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  • My name is Sean Hayes.

  • This is my fourth time guest hosting the show.

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • You know that means.

  • If I host one more time, I legally take over this show.

  • Yeah.

  • It's called squatters rights when I was a kid,

  • I never imagined I'd be hosting a talk show.

  • But a lot of the times, you picture our future one way.

  • But it turns out totally different.

  • By 2020, everyone was supposed to be having jetpacks

  • and flying cars.

  • Instead, we just have blankets with sleeves.

  • But I found some old pictures from years ago.

  • They show what scientists thought

  • the future would look like.

  • Here's what French scientists in the 1890s

  • thought schools would look like today.

  • OK.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • All right.

  • OK.

  • Let's look at it.

  • Really focus on what's happening here.

  • The teacher takes all the books and puts them into a grinder.

  • It goes into the wires.

  • And that's how students get the information.

  • Yeah.

  • I also have friends who put information into Grindr.

  • And they, too, hope that young men receive it.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • And there weren't any women in the classroom.

  • I don't know if it's because they're not allowed

  • or they're too embarrassed to be a part of this.

  • And I actually think the woman turning the grinder might

  • be a lesbian, if it's a woman.

  • All right.

  • Anyway, here is another picture of a classroom.

  • This is what scientists in Japan thought school

  • would look like in the future.

  • There are no teachers in the class, only computers.

  • And let's zoom in and see what's happening there.

  • Yeah.

  • So that looks like if you get the answer wrong,

  • a robot comes up and hits you with a red paddle.

  • No.

  • They didn't get school right.

  • But they did accurately predict "Fifty Shades of Gray."

  • Finally, here's a scientist from the 1920s predicting

  • the future.

  • Yeah.

  • Can we figure out what's happening here?

  • This is what some people thought dating

  • would look like in the future.

  • As you can see, the woman is finding out

  • if she's compatible with their partner

  • by smelling him at least I think.

  • This isn't how we date today.

  • But this is how I hire my assistants so--

  • [LAUGHTER]

My name is Sean Hayes.

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