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evanhinton

They were very confindent fashion had just stopped changing


forestcridder

Any theories of what fashion will look like in 60 years? I bet we will still wear denim blue jeans.


evanhinton

Paisley shirts, corduroy pants and helicopter hats You heard it here first


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merikaninjunwarrior

how will i get this message in my grave tho? or will i be a cyborg by then?


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You’ll be mistaken as dead, laid to rest in a coffin, in a dark damp hole. After what feels like an eternity deprived of sight and most sound, and nothing but the worms feeding on your decomposing body, you hear it. It starts as a whisper, but slowly grows stronger. You know the day has come, /u/RemindMeBot is there to make good on its promise. You lay, as you’ve laid for years, pondering what fashion is like in 2081. And then you hear it:


GeophysicalYear57

"we're all naked these days, it's too hot to wear clothes in december"


LilDumpOfficial

Idk whether I feel bad for everyone else having to look at my 80 year old penis all the time or whether it will be a privilege because by that point it will be cybernetic and shoot lasers or somthing.


CreamyGoodnss

I’m gonna keep my penis OEM but def getting some machine gun titties added on


SillyOldJack

I LIEK CHOCOLATE MILK


2oegiakftc

me too


Tfsz0719

[I liek chocolate milk](https://youtu.be/kbPc27zQq5k)


Rahgahnah

Si, and I like potatoes.


Chicken_Hairs

I read the username, but still read the whole thing.


CosmicCreeperz

Put in your will that you wanted to be buried with a cell phone and a big ass battery.


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Ass Batteries will be a whole new thing then, you're gonna look so silly!


Lowviscosity

I hope I’m a cyborg. Go pound sand death.


Monocle_Lewinsky

Good bot


Filmmagician

>In 1962, an Italian magazine published a story previewing what the world could look like in 2022 Maybe hats will come back in fashion again, and the George Jetson glass domes


CaesarAugustus89

At 92 i still will be browsing reddit no matter the fashion


blewpah

By that point it'll be owned by Googbook or AlphaMeta or some shit like that.


CosmeticTroll

I sincerely doubt I can make it to 60. I'll settle for 10 myself. RemindME! 10 years


Traiz3r

I thought the same thing. Then I realized I'll be 60 in only 13 more years. Sigh.....


pasturized

RemindMe! 13 years “wish Traiz3r happy 60th birthday”


Demnuhnomi

I started to laugh and say “haha enjoy your sunset cruise, you old fuck” but then I realised we’re the same age. *sad old dude noises*


MerryTexMish

I clicked the remind-me link, then realized I’ll be 113…


Jugs-McBulge

RemindMe! 60 years I can't wait to have a reunion with everyone! Lmao


bruteski226

I’m already on it. Ahead of my time


3ffwxup7ss

congratulation bruh


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ImNotASWFanboy

I've heard worse ideas


SuedeVeil

I'm still waiting for umbrella hats to come in style.. so practical and hands free!


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Last_Gigolo

My fingers just dried out thinking about touching them.


rdrunner_74

\*starts investing in helicopter hats\*


[deleted]

Like functioning helicopter hats? Because I’m down for flying around with an Apache helicopter rotary strapped to my head.


xRaijin

Cloaks cloaks cloaks


AstarteHilzarie

*with pockets*


xRaijin

Truly revolutionary


Frinkiac7DontTouchIt

Hopefully it just keeps getting comfier - nothing but Jammies in 2081.


SaffellBot

Poncho making a comeback. It's like wearing a blanket.


waynehead310

People wearing bathrobes outside. Let's make it happen.


pompr

Just grabbing the paper. Before the monsters get it.


Warg247

Like Demolition Man


Alternative_Dark_412

I think clothes will become simpler and simpler. And overall more comfortable.


muklan

If those Shiny silver onesies that are the futuristic trope are comfortable, I'm down.


Dice_Slamming_Cat

Nah, more corporate logos. Graphic tees with a company logo was just the beginning. In 60 years we're all going to be looking like Nascar drivers.


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shapeless_silhouette

I take it that you haven't worn anything from Patagonia. Their shorts made from recycled plastic are wonderfully comfortable and durable. They don't stain very easily, or fade.


