1987: PREDICTING the Person of the FUTURE | Tomorrow's World | Past Predictions | BBC Archive
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- Back in 1965, Tomorrow's World imagined what "Tomorrow's Girl" might be like. Maggie Philbin considers how well that prediction holds up 22 years on.
Of course, technology has changed dramatically since 1965. The advent of the microprocessor in particular has shaped the modern world in ways that were almost inconceivable back when Raymond Baxter made his predictions. So what does the future look like now, through the prism of 1987?
Howard Stableford has another crack at imagining the "person of tomorrow".
Originally broadcast 15 January, 1987.
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1961: the future is... plastic!
1987: the future is... smart plastic!
2023: ... we are drowning in plastic!
When plastic first came out I was about 10 or 11 years old I said that it will destroy the world
Congratulations on living so long - Bakelite came out in 1907 :D
Give me my plastic straws. To hell with the turtles!
@@Sandra-qb4wn I think government should just be a bunch of 10 year olds who are into science shows. They would make the best decisions.
I'm not even kidding.
Government: support the current thing, the current fear. Give me your taxes. Rinse and repeat forever.
Unfortunately, they didn't predict the show would be axed 16 years later. Shame really, it was one of my favourite BBC shows at the time.
I don't think it would have worked today. There has been a slow down in technological advances, Moore's law no longer applies.
BBC Click is the nearest thing to it now
@ZX48K Moore's law can't tell us anything in this context. Moore's law was only concerned with storeage capacity of information and the cost of the hardware! We still have the potential for unlimited growth in processor speed and the low manufaction cost Moore talked about. The fact is that the consumer market is 'saturated'. Obtainable gadgets that can do more than we ask for (or know that they can do... 😈). *An iPhone may have been a dream thirty years ago - now many people can't fully use all it's functions* 😳
@@doriangray_1999Moore's Law states that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles about every two years, though the cost of computers is halved.
What r they gonna talk about tho. All technology now days are boring and same same. Rectangular phones, no flying cars, tvs looks the same, the same looking soundbars wat has replaced decent looking stereos. Airplanes still use fuel. The list goes on. All in a world where we don't know who we are anymore 😂.
I remember 1987 as though it were yesterday so it's a bit weird to think I'm now living deep into the future that they were predicting.
Very deep
I was born 5 days after this was broadcast, thanks for making me feel old by saying very deep into the future 😂
@@markmuller7962no it’s not😂
There was an optimistic atmosphere with regard to the future from about 1960 to 2001 which was fantastic to live through, (although I can only remember it from about 1985 onwards). Regrettably a lot of people reacted to the 9/11 attacks in exactly the way the terrorists wanted, by becoming negative and paranoid.
@@Caz_2087OK Kiddo! Some of us were born 24 years before. No need to rub it in! 🧐
@4:47 “so I can sh!t out the world.” 😂😂😂
Tomorrow’s girl was super flammable.
Hot , i would say, no botox or false personality.
Yeah, hopefully a non smoker! lol 🔥 😱
I wondered where the words in disco inferno came from "burn ..baby burn"
Imagine printing a whole page just with the letter "k" when you receive a reply to a question?! 😂😂😂😂
I'm surprised how similar the VR headset looks compared to a modern one. If only this show had lasted to this day.
And if the tie malfunctioned and told everyone you had the clap, you’d never come back from that
It's very meta watching an 80s clip about future predictions in 2023, which looked back with wry amusement at the 60s, which we are doing now at both the 60s and 80s ideas lol. I absolutely loved the male model from the 80s just totally hilarious, and Howard Stableford was always great, very light and funny and slightly bemused about it all.
Such a great show as a kid, I loved it, for science nuts like me and yet never alienated the general public, it made tech accessible and fun.
That ear bud prediction is amazing
The tie would have worked well during covid. Lol
Its interesting how in 1965, they couldn't predict life in 1987, due to key elements in technological advancements such as the microprocessor/microchips that even the most forward thinking people at the time couldn't predict, but in 1987 they could predict 2009 a lot more accurately due to most of those key technological advancements mostly made in the 70's and 80's.
it was pretty accurate even down to the apple vision pro.
@@purefoldnz3070 we've had VR far before the apple vision pro you know?
@@benw-l7kThat's correct but it's the widespread adoption, not inclusively invention, that was predicted.
