1988: BEHOLD - Your FUTURE HOME! | Blue Peter | Past Predictions | BBC Archive 1651pm 16.10.24 mark curry looking reet up to speed with his all in one Compo race yer in a bath outfit... o!! worthy of a spazzy door slam, there... cheers for that. that very uncomfortable rest, i wouldn't call it a seat, can be found in rochdale bus station. probably installed to stop beggers sleeping on the benches... all very uncomfortable less than utilitarian and useless. all very 2000AD fully integrated crud!!! everyone stopped eating their tea when MC gave us the less than palatable impression of him having a turn out, blue all in one round his feet...
in the 1950's it was predicted technology would do all the work and people would have more leisure time. but technolgy was designe to track people set targets and measure their work so you can work more for longer and put more pressure on people so you can never take a break
@@phililpbgood to know where it went wrong though I guess... So, who can we hold accountable for this direction change in path? I want names.😤 Look at what we should be doing / having! (Fun, leisure & love)🪩
@@phililpbyeah, and the technology of today and the future is all geared to putting us out of a job so we can’t afford to do anything in our leisure time
Nicely put. To be fair, I was watching it thinking ‘yeah, we got that’ a few times, just all in one or two devices. Some of the things were very funny and seemed to be born out of the writer’s pet peeves
What I find amazing is how many of these things just got replaced with the mobile phone…. they would marvel at the super computer in our pocket that doesn’t need to be plugged into a wall
Back then the CRAY supercomputer was the fastest computer a new iPhone 16 is about as fast as an early 2000s supercomputer and uses less than 7 watts instead of hundreds of kw
Indeed. if you could offer the average Englishman a time travel back to live out the rest of their days in the 80s and 90s, the streets now would be empty.
No, but there have been people predicting it ever since crony capitalism became the sacred buffalo. In another 35 years, people will be amazed that we didn't have to take out a bank loan to run potable water.
@@stevebishop1161 Housing prices are inaccessible to a lot more people now than in the 1980s. Inflation and homelessness are an epidemic all across the western world. I'm from Ireland. In the 80s we were dirt poor but everyone had a home. Now we're supposedly rich and yet we have a housing crisis and people living in tents in the middle of Dublin.
I did industrial design at uni in the early 90s and this is exactly the kind of stuff people used to come up with for the "blue sky thinking" project where we had more freedom to imagine not-yet-invented tech... I came up with a digital camera built into a pair of futuristic looking binoculars 😂
Little knowing that hers involved going around empty houses, believing the bull5h1t from an old Scouse fraud and his imaginary N.American "pal in the afterlife"
@@frankshailes3205 Aha a real live "mug's eyeful"! My dad picked up an Amstrad 'hifi' second-hand in the 90s when we were really cash-strapped. It must have been virtually free - and it was awful. You might be interested in Techmoan's video essay on these cheap and nasty Amstrad gizmos from back in the days when the UK was quite capable of making its own electronic junk rather than having to import it - th-cam.com/video/Zqzrm_4_B94/w-d-xo.html
broaden your mind; crystal ball technology that they posit are the phones we all carry with us. We literally can and do synthesize any instrument in digital form, for example Wii Music, and the idea of clothing being embedded with technology was superseded by again, phones.
All that happened was that all of the separate entertainment systems at the start (hi-fi, video camera, tv, video recorder, computer) just ended up in your phone.
@@BOZ_11and voice recognition technology, and electronic encyclopaedia. In fact, the one critical thing that's really missing here is the explosion of the internet. That changed everything, and began with the first public access to the web only three years after this programme aired.
What this shows is that hardly anybody ever really has a clue about the future. One thing they definitely did get spot on though, in concept at least, was the coat with built in homing device and memory. Technology built into absolutely everything is now very much a thing.
