Tomorrow's World - Touchscreen Invention (1991)

Tomorrow's World shows us how new touchscreen technology works.
From 1991.

[@thebasketballhistorian3291]

1991 = people using touchscreens productively 2019 = people using touchscreens to watch videos of people in 1991 use touchscreens productively

[@lefroy1]

Haha. Meta!

[@imark7777777]

Don't forget using pens, now poking at things on Facebook endlessly scrolling.

[@jensbaath]

Just what i was thinking 😁

[@ssilvaxxx22]

New meTa

[@yanni2737]

😂😂😂

[@quantumcomputer]

Touch screens... HA! what's next... wireless internet?

[@shmookins]

What's an internet?

[@necron9944]

a series of tubes?

[@tongkiparts4672]

quantumcomputer a car can drive by itself and a talking car, a talking phone, a thin computer in the size of a notepad called iPad or tablet

[@tishtash321]

What's the internet?

[@bigtomo8250]

tishtash321 a herd about that it's a new fad it'll never take off 😉

[@michalwalks]

I personally found it amazing that she was making videos for youtube in 1991.

[@TheOnlyGamingMC]

r u stupid

[@russ1978]

@@TheOnlyGamingMC r u?

[@Criddy420]

@@TheOnlyGamingMC no u r

[@sheranlanger247]

😂

[@srma9854]

Wth haha

[@eckee]

One thing I appreciate about this is that she doesn’t exagerate and oversell the thing. She isn’t overexcited and screaming, she isn’t claiming that in the future we will even wipe our asses with touchscreens. She even said that it’s not gonna replace keyboards. They really tried to understand what touchscreens could be good for and made a report of it. I wish every tech journalism nowadays would be like this.

[@Ozymondias99]

Well the Brits arent known for being loud and exciting. Thats what Americans from the U.S. are known for. 😀

[@syxpcotic9452]

Nope this is downplaying stuff

[@froogsleegs]

used to watch the gadget show and wondered how much of it was legit and how much of it was an advert, just garbage trying to sell things. turns out what I was really looking for was tomorrow's world!

[@RiyadHussain]

Totally agree with you. She was quite pragmatic about the whole thing throughout never once attempting to sensationalise the product.

[@Snoop_Dugg]

Still waiting on the 3 seashells

[@insertnamehere8099]

“These will not replace keyboards, but will certainly revolutionize the way we use computers” Wow, she was spot on.

[@semiramisbonaparte1627]

Ever thought maybe all of this is preplanned

[@DeLunny]

A conspiracy by the keyboard companies working alongside Tomorrow's World

[@boskee]

@James Declerk Yes, it was spot on.

[@AdmiralBison]

@@boskee bet you James Declerk watched the video and typed his comment on a touchscreen device i.e. smart phone/tablet.

[@ClosestNearUtopia]

In fact it did somewhat replace the keyboard, it became the keyboard.

[@billyh88uk]

But what if you lose the pen? What are we supposed to use, our fingers?!

[@deadcat6085]

the pen was attached to the device...it wasn't wireless then

[@Refract404]

The King Slayer You don't get the joke, do you?

[@deadcat6085]

now i get it

[@JimboLogic]

Don't be ridiculous, fingers are to stubby and inaccurate to be used as an input device for a highly precise peace of technology. What lunacy will you suggest next, speak to the machine and it will do what you say?

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

Billy Hicks What, like some kind of filthy animal??

[@-.._.-_...-_.._-..__..._.-.-.-]

I appreciate how down to earth Tomorrow's World was. They didn't exaggerate or mislead, just stuck to the facts and realistic possibilities.

[@raynemichelle2996]

I remember a store in the early mid 90s where you could make your own personalized greeting cards and they had a touch screen greeting card maker, the first touchscreen I'd ever seen. It was mind blowing 🤯

[@peteszerszen4337]

Yeah I remember something like that too. It was basically a pen plotter with a window where you could watch it draw the card. I was about 10 and absolutely fascinated with it.

[@Georgije2]

At a shopping mall near me around 1995 they had a touchscreen with a map of all the stores and some other info. We were completely amazed, although it would be quite pathetic by today's standards.

[@MikeJ2023]

@@Georgije2 malls today still have touch screen maps.

[@Georgije2]

@@MikeJ2023 I know, but today that's nothing special, but in 1995 it was extremely cool, especially for us kids :)

[@RevZman]

Clinton’s Cards. Used to love using that machine

[@kaibaCorpHQ]

It took less than 2 decades for touch screens to take over, but we've been waiting on flying cars for almost a century.

[@hippiechickite]

KaibaCorp HQ or that run on water or better, urine

[@RosebudKane41]

I would not want to live in fear 24/7 of some drunk asshole crashing through the living room ceiling in his new flying car.

[@ax8621]

already available but not affordable

[@UltimateAlgorithm]

@Jean Kleber no, safety is not the reason. Practicality and economics is.

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

Why flying cars? What problem they could solve that planes and helicopters haven't?

[@inceptional]

They really should bring this show back. It was, quite literally, ahead of its time.

