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Tomorrow's World - did anything come true?

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  • #32
    LiamMc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 906 ✭✭✭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).


  • #33
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,665 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Praetorian Saighdiuir wrote: »
    What happened?
    two of the kings died and the rest their money on a Ponzi scheme


  • #34
    Firefox11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭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


  • #35
    Stained Class
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Stained Class


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



    It didn't happen.:(
























    So far


  • #36
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,665 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #37
    keithclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,157 ✭✭✭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


  • #38
    Amalgam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,030 ✭✭✭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.. :D


  • #39
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭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!!


  • #40
    Ruudi_Mentari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭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


  • #41
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭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?


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  • #42
    senorwipesalot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭senorwipesalot


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

    and they spelled plastic "plastick"


  • #43
    keithclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,157 ✭✭✭keithclancy


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


  • #44
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,722 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Moon pie. I feel so alive!


  • #45
    keithclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,157 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    MadsL wrote: »
    Tell that to kids today, and they won't believe ya!!

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

    Shift - Run Stop
    ...............

    ................................................


    f*** ... have to align the tape heads again


  • #46
    Dramatik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 932 ✭✭✭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"


  • #47
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #48
    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,000 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    mike65 wrote: »
    These days syntax error describes most youths way of speaking/spelling.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDcbO2bRxhg


  • #49
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


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


  • #50
    books4sale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 595 ✭✭✭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.


  • #51
    The Barefoot Pizza Thief
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 240 ✭✭The Barefoot Pizza Thief


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

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


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  • #52
    BBDBB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


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



    damn :( doesnt work anymore


  • #53
    LiamMc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 906 ✭✭✭LiamMc


    BBDBB wrote: »
    10 PRINT "BBDBB IS COOL"
    20 GOTO 10
    30 RUN



    damn :( doesnt work anymore

    OMG COBOL!!!!


  • #54
    shinkansen
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 228 ✭✭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


  • #55
    shinkansen
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 228 ✭✭shinkansen


    LiamMc wrote: »
    OMG COBOL!!!!

    thats basic


  • #56
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭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. :o


  • #57
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,808 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    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?

    Not your ornery onager



  • #58
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


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


  • #59
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


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


  • #60
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #61
    mconigol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭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 :(


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