No, "design students at art college" don't have a clue about the future. They are who came up with all these ideas (as she says at 0:46). There are interviews with Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov from decades before where they talk about what THEY think will be in the future and their predictions are far more accurate... because these are people who understand technology, understand the rate of progress in technology, and aren't just vomiting out random "futuristic" sounding ideas.
@@mccann82 They were all made for a degree course. Them being shown on Blue Peter or Tomorrow's World is irrelevant. "Yeah, scrap the pocket-sized touch-screen supercomputer idea, kids will find that BORING, lets go with the adjustable toilet..."
@@CatsAreRubbish The designs may have been quite wacky but several of the ideas were fairly accurate. Instantly looking up information on a small screen. Computer controlled kitchen/home devices. GPS tracking for items. Voice control in the home. All quite familar now?
Watching Blue Peter on the settee in athleisurewear, not once going outside or appearing to have any kind of job to do, surrounded by faux marble interior and focused on home decor and hobbies you can do/buy from home - this is somewhat accurate to 2020 (apart from the real life interaction, of course!) X
I know! At least they avoided the color silver. Also predicting future fashion is so pointless anyway because it often has little to do with technology.
Utilitarianism. You can either predict future people will be utilitarian or fashion will be eccentric in a new way, and there are fewer ways to do utilitarian clothing styles so you're more likely to be right.
They didn't predict that we actually went backwards, Life was so much better and easier in the 80's. There was so much hope for the future back then, and now I dread to think what awaits humanity in the future now.
Aw these two!!!! Very young me was randomly obsessed with Mark Curry (my mum bumped in to him and got his autograph - I was an adult by that point ha). Caron Keating as wellllllllll
I accidentally smashed my scroll three days ago, then i dialed up a new one. Its projection is still pretty fuzzy when I put my crystal ball on it, the kinks aren't entirely worked yet, hopefully the projection will clear up. Thanks for the test run BBC.
Credit where its due, they got the digital saxophone idea pretty much spot on. I have almost exactly that in my studio, and can use the midi signal with pretty much any plugin to play any instrument
I haven't seen anything trying to predict what life will be like in 2050. Probably because the one thing we have learned in the last 30 years is that predicting future tech is futile, but funny.
The way the world has slowed down since the 90s, seeming to change but not really changing) tells me things won't be very different from what they are today and it's boooooring.
I did count many predictions that actually came true by 2020: Wikipedia, portable video projectors, persistent weather report screen devices, electrically-rechargeable temperature-regulating clothing, geo-locator tags, wearable telecommunication devices, and voice-command appliances.
I was one of their viewers at the time. It now looks hilarious, we now carry everything that they showed in that tech piece, in our pocket (well except the microwave). We are so much more advanced than they thought. Mind you, that pocket jobby to tell you where your keys are and what is in your pockets would come in handy every day of my life 😂
Just loving the typical lazy comments about rubbish predictions , none of that came true , etc. It all starts with ideas , noone really can predict anything but can be fun imagining what could be.
There was a great radio show (at TH-cam btw) from the 50s that featured "futurists" who weren't into predicting silly ideas but rather guessing what problems or challenges we might have in the future and then how we might deal with them. They didn't go into specifics but rather how people might react to them. The video aged rather well.
The funny thing is, all the appliances she mentions at the start except the microwave are no one device that you keep in your pocket. They didn’t see that coming either
Aside from carrying all the knowledge and music you could ever want in a small device that fits in your pocket and being able to make video calls, everything is pretty much the same as it was in 1988. Clothes haven't changed much, furniture is still the same just slightly different designs, and we still have copper wiring in the walls and appliances need to be plugged in, cars still run on the road not in the sky. All these fantastical ideas that came to nothing in the end. Overall the future has been quite a let down.
I agree. The world stopped in the 90s and it's nothing but more of the same, really. In some cases, things have been exacerbated. Where are the flying cars?
