I'm the man operating VOTEM, the Voice Operated Typewriter Employing Morse Code in that 1969 video. (I look somewhat different now, some 52 years later.) I wasn't the inventor of the machine but I developed it whilst working at STL in Harlow. Despite what Raymond Baxter says, it wasn't actually a computer, but a machine made out of discrete logic gates, although we did simulate the idea on a PDP8 minicomputer before developing the hardware. When I arrived at the BBC studio, for two reasons, I was somewhat horrified to learn that the program was scheduled to be broadcast live. Firstly, my command of Morse Code was not perfect and secondly, the machine was somewhat temperamental and I was concerned that the heat from the studio lights would effect it. You may have noticed that I had to repeat one of the commands because the machine failed to recognise it. Anyway, apart from that, luckily everything worked fine. VOTEM was the first reliable voice controlled machine ever developed, but of course, we've come a long way since then and I marvel at modern speech recognition machines,. In 1969, it was thought to be impossible for machines to ever understand natural speech.
@zaftra3 жыл бұрын
I for one was very impressed with your skill there, remembering all this audible codes
@Spookieham2 жыл бұрын
Ah the joys of live demos. I'm sitting here with a computer that easily decodes Moses from audio in real time
@phily80932 жыл бұрын
Incredible. This technology might seem primitive by today's standards, but it is innovations like the one you worked on that we have to thank for everything we have now. They are also fascinating in their own right, and truly remarkable. Your voice as expressed here would have been a delight on Doctor Who, as it is hypnotically robotic, yet full of character.
@gregorymalchuk2722 жыл бұрын
What ever happened to the Votem project? Was it ever commercialized? Was it ever used for the stated purpose of helping paralyzed people?
@richiehoyt84872 жыл бұрын
The sequence 'starring' yourself and VOTEM somehow put me in mind of the film Star Trek IV (1984~ish; the one with the whales, and one of the best 2 or 3 from the entire franchise, though largely played 'with tongue in cheek'.) Anyway, at one point in the film, for reasons we needn't go into here, Scotty, who with the rest of the crew has had to time - travel back to the 1980's, needs to use some high - powered computing tech. of the day. _"Computer!"_ he addresses the, um, computer, to the bafflement of contemporary observers. Hilarity ensues, naturally. (Actually, it wasn't a bad gag). Well, you and your colleagues had obviously had obviously been hard at the problem in 1968, and had made significantly more progress than I would have supposed; but speech recognition technology has moved on so much since even the '80's that I honestly wonder if there would be a sizeable cohort in a modern audience upon whom the joke would be quite wasted.?! I suspect there would; but while many would no doubt take that as evidence of how 'dull' Millennials and Gen. Zee'ers are, I shall take it as an indication of how progress in the field has made *>`koff!’
@Officerbibble3 жыл бұрын
Growing up in the 60's this was the best science program the BBC ever made, it's no wonder I love science and technology. No fancy graphics, no waffling, just straight talking - hands on explanations. Happy days!
@davidhoward4715 Жыл бұрын
Don't blame the producers of today's programs. The viewing public now demand dumbing down and fancy effects.
@fidelcatsro6948 Жыл бұрын
what a great time to be growing up! 🐱👍🏿
@angelacooper266111 ай бұрын
@@fidelcatsro6948I wouldn't know as I was born in 1970!
@fidelcatsro694811 ай бұрын
@@angelacooper2661 its ok i was born 4 yrs after u..
@photodom20005 жыл бұрын
Raymond Baxter fought as a Spitfire pilot during the Battle of Britain. Loved this programme growing up.
@logotrikes3 жыл бұрын
Apparently a V2 rose up into his gunsight one time, and he successfully resisted the impulse to fire. His own words....
@metalmicky3 жыл бұрын
Followed by Top of The Pops ,Thursday evenings were good then.
@photodom20003 жыл бұрын
@Tom Dick You don't live in Scotland by any chance Tom?
@photodom20003 жыл бұрын
@Tom Dick Airdrie by any chance? Are you the Advertiser photographer?
@photodom20003 жыл бұрын
@Tom Dick Co-incidental. The photographer for the Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser is called Tom Dick (no Harry.)
@ofeliawotsits60803 жыл бұрын
As a kid this was some of the most exciting music I could hear, because it introduced one of my favourite programmes. Used to be glued to the black and white TV screen!
@SvenTviking3 жыл бұрын
Judith Hann took it over and all they did after that was medical stuff. It got boring.
@monteceitomoocher2 жыл бұрын
Agree, this programme whether by accident or design plugged straight into the consciousness and minds not of parents but their children who looked forward to the future and the bright new exciting technological ahead, it certainly did mine with my own lifelong career in electronics.
