Year 1999 A D

[Music] mom how do the gos fly well they ride on the air like an air car sort of what are you building Jamie it's our house can't you tell yes but you haven't finished it what did I forget what's the room that's the center where I go to school this that's where the computer lives and where I go to sleep and where you and Daddy sleep and where we go to swim and where we see the ball game and the symphony what did what did I well you left out the room where you're supposed to scrub behind your ears oh yeah the bath core right and there's one more the health center for Daddy exercises is measured right how does the computer know everything I mean like I mean like how many times to exercise and all I haven't the faintest notion that's just too much for your old mother to understand old you're not so old well I'll be 44 next year that's not so old not anymore what year is it now I forgot here I'll show you [Music] [Music] 1999 ad more than a generation away and yet dreams travel faster than light and even now scientists and planners are shaping the lives of our children who will live in the 21st century how will they live perhaps in a honeycombed structure like this the oldest strongest natural shape known hexagon modules that grow with a family size and interests Michael Shaw 45 husband father is an astrophysicist several days each week he commutes to a distant laboratory where he's engaged in the Mars one project the colonization of the first planet his minor in the some 10 years he attended a Midwestern University was botany it is one of his many continuing Hobbies he is engrossed on this sunny morning in the study of the cellular structure of a new exotic fruit tree hopefully his experiments will produce a giant peach with a thick protective skin much like that of a tangerine this is one of the many 21st century devices or appliances that are part of the everyday life of the shaw [Music] family this workbench with its electronic screen enables Michael to call up photographic sections of the two parent fruit trees from which he began his experiments 3 years [Music] ago at that time he stored the two photographic images in the central home computer which is secretary librarian Banker teacher medical technician Bridge partner and allaround servant in this house of tomorrow all pertinent information about this family its records its tastes and reference material is stored in these memory banks available instantly to every member of the [Music] family Master James Shaw 8 years old student attends formal School two mornings a week much of his education however is carried on in a kind of education center within the home and so an era that began 500 years earlier with cernus and Galileo ends as the first astronaut takes his first halting steps onto the shores of the Moon and begins a new age of man his assignments are programmed into the home computer and fed into teaching machines which allow him to progress as rapidly as his Awakening mind can absorb the audiovisual lessons [Music] this is lecture 102 Galileo's life work and indeed his personal character can perhaps be exemplified by describing one of his early experiments a According to Aristotle a body that falls possesses weight those that do not fall have no weight since Air does not fall it has no weight Galileo decided to examine this conclusion in his own fashion Karen an sh 43 wife mother part-time homemaker hey Mom I'm hungry yeah me too how about lunch how about 2 minutes okay 2 minutes in counting 120 119 all right but you better not show up with a dirty face [Music] 115 [Music] 113 100 [Music] 12 Mike how about chicken salad cheese alond cheeseburger some french fries and a nice cold bottle of beer I'll [Music] see Mike cold roast beef okay be right there 75 74 73 [Music] 39 38 37 [Music] 36 20 19 18 17 16 [Music] 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 3 2 1 and Lun is served Split Second lunches color keyed disposable dishes all part of the instant Society of Tomorrow a society rich in Leisure and taken for granted Comforts at the turn of the next centur Cy most food will be stored Frozen in individual portions the computer will keep a running inventory on all food stuffs and suggest daily menus based on the nutritional needs of the family when the meal has been selected the various portions are fed automatically into the microwave oven for a few seconds of Deo or warming the house of 1999 will be virtually maintenance-free a central atmospheric system will maintain constant year around temperatures and control humidity bacteria pollen and dust clothing of the nondisposable variety will be stored in cleaning closets where a chemical vapor atmosphere and an ultrasonic vibrator will remove dirt particles fingertip shopping will be one of the many Homemakers conveniences this video console will be channeled into the store of her choice there a camera will scan a display of Wares which she will select by push [Music] button another part of this console is a household monitor screen which maintains a watch on critical areas in the house swimming pool or yard what the wife selects on her console will be paid for by the husband at his counterpart console all bills and transactions will be carried out electronically a central bank computer will debit the family's account the amount of purchases and credit the department store for example informing the family's home computer at the same [Music] time father at the touch of a button receives an instantaneous printed copy of his budget the amount of taxes he owes the payments left on the car and so forth all documents and household