To be fair, airfryers are probably the only newish foodie trend that seems spaceage from an 80s perspective. And there is wireless charging of phones in some places, usb cords to charge your phone on the bus (in London anyway) and contactless payments. I'm happy they didn't think of the concept of crypto currency nor NFTs in the 80s, it would have been terribly depressing
Thinking about it now, I'm kinda disappointed in things that were bubbling to the surface 10 years ago that didn't deliver of on their initial promise. 3D printing at home, drone delivery and so on. Also there was a lot of talk around 2013/14 of 3d printing personalized treatment for cancer in the form of cancer eating viruses, and the cost of mapping the entire human genome fell by an order of magnitude. We're still working on improving lithium batteries (batteries are in fact the biggest bottleneck in tech improvement right now) as graphene, which was seen as a miracle material, hasn't really produced much either in terms of commercially available products etc
Oh yes, this is the gleaming, bright, clean and shiny future where everyone is young and slim and wearing skin tight clothing. Plus disco dancing legs and a bit of levitation! Love it.
The dog wandering around is accurate… athleisure wear ✅ wireless charging (ish) ✅ clothing with location services (watch, airpod) ✅ voice recognition (but maybe not to levitate… semi check), all in one food processor (thermomix)✅, but thankfully those awful kneeling chairs never took off as couches…. And the adjustable toilet….. hmmmm
That looks like my Hifi now. I just use a phono jack into my Ipod touch. So I can play my vinyl, my cassettes (if I still had any), my CDs and my Ipod on one system The sound is incredible.
Ha so much effort went into that and none came true. Technology evolved in such a different way and one that wasn’t conceivable when I was a child watching Blue Peter then.
Agree, how can such a locked down backward looking establishment even try to predict the future. The British people are on the most forwards looking but are held back by the powers that be and the crown.
"I'm wearing the type of clothes you might wear in the year 2020", he says, sporting the most 1980's outfit I've ever seen 😅
Tight nylon jump suit. Ohhh, very future…😂
1988: BEHOLD - Your FUTURE HOME! | Blue Peter | Past Predictions | BBC Archive 1651pm 16.10.24 mark curry looking reet up to speed with his all in one Compo race yer in a bath outfit... o!! worthy of a spazzy door slam, there... cheers for that. that very uncomfortable rest, i wouldn't call it a seat, can be found in rochdale bus station. probably installed to stop beggers sleeping on the benches... all very uncomfortable less than utilitarian and useless. all very 2000AD fully integrated crud!!! everyone stopped eating their tea when MC gave us the less than palatable impression of him having a turn out, blue all in one round his feet...
😂😂😂
@@gra-emed3617 ???/??
It's like a blue gimp outfit.
Little did they know in 2020 we were all sitting around in our PJs all day, eating takeaways and binge watching tv, locked in our houses 😂
I think they nailed it: 5:20
😂😂😂@@rosstee
What's tv?
...or watching garbage on youtube.
😂😂😂😂 brilliant
It’s 2024 in the UK and although we work 50 berjillion hours a week, we struggle to afford heating, housing and cheese. They didn’t predict that.
in the 1950's it was predicted technology would do all the work and people would have more leisure time. but technolgy was designe to track people set targets and measure their work so you can work more for longer and put more pressure on people so you can never take a break
@@phililpbgood to know where it went wrong though I guess...
So, who can we hold accountable for this direction change in path? I want names.😤
Look at what we should be doing / having! (Fun, leisure & love)🪩
We really do think alot about ourselves
yeah but we sent billions for war....
@@phililpbyeah, and the technology of today and the future is all geared to putting us out of a job so we can’t afford to do anything in our leisure time
Who's watching this on their crystal ball, dressed in a jumpsuit playing a woodwind synthesizer? I am.
2 out of 3
Me, I won't lie. The cat's giving me some funny looks...
😂😂😂
I'm levitating at the moment as I'm not very musical.
I've got my tin foil hat on constantly.
RIP Carol Keating. She never made it to 2020, she died in 2004
@@rachelhowson6595 her name was caron not karen ...
