Tomorrow's World 17th Feb 1993

An entertainment special, including a look at digital radio, the science of Jurassic Park and Pal Plus.

[@limeyade4946]

And here I am watching this on a device I can fit in my hand, capable of playing back 4k recordings. And it is supposed to be a 'phone'. Insane for 27 years of development.

[@marashdemnika5833]

Wait for the next 20 years

[@KeiranCounsellKC1994]

Just imagine what tomorrows world would be showing now if it was still on television! I say the show needs to be brought back

[@moeyr6]

it was 66 years of development from the first flight to landing on the moon

[@ashwilliams136]

​@@moeyr6imagine actually believing we've put a man on the moon 😂

[@newsbender]

@@ashwilliams136right. And then we just "forgot" how to do it and can't even send people past LEO anymore. Ludicrous isn't it?

[@huytontimestv]

"The experts say that we are going to be fully digital by 2020, that's a long wait" And yet here we are.

[@bandname]

I mean, that estimation was pretty drastic anyway. Digital equipment was used heavily throughout the 1990's and almost exclusively in the 2000's for production.

[@bettyswallocks6411]

@@TRISTRAMY That’s digital technology for you - basically, it’s all 0s and 1s.🤪

[@Schnorbs]

Maybe things will have improved for Clarrie Grundy by 2020?

[@winningbigly9012]

can't wait for Jurassic Park to come out

[@coachrogerii9730]

I hope they cast Laura Dern in it, she's great!

[@Dreamcee]

Fully digital radio by 2020...that was impressively accurate...God I miss tomorrows world

[@richardb6216]

Interestingly though we still get a better signal with FM for the most part compared to digital at our home in the Peak District in 2022.

[@davebirch1976]

Radio isn't fully digital yet, but TV is, so they were nearly right.

[@marcse7en]

You're living in it! 🤣

[@thedave7760]

@@richardb6216 They sold to many transmission licenses and had to divide the bandwidth in to such small parcels for all the channels that the highly compressed result actually sounds worse than a decent FM signal.

[@deanfowles3707]

People who know about tomorrows world now are doing things like laying down in front of trucks

[@JonnyInfinite]

I watched this back in 93, it was the first time I heard about Jurassic Park. I was stoked, and I wasn't disappointed 👍

[@paulanderson7796]

Thanks for archiving and posting all this stuff. I used to love FW. Kate Bellingham was extremely fit btw. So was Carmen Pryce.

[@noka79]

I loved tomorrow's world.. i was 14 when this was on

[@ianmangham4570]

You're still YOUNG

[@eyesopen6797]

This episode was shown on my 27th birthday. I think I was out celebrating because I can't remember watching it 🤣

[@HalfdeadRider]

I was 16 in that March 27th, was on dialysis by that June, already had the catheter fitted to my perineum for C.A.P.D. when this was aired. I had my first kidney transplant on Sunday March 12th 1995, my second was Tuesday March 27th 2001 (my 24th B'day), my third was just last March Monday 12th just after midnight of Sunday March 11th. March features a lot in my life lol, My mum's Birthday, my dads, my brothers, mine etc b'days all March. That's why I kept typing, sorry 😎

[@a.s.j.g6229]

@@ianmangham4570 I was -11 when this was on

[@robbiecrosbie4506]

they need to bring back tomorrow's world. the way technology is moving now most people can't keep up and it would be nice to have it all explained

[@robbiecrosbie4506]

Flinty13 hiya. What's that? I've not heard of it before

[@MrPaulc222]

The rate at which technology moves now, it would literally mean Tomorrow's World.

[@PrinceWesterburg]

It was taken off because by the time a story was researched and brought to air it was old news, especially with online publishing however you have a very good point as news aggregation is in its infancy and having a programme that explained things outside of your area of expertese is a very worthwhile thing.

[@JohnDoe-ji8dq]

Just popped in from 2356 & i just don't get this qwer-ty-thing at all,with the 'plants' & 'EH's' (enhancements) allowing our now SUPER obese bodies deal with the health thing & as we ALL stay put & surf (ha ha). This is being generated by my cerebral cortex (not physically). Oh & the SUPREME BEING (God rest his soul) gets in again ! (happy trails !).

