For a good, accessible popular view of the period of social shift in the early 70s, try reading Thomas Hine's "The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together on a Shag Rug in the 70s".
If you lived it, you will miss it all over again. And if you didn't you might just realize that our present "best of all possible worlds" with its soi-disant sexual and social enlightenment comes across as a posey new Edwardian Age.
Kudos to the term "fake edginess". Activism today, though it claims to be for social change, seems very self motivated yet ambiguous (ambivalent even) in its aims. It certainly isn't leftist (despite its posturing), and, though I try to remain objective about history and not over praise any one period, today's movements really DO owe a lot to the the political protest culture created in the late 50s through to the mid-70s.
I recently saw a film about Reverse Future Shock in A BBC TV series called "the Changes" where a mysterious force caused everyone in England to start rejecting modern technology very fast.It came out in 1975
It amazes me that we are still dealing with the same stuff......only the style has changed. This is a 1972 film ! i was 2 years old ! and NOTHING has changed,....except for the style.
They had us watch this in 4th grade, in '73, then in 6th grade, in '76. Our guidance counsellor showed it and had a talk with us afterward. WHY? WTF? It's as if it was designed to frighten and depress people. Why force children to watch?
Wow, that whole quote beginning at 5:14: "It makes you realize that you have quite a bit to offer, when more than one person cares for you..." Yup, why bother with just one RL relationship these days, when your 5234 Facebook "friends" are online waiting for you.
Less than a decade later, the country took a huge swing to the right. Social change doesn't stay on one continuum, that's why long-term predictions often are outdated quickly.
I remember those days. You little sissies today with your fake edginess are ridiculous and not impressive. lol. In those days there was serious social revolution going on, it wasn't a safe pre packaged slickly marketed alternative lifestyle. And they did all that activism and demonstration without the convenience of cell phones, blackberrys, voicemail, twitter or facebook. Nowadays young people can't find their way out of a paper bag without a gps.
@avelione I agree, it gets pretty polemic about the way society is evolving. Still, there is some truth in it - like that people have problems building something to last for example
@avelione True. Well, I guess, this documentary hasn't really aged well. Still, I like the narration by Orson Welles, who - thanks to his stature - sometimes seems like the last dinosaur, rumbling about the problems of modern society
@avelione This observation is correct. As a teenager of 1972, I have grown up with the notion of impermanence as the norm. Impermanence is now the only constant, to the bewilderment of previous generations. The future, from my perspective, was always going to be different. Whatever I learned at school, or at college, was going to become rapidly out-dated. Indeed, that knowledge was, by default, already out-of-date before I'd even learned it. We have grown accustomed to change.
@exeuroweenie Wow, that's an interesting example of synchronicity! I have just written about Future Shock, but in reference to UFOs. Weird. Back in the 1960s, jobs were ten-a-penny, and you could get a permanent job (supposedly for life). But, by the time that I was old enough for work, things were becoming increasingly impermanent. Over the past 40-years, work permanency has steadily diminished. Jobs that used to require manual skills have disappeared, and change is perpetual.
@clemstevenson Lol,synchonicity and insomnia,anyway.Insomnia's permanent,at leastI came of age,so to speak,in the 80's.It was the only ostensibly prosperous era I've witnessed.Having seen and read Future Shock as a kid,I assumed it wouldn't last.It was a merciful end to ersatz preppy clothes(trying to see the bright side)at least.Love those 60's/70's UFO documentaries as a kid.I suspect they're a genre and subculture unto themselves.
@exeuroweenie Yeah, UFOs. I keep videoing UFO activity, but I won't pretend not to know why. I've been experiencing weird stuff, dating-back to the 1980s. My jobs started getting impermanent back in the 1980s, with companies starting up and going bust overnight. Technologies changed so rapidly that gadgets were obsolete before they could sell them. It's the same today. Computers will be better, faster, and cheaper, tomorrow.
@clemstevenson You're in the UK/England,right? England seems very popular with U.F.O.s;crop circles et al.Whoever/whatever they are,they know beautiful countryside.I think there has to be something to it.I read about that Rendlesham forest incident-astounding.I life in Florida now-a weird place even by American standards.Ironically there's less purported UFO activity than more staid areas in the northeast,such as Maryland and New Hampshire.It's possible Florida politics scare them off.