[@Havanacuba1985]

I loved tomorrow’s world . I discovered it at a very young age perhaps 5 or 6 as it was on before top of the pops ,our U.K. chart program featuring current bands . There was always something of interest on tomorrow’s world even for the very young

[@thomasdoran8604]

The BBC has click which has replaced it

[@inceptional]

@@thomasdoran8604 Well the name definitely isn't as cool.

[@XrisD147]

Yeah i loved TW! it broadened my horizons when i was a young lad, now i have a diploma in computer graphics.

[@thebadtemperedbrit]

Beautifully presented by Judith Hann, like a graceful swan on a nightmarish technological lake, at any moment disaster could strike, but she just keeps gliding along ;-).

[@vink6163]

I find it interesting at 5:12 when she talks about an electronic cheque book communicating with the bank. Often when people make predictions about the future, they can only see current practices improved slightly - having the computer read your signature - rather than completely new things, like passwords or fingerprints replacing the need for a signature at all. I find that quite interesting, how hard it is for many people to think of entirely new ways of doing things.

[@ThallanarRabidtooth]

Before the time of planes and cars, the fastest way to travel long distances was by way of boat. They imagined a time when boats could fly or float above the surface of the water. They didn't realize at the time that the car or plane would become a thing.

[@Fuzy2K]

I remember way before the iPhone was announced, people were speculating that Apple would make a phone, and some of the mockup pictures I saw on Google Images were... a bit off. One of them had a touchscreen with a simulation of the iPod click wheel on it

[@divyamthakur]

@@Fuzy2K that iPod thing was an actual apple prototype

[@Fuzy2K]

@@divyamthakur Oh wow

[@NemeanLion-]

These kinds of shows are being explained to an audience that doesn’t have the capacity to see future applications. They want to know how these technologies would improve their current life at this moment. Passwords and fingerprints were too far into the future and they don’t have any working mechanical examples to demonstrate to their audience, like they’re doing on this show. Viewers need something tangible they can see and be amazed by and not theories that are too far beyond what is available.

[@leftyfourguns]

I remember "playing" on my mom's PalmPilot all the time. It had absolutely nothing on it remotely interesting for a kid but just playing with the device itself was a thrill.

[@customerservicemanager7184]

I feel like I'm in the future when I watch this...

[@diegofernandez2618]

We are in the future.. the present is in the 90s

[@herviecruz4998]

Stupid comment

[@jeremiahowens9999]

Wooosh?

[@fuitbythefoot]

@@diegofernandez2618 no we're in the past

[@salvatius]

Its because you ARE in the future right now. And even more and better is coming, it is ready and about to smash our faces with amazing very soon.

[@villepakarinen8323]

2:02 "There's no keyboard or disk drive, so it's easy to use on the move" Dude's got a cinderblock strapped around his neck...

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

There's STILL no keyboard or disk drive...

[@shaquiel09]

Ville Pakarinen ok zoomer

[@ZoomWinflo]

Haha. Been laughing at this comment for 10 mins now!

[@vendybirdsvadl7472]

Wait no disk drive? Does it alteast got hard drive?

[@realcartoongirl]

what neck

[@Mxtthew24]

She was spot on with the “not replacing keyboards” and the writing on the screen.

[@hugh.g.rection5906]

true. i think people will prefer using a keyboard for a long time yet

[@firestarter1888]

Hard to imagine that KZbin was launched closer to the date that this was filmed then 2022.

[@TheHappyKamper]

"I bet I'll have this job forever" car paint checking dude.

[@supacook2000]

Elon Musk: hold my beer....... Cybertruck!!!!!!

[@makaveliba4243]

Abner Chaves what

[@steamwallet52]

@@supacook2000 i guess you don't understand what comment above said

[@olivefarmer69]

Bosnian Turkey Leg the cybertruck is made from steel which doesn’t need a paintjob. It comes in the silver color that it’s manufactured in

[@terriolancer5783]

Kicks in automation systems

[@TheTechGiantYouTube]

Can’t see it catching on myself. Sent from my iPad

[@zacharyxxx8104]

Hahahahahahaha

[@retrogamer64007]

The Tech Giant I’m on iPad too.

[@withnail-and-i]

"Wow, that comment is so retro." -Sent back in time from my nose controlled iCoral in 2090

[@deepfakestudio7776]

The legend says this ipad will be a trash in under 20 years from now

[@BasiliskX]

Lol, you forgot to remove the "sent from my iPad". Idiot 🤦‍♀️

[@entropy8000]

This really did predict a lot of how we use them its honestly impressive to me, i didnt know they had this tech back in 91

[@AtheistOrphan]

I can’t remember when the Apple Newton came out but I recall using a lightpen on the screen of my Vectrex back in 83/84.

[@weeardguy]

I remember that the pharmacy here had some kind of touch-screen game of whatever inside the waiting area (no idea why or what it could do, I was 4 or so). That was 1992. But those were overlays on top of a normal CRT, which were far more common already as far as I know. As it was more broken than in working order, I have no idea what it could do. The difference is that this was an integrated thing ánd did not need a CRT.

[@Julian2Sounds]

Lol just think of all the inventions shelved. Nikola Tesla gave us free energy over 100 yrs ago.

[@weeardguy]

@@Julian2Sounds Yeah right. 'Free' energy...

