Hi, we're gonna take a look at Beyond 2000 book to click here. If you want to watch the first book video, you'll know what's going on here. So let's go through and see what predictions came true from 1987. In all of these different fields, let's get to it.

Actually, there's an interesting bit of timeline here on what goes into actually producing one of the Beyond 2000 episodes. so I'll let you read that it for those playing along at home. fly-by-wire aircraft with the A by C 320. Yep, we got those today, no worries.

Planes practically flying land themselves, flying dinosaurs. Yep. I saw that in War Games in 1985. Geez, so much for the future Voice command talking to machines.

Well yeah, okay. Syrian all that sort of crap these days. Here people are talking to their smartphones I still prefer to type and here they're talking about our sustainable homes of the future and all that sort of stuff. Houses from oil and game manufactured from oil and garbage.

and yeah, we, you know, we've made some progress towards us. sustainable buildings and stuff like that, but not a huge amount. So I'm gonna call that one a bit of a fail. Moon habitat research stations that never happened.

Deaf people will be able to hear things are using a fantastically modern micro controller that actually projects, um, symbols on two glasses. Oh, that didn't happen. What a bummer. We've made some great progress in bioengineering, but the Six Million Dollar Man never happened.

Bomber Holograms Whole grains were the future 30 years ago in here. Yeah, really, it hasn't really happened, has it? Ah, another bummer. Dot matrix skywriting. Whatever happened to that I Just saw one the other day.

Not, it's a plane flying around just dragging the smoker or on the lettuce net. panoramic cameras. They didn't see the digital photography revolution coming. Nope good.

I'll 35-millimeter film. The Watchman was supposed to replace your homely television. And nope people. I've bloody hundred and I'll see these nowadays.

still watching at home or on that bloody smartphones laser tag. Another virtual reality stuff. I'm yet still coming along. but 30 years later.

ah, we're not living in Tron Waterjet cutting. Yep, that's still a thing, but near laser cutting these days ago. Sugar alcohol for our fuels. Yep, that actually worked.

Ethanol eat n it's all over this country. You can't buy anything else. Have they actually turned the Dead Sea into a power source? Well, I think so. Synthetic fuels? Yep, that's a thing.

Amazon Rainforest? that's you're going down the toilet isn't it? Ah, Bioacoustics? Nope, we ain't talking to flip our 30 years later orbiting factories. ha A European Space Shuttle the French Hermes That didn't happen. The hotel will be able to take off a lander any Airport that's big enough to take Concord The British Airways Who tol did that happen? Well, yeah, Elon Musk is doing ok now 30 years later, but we've only just sort of navin even perfected it. We've only just started really doing it.

So 30 years later on Ceti and DDT call? Nope, don't think so. How's the universe going to end? Well, within 20 years or so, astronomers will be able to tell us something about the ultimate fate of the universe. Will we face death by heeding? Or will there be a big crunch in all the rest of it? Well, I don't know. Then verted verdicts kind of still out on that.

Millions of files with millions of pieces of information on millions of people and all it takes to see inside your life is a touch of a few buttons. We have every reason to you worried about the storage and possible misuse of personal data, but our high-speed societies already depend upon the computers. Fast service? You think? Yeah, it's actually 1984 pretty much now. Multicolored lasers? Yep, that's a thing this way.

Bot: a piano playing robot. Does one in Japan can read music through a TV camera, convert the info into finger movements. Clever? certainly. But does it have a soul? Do computers have a soul 30 years later? Nope.

So your telephones? What kind of future is this? Sonic tape measures? I'm not sure every those things worked out. There is also the Explora phone, which customers can take with them when they leave their cars. Imagine the benefits of making a telephone call from a restaurant table or walking through a park or lazing on the beach. The frustration of finding only vandalized public telephone boxes would be a thing of the past.

If you are, if only you had a portable phone in your pocket. Wow In the United States There are also proposals to install saw your pay phones on public transport. Oh Wha? What a future? Like most sophisticated technology, cellular phones don't come cheaply. If yours is a household where the arrival of the domestic telephone account they signal for a rough and frustration, you might be better off breed in a few carrier pigeons or taking some lessons in transcendental meditation.