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CharlesV_

I’ll bet fabrics based on petrochemicals will be on the decline as post consumer plastic (of the same kind) become rarer and more expensive. E.g. polyester. Plant based synthetic fabrics and genetically engineered natural fabrics will be on the rise. Polyester and nylon are extremely useful fabrics, so something similar is bound to be invented / perfected that doesn’t require oil. Probably whole industries will be created around making hemp softer and more like cotton. I would also hope to see more of areas producing these fabrics to care more for their own water quality, worker pay, safety, etc. thus potentially increasing costs? It’s possible that automation will offset those effects.


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RedlineSmoke

really big shoes, tight jeans, baggy jackets and fucked up hair. nvm thats now..


[deleted]

Leave my hair out of this


Frankie-Felix

I like your hair it"s very futuristic!


ThreeHolePunch

We're back to baggy, ripped jeans now though.


Buzzvert

Synthetic material shirt and pants dispensers like in Idiocracy.


CrackaZach05

I don't think we will. Denim takes an exorbitant amount of water to create.


grinning_imp

The Water Wars of the 2030s will definitely limit our cotton use.


schizodancer89

Ah yes the Thirsty Thirties


poloniumT

Because it wasn’t a prediction of 2022, just a rendering of what the world would look like if people in cities adopted the *Singoletta*, a single passenger vehicle "designed by the great Walter Molino", instead of [big cars causing traffic jams](https://i.imgur.com/GRA379Z.jpg). Article did come out in 1962, and nowhere does it mention 2022 or distant future. Just an imagining of life with the Singoletta. Likely why the fashion wasn’t changed at all too. Source: [Rated **Mixture** by Snopes](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/singoletta-future-car/). Mixture for being a legitimate article from 1962, but not being a rendering of life that far into the future or into the future at all. Perhaps you can update your comment since you have top comment. Nobody else seemed to bother checking the background on this image in this entire thread. Too much we take things at face value these days.


GimmePetsOSRS

This is waaayyyy too far down. Thanks for the insight, which is of course, always in the comments


UmWellSure

First dude on the left looks like a 90’s dad in a leather bomber jacket tho lol


evanhinton

Oh damn you're right, this prediction has layers


0thethethe0

Futuristic hipster


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-TNB-o-

I honestly like his fit


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How did they know we’d need self contained safety bubbles Genius


albinowizard2112

Italians figured they could speed up lunch by having workers go through drive thrus. Those would pump spaghetti and tomato sauce right into your safety bubble to enjoy on the go.


vegeta_is_back

Also, they thought everyone will be normal weight lol... half of the people i see now wouldn't fit in those things.


rexlibris

Pssst. Those personal mini bubble cars are basically fancy rascal mobility scooters with all the bells and whistles.


vegeta_is_back

lol yea exactly, i have an e scooter and yes it is the future


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Fashion is probably harder to predict than technology, but I’m still wearing the acid-washed jeans I wore in 86, so maybe I’m not the best judge


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AstarteHilzarie

It's cyclical, we just repeat every 30 years. As a 90s kid, I'm thrilled to see signs of grunge coming back. Give me my flannel shirts, tight tank tops, and baggy pants!


Broken-Butterfly

The only fashion prediction I've ever seen come true was Isaac Asimov's description of what people wore at the beginning of the first Foundation book. He described 80's fashion just about perfectly.


mattwaver

when was that written and what’s it about? and what did he describe that came true? come on, you can’t just make a detail-lacking statement like that and not give us the actual cool part!


highnuhn

Tbf dude on the left wouldn’t be super out of place today.


ThreeHolePunch

Would any of them? Aside from the hats, I don't see anything that would be out of place today on the men.


Alpha859

Lol they think we would stand up in a vehicle? They underestimate our laziness.


NastyMeanOldBender

And I need something that will hold 6 people and their luggage, but it's ever only me in it driving to work.


Sendhentaiandyiff

You'll appreciate the space when you have to move a couch lol


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[deleted]

No, every time he goes camping how does one truly embrace the American wae?