[@FlyingMonkies325]

Governments had the knowledge for a long time before, the first computer was invented in 1822 apparently... but the math of it goes MUCH further back but it's having the means to be able to properly conceptualize it and make it properly and trying to evolve the rest of the planet in a cheap enough way. All kinds of things were invented centuries ago... we've only just now been seeing it since the 80s and 90s.

[@MrBirchieBirch]

Absolutely loved Tomorrow's World. It was one of the reasons I got into product design.

[@UnknownUser-qq1od]

A screen I can touch? Outrageous! I'm not getting electrocuted.

[@2cool0]

sounding like anti vaxxers and anti maskers

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@2cool0 vaxxers

[@stepzend132]

We're all gonna die!!

[@Lazymotion]

Karen's in the 90's

[@SaveThePurpleRhino]

She specifically said to use a pen. Kid’s this days and their suicidal way. Preposterous.

[@megabojan1993]

I wish I had a time machine and travel back in time and show this lady my ultra-modern smartphone and see her reaction :)

[@xoio]

Well, having lived though the evolution of tech from the 70s to now.. She'll be impressed by the computing power and capabilities, but will also say it was inevitable.

[@megabojan1993]

She is a smart woman, and sadly most of the women today are not so smart when it comes to technology.

[@GrijzePilion]

There have always been tech savvy women and there will always be. The same very much goes for men. Women did all the programming on the moon lander, and women coded large parts of the technology used in the internet.

[@rick_terscale1111]

smartphone?? Huh?? Don't you mean iPad or Android tablet? All the uses she describes are available on iPads and iPad Pro with Apple Pen. I would be showing her that instead of a smartphone. A smartphone is a personal device while tablets are used commercially from couriers to cafe's.

[@GrijzePilion]

Tablets are passé. The big money and big tech these days is in phones. But of course there's also the middle ground, like a Note 4 or something.

[@scifibri2376]

Ever since I was in middle school in the mid to late 80s I dreamed of having a pocket computer some day. In 1993 I had a palmtop computer that was monochrome bluish green screen. Three years later I had a full color one. Then in 2003 I had a Sony Clique (or whatever it was called) which was basically a prototype of a Smartphone 4 years before they were available but 7 years before they were ubiquitous. Its great seeing the evolution of technology ... better still to see it match & exceed my expectations!

[@murdock6450]

I always wanted the calculator watch for my maths classes and weekly maths tests lol

[@Oak138]

1:43 using the car as a writing surface is causing all the defects 😂

[@samb2945]

Those were the days, concise, accurate programmes delivered by articulate professionals. Gone forever!

[@freespeechisneverwrong9351]

If they had it now they would arguing about what is a woman.🤦‍♂️

[@Brandon-bc5um]

RIP

[@luminaspargo4630]

TV was a source of info back then. Now you have pc so it's up to you to find good content. Hard, but feasible.

[@maltlickytexas]

@@freespeechisneverwrong9351 Pftt.

[@puppy3908]

@@luminaspargo4630 Everything back then was for giving information or for giving entertainment. Now both those thing combined and a your news station tries to entertain you as much as it informs you however those interests conflict because if your country is left wing it'll but unpopular or un-entertaining to hear pro right wing content and viceversa. More views = More money = More corruption

[@LoafAround]

I've never seen an old show predict the future of technology so persicely. Usually depictions of the future from the past are off by a mile, and even though this wasn't too long ago, it's still very impressive.

[@apmcd47]

I remember a Horizon programme to mark the Queen's Silver Jubilee by looking at the next 25 years of her reign. I'm pretty sure they predicted that we'd have flat screen TVs by then. Only about 5 years out.

[@mulletman1705]

She said trump would win 2024

[@keithadams812]

Watch the original star trek and be amazed....

[@AltCutTV]

I miss the flip-phones Star Trek predicted.. : /

[@AdamWood]

@@mulletman1705 Name checks out. Someone find his Grindr profile!

[@johnatkins2665]

Always a 'must watch' in our house from soon as I can remember watching TV. Was sad to see it go. This should be brought back in some form or other by the BBC. So much crap on the all channels these days, it would be good to have an intelligent and informative programme once in a while. There HAS to be room for it surely !

[@moominmay]

My thoughts exactly! As a kid who wasn’t particularly into science, this programme always fascinated me and totally agree it should be bought back with actual experts not high energy yooth presenters though! 😅ps there is a program on bbc news called Click and the beeb would probably reply that’s the replacement 😕

[@justsomeguywashwd_jbm821]

Wow, it's amazing to see how far things have come in just 3 decades. I may have lived through it (Tomorrow's World used to be 1 of my favourite shows), but it's only when look back at something like this that you really feel how far things have come.

[@Althekeys]

Loving the way the Jaguar quality controller rests his paperwork on the car whilst he fills it out. The Irony.

[@Dan23_7]

Al Da Keys How many paint faults on that diagram though ? 😂 Hundreds 😂 Never buy a Jag

[@infectedjinjer]

🤣

[@Lehtosenkanava]

Noticed the same. I am just a detailing weekend warrior but even on my standards that was very unprofessional move

[@filthyhernandez8657]

Al Da Keys noticed that 2

[@tomguy6873]

paint is set and dry at that point. do you really think its so bad that ballpoint paint is going to crack it through a piece of paper?