So sad. I had a massive crush on her when I was a kid.
And she didn’t predict that?
I met ivette fielding once, I was actually on blue peter riding off road motorcycles 😎
Carol coating
Nothing ages faster than our vision of the future.
aged like sour milk....
Good comment.
Only because the next generation has failed to keep up with our vision.
Konnie Huq's husband.. Hold my beer.
Nicely put. To be fair, I was watching it thinking ‘yeah, we got that’ a few times, just all in one or two devices. Some of the things were very funny and seemed to be born out of the writer’s pet peeves
What I find amazing is how many of these things just got replaced with the mobile phone…. they would marvel at the super computer in our pocket that doesn’t need to be plugged into a wall
Still waiting for my bloody flying car though....
@@TheDaern And jet packs
That was their prediction for what 2120 will have in store
Back then the CRAY supercomputer was the fastest computer
a new iPhone 16 is about as fast as an early 2000s supercomputer and uses less than 7 watts instead of hundreds of kw
True mate
Caron Keating was stunning. So sad she didn't live to see 2020.
What happened, she was my age !? Not too old 😮
She died of breast cancer whilst still young. Terrible shame
I was thinking how sad it was that Karen had presented this but never saw 2020.
Exactly and she kept her diagnosis so private.so sad
So sad 😞
Sat here in my blue jumpsuit and sweat band thinking, “how did they know!?!”
😂😂😂
Bahahaha 😂
I'm sat here in my blue jump suit thinking I could really do with a piss right now.
...that I like to wear tights at home with my Husband! 🤣
Caron Keating was gorgeous. Left us way too young...
Absolutely true. 😢
So, so true
She never got to 2020 or anywhere near it poor woman RIP
@@digitalmediafan I was just thinking the same thing 😢
Yes definitely
The last thing you expected back then was that in the 2020s you would be praying to go back 30 years.
Indeed. if you could offer the average Englishman a time travel back to live out the rest of their days in the 80s and 90s, the streets now would be empty.
Too true!
Thats just a nostalgic yearning for days you hold dear. People often feel like that for the era they grew up in, I feel a bit like that for the 90’s.
I can confirm, I started wearing blue lycra suits in 2020 and I've never looked back
A Mamil ?
(Middle Aged Man In Lycra)
we call em cyclists where im from
@@_Dougaldog only in the pleasure of my own home
is that because the fashion police broke your neck?
Very 80s fashion lol
They didn't predict by 2020 people couldn't afford a home.
No, but there have been people predicting it ever since crony capitalism became the sacred buffalo. In another 35 years, people will be amazed that we didn't have to take out a bank loan to run potable water.
Said the tens of thousands buying homes every year😅
@@stevebishop1161 this
@@stevebishop1161 Housing prices are inaccessible to a lot more people now than in the 1980s. Inflation and homelessness are an epidemic all across the western world. I'm from Ireland. In the 80s we were dirt poor but everyone had a home. Now we're supposedly rich and yet we have a housing crisis and people living in tents in the middle of Dublin.
@@stevebishop1161 You know nothing.
"In 2020, you won't be allowed outside!"
so glad the levitation room worked out for us all.
Well, the designers were obviously high on something when they came up with an the things in this video..
Sadly I’m left behind, my home is not complete
I often dream of having the ability to levitate and when I wake up, I feel disappointed.
@@civlyzed- I feel let down.
@@AtheistOrphan Well deserved upvote, I shoulda thought of that! :D
Ha, those silly people in the '80s didn't even know about the three sea shells!
The last time I tried to use one of those toilets, they had to call in the demolition man afterwards
@@fredsmith1970 What you get for eating Taoo Bell!
Damnit Larry. You're always beating me to it.
Hello you!
You don’t know how the three sea shells work either cos Demolition Man is set in 2032
Incredible, everything they predicted was 100% spot on! Apart from my one piece Lycra suit which is red.
In 2020 some people wish to go back to 1989. Those were good days.
