Did you expect to be living The Jetsons’ lifestyle by now? All flying cars, robot maids and all-in-one slinky jumpsuits? Us too. And part of the reason for our high-tech expectations is because of the supposedly scientific predictions shown to us in far-fetched film footage.
We’ve found 10 vintage videos that offer a glimpse of a future that, in many cases, never quite existed. From space age kitchens to high tech hospitals and far out fashion, these clips show both bizarre visions of what might have been as well as some fairly spot-on predictions for tech we use today.
Don your sparkly jumpsuit with pride and head on through the gallery. Let us know what you were hoping to see in your 2011 daily life in the comments below.
1. Tomorrow's World: Home Computer Terminal
Can you imagine a "home computer terminal" in every house?!
2. Kitchens of the Future
These two clips from the '50s offer a glimpse of what the average housewife thought she had to look forward to in years to come.
3. Telephone Innovations in the Early 1960s
This footage from the '60s predicts a push-button phone in every home and a primitive way to page someone.
4. Clothing in The Year 2000
Is this what you were wearing in the year 2000? Thought not.
5. 1967 Future Prediction
Those "video screens" sure look useful!
6. 1950s Car of the Future
This short clip imagines machines we can still only dream of today...
7. Disney's "House of the Future," Circa 1957
This footage begs the important question: Why did motorized cupboards never take off?
8. Telecomms in the 1990s
Made by the UK's Post Office Research Labs in the 1960s, this dares to dream of a future with video phone calls.
9. 1950s Hospital Of The Future
Babies in drawers never really took off, either. Can't imagine...