[@yogisie]

Touchable screens? Yeah right! Next they'll tell us that we'll be able to have handheld phones that we can carry!

[@andysim232]

thats just silly ;)

[@cleetose]

The video was from the 90's, they already had cell phones.

[@yogisie]

cleetose yes, good point. Although they hardly in wide use.

[@Holret]

they already had them back then

[@airminded8876]

urbex2007 I always wanted to use one of those...

[@phillydisco]

We had touch screens as a kid in the 70s and 80s. You could doodle or write stuff on it. And when you wanted to start over, you just pulled up the plastic cover.

[@ritahorvath8207]

. Y E E E E S S S ❣❣❣

[@RaduRadonys]

That's magnetic screens though.

[@MichelleVisageOnlyFans]

This amazing lady, and the team behind her got it so right! BRAVO! 👏

[@RennieAsh]

2:49 Twenty Nine years later, guess what waiters use? Pen & paper

[@SupahLinkio]

Where I used to work, we used ipads to take orders. They constantly lost connection to the wifi and we ended up going back to notebooks and pens.

[@PatoNani18]

Still quicker to use to be honest

[@codrincod424]

this is only for tills...

[@thepenultimateninja5797]

Some of the chain restaurants near me have touchscreen devices for ordering and paying now. I think what Tomorrow's World missed was the idea that if your order is being taken on a touchscreen device, you don't actually need a waiter to stand there and do it for you - you can just use the touchscreen yourself.

[@jaymib3202]

while the customer using the touchscreen smartphone to work out if the tip was right or not..😂😂😂

[@klin1klinom]

3:15 pen casually sliding off.

[@realcartoongirl]

linus

[@starrykailani]

it even had a sound effect

[@RennieAsh]

7 years later, it gets noticed

[@sumergidox]

haha

[@ossie200]

yesss haha

[@slimyish]

So weird, I was born in 91 so I remember growing up with the transition to all the new technology, but now we are so used to it 4K television, touch screen devices etc it’s hard to remember ever not having it

[@EvanBoldt]

Industrial operator interfaces are almost all resistive touch screens and were actually one of the first widespread uses of touch screen technologies. They work with gloves and are wildly cheaper than the elaborate and inflexible array of buttons and indicators they replaced.

[@zacharyxxx8104]

I was born in 1991, and only in the last few years have I seen a restaurant server using iPads to take orders. Most of the things she is talking about have happened in the last 10 years. Amazing.

[@jimmycricketlopez2746]

Oh yes 💤

[@TechBaffle]

Who else would love Tomorrow's World on TV in 2022?

[@yvesnyfelerph.d.8297]

For some reason it has been renamed to Black Mirror

[@elina1421]

Yves Nyfeler Ph.D. nice one

[@peterpitcard]

@@yvesnyfelerph.d.8297 nice

[@davidwright82]

It would be terrifying.

[@adama-k2710]

BBC Click is sort of a modern day equivalent

[@Tapman99]

A really well made programme. Touch screen devices and wide screen HD TVs, all things considered they were pretty much spot on.

[@StormInc1498]

Presenter in 1991: We’ll be using touchscreens with pens having handwriting recognition from now on. And soon afterwards, in 2015 - Apple Pencil is released.

[@Shadi_Wajed]

PalmPilot with Stylus pen in the 90's?

[@jackkraken3888]

"We will soon be communicating with machines using pens" Steve Jobs: "Not so fast."

[@ohmygahdbilly]

Imagine pretty much all modern phone's key design basically being due to some guy who hated styluses.

[@jackkraken3888]

@@ohmygahdbilly Yup, but I tend to agree with Jobs on this point. Stylyses are a terrible primary input device. Before the iPhone many PDA/Smartphones needed a stylus to input data or make choices. Now they are completely optional for most people.

[@ohmygahdbilly]

@@jackkraken3888 oh believe me I'm with you there, If I need to use a stylus I'll just use a notepad instead, I don't want to have to keep more shit charged than I already do.

[@jackkraken3888]

@@ohmygahdbilly yup I mean I don't agree with everything Apple died but their design for the iPhone was definitely revolutionary. They solved a very hard problem that many companies tried and failed to solve.

[@jackkraken3888]

@Gilgamesh Sorry dude but that's not fair. Sure Jobs didn't craft the iPhone with his bare hands but he basically lead the teams to the final products. This in itself is not an easy task. Many have tried and failed to make mobile computing popular.

[@yousorooo]

I'm watching this on an HD handheld portable tablet.

[@heartsineurope]

that's great. must feel amazing saying that watching a 20 year old video.

[@Joke9972]

+Derek Leung I don't think these 'computers' will ever become anything, but this white thing this man had in his hands, with this rocket shaped thing that put black points on this neat white sheet, what was that?! Amazing!

[@tiagoaoa]

I'm watching this as it is being recorded, in the studio, since I can move across the 4 dimensions.