@exeuroweenie England...yes...there seems to be an ancient historical connection. Good job that I'm not religious at all, because I think the theosophical people have really screwed it up. They are expecting the return of Jesus (you must have seen the Omen), in England. But the guy in ancient Celtic mythology was Hesus, not Jesus. This has something to do with the people who built Stone Henge thousands of years ago, which rules out modern religions.
@clemstevenso Lol I wish Celtic mythology-or whatever it takes-would rule out all religion worldwide.It's too much for Richard Dawkins to handle alone-clever as he is.It's similar here,of course,though there are probably more religious people per capita.Religiosity varies a lot according to regions,though.The southeast being the most,with parts of the northeast the least.
@exeuroweenie Remember the Rendlesham forest business? Well, Larry Warren claims to have met with an alien, who told him that his religion was deliberately faked to stop humans killing each other. Larry Warren wouldn't believe what he was told. But Winston Churchill found out about the fake alien gods, back in the 1940s. Churchill was so scared that he had a UFO report kept secret, because the truth would smash the church. Churchill's response is actually on record.
@clemstevenson Accounts like that lead me to think there must be something to it.That old adage;"where there's smoke there's fire".I remember some odd incidents as a child.Besides,who could be a more reliable source than Churchill?
@exeuroweenie Well...I was watching a recording of the Queen's Christmas TV Speech from 1957 on YouTube. This is an annual Christmas TV event in the UK, which started in 1957. I am in no doubt that the Queen is told what to say, and her 1957 statements referred to the preservation of old values. She said, in her stiff upper lip accent, that one of those old values was religion. You see, the powers that were pulling the queen's strings in 1957 saw religion as a control mechanism.
@exeuroweenie Anyway, yes... The queen was told to talk about the preservation of religion. When I went to school, I couldn't get away from religion. I had to attend assembly, and I was even told that I was too young to reject religion. I had to attend religious education classes every week. But in the real word outside of school, religion was already on the scrap heap of dumb ideas. Someone in high office thought that we needed to learn something that they already knew was hogwash.
Sim 1 was also a Japanese fuck doll on weekends and Shinto holidays; but he was cut in half by a disgruntled sumo geshia. He will be missed. That fucken thing is in a land fill somewhere going, "wtf, I did everything they asked me to do."
Thanks Woman's Lib! Thanks to you, I have to fucking work now. Used to be a woman could stay at home and watch tv or cook, now I have to fucking work for a living. And there are zoning laws against communal living in most cities, because penis head neighborhood associations have made it illegal to have more than two unrelated people live in a house together.
@MacoutesGabber ru a Red Sox fan,do u go fishing alot & did u skip the 7th grade sir? my girlfriends grandmother contracted herpes from a goldfish in '89 & it's not a pretty thing 2b around when were watching WWE,i suggest u tone down ur comments a tad sir b4 u go down a full shoe size the next time ur buying reebok tennis shoes.
When I see film footage of gay people pre-1980, I feel sad and wonder how many of them died of AIDS in the following years, since no one knew of the horrible disease that was just around the corner and would spread across the globe. What a terrible thing. In that way, future shock was very true and sad. :(
@pauswa1966 The SHOCKING thing about AIDS is it was developed in the lab and distributed in vaccines in Africa etc. The cure is already there too but we won't see it
as they are using it as a weapon to depopulate the globe - If you think this is impossible and that they would never do such disgusting things - Watch the Secret wars of the CIA - free to watch on google - they even put cement -
-in the baby milk powder factory to kill kids - evils such as this are going on all the time..
Some people like to have lots of sex partners. That lady can live in the Middle East and be part of that situation (well, multiple wives but only one husband, and he may beat you when he feels like it).
The group marriage and the communes havent worked out but then gay marriage is slowly starting to be accepted so who knows what the future will be like.
Group marriage is so pas-say now, People would just rather be swingers. And Hippie Communes, or now we call them back to the landers, and Gay marriage! and PORN! How shocking!
Nothing really changes, and if any thin the 1950's with there picture perfect ideas white washed reality. I don't think this was all that shocking, outside of how the media made it sound.
@FortNikitaBullion: OMG dude, you're right. According to wikipedia, he didn't die but the bomb "destroyed both eardrums" and he " lost parts of three fingers".
so changes in society supposedly make us confused and afraid, but fear makes us easier to control. seems like a lot of desperate propaganda towards the end of a failing war agenda in SE asia. "you are afraid of change, you are afraid of protest..."
so this documentary came out the same time as kent state and the manson murders?