[@johnmellor932]

Consumer electronics moves at break neck speed but professional tech moves sloooow! In 2018 TV stations still broadcast from tape cassettes. It takes a generation to move things forward in an industry. I'm a sound engineer and even brand new state of the art gear still uses mic inputs that are decades old and everything is still an analogue signal. Some stuff is new such as thunderbolt. But you won't find HDMI anywhere on pro equipment.

[@paulstevens9409]

Love that 1993 DAB radio in the Ford Sierra!

[@humansrants1694]

They should make a yesterdays world show.

[@steveballinger9643]

Humans R Ants they have! This! 😂😘

[@michelvanbriemen3459]

Techmoan says hi

[@theinterwebshobo]

@@steveballinger9643 did you mean to blow him a kiss ?

[@ajs41]

I was on holiday in Florida when this was first broadcast so it's nice to see it now.

[@TKs3DPrints]

i miss tomorrow's world always thought they should start a new series showing modern day inventions. i used to love watching and keeping up with latest innovations etc.

[@lewis7515]

It's slightly amusing, and a little sad, that they couldn't predict their own tremendous redundancy.... I can't shake the feeling that our evolutionary successor/s will be saying the exact same thing about us - in not too long, at all.

[@GazzapperGames]

The bit about the Widescreen telly - it was like she was doing an Alan Partridge impression - lol!

[@SC-jh9qp]

I remember when this Tomorrow's World was Today's World 😢

[@HalfdeadRider]

14:34 We don't really have to wait all that time do we? I can't wait six weeks to go full digital ffs! 😢

[@0tf850]

Wait go back

[@HalfdeadRider]

@@0tf850 No way, those six weeks were worse than lockdown, and I'm one of the sheltered.

[@uppermostking02]

Was watching survivalist documentaries no idea how I got here.

[@DougPaulley]

11:33 she's climbing that transmitter without any safety line!!! Couldn't do that these days!

[@antman5474]

13:48 she wasn't wearing a seatbelt in the back of a moving car either. She's a very naughty girl.

[@Guggel1966]

That was EXACTLY what I thought too when I saw it... :-) I wouldn't even want to.

[@johnmightymole2284]

Yes totally crazy, couldn't believe it

[@Lighting_Desk]

I was just about born on the 3rd of that year. What a time to be alive that was.

[@Illfigureoutanamelater]

"NASA funding is unpredictable" Some things never change

[@ragga_muffin_84]

Here I am watch this on smart phone....... they never see that coming. The old smart phone

[@xboxice2005]

🤣yep watching on my 55" 4k TV 😁

[@solidstate0]

I think that's because of a lack of point of reference although, you could fit a TV on a watch - it just cost a months wages at the time.

[@glyph2011]

20:23 fascinating to see the start of widescreen TV and mentions of HD and digital. If this is 93 it must have been late 90's for digital and widescreen? 6 years later? HD broadcasts I'll have to Wikipedia! Feels like ruddy yesterday 1993 :-0

[@noka79]

Theres a clip from 1991 showing HD tv and cameras. Its in the invention of touchscreen video

[@codebeat4192]

Nice video, thanks for uploading. Nice reporter, nice looks. 12:26 She is talking about mpeg/MP3/atrac. 14:33 "The experts say we can go fully digital by 2020". The fun fact it is now end of 2019 (26 years later, almost 27) and yeah there is digital radio (DAB) however the quality isn't that great because of missuse of standards, compression and quality of reception. Nowadays the downside of digital is that when there is an error in the 'stream' (by poor reception for example) you can hear artifacts and random bleeps instead of some noise (at FM) and still can identify what the broadcast is about. Mostly FM is better (because of improvements during years after this video) to listen to than current digital version. Think that FM is a keeper because it is more reliable than current digital version.

[@mirek190]

LOL no Digital radio signal is far more better in every way than FM radio.