[@tiagoaoa]

now I'm watching this live at my parents home with my younger self. It was pretty funny when people sent me to psychiatric wards because I was telling everyone about my cool friend who every now and then would come out of nowhere just to watch tv with me when I was alone. Took me years inside those walls to realize the thing is: I just, for some reason, can travel back and forth in time and also take my extra degree of freedom given by the 4th dimension to move around in space as I will.

[@tiagoaoa]

OK, a few questions that might arise because of my comments: Q1) How did you get such "powers"? A1) I do not now yet, but this information is (or will be, to you folks living in 3d) available in April 5 2032. I just chose not to look at it, nor do I intend to watch my death. Q2) The way you are describing yourself as a 4-dimensional who can also meet itself in different times, are you not just talking about the time-travel problem? A2) No, as I understand where such question might come from, I can tell you that 3-dimensional beings (or even inanimate objects) exist individually in each 3-dimensional space of the infinite 3d spaces that exist along the 4th dimension. What I do is take my 3d body and mentally observe the 4 dimensional space. Then, what is left is to focus in one point of the 4th dimension axis (or an instant in time, if that nomenclature suits you more). My 3d body then leaves that 4d point e goes to the other one I chose. Q3) So... you could just make a massive army of different temporal instances of your 3d body? A3) Yes, but there is an agreement to not pursue such methods anymore. Great wars occurs (or occurred, depending if you are a 4d'er) in 200 BC in australia, no one could win, since everybody's army was infinite. Right now, looking as far as the year 3000 AD it seems like the agreement still stand. But that can change.

[@boarbot7829]

Amazing how much has likely changed even since this KZbin video was released!

[@flybobbie1449]

Thursday was such a good evening to watch tv. Best of the week. TotP, Tomorrows World. Usually some comedies, then Horizon would clash with Fawlty Towers.

[@97channel]

And here we are, 25 years on, with those much beloved little computers that your cheerful parcel man hands over to you, along with a an old biro that's standing in for the long lost stylus, so that you can have a jolly time fighting the lag as you attempt to put anything remotely resembling your signature on it's horrendously scratched up and battered old screen. It's a fine line between practical and a practical joke.

[@willd6215]

funny stuff. I find it amusing that there are databases full of squiggles; rubbish signatures.

[@unlokia]

Delivery (WinCE, Psion) handhelds do not need to be iPad quality, they are a tool to execute a job, and they are tried and tested (and yes, often old) technology - if your parcel wasn't tracked correctly due to a bug in some fancy schmancy new device, I am sure your impatient old self would be MORE annoyed. What do you *expect* a device that is a TOOL, to look like - mollycoddled and pristine? It's a TOOL, not a stroked and polished consumer toy - it's SOLE purpose is to get the job done, not to make you coo and fawn over how sleek it is. You get your parcel, what does it matter? It WORKS, and there's an old saying which is pertinent to this example: _"If it ain't broke don't 'fix' it"_

[@97channel]

+unlokia - Yeah, I was kinda joking. Awkward. I do find it funny though how you have a bit of a go at me about slagging off the efficiency of old computers, yet four minutes before doing so you leave a comment on here echoing exactly what I said about the lag... "By the time that screen catches up with the stylus it will BE TOMORROW, therefore that appointment she scheduled would be redundant... whoops!"

[@unlokia]

97channel The computer being used in the video IS NOT what couriers use, it is ancient. You were referring to the perceived "downsides" with *current* devices, which seems a total non issue. Anything else?

[@digitalrailroader]

plus, the computer the delivery driver uses is designed to take the worst punishment that any driver can throw at it: bouncing around in his truck's map pocket, dropped onto hard concrete or Macadam/Asphalt, be used in harsh weather conditions where water can get onto it, and it usually has to connect to a database that is at least 5-10 years behind the latest technology, the latest iPad can't hope to survive any of that outside of a 3rd party case. case in point: my employer (a VERY well known Big Box Store) still uses Mototola MC9000 series mobile computers running Windows CE for inventory management. a lot of them look like crap, but they all still work for what the company needs.

[@thegreenmanofnorwich]

I miss Tomorrow's World. There was always a sense of wonder and excitement I felt as a kid watching it.

[@Daniel-xv5jq]

That's because you were a kid back then. Cynicism comes with getting wrinkles and receding hairline...

[@dcarbs2979]

@@Daniel-xv5jq Not only that, TV then actually treated you as if you had intelligence. Now it's just spoon-fed garbage. Even the documentaries are pretty shallow.

[@djhaloeight]

@@dcarbs2979 1000000% !!

[@MrAgmoore]

I miss the feeling that I had back then... when anything was possible, just before I learned that corporations kill people for money and you can build objects to last forever, but built-in obsolescence was needed, to keep the economy going. No hope for the human race.

[@outcastp23]

We only had 4 channels on the TV back then, this was definitely one of the top shows not to miss.

[@danielthompson4463]

It’s good to watch these when I idly ordered a fast food breakfast this morning using a touchscreen and was put out when my new work laptop didn’t have a touch screen like my old one.

[@nerd26373]

This video proves how much we’ve improved technologically since then. We use touchscreens all day, all night nowadays...

