These old shows are so entertaining. Calm, peaceful, intelligent, informative, AND funny? Why is this not being carried on now? The only person who does their videos in this manner I can think of is Tom Scott.
Grew up watching this, was my favourite program, remember was last thing I was allowed to watch before bed, now I'm in my 40s still remember like yesterday 😂
@@Nautilus1972 Really? Did you ever watch an episode of 3-2-1 (Dusty Bin), it was a bit more involved than the dross of shows on now. How many "talent" shows do we need?
The researcher hit the nail on the head regarding wave power; "the better we did, the less they liked it." It was his veiled way of telling us about the powers of the energy cartel.
Just amazing to watch this. Growing up in the '70's & '80's, 'Tomorrow's World' was one TV programme you watched and got your imagination fired up. Had a 30 year career in IT and can truly say my interest was sparked by those early '70's editions with LSI and VSLI chips and applications. Thank you for publishing this .. made a 57yo feel like a wide-eyed 11yo again.
Watching this at the end of 2019.... we’ve come a long way in and in some cases... well. Concorde, the hovercraft, the mars missions. Computer terminals rented in homes... hindsight’s always 20-20 I suppose. Come back tomorrow’s world! You were my finger on the pulse all those years ago...
I still don't understand why they didn't improve the Concord instead of ending it. And why Hovercrafts never happened. I guess now we don't need them anymore when the first people fly around on drones
@@binarysignals9593 Agreed. Run by Lefties who ram their politics down your throat and cry when they don't get their way. The Today programme is just a vehicle now for these politics and a far cry from what it once was. Scrap the license fee and force the BBC to finish the gravy train of The Luvies....
After watching this, it makes you wonder about today’s technology. We aren’t as advanced as we think, all the stuff we use today was being developed as far back as the 60’s/70’s.
Actually much further back than that. For example Nuclear Fusion which is now getting closer to commercial viability was being researched in the 1930s...Human ingenuity never fails to surprise.
Yup. A gentle reminder that viruses have been an enemy of humanity from the beginning - they were in existence long before humans ever showed up. And that, sometimes, unfortunately, it's the virus that gets the upper hand - as now, in this pandemic.
No idea why this appears in my recommended list today. If there is any recollection I have of James Burke (or even tomorrow's world as a whole) from years ago at the time it was originally broadcast, it was when he started the program lying in bed recovering from Hong Kong flu. Thanks for posting.
In junior school we had to write an essay about the future. My prediction was that peoples waists would get incredibly small as they could get all the nutrients they needed from a single pill a day. I got that one a bit wrong didn't I.
Originally broadcast 8 May 1986. I watched this show every week and it is amazing to see ideas that were futuristic at the time are common place today, then we have the things that were never seen again lol.
Dungeness B is an advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) power station consisting of two 1,496 MWt reactors, which began operation in 1983 and 1985 respectively. Dungeness B was the first commercial scale AGR power station to be constructed. (only 3 years after this show) They ran nearly 40 years.
I remember trying to see the colour images on B&W TV when it was first demonstrated. I will can still see the colours, I will know it has a scientific explanation but it is still magic!
he said "intelligent computers, where will that take us ? Probably, best not to speculate." AI, Google, Facebook, RU-vid and Amazon, IMO that's just a start.
Golden years back then 1960 /70 /80 Especially tv This was one of my favourite programs When BBC was at it best That time Noticed today technology Just expensive Nothing working anymore Back then Had everything And working Because every one was clever and calm back the Nice and slow ❤❤
@@roswaldwalton1147 wow that's amazing. He certainly was quite a character.. your nan was right not to watch tho, he must have had a lot of faith in his invention.. lucky for you to have this to remember him by...
The world was more technologically advanced back in the seventies than it is today, we were regularly walking on the moon and flying on our holidays at supersonic speeds. Today we barely get into orbit and passenger aircraft fly at less than half the speed.
Just because something is possible doesn't make it worthwhile. Flying cars were a major vision of the future for 20th century people but they're ultimately just a recipe for high-altitude traffic accidents. We don't have supersonic jets but we do have pocket sized supercomputers, completely realistic 3D rendering, and the entire human genome sequenced. Perspective
Interesting the joke about Raymond Baxter and the Concorde. Wonder how many know that he flew for the RAF during the war and had a close encounter with a V2 rocket on one sortie.
5.08 - presenter gets into metal drum with a stick of dynamite and "BOOM"! The ear defenders and presenter emerge blown to bits. Now that was Tomorrows World unique reporting style!
If NASA had stayed just as determined as they were when they were tring to get to the moon and the government continued to fund them as they did during that time of development it is very possible that we could have made it to Mars by know.
