Footage shows kids in the 1960s imagining what life will be like in the year 2000

A old BBC clip from the 1960s in which school children speculate on the state of the world in 2000 has gone viral on Twitter - and the youngsters' predictions have generated a lot of reaction.

The black and white clip originally aired on Tomorrow's World, which ran from 1965 to 2003, and showed a selection of British youngsters sharing their thoughts on what life would look like at the turn of the century.

The predictions were both thoroughly depressing and eerily accurate - you can see for yourself below:

Another pessimistic youth was similarly suspicious of technological advances: "Computers are taking over now. In the year 2000, there just won't be enough jobs to go around and the only jobs will be for people with high IQ. Other people are just not going to have jobs."

Twitter users were struck by the accuracy of the kids' predictions and complimented them as being very 'articulate'.

One user tweeted: "These kids are more articulate than the average adult today," only to be reminded by another Twitter commenter: "They are the average adult today."

One person replied: "They're right. It's hard to get a job nowadays and even if there is one available, they don't reach out back after filling in the application."

Another wrote: "These kids were insanely smart with their predictions. Computers taking over many jobs was pretty much 100 percent right when they said that."

Technological developments and automation have been linked to significant job losses in recent years and have been predicted to replace more in the coming years.

Towns like Mansfield, Sunderland and Dundee are predicted to be hit hardest by the growth of artificial intelligence.