[@cons4943]

I really appreciate how her image on the screen looks back at him while he speaks at the end. Just a small detail but it shows attention to quality

[@leefrancis007]

I noticed it too..very clever

[@KhanGarth]

26 years later and I STILL rarely if ever see waitstaff at restaurants using any kind of digital interface to enter orders, touch screen or not.

[@xTheParadox99]

Garth Palmer it’s actually pretty common here in Europe

[@bobbobby9798]

In McDonald's restaurants its standard😉

[@dongargon763]

Yeah almost all restaurants have a digital pos system a lot use iPads as an interface , pen and paper at table is still more practical tho

[@arnav7181]

The future is always overestimated

[@_KingOfCalifornia]

I live in a relatively small town and most local businesses/restaurants use iPads

[@diamondaxe4133]

I love this program. I've only just discovered it too.

[@RetroGadgetMan]

I found the HDTV CRTs piece very interesting. I had know idea that it was in its infancy that long ago.

[@ravitej8396]

I would start calling my smartphone "Personal computerized assistant"

[@diegofernandez2618]

It is!

[@MrOverfloater]

It really is that. "Phone" is just one of it's built in functions

[@XrisD147]

Or PAD like in ST:TNG

[@darthdmun]

only retarded people would need a smartphone.

[@simongill4715]

Siri will be offended

[@tonaltti]

This program is really well made. All the transitions through tennis field to studio via TV, everything is summarized and shown in practice and so on.

[@EspritArkitekt]

coz people knew how to explain & communicate properly without shouting either, unlike most tutorials u see on YT

[@afti03]

It's almost like it was made by professionals instead of KZbinrs..

[@sameermehta9745]

Using touchscreen mobile to watch this video. How time flies.

[@travelwell6049]

I always remember seeing the idea of being about to store photos on a CD. It seemed so exiting at the time.

[@Wobblybob2004]

Linking computers by radio? not in my life-time.

[@krashd]

Enter WiFi and then bluetooth, NFC and a myriad of other proprietary techs...

[@peteszerszen4337]

@@krashd They had it in the early-90s but it was much more brand proprietary and there wasn't yet a standard.

[@guytorie]

This really increases my appreciation of the fact that I can scroll down and comment while still watching this.

[@deathbydeviceable]

Without a pen!!!

[@markshaw270]

Technically scrolling up.

[@dav9104]

Wow can't wait to get my hands on one of these machines!

[@marknash9546]

The name Judith Hann appeared in my mind for the first time in 30 years. Brains are amazing. My memories of Tomorrows World were that they never got things right, this is one huge example of things in action and things that were about to become commonplace.

[@BNCA70]

I grew up watching this. Great stuff. Every Thursday just before Top of the Pops? They should bring it back, I need help keeping up with all the latest stuff. It's all happening so fast.

[@JackieWelles]

BNCA70 just watch CNET or The Verge technology channel's

[@TonyFisherPuzzles]

They did. It's called the gadget show.

[@madeinuk68]

Tony Fisher TW Was not just about electronic gadgets.I remember because as a youngster I used to hate the sections in it,that were about medicines and new ways of operating on people.It was as much about science as it was technology.The gadget show is all technology.

[@metalbearuk]

@@TonyFisherPuzzles 'The Gadget Show' is for brainless dicks.

[@tod315]

There's Click on the BBC news channel

[@Aarontlondon]

Watching this on my HD enabled, widescreen, touch screen phone 28 years later.

[@ladyxxmacbeth]

I love the way she says HD is twice the resolution I'm going watching now. As I watch KZbin on my 4k TV.

[@JoeR203]

Wow! This is awesome! I really hope this technology takes off.

[@omkarghawate]

this feels like rick and morty's interdimensional cable

[@coffee_lover5394]

Geez, Rick that’s kind of harsh

[@kamu747]

In what sense?

[@solssun]

honestly all old English tv shows feel like interdimensional cable

[@johanotterlund2267]

She even looks alien wtf

[@carolinegarlick1985]

Every home has a plumbus...

[@Mavermick1]

God I miss weekly programmes like this and Krypton Factor. TV was much better then!

[@fer04i81]

programmes? This is America!

[@alanrmurphy]

I know what you mean. There was no love island, strictly or in a celebrity back then. Television was a proper mix of entertainment and education.

[@AsphaltAntelope]

Check out the Fully Charged channel on KZbin, it's the closest thing we have

[@GraemePryce1978]

Wow, I'd forgotten about The Krypton Factor! I hope Gordon Burns is still alive.

[@vivekbhat720]

Ok boomer

[@daedalus_00]

Like everyone else, I clicked the video to see some interesting retro tech, but I was not expecting the magic fish to slide in at the end. Truly, a delightful surprise!

[@JustBlondie]

Watching this I miss the olden days so much 😭

[@feski1]

1991 = “These are not likely to replace keyboards...” 2019 = uses touch screen keyboard to comment.

[@nitsuj8100]

@Michael Ortiz dang son I have some pills and they have the word “chill” written on them. I think you need to take a couple of those

[@feski1]

Michael Ortiz Did someone take the jam out of your doughnut son? 😢😂

[@tete1445]

it's 2020 now, wake up

[@feski1]

Tete The original comment wasn’t written “now”, in fact, it was written in 2019! There’s a lot of salty, jamless doughnuts in here tonight!