It’s impressive how close those predictions were. It’s almost like looking at an alternate present through the eyes of the 80’s.
It’s a shame the show was cancelled before they could do the 2007 episode he promised.
Predictions were close?? What are you even talking about, none of this happened unless you start stretching out the definitions of what we currently have in order to fit this narrative. And nope, that's not a smart watch they are talking about, it's way more a phone but at that time they didn't really see portable phones becoming what they are now.
This is what writer Mark Fisher called "Lost Futures", what happens when all the predicted years of old days come to pass and nothing actually advanced in that direction? The 1950s futurist prediction of flying cars now looks dated and retro, even though at some point it was a plausible prediction for the cutting edge technology of the 21st century.
We have smart watches, VR, continues glucose monitoring devices. @@flybeep1661
@@flybeep1661I think it was a sarcastic comment 😂
@@flybeep1661 I guess if you mean that this didn't happen by 2007 you're correct. But compared to today, there were some close predictions. The printer in a briefcase obviously didn't happen, because they didn't predict smartphones and small high res screens that would make that obsolete. However, they predicted wearable tech - a smart watch and health trackers, the form was incorrect, but the idea was there. AR/VR glasses/headsets like the XReal, Quest 3, Vision Pro, on which you can watch TV are a currently developing technology that already exists. I'm actually typing this using such a device. Thermosensitive clothing is still in development, but could be here in the future.
Very close! The portable printer is now a pdf reader on a tablet; the health monitor is now a smartwatch and app; the video watch is now a smartphone which many people use on public transport. It's great to see yesterday's predictions of what is now and near-now!
And the 3D TV is kind of a thing, you have 3D cardboard for your phone, or actual VR for computers, it's just that they're still quite expensive
The video watch is an apple watch
@@carrot708 Oh really?? You watch vids on your smartwatch then huh?? Nope, the video watch is a smartphone and they totally missed the ball by using a watch for that idea. Btw, most people don't wear watches today, only a minority and even those that do don't necessarily wear smartwatches.
The video watch is now Apple Vision Pro.
No, a portable printer exist.
4:39 He put the "3D TV" goggles on the wrong way round!
he didnt
1987 was the coolest year of modern times!
3:15, Howard the secret metal head 😈🤘🏼🤘🏼
I'm pretty sure he wore the 3d headset backwards
Astonishingly, I remember seeing this live on BBC, some 36 years ago.
💪🔥👍
Although implemented differently, these predictions were pretty close! The fingerprint recognition is a thing now, just that it's called biometrics now. The watch is a smartwatch but uses the internet instead of a satellite link. I did see portable printers in the 2000s, small battery-operated things but they weren't around for that long, as others said in the comments here that transferring of PDFs takes precedent now. For watching TV or movies while on public transport, it would be a phone or tablet instead of a VR headset
And now we have AR headset - Apple Vision Pro
What they didn't predict, was the demise of 'Tomorrows World' so no review in 2007.
His futuristic watch was a Seiko TV Watch from 1982 😂
I wanted one
In 1987 the BBC couldn't even predict a large hurricane heading straight towards them across the atlantic, let alone what we'd be wearing in the twenty first century.
😆 Yes , Don't forget they DID know about the '87 Hurricane as Michael Fish said :
" Apparently , a woman rang the BBC and told us there was a hurricane on the way...don't worry, there isn't"
So, it was pompousness and ignorance that put lives at danger . Cheers BBC ..
Fun to look back to see people trying to look forward.😊
Maggie Philbin has pretty nice hair in this clip, thanks for sharing!
The irony is that those that 60s fashions are not a bad approximation of what the look of the early 21st Century has been, with a very bold use of pattern, elaborate hair and make up, and even the "Bluetooth" earrings are not so far off. The 80s love of texture, layering and neutral colours looks much more dated.
I used to love watching Tomorrow's World - a wonderful part of my childhood.
Lovely to watch clips of it again - even the ones when their predictions were wide of the mark.
Their 1987 predictions were really good.
keep it up with uploading in 50p. It's so refreshing to see archival videotape material being uploaded properly and not filmized.
