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Future Shock Documentary (1972)
Jamie Clay · 1 HN recommenders · 1 recommendation months
Recommended by 1 Hacker News commenters across 1 months (2017–2026).
SignalTube analysis
Among 3 other documentary videos tagged Futurism & technology and society, the mean is 1.3 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 1 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 1 distinct month; the peer average is 1.3 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
20% of its 5 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2017–2026; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 42 minutes 49 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2016-06-26.
- Channel / speaker
- Jamie Clay
- Verified runtime
- 42m 49s
- YouTube upload date
- 2016-06-26
- Hacker News mention years
- 2017–2026
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other documentary videos in Futurism & technology and society. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Future Shock Documentary (1972)Current video | 1 | 1 | 20% | — | 42m 49s | 2016-06-26 |
| Everything is a Remix (2023 Edition)documentary · Kirby Ferguson | 3 | 3 | 43% | No recorded overlap | 64m 4s | 2023-03-21 |
| There's No Tomorrow (limits to growth & the future)documentary · incubatepictures | 1 | 1 | 25% | No recorded overlap | 34m 52s | 2012-02-11 |
| Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism | VPRO Documentarydocumentary · vpro documentary | 0 | 0 | 0% | No recorded overlap | 50m 0s | 2019-12-21 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence”. Its short rationale: Example of recurring fears about pace of change.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Interracial marriage in US became legal only in 1967”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Lee Iacocca Has Died”. Its short rationale: 40-minute Orson Welles film version of Future Shock.