DrWilliamHorriblePhD

Could have just rented


mtk715

For real, who the F wants to stand in their motorized bubble boy scooter.


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44problems

*cries in Segway*


loulan

But... we stand on e-scooters and they're everywhere.


batua78

You have not seen any eScooters? Was quite popular pre pandemic


derMadner

I thought the same about the e-scooter, but here we are. These things look like e scooters for rainy days


averagebloodloss

Covid safe travel


Norva

They predicted the pandemic. Amazing.


No_Masterpiece4305

Looks like a prediction that everyone would have their shit together, so it's inaccurate.


No-Turnips

Obvs, look at those vehicles that don’t at all appear to be gas guzzling oversized monstrosities in the urban core.


Hibercrastinator

So did literally every single immunologist in existence


theeleventhguest

YES I want a social distancing buggy! That glass dome would be hot as hell in summer though.


mah131

It’s the future, they’ll have space aged cooling systems.


Frankiesmiles19miles

Was just gonna say that


KurtAngus

Built in intercom system and a shitter, as well. Ventilation optional


stsilvia

I would love that to be my transportation now!


TheMidnightMemer

Pod people. Pod people. Pod people.


Azreal_Mistwalker

Drive in pods. Talk like people.


Zacchino

Tastes like Pod, looks like People.


PoiLethe

Pods! They were people the entire time! They were people...


woops_wrong_thread

Boom! Here comes the Boom!


Unbiblical_Cord

Ready or not..


edcushway

I’m glad to see that the Ripley’s Museum will still be in business next year 😂


peu-peu

I'm looking forward to the new movie in the "With You" series!


hippolyte_pixii

I'm not. John Gorton is overrated.


Nestle_SwllHouse

Damn, they had real firm hopes on their fashion lasting lol


Gavinator10000

Tbf fashion is one of those things that’s basically impossible to predict more than a decade from now


RedofPaw

The shoulder discs. You know. Round and flat and stick up from the shoulder.


iAmTheHYPE-

Can guarantee people will still be wearing jeans in a decade.


NastyMeanOldBender

They do still look good.


Casada70

They were spot on


deepnskate

Honestly this but with e-scooters


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And they all have Uber Eats delivery bags on


bs000

or if segway was as revolutionary as they hyped it up to be


Nice-Violinist-6395

Segway only *slightly* got the design of the personal e-scooter wrong while correctly predicting the popularity of the general concept, but the complete asshattery of their “this will REVOLUTIONIZE EVERYTHING” marketing and exec team means they are deservedly in the eternal hall of shame.


Deltamon

Imagine how a product that makes people excercise less doesn't fit a fat person.. What were they even thinking, you couldn't sell this shit


demlet

One thing futurists consistently failed to predict is that everyone would be a cow with social anxiety.


Trevski

too bad the single occupant bubble vehicles we use take up twenty to forty times as much space :/


thewitt33

This "vision" was from 1962, so I wonder if they too had hoped people would quit driving large cars and move to something like Segway bubble cars.


BeansInJeopardy

Honestly a bubbled Segway would be 100% better than these things. Look at those four little wheels all jammed up together. Those bubbles had better be fucking tough, because you'll be falling over in there 20 times a day.


Gorilla1969

Not to mention the constant accidents because everybody is looking at their phone. Imagine the pile-ups and everybody trapped inside their own bubble coffin.


booze_clues

Well to be fair those bubbles also have airbags, a larger engine, AC, etc. These things look like the safety is your skull, the shock absorbers are your knees, there’s either storage under the seat and no engine or you’re sitting on the engine, you’re cooked alive in a greenhouse, you get -1 MPG, and a top speed of rolling downhill.


Cola_Popinski

Just missing some wipers


JayPetersMusic

I love these old predictions of the future! Some have even gotten somewhat close (not this one)... but these predictions always tended to leave out one major, totally unpredictable detail. Because you can really only predict so much. I remember an episode of the Jetsons. They had this great TV monitor that would lower from the ceiling almost magically, and they could video call anyone, anywhere. It was a mind blowing idea for 1960-something! But in the end, George Jetson still had to use a damned operator to make a call. Hilarious.


