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Futurist Amy Webb fact checks futuristic scenes from movies including ‘Blade Runner 2049,’ ‘Gattaca,’ ‘The Matrix,’ ‘Ex Machina,’ ‘WALL-E,’ ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ ‘Total Recall’ and analyzes their probability, craft, and execution.

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27 Comments

  1. Wolf Pack

    August 18, 2020 at 4:03 pm

    Love It

  2. Albert Francisco

    August 18, 2020 at 4:06 pm

    Wow…

  3. Ximena Vera

    August 18, 2020 at 4:06 pm

    Yay! I was waiting for this. Loved it

  4. Jesse Torres

    August 18, 2020 at 4:06 pm

    1 thing I like about WALL-E that not enough people bring up is that if you isolate the parts with just WALL-E the story works, but if you isolate the parts with just the Captain the story also still works. It’s 1 of the few Disney films that actually does a subplot that is just as interesting as the main plot.

  5. Erica Diorr

    August 18, 2020 at 4:06 pm

    I wish twilight was on Netflix 😢

  6. Jj Johnson

    August 18, 2020 at 4:06 pm

    😎

    😎

  7. Not Leaving Las Vegas - a Vegas Video Channel

    August 18, 2020 at 4:07 pm

    Love films about the future. Good topic.

  8. Just A Dio Who's A Hero For Fun

    August 18, 2020 at 4:07 pm

    Should have shown the Back to the Future 2 2015 clip

  9. Jesse Torres

    August 18, 2020 at 4:07 pm

    1 thing I’ve often wondered about WALL-E is how many humans were on the Axiom? We’re never given an exact number, but it’s gotta be in the 1,000s if not 10,000 after 700 years and multiple generations being raised on it. Also, it’s suggested early in the film that there were other cruise ships out there besides the Axiom, yet they aren’t shown returning to Earth at the end.

  10. WhiskeyGhost

    August 18, 2020 at 4:10 pm

    Sorry lady but I live in the 60s

  11. Kea Cluster

    August 18, 2020 at 4:13 pm

    I could listen to her talk about her career for hours

  12. Jennie Chaney

    August 18, 2020 at 4:29 pm

    Nice 36:14 🍌🍌🍌🍌

  13. Financial Shinanigan

    August 18, 2020 at 4:34 pm

    If futurist study the future, why aren’t people who study the past called pastist?

    • AJD OLD CHANNEL ARCHIVE

      August 18, 2020 at 4:46 pm

      The past is history, ie; historians. Try to be smart next time you “try to be smart”.

  14. Jim Humphries

    August 18, 2020 at 4:42 pm

    11:40 there is a phone for everyone on the planet etc, but they are not all in use all at once, and remember 1/3rd of them are inactive just due to the world sleep cycle, and of those 2/3rds left only a fraction are being used I think its a doable computing problem. 12:30 this goes back to Replicants being the most accurate future AI Machines. Start with the human template, manipulate that and use artificial genes and then weave in nanotech and new materials to make something that is biotech. That way it can heal, machines that can’t heal themselves are useless.

    • AJD OLD CHANNEL ARCHIVE

      August 18, 2020 at 4:49 pm

      A phone is still active unless you take out the battery. I have my phone on “airplane” mode 99% of the time, yet if I have it near my speakers monitors, it will transmit and cause electro-magnetic interference once every 10mins or so. It can be accessed remotely at any time.

  15. Jim Humphries

    August 18, 2020 at 4:56 pm

    19:30 Hal was programmed to obey instructions given to him to the best of it’s ability. He was instructed to keep secret and not reveal the true mission of the Discovery until they reached Jupiter. He was also instructed to complete the mission if the crew was killed. So logically the best way to complete the mission perfectly was to kill the crew and complete the mission itself. That way all mission goals are accomplished. It’s perfect logic, Hal didn’t ‘go mad’ or malfunction.

  16. KeylorCR

    August 18, 2020 at 5:00 pm

    wait, a what?

  17. Jim Humphries

    August 18, 2020 at 5:07 pm

    23:40 this also touches on the film Inception, what most people don’t understand is that the human mind is wired for pattern recognition to a missive degree, almost to savant levels. That’s where the constellations come from, seeing things in the clouds etc, the cool by product is that human memory doesn’t need to be comprehensive; it just needs to be nudged along a path and our minds would fill in the rest of the information. In a way modern VR is overkill, but the mind into a relaxed, suggestive state and then use just the right stimulus to have the mind create its own environments.

  18. Gabe731

    August 18, 2020 at 5:10 pm

    Philip K Dick was a crazy scary genius

  19. TheLewisRocks94

    August 18, 2020 at 5:34 pm

    Oh this is perfect, especially when you consider the algorithim used by the UK government for exam results and in a sense determining people’s futures and roles.

  20. Sharp Design

    August 18, 2020 at 5:44 pm

    You should have her watch movies that are past the timeline of the future.

    Ex. Back to the Future 2, 2001 a space odyssey, the time machine…

  21. BruizeyYoutube

    August 18, 2020 at 5:50 pm

    A futurist should make a sci-fi movie based on their research that would be amazing

  22. corbindalis

    August 18, 2020 at 6:28 pm

    “Futurist” basically a modern day con artist fortune teller

  23. JayMasters

    August 18, 2020 at 7:09 pm

    When she geeked out about the Matrix I wanted to put a ring on it. 😉😉 love her passion

  24. Sha・Ne・Ru

    August 18, 2020 at 7:29 pm

    so basically………….. i should be worried for my future grandchildren xD

  25. Jimmy Gillard

    August 18, 2020 at 7:39 pm

    How does one get this job? Because I’ve always been into tech and scifi ever since I was a kid (I’m 43) and predicted loads of stuff that’s come to fruition. I’ll charge half of what she does.

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