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Tomorrow's World - did anything come true?

Doodoo

Just remembering the bbc programme Tomorrows World and all the different things they predicted for the future. As this was broadcast in the 70's and 80's alot of their predictions are probably laughable now and maybe some came true. Anyone remember any?

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LiamMc

Most viewers anticipated that Not The Nine O'Clock News would do a sketch on it.

(Not The Nine O'Clock News was like Fr.Ted and The Simpsons a decade later. Where people would make reference to those shows from real life events.
The big difference is Not The Nine O'Clock News was/is funny).

Capt'n Midnight

Praetorian Saighdiuir wrote: »

What happened?

two of the kings died and the rest their money on a Ponzi scheme

Firefox11

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Great thread! More links!!

The self parking car?? what happened to that?:)

I love the way it still had not done it by the end of the programme!!:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVQsVkYbpuw

Stained Class

All I knew, was I wanted to ride Philippa Forrester.

It didn't happen.:(

So far

Capt'n Midnight

Firefox11 wrote: »

The self parking car?? what happened to that?:)

I love the way it still had not done it by the end of the programme!!:D

They had one on Top Gear this week.

Self driving cars are now legal in 3 US states.

and this

https://xkcd.com/652/

We live in a world where there are actual fleets of robot assassins patrolling the skies. At some point there, we left the present and entered the future.

keithclancy

Firefox11 wrote: »

The self parking car?? what happened to that?:)

I love the way it still had not done it by the end of the programme!!:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVQsVkYbpuw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_m8DqTlOLE

Amalgam

Spreading Jam on the CD..

Remember the rather clumsy stereoscopic robot camera thing that would take 'virtual' tours of houses for estate agents.

You look back at the explanation for virtual reality and realise how the vocabulary was so out of context, it never came across well, because there was a slim chance of experiencing it yourself, due to a lack of access to the viewing technology, any technology..

Early 80s, they covered rendering stations (CGI) that were the size of a suitcase and cost £500,000 and nearly always, it was rendering a metallic marble on a chequered background..

Where To

All these fancy pants self driving cars, but can they clean the vomit, piss and **** out of themselves, or wait for you for hours when you're talking nonsense to some younwan who has absolutely no interest in you, or carry your twelve bags of shopping into the house, or wake you up at 4 am to take you the airport?:mad:

They will never take off!! Never I say!! Never!!

Ruudi_Mentari

what about Whickers World, everything seemed to come to fruition over there

but then it was best on fact. something he tended to arrive after

Where To

Ruudi_Mentari wrote: »

what about Whickers World, everything seemed to come to fruition over there

but then it was best on fact. something he tended to arrive after

Eh?

senorwipesalot

I remember an episode where they said someday all cars will be made of plastic.

and they spelled plastic "plastick"

keithclancy

I just went to the Toilet and it flushed .. Tomorrows world !! wooooo !!!

antodeco

Moon pie. I feel so alive!

keithclancy

MadsL wrote: »

Tell that to kids today, and they won't believe ya!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v75QpvISUs

Shift - Run Stop
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f*** ... have to align the tape heads again

Dramatik

MadsL wrote: »

Tell that to kids today, and they won't believe ya!!

ha ha, kids these days... they don't know sh1t about "?SYNTAX ERROR"

mike65

Dramatik wrote: »

ha ha, kids these days... they don't know sh1t about "?SYNTAX ERROR"

These days syntax error describes most youths way of speaking/spelling.

opinion guy

mike65 wrote: »

These days syntax error describes most youths way of speaking/spelling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDcbO2bRxhg

snubbleste

I used to watch Beyond 2000, an Australian version that RTÉ showed every week.

books4sale

TW failing was it didn't think big enough and was way too conservative. Personally I think we have advanced way beyond the predictions of TW especially in the last 10 years.

Strangely, the world today and the technologies we are exploring and inventing have more in common with sci fi films like Star Trek (Teleportation, Space Exploration), Bladerunner (Genetics, Body Parts) and Terminator (Time Travel, Cyborgs) which were far more forward thinking.

The Barefoot Pizza Thief

Apparently they once believed that we would have mobile telephone devices one day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vix6TMnj9vY

BBDBB

10 PRINT "BBDBB IS COOL"
20 GOTO 10
30 RUN

damn

doesnt work anymore

LiamMc

BBDBB wrote: »

10 PRINT "BBDBB IS COOL"
20 GOTO 10
30 RUN

damn doesnt work anymore

OMG COBOL!!!!

shinkansen

Sacramento wrote: »

On the 8th of January 1981 they predicted a slow stiff emotionless robot would play Snooker, and low and behold, Peter Ebdon.

peter ebdo...

sorry

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

shinkansen

LiamMc wrote: »

OMG COBOL!!!!

thats basic

Lapin

I remember as a kid watching them announcing that in the future, kettles would turn themselves off when they were boiled.

I laughed at the time thinking, yeah right, a fookin kettle knowing when its work is done, give over.

So I stood up - and walked over to the TV to change the channel !

And now look.

Esel

BBDBB wrote: »

10 PRINT "BBDBB IS COOL"
20 GOTO 10
30 RUN

LiamMc wrote: »

OMG COBOL!!!!

Pwned - unless you were trying to sucker the poster below; in whic case, you succeeded.

shinkansen wrote: »

thats basic

As in a basic error?

whiskeyman

A motorised attachment for a biro to allow hyper-fast FF or RW of cassette tapes.
The future!!

Peregrine

I don't know about Tommorrow's World but Moore's Law has been holding up so far

snubbleste

This magazine came with the Los Angeles Times in April 1988. It tried to predict our lives in 2013. http://documents.latimes.com/la-2013/
Very interesting reading.

mconigol

snubbleste wrote: »

This magazine came with the Los Angeles Times in April 1988. It tried to predict our lives in 2013. http://documents.latimes.com/la-2013/
Very interesting reading.

Interesting stuff! No robot butlers though