[@codebeat4192]

@@mirek190 When it works flawlessly you are right but when there is an error or weak signal you will hear nothing or bleeps or parts. Same with DVB-T. With RF and a weak signal you can hear something instead of nothing. In case of a war situation or other emergency/alarming situation I prefer FM above DAB.

[@newforestpixie5297]

You could decide what happens in Parliament ! Perhaps in those days 🙄🏴🐢

[@eyesopen6797]

There's more adverts on here than there was in 93 !

[@luredemure]

Crazy to think my 1st birthday (1 years old) was the following day after this was filmed.

[@MRTOWELRACK]

20:22 Keanu Reeves has aged a hell of a lot better than I have.

[@sajdood]

I was born 4 months after this aired lol crazy

[@Dave-ko2pr]

I had now idea they were talking about digital radio in 1993. But there are still Lots of cars out there now using FM car radios because they don’t have DAB. Also DAB isn’t that reliable, the amount of times I owe it and switch back to the FM stations.

[@lonewolfii1968]

memories of the old days

[@SC-jh9qp]

I love the jaunty way Judith said "Before long the dinosaurs are reborn and they go on the rampage."

[@tcollinsization]

Cant believe hd is this old. had no idea. It took about 17 years after this to get hd broadcasts in the uk. 29 years later, you still have to pay extra in the uk to watch hdtv cable or satelite channels and theres not many channels compared to sdtv. suprising we still have sdtv

[@noka79]

Theres a clip from 91 showing the HD Tv also

[@stupossibleify]

Wow, the prediction of full transition to digital radio was more or less correct, for a change. The government had recently stated that all FM would be switched off in 2020 (admittedly that has only just been revised)

[@ajs41]

I still like listening to analogue radio on my portable radio.

[@Steelman6666]

We are still waiting for digital radio to be as good as this cos it loses signal constantly driving round and you get nothing. Maybe by 2040 it will work

[@deanfowles3707]

And here we are in the future and everyone’s surrounded by devices and scared/full of hatred/anxious and miserable. Must have missed that episode

[@noka79]

I was 14 and probably watched this in 93

[@aanyahjoseph3167]

'It's still a few years time' lol

[@vincentwilliams9863]

20:50 ok but who the actual fuck liked pan and scan more than letterboxing? Like who thought “oh hey, I’m cool with losing a good chunk of the image, it’s not like anything important will ever be there”

[@royloveday4350]

Yeah, by 93 it needed yo be called "Advertising Todays Tech" or the gadget show or something...

[@smadaf]

It must have been fun every week to make this series.

[@LeeJPryer]

Loved Tomorrow's World

[@MatthewCyUK]

As if they really skipped over flat screens and DAB radio like that 🤣🤣🤣🤣😀

[@user-sv8cr9ox1t]

on 26:57 the fading out mil seconds with the white noice background. I used to like that and i used to get some what excited to see the tv station went off air for a few seconds. This is as close as it gets. However this is just video. Sounds like someone was replaying the same sequences over and over from 26:57 till the final of this video.. Usually happens with vhs tapes. When you keep watch the very same replay part of the video.. from digital tv you wont hear such eror sounds like that. But you might see bad pixels. And dvd recording machines wont do that to any dvd disc other then frozen image if there is error on the dvd itself.

[@Pobsta-de7hb]

We laugh, I mean I laugh at these old shows and I was there using these and many many years before as well way back to the early 70s, but actually if we did a tomorrows world today showing I do not know, latest phones, pcs, tvs even, in 30 years those of you lucky enough to still be here and in a stable frame of mind lol you will laugh just the same as we do at this

[@djgingecoldwell10]

ahh bless, some memories there.

[@deerenzo]

24 years later: Digital radio is a normal thing for almost everyone. And I don't talk about the internet radio

[@ianmangham4570]

What ? Never heard of it

[@gitman3486]

10:47 The Archers makes me pull that face too lol

[@austinformedude]

HiDef TV? That'll NEVER catch on!