[@tete1445]

It wasn't 2019 two weeks ago, you wrote that comment in 2020.. what kind of drug are you on, son?

[@therealmjoc]

It's funny how much this programme got right about the future.

[@Distacca]

It is amazing how much work they have put to make these videos👌👌👌👌

[@fretboardmaster70]

I am a Guitar teacher and for my Master Thesis, I am writing a paper on New Digital Media in Guitar Tuition, using music Apps in my lessons? I seem to remember an episode of Tomorrows (early 90s) world where they mentioned about one day , being able to fit a whole music library on a device the size of a pack of plying cards.

[@sujanbanerjee1]

1991 : Touchscreens are the latest invention in Modern Technology. 2020 : Wow, we have a new dog filter on instagram!

[@ks_ig2728]

If you think about it, the more we hear about useless technology, the more we’re advanced. What else can we invent aside from the things we already have?

[@Matheus_Braz]

@@ks_ig2728 More instagram filters lmao

[@BinBintheRiceCake]

@@ks_ig2728 Quantum warp drive and space travel baby!

[@caesar848]

Lmao

[@dom1abc1mbc]

the only technologies that are developing right now and will change the world are autonomous machines and VR

[@jamie123b]

Amazing to think how far technology's come in just my lifetime

[@jamie123b]

Actually forget that, I wasn't born till 6 years after this lol

[@GeniusPo1996]

yeah, just think about how gta evolved from the year you was born till 2017

[@bertr6741]

I remember around 1994-1995 when I was working in a computer company, we were adding/ modifying CRT monitors with touchscreen glass for ATM touchscreens.. but only saw a widescreen TV only around 2010 (?)..

[@Cozycountry1]

I remember seeing touchscreen technology in the film 1995 Clueless where Cher got a computer to match up her outfits and thought it was really cool as a nearly teenager. Now it is an intrinsic part of our lives in the modern world and we could not be without it. My flate father was a computer engineer and said he had used touchscreens in the 1970s at a job he had which amazed me it was used that far back in terms of how technology was capable of doing things.

[@Mr90sMusiclover]

Back then I never dreamed that the the technology that amazed me most in 2020 was I can track the pizza delivery guy from pizza hut in real time, and know exactly where my pizza is after it leaves the store

[@nzrdb6]

Only if you order overpriced pizza

[@MBCMurrayPlaysRL]

Thats just a prediction, it would be too impractical to correctly track a pizza

[@tesselaynes5428]

In 1974 when I was 12 I had a dream that I was holding my tv in my lap and pushing my finger on the screen where the little characters on the screen would move to where my finger had touched the screen.

[@gbangyt-codmobile7037]

Wow, great imagination

[@xaero76]

Expo 1988 in Brisbane, was the first time I saw and touched a touch screen.... I was 12 years old.... how far that Tech has come now

[@joej3871]

2022 - scrolling on my cell touchscreen with my thumb to watch this blast from the past...

[@hughmungus6838]

This looks impressive but I bet it will cost a lot when its released. Still might buy one.

[@qwerp3]

Hugh Mungus Is this sexual harassment?

[@asmallbabby4205]

Buy one what? BUY ONE WHAT?!?! Are you implying that I am for sale? *IS THIS SEXUAL HARASSMENT?!?!!*

[@SaveThePurpleRhino]

Some wouldn't get it

[@TerminusEst1982]

Jus flood the market bruh

[@shapes9495]

hugh mungus!

[@crimsonmask3819]

There was a 'touchscreen' type interactive display at the Science Museum I visited in grade school, probably around _1980._ As I recall, it was set up so that you could draw on the screen with up to 16 colors. I was impressed.

[@ClosestNearUtopia]

Probably a crt, with a pen connected to the screen. It worked somewhat how dunkhunt worked on crt, but instead of blanking the target, the screen got scanned and if the pencil pickedup the right signal, it would know where you would have pointed to the screen.

[@ChatGPT1111]

We used touch plasma screens with laser pens for our time clock and showing when work was completed at McDonnell Douglas (Florida Production) back in 1984. Each work step had a bar code and we would wand in when it was completed.

[@AndrewHelgeCox]

Lightpen.

[@ClosestNearUtopia]

@@AndrewHelgeCox this

[@aetherland1883]

Lmao foreshadowing digital art since the 80s. Uncanny.

[@scentless_soundwave6026]

Yo, the widescreen format/HD video was insane

[@thebiggerbyte5991]

Tomorrow's World was one of my favourite shows and a very big influence on me growing up. The BBC at its best.

[@carlzimmerman8700]

Clearly this is just smoke and mirrors

[@youandiryan]

Carl Zimmerman hahahaha this made me crack up

[@tdcattech]

I love this stuff. :-) Good to see it only took us 15 years to adopt HD.

[@Scripture-Man]

Well it only took 9 years till we got widescreen TV.

[@seanzappulla71]

TDCatTech here in Australia we’re getting our first 4K TV channel on a pay TV over Satellite from October 2018. The techs are very busy installing dishes on the roofs of houses and apartment buildings in HFC cable areas. The HFC cable will be used for the internet.