These people were all in shock. Just 10 years before they were Mad Men. The sexual frustration, the wars (Vietnam & Cold), and the church guilt that was imposed upon these people for the silliest of reasons was enormous back then. To break from the shackels of previous generations, they all took dope, stopped the war, and dropped out. When they started asking themselves what the kind of a world they were actually going to make (not just stop), they had no answers. Very stressful.
so' a group marriage' dose that mean if one person divorces' they can take half of the groups things?...hmm i wonder why the idea isn't so popular today
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!"
I think the modern cell phone is a pretty amazing piece of technology. Orson would have been pretty impressed (and skeptical) with the creation of the internet as well.
Why does the Baby-torium use old-fashioned slide projectors to show the babies? Seriously, though, some of this sounds like the premise for "Brave New World".
@justme632 In 1972, I was 16, and we thought this film was far out man. I hitch hiked the country and did many of the things on this video. We were the free people. How free is it now?
Group marriage really just translates into a house full of dirty hippies all to lazy and stoned to work a full time job. Hench the need to pack into hovels together to attempt to eek out an existance.
We had to watch this in school in my sixth grade (1976) and I remember how shocked everyone was during the marriage of the two men scene. I never really understood it then, now I do. It's about time, give them the right already.
Cute airline robots, what is the world coming to??? Test tube babies, shock, horror, have to say tho Doc. Epstein seemed Frankenstein creepy. lol Genetic Supermarkets of the Future. Hahaha, group marriage & communes look a lot like cults... Marriage = 1 man & 1 woman, everything else is adultery or sodomy! Shock horror, the citizens protesting to gain more freedom, oh the humanity of it all, dare we resist the system's imbalances...
the real threat to the american way are migrating poligamist gay hippies who live in communes, watch x-rated films, and might possibly have artificial limbs
7:15 "primitive communes". Hmmm..wasn't there one of these in Waco Texas once? There's a reason these don't work. How did our country ever survive the massive liberal front of the 1968-75 area?
It's important to note, that the era of this documentary was coming off a very paranoid time. Everything invented for the betterment of mankind was suspected for more insidious motives.
"What happens to the definition of man," he asks. Hopefully he won't be a biggoted, war mongering wasteful jerk like he has been for all of past millennium! Orson, why don't you go back to selling wine and stop making stupid documentaries meant to scare people.
I agree. So many many things were invented and or massed produced during WWII: Juke box's, Jet planes, wireless, computers, transisters, synthetic rubber, and 4X4's.
Orson tut-tutting over the disruption of family. 3:00
Laughable all the madness of the late 60s/early 70s. Group marriages and gay weddings indeed! "Machines and science" did NOT cause societal breakdown. Certain people did. One of them is the guy, seen here, who wrote those books pushing "group marriage."
it's like someone time-traveled back to the 70's and simultaneously screwed up culture, common-sense, fashion, architecture, and interior design all at once : ) - but yeah I guess with some of the radical cultural and technological changes we stood to be affected by, the future then must have seemed a land of anarchic insanity.
We are going to be taken over by blinking mannequins.
PS: Orson himself had 3 wives (consecutive). And many other women. As to family, his parents were both dead by 14, he practically abandoned his first daughter, and he neglected his other two for years... They could have picked a more appropriate narrator for this.
People didn't care about that stuff back then. What mattered in those days was your public image. There was no immediate way to research people's biographies as there is now, and the media in those days didn't harp on celebrity failings as they do now. Welles and and Nimoy were THE guys to get when narrating your docu back then, for the voice and persona alone.
My 5th grade teacher showed this to us! Strange to see it again since I'm only in 3rd grade!!
RockCleric420 1 month ago
6:19 didnt he just say house of usa? lol
BeakyRed 2 months ago
For a good, accessible popular view of the period of social shift in the early 70s, try reading Thomas Hine's "The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together on a Shag Rug in the 70s".
If you lived it, you will miss it all over again. And if you didn't you might just realize that our present "best of all possible worlds" with its soi-disant sexual and social enlightenment comes across as a posey new Edwardian Age.
Autostade67 3 months ago
Kudos to the term "fake edginess". Activism today, though it claims to be for social change, seems very self motivated yet ambiguous (ambivalent even) in its aims. It certainly isn't leftist (despite its posturing), and, though I try to remain objective about history and not over praise any one period, today's movements really DO owe a lot to the the political protest culture created in the late 50s through to the mid-70s.