Oh goodness yeah. 1986 Video Camera glasses. Yep, we've got those and they still don't live up to expectations. They're hopeless.

Lisa Plastic was supposed to be some new whiz-bang plastic that would you know amplify light and light up stuff and things like that. I just googled Lisa plastic and I got plastic bloody surgery. Lisa's ability to amplify visible light will be used to brighten up a whole range of goodies from jury and emergency exit signs to calculator and wristwatch displays. Even perhaps there's a way of efficiently capturing solar energy to run power plants? Nope.

Flat tires will be a thing of the past in the future. Nope. for all you care official. ADO's whatever happened to the Vector W 20 baby.

Look at that interior. Ah, that's the future. I'm going to say that book was pretty disappointing. Let's try it.

Book 3, shall we? And these gems come from 1989? So that was cheese. practically the 90. Surely they would have got the predictions, right? Well, right off the bat, we ain't using floppy drives anymore. Ultra Lights Aviation for the masses? Yeah, not really.

The Cray Supercomputer. Oh what a Bobby Dazzler Look at this 250 mega flops a second. Ah, it's just unbeatable. Getting into the 1990s, we'd be going back to Propeller.

Jets Um, ya know, X-wing The shape of the future? Nope. As a result, many of the problems that plagued conventional helicopters will be eliminated, and is likely that helicopters built using this principle will eventually achieve much the same speeds as conventional aircraft. Well, no, that didn't really happen. Sorry, but power Planes of the future? Anyone can learn to fly one in an hour? Never really happened.

Solar Tiles: We're gonna replace regular terracotta roof tiles. No, not really. Friction welding? Well, yeah. I Think that's kind of a thing.

but yeah. I'm not really anyone ever thinks about Am. I Rise. Yep, that's definitely a thing.

I Have one on my knee just a while back and they're available pretty much anywhere. And if a doctor refers you to one here, doesn't cost anything. Commodus Mud back then to get an MRI working? Yeah, yeah. Devon An analog oscilloscope? Obviously.

leech therapy? Um, nope. Guitar robots? Surely there a thing. Electronic heart? Cool. Yeah.

people still doing it. Power Sighs. The Power sighs. Gymnasium is a 30 million dollar complex that houses humanoid gymnasium machines.

These machines have synthetic voices and I renowned for bullying and ridicule in their clients as well as encouraging them. Um, did that happen? Nope. My modern virgin Gemma is just full of old fashioned weights and you know, maybe the odd Kinesis machine. But yeah, it's about us our fancy pancy as it gets.

the wristwatch radio Surely. Dick Tracy happened. Well yeah, it came and then went. and then smartphones came along.

Thank you very much. the water watch power. you watch from a drop of water. Um yeah, that came in wet now.

I Got stupid bloody smartwatches that get you know, 57 days battery life or something ridiculous like that. Oh I weep for the future. The future of audio is digital audio tape. There was no question about it.

Um yeah. anyone still using it. Solar collectors shape like radio dishes. No, not really.

Is anyone doing that? Not sure. Biogas for energy production? Yeah, we do. am at turbo sales for boat. Surely would power all boats in the future.

No Will the turbo sale usher in a release? Intervene. Power at sea. As we all know, designing and proving a good idea with great economic advantages does not always guarantee its immediate acceptance. There are always market forces to be reckoned with, as well as the conservatism that often seems hell-bent on retarding progress.

Nuclear fusion almost 30 years later. Ah, still waiting for it. It's going to happen. I'm telling you.

Nuclear waste. The problem that just won't go away. Yeah, 30 years later, it hasn't gone away. It's still just going.

man. leave it to the next generation. They'll figure it out. The Deep Gas Theory: Unlimited new energy.

Look at this. Haha. Approximately 360 million years ago, giant meteorite two kilometers in diameter crashed into the earth, fracturing the rock crust to a great depth. The sill j'en ring theory proposes that great voids will form five to seven kilometres below the earth's surface, and that these voids have been filled with gas seeping through fractures connected to inner regions.