Nostalgia is a hellova drug!
2020 looking more ‘80s than the actual ‘80s.
I was absolutely in love with Caron back in the day 🥰
Sad they don't predict in 2020 there will be a shortage of toilet paper😢
They predicted that we would use 3 seashells instead.
The blue nylon jumpsuit takes care of it for you. Any time you feel the urge, just let 'er rip.
There wouldn't have been a shortage if greedy self-important people hadn't gone out and bought it all for themselves.
I wipe mine with lasers.
Housing Crises 2020, depressed people, no more good film production/dramas/music
Currently watching this on my watch
😂
I can't even afford to heat a room nevermind levitate it.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
At least you can afford a room. Greetings from a tent. 🇬🇧🏕️📱🐈⬛
@brexitgreens how do you stay warm, hand sanitizer and cooking oil are good for emergency fuel for heat and cooking.
@@brexitgreens how do you keep warm?
Well you won't, not with that attitude.
It's obvious this stuff is from art school students and not scientists or engineers but the aesthetic is not far off!
I did industrial design at uni in the early 90s and this is exactly the kind of stuff people used to come up with for the "blue sky thinking" project where we had more freedom to imagine not-yet-invented tech... I came up with a digital camera built into a pair of futuristic looking binoculars 😂
Ace! Miss the 80’s and 90’s. Simple times. Nostalgia is so bitter sweet ❤
Ironically the music then was better than now and we’re still listening to it
Mark Curry one of my favourite presenters he was so funny! Loved him and Caron
Yvette fielding " Future indeed what a load of rubbish" absolutely spot on . 😊
Little knowing that hers involved going around empty houses, believing the bull5h1t from an old Scouse fraud and his imaginary N.American "pal in the afterlife"
She went the other way, ghosting the past..what a load of rubbish!
She just shat on the whole segment 😂
0:26 literally everything in shot except the microwave and the headphones is now done on a little box we anachronistically call a 'phone'.
OMG I still have that Amstrad "Hi-Fi"!
@@frankshailes3205 Aha a real live "mug's eyeful"! My dad picked up an Amstrad 'hifi' second-hand in the 90s when we were really cash-strapped. It must have been virtually free - and it was awful. You might be interested in Techmoan's video essay on these cheap and nasty Amstrad gizmos from back in the days when the UK was quite capable of making its own electronic junk rather than having to import it - th-cam.com/video/Zqzrm_4_B94/w-d-xo.html
@@frankshailes3205 Does it still work?
Aaaw poor Carol Keating she was lovely bless her RIP thoughts to you Gloria ❤
We all die. Poor us?
@brexitgreens when you lose as many as i have mate then you will see
Hard to believe Caron Keating died 20 years ago.
Not a single true prediction. What a great accomplishment.
Wind synthesizers are a thing, but apparently they were already a thing in 1988.
What are your predictions for the home of 2050 Les?
@@krisbarr5663I predict he'll still be a smug killjoy...
broaden your mind; crystal ball technology that they posit are the phones we all carry with us. We literally can and do synthesize any instrument in digital form, for example Wii Music, and the idea of clothing being embedded with technology was superseded by again, phones.
@@krisbarr5663 We will definitely have sentient robots as our room mates.
All that happened was that all of the separate entertainment systems at the start (hi-fi, video camera, tv, video recorder, computer) just ended up in your phone.
and tracking device!
Mine also has a food processor
Or your phone ended up in them.
@@BOZ_11and voice recognition technology, and electronic encyclopaedia. In fact, the one critical thing that's really missing here is the explosion of the internet. That changed everything, and began with the first public access to the web only three years after this programme aired.
@@mike18699-e nope, the killer app for the internet was the WWW. It was publicly released in 1994, several years after this.
Such a well-chosen clip! Bravo, BBC Archive.
What this shows is that hardly anybody ever really has a clue about the future. One thing they definitely did get spot on though, in concept at least, was the coat with built in homing device and memory. Technology built into absolutely everything is now very much a thing.