@mikeonfreeserve29262 жыл бұрын
Yes, such memories.....or is it nostalgia?
@neogeo16702 жыл бұрын
@@mikeonfreeserve2926 yeah it's nostalgia, haven't you felt it?
@theprior46 Жыл бұрын
Sorry for the late reply but yes I know what you mean - it was John Dankworth and his jazz band and when I was at College in 1975 (Piano Technology) a student colleague and I used to sing that theme in unison just for a laugh and we both included the chase-out ending which was 5 notes on a bass saxophone which sounded rather rude so we sang it as blowing raspberries !! Da dam dada dunk. Good fun days it got a good laugh from the others.
@BNCA705 жыл бұрын
I've just shown the dit da machine to my Amazon Alexa...she got very emotional...she had never seen any footage of her great grandparents before.
@kevinsayce22483 жыл бұрын
😂👍
@bryansmith19203 жыл бұрын
:-)))
@MrDaiseymay3 жыл бұрын
@Rebel Historian something to occupy your mind ?
@randreas693 жыл бұрын
di-dah di-dah-di-dit dit dah-di-di-dah di-dah?
@peterbondy3 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣 Post of the day for me except that now Siri thinks I’m being unfaithful for replying positively on an Alexa comment.
@moochincrawdad3 жыл бұрын
This programme was way ahead of its time - we need this kind of TV more than ever now!
@nigelwest34304 ай бұрын
I think that was the general idea 🤣
@CoherentChimp4 жыл бұрын
Tomorrow's World covered so many new ideas and inventions in technology and science over 3 decades that recordings of the show will eventually become an interesting historical record. The BBC weren't afraid back then to broadcast what, on the face of it, might appear to be a show which would only appeal to a tiny audience. The fact that it was so popular for so many years is a testament in itself of the curious nature of the British public, and the person within the BBC, who had the guts to commission the show.
@user-jt1jv8vl9r3 жыл бұрын
I used to love this show back in the late 80s/early 90s.
@Spookieham3 жыл бұрын
The BBC constantly dumbs down their audience.
@andyfredericks62053 жыл бұрын
@@Spookieham Exactly. And the tail starts wagging the dog.
@LordHughfusJarted5 жыл бұрын
By the left, this takes me back. As a youngster, I lived on Tomorrow’s world, wickers world and Colditz. 👍😁
@stevenvanhulle72423 жыл бұрын
Catweazle!!!
@stephenmontague40894 ай бұрын
And BBC2 car programme Wheelbase!
@BlackSilver233 жыл бұрын
Such an optimistic time. The complete lack of cynicism and political spin is profoundly refreshing.
@markfarmer72813 жыл бұрын
Are you kidding?
@gamexpk4r013 жыл бұрын
Becouse there wasn’t such gap between classes
@Pro60modman3 жыл бұрын
@@gamexpk4r01There has always been a gap. Easy to understand access to that information is what is new.
@Tocsin-Bang3 жыл бұрын
@@gamexpk4r01 You are way off beam. Class divide wa even bigger then in the UK, as was the gap between disposable money for the rich and the poor. A year after this I was earning £7 for a 43 hour week, and I was better off than a lot of my friends who were on £5.
@shehannanayakkara41623 жыл бұрын
Umm, late 60s were pretty politically divisive
@richardhumphreys86623 жыл бұрын
I remember when they drove a steam roller over this new invention called a 'CD' claiming it was virtually indestructable and it was true, the steam roller wasn't harmed in the least.
@andrewlennon85013 жыл бұрын
Richard Humphreys Very good
@johncostello31743 жыл бұрын
I still spread jam on mine
@crcomments85093 жыл бұрын
Now we get BBC Click and the Gadget show, the technology has come on leaps and bounds but the TV shows demonstrating them have become seriously dumbed down.
@stejer2113 жыл бұрын
The public watching have been dumbed down...
@tombrydson7813 жыл бұрын
Yes
@yanikkunitsin14663 жыл бұрын
@IanFromCalifornia check bbc horizon from the 80s(on archive.org) for example, and then detritus they do today(alcohol, diets, fringe science). Amount of dumbing down is unbelievable.
@thethirdman2253 жыл бұрын
That’s because the audience has the attention span of a goldfish. It’s been shown time and again that, when it comes to explanations, most people just switch off. It isn’t true for people like us but that’s the way it is.
@paulwadsworth72984 жыл бұрын
In the days when there was something good to watch on Tv.