At 4'45 in we can clearly see the genius of Tomorrow's World for predicting the Meta Quest 3 all those years back - shame they couldn't predict which way round users would have to wear it tho 🙄
The VR googles, smartwatch were good predictions, and they sort of got the virtual doctor doctor right. A home printer in the mid 1990s was a futuristic thing "desktop publishing" was all the rage. But Portable printers did exist 20 years later in 2007 but people are trying to go paperless mainly using PDFs with digital signatures. Printers are still quite common in the 2023 office. But many organizations leased not owned due to the $100K cost. And even more now have consolidated them to just have one shared printer per floor not dozens per floor.
eink displays are kinda portable printers
That's great, a tie that can tell everyone around you how sick you are :D
Every clip I've seen of this show had surprisingly accurate predictions. They must've had good researchers.
It's also incredibly important to treasure these shows so we can see how far we've come. It's so easy to take for granted that I'm watching this on my 7" smartphone, listening with my true wireless earbuds and I can cast the video instantly to my 65" TV. Because the tech has developed over time it's not like we've suddenly got all these cool gadgets, it's taken a few decades to get here.
No
Carrying a printer to get messages and a tv to watch..... I think a smart phone might be a bit more practical lol
And now, in the future, I wear linen and cotton clothes in summer and wool and cotton in the winter! As for all the fancy tech: the cell phone is more than enough!
3:20 😂 Greetings 20th century people. (Very Bill & Ted)
if only the BBC would bring this back!
5 days after this was broadcast I was born. I can safely say, bring back the 80's, the best decade in every way
So you lived through 3 years of the 80s, which you likely do not remember, and can safely say that it was the best decade? I lived through it all, and can safely say that it was not.
@@GeeEee75 What a silly thing to say. One can only judge how good or bad something was if they were there to remember it? I am an 80's baby through and through. I grew up all things 80's - music, comedy's, movies. It doesn't matter one bit if it was the 90's by the time I got to know the 80's. You are talking to a complete geek here, I've watched pretty much every Margaret Thatcher documentary there is on here. I know my stuff. The 80's was amazing. The technology revolution paved the way for what we have now. I can certainly agree with you that the 80's had it's bad, Thatcher being one of them but the rest imo was pretty good, I'm a millennial, there's Gen Z's born way after me gushing about the 80's.
@@Caz_2087@Caz_2087 The decade that brought us AIDS, mass privatization, the greed is good attitude, Reagan and Thatcher, famine across Africa and Stock, Aitken and Waterman. I stand by my assertion. If you weren't there, you don't really know what it was like.
3:51 He is right!
Everything went better than expected
I remember one show explained velcro and ask will it catch on.
Quite literally!
Velcro has me hooked!
"A quick whipe with a demp clorth". Love the old BBC accent. The national broadcaster choosing a standard accent spoken by absolutely no-one in the whole nation is just such an amusingly daft idea.
I love that 10lb portable printer
4:53 🤩🤩🤩
That tie is sick!
Lovely Maggie Philbin 😍
At 02:08, close-up of the presenter's hand. It is evident, this woman has a cat. ))
She also had Keith Chegwin for a husband.
I love how these shows always predict 20 years in the future will be some dystopian futuristic alien landscape when in reality just our clothes and haircuts are different
Well, 1987 predictions are somehow close to what we have now.
Wrong
The earrings was actually pretty close to earbuds.
And the headset TV is like VR today.
I love it!
Portable Doctor, Now we are so advanced you can't even get a Doctor 😂
How very , very true.
They did not see that one comeing or Covid - 19 for that fact 😂.
The mobile printers were a thing for a long time in the 90s
"...you could make notes all over yourself..." well they were certainly correct with the rise in the popularity of tattoos.
@Geddy lee Hammersley…Brilliantly said!
He put his 3d TV on back to front.
That 80's equivalent of a smartwatch is actually pretty cool! And many of the features of the health monitor can now be found in... the smartwatch of today. So they were actually pretty much on the money with this one. Even those ghastly Meta VR headsets bare a striking resemblance to that 3d personal TV. I'm impressed how close they were with this one. The only thing they hadn't picked up in then, surprisingly, is how the internet would soon change....... EVERYTHING!
Imagine wearing this tie to work and everyone sees that you're one sick f.
he was right apple vision is here
The reason why they got the future wrong, is because they did not look out for the trends that was apparent right in front of them.
They did not take into account the the exponential power of the digital realm, which gave use the Internet and smartphones, the cultural impact of global music which affects fashion, climate change, war, and retro culture and traditional fashion from other countries such as Japan, China, Nigeria South Korea, and African America.