No, "design students at art college" don't have a clue about the future. They are who came up with all these ideas (as she says at 0:46). There are interviews with Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov from decades before where they talk about what THEY think will be in the future and their predictions are far more accurate... because these are people who understand technology, understand the rate of progress in technology, and aren't just vomiting out random "futuristic" sounding ideas.
@@CatsAreRubbishIt’s Blue Peter mate, a kids show, not tomorrow’s world. I think a bit of fun was the gist.
@@mccann82 They were all made for a degree course. Them being shown on Blue Peter or Tomorrow's World is irrelevant.
"Yeah, scrap the pocket-sized touch-screen supercomputer idea, kids will find that BORING, lets go with the adjustable toilet..."
@@CatsAreRubbish The designs may have been quite wacky but several of the ideas were fairly accurate. Instantly looking up information on a small screen. Computer controlled kitchen/home devices. GPS tracking for items. Voice control in the home. All quite familar now?
When you next watch 2001: A Space Odyssey, keep a look out for the iPads.
The utterly lovely Caron Keating who so sadly died from cancer in 2004, aged 41.
karen was such a beautiful woman taken too soon rest in peace ❤❤🙏🙏
yes she was, its spelt caron.....
@@MrHarmer19 I know that!! It was a mistake !!!! Goodness have you never made a error guess not !!!
I've made plenty over my time 😂
What a beatiful woman Caron was, inside and out. She only lived 16 years after this was filmed... gone far too early
The funny thing is…this is more like what kids in 2024 think the 80s were like.
0:22 Everything portable (except microwave)
1:31 Weird chairs
1:40 Wireless Charging
2:15 Computerised Kitchenware
2:32 5D memory crystal data storage (not there yet)
2:51 Exo skeleton exerciser
3:15 Synth Orchestra
3:33 Adjustable toilet height (nope, maybe Japanese Bidet?)
3:52 Automated coat heater + LCD
3:59 Wearable Device & smart pocket + airtag keys
4:37 Speech recognition homepod
4:50 Levitation (nope)
Makita make a battery, portable microwave
Gosh, I remember watching Blue Peter around this time. Caron Keating was lovely. R.I.P. 😥
Apart from the Microwave, everything on that desk next to Caron is in my phone. They didn't predict that....
I can't wait till they put a microwave in a phone.
And we can connect coming devices to our phones too.
@@therealyogibear2k225 The microwaves are emitted by the phone, if you believe David Icke😂
Spot on! ...I was just about to type the same 😂
Almost everything David icke predicted has come true
Watching Blue Peter on the settee in athleisurewear, not once going outside or appearing to have any kind of job to do, surrounded by faux marble interior and focused on home decor and hobbies you can do/buy from home - this is somewhat accurate to 2020 (apart from the real life interaction, of course!) X
RIP Caron Keating - only 41 years when she passed from breast cancer 🤍
A common theme throughout my 57 years of life has been depictions of a future where jump suits are compulsory attire in all situations. Why?????
I know! At least they avoided the color silver. Also predicting future fashion is so pointless anyway because it often has little to do with technology.
Utilitarianism. You can either predict future people will be utilitarian or fashion will be eccentric in a new way, and there are fewer ways to do utilitarian clothing styles so you're more likely to be right.
form-fitting + shiny = rational + synthetic
@@brexitgreens nah
it's jumpsuit (flightsuit) = space = scifi = future
@@skyworm8006 Possibly.
They didn't predict that we actually went backwards, Life was so much better and easier in the 80's. There was so much hope for the future back then, and now I dread to think what awaits humanity in the future now.
Love Yvette’s comment “what a load of rubbish” 😂😂
Can confirm in 2024 im using a crystal ball that's projecting this very TH-cam video and im levitating
2:05 that food processor looks like something thatd be fighting Optimus Prime
Aw these two!!!! Very young me was randomly obsessed with Mark Curry (my mum bumped in to him and got his autograph - I was an adult by that point ha). Caron Keating as wellllllllll
Nailed it.