@alundavies84024 жыл бұрын
ESPECIALLY on a Thursday evening
@misst.e.a.1873 жыл бұрын
TW, Panorama, Old Corrie with Mrs Sharples, The Avengers, The Saint, Benny Hill, Monty Python, News At Ten (with the iconic Big Ben bongs), etc. Far too many to mention.
@jdrayton72242 жыл бұрын
Not really you only had three channels LOL
@Mark64W2 жыл бұрын
@@misst.e.a.187 What about Top Of The Pops with Pans People !! Tomorrows World was brilliant education but I looked forward to the light entertainment afterwards .
@Spookieham3 жыл бұрын
A LOT of kids in the UK made entire careers in Science and Engineering thanks to being inspired by Tomorrow's World.
@df56143 жыл бұрын
1
@simongill47153 жыл бұрын
But move abroad to get a decent job
@fidelcatsro6948 Жыл бұрын
Wow
@shannon70023 жыл бұрын
Raymond Baxter. The best ever reporter. His coverage of any subject was complete and clear. His knowledge at air shows was the best ever.
@malcolmbrewis55823 жыл бұрын
Raymond Baxter epitomised the professional reporter. How fortunate we were, to have experienced his undoubted contribution to broadcasting. If only contemporary presenters possessed such clear diction.
@enoz.j35068 ай бұрын
Raymond Baxter was a RAF pilot, you just know how good he was by his voice. Total legend.
@christopherthorkon39973 жыл бұрын
Here I am wasting my time with KZbin, e-mail, Facebook, and Instagram when I could be spending my time talking to an old typewriter, saying, "Dah dit dit dah dit dah dit dit dah."
@louisebostock12875 жыл бұрын
Compare this prime time tv offering with the drivel they produce nowadays.
@graemejwsmith5 жыл бұрын
Which is why Raymond Baxter quit. They started dumbing it down.
@misst.e.a.1873 жыл бұрын
Tomorrow's world was addictive weekday TV
@MrDaiseymay3 жыл бұрын
I'd rather not---too many examples already, to depress me. The return of such a programme, would NEVER get a snifter.
@stevenvanhulle72423 жыл бұрын
@@misst.e.a.187 Absolutely! I've watched it for decades, part of that time under the pretense of being studying. (I studied engineering.) I often wonder what happened to those ingenious ideas which were simple enough to Actually Work™. Just one: the wheelbarrow that used a ball as a wheel to prevent it from tipping over. Most Useful Idea™... never seen it since. (Yes, it's been a long time...)
@stevenvanhulle72423 жыл бұрын
But the drivel is in COLOR!!
@anth73545 жыл бұрын
Listening to that signature tune brings back some many memories
@stephenmontague40894 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know the name of the tune and who performed it?
@Orange9098ItsOrangewithContent4 жыл бұрын
Stephen Montague Tomorrow’s World Theme by John Dankworth
@brain84842 ай бұрын
like what ?
@MrGoblin603 жыл бұрын
This is from when the BBC could be believed and people spoke properly.
@stephenl70483 жыл бұрын
How dare you! I speak more accurately than like what you can, and my speling is impekable, gleaned as it has wot been from fasebok and something else I can't rememberer
@ethanhayes99893 жыл бұрын
Ok boomer
@nicklewis18823 жыл бұрын
Especially right at the start! (Thus providing the inspiration for the song by The Police about ten years later).
@RapperBC3 жыл бұрын
The BBC is still a perfectly believable source of reliable information. People's general level of proper grammar and diction, on the other hand, does leave much to be desired these days.
@salvadormarley3 жыл бұрын
@@ethanhayes9989 You believe the BBC?
@keithnaylor19813 жыл бұрын
Great days for scientific minds with Tomorrow's World and HORIZON.
@stevenvanhulle72423 жыл бұрын
Ah, Horizon! I defenestrated my TV set more than 20 years ago, so I'm not current on the series, but back then they were the best documentaries in the world, compared to what was on American channels, which were childish at best.
@yanikkunitsin14663 жыл бұрын
@@stevenvanhulle7242 yea, it's shite nowdays. I can recommend old programmes on archive.org
@bluebull3997 жыл бұрын
This is from the generation that put a man on the moon. I love their enthusiasm and optimism, they were truly a generation of visionaries and forward thinkers. For them, literally anything was possible. Voice recognition, we only just mastered it in the last 10 years.
@SkepticalSteve013 жыл бұрын
Depends what you mean by “mastered”. Over a limited range of discourse we’ve had computerised speech recognition for a bit longer than that - for example, I did a piece for my newspaper, the Auckland NZ-based National Business Review, about how one of our taxi companies was introducing an automated phone ordering system - you rang the number, told the system where you were, the system would look up the address and despatch a cab. This has been going on for about 15 years now, and it still works well. But nobody tries to have a chat with the system about anything but street addresses.
