Britian of the Future as seen in the 60's

[@97channel]

I love how that gentleman goes to the bank, operates that hi-tech machine bursting with wires and wizardry... and there's just some woman sitting inside it, doing the exact same job as she would have done without it.

[@johnp139]

Smoke and mirrors.

[@Tony32]

6:51 "It's sometimes said now that it might be possible to make the television set so slim that it could be hung on the wall" Marvelous!

[@ewaf88]

@5:20'We'll spend all out time in cities' Yes because the bloody train that took us there still never shows up to take us home.

[@OfficialJoxhie]

ewaf88 #southern

[@pigknickers]

Funny thing about TVs is that the better they've got the worse the programmes became. So I could buy a 50" flat screen for the wall for 2 days wages but I don't because there's nothing to watch on it.

[@PurplePinkRed]

pigknickers Exactly! I don't own a TV!

[@Kpopzoom]

There's plenty of Mainstream Media propaganda to watch...

[@maj746]

Hello, I am from 2020 and I am already laughing.

[@johnp139]

Ever hear of streaming? Maybe you will in a few years.

[@Isaac-gh5ku]

Slim TV sets of the 60s. Not bad.

[@andrewhockings7639]

I'm only in my late 40s and I can remember hearing about TVs we might be able to hang on the wall and it seemed so impossible as to be the stuff of Star trek. Hold on tight, 2030 is going to be a very different world!

[@johnp139]

Star Trek still had boxy monitors.

[@Aspergianfirestarter]

People of the year 2050 are gonna laugh at our technology in 2016. LOL.

[@CHUNKYNUGGET666]

amazingly insightful.. duh

[@Aspergianfirestarter]

CHUNKYNUGGET666 Sadly your comment was just dumb.

[@TB.....]

Stuart Stuartson I agree with you mate. Unfortunately there are completely unhappy dicks who like to lash out at good people.

[@streakhey9035]

Stuart Stuartson 2017 tech?

[@magdadrague]

i laugh at the phones back in 2007 what about in 2050 :D

[@johneygd]

That mobile phone, the online network, the concept of a slim tv also reffered as a plasma tv is mind blowing. That exciting prediction of the year 2000 being at that time 32 years away from it, just mind. Blowing.

[@veedub95]

Tv on the wall. Haha. Never work. Tubes are too heavy

[@kiwitrainguy]

It's amazing that they were predicting them way back then (1970). We had to wait until the 1990s before they actually arrived though.

[@DolezalPetr]

Valery Willis waht

[@srjskam]

Surely the advances of material science will provide for a solution to this problem. Imagine, if you will, a kind of a transparent bakelite, a material strong yet light, fashioned into a tube no thicker than three to five inches, and a sufficiently strong electronic magnet to bend the cathode ray within this space, powered by the household nuclear furnace in the basement. I say, good chap, it is well within the reach of our grandchildren to see these splendid inventions!

[@roachtoasties]

I agree. They're just dreaming. The walls in my house would collapse if I tried to hang a TV on the wall.

[@hannahfarrell3656]

Hi there, what is the original source of this archive - which BBC Four programme did the clips appear in?

[@uzaiyaro]

They were so spot on about the TV thing. That's amazing

[@CaptainAlliance]

5:08 Wow, they were off by 7 million. UK population in 2000 was only 58 million.

[@mrgarypaterson]

Speak privately... Not bloody likely! That's one prediction they didn't get right! lol

[@barrypoupard7009]

My goodness. What innocent times compared to today. The idea that air travel would become luxurious instead of the unglamorous drudgery it has actually become ....

[@johnp139]

It’s called capitalism.

[@CZ350tuner]

Never predicted that kettles would be made of plastic, now did they??

[@MeTheRob]

Or that kettles would one day rise up to subjugate humankind, in a fiendish alliance with the terminators, the toasters and the George Foreman grills.

[@ABC_DEF]

One thing they didn't predict is what computers in the home would actually be used for. It would have been unthinkable to them.

