horror be able to cure diseases...

[kcirtap01]

OMG! The worlds going to end right now! HA!

[Nekosesshy]

OMG AN ARTIFICIAL DIAPHRAM!!! Just what does the future have to hold?? Most certainly enslavement by our sinister robotic creations!! *enter cheezy 70's music*

[amagilly]

more like, hippie shock

[thaxdouglas]

poor Whorson Welles

[1erichellstrom]

An artificial elbow...one step closer to an artificial man. Lol! Such paranoid doom & gloom bullshit!

[captainfailure]

Were all screwed! Surely these robots will take over the planet!!

[actitudbandera]

the robots are us glued to our screens

[kpb96m]

Technological singularity. Fear of change and the perception of "too much change in too short a period of time".

Society's basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science. We are now living in the transition between the Maxwellian Electromagnetic worldview and the Einsteinian Relativistic worldview.

[kpb96m]

"What were witnessing of course is the...death of permanence. A new society is being created around us built from the broken pieces of today. And those who people that society are going to live in a...very different world."

Melodramatic narration of things to come.

[javajimmy1090]

especially te end reminds me of this 70s movie "futureworld" i saw as a kid. people back then probably just haven't been involved with technology in everyday action, surrounded by an upcoming wave science fiction movies they developed a fear for progress. thanks to human-interface design, technology is far better to get a grip on so it seems a bit odd to be afraid of progress nowadays.

[friskobens13]

How come the 1970 documentarys always have scary narrator voices?

[alloria]

And creepy music as well!

[DigitalJediMaster]

What's funny, is these nomadic kids, or hippies, all eventually settled down and started families. Some of them even going on to become politicians and successful businessmen.

[GlobalFilmmaker]

And founders of companies like Apple, Microsoft and others lol...

[bertskoi]

There is much more cancer today, proportionate to population & yet everyone smoked around everyone else back in the day. I would arrive @ medical meetings and half the room would be lit up with huge ashtrays on conference room tables. Not a judgement, just an observation.

[DigitalJediMaster]

It's always been my opinion that, in spite of the medical advances and increased knowledge about health matters, that we're still less healthy then previous generations. Probably partly due to the fact that each generation, in a physical sense anyway, doesn't work as hard as the previous generations thanks to technology. I also think we're mentally less stable then those generations, and the mental health has greatly affected out physical health as well.

[nextren]

Also, race is more than skin color. "You can change your race by dying your skin" LOL.

And, note that certain scams have been going on a long time. AI is presented as bleeding-edge now...but was also presented as bleeding-edge in 1972...like a business that is "Going Out of Business" for 40 years.

[nextren]

Laughable. Read Orson's biography (Callow). He was a world-traveler at 13, his career and life were a hurricane of mad changes, he was hopped up on "uppers" for years, he had 3 wives (including Rita Hayworth) and lived all over the world, never settling down. And he had a blast.

[yobnez]

Anyone wanna buy a suit of armour?

[CeeStyleDj]

The girl at 1:27 was hot haha

[SNap15]

she is 35 years older now haahha not so hot now

[javajimmy1090]

yes, indeed. quite cute :-)

[SpikeWolfwood]

"Temporary person"? Ridiculous... Didn't they realize that the purpose of these medical breakthroughs is to extend life? Would they rather that we not be able to transplant organs or artificially replace organs / parts that don't work any more? How do they feel about vaccines? Is giving a person an artificial kidney so they can live out the rest of their life really that different from the introduction of antibodies that they wouldn't normally have?

[CeeStyleDj]

Exactly. Learn from your elders? Well, not when you had ideas like this..

[GBart]

I wonder what they expected the 21st century to be like. You know, there's an area of technology dedicated to adaptability and user-friendliness meant to counter futureshock, but not expressly so.

[5282A]

Its amazing how the world was so advanced back in the 70s....with the internet, everything has been accelarated even further.

[CeeStyleDj]

Nothingw as really advanced besides the emergence of updating computers. Planes weren't new..neither was plastics... This docu. is funny.