@dejavu666wampas93 жыл бұрын
Now they call us Boomers, and dismiss anything we think or say as hopelessly antiquated, just like we did to our parents. Life is a big circle.
@JB_inks3 жыл бұрын
This current generation are using all this technology to spread misinformation about vaccines and flat earth
@routeman680 Жыл бұрын
It was a very positive time and full of ideas and idealism. We are materially much better off now, and I wouldn't change that. But the optimism which comes from a cohesive society that believes in itself has gone from UK. I think some countries in other parts of the world are much more optimistic than we are now, e.g. Australia and South East Asia.
@Gribbo99993 жыл бұрын
To put this in perspective, controlling a machine with your voice was considered noteworthy enough to make it onto a prime time BBC programme. At the same time NASA got to the moon with the same level of technology. Now that is impressive!
@mattsan702 жыл бұрын
or so they have you believe - The Van Allen belt tells a different story
@greenpedal370 Жыл бұрын
@@mattsan70 Believe what?
@klausgh4 ай бұрын
@@mattsan70One of you crackheads has got to reply, of course.
@9fq6z6 жыл бұрын
Pardon me whilst I laugh at the idiot comments here. In 1969, to get a voice to control a computer was literally 'rocket science' . About the same time gap as James T Kirk's communicator and our iphones!
@ddragon81545 жыл бұрын
That, and - Let's be honest - It's gonna be a hell of a lot quicker/easier to have a computer accept input in Morse compared to dropping in an entire speech synthesis suite. :-) It's also worth pointing out that Morse was invented for human-to-human communication in days well before electronic computers were invented! :-)
@malcolmclements92545 жыл бұрын
Even by today's standards it was really quite clever the phone bit was superb.
@stephanesonneville5 жыл бұрын
There's no voice control at all and not even a computer. Just a teletype and audio filters.
@MichaelSHartman5 жыл бұрын
The first integrated chips, and first software were used in the Apollo 8 mission two years before. The device at best was of transistors. This was the time of core memory.
@stephanesonneville5 жыл бұрын
It's not a computer as not a single instruction is executed. It's a tone decoder to transform this kind of human FSK signal made of "da" & "di" to 0 & 1 and send the bytes with start & stop added at correct speed like 45.45 bps to the teletype. So it's made with logic gates, shift register, etc from the 7400 series.
@theotherwayofstopping47175 жыл бұрын
Now I know where Sting got the lyrics........
@misst.e.a.1873 жыл бұрын
😆😆😆 TRUE!
@deborahrobertson86063 жыл бұрын
God - the opening music - and I'm a child again.
@rattyfus82185 ай бұрын
The theme tune still makes me feel warm and happy. Animal Magic makes me think of fish and chips for some reason!
@DCVertigo3 жыл бұрын
Absolute genius, I am genuinely in awe of what was achieved. We would not have what we have now if it was not for all of these innovations.
@simonlansley27023 жыл бұрын
I loved this show when. I was young.
@fidelcatsro6948 Жыл бұрын
you must be a nuclear scientist by now growing up watching these great shows!!
@dezmondwhitney12085 жыл бұрын
Excellent. Many Thanks. I watched this last when I was eleven.
@portlyoldman Жыл бұрын
I totally loved Tomorrow's World when I was a kid. I was 14 when this episode came out and can remember it! I think more than any other TV program this fired me up with enthusiasm for science and technology 😁😁
@angelacooper26614 ай бұрын
I was minus one at the time, born the following year. Watched the programme some years later when old enough to understand it!
@Kikiyayazengardens5 жыл бұрын
Still enjoying my aluminium coated curtains today in Amsterdam.
@walterrudich21753 жыл бұрын
Keep them away from open fire.
@fidelcatsro6948 Жыл бұрын
try adding some silicon it might convert heat into solar energy! 🐱👍🏿
@JIMuser-vh3Zxx3 жыл бұрын
What a brilliant programme it was . Loved watching it
@mybookfacetube3 жыл бұрын
I used to watch this as a kid. It still seems ahead of it''s time. James Burke can be found here on YT on some current documentaries. I always loved the theme music to this program. Cheers.
@lohphat3 жыл бұрын
OMG It's James Burke! Still innovating in 2020!!!
@janemills18393 жыл бұрын
In 1969 I was Eighteen and this was my favourite programme, life was great then, now it's rubbish BBC wise which is one good reason not to watch.
@JB_inks3 жыл бұрын
Oh bore off
@johno45215 жыл бұрын
Ah, the authoratative voices of Raymond Baxter and Derek Cooper - If they'd told me the world was flat I would've believed them!