Autostade67 3 months ago
We already have "artificial men." They're called politicians. Ba-Dum-Dum! Thank you!
gamesDAMNED 4 months ago
I recently saw a film about Reverse Future Shock in A BBC TV series called "the Changes" where a mysterious force caused everyone in England to start rejecting modern technology very fast.It came out in 1975
MrJacMac1986 5 months ago
It amazes me that we are still dealing with the same stuff......only the style has changed. This is a 1972 film ! i was 2 years old ! and NOTHING has changed,....except for the style.
astrialkil 6 months ago 3
@astrialkil We have wasted 30 years !
astrialkil 6 months ago
well there is already a female robot voice shouting departures and arrivals at the airports here
nephildevil 7 months ago
7:47 everyones look is like "uhhh"
Survivor87 7 months ago
They had us watch this in 4th grade, in '73, then in 6th grade, in '76. Our guidance counsellor showed it and had a talk with us afterward. WHY? WTF? It's as if it was designed to frighten and depress people. Why force children to watch?
TextFreeley 7 months ago 2
@TextFreeley
Yeah, I know.
I don't think people should take anything with "shock" in the title too seriously.
digitalgenre 4 months ago
@1m 15s - you'd be hard pressed to find real staff who'd pass the Turing test there , especially in the retail world LOL
madmax200769 7 months ago
I saw this in school back in the early 70s, and I remember thinking at the time that it seemed rather far fetched, or at least overly dramatic.
mpbliesener 8 months ago
More Hippies
Comptekhs 10 months ago
Wow, that whole quote beginning at 5:14: "It makes you realize that you have quite a bit to offer, when more than one person cares for you..." Yup, why bother with just one RL relationship these days, when your 5234 Facebook "friends" are online waiting for you.
plasmadis 10 months ago
Less than a decade later, the country took a huge swing to the right. Social change doesn't stay on one continuum, that's why long-term predictions often are outdated quickly.
JonLeibow 11 months ago
Welles almost sounds angry when describing what the future would be like. It's almost as if he knew he only had another dozen or so years to live.
vosogo 11 months ago
"You're in a Johnny cab."
pummisher 1 year ago
I remember those days. You little sissies today with your fake edginess are ridiculous and not impressive. lol. In those days there was serious social revolution going on, it wasn't a safe pre packaged slickly marketed alternative lifestyle. And they did all that activism and demonstration without the convenience of cell phones, blackberrys, voicemail, twitter or facebook. Nowadays young people can't find their way out of a paper bag without a gps.
superblondiefan1 1 year ago 11
@superblondiefan1 Well, here we are 38yrs later and where is that futer shock? Everyone got used to it!
avelione 1 year ago
@avelione have we - really?
CaptCondor 1 year ago
@CaptCondor I have. that's why this movie reminds me more of an old man moanings than anything else.
avelione 1 year ago
@avelione I agree, it gets pretty polemic about the way society is evolving. Still, there is some truth in it - like that people have problems building something to last for example
CaptCondor 1 year ago
@CaptCondor Well, they always have that kind of problems ;P
avelione 1 year ago
@avelione True. Well, I guess, this documentary hasn't really aged well. Still, I like the narration by Orson Welles, who - thanks to his stature - sometimes seems like the last dinosaur, rumbling about the problems of modern society
CaptCondor 1 year ago
@avelione This observation is correct. As a teenager of 1972, I have grown up with the notion of impermanence as the norm. Impermanence is now the only constant, to the bewilderment of previous generations. The future, from my perspective, was always going to be different. Whatever I learned at school, or at college, was going to become rapidly out-dated. Indeed, that knowledge was, by default, already out-of-date before I'd even learned it. We have grown accustomed to change.
clemstevenson 1 year ago
@clemstevenson So are things in general more impermanent now?
exeuroweenie 3 months ago
@exeuroweenie Wow, that's an interesting example of synchronicity! I have just written about Future Shock, but in reference to UFOs. Weird. Back in the 1960s, jobs were ten-a-penny, and you could get a permanent job (supposedly for life). But, by the time that I was old enough for work, things were becoming increasingly impermanent. Over the past 40-years, work permanency has steadily diminished. Jobs that used to require manual skills have disappeared, and change is perpetual.
clemstevenson 3 months ago
@clemstevenson Lol,synchonicity and insomnia,anyway.Insomnia's permanent,at leastI came of age,so to speak,in the 80's.It was the only ostensibly prosperous era I've witnessed.Having seen and read Future Shock as a kid,I assumed it wouldn't last.It was a merciful end to ersatz preppy clothes(trying to see the bright side)at least.Love those 60's/70's UFO documentaries as a kid.I suspect they're a genre and subculture unto themselves.