😂
I keep expecting the Doctor and Ace to burst through the far end of the shot with the Candyman chasing them.
Funnily enough, I’m currently watching this in my levitation room! 😂
This also makes me think of "Look Around You", like a lost episode
I accidentally smashed my scroll three days ago, then i dialed up a new one. Its projection is still pretty fuzzy when I put my crystal ball on it, the kinks aren't entirely worked yet, hopefully the projection will clear up. Thanks for the test run BBC.
Edit: Its all clear now I just needed to go to settings
Aw the gorgeous Caron Keating, she passed away so young 👍🇮🇪 always loved her mum too.
Apart from Daphne from Scooby-do, Caron Keating was my first crush.
I liked Yvette Fielding back then.
Did you really?
You had a crush on Scooby-Do?!
@@sharpvidtube Jenny Powell for me.
Credit where its due, they got the digital saxophone idea pretty much spot on. I have almost exactly that in my studio, and can use the midi signal with pretty much any plugin to play any instrument
God bless you Karon, your Mom was from my home town, Portadown Co’ Armagh NI ❤
Well, they were certainly bang on about the Disco Dancing Legs (such a shame they’re now banned).
The situp bench. Brilliant invention. We don't lounge on them, but it's very useful for getting in shape Mr. Blue bodysuit man.
I haven't seen anything trying to predict what life will be like in 2050. Probably because the one thing we have learned in the last 30 years is that predicting future tech is futile, but funny.
The way the world has slowed down since the 90s, seeming to change but not really changing) tells me things won't be very different from what they are today and it's boooooring.
@@CrazyMazapan We'll all be dead.
Movies show depictions of 2050 all the time.
Who would have thought that knees would ruin the need for adjustable height toilets?!
5:38 Bonnie sniffing Willow's bum...
"What are you two doing?" 😹
Willow was in heat, poor thing 😅
Well done from remembering the pet’s names, which cat was it that ran away as soon as the camera came near it?
They didn't predict in 2020 we'd be baking sourdough and stockpiling loo roll though.
0:16 those first items she listed apart from the microwave we all carry in our pockets on one small device
The radio looks like something they could have made in 1970.
I did count many predictions that actually came true by 2020: Wikipedia, portable video projectors, persistent weather report screen devices, electrically-rechargeable temperature-regulating clothing, geo-locator tags, wearable telecommunication devices, and voice-command appliances.
The cat in heat at the end 😂
I saw this comment and had to rewind, too funny! 😹 borderline feline babestation 🙈
I was one of their viewers at the time. It now looks hilarious, we now carry everything that they showed in that tech piece, in our pocket (well except the microwave). We are so much more advanced than they thought.
Mind you, that pocket jobby to tell you where your keys are and what is in your pockets would come in handy every day of my life 😂
You can buy tracking tags to attach to anything these days, so that would be quite possible for your keys and was a pretty good prediction!
RIP Caron Keating
Clicked on Caron Keating got Mark Currie
Displaying how lunch boxes would be portable in the future
The ol' bait and switch
When I go to my parents' house, I literally sit on the exact same toilet I did back in 1988 when I was a child.
Just loving the typical lazy comments about rubbish predictions , none of that came true , etc. It all starts with ideas , noone really can predict anything but can be fun imagining what could be.
There was a great radio show (at TH-cam btw) from the 50s that featured "futurists" who weren't into predicting silly ideas but rather guessing what problems or challenges we might have in the future and then how we might deal with them. They didn't go into specifics but rather how people might react to them. The video aged rather well.
Some of Arthur C. Clarke's predictions weren't bad.
@@primalconvoy, do you remember the name of the show?