But but but, diversity is good (we're told). Bring back the old days. We will lose the English language to be replaced with gutterspeak or text speak ala Bladerunner and 1984. Englishness is now called racist. The sooner I'm out of this crazy world the better. Or a time machine to take me back to better times.
I want Mabel. Why can I still not have a Mabel 30 years later. The Jetsons promised I'll fly to work with a jet pack while a robot cleans my flat. Not just vacuuming that's not enough
we found out later all that made us lazy and lead sedentary lifestyle leading to insulin resistance, clogged arteries and liver cirrhosis, so they scrapped all those ideas for our own good 🐱👍🏿
@@fidelcatsro6948 that I don't want to clean my apartment? That's the candy I eat doing, that's people getting in cars and never walking. I like riding my bike everywhere and walking when I don't wanna sit anymore. But I don't like cleaning
Damn, if only they knew then what we know now! I swear they should revisit that episode for all the advancements and backwards steps we've been taking.
In 2019 Cyclosporin is used for many conditions. I was procscribed it for Erythroderma. Now Mono Clonal Antobodies , inject twice a month are used. It has also been proposed as cure for baldness. Yes, hair growth can be a side effect, trouble is it isn't only the hair on your head grows. Both Voyagers have now left the Solar System, still working.
The references to "Last weeks [Nuclear] accident in the Soviet Union" (The Chernobyl meltdown) dates this firmly to late April 1986...So how on *earth* is the show presenting what looks like a Sony Xperia at around 35:10 :-o :-p Awesome upload, of course - Even if I couldn't help shedding a tear at being reminded the APT had such a short life in service! Many thanks! :-)
They didnt tell you time travel was already possible many years before in any of these episodes, she bought a smartphone in the future and brought it back to 1986...
Used to love watching this as a kid. Seeing Philippa Forrester in a 1997 episode question why anyone would want to design a weapon like the revolutionary Metal Storm made me embarrassed to be British. I've never watched it since.
Good old Prince Charles. They didnt predict that he would marry a puppet wife, have two kids by her and all the time he was carrying on with a married women in the name of love, more like in the name of adultery.!! That his puppet wife would mysteriously die in a car 'accident' in a tunnel in Paris, he'd go on to marry the woman he was cheating with. and that our royalist media would gloss over the scandal and sell it to the nation as a love story !!! Time for Charles to become King? NEVER !!
In 100/200 years people will watch this in pure amazement and wonder , ,,,And the astronaut walking sideways, didn’t it look the same as the way they where walking on the moon 🤔
IoT is todays version of controlling your 'accessories remotely'. I think a funny scene is from one of the StarTrek movies where the crew come back in time to the 80's. Scotty is talking to a computer but the operator says 'no you need to use the mouse'... so he picks up the mouse and talks into it 8^)
New music, new intro, new presentation style, new presenters, not a patch on the 70's show, IMHO like the decade itself, not a change for the better - all mouth and no trousers.
We need something like this today instead of the media studies inspired guff issued from overplayed executives trying to emulate the private sector. Public service also the service is s privalaged to its users don't try and impose customer rights on us it only makes lawyer s rich .
Its funny to watch what was considered "tomorrows world" which seem so common place today. It makes me wonder what we will be seeing in 30 years that we simply cant imagine today. I remember watching an episode of Going Live where Philip Schofield did an April Fools day prank. He had a thing called "a cube" that could house THOUSANDS of your music tracks and you could speak into the device saying "Play Billie Jean" and it would play it in a matter of seconds. I mean, the prank was that he was doing that while the production crew were playing it. But its funny that all that and more is possible with something thinner than a deck of cards. In fact the prank device would seem redundant and obsolete by todays standards. Wish I could see that episode again.
Does anyone know when this classic tv program was broadcasted? I think it was in the same week as the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in April 1986. I was only 16 years old. I think Maggie Philbin mentions it at the end of the program 58:35
Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow%27s_World says first episode in 1965, so this would have been 1986 sometime as the 21st anniversary special. I haven't managed to confirm the month :(
@@simonlovett151 They probably recorded it in early May 1986. Chernobyl almost never is mentioned as "last week's serious accident in Soviet Union", also it's @49:10.
To this day they struggle with offering flight times longer than a few minutes with fully charged tanks. Pollution and air traffic considerations are another reason why these are still science fiction in practice. If jet packs ever come out on the open market, they'll be subject to both licensing controls *and* minimum costs to control distribution and use of them. It'll be another "Only for the Rich" job, alas. :-/ OTOH, I look forward to the era of autonomous aerial vehicles. Once everyone's switched to those, I'll be able to cycle *anywhere* and at any speed without fear of accident or conflict! :-D
Thursday Tv was great in the 70-80's. Problem was nothing new was happening in science and tech. come the 90's. Many programmes were medical based, bit like Horizon, got boring. So they fizzled out.