exeuroweenie 3 months ago
@exeuroweenie Yeah, UFOs. I keep videoing UFO activity, but I won't pretend not to know why. I've been experiencing weird stuff, dating-back to the 1980s. My jobs started getting impermanent back in the 1980s, with companies starting up and going bust overnight. Technologies changed so rapidly that gadgets were obsolete before they could sell them. It's the same today. Computers will be better, faster, and cheaper, tomorrow.
clemstevenson 3 months ago
@clemstevenson You're in the UK/England,right? England seems very popular with U.F.O.s;crop circles et al.Whoever/whatever they are,they know beautiful countryside.I think there has to be something to it.I read about that Rendlesham forest incident-astounding.I life in Florida now-a weird place even by American standards.Ironically there's less purported UFO activity than more staid areas in the northeast,such as Maryland and New Hampshire.It's possible Florida politics scare them off.
exeuroweenie 3 months ago
@exeuroweenie England...yes...there seems to be an ancient historical connection. Good job that I'm not religious at all, because I think the theosophical people have really screwed it up. They are expecting the return of Jesus (you must have seen the Omen), in England. But the guy in ancient Celtic mythology was Hesus, not Jesus. This has something to do with the people who built Stone Henge thousands of years ago, which rules out modern religions.
clemstevenson 3 months ago
@clemstevenso Lol I wish Celtic mythology-or whatever it takes-would rule out all religion worldwide.It's too much for Richard Dawkins to handle alone-clever as he is.It's similar here,of course,though there are probably more religious people per capita.Religiosity varies a lot according to regions,though.The southeast being the most,with parts of the northeast the least.
exeuroweenie 3 months ago
@exeuroweenie Remember the Rendlesham forest business? Well, Larry Warren claims to have met with an alien, who told him that his religion was deliberately faked to stop humans killing each other. Larry Warren wouldn't believe what he was told. But Winston Churchill found out about the fake alien gods, back in the 1940s. Churchill was so scared that he had a UFO report kept secret, because the truth would smash the church. Churchill's response is actually on record.
clemstevenson 3 months ago
@clemstevenson Accounts like that lead me to think there must be something to it.That old adage;"where there's smoke there's fire".I remember some odd incidents as a child.Besides,who could be a more reliable source than Churchill?
exeuroweenie 3 months ago
@exeuroweenie Well...I was watching a recording of the Queen's Christmas TV Speech from 1957 on YouTube. This is an annual Christmas TV event in the UK, which started in 1957. I am in no doubt that the Queen is told what to say, and her 1957 statements referred to the preservation of old values. She said, in her stiff upper lip accent, that one of those old values was religion. You see, the powers that were pulling the queen's strings in 1957 saw religion as a control mechanism.
clemstevenson 3 months ago
@exeuroweenie Anyway, yes... The queen was told to talk about the preservation of religion. When I went to school, I couldn't get away from religion. I had to attend assembly, and I was even told that I was too young to reject religion. I had to attend religious education classes every week. But in the real word outside of school, religion was already on the scrap heap of dumb ideas. Someone in high office thought that we needed to learn something that they already knew was hogwash.
clemstevenson 3 months ago
@superblondiefan1 Shut up hippie
Guestservice2000 1 month ago
@superblondiefan1 You're a fossil about to become extinct by your insistance to live in the past.
SwitchFoot2007 3 weeks ago
8:29
That looks a LOT like Dennis Franz playing the theater manager!
MrSammyReed 1 year ago
Wow that chick with the big 'fro' is hot!
PAM2167 1 year ago
Sim 1 was also a Japanese fuck doll on weekends and Shinto holidays; but he was cut in half by a disgruntled sumo geshia. He will be missed. That fucken thing is in a land fill somewhere going, "wtf, I did everything they asked me to do."
FuUberFu 1 year ago
thats it ... I'm gonna send a roomba back in time to orson welles and BLOW HIS MIND
wolfchimneyrock 1 year ago 4
Seems to me that Orson Welles hosted another futuristic documentary, based on a popular book at the time: Hal Lindsey's "Late Great Planet Earth".
slmacph 1 year ago
Thanks Woman's Lib! Thanks to you, I have to fucking work now. Used to be a woman could stay at home and watch tv or cook, now I have to fucking work for a living. And there are zoning laws against communal living in most cities, because penis head neighborhood associations have made it illegal to have more than two unrelated people live in a house together.
mccarrpo 1 year ago
In 1972 being a faggot homosexual gay weirdo was still considered a mental disorder.
mccarrpo 1 year ago
Honeys, I'm home!