[@john6203]

1993! I was getting the living shit knocked out of me by Artillery in Lebanon. Ah happy days

[@jazzx251]

2:16 - THAT episode of The Orville

[@EdwardRatliff]

Here’s the thing folks we could have a new Tomorrows World today about future tech and it would equally as amazing when we watch it again in 30 years.

[@davidspendlove5900]

Isn’t it called Click ?

[@andynixon2820]

Kate Bellingham is foxy .

[@TheDaveman75]

I had a teenage crush on her

[@david6532]

Omg the dreams I had about her !!!

[@richardevans6433]

Really miss this program

[@puddle_puddle]

Love cutting edge early 90s CGI!

[@iamfrank5171]

We live in the future, folks.

[@unicorntomboy9736]

How do we

[@crumplezone1]

@@unicorntomboy9736 Because that program was in the past :)

[@tommyhallum2054]

I've kind of forgotten how nasty New York used to be. It sure is a lot cleaner these days. Sure it still smells like piss just not as much piss..😉

[@Saladlover]

the guy's sideburns during the mrs. butterworth part lololololol

[@deepsouthNZ]

he had a great New Zealand accent

[@chancebriggs2171]

Fully digital by 2020😩

[@marashdemnika5833]

But we are really close

[@kps.77]

7:17 What, oh come on, spoiler alert warning surely !!!!

[@scottirvine121]

Are we fully digital then 2 months out of that 2020? Tv is, DAB everywhere but we still have fm and am

[@cool_beans]

Scott Irvine lol

[@ChocolateTampon]

No wonder digital radios never took off. They are HUGE

[@111danish111]

They did that animation before there was even a windows 95 .

[@tomwilliams7391]

Saying it was pre Windows 95 really shows how long ago 1993 is to 2024!!

[@michaelratz1990]

My sister was born on this day!

[@pinkyn0se]

"You could choose between Howard, Kate, and Carmen... " There's no choice there then.

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

Phil Mittchel looks like Jimmy Sommerville.

[@michaelhawthorne8696]

Jean-Luc Picard YES....such a good observation, I missed that

[@a.tanner8524]

Yeah but I bet Phil Mitchell doesn’t have the same vocal range.

[@forthrightgambitia1032]

Doesn't it kind of feel as if Tomorrow's World died because we stopped looking forward to the future?

[@marashdemnika5833]

I don’t

[@DelilahThePig]

Funny how digital radio was such a futuristic thing and now I disable it in favor of the old FM stereo. Digital just doesn't work well up into the mountains or far from the station.

[@EnterShikari01]

It’s weird how completely wrong they were but also sort of completely onto it at the same time

[@joannegray5138]

As far as digital TV and radio are concerned, I'd rather put up with the hissing, crackling and ghosting of analogue than the screeches, clicks, underwater like sound quality and complete loss of sound and picture every few seconds that one gets with digital.

[@MichaelGrylsk-sd5ow]

Three screens how could you monitor that screen w-n ascreen.that city internet mockup demo was good.now it's on a smartphones and you can search all they talked about.

[@bitukukuasukgremany3]

Buy Apple stock

[@StuartOliver83]

bitukukuasukgremany3 hahahaaaaaaaaaa

[@sharpcone]

Better yet, also buy Amazon and Microsoft.

[@jbreakstone]

Me in 1993: “You’re wasting your money on Apple, Amazon and Microsoft .... Those companies will never take off.!! I’m putting all of my money in Iomega stock. Those Zip disks are the future... 120 Megabytes on ONE removable cartridge? Unbelievable!! The whole world is gonna buy these things like crazy!! Sign me up!” Ughhh... ☹️

[@robsawalker]

great episode!

[@brianmchugh7679]

Wow. Analogue TV was completely switched off 5 years ago, never mind radio. Everything is digital now. Seems TW underestimated progress by about a decade.

[@AcornElectron]

Brian McHugh Analogue radio on AM FM LW etc is still the most consumed method of radio in the UK.... just saying. Probably because our DAB standard is comparatively crap and most broadcasters go for low bitrate and more channels instead of the higher quality we were promised.

