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Video clip shows a mid-1960s imagining of what
technology would be like in the year 1999.
The video clip shown above — an excerpt from a 1967 Philco-Ford production entitled "Year 1999 A.D.," starring a young Wink Martindale — did a fairly good job of anticipating some ways (if not the specific forms) in which technology might be used in daily life more than three decades in the future. Concepts such as "fingertip shopping," an "electronic correspondence machine," and others envisioned in this video anticipate several innovations that became commonplace within a few years of 1999: e-commerce, webcams, online bill payment and tax filing, electronic funds transfers (EFT), home-based laser printers, and e-mail.

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[BlissfullAwareness]

Idiots, it's from a Philco-ford production entitled "year 1999", it's a clip from 1967. It's about as fake as my ass.

[EgoDust]

@BlissfullAwareness

How can you tell its a fake? Or is this just a "gut feeling" ?!?

You must be right, just because your proof is so much more convincing?

:-)

[KybernetikKollektiv]

fake

[EgoDust]

@KybernetikKollektiv

Can you offer any insights why this is a fake? Any reason at all? I would love to hear your 'proof'

[EgoDust]

How do you know it's fake MikDonson, Please share? Are you saying that me and snopes are lying? Please share your wisdom with us?

[TruthandJustice101]

IMPOSSIBLE!

1) This would require MEGABYTES of computing power and MEGABYTES of RAM. It will be at least 100 years before we develop that level of technology.

2) Such a computer would cost $50,000 and would be utterly unmarketable to the general public.

3) Phone lines could never handle that amount of data.

4) What kind of idiot would sit at a "computer" and watch images...or even videos???

Pshhh! yeah right....

[Obviously]

I love how these things predict technological changes (this one is fairly close!) but they fail miserably at predicting social changes.

[paineiam]

The future in the 1960s was shit!

[musardus]

real

[leon2343]

wow did they rely know

[FiskieXS]

Damn it's so correct... except we don't do it with bulky ass documents and images

[avedic]

too bad these 1999 computer monitors still cannot display at the same angle as the screen itself. :(