@grotekleum3 жыл бұрын
You mean it's not?
@jeffzuess91493 жыл бұрын
They were such good presenters. Where has all the professionalism gone.
@grotekleum3 жыл бұрын
@@jeffzuess9149 Given in to the 'triff init John's' and general dumbing down of society. By design, as always.
@Zerodghjj3 жыл бұрын
Alexa turn on house lights. Did you say mow the lawn with a crossbow? Yes, mow the lawn with a crossbow. Turning on house lights.
@dommo31dm3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, you made me laugh out loud! :)
@ErikHare5 жыл бұрын
Is that James Burke, of Connections fame? it is! Wow!
@martyzielinski24693 жыл бұрын
Yup....
@photodom20003 жыл бұрын
@@martyzielinski2469 When he retired from TV, James did something in his late 50's early 560's that he'd always wanted to do which was learn to play Classical Spanish Guitar. Not too bad he was as well. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l56teKmYpsd9rc0
@DavidLari3 жыл бұрын
I loved that show.
@JasmineSurrealVideos5 жыл бұрын
I loved Tommorrows World, I used to watch the episodes with Peter Snow and Phillipa Forrester - who I thought was fantastic. I also vaguely recall the Judith Hann years as a very small child. There wouldn't be need for such programmes now as we seem to have invented everything and yet seem so backward. Science was exciting, always was, far more so than art which I ended up doing as a career. They made science enjoyable but never dumb. As I've never seen these episodes I find them fascinating. I love to see if any of these inventions are in use today.
@graemejwsmith5 жыл бұрын
Ink Jet printing was demonstrated on TW. It was originally designed to print on delicate surfaces by blowing/depositing tiny droplets of ink. They demonstrated it by running a raw egg sitting on a plate through the printer and printing the TW logo on the surface of the yolk without breaking it.
@JasmineSurrealVideos5 жыл бұрын
@@graemejwsmith That's interesting, reminds me of when they demoed the CD and spread jam on it to show it's durable qualities! That's why I liked TW as it made science fun and accessable, and relatable to day to day life!
@MisterLumpkin5 жыл бұрын
I can't wait for the future! Oh wait... I'm already here. Disappointing.
@billtomson57913 жыл бұрын
Just wait till 2020 hits, you won't be disappointed then.
@morgorth32423 жыл бұрын
@@billtomson5791 go back its garbage marty
@jaymac7203 Жыл бұрын
Ah yes, the year of captain Kirks Startrek, the moon landing, the Beatles. What a great time. 😊
@cloroxmodz18646 жыл бұрын
“Hello, who dat?” 😂😂😂
@AntonyThorburn4 жыл бұрын
its didit...
@Gribbo99993 жыл бұрын
Dah!
@dejavu666wampas93 жыл бұрын
I saw what you did there!
@SysDaemon3 жыл бұрын
The Goon Show reference, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe. A meme before memes.
@LAGoodz5 жыл бұрын
Amazing to think 1969 was Moon Landing, 747 debut and Concorde’s first flight. Must’ve been exciting growing up in those times.
@joojoojeejee60583 жыл бұрын
Arpanet, the predecessor to the Internet, was also launched in 1969!
@misst.e.a.1873 жыл бұрын
It was, and with loads of freedom, too.
@johndevitt6412 Жыл бұрын
@@misst.e.a.187 I had a German girlfriend slut too. Liked swallowing cum
@jgweems5 жыл бұрын
Voice recognition of any kind in 1969 is impressive. I tried this morse code technique with Alexa and she didn't get it. ;)
@gavinhudson30643 жыл бұрын
Lol.
@PhilJonesIII3 жыл бұрын
I worked as a lab technician in 1970 just as pocket calculators were appearing. If you could afford one, that is. Viewed with no small suspicion by those who had been doing most arithmetic in their heads since forever.
@fidelcatsro6948 Жыл бұрын
Alexa is based on todays nonsense programming curriculum...
@nat01069517 жыл бұрын
Me: di da dida didit dit dit Siri: 😑
@reverendbluejeans17487 жыл бұрын
Why cant they just ask it what to type.
@shmookins7 жыл бұрын
That capability was still 20 years ahead. Machines in the 60's didn't have the processing power nor memory storage and speed to do that.
@ZepG7 жыл бұрын
+Darth Maul Me: What is 1 + 1 Siri: Take a left turn on Maple street 😑 Use Google!
@TheThorns7 жыл бұрын
because it is 1969
@ddragon81545 жыл бұрын
Best. Comment. On. KZbin! \m/ >:-)
@chilllytube Жыл бұрын
Raymond Baxter and James Burke in the same programme. How spoiled we were.