The Earth did that? Actually Yeah. Did they confirm that now we tapping it? Hmm. Oh Lesnar Dust? Is that a thing? I Don't know. Steel industry waste is highly toxic on a problem in most countries.

Sweden has developed the system known as plasma dust that recovers metal, non toxic, landfill, and energy for community hot water and heating systems for waste that cost other nations millions of dollars in disposal costs. Hey, Swedish viewers. Is this still a thing? Talking to the animals? We had this in book number one. It's still not a thing.

Flippers, Ty not talking the British Aerospace whole toll is still not a thing. Americans In space. Yeah, we all know what happened there. Hmm.

Mars Rovers though. Yep, we did that. Awesome Space tugs. Um, nope.

Space gets internationalized and they're talking about Japan and their space efforts. and well, they didn't fare a huge amount better. Video helmets? We're going to be the thing. and they still aren't.

They still suck. Mission to: Mars Uh yeah, it's just it's kind of revived. And now the 2030s they're saying you know before the end of the century, robots will have landed on the surface of the planet and blast it off again, bringing back to earth the first. Mars Rocks.

Nope, but the surface will have been mapped as precisely as the earth. Oh yeah, we're doing pretty good there, so you know I'll give that one a win. Um, one day early in the next century, a human being will walk on. Mars 30 years after, at least if that even happens.

Thanks to the Electronics Revolution in miniaturization and integrated circuits, some of the most spectacular technology now comes to us in familiar objects such as calculators, digital watches, microwaves, and credit cards. One slender wafer or disk of silicon only a hundred two hundred, twenty five millimeters wide. It can hold more than 200,000 electrical components. Oh goodness.

Oh yeah, what is it? 10 nanometers these days? Electronic books? Yep, that's a win. Although we're not reading them on the Pc, we're reading the money. I'm stupid smart phablet, bloody phone things and Kindles nobody suspected re-inked displays Ikea? Yep, they're still around. and yep, it's still not paying any taxes.

The model Zed x-ray system exposing the features of terrorism. And here they are predicting the Kindle with the Holy Bible audit. Anyway, Um yeah with the LCD display. No, it's all eating these days.

but hey, electronic books were a thing. but have a look how they would deliver it. Country of origin: Australia Thank you very much. 23 hundred pages of text, only four hundred and thirty bucks Australian you bloody Ripper When searching for something new to wet your electronic reading appetite, all you have to do is insert your text pack into an automated teller machine and punching information about the text required.

The relevant pros would be quickly downloaded from the publisher to your pack via telephone line. Anyone remember the Doomsday project as the Domesday Book? That was a BBC thing to try and like it capture like a Wikipedia style snapshot of Britain at the time with like photos of streets and things like that. and oh goodness there's the tech specs for those playing along at home. The Ulti card pocket in your bank in ah look at this.

Fanta This is the future. A technological invention that will soon be widely available. This small data bank can hold as much information as a personal computer. Ah yeah, no one would get seasick any more in the future because well this puppy would just fix all of those problems.

But yeah God I know anyone's seen one of those lately. Active suspension in a Volvo yeah that happened. Continuously variable transmissions. Whoa.

Yep that happened my I miss and Joe Alice's I got one of those but still like steam car. A new age of power. Where's the electric cars? magnetic levitation, flying trains? Yep. I've been on one and yep, it does.

400 KS an hour. and now they got all the Hyperloop that'll never happen. She's just practicalities. Mercedes control.

Oh yeah, all these computerized control systems. Ah, it's all happen. But where's electric cars? Sure, we've got an electric car. Come on, No, that's it.

So there you have it, the future. I Hope you enjoy that. Look at these beyond 2,000 books from the 1980s and how some things have happened and some things have not happened failed miserably. But most of the stuff that we take for granted these days, which is revolution our lives.

Basically nobody predicted the internet and smartphones and the communications revolution in the e-commerce resolution. A revolution online and all that sort of jazz and let alone YouTube Twitter and the whole rest of it. Let's just forget Facebook ever happened, shall we? Hmm. catch you next time you.