6 People Who Predicted the Future With Stunning Accuracy

Hello and welcome to another ColdFusion video, as you all know, from the perspective of humans, time only moves in one direction and it is incredibly difficult to predict the

future

, but over the years, there have been a few that have managed to do this and some managed to predict up to a hundred years into the

future

with chilling

accuracy

I wanted to do something fun for today's episode, so today we'll take a look at some of these fascinating cases. Our first visionary needs no introduction, he is Nikola Tesla, a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer and The futurist was instrumental in the development of wireless communication of AC motors and there is too much to mention without getting bogged down in this video.

He said the following as early as 1898. I proposed to the representatives of a large manufacturing company the construction and public display of an automobile carriage that would itself perform a wide variety of operations involving something resembling trial, this description sounds like an automobile autonomous when they are navigating a road, they have to make split-second decisions on how to proceed, which could very well be compared to a form of judgment in 1926. Tesla also described wireless devices that would incorporate video and telephone technology and would work through of a network very similar to the Internet, when wireless technology is perfectly applied to the entire Earth we will be able to communicate with each other instantly.

Regardless of the distance, not only this, but through television and telephone we will see and hear each other as perfectly as if we were face to face despite distances of thousands of kilometers, and the instruments through the which we can do will be surprisingly simple in comparison. even our current telephone, a man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket, in quotes, this sounds a lot like video calls and smartphone communication, of course, a hundred years ago a simple long distance call did not even exist Tesla once again He proved to be far ahead of his time, but he was not the only one.

A lesser-known man named John Watkins also made some surprising predictions in 1907. Engineer John Watkins wrote an article titled What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years within the Watkins article. He made many predictions for the next century and some ended up being surprisingly accurate. Man will see

people

all over the world and things of all kinds will be focused on by cameras electrically connected to screens at opposite ends of circuits thousands of kilometers away. This could really be compared to the Internet and video sharing. Prepared meals would be purchased in an establishment similar to our current bakeries in 1900.

Bakeries and butcher shops were some of the most common ways to obtain food; There is no such thing as keeping it for a while. For a long time, freeze-dried and packaged foods did not exist, nor did electric refrigerators and a final wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will cover the world. A husband in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean will be able to talk to his wife sitting in his bedroom. In Chicago we will be able to make telephone calls. to China as easily as we can now talk from New York to Brooklyn. Surprisingly, what concept has the same thinking as Tesla here?

Unfortunately, he would die in 1983 before seeing a single one of his visions come. Unlike any of the other

people

in this episode, the following visionary actually inspired true inventions that affected all of our lives. American inventor and engineer Vannevar Bush designed influential analog computers during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1922, he was one of the founders of Raytheon. In the early 1940s he was the most influential scientist in the United States, leading thousands of researchers and military generals who answered only to the president himself. He was even in charge of the atomic bomb after the war. He wanted all scientific endeavors to move from destruction to destruction. peace in this, he could force academic knowledge to be lost as time went on with the technology of the 1940s, there was simply no way to collect, organize and access it at all.

His solution was nothing short of prescient in a 1945 article titled, as we might think, published in the Atlantic. Monthly Bush proposed a device he called a copycat, short for memory extension, this device could store and connect information and thus function as an artificial memory aid. He concluded that current systems of organizing information alphabetically would be inadequate. A new system was needed, a system that was more flexible and that should also function like the human brain. It would be a flexible network of information connected by links between each other. They are ready to be placed in Memex and are amplified.

Bush went on to describe the ability to retrieve multiple items or images on a screen. He believed that people would create links between related articles and each user would save them to experience, in other words, people. He would create what we would call websites today where you can click on links and it takes you from page to page. The copycat machine itself is what we would call a desktop computer. There was much more to these writings, but I'm tired. The length of this video, so I leave you with the great impact and influence of Bush's writings.