Tom meets Don under a silvery moon which then explodes for no adequately explored reason.
shockadelicaustralia 1 year ago
Fuckin fag marriages!
jmoon219 1 year ago
I support multiple sex partners. Fucking is good for you.Stop being such puritanical, prude and repressed assholes.
MacoutesGabber 1 year ago 9
@MacoutesGabber ru a Red Sox fan,do u go fishing alot & did u skip the 7th grade sir? my girlfriends grandmother contracted herpes from a goldfish in '89 & it's not a pretty thing 2b around when were watching WWE,i suggest u tone down ur comments a tad sir b4 u go down a full shoe size the next time ur buying reebok tennis shoes.
rrrjjjmmm100 1 year ago
@rrrjjjmmm100 Thats funny. Pure NONSENSE, but funny.
MacoutesGabber 1 year ago
When I see film footage of gay people pre-1980, I feel sad and wonder how many of them died of AIDS in the following years, since no one knew of the horrible disease that was just around the corner and would spread across the globe. What a terrible thing. In that way, future shock was very true and sad. :(
pauswa1966 1 year ago 4
@pauswa1966 The SHOCKING thing about AIDS is it was developed in the lab and distributed in vaccines in Africa etc. The cure is already there too but we won't see it
as they are using it as a weapon to depopulate the globe - If you think this is impossible and that they would never do such disgusting things - Watch the Secret wars of the CIA - free to watch on google - they even put cement -
-in the baby milk powder factory to kill kids - evils such as this are going on all the time..
55mandreck 1 year ago
Some people like to have lots of sex partners. That lady can live in the Middle East and be part of that situation (well, multiple wives but only one husband, and he may beat you when he feels like it).
pauswa1966 1 year ago
group marriage...?! Tarnation! one's enough...
CrackerJackLee 1 year ago 2
@CrackerJackLee that group marriage thing really took off didn't it?
MadSmokerBBQ 1 year ago
@MadSmokerBBQ
yes, you're right, there... i guess charles manson set the standard...
CrackerJackLee 1 year ago 3
I was born in 1972, Future shock is a lot worse now I wish things were more like they were in the 70's and 80's
52DODGEM37 1 year ago
The group marriage and the communes havent worked out but then gay marriage is slowly starting to be accepted so who knows what the future will be like.
death2utubenow 1 year ago
I'd love to do my check ins with a humanoid robot!
They'd probably piss me off!
roskildahphreak 1 year ago
Babytoriums? Group Marriages? These needy egotistical Hippies destroyed the USA.
rockabillydj 1 year ago
I'm sure I'll be using a slide projector when I go in to order my genetically-engineered superbaby.
amadeusyaoi 1 year ago
Group marriage is so pas-say now, People would just rather be swingers. And Hippie Communes, or now we call them back to the landers, and Gay marriage! and PORN! How shocking!
Nothing really changes, and if any thin the 1950's with there picture perfect ideas white washed reality. I don't think this was all that shocking, outside of how the media made it sound.
ybunnygurl 1 year ago
pr0n is the future
chrihern 1 year ago
Isn't that Charles Epstein one of the Unabomber's victims? Just curious.
FortNikitaBullion 1 year ago
@FortNikitaBullion: OMG dude, you're right. According to wikipedia, he didn't die but the bomb "destroyed both eardrums" and he " lost parts of three fingers".
spectergohan 1 year ago
it's creepy how this documentary reflects the present
Wolfboy183 1 year ago
so changes in society supposedly make us confused and afraid, but fear makes us easier to control. seems like a lot of desperate propaganda towards the end of a failing war agenda in SE asia. "you are afraid of change, you are afraid of protest..."
so this documentary came out the same time as kent state and the manson murders?
draconismu 2 years ago
These people were all in shock. Just 10 years before they were Mad Men. The sexual frustration, the wars (Vietnam & Cold), and the church guilt that was imposed upon these people for the silliest of reasons was enormous back then. To break from the shackels of previous generations, they all took dope, stopped the war, and dropped out. When they started asking themselves what the kind of a world they were actually going to make (not just stop), they had no answers. Very stressful.
