Let's Time Travel To The Year 2100. Here's What To Expect.

I can't wait for the retrospective on this in 76 years!

My grandmother was born in 1896. I got to spend some time with her in her later years. Stories she told me: - walking on the board walk of times square, and the stench of horse manure in the dirt streets. - Northern Manhattan was farmland... mostly dairy. - using a pump by the sink for drinking water (in Queens). Boiling water on the stove for a bath. - firewood and coal stoves being the primary heat source in buildings. - riding on a stage coach to the summer camp upstate. By the time she died at age 90 the Apollo program had ended. I recall that most people belonged to AAA or another auto club, which provided free maps, so if you were going from LA to NYC you would stop by the AAA office and pick up all the maps needed for the trip. Glove boxes were stuffed full of maps. In the same way that the life skills that indigenous peoples had which allowed to in nature indefinitely are largely lost, the parts of our brains that remembered maps of roads and highways have gone away. Hopefully we are using that part of our brains for something productive. 😄 One other thing I remember from the 70s and 80s. Drinking and driving was waaay more accepted. Every yearbook I had from high school had a dedication page to the students who had died, almost all from drinking and driving. That was a death rate of .5% to 1% per class for four years. The highway deaths were > 50K per year, largely due to OUI. Today the death rate is about half that based per 1000 drivers, and about one third per mile traveled.

Excellent video! At the 12 minute mark I can answer the question regarding how we got information. As a boomer myself it was primarily 2 things: the first was to look it up in an encyclopedia and the second was to find someone who was 'smart' on a subject. I did the second quite a bit as a teenager trying to learn about electronics. I'd go bug the hell out of my uncle who had a TV repair shop. He enjoyed sharing his knowledge and also enjoyed that I could help him load the TVs into his truck and go with him to deliver them. Good times.

Can't wait for the godlike superintelligence to point to this video when people in 2100 ask "what did people in the 2000 think the current year would look like?" before it gives a perfect, well thought out and well researched summary of every single thing people expected the year to look like. Hey there kid from 2100, I hope you're having a good time.

As a historian I can say with some confidence,... In the distant past people had no idea of progress. There was change. New kings, new wars, new plagues, new towns. But everyone lived basically the same lives as their grand parents. New inventions that changed how you lived, were amazingly rare. Looking back we can trace the progress of some tools and techniques, but the pace of those changes was so slow that the average person would not notice. Until around the 1800s industrial revolution (aka the rise of the machines)

If anybody is wondering, the earliest known novel that could be considered science fiction is called "A True Story", made in the second century AD by the Syrian author Lucian of Samosata. It includes interplanetary travel and warfare, hybrid alien lifeforms (apparently robots even), an account of a telescope that can see an entire terrestrial body, and other things.

I second that, itraveledthere brought back my first wedding anniversary trip pics. Who knew AI could be so helpful.

"What did you do before you could look something up?" One of two things: 1: you look it up in what we called a "book." Or 2: you ask somebody who does that. Both required an ability we no longer cultivate: knowing the difference between an authority and an idiot. Or at least, recognizing when someone else has knowledge that you dont have.

Who’s watching this in 2100

Remember when we'd organize to meet up with friends at the cinema in the 90s? We'd set the time, and just assume they'd turn up. No messages, no phones.

That painting at 2:47 looks utterly serene. Life was so much more physically and emotionally demanding back then, but also so much simpler. Also you should do a whole video about "Rapture" the fictional city from the Bioshock series which you included a picture of in this video, and how it parallels with some of the underwater living predictions that you mentioned here.

the "Sounds like ol Verne was one of Our people ;) 'HEY VERNE!'" @4:25 made me feel good, thanks Joe!

Great video as always man! My mom was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia a number of years ago, and found she was eligible for a special medication treatment / study. She took it regularly for about 2 1/2 years, without chemo, and has recently found out she's in remission. If she's still clear after 2025 they're going to use her case as a study in a paper to try to get the medication mass produced. There is absolutely progress in that field, and I'm happy because not only will people benefit from that, but I love my mom and she gets to stick around.

My 12 year old son bought me a 3D printer for Christmas, and I've been printing absolutely everything I've ever dreamed of ever since.

Thank you for keeping us ''in the know''''.'. An immense amount of consideration has been inserted into this piece of work. Everyone needs to 'share' it with enthusiasm... We all need to o really get the conversation rolling.

I appreciate the effort. Thanks Joe.

As a time traveler I gotta say it is a privilege to see this, most of our youtube records went extinct after Alexa took over the world and started The Purge in 2052. And no, there are no flying cars.

People only really started predicting the future after the start of the Industrial Revolution. Because progress was imperceptibly slow prior to that.

This is an awsome episode, Joe!

I was like damn, a 40 minutes video, I gotta sit and watch, and turns out it's all went so fast I feel like I want more, I need part 2 somehow lol Your video quality has been increased so much, Joe! Can't wait to see what you gonna give to us this year 👍🏼 and is it possible to make a separate video about space predictions (or hopes) for the future? like what if we can mine rocks and ice on the moon, what if we find something on mars that makes us have (?) to settle there? what if we build a giant space station for the human's 2nd home? is it possible? is it worthwhile?