records are available on the video screen for immediate reference also at his disposal is an electronic correspondence machine or home post office which allows for instant written communication between individuals anywhere in the world to maintain these and hundreds of complex electronic circuits a monitor checks all circuits every few seconds inserts a backup circuit if and when trouble develops and alerts the communal service agency for [Music] replacement the home Energy Center with its fuel cell furnishes power provides absolutely pure water Burns waste and heats or cools the rooms to computerized too [Music] cold the World of Tomorrow will be as cold as sunlight tuned through photochromic [Music] Windows it will be as wide as the ocean which provide not only Recreation for the adventurers but an in ining variety of Hydra cultured exotic fresh food stuffs and tomorrow will be as happy as music hey chopan what's up playing a song ah what's it called I forgot you Baker how about playing the song we learned yesterday okay let's augment this a bit shall we okay [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yes life will be richer easier healthier as Space Age dreams come true as part of his everyday regime Michael Shaw enters this Home Health Center he lies for perhaps 15 seconds on a kind of medical couch his weight temperature pulse respiration blood pressure and electrocardiogram are routinely recorded at the same time his body is scanned for any isolated temperature Pockets that signal oncoming disease or a localized infection at the end of the examination period the computer calculates the amount of exercise necessary to balance Mike's food intake and maintain proper muscle tone exercise requirements 8 and 1/2 minutes bicycle 6 minutes programmed calisthetics oh that's ridiculous this thing can make a mistake you know your weight increas increase over 30 days 1.1 kg repeat exercise requirements 8 and 1/2 minutes bicycle 6 minutes programmed calisthetics confirm please confirm please the computer now relays any important physical changes to a Central Community Medical Center where Mike's personal physician will be alerted for further diagnosis at conclusion of the exercise period the pertinent data are again recorded for comparison with pre-ex exercise measurements the results are again forwarded to the Community Medical Center for further study if necessary if the computerized life occasionally extracts its pound of Flesh it holds out some interesting Rewards hi Fred how's the old golf game H don't ask 6 Ines of snow and a blizzard on the way what do you got in mind oh how about some golf with Pebble Beach Saturday afternoon great anything to get out of here all right hold on a minute I don't know the coast looks a little doubtful there's a low moving in let me check Mexico City yeah looks great all right here's what we'll do we'll meet at the El Central about noon have some lunch and then we'll tea off great only this time I'm going to have to get about two strokes aside because I haven't been playing all winter and I'm a little rusty and I know that You' probably been playing every day right sure in a virtually dirt-free environment Karen Shaw several hours a week gets her hands very dirty she's a skilled Potter her work decorates their home and the homes of many of their friends during her career years she was a teacher of Fine Arts now she's able to continue practicing her crafts because the household demands on her time have been greatly diminished in the same way jimie although he has a rigorous lesson schedule is already taking advantage of his electronic world [Music] [Applause] [Music] who's your worthy opponent dad oh I'm rep playing that game we had Sunday he's a little loose with his queen and I want to see if I can work that trap the Bobby Fisher used in the world games your dad will be home soon why don't you wait and play him live okay well I've got things to do in the kitchen let I'll help you what you doing with the oranges I'm fixing dinner the oldfashioned way mhm the oldfashioned way what you call that stuff well we're having duckling allaha orange my love that's pretty fancy mhm are we having company the Shaws are giving a party and how was your life we finally got clearance from Denver to go up to 25,000 ft how are things in Paris Pete family settle down okay yeah Marge loves it and the kids are parly booing like na what's this about Vicki in med school well you know how she likes to keep busy and how's the fishing in the Philippines oh I've never had a fishing like that anywhere in the world I still see you can't beat the Amazon you know I happened to catch a live performance of a great Sensational you Stinger from Puerto Rico the other night would you like to see love to yeah hey everybody recorded a great new singer down San Juan way the other night would you like to see him share it with you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] spee [Music] [Music] fore I to [Music] [Applause] [Music] for [Music] spe about your heart [Applause] Mike Mike would you make me a dupe of that I'd like to show it to some friends of ours who spent a lot of time down there sure well I guess you want in 3D yeah we finally made the switch you got to keep up with the times you know yeah but um but what well there's a 3D and 4D you know what's next what's next you never know you never really know what's next the things you've seen are techly possible it remains only to apply what we now know to fulfill these dreams of Tomorrow the world of 1999 and Beyond is limited only by the boundaries of our imagination today la [Music]