I shuffled paper in one of those financial clearing centers long ago. I learned a lot and it launched my successful ~40 year IT career. This series is great fun, like a trip down memory lane. They got a lot wrong but they got a surprising number of things right.
Bad memories for me, seeing the city of London. It was around this time, 1982, that I received a very nasty eye injury from a screwed up piece of paper which some idiot had obviously thrown off of a tall building.
I really enjoyed the series. I watched it all in one sitting, an all-nighter. I noticed how floppy disc was an almost out of reach (financially) storage device in the first episode & by episode 10 the “microcomputer “ has 2 built in. A computer Mouse was still only a conceptual robotic maze crawler, rather than a point and click navigation tool. I had a computer back then, by Tandy I think with a cassette recorder for memory as well as a cartridge slot on the keyboard for prewritten programs. (Only games, fractal generators & crude simulations available though was probably used for cad cam in industry) Peripheral add on devices included joystick 🕹, interactive learning binders (ring binders with active electronic buttons that reacted to the stylus provided, art pad for sketching and colouring in . (All very crude, pixelated, almost no memory @ 16 bit). Mostly I’d buy books of programs and type them in to make a picture or something and crude games on tapes. I could get tapes with 5-100 games. Good for learning basic, then basica before the long run of dos 0, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2etc changing almost weekly at one point.
you do realise these episodes were filmed over 3 months and show over 10 weeks, I think you are over analysing the floppy disk between episode 1 and 10.
I agree, the audio was playing but I was not watching at that point, was sorting washing.... All I could hear was really crazy gibberish and the word 'cookies' being repeated to the point to it being disturbing, so glad someone else noticed how mad he is.
What? I thought it was perfectly clear what he meant. Instead of field being normal with only one crop like corn or whatever you would have a field with all the different crops you would need sown in different rows for a specific end product, in this case cookies. Now this sounds pretty stupid because different crops mature at different rates and require different fertilizers and pesticides and stuff, so that's my guess why this miniaturized automated harvester/cookie factory never factory took of.
reminds me of the game factorio. accepted practice is to have all your ingredients available and split off what is required for every piece of production.
Interestingly, when they used paper and people to handle bank deposits and payments, it used to take three days to process the transactions; now that computers handle it, it takes seven... Hmmm...
Except contactless.. chip and pin.. Near instant trading platforms. Online payment. Etc. Or cryptocurrencies. Doing it by paper has just gone into much less common use. The old, slow way. They could make it much faster, bit they just don't need to. Fast ways of paying are there, but the paper way too if you still want it, which remains open to simple fraud/requires some human input.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I’m thinking it may be better for the client, giving time to call the alert if there is shenanigans. As already mentioned, contactless chip & pin is instant as is AirPay, pay and wave etc.
Great video there! I used to work in the back office of a bank in the early 2000's. although it was all computer based, we still had to process payments by manually entering them into various computers. Now the payments were of course electronic, making use of the Internet. But that was over 10 years ago now. With current technology and modern Internet banking, I bet my old job probably doesn't exist, or at very least is quite different.
Wonderful. The topic of AI making work redundant is in vogue again now, but of course all the discussions have had occurred before, as demonstrated by this video.
I remember the "paperless office" the time everything was printed out far too often, misprints thrown away and one copy filed to be thrown away some years later. I do think that that is far less now.
Whereas today you go through it all and don’t get what you want or need. 😉 Actually I thought it was everything they made at the time, notice no mouse yet and the floppy drive was “about 150 times the price of the cassette machine “ in first episode and out of reach or all but larger businesses...By the time that all ended, many people walked in for a desktop to play games and walked out with Security Antivirus software, soundbbar, joysticks, gamecontrollers, camera, electric vibrating fully submersive interactive chair, 2-3 large widescreen displays for side by side, removable hard drives, USB sticks, several subscriptions, virtual reality goggles, 3D glasses and a wireless voice activated personal assistant.
Kinda funny how he thought we would be scanning the bank slips, then sending the info electronically. Like he never thought we could get rid of the paper altogether.
I've seen a clip from the late 1950s in which TV presenter Ronald Reagan is explaining the newly invented machine readable text at the bottom of cheques.
@@Inaflap Good clips. By 1984 it was becoming a reality. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZsV1e1XCmWk.html I have seen a demo of online shopping Tesco did at about the same time using the same technology.
It was the invention of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners Lee in 1989 which marked the great change. Up and running in the early '90s, it threw open the internet gates to all.
I bet those workers felt valued when they saw this on TV. Imagine it, you tell everyone you know that YOU are going to be on TV. Everyone tunes in and then...............14:54.
I wish we could step back to 1980 and let them know it'll all mostly be all right. Maybe hand them a phone and let them order something off of Etsy to put them at ease. BTW, the cookie farmer wasn't so off as we can now order a $200 3d printer to make a cookie jar or a gun all day long.
Yes, and one of Neil Ferguson's computer models - the ones we trust! I mean - LOL!!! Back in 1980 they'd laugh so much they'd pass their ciggies round!
It's possible to harvest cookies at Wallace and Grommet, otherwise not so much. The current solution for the job problem that arises of automation is unemployment and shitty service jobs that get payed even shittier.
The "cookie guy" is a good example of why futurists are generally wrong. He knows nothing of what he is talking about, farming, manufacture, logistics. He just knows he thought up a better way to do it.