CTHULHUSURVIVOR 2 years ago
Maybe in the future men may love men and want to get married....My God, what if that happens?
NotCrazyLikeU 2 years ago
this is the junk that i have spent decades undoing. it was all brainwashing
lambchopxoxo 2 years ago
Those babies are almost 40 now
lambchopxoxo 2 years ago
I was born in 1972 which is how I stumbled on this video by typing in 1972. I'll be 38 this year.
cito423 2 years ago
so' a group marriage' dose that mean if one person divorces' they can take half of the groups things?...hmm i wonder why the idea isn't so popular today
meh97 2 years ago
aw shucks instead of being born into a more racially segregated 'sexist past
meh97 2 years ago
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!"
dandelionpaws 2 years ago
4:04 computer farts.
nuMbERsRuNN3R 2 years ago
I think the modern cell phone is a pretty amazing piece of technology. Orson would have been pretty impressed (and skeptical) with the creation of the internet as well.
foolsgoldsoma 2 years ago
"The Birth of the New Civilization..." or maybe just the growing pains of the Old?
treplovski 2 years ago
Why does the Baby-torium use old-fashioned slide projectors to show the babies? Seriously, though, some of this sounds like the premise for "Brave New World".
Teflon65 2 years ago
i wonder what happened to that group marriage... Maybe they cheated on each other :o
cStein34 2 years ago 2
The real downside of group marriage: group divorce!
bertfw 2 years ago 3
LMFAO!
=D
ColdNova75 2 years ago
What I can say is to all their own..
Elmeromero1 2 years ago
I wonder how many people committed suicide after watching this back in 1972
justme632 2 years ago 35
@justme632 the bell bottoms make me want to kill myself...
00MORDRED 1 year ago
@justme632 In 1972, I was 16, and we thought this film was far out man. I hitch hiked the country and did many of the things on this video. We were the free people. How free is it now?
mermaidcandy 4 months ago
Oh no, a robot taking my tickets? No thanks! I'll just buy my tickets online and get them from an automated machine at the airport.
yaosio 2 years ago 38
@yaosio that's funny. What do you think a robot is anyway?
tubedweeb 1 year ago
@tubedweeb Rather than funny it was an ironic remark
ABSURDOCINEMA 1 year ago
Group marriage really just translates into a house full of dirty hippies all to lazy and stoned to work a full time job. Hench the need to pack into hovels together to attempt to eek out an existance.
aduecey 2 years ago 6
Perfect!! LOL
Boeing727223 2 years ago 2
Group marriages sheeeez. Whonder why we don't see them today...
WarriorOfModernDeath 2 years ago 6
Is that robot Apple or Windows?
scorpdan 3 years ago 5
transistors! lolz!
revengeofcleveland 3 years ago 4
A transistorited robot no less!
beastybeatsy 3 years ago
boy doesnt this "high tech" 70s stuff look primitive today??
revengeofcleveland 3 years ago
no im pretty sure its wayyyy more advanced than what we've got now.. >.>
coldfustion 3 years ago
How much for an Asian baby?
AcidTrout 3 years ago
do you think it's people's choce. nope. it is imposed on humanity. the question is by whom?
livinglikeleon 3 years ago
We had to watch this in school in my sixth grade (1976) and I remember how shocked everyone was during the marriage of the two men scene. I never really understood it then, now I do. It's about time, give them the right already.
IIIl1IIIlllIII1 3 years ago 7
I had to watch this in high school in 1994!
NameSpaceCollision 3 years ago
It's propaganda, and brainwashing. Only conditioning you to what's to come.
Elmeromero1 2 years ago
Thanx for posting this !
tennyc 3 years ago
BABYTORIUMS!
crock703 3 years ago
Cute airline robots, what is the world coming to??? Test tube babies, shock, horror, have to say tho Doc. Epstein seemed Frankenstein creepy. lol Genetic Supermarkets of the Future. Hahaha, group marriage & communes look a lot like cults... Marriage = 1 man & 1 woman, everything else is adultery or sodomy! Shock horror, the citizens protesting to gain more freedom, oh the humanity of it all, dare we resist the system's imbalances...
GlobalFilmmaker 3 years ago 4
Propaganda.
kcirtap01 3 years ago 3
my god that is the ugliest couple I have ever seen...when I think about them bumping uglies I want to slit my wrists.