Brilliant. Execution-ally different but conceptually close.
I loved thar show too. Xx
This man 🤘
A lot more time has transpired since 1987 than the time prior all the way back to the original show!
Hand and face recognition it accurate
Fingerprint recognition does indeed exist and so do smart watches and virtual reality. It's cool that he also predicted the mobile use of the internet, a network of computers indeed!
I only use facial recognition. Where was that?
@@johnp139 3:42
It's hard to predict the future on a technological level because it doesn't take into account social changes which influence and are influenced by it. Things which are not entirely controllable or predictable.
Not to mention the Ai putting a video on your personal device for you to watch.
Tomorrows person became an avid consumer of todays mass-produced souless trends.
Because of the pace of developments these days, I suspect Tomorrows World would literally mean tomorrow’s world, if it were ever rebooted
I'm still waiting for that portable message printer to receive my tweets.
Mobile printers are going to take the mobile phone market by storm
But no hoverboards!
I really wasn’t expecting to hear King Tut by Paul Hardcastle in this
better than google glass
Even a year ago we didnt know AGI would exist. It exists now and is about to be released. The world is about to change drastically. You will see.
VR was already a thing in 1987 so the headgear isn’t much of a stretch. Ditto for the wireless internet
3:06 that girl outfit was definitely the 2000s supermodel look even down to her makeup, that's the most accurate but I just assume because it already existed and never stopped since that time. The rest of the predictions are a given because that's where we were headed anyway back then to the point that somebody would always make an advertisement of please make this thing soon every year and the only difference would be how it looked but it'll always be:
Smartwatch
Portable computer
Internet/Connectivity
Smart clothing
Video conferencing
Virtual reality
Robots
Smart vehicles
A.I.
It's easy to predict this future cause frankly they never stopped trying to manifest it since the 60s really. They might not had known what it'll look like, what it'll do to society or how it'll work but it was on the list fasho and I'm glad I live in this timeline to finally check off that entire list even though A.I. is still the baby of the group, it is here so ✅
Exactly!
Close!
3:01 wow that guy look like someone from present time. 😮😮
Apple Vision Pro. 4:50 😅😅
At least he got the suit correct.
Bring back tomorrow's world
Funny. Why would you want to print the message you received? They were so printer happy back in those days 😂
Boomers. They cannot receive a document without wanting to print it out.🙄😂
Just like micro chips It was imposible to guess the cloud at that time, on the other side, watching this after apple vision pro recently came out I got goosebumps. I guess the concept was always there but not technologicaly posible.
Thermosensitive suit. Absorbs heat to keep you cool, releases it when your cold. A bit like my storage heaters at home. They don't flipping work, the suit won't either!
EXACTLY!!!!! STUPID IGNORANT CONCEPT!!!! DEFIES PHYSICS!!!!
Smart watch... check... mobile printer... we were so innocent back then.
Ppl in 1987 : people will casually drive in a flying cars
Ppl in 2024 : plastic in the ballsack
The most realistic. assertion
Of future. Living
Tom Cruise The Minority report. Sci fi came to life
with AI. Neuro science.
1987. everywhere. access
TV. was a dream. ...lol
we evolved into the future.
Fun to look back. ✌️
No one ever said the woman of the future was an undateable nightmare. Thats a lose then for TW.
They also didn't predict you couldn't call a girl a girl in the future.
Fun !
Didn't predict tomorrow's girl saying ' like ' every other word & being larger from fast/ processed food
Predicted the apple vision pro
as soon as i've warned people about 9/11 i'm taking my time machine to the tomorrows world studio to warn them about micro plastics
Better tell them about uncle Jimmy while you're there........actually don't bother, they already knew!
@@dean6816Underrated comment!
Tbh honest they got alot right.
"Carrying my office with me" is basically laptops /tablets ....We do have smart watches that connect to everything and those 3D glasses are here aswell.
loved tommorow's world well done bbc ;)
How ever did the fashon for the girls not take off LOl
In the future, people will be dressed like they are shopping at Walmart.
so amazing, nowadays we got AI and ML with robots doing work of humans and AI is taking over
plastic is a curse of the modern age with now moved into the disposable clothing age culture of buying clothes that are disposable you buy them, wear them a few times and then discard them
Smart Mobile
They got the lashes right