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1966, 2000, AI, Automation, BBC, Children, ClimateChange, Computers, FactoryFarming, Future, Futurism, NuclearWar, Overpopulation, Predictions, Robotics, Tildes, Transcript, UK, UnitedKingdom, Y2K, Year2000From the BBC Archives: Schoolchildren in 1966 Predict Life in the Year 2000 [6:17]
"If something's gone wrong with their nuclear bombs, I may be sort of coming back from hunting in a cave.""I don't like the idea of sort of getting up and finding you've got a cabbage pill to eat for breakfast or something."
"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 IQ who can work computers and such things, and other people are just not going to have jobs."
"I don't think I'll still be on Earth. I think I'll be under the sea."
[transcript, via Tildes]