The funny thing is, all the appliances she mentions at the start except the microwave are no one device that you keep in your pocket. They didn’t see that coming either
The most accurate thing here is the synth saxophone, which in description and even looks is fairly close to the real thing.
They got one thing right- the dog wandering around in the background! Somethings never change:)
Aside from carrying all the knowledge and music you could ever want in a small device that fits in your pocket and being able to make video calls, everything is pretty much the same as it was in 1988. Clothes haven't changed much, furniture is still the same just slightly different designs, and we still have copper wiring in the walls and appliances need to be plugged in, cars still run on the road not in the sky. All these fantastical ideas that came to nothing in the end. Overall the future has been quite a let down.
I agree. The world stopped in the 90s and it's nothing but more of the same, really. In some cases, things have been exacerbated. Where are the flying cars?
@@CrazyMazapanbasically now IS the 90s with higher definition TV and the Internet.
I wore jeans and t shirt then, I wear jeans and t shirt now
To be fair, airfryers are probably the only newish foodie trend that seems spaceage from an 80s perspective. And there is wireless charging of phones in some places, usb cords to charge your phone on the bus (in London anyway) and contactless payments.
I'm happy they didn't think of the concept of crypto currency nor NFTs in the 80s, it would have been terribly depressing
Thinking about it now, I'm kinda disappointed in things that were bubbling to the surface 10 years ago that didn't deliver of on their initial promise. 3D printing at home, drone delivery and so on. Also there was a lot of talk around 2013/14 of 3d printing personalized treatment for cancer in the form of cancer eating viruses, and the cost of mapping the entire human genome fell by an order of magnitude.
We're still working on improving lithium batteries (batteries are in fact the biggest bottleneck in tech improvement right now) as graphene, which was seen as a miracle material, hasn't really produced much either in terms of commercially available products etc
Keep on creating; you’re doing an excellent job!
It’s 2024 and the humble toilet hasn’t changed. Thank goodness
Yep, they've just shrunk a bit.
I've got all that stuff, well done Blue Peter
Oh yes, this is the gleaming, bright, clean and shiny future where everyone is young and slim and wearing skin tight clothing. Plus disco dancing legs and a bit of levitation! Love it.
Can't believe they got it all right
Is that a Buck Rogers Toilet😂😂
"One flush, all gone..Aha"
"It flushed on the first yank! I love this house"
Butt Rogers Toilet?
"I prefer to go alone..."
The radio killed me 🤣
I tell you what, keep the levitation machine, dancing trousers, and Silent Bob overcoat, and we'll take your £2.30 ticket prices.
36 years later and I’m watching Blue Peter sitting on the jacks 😂
The dog wandering around is accurate… athleisure wear ✅ wireless charging (ish) ✅ clothing with location services (watch, airpod) ✅ voice recognition (but maybe not to levitate… semi check), all in one food processor (thermomix)✅, but thankfully those awful kneeling chairs never took off as couches…. And the adjustable toilet….. hmmmm
RIP Caron⚘️
It's always very hopeful these predictions of the future and yet somehow they were often so close but still so far...
the funniest thing is that cat on the couch is is season and trying to mate. lol
To be fair, it's a little less mad than the real 2020.
I think they got it spot on.
My levitation room is being built as we speak. Can't wait to test it out. I'm just waiting for Amazon to deliver my blue jump suit, and I'm set
That looks like my Hifi now. I just use a phono jack into my Ipod touch. So I can play my vinyl, my cassettes (if I still had any), my CDs and my Ipod on one system
The sound is incredible.
Ha so much effort went into that and none came true. Technology evolved in such a different way and one that wasn’t conceivable when I was a child watching Blue Peter then.
Feels like I’m watching back to the future…
Amazing how spot on this is 🤯
5:29 "Future indeed, a load of rubbish". Yep, good summary.
Agree, how can such a locked down backward looking establishment even try to predict the future. The British people are on the most forwards looking but are held back by the powers that be and the crown.
The got the dog spot on, looks just like mine in 2024