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This young child's prediction in the video is completely spot on: "livestock...they will be kept in batteries. They won't be able to graze on pastures. They'll

This young child's prediction in the video is completely spot on: "livestock...they will be kept in batteries. They won't be able to graze on pastures. They'll be kept in buildings...artificially reared...be bigger, give more food." Link to segment: https://youtu.be/cwHib5wYEj8?t=244 https://youtu.be/cwHib5wYEj8?t=244

scottlocklin 7y ago
I found that the most remarkable accurate prediction myself (OP fwiiw). The rest of it was funny for being wrong in the same ways modern people are wrong about just about everything.
OJFord 7y ago
It was so spot on, including terminology, that I felt compelled to look up the history - and indeed it was an extant but I young and growing industry - so I think really it was just something else being talked about in the press and schools in the same way as robots, computers, automation, and atomic bombs. It just turns out to be more accurate in 2019, fundamentally simpler, I suppose - we overestimated our abilities on the flying car front anyway!
- nearbuy 7y ago
  It seems like all the most accurate predictions were predictions of things that were already happening becoming more prevalent. The factory farms were one example. Increased automation and and use of computers proved correct, as did viewing people as statistics. One child said it'll be more crowded and more people will live in flats, which is completely correct (although I suspect the child was imagining it being worse). While their predictions of "more of the same" were often correct, their predictions about fundamental changes to the way we live were all off-base. Nuclear annihilation, cabbage pills for breakfast, human-like robots, no one having jobs, people living under the sea or in domes on the Sahara... none of these have happened. Instead, many of the biggest changes to our lifestyles revolve around home PCs, the internet, and cell phones. Maybe the lesson is it's easier to be right when predicting that a current trend will continue.

scottlocklin 7y ago

I found that the most remarkable accurate prediction myself (OP fwiiw). The rest of it was funny for being wrong in the same ways modern people are wrong about just about everything.

OJFord 7y ago

It was so spot on, including terminology, that I felt compelled to look up the history - and indeed it was an extant but I young and growing industry - so I think really it was just something else being talked about in the press and schools in the same way as robots, computers, automation, and atomic bombs. It just turns out to be more accurate in 2019, fundamentally simpler, I suppose - we overestimated our abilities on the flying car front anyway!

nearbuy 7y ago
It seems like all the most accurate predictions were predictions of things that were already happening becoming more prevalent. The factory farms were one example. Increased automation and and use of computers proved correct, as did viewing people as statistics. One child said it'll be more crowded and more people will live in flats, which is completely correct (although I suspect the child was imagining it being worse). While their predictions of "more of the same" were often correct, their predictions about fundamental changes to the way we live were all off-base. Nuclear annihilation, cabbage pills for breakfast, human-like robots, no one having jobs, people living under the sea or in domes on the Sahara... none of these have happened. Instead, many of the biggest changes to our lifestyles revolve around home PCs, the internet, and cell phones. Maybe the lesson is it's easier to be right when predicting that a current trend will continue.