@TomPauls0073 жыл бұрын
Burke: “Hello - who dat?” I think I wet myself with laughing. Love that dude!
@MrDaiseymay3 жыл бұрын
He left, and had his own, excellent series 'CONNECTIONS'', for several years. It took him all over the world. a great show, and presenter.
@TomPauls0073 жыл бұрын
@@MrDaiseymay I have the DVDs. Super fine stuff.
@marksippola66333 жыл бұрын
Connections was a brilliant show. Watched it religiously as a teenager over here in Canada. James Burke would have been a great teacher.
@darkwood7773 жыл бұрын
Who dats? Saints fans.
@timamor9153 жыл бұрын
@@MrDaiseymay Absurdly tenuous connections in most cases.
@Steelairship4 жыл бұрын
He's literally speaking droid
@rmd88734 жыл бұрын
Before my time, but wow, this was great TV. Not even Click comes close! Thank you for the upload.
@waldenhouse5 жыл бұрын
Excellent! Yes, this is how we invented, produced, and distributed some of the World’s most exciting products.
@fidelcatsro6948 Жыл бұрын
British Motor Company left the chat..
@pete493273 жыл бұрын
The breeding ground for our modern computers, internet, voice recognition. The dit dat dah guy here is a pure visionary, thank you sir.
@tz64142 жыл бұрын
Presented by adults, something you no longer see.
@sim4fun3 жыл бұрын
The year I was born, and have a tomorrows world book signed by Raymond Baxter and James Burke.
@malcolmclements92546 ай бұрын
This takes me back to Tuesday nights in the 70s in-between doing my homework, early multi tasking.
@tjm3900 Жыл бұрын
Mr Baxter did a lot of work as a voice actor doing presentations for various manufacturing companies. Many such actors would just learn their script and read it. Raymond would want to learn everything there was to know about the product, which made a whole lot of difference in his presentation.
@ruraladventurer18845 жыл бұрын
I could watch these fascinating time capsules all day long.
@eirugsiongriffiths85637 жыл бұрын
Use to watch this programme in the 1980's,and it was brilliant show different future technology.
@darkstarnh5 жыл бұрын
I watched this live in 69 and that's how it was. Why all the juvenile comments?
@heshpandemic73593 жыл бұрын
Because TV shows back then are better than our current generation shows
@samsum37383 жыл бұрын
Oh come on , its just humour . I am sure you have heard of that word .
@kazniaz7 жыл бұрын
8:40 "Hello who dat?" I was dying of laughter xD. This was 1969??? 😂
@geoffjoffy5 жыл бұрын
Racist now
@vernonfrogbottle16145 жыл бұрын
Not racist just taking the piss out of people from certain areas of Sheffield. .......deedaaas.
@j.cheeverloophole90295 жыл бұрын
@@vernonfrogbottle1614 I thought Liverpool..."Dey do dat dere don't dey doh?"
@the_eminent_Joshua_E_Hrouda5 жыл бұрын
Isn't DAT how we all answered the phone, before caller ID?!?!? ;)
@ManInTheBigHat5 жыл бұрын
That's James Burke himself. Nice.
@Riotlight3 жыл бұрын
True Fact: All modern Virtual Assistants like Siri, OK google, and Alexa still have the morse code speech recognition at their core. Try it now kids!
@fitfinlay9996 жыл бұрын
When people spoke properly
@Weird.Dreams6 жыл бұрын
Fukin rite mang
@ushoys5 жыл бұрын
Some people still do.
5 жыл бұрын
In 1969 that was a sign of being well educated. In 2019 it makes you a "toff", like people accuse Jacob Rees Mogg of being.
@johnstag13915 жыл бұрын
La di da
@aktw12345 жыл бұрын
"Hello who dat"
@marquonuk2 ай бұрын
A time of great optimism, for the advances of science and for a better future.
@terra28057 жыл бұрын
This was when Great Britain, as it was called back then, was at the forefront of design and technology.
@lewisjohnson90875 жыл бұрын
@Martin Solomon shut up
@eamonnca15 жыл бұрын
It's still called Great Britain. Great as in 'big,' to differentiate between itself and Brittany.
@alexandriaoccasional-corte13465 жыл бұрын
Great Britain is now called Akbar Britain.
@maxxxxxxy5 жыл бұрын
Martin Solomon lmfao
@lendoggtheking5 жыл бұрын
@@alexandriaoccasional-corte1346 But it isn't though, is it.
@bobbybates2614 Жыл бұрын
I used to watch this when in the 70s
@rob9447 Жыл бұрын
I was 13 when I watched this live. It was heady stuff back then.