[@Zoomer30]

Noiseiest computer keyboard board ever. Worse than a typewriter.

[@lightpulse]

The first part of this film is from the 1970s. The Commodore PET computer was launched in 1977. There were no personal computers in the 1960s.

[@johnp139]

Those were mainframe terminals, MORON!!!

[@MrPoupard]

No idea of the year of broadcast but 1.40 is the earliest expression of " online" I've heard. Suspect this was a "for schools" broadcast?

[@johnp139]

“A television set so slim that you can hang it on the wall” Bravo!!!

[@philbateman1989]

Wow, they didn't have much of an expectation for the future.

[@andrewhockings7639]

It's interesting that on the whole the predictions here aren't too far off he mark. However the TV console with the slots to put your tape reels in shows how we completely failed to see other forms of storage coming or becoming small enough and cheap enough to use. Hard disks for example. At the time they existed but had tiny capacity and were massive.

The prediction was for the next 10 years in 1970.

[@GarethWonfor]

What they didn't predict was just how brain numbingly cr!*p the stuff on TV would become!

[@chanctonbury63]

5.56 Sometime in the future someone will invent the teleprompter.

[@MeTheRob]

Dream on. that is pure science fiction.

[@mthq]

that airport segment has got to be from the 50s. Heathrow easily had jets by the 60s.

[@kiwitrainguy]

I think it was 1946.

[@funkjoker70]

7:58 - haha, they could not predict, that in future there will be a naked Monty Python playin' the organ. 😂

[@cliffordkinnear9354]

The "user" is logging in!!!! TRON

[@leerees]

WOW everything he said from 5:00 till the end of this clip came true with spot on accuracy!

[@BradTheThird]

..."Apart from when people go to the seaside..." Excuse me. Have you SEEN the colour of the sea in Blackpool?

[@johnp139]

Why is the picture square?

[@NeovanGoth]

Mobile phones: Check High level programing languages: Check Flat screen TVs hanging at the wall: Check UIs with shiny brushed aluminum knobs: Check ;) Not bad!

[@kriss3d]

Absolutely.. Not bad at all. Its hard predicting the future. Ok they did go a bit overboard about the dome cities.. But modern movies still dont get that right anyway. Just about everything else is very accurate.

[@AkaishaEldnar]

This is amazing.

[@MrMrBilko]

So basically going by this film most technology is atleast 20 or 30 years old before it even hits the shops for most people such as the early mobile phone shown in this film. Makes you wonder what exactly the technological cutting edge currently is.

You ridiculous ignoramus.

[@NeovanGoth]

A lot of interesting biotechnology for example. We are just starting to develop the first gene therapies that are individually designed for each patient, which is completely different from how medicine mostly works now. Or organisms specifically designed / optimized to do tasks that would otherwise extremely difficult to impossible, like breaking down plastics. I'm pretty sure biotechnology will be as important and transformative for the 21st century as the development of computers was in the 20th.

[@videocurios]

Thankyou for sharing this wonderful film,but really Telephones without wires,Televisions so thin you can hang them on a wall surely this is pure Hans Christian Anderson Ha ha. As for clearing a cheque it stills takes banks a good week to clear them even in the age of whirlygig computing

[@turboslag]

Thats because they don't want cheques anymore, the delay is a deterrent!

[@turboslag]

***** So why not do that electronically?

[@turboslag]

May be not as the system is, but it could be.

[@turboslag]

Hence my original comment. Many people, small organisations still need cheque payment though and banks have to realise that they have a social obligation to fulfill apart from just making profit.

[@turboslag]

The banks make their own rules though.

[@NeovanGoth]

6:53 "In fact, it's sometimes said now that it might be possible to make the television set so slim that it could be hung on the wall." "Marvelous!"

[@Isaac-gh5ku]

This video is not really made in the 60's, is it?