These writings directly inspired some of the co-creators of the Internet in the 1960s. They also inspired Maus, the Xerox Alto desktop computer in the 1970s that he inspired. Steve Jobs also inspired the graphical user interface and not to mention hyperlinks, the backbone of the web. He really he had all the central ideas of the modern information age back in 1945, if there was a ratio between visionary and fame, the bushes would be in heaven. tall, he was one of the most influential people who ever lived, but almost no one knows his name, of course, apart from those who have read my book Brazen New Thinking, in which his contributions and threads of influence throughout the history and all our lives were in great measure. focused on the art of predicting the future there were also some companies that tried their luck fuoco was one of the first pioneers in electronics and was known for its radios in 1967 for its 75th anniversary they produced a short film that speculated on life in the distant future title of the movie advertisement of the year 1999 buying with the tips of the fingers will be one of the many comforts of the housewives, this video game console will be channeled to the store of her choice, there a camera will scan a display of products that she will select by pressing a button Another part of this console is a home monitor screen that keeps an eye on critical areas of the home's pool or garden.

Whatever the wife selects on her console will be paid by the husband on her counterpart console. All invoices and transactions will be made electronically. How about some golf? at Pebble Beach on Saturday afternoon great anything to get out of here okay wait a minute I don't know the coast looks like the little dow refrigerators are moving little let me check out Mexico City it's interesting to see the 1960s conceptions of online shopping and payments. bills, funds and electronic transfers and even communication between people anywhere in the world and there are even some smart home items in there too.

Our next prediction has a strange twist. The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic. If what I say now seems very reasonable to you, then I would fail completely only if what I say seems absolutely incredible to you. Have some chance to visualize the future as it will actually happen. Science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke teamed up with Stanley Kubrick. to make the film adaptation of the novel 2001 a space odyssey in the 1968 film you can see two astronauts reading a newspaper on something that looks a bit like an ipad the description of the device is especially funny quote when he had tired of the official reports would connect her newspad to the ship's information circuit and scan the latest reports from Earth, one by one, she would call up the world's major electronic newspapers, which she could read comfortably when she was finished, she could go back to the full page and select one. new topic for close examination one could spend a lifetime doing nothing but absorbing the ever-changing flow of information from new satellites sounds like someone reading Twitter on an iPad now is the twist this description was so astonishingly accurate that Samsung used it to legally defend his Galaxy tablet when Apple sued for patent infringement Isaac Asimov was one of the most prolific science fiction writers in the world, having written or edited 500 books during his four-decade career.

The Russian writer was famous for books like I Robot, naturally. His work contained many predictions about the future of science and technology. After visiting the 1964 World's Fair he

predicted

the rise of cars with robot brains. Much effort will be put into designing vehicles with robot brains that can be configured for particular destinations and that will then proceed there without any interference from the slow reflexes of the human driver. More than 50 years later, companies like Way Mo Tesla and others are testing self-driving cars. Some of his other 1983 predictions include citing a mobile computerized object that will penetrate the home and the increasing complexity of society will make it impossible to live without this technology.

In quotes, I think that last point is especially revealing. Many people today think that society is too complex to get by without. He goes on to predict that computers will alter work habits and replace old jobs with ones that are radically different. This largely happened from the 1980s to the end of the 20th century. During a 1988 interview, Isaac envisions the education of the future. three computers, we would have access to connected libraries that would act as a teacher in the form of access to the accumulated knowledge of the human species once we have computer outlets in every home, each of them connected to huge libraries where anyone can do anything ask and receive answers receive reference material something that you are interested in knowing from an early age no matter how silly it may seem to someone else with your interest and questions and you can discover it and you can follow it and you can do it in your own home at the speed of a drone zero direction and your own time, then everyone will enjoy learning.