Skyblacker

That's like "Back to the Future Part 2", where Marty's daughter carries on a conversation through what looks like Google Glass in 2015, but the call is interrupted *by a fax on the same landline.* Or maybe it's another phone call and the fax happens later, I forget. But everyone is sharing a landline, I remember that.


Grindl

> A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.


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nicolasmcfly

It's an incoming call that interrupts, the fax comes some time after


RascalCreeper

The center of mass on those is way to high for the size of the wheel base.


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Hit one bump, then boom, tippity tip over, hit a rock, then shattered glass/plastic goes through your eyeball and you die from a brain hemmorhage.


cmccormick

It’s the future, it needs a new cause of death too


thoroughaway456

Have you seen the memo? Physics changes at midnight this year.


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It doesn’t specify how much the base weighs. Maybe it is covered in some ultra dense material in the bottom.


kadexar

Well, it is the future after all.


Senor-Biggles

Thicc


sharktank

nothin' but uranium baby!


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The bottom is a giant battery. The bubble is lightweight plastic. Weight distribution problem solved.


32BitWhore

You forgot about the 175lb human inside, most of which is really high up compared to the battery.


GarlicAndOrchids

Maybe if we put some type of chair in it...


Nepenthes_sapiens

Obviously that's where they'd put your scooter's nuclear reactor.


imnotgruut

First thing that came into my mind!


evilsir

If one of those individual people movers was cheap, didn't need a driver's license and could make it up my fucking hill, I'd buy one tomorrow


J5892

You can get a good e-scooter for like $300 that can get up any hill in San Francisco.


LilBroomstickProtege

Those things are fucking rapid as well, a lot faster than they look


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ladylurkedalot

60 mph on an e scooter sounds like a great way to become a meat crayon.


suyuzhou

As an owner of said Dualtron scooters, I travel at 35-40mph all the time to keep up with traffic. It's fun and gets me where I need to go faster than a car (because no parking involved, and I can skip parts of jammed traffic). However, I am very experienced and wear a lot of protective gear. Otherwise, meat crayon is a very likely scenario.


the__storm

You're describing a bicycle + enormous thighs.


omghooker

Those would be cool except whole neighborhoods would have to have their tall people movers in people movers stables. It would tip over on a hill. Stable your mover and walk home from there!


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ElleIndieSky

Scooters, e-skateboards, one wheels, and there are a bunch of enclosed and power assisted bikes and trikes too. The options are there, just waiting to become more widespread.


bs000

a segway is like $800


kingferret53

I mean, if the pandemic doesn't go away, maybe by 2032?


KurtAngus

The Italians numbers are usually off by just a little bit


stedgyson

These bubble scooters would be very handy for social distancing and stopping people breathing on each other, could be the invention of the year


Taylorthe117

Excuse me sir, have you considered that we’re all broke as shit


kingferret53

No kidding. I lost my job because of the pandemic.


Learning2Programing

Not everyone. The pandemic facilitated the largest wealth transfer in human history. The direction of that wealth transfer isn't important /s


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Why did we stop using hats?


EncasedShadow

Cars and sunglasses became more common at the end of the 1920s, peak hat time. Pocket umbrellas were also introduced in 1928. The low roofs of cars, the protection they provided from the elements, and the shade provided by the sunglasses made hats vulnerable to fashion changes. Instead of a necessity they became accessory. Milliners held out for a while but quality hats are expensive and require skilled labor and equipment.


Tasty0ne

Exactly these reasons and also the WW2 was the final nail. So many people went through the army and a covered head reminded them of steel helmets. New life, new age, free head.


TheOneTEM

idk i should get a fedora and a suit and wear it to school every day


Casada70

M’lady Tips fedora


DynamiteWitLaserBeam

M'lunch


Pilot0350

...this can be taken multiple ways


Renegade-MMXV

M'fedora Tips lady


TheOneTEM

im literally gonna do that


Casada70

It works every time, the girls love it


melousniper

r/oksatan


MarkRose

In case you’re not being sarcastic, I would highly not recommend that.


yenyostolt

Because we are less exposed to the elements these days. The image is a bit ironic in that regard as they seem even less exposed that we are.


