My Letter to the Future

What will people think of us 100 years ago? A big one is certainly how much stuff we burn and how much land we use to make our lives possible, but I think there will be much more to it than that!

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[rolothomosky]

"unfortunately I'm super dead" -144 year old Hank misses his first prediction.

*edit: Getting the quote and age corrected.

[keremmadran]

So Hank thinks the "It's not normal to sneeze. I never sneeze" doctor is from the future.

[racoon]

they’re def gonna think it’s weird we didn’t have superior fish beings

[wjraggett]

Jokes on Hank, the owner of Complexly in 100 years will bring back the sale just to make you wrong!

[carsont]

Who's watching in 2124? Have to get ahead of the curve

[StephenBates-tzyj]

I, for one, think you should keep the discount going until August 2, 2124.

[youruniquehandle]

It's nice to hear you say "John, I'll see you on Tuesday" again.

[jerrys.]

At 45, it still blows my mind that there are adults living today who have neither had chickenpox nor known someone who had chickenpox.

[mcmilkmcmilk]

Good thing this America has grilled cheese. Hopefully, this lasts for a hundred years

[a-od]

Not just the exhaust fumes, but the acceptance of 40k deaths and millions injured each year by vehicles (in the USA) will be seen as astounding.

[bozinoski]

I'll watch this video before my death so I can see how weird it is, hopefully in about 50-70 years.

[tyronewilson]

I think that Hank is underestimating how reliable the American railroad system was in 1920. You could reliably make the NYC to LA trip in ~4 days depending on how much you were willing to spend. There were "cheap" coach trains that went NYC to Chicago in ~24 hours and multiple trains went from Chicago to LA on the scale of 2-3 days (sample ATSF schedule I checked clocked in at 56 hours on the second class sleeper).

[scpg]

I hope we have physical books still in 100 years

[pawz]

I hope that in 100 years women's clothing will consistently have pockets, and they will be plenty and roomy

[rubidot]

I like the idea that, in 100 years, people will still be watching videos of Hank Green talking.

[saccharinesilk]

i think my addition is that theyre gonna view plastics the way we view lead in pipes or aesbestos in walls, which is to say, shocked and appalled that something so awful was allowed to exist for so long, and still kinda dealing with it in their present.

[OnePoundBird]

people often talk about how awful the living conditions were 100 years ago or 200 years ago, and question how people could live in such a world
nobody really thinks “in 100 years from now people will be disgusted at what i do now”

[sasquatch]

I already experienced number 8 in a way. I lived in former East Germany during the Bush administration's time. One of my colleagues once said "whenever a Lada or Trabant or Zhugli passes by and it stinks, we only notice that now because they're pretty rare. When that was all that was on the road, we didn't notice the smell. The Wessis (Westerners) think we were so dumb. We weren't stupid, there just was no other option and the smoke was all over so we didn't notice", essentially I said "sure, I imagine the kids will say the same about us with our current cars"

[monstersinc]

100 years later, this video file type won't be playable.

[MarkAvo]

I cling to Hank’s optimism like a hope “life preserver” in a sea of doomerisms. May the future be anything close to his predictions.