Still, SMF was wrong or at least slightly wrong about one thing, although he

predicted

that technology would revolutionize education and this is possibly correct, but he went on to say that traditional schooling would become obsolete as it progresses. children could learn everything they need to know from computers at home, which might be technically possible, but he also assumes that children will spend all their time using this technology to watch mindless videos or play games at night. Next, we have a company that predicted its own future in 1987 Apple made a promotional video titled Knowledge Navigator and we look to the future.

Let's take a look at their party next Sunday. Today you have an academic lunch at 12 o'clock. You must take Kathy to the airport at 2:00. 00 you have a conference at 4:15 about deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, right, excuse me, Jill Gilbert is calling back, great, put her in touch. I'm Mike, what's up? Aha, this is one of your typical last minute panics over a lecture material, no, no, no, that's not until 4:15 the tablet that's talking to you could look like an early imagination of an iPad the interaction in yes with the talking head it's like Siri or the Google assistant the command "show me my appointments" would do practically the same thing show me my appointment you have 18 upcoming appointments here in the first three all day Monday during his work the teacher receives a video call from a colleague appears in a separate window on the device this could be Skype in a nutshell okay so we have one more predictor of the future before we end the world life of Raymond damn and Korea is pretty amazing so if you want to see a full episode about him, let me know in the comments section below in 1963, at the age of 15, he wrote his first computer program. pattern recognition software to analyze the works of classical composers and then synthesize their own songs in a similar style admirable even today, but absolutely unheard of in the 1960s, his inventions are numerous text reading software, recognition devices of voice and five of his novels have been bestsellers, imagine.

If you weren't here, how do I know what he says and I would get lost, but because of technology because of the interface ofthe voice synthesizers with these instruments, I can press the button, know what it says by listening, it's a record button to start and stop. log sequencer on low speed log one is currently the director of engineering at Google in all of this has made dozens of predictions over decades with a pretty good track record in the 80s Kurzweil extrapolated improvements in software performance to predict that computers would outperform a human chess player by the year 2000 in 1997 world chess champion Garry Kasparov was defeated by IBM's deep blue computer in a highly publicized chess match in the late 1980s predicted that the wireless Internet would become practical for widespread use at the beginning of the 21st century in In one of his 1999 books he predicted e-books, facial recognition software, and nanotechnology, and these are just a few examples.

A 2012 evaluation found that cursed walls predictions had been correct and surprising 86% of the time. Interestingly, in 2008, he told a panel of engineering experts. that solar energy will increase to produce all of the Earth's energy needs in 20 years, according to him, we only need to capture one ten-thousandth of the Sun's energy that reaches the Earth's surface and that should apparently satisfy all of our needs. I'll be waiting for this one, he got some things wrong. Ray Kurzweil thought the economy would continue to boom from the dotcom frenzy of 1998 until 2009, he evidently did not see the dotcom bust coming, he also stated that by 2009 the majority of text would be created using continuous speech recognition, this is clearly not So.

That's the case, but hey, an 86 percent success rate isn't that bad, so that brings us to the end of the visionaries who correctly saw the future. It seems that for some of the brightest minds there were some commonalities: driverless cars and all-in-one pocket communication device and instant communication around the world it's almost as if these things are inevitable it's very interesting to think about. I'm sure some of you would be thinking that all of these predictions were easy, in retrospect definitely but not so fast. In 1899, Charles Dill, the Commissioner of the United States Patent Office, famously said: everything that is can invent has been invented, so it really takes some knowledge to do it right.

So who was your favorite predictor of the future? Nikola Tesla predicting smartphones John Watkins predicting modern life Vannevar Bush conceptualizing the web and most of our modern lives in 1945 the Philco company predicting online shopping in 1967 2001 a space odyssey predicting iPads in 1968 Isaac Asimov predicting computerization and robotics or rake wells many predictions during your lifetime, let me know in the comments section below, it is simply amazing what the human mind can imagine when imagination is combined with wisdom, so thank you for watching. If you enjoyed this video and want to see something about science, technology, business and history, feel free to subscribe to this channel.

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