British Children in the 1960's predict what the year 2000 will be like

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I was one of those kids in the 60's..I wish I had been as far-sighted as these kids.. especially the boy at 1.43... talk about Nail & Head from one so young.. ( I'd love to know what he went onto do for a living , he'll be at retirement age now, it would be fascinating to hear his views in his 60's) but on the whole the kids were very insightful.. I'm sure I wasn't one of them ...

 

Rather than predictions, this video exposes the fears of the 1960s- over population, and atomic weapons. It's amazing how these kids picked up the questions, fears, and hopes of the 1960s, and being so young, but so adult enough to recognize those trends.
 
2:41 "People will be regarded more as statistics than as actual people." Overpopulation and the negatives of automation were mentioned frequently.
 

fuzzybuddy said:
Rather than predictions, this video exposes the fears of the 1960s- over population, and atomic weapons. It's amazing how these kids picked up the questions, fears, and hopes of the 1960s, and being so young, but so adult enough to recognize those trends.
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i agree, i graduated High School in 1964. At some point during that those years i read that the amount of Nuclear weapons existent at the time were equal to 10 tons of TNT for every human being alive at the time. Somewhere in a box of old journals and papers i have a poem i wrote on a legal yellow pad expressing my feeling about that. Similar to some of these kids.
 
As a child of the late 50’s/60’s, I can well remember the “Duck and cover” drills that we rehearsed with considerable regularity at school in anticipation of nuclear war with the Soviet Union. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, that war seemed imminent. My father had a makeshift bomb shelter in the basement, equipped with canned goods and bottled water.

Yet for all the nuclear fears, the age was in some ways unduly optimistic. I remember reading books from the school library that predicted we’d be exploring the inner planets of our solar system by the 1990’s. It was, after all, the dawning of the Age of Aquarius... 🚀
 
i think it was astonishing that we thought ( well they did , I was obviously in my own little world then )..that there will be no jobs because of everything would be automation. I can't remember ever thinking that when I was 13 or 14...but they were absolutely bang on...

I remember those days very well, I can see myself sitting at my Desk in school( in my mind).. and never even imagining being alive in 2021.. much less how the world would be ( flying cars aside)... :D
 
I seem to recall that in the 60's, we were interested in music, being in a band, a touch of underage drinking, girls and sex. We would get jobs, make money, buy cars and have fun fun fun. I don't recall fear or being worried about the future - it was full of possibilities (mainly of love, sex and cars). Well, my close friends and I have scattered to the corners of the globe. We've enjoyed good lives and enjoyed all those things we dreamed about in the 60's. OK, I was never one for flashy cars.
 
I had seen this shortly before you posted it HD I remember the boy and the robots,LOL.

We didn't have duck and cover exercises....but the Cuban missile crisis scared me!
 

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