@andrewlawlor76786 ай бұрын
Ahh memories. What a program this was.
@spock79456 жыл бұрын
so basically he was about half a century ahead of the likes of Echo/Alexa, Google Home, Siri and if modern day or widespread internet existed back then.. then he was already onto IoT¡ and as the host said: modified morse code... so that means, having an entirely different/ unique code was plausible too (over time): aka encryption aka secure transmission of sorts!
@pasqualeamabile56722 ай бұрын
WHAT A GREAT SHOW , I LOVED IT 😊
@pingpong50003 жыл бұрын
For me when growing up Tomorrow's World was one of many great programs on the then worthy BBC and I would look forward to them, with worthy gentlemen and Ladies for presenters, no celeb wast of times just education made entertaining. Many greatly missed presenters RIP.
@fidelcatsro6948 Жыл бұрын
Looks more intellectually advanced than the crappy documentaries we see today 50yrs on! Thanks for sharing! 🐱👍🏿
@choke_the_woke11797 жыл бұрын
di did dada didid dada didid didi dada dada di didi dada dada da da di da da, thats my personal opinion only though
@cult_of_odin4 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry but how can you sleep at night!!
@jayh95294 жыл бұрын
Sting made song
@carlybishop61604 жыл бұрын
eimsmsimmeimmttett?
@Misaelito19914 жыл бұрын
Nah bro this country needs real change. Didi Dada didi dada 2020
@samsum37383 жыл бұрын
I just translated that . Absolutely disgusting .
@randywatson83477 жыл бұрын
He's an alien from planet Dida
@donnal22113 жыл бұрын
I sure I've seen him years later with Patrick Moore claiming he talked to aliens ?? Dida language seems very similar
@lewstone19347 жыл бұрын
Gravitas in an adult world (without the omnipresent Prof Cox with his inane and irritating grin). God how I miss the 60s and 70s.
@daphne49836 жыл бұрын
He stopped grinning!
@bertaga415 жыл бұрын
@Norm T Yes it's awful isn't it. People smiling when there's so much serious work to be done!
@philipwilliams23102 ай бұрын
LOVED the Theme Tune!
@angelacooper26612 жыл бұрын
I hadn't been born when this programme came out - I had to wait until the following year. Raymond Baxter was well known for the programme and I remember watching when old enough to do so.
@GrymsArchive3 жыл бұрын
James Burke: "On Earth, At the *Hooo-ston* receiving laboratory" lol
@carolryan90563 жыл бұрын
Wonderful memories thank you.
@chrisg56337 жыл бұрын
He reminded me of an old Modem I used to own.
@marcse7en3 жыл бұрын
Modem? What's your computer? A 1940s valve-powered COLOSSUS? 😂😂😂
@marktubeie075 жыл бұрын
06:25 _"...and I will just adjust the host with my right hand so he is more comfortable!"_
@nunyerbeeznaz29065 жыл бұрын
I remember my late aunt holding my hand as she and my Dad walked me thru that exhibit. She was Walts private secretary for many years.
@spritemon983 жыл бұрын
Nice
@ButchE30M3S145 жыл бұрын
Ned Flanders would of loved that typewriter. Didledadideli
@edwardcat52475 жыл бұрын
allow me to correct your sentence... not to annoy, but to elucidate, so you can show off later... would HAVE... which shortens to "would've". You can see what has happened here... people hear "would've" as "would of". Enjoy your superiority when that git you hate says it...
@ButchE30M3S145 жыл бұрын
edward cat I am Belgian, the only thing I can spell right is 'Waffles'. Forgive me...
@rodneyfranks27264 жыл бұрын
So in 1969 they had something more accurate than Google Translate.
@d33p3453 жыл бұрын
Tbh a zip 22 is more accurate than google translate
@Lumibear.3 жыл бұрын
THIS is the original music that has always stuck in my mind.
@frankburns89467 жыл бұрын
Wasn't that guy doing Morse code a member of Kraftwerk?
@wisteela5 жыл бұрын
That's what it reminded me of too.
@JasmineSurrealVideos5 жыл бұрын
Weirdly enough Tommorrows World had Kraftwerk on the show showing what the future of music sounded like! I thought he looked more like a young Christopher Lloyd but I do see the Kraftwerk stare and linguistics thing!
@CesarAbeid5 жыл бұрын
He’s the operator. Of his pocket calculator.
@lucasrem5 жыл бұрын
Frank Burns 1969, we did own color TV, Sony Trinitron! I still have it, still works! Fiber is still produced, many more, Nike their biggest client! autobahn, you love old music?
@kjamison59513 жыл бұрын
Umm, Trio also...
