Homes of the Future – Cronkite 1967

by | Jul 18, 2018 | Historic Homes, Interesting Houses, Jim's Take on the Market, The Future | 6 comments

In 1967, Walter Cronkite showed us what the future of the single family home will look like in 2001 – thanks daytrip:

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  1. daytrip
    daytrip on July 18, 2018 at 11:08 pm

    So… below is the top 100 songs of 1967. Boomers will know at least some of the words, if not most, to every single one.

    Now… name one hit song of this year that you know the words to. Do you even have one where you wish you did?

    So, what Walter got right was, yes, thing’s will be easier, we’ll be high tech, we’ll be distributing poor people into beehives, but what Walter missed entirely was… we will be boring the holy sh*t out of each other. We get so bored, we start aggressing towards each other for no good reason.

    Mediocrity makes people sick, and suspicious, and anti-intellectual, and mean. That’s one thing Nietzsche got right.

    For young folks, if this vid makes 1967 seem awesome, that’s because it was. Awesome as you can possibly imagine it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrnjCwQ_HMU

  2. Rob_Dawg
    Rob_Dawg on July 19, 2018 at 9:46 am

    The presumption of classless equality was both amusing and distressing. The things they got right were funnier than the things they got wrong. Undergirding it all was the certainty of free energy for all.

    As an engineer I found those robots of 1967 to be laughable compared to what we have now.

  3. Daytrip
    Daytrip on July 19, 2018 at 11:56 am

    “As an engineer I found those robots of 1967 to be laughable compared to what we have now.”

    Agreed. And as an idiot, I’d really rather have our nation’s big brains focusing on robots that can do housework and gardening effectively, than awesome search engines or self-driving electric cars. Forget jet packs. Where’s my “dig up the ground, fertilize, and plant new grass” robot? Also, I suspect with convincing “agreeable college cheerleader” robots, we could arrest our population growth crisis immediately.

  4. Eddie89
    Eddie89 on July 19, 2018 at 1:36 pm

    Glad they stuck to reality and didn’t tell people that 2001 was going to be like the Jetsons cartoon show.

    Now that we’re in 2018, I think more homes will be going in this direction: https://youtu.be/4mNTHP-Y_GE

  5. Rob_Dawg
    Rob_Dawg on July 19, 2018 at 1:53 pm

    More of a beach volleyball player player needing a jumpstart type myself. 😉

    Seriously, though. Self driving cars WILL profoundly alter everything we talk about here and on my blog. Who will care if the “drive” is an extra ten minutes when it saves ten minutes of looking for a parking space and ten minutes walking to and ten minute walking back and paying $15 only to have a ten minute drive back?

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