1999 A.D.
This video has been blogged about a couple of years ago but I just watched it via Facebook (from Matt C.). The clip below is from an “educational” 1967 film by Philco-Ford company titled 1999 A.D. The entire film shows different scenarios of how we would use technology in the future. This clip shows what could be a version of the internet. It’s conceptually not far off.
I looked up information on the company that made the film. Cause why did they make it?
From Wikipedia:
“[Philco], acquired by Ford Motor Company on December 11, 1961 and renamed Philco-Ford, continued to make many car radios for Ford vehicles as well as its other products. Eventually, the name was abandoned. Ford sold Philco to General Telephone and Electronics (who also owned Sylvania) in 1974. The Aerospace portion of Philco Ford was renamed Ford Aerospace in 1976.
The company was acquired by Philips in 1981 in order to gain the rights to use the Philips trademark in the United States. (Philco had been able to keep Philips from using its trademark legally because of the similarly sounding names.) Philips continues to use the Philco name for promotional consumer electronics and has licensed the name for private brands and retro style consumer electronics. Philips also is using the Philco brand name for digital converter boxes for analog TVs in the USA.[4] The Philco brand in this case is being licensed by Philips to Funai, who is manufacturing these boxes.”
Filed under: future on June 3rd, 2009
This is amazing - especially the way they imagined a separate ‘computer’ for each function. I’m certain that’s exactly the same kind of failure to see the big picture that we’re engaged in now, about so many things.