[@fredparkin4732]

I went to see Jurassic Park in 1993 and got my car and my fm Stereo stolen.. How ironic

[@jetset2070]

Where can I get the latest version of that "off the shelf software"?

[@beinportugal9748]

16:12 "It wasn't created on an expensive high tech machine" ... shows an Amiga 3000 that cost $3,379, the equivalent of $6,550 today.

[@blazer666del]

Thing is TW was broadcast LIVE every week.. Things did go wrong :)

[@Krosskaos]

I seems like a lot of the Tomorrow's World predictions of the technology of the future did not anticipate something like the smart phone taking over and fulfilling most of these devices niche applications.

[@SC-jh9qp]

True, today this show would be called Next Month's App.

[@ssss-df5qz]

@14:29 - "next week on tomorrow's world - the seatbelt"

[@tomwilliams7391]

I like the ford Granada! Sadly they don't really exist in 2024, I used to very occasionally see one last decade but not since 2020!

[@colclumper]

The old tv tech tech was painful

[@DM-kv9kj]

It's a shame NASA engineers/designers ended up making that piece of shit because of poor funding.

[@tachikomakusanagi3744]

Its a shame they made the piece of shit space shuttle due to too much funding, but there you go.

[@speedbird737]

Were they using a commodore Amiga ?

[@RikAindow]

Fully digital radio by 2020. Also, what became of the service is sad in a lot of ways as operators went for quantity over quality. Although, DAB+ is a welcome improvement

[@wildone106]

2018 here

[@antman5474]

and now we have all that stuff

[@Great.Milenko]

high definition television you say? that will never catch on.

[@DyenamicFilms]

I first saw HD at some tradeshow in the early 90's and was blown away by it. While I wanted it to catch on, it seemed at the time it would never catch on in my lifetime.

[@nm628679c]

ElectricJohnny - How interesting.

[@Great.Milenko]

nah i think VR needs to be in everyones living rooms in about 20 years.... with suitable VR content. like TV shows and stuff.... imagine watching westworld season 10 in VR :)

[@joojoojeejee6058]

It took a very long time before high definition television really caught on. They would've been very unhappy in 1993 if they knew that it would take about 15 years before HD television sets became common, and broadcasts and HD media formats somewhat widely available (although in 2008 most people still watched SD broadcasts).

[@HuntersMoon78]

Wonder if Howard is Steve Guttenberg

[@PrinceWesterburg]

Yeah, its great - I'm watching this instead of working - Uugh!

[@bogginswoof]

27:19 London 7-Eleven before they all closed!

[@a.tanner8524]

Buy Amazon and Google stock.

[@nicky29031977]

Looking at those widescreen tv's makes me laugh at how much tv technology has gone forward since 1993. Flatscreen tv's with internet in 2017 ...undreamable way back then!

[@ianmangham4570]

I'm still watching a crt 🤣

[@unicorntomboy9736]

@@ianmangham4570 We now have transparent displays

[@ianmangham4570]

@@unicorntomboy9736 Donkeysmell

[@unicorntomboy9736]

@@ianmangham4570 what

[@ianmangham4570]

@@unicorntomboy9736 Who

[@michaelpaxman9731]

Other carbonated pop drinks are available.

[@ME-ke7qc]

like everything in the uk..we are fecking behind

[@lancashireliberty7603]

If I only I knew about the sega Saturn

[@swanvictor887]

am I the only one who thinks that our progress has slowed somewhat...?

[@MegaJoojee]

high defenition flat tvs at home. no way that willever happen.

[@ianmangham4570]

Maybe in a decade or so.

[@arfanmedni7294]

They had no idea

[@vizionthing]

hmm the details are fun to read

[@MOWGLI71770]

3:06 UK "ring in" sound on a US phone.

[@lukerinderknecht2982]

I thought it was strange the sign had a British accent at 5:12

[@aanon8342]

Back when the BBC was interested in making decent programs.

[@deanfowles3707]

Decent programmes? These programmes plss me off if anything because the glorious future we were promised in the 90s turned out to be a steaming piece of shlt

[@nicolemurphy2629]

indeed