1966: Children imagine life in the year 2000 | Tomorrow’s World | Past Predictions | BBC Archive

well in the year 2000 um i think i'll probably be the spaceship to the moon dictating robots to robots or else i may be i know having a in charge of a robot court judging some robots or i may be a funeral of a computer or if something's gone wrong with their nuclear bombs i maybe came back from hunting in the cave i don't like the idea of sort of getting out and finding you've got a cabbage pill to eat for breakfast or something oh i think um [Music] all these atomic bombs will be dropping around the place one will get near the center because it will sort of make a huge great big crater and then our world will just melt and the world will become one vast atomic explosion and it will become like a supernova stars some madden will get the atomic bomb and um just blow the world into oblivion there's nothing you can do to stop it more people get bombs the more well somebody's going to use it one day well i think that they'll be so it'll be so overpopulated there'll be wars all nuclear explosions and everything it'll make the earth you know too much radiation on it it'll become too hot to live on i think that i don't think there is going to be atomic warfare but i think there is going to be all this automation people are going to be out of work and a great population and i think something has to be done about it i that's if i wasn't a biologist that's what i'd like to do um to do something about the the population problem try and try and sort of um temper it somehow i don't know how i think it'll be very dull and people would all be squashed together so much there won't be any fun or anything and people will be rationed to the amount of things they can have because if they had too many things it would just squash their houses and there just wouldn't be room for them i think you'll be uh um people will be regarded more as statistics and as actual people i don't think it's going to be so nice i think sort of all machines everywhere everyone doing everything for you you know you'll get all boredom i don't think it'll be so nice i think it's going to be very boring and everything will be the same i mean people will be the same and things will be the same way first of all there's computers are taking over now computers and automation and in the year 2000 there just won't be enough jobs to go around and the only jobs there will be will be for people with high hq you know high iq can work computers and such things and other people are just not going to have jobs they just aren't going to be jobs for them to have i expect they will set aside parts of the country solely for recreation and have large blocks of built up areas and i think these are going to be very ugly indeed probably now i don't think i'll still be on earth i think i'll be under the sea the population has gone up so much that and either everyone will be living in sort of big domes in the sahara or they'll be under sea there'll be so many people that they have to have an overflow into the sea and so there'll be houses underneath the sea and houses above the sea they're not going to have so many square houses you know more curves and artistic designs instead of a just sort of boxes like they've got nowadays people can't live wouldn't be able to live in ordinary houses because i would take up too much room it'd have to be in flats piled on top of one another like that and the houses would be rather small and um everything would be cramped up very cramped animals as they have here sheep and cows and livestock but they'll be kept in batteries uh they won't be allowed to graze on passengers they'll be kept in buildings all together all in one big building and artificially reared so they'll yield a larger be bigger and give more food all the sputniks and everything little going up uh something is sort of interferes with the weather and i think the sea may rise and um we'll sort of cover some of england there'll be just islands left from like um only the highlands in scotland and some of the big hills in england and wales i don't think or england to be wiped out because some of it will be too high i think this sea will rise to about 300 to 600 feet it might freeze because the sun i think will probably burn out and there's an ice cap coming down from north pole i think it'll cover the earth we might have another ice age and i don't think there's anything to be franked off and a lot of people think it's going to explode certainly it won't and i think it'll be much more efficient because there'll be more cures for the diseases and not so many people will get sick and the black people you know won't be sort of separate they'd be all mixed into white people and you know the poor people and rich people will become the same well they will be poor and richer but they won't sort of look down on each other i'm not looking forward to living in that year about 50 years time i mean the world seems to be in such a terrible state now literally in 50 years time you

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Length: 6min 17sec (377 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 14 2021