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

Technology is changing the way we live at a faster pace than ever before. It’s hard to even imagine what people’s lives will be like at the end of this century. But hey, what the heck, let’s give it a try. Join me as I play Joestradamus and try to predict how the long-term trends in communication, transportation, economics, and space travel will continue to guide the future and how they will shape what the world looks like in the year 2100.

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
1:18 - Old Predictions
11:00 - Joestradamus Time!
11:28 - Internet and Communications
16:55 - Transportation (No Flying Cars)
24:13 - Space Travel
30:38 - Economics
32:33 - Energy and Medicine
34:38 - AGI
38:46 - Sponsor - Rocket Money

[AntneeUK]

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

[themercer]

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)

[ungrave]

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.

[skyearthocean]

"In a car you wait for no-one, you got when and where you wish." Yeah, until you run into the first traffic jam.

[robw]

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.

[HimzoKevric]

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.

[NoLimitSquad]

In 2100, provided by some miracle im alive, id be 111 years old. Id look like that old prune grandma from Spongebob that always yelled 😂

[pekkoh]

Before smartphone there were these things called "Encyclopedias". They had like 20-30 parts and took several meters of shelf space. They were probably somewhat out of data, but you did find almost anything. And the information was pretty accurate too, unlike today. Door-to-door salesmen used to sell them to people. At least in some countries.

[TruthJusticeVictory]

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.

[technkalty]

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.

[jf]

Reading other people's thoughts is the ultimate nightmare

[EliteGeeks]

We used to use libraries, help groups, churches, newspapers, made phone calls... one of the best examples is the " life line " in TV game shows... basically call the smartest person you know. Some books that people read included cookbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedia sets, and magazines

[JamesJansson]

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.

[Goatcha_M]

You missed a few obvious ones. The Time Machine, 2001 a Space Odyssey, The Jetsons.
Jetsons is an interesting one, set in 2062, so 100 years after the show aired, and a bit beyond 2000, but they got an awful lot correct.
Video phones; TVs all over the house; George Jetson works 3 hours a day, 3 days a week at a factory where he is apparently the only employee with the AI computer RUDI running everything which could imply that he's a Technician.
Also everyone lives in the sky apartments, ostensibly because its the future, flying cars, but we can infer that the ground is flooded and what isn't flooded is covered in trash.
And that;'s where the poor people live who can't afford sky apartments with everything provided by robots and button press machines.

[thumbsup]

I had a copy of the Yellow Pages (that was the business section of a "phone book" and much thinner) that I kept under the seat of my car. It had the local map, which was very basic and mostly only showed the most major throughways. So, you left early to drive around and get the exact address right. You could also use a public pay phone to call and get more specific directions when you were stumped. Those used to be on every corner. Another option was rolling the window down and asking a pedestrian. We also asked people at the gas station. And lastly, they did make actual, real life maps that you had to unfold across the entire width of the car and study. And once you unfolded it, it never folded back right again! It used to be kind of an art form and people always got excited if someone on the road trip could do it.

[zombreon]

I think it’s cool that people in 100 years will have so much info about how we perceived the future. Assuming we make it that long of course

[jessicawalton]

As someone who has had several concussions between the ages of 5 and 40, if there were a cap that I could wear which would store my memories and help me recall, I'd be all in!

[lefty-dev]

I agree with your point at 16:33, I mean I’ve noticed hats already coming back into style recently anyway with boonie hats, bucket hats, fisherman beanies, trucker caps, etc.

[theevildice]

A lot of people love 3D Printing, but I'm pretty certain every single one of us understands exactly why, in it's current form, it's not been adopted by the masses. It's slow, it's loud, it fails (a lot), the plastic feels crappy, most printers can only print in one colour, you need to sand it if you want it to look good, etc. Despite a lot of companies trying to convince people otherwise, it's still very much in its early adopter phase.

[hannakinn]

As a retired senior, not far from age 70, I will read articles about tech that's being worked on now and think.. Wow that's so cool, it's going to be so awesome and then I do the math and quickly realize unless there are substantial advancements in the human lifespan I'm really unlikely to see or experience most of these cool technologic marvels. I try not to be sad about it but think about my son and grandchildren geting to live in the years that will get to see these wonders that I never will.
Will I make it long enough to see brain chips implanted so my Spanish will be on point? Will I get to see self driving cars be the norm? The older I get the less exciting the future seems. I really wanted to live to see nanotech use become commonplace. I wanted to walk or glide up to the nanobot vending machine on my hoverboard and scan my palm or eye to buy a block of nanobots that could transform with their programing into a new recliner Or a slinky dress and high heels for the night. At the very least I want a realistic robot friend and helper and a food and drink replicator that dispenses healthy food and drink...lol.