[@Isaac-gh5ku]

+Patryk Wieczorek (patwiecz22) Does some of the computets here look like those PCs from the 70s?

[@roachtoasties]

Where can I pick up one of those newfangled mobile phones? The iPhone 12 sucks.

[@johnalanelson]

They predicted drive up tellers but not ATMs.

[@duckmonsterX]

@robc1952 That wasn't a PC, its a Datapoint 7700 terminal, and that came out in the late 60s. And I can assure you as an ex videocamera repairer thats a fairly classic 1960s fixed lens CCTV camera. Its authentic.

[@turboslag]

There was a tendency for a utopian view of the future in Britain by the year 2000, how wrong was that!! We still have poverty, homelessness, poor education for a large percentage of the population, inequality, housing shortage, poor transport infrastructure, north south divide, political ineptness, etc. In some ways we have actually gone backwards!

[@kylerobinson1805]

Blame the government

[@davidevans9906]

***** When you wrought that comment in just a few weeks the NHS was about to go to complete shit.

***** this is capitalism.

[@turboslag]

***** No, it's a greed based economy!! What happened to all the philanthropists and benevolence!!

***** this is was capitalism, capitalism is greed.

[@Zoomer30]

Wow, a "pulse" cell phone.

[@FreedomforHaiti]

The prediction about world peace was pretty pretty off.

[@doodemog]

That computer from start and be school kids was 70s

[@jsl151850b]

Interesting, yes. But come on! They couldn't predict that TVs would become smaller and thicker.

[@paulkaufman2754]

On the plane, that looks like Michael Caine sitting there.

[@mclovin8739]

They forgot to add George Orwell's contribution

[@MeTheRob]

I remember a teacher at school in the 1960s telling us that Orwellian 1984 style surveillance could never happen, because the surveillance mechanisms would have to be greater than the society it would be overseeing. Oh dear.

That doesn't mean anything.

[@triple6758]

Hmmm...it seems they were wrong about what Britain would look like in the future?

[@robkelly7323]

WOW! The guile theme song at 2:40

[@ian_b]

I want to choose a child with a mathematic brain to control my complex computers.

[@johnp139]

Yeah, let’s all genetically modify our offspring.

[@normancontrol3928]

notice the rf shielding

[@granddad2002]

Why did anyone believe that things would get better as time moves forward? Market places and employment are not impacting an improved condition on the bottom rungs of the economy. The burgeoning vacation class didn't emerge... either work or be poor seems to be a theme around most of the globe.

Nonsense. How can you ignore all the facts you dopey slob.

[@robertconnolly7114]

Wrong aspect ratio

[@Dragonrdh]

Absolutely fascinating !

[@chanctonbury63]

1.39 "Online" Wow, futurespeak!

[@luciatilyard2827]

chanctonbury63 That really is weird.

[@kiwitrainguy]

You forgot "Log In". That's in there as well.

Life must be such a mystery when you know nothing.

[@sambo2566]

our new future is a grim one thanks to this lot

[@Petra44YT]

Yes! I knew it there were little men (women) in the ATMs ;-)

[@felicity4711]

0:40 I want that music. ☺

[@alphonsocarioti512]

The future's so bright I have to wear a mask!

[@Anarchist86ed]

Boy did they get it wrong. Where are all the Muslims?

[@moonshinepz]

watching this on my telly hung on the wall

[@NJBZX]

Just imagine...what what will the technology be in 50 years later from now.

[@paulbroderick5358]

Hope all the iPod's and sundry gadgetry fulfil but I seriously doubt it.

[@mcbunson]

2:24 nice prediction of the internet

[@GarethWonfor]

it does!!!

[@missasinenomine]

8.06 "Jolly good Pauline!" The future looks "jolly good!" Heathrow............constructed on quiet Middlesex countryside. Now they need a THIRD runway!

[@TheWandererTiles]

Ahhhh so thats how ATMs work!

[@jasonburns4071]

Hope that computer service provider ain't Talk Talk...They'll be getting scam calls any day now...