[@ojbeez5260]

Reminds me of the purchase mistake I made back in the day when VHS was all the rage - sold the telly to pay for it. I also bought Windows 95 because 'everyone should have it' , did not realize you needed a computer to go with it. Same with going into cyberspace, did not realize that was the same as the World Wide Web but I needed an upgrade before I could get internet?? I asked the internet guy asked what plan I wanted, I asked if I could have several kilos of internet a per month then just laughed and I don't understand why??!!? Like my computer repair person was also joking with me saying there where chips in computers...haha...how many fries do you want with your typerwriter board...some people...back in my youth we didn't even have telephones, you had to write down in the book at the post office to use it and pay for it. You kids with your SeeDeeROMs and modems and portable cordless phones don't know how easy you have it. I had to walk 2 miles to make a phone call.

[@droomonsta]

Ah Tomorrows World was one of those TV shows the whole family would sit and watch every week, great days.

[@ranjittyagi9354]

Good things have vanished from the cities. What times are we in now? Cold times.

[@althuelectronics5158]

Old is gold amazing video. Technology is amazing

[@Immortal__]

25years later Galaxy Note 7 explodes. the technology just isn't ready yet

[@definitelynotclickbait8283]

XenatR its called portable grenade..

[@kalahatinggabi]

Einari Ihalainen aren't all grenades mean to be portable?

[@ShamrockParticle]

So did some iPhones, it was a fad at the time

[@nicko9799]

ShamockParticle except those iPhones used 3rd party crappy batteries unlike Samsung who were actually at fault for the faulty batteries

[@ControlAllDa1337]

I fucking LOVED this show as a kid. Devastated when it ended.

[@GreenLittleRobot]

Watching this on my galaxy tab s8 ultra. Man we've come a long way.

[@GosWardHen98]

In 1991 the only gadget we had after 1 year married was a microwave and a remote tv with a vhs video recorder. Today we have 4 computers including a laptop each, 4 tablets including an iPad my wife uses & have each a smartphone. Digital microwave, A digital freeview box, Amazon streaming pen drive & smart tv with dvd player all connected to fibre optic broadband / telephone line. Digital controlled gas boiler and radio time- controlled alarm clock. Oh yes, we do a shopping list every week using a pen & paper 😁 How did we manage!

[@tomasdanielnieto5398]

Interesting they were thinking handwriting recognition was the most natural way to type in a touch screen. But today we use a onscreen keyboard

[@starlight122012]

um, lots of people use stylus pens to write onto Samsung notes and I wished that my police phone had a stylus and handwritting recognition software to write statements and notes of police jobs I attended, but no, had to type everything in on the on the touchscreen keyboard.

[@stubmandrel]

Because most people don't know how to use a pen these days! I can dictate to my phone and you've been able to dictate to computers for 20 years.

[@domskinner7887]

I use my stylus, I find it more natural.

[@FoxzyD009]

@@domskinner7887 sry call old fashioned but I prefer pen n paper

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@FoxzyD009 pen n paper

[@ncrsoldier4603]

I know we are making a lot of jokes here but realize this, in 28 years we have nearly perfected something that was thought to be impossible. Just imagine what we think is impossible now. Whatever you think is impossible now, will be on shelves at your local Walmart for $49.99.

[@nat0106951]

cold fusion powered jetpack holodeck 5 senses virtual reality headset mind uploading inter galactic flying car wormhole teleporter

[@ncrsoldier4603]

@@nat0106951 Quantum computer. Oh wait...

[@pran6090]

@@nat0106951 damn man.

[@retcxn]

Ah yes, my ‘local’ Walmart which would be roughly 4.5k miles away.

[@DrPlausivel]

If there are Walmarts.

[@joebuddy7717]

I come here for the content and the comments. Brilliant.

[@paulfuray8557]

Loved tomorrow’s world. 👍🏻

[@CaptainFrankBlack]

this shit is way too advanced for me to comprehend

[@Viktor21771]

wasn't expecting to see you here :D

[@raymondramos9813]

Sean Murray - Give my money back pls.

[@TehJumpingJawa]

Sean Murray yeah, 'writing' on 'paper' with a 'pen' to create an immutable, platform agnostic, super light weight, ultra-cheap, human readable format with no battery requirements and practically unlimited fuel?!?! The consequences of such tech?! Simply mindboggling!

[@CaptainFrankBlack]

that comment went way over my head

[@apophis3852]

I wonder if she's still alive today and was able to see her prediction. Hello 2020!

[@apophis3852]

@Bob Mathews Woahh!! 🤯

[@tgmtf5963]

She's using iphone now

[@nevillemason6791]

You are joking? People don't drop dead just because they reach the age of 40. Judith Hann is still working 29 years later. See: judithhann.co.uk/

[@apophis3852]

@@nevillemason6791 wow that's great. Haha

[@Stefan-]

@@nevillemason6791 She was 49 in 1991, but is 78 now, so questioning if she was still alive was certainly justified.

[@DanHarrisonKing]

I'm excited for this stuff to come out! -Sent from my touchscreen smartphone

[@MattJoyce01]

I used to love this show.