1999

[clintl]

Here's something pretty cool (if you haven't already seen it) - an excerpt from a 1967 Philco-Ford film predicting what life would be like in 1999.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/year1999.asp

[Rizon]

I was waiting for: "You will not obtain these items if you smoke reefer".

[saldana]

link no work

[DanGarion]

link no work

Yes it does.

[Mike Lowe]

Totally a fake. I love the Adobe "old film" effect looping in the same places every few seconds. Nice try! Looks very convincing though otherwise (aside from the printer lol)

[Desnudo]

Did you miss the part where it said it was true?

[Shkspr]

Did you miss the part where it said it was true?

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/snopes.png

[Mike Lowe]

Did you actually click on the link?

[Desnudo]

Yes. I take it you all are saying that Snopes is not a reliable source?

[JeeberD]

So whomever faked the film went back in time to get footage of a young Wink Martindale for this project?

[Joe]

what is the name of the film?

[Shkspr]

Did you actually click on the link?


Of course I did. I even went to the trouble of finding ANOTHER clip from the same movie (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1872819748007083565). Given that the young man featured in the movie, game show auteur Wink Martindale, has the clips linked from his website, I would guess that he'd vouch for their veracity.

But, since hotlinking xkcd is fun:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/photoshops.png

:p

[Mike Lowe]

Ha, awesome. Ok, I wasn't aware of the actor. That's pretty impressive then wow!