Hacker CinemaRichtung 2000 – Vorschau auf die Welt von morgen
Richtung 2000 – Vorschau auf die Welt von morgen
1972 · Film · documentary · 28 min
Directed by Peter Kerstan
A forecast of how the year 2000 could be.
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Thanks for giving it a name, I love this stuff. Old visions of the future are amazing. I love the German film "Richtung 2000" (towards 2000) from 1972 [0] (should be understandable auto-translated). It's great to get a sense of the situation at the time (oil crisis, the aero train just having been announced) and evaluate what of it has actually happened.
They were right (albeit about 15 years off) about many major things: Home automation, shopping and talking over the internet, a lot of work being automated away, the psychological issues these innovations cause ...
Sadly they were also wrong about many of the great things that should've happened by now. Space exploration has barely progressed (damn, I'm glad SpaceX exists!) and we still don't care nearly enough about our environment/quality of life to have electric vehicles and good local transit.
It's weird to see that so many of the things going on today were so predictable. It paints a concering picture of our future.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4U2zW4IPDY