@jeremywvarietyofviewpoints31042 жыл бұрын
Did the BBC preserve many of the Tomorrow's World episodes and can you watch a whole lot of them in a row anywhere?
@oxcart41725 жыл бұрын
I can't imagine why talking in Morse code didn't catch on!
@PhilJonesIII3 жыл бұрын
I get the impression that people talking to each other has gone out of fashion.
@oxcart41723 жыл бұрын
@@PhilJonesIII I've lost count of how many young couples I see around staring at their phones!
@DasTubemeister4 ай бұрын
Sting watched this programme, and ten years later wrote De Doo Doo Doo, De Da Da Da.
@j.cheeverloophole90295 жыл бұрын
Anyone remember the episode with the guy that invented a heatproof paste? Painted it on an egg, took a cutting torch to it, & the egg remained uncooked...seemingly the old guy died & took the secret with him to the grave. The shuttle could've used some
@Martian745 жыл бұрын
J.Cheever Loophole it wouldn't work as the paste would just blow off. I think that is why he never released it except for a couple of simple experiments. Only something solid would work as a heat shield on a shuttle as it hits the atmosphere at over 20,000km/h. The product is called starlite.
@Ndlanding5 жыл бұрын
@@Martian74 It's also been featured recently on the BBC website, if you care to look.
@thisnicklldo3 жыл бұрын
No, but I do vividly remember the TW where they first demonstrated the ceramic tiles used on the surface of the Shuttle. He stood in front of a very large furnace, an operative opened the door and took out a glowing white-hot cube about 1.5" across and placed it next to him - within 20 seconds he had completed his introduction and calmly picked the cube up with his bare fingers, still glowing white-hot. It was, and still is, astonishing. Something like only the surface 10-20 thousandths of an inch of the cube had cooled, but that was enough as it was such an amazing insulator.
@fidelcatsro6948 Жыл бұрын
China mass producing ceramic floor tiles today at a fraction of the cost!
@ef74803 жыл бұрын
So glad HD came along ..
@fredflintstoner596 Жыл бұрын
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
@bennylloyd-willner96673 жыл бұрын
Great upload, THANK YOU!
@locouk6 жыл бұрын
Professor Stephen Hawking could have had a very different voice if his illness had set in a few years earlier.
@admiralbenbow50835 ай бұрын
Ye Gods this is pre moon landing !! I used to love this programme
@RB747domme5 жыл бұрын
It's amazing to think, that I'm typing this message by talking to my phone. Not by using a dit dah, but by actually talking in English. And my Android Galaxy phone, came just 50 odd years after this show was produced. Right now, I'm still talking to my phone and now I'm thinking about the idea of mass spectrometers, chromatographic spectrometry, atomic absorption spectroscopy, inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy, and it's brother, inductively coupled plasma mass emission spectroscopy, and neutron activation analysis, looking at materials and their chemical structure. I like the idea that today we can discern with absolute accuracy what things are made of in just a few moments, by looking at a digital displayby using these machines, which in the late 60s must have seemed like science fiction. And seeing the precursor to this phone sitting on that big table in front of Raymond Baxter, with it's huge analogue computer card inside the box to get the voice recognition for the morse code dit dah's, in order to dial and make a call with a huge telephone and analogue coupler going through a wire.. And here I am, with everything on that table (bar typewriter) in my little tiny handheld slither of a machine weighing just a few ounces.. oh please, someone invent a time machine, because I want to walk into that studio in early 1969 and hand them this phone and show it to them. I expect that engineer would have the wind taken from his sails a little.. It seems we've come an awful long way in 50 years.
@srl6018 Жыл бұрын
6:24 Raymond Baxter "stop feeling my knob"
@6643bear3 жыл бұрын
Great programme I remember watching this long time ago, Raymond Baxter also promote Rover cars and BL cars too during the 70s . Regards mark
@wanderer19553 жыл бұрын
Love that music.
@gazzafirefox39143 жыл бұрын
Love the morse code bit!! dit dar dar dit !
@bruce84293 жыл бұрын
We had a teletype machine network at Snowden dormitory in Columbia 6th floor in 1975 at USC. Used about five teletype machines (big and heavy) connected by TV wire run around outside of building. Fred Collins had the ham radio and snatched signal from news networks broadcasting-upi and sp etc- we got the news a day before the newspaper on special roll paper printed in room. No ones roommate could stand sound more than an hour. Bought used surplus teletypes from Western Union surplus. Massive nachines.We thought we were tech geniuses.
@adamantine0014 жыл бұрын
this was the year my dad was born and I was born 30 years later
@Roy-in-U.K.3 жыл бұрын
Alexa, daa daa dit daa! Well it had to start somewhere🤣