[@itsMinuteMaid]

It'll never work.

[@MeTheRob]

I am from the future, and I can tell you that you are right.

[@Swordfishstick]

If you think that people anywhere in the Western world have not worked longer hours than these days, you need brush up on your history before and during the industrial revolution, 10 to 12 hour work days six or even seven days a week, were quite common, and you'd start your working life as a child laborer. I don't think conditions are as bad as that, or the hours as long as that, anywhere in the Western world today.

You haven't paid much attention to fatmerica then.

[@TheMollycat]

Have to say this film is so correct, very exciting time to be a teenager.

[@maverickclubforever]

@2:00 Of course the crowning irony of all this is that, half a century later, this technology will actually come into being just to enable us all to watch films like this !!! Kinda scary what .......?

The stupid are always afraid.

[@dannybrazen]

marvelous!

[@Kalecimus]

Are this people still alive to confirm they're predictions?

[@lanacastillo49]

CANVECVIDEO most likely

[@peterdoa1]

1.38 early cloud computing

[@maxmetodiev641]

actually the UK has 65 million people

58.89 the prediction was for 2000

[@johnp139]

CURRENTLY!

[@lloydnaylor6113]

67 million in 24

[@Snuffomatica]

03:56 "Each time a pilot comes in from the other side of the world. he sees new changes" - "Shit they've moved the runway!!! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrghhhhh!"

[@kiwitrainguy]

If that pilot from 1946 came back now he would have a heart attack.

[@wilsonflood4393]

I thought this was Mr Cholmondley Warner.

[@sj-qn4uy]

THE new IMAC at 02:03

[@paulbroderick8438]

Back when public telephones offered privacy. Oh yes, we made phone calls only when absolutely necessary instead of the glib' what ya doing' BS of today!!

[@balf1111117373]

0:44 a cash machine but with somebody sitting behind it passing the money thru ha ha ha

[@johnp139]

Exactly! How is that any different than just going to a bank?

[@eustacequinlank7418]

They shrunk the cashiers down so they could fit inside the the hole in the wall.

[@Dani8132m]

Excellent!

[@barrypoupard7009]

At 4.10 "the web of the world's airways" .... a tiny pre-echo of the use of the word to mean all-enveloping and worldwide in scale

[@kernals12]

if 40 years ago they thought we would be living like that in 2000, I don't think flying cars and homes powered by personal nuclear reactors are in our future

[@summertime5909]

Very accurate !!!! I think that they were right in all what they said

[@cujimmy1366]

2023 Computers are programming Humans to find them useful things to do.

[@TaterGumfries]

The finest runway in the world!

[@blackneos940]

Ah, you beat me to it... :D

[@johnp139]

If you have a check card, sorry, “Cheque” why would you still need to WRITE a check?

[@maxmetodiev641]

just like we are laughing at 1960s technology

[@Zoomer30]

Middlesex, not to be confused with Uppersex or Lowersex. Must have been the stone age, sounds like that keyboard was made of rocks.

[@nickbrandwood1]

3.07 ...if you nn the other hand, you feel like being herded like cattle into a pressurised tube, there's always RyanAir...

[@terr777]

Hot meals on planes. A peaceful world. Ha!

[@annebarnett4258]

Thing is, in 50 years people will look at us and laugh.

[@rabidowski]

"Britian" Awesome spelling skills there.

[@ai-man212]

names are just fancy numbers. I find that most countries don't care if you get their names wrong. The people who live in the countries sometimes do; but only because they wrongly assume they matter in the grand scheme of things.

[@geoffreygibson5992]

Not much evidence of diversity here, despite the claims of us always being a multi cultural society!

[@xlenaqz]

1:52 he's a hipster

[@stevewiles7132]

If you'd known what was coming you would have all emigrated.

[@barrypoupard7009]

Population prediction in 1968 was spot on.

[@johnp139]

Wrong!