Comments by "Roger Smith" (@rogersmith8339) on "1966: Children imagine life in the year 2000 | Tomorrow’s World | Past Predictions | BBC Archive" video.

Having grown up at the same time as these kids I know why many expressed the opinions they did. Science fiction in those days, as it always had, made so many accurate predictions. From Ladt Penelope's poder compact (mobile phone) to the Star Trek replicator (3d printer).
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@poempadgett4664 I would put them a little older than I was then maybe 13 or 14? Even most 16 or 17 year olds wouldn't be a match for their wisdom and pleasantness.
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@emmettturner9452 I agree that there was some early factory farming back then (I grew up in a farming community), but the old school farmers often looked down on it. I think these kids would have been talking about what it developed in to later. It was that later type of farming that got people used to cheap foods in the supermarkets and started to create a generation who didn't value food in the way it should be and the resulting huge waste of good food.
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@grnpeepers2683 How old were you in 66? A great many of us grew up with a fresh outlook on the world and were brought up by parents who taught us to respect others but to think for ourselves.
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@jomac2046 I think you will find that the factory farming they were talking about was the next generation version- stuff they saw on sci fi movies and TV. Much like what was often portrayed as the cars of the future (funnily enough, many of those "future" cars seem to have been Citroen DSs originally from the 50s with bits stuck on).
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@nextinstitute7824 Someone was saying how far ahead the US is compared with Europe. I simply pointed out that they are not actually as far ahead as they think they are. Funnily enough the UK had EVs many years ago, delivering milk in reusable containers!
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@davidgray6959 If you watch these old clips, you will often spot kids predicting or saying ludicrous things so it is not as staged as you may think.
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@tgs1766 When rhythm and blues was still actually worth listening to and actually reflected it's origin.
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@raynarks One of my big sisters carers did not know what tomatoes were when she saw them growing on a plant!
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It is so nice to hear children speaking politely and respectfully and not trying to imitate the talk of some of the less desirable amongst us.
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This was broadcast just 3 years after the famous winter of '63. If that gets repeated, just imagine the same interviews 3 years later?
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And you get the impression that is something new.
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I bet very few of that generation pleaded mental health problems, were stressed and expected to go to university, get a random useless degree and then moan that the couldn't get a job with a 6 figure salary straight away!
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@Thomas828 Sadly it is pretty scary nowadays but for very different reasons!
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@Kiyoone When you read books aimed at children from the 40s, 50s and even the early 60s you wonder how many would manage to read them easily these days. I think even some of the recent generation of "adults" would struggle!
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@dereklupton5259 Borax! What age were you in 1966? I was 8.
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@nextinstitute7824 But the Americans still seem to drive cars that are so backwards today.
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I thought they were not very diverse, were they, he says in a very mocking tone? (Funnily enough, the midwife who delivered me at home was a Windrush nurse!)
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@golden.lights.twinkle2329 Do you think that they are privileged because they spoke nicely and dressed smartly? I think you will find they were relatively ordinary kids from their time.
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@thenasiorigins Statistically, war is the natural state of the world, there is always one going on somewhere, very sadly.
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@mikeandrews1899 WTF do you mean by that?
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@Liusila Yep, all about how the wicked Ruskies were!
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@emmettturner9452 The big jump in farming (UK wise) seems to have been in two steps, the first during WW1 when mechanisation really started to grow and then in WW2 when we desperately needed to feed the masses.
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@mikeandrews1899 Depends upon how you view race and how you view the populations of the "British" countries. Strictly, there is one race, the human race, but normally it would tend to be considered that some UK regions are (more) Celtic in origin while there tends to be a more Scandinavian input in the English make-up - even the name of the country has origins in that part of the world.
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@mikeandrews1899 Race can be seen as a bit subjective in some ways, as I said before, strictly speaking we are all from the human race but there are some blurred lines along the way.
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@mikeandrews1899 I guess that is true, but there are some pretty distinct characteristics within the different peoples from that group. Even down to the certain ailments that some suffer from. I suppose you could view them as sub-races?
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