Nekosesshy 3 years ago
I saw this in sociology class in high school in 1973
thaxdouglas 3 years ago 2
Lol! Born into a future shocked world...
1erichellstrom 3 years ago
gay marriage, stem cell research...still seems like issues we are facing today. This guy was against women's rights tsk tsk.
thecheckercorner 3 years ago 2
so...
according to this film:
the real threat to the american way are migrating poligamist gay hippies who live in communes, watch x-rated films, and might possibly have artificial limbs
... all thanks to our modern technology
Go modernity!
koabr3gn 4 years ago 8
7:15 "primitive communes". Hmmm..wasn't there one of these in Waco Texas once? There's a reason these don't work. How did our country ever survive the massive liberal front of the 1968-75 area?
kpb96m 4 years ago
yea... the "liberal front" of that time was overwhelmingly successful,
woman's rights
gay rights
reproductive rights, we got 'em all!
radiofreak56 4 years ago
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MsReactionary 9 months ago
5:15 Miss little missy cooing over her happy little home, where a group of dorky ferret faced men "care" about her and her wellbeing.
Yea, at least up to the moment you stop putting out. Then your ass is on the street like the ho you are!
kpb96m 4 years ago
i think the only reason she's there is because she's too ugly, or lazy to find somebody.
btw, i love how she says she can love different people, "not equally" but in her own "special way." fucking bitch.
cky83 4 years ago
agreed!
lol
koabr3gn 4 years ago
It's important to note, that the era of this documentary was coming off a very paranoid time. Everything invented for the betterment of mankind was suspected for more insidious motives.
DigitalJediMaster 4 years ago
Do you think it was because of atomic weapons, and the cold war?
ColdNova75 2 years ago
To say the least.
DigitalJediMaster 2 years ago
freekin 80s ruined everything
fleckis 4 years ago 6
"What happens to the definition of man," he asks. Hopefully he won't be a biggoted, war mongering wasteful jerk like he has been for all of past millennium! Orson, why don't you go back to selling wine and stop making stupid documentaries meant to scare people.
utubeworms 4 years ago
Um, Wells died in 1985.
DigitalJediMaster 4 years ago
lol, pwned.
cky83 4 years ago
I think that real future shock probably started around the time of world war two. Not in the early 70's.
utubeworms 4 years ago
I agree. So many many things were invented and or massed produced during WWII: Juke box's, Jet planes, wireless, computers, transisters, synthetic rubber, and 4X4's.
1947Desoto 4 years ago
Wow your so right ....
ColdNova75 2 years ago
Orson tut-tutting over the disruption of family. 3:00
Laughable all the madness of the late 60s/early 70s. Group marriages and gay weddings indeed! "Machines and science" did NOT cause societal breakdown. Certain people did. One of them is the guy, seen here, who wrote those books pushing "group marriage."
Were people just stupider back then?
nextren 4 years ago 2
it's like someone time-traveled back to the 70's and simultaneously screwed up culture, common-sense, fashion, architecture, and interior design all at once : ) - but yeah I guess with some of the radical cultural and technological changes we stood to be affected by, the future then must have seemed a land of anarchic insanity.
AEigner 4 years ago
We are going to be taken over by blinking mannequins.
PS: Orson himself had 3 wives (consecutive). And many other women. As to family, his parents were both dead by 14, he practically abandoned his first daughter, and he neglected his other two for years... They could have picked a more appropriate narrator for this.
nextren 4 years ago
People didn't care about that stuff back then. What mattered in those days was your public image. There was no immediate way to research people's biographies as there is now, and the media in those days didn't harp on celebrity failings as they do now. Welles and and Nimoy were THE guys to get when narrating your docu back then, for the voice and persona alone.
DigitalJediMaster 4 years ago
I'd like to know what came of the people in the group marriage...
buggoff 4 years ago
1:10 - I'd say human... otherwise why the hell would she be typing?
I didn't think I was going to end up watching this whole thing but it's hilarious.
GBart 4 years ago
Tranhumanism - rapid evolution of mankind
DARPA goes online in 2012
NASA AI "Intellegent Archive" goes online 2010
lazydogs 4 years ago
SkyNet takes over, 2015...or something like that. =/
DigitalJediMaster 4 years ago 3
DigitalJediMaster (2 hours ago) More, more, more info lol thanks
lazydogs 4 years ago
Yay !!!
death to the flesh!!!
;)
ColdNova75 2 years ago
pretty interesting movie
leongalmeida 4 years ago