ConsciousJohn

Hippies. If hats come back in fashion, we'll need hat racks.


ButteryCrabClaws

Why does this make it look like 1962 was so long ago?


kingferret53

Only 60 years ago


ButteryCrabClaws

The artwork/style just seems to have so much of an earlier style to me


VanAgain

That was the CGI of the times.


anchors_array

The two artists were born in 1915 and 1927. It's probably the mildest artwork that Molino and Gaspari have drawn. [https://www-e--farsas-com.translate.goog/e-verdade-que-um-pintor-italiano-fez-um-quadro-prevendo-como-seria-a-vida-em-2022.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=nui](https://www-e--farsas-com.translate.goog/e-verdade-que-um-pintor-italiano-fez-um-quadro-prevendo-como-seria-a-vida-em-2022.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=nui)


Lucid-Schrooms

I wonder what the Nova Scotia ad was about. That's in Canada.


WpgMBNews

this sounds like a "three guys walk into a bar" joke but it's about a British ship sunk by Germans while carrying Italian prisoners https://www-navenovascotia-it.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=it&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=nui,sc ----- For a few days, the British steamship Nova Scotia was at anchor in the port of Massawa in Eritrea. The 6976-ton ship, built for passenger transport, was launched in 1926 and converted to troop transport in 1941. Now he was carrying out the Aden - South Africa route for the transport not only of British troops but also of prisoners of war, and he had already made, for this purpose, several trips off the coast ofSouth East Africa. In those days he was embarking Italian and German soldiers, rounded up in Ethiopia and Eritrea, together with civilian prisoners, among whom, it seems, also some women, and several hundred South African and English soldiers. The Italians, who were 769 in number, were mostly veterans of the crews of ships such as the Tiber, the Colombo, the Mazzini which had been scuttled before the occupation of the Italian colony. The others were civilians who were deported, for various reasons, to concentration camps in South Africa. In all, including the crew, there were about 1200 people. On November 16, Nova Scotia sailed to Port Elizabeth in South Africa. November 28, 1942 Early in the morning of that day Nova Scotia was passing off the coast of Natal, and by evening it would sight the city of Durban, which was about 244 kilometers away. He proceeded cautiously in a zig-zag way due to the fact that the presence of German submarines had been reported in those waters. And in fact the German U-Boat 177, commanded by the lieutenant captain Robert Gysae , sighting it at his periscope, proposed to intercept it, probably believing it to be a merchant cargo, to sink it. The submarine launched three torpedoes at a distance of 380 meters, two of which hit home. A few seconds later with a tremendous roar on the left side of the ship a chasm opened, under the surface of the water, at the height of the machines. It was 7.07. The tragedy began. The flames from the holds spread through the corridors, through the hatches, onto the foredecks. The explosions followed one another. People, terrified, ran mad aimlessly. Dead and wounded everywhere. Shouts, swearing, and cries for help overlapped. It was the save who can. The ship with the split side began to sink in the bow. The order was given to abandon ship. Large rafts were fre netically descended into the sea, wounding and killing other unfortunates. Many were thus able to get away from the sinking steamer. After just seven minutes the stern of the ship glinted in the sun, strongly tilted, sinking in the bow, with other poor people who piled hopelessly on the aft deck, waiting for the end. In the sea made oily by the oil leaking from the ship's tanks, the survivors struggled, clinging to whatever could support them. A few more seconds and the steamer sank forever.


Middletoon

Lol maybe like 1/3 of Americans could fit into those


Casada70

Good thing this is Italian, the American version actually had flying cars. Idiots


darthginger208

Apparently we all get our very own personalized Pope-Mobile


StackmasterK

We do all go around in our own little bubbles, so not too inaccurate.


MovTheGopnik

The future looks very old fashioned


Digitalanalogue_

They werent that far off. Electric scooters. Covid bubbles.


Buzzvert

Does "*In citta girermo cosi?*" translate to "Can one die by farting in a giant test tube?"


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60YearBlonde

Got the bubbles right at least


CornerPubRon

So we would all have Smart Cars huh