"Year 1999 AD" - A 1967 Film Imagines the Future

[J Miller]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1p6fmPzoJk

They got a lot wrong, a lot right, and a lot late. All with 60's Star Trek special effects and attitudes. Even the computer voice came from Star Trek.

I wasn't sure weather to laugh or cry as I watched this.

Joe

[jeepnik]

Star Trek got more things right. Which I guess proves that the artist can predict the future better than the scientist. Or that the scientists seem driven to prove the artist right.

[piller]

Visionaries come up with ideas. Then the engineer types make it happen. Some very talented people are both types. Tesla was one.

[Blaine]

Sadly, George Orwell got too many things right.....

[AJMD429]

Sadly, George Orwell got too many things right.....

Yep....him and Aldous Huxley....

[OldWin]

Sadly, George Orwell got too many things right.....

Truer words never spoken.

When I was a junior in high school, we had to pick an author and do a report after reading their books.
Don't know what made me choose Orwell, but I've been a wacko ever since. Mostly cause I can see it all happening.

[Tycer]

Sadly, George Orwell got too many things right.....

Yep....him and Aldous Huxley....

Aldous was one of the planners. What he wrote was being implemented by him and his coworkers at the same time as the book was published.
"But now psycho-analysis is being combined with hypnosis; and hypnosis has been made easy and indefinitely extensible through the use of barbiturates, which induce a hypnoid and suggestible state in even the most recalcitrant subjects.

Within the next generation I believe that the world’s rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience."

[FWiedner]

Sadly, George Orwell got too many things right.....

Yep....him and Aldous Huxley....

Aldous was one of the planners. What he wrote was being implemented by him and his coworkers at the same time as the book was published.
"But now psycho-analysis is being combined with hypnosis; and hypnosis has been made easy and indefinitely extensible through the use of barbiturates, which induce a hypnoid and suggestible state in even the most recalcitrant subjects.

Within the next generation I believe that the world’s rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience."

I disagree.

I believe that the rulers will simply resort to time's honored and tested methods to achieve societal compliance with their grand scheme.

Those methods being re-education, propaganda, oppression, starvation, mass murder, incarceration, and forced labor.

Technology may have changed, but the nature of man has not. Bullies are a dime a dozen, and bullets cost less than barbituates.

A drugged populace is less productive, and turning an uncooperative subject into a drooling addict is not nearly as much of an 'example' to a resistant community as is the bloody beat down of a defenseless soul followed by a prolonged hail of bullets. Poor people breed like rats, so there is no attrition.

One must also consider the entertainment needs of the ruling class...