Grew up watching this, was my favourite program, remember was last thing I was allowed to watch before bed, now I'm in my 40s still remember like yesterday 😂
Just amazing to watch this. Growing up in the '70's & '80's, 'Tomorrow's World' was one TV programme you watched and got your imagination fired up. Had a 30 year career in IT and can truly say my interest was sparked by those early '70's editions with LSI and VSLI chips and applications. Thank you for publishing this .. made a 57yo feel like a wide-eyed 11yo again.
These old shows are so entertaining. Calm, peaceful, intelligent, informative, AND funny? Why is this not being carried on now? The only person who does their videos in this manner I can think of is Tom Scott.
@@binarysignals9593 Agreed. Run by Lefties who ram their politics down your throat and cry when they don't get their way. The Today programme is just a vehicle now for these politics and a far cry from what it once was. Scrap the license fee and force the BBC to finish the gravy train of The Luvies....
The researcher hit the nail on the head regarding wave power; "the better we did, the less they liked it." It was his veiled way of telling us about the powers of the energy cartel.
@@Nautilus1972 Really? Did you ever watch an episode of 3-2-1 (Dusty Bin), it was a bit more involved than the dross of shows on now. How many "talent" shows do we need?
Watching this at the end of 2019.... we’ve come a long way in and in some cases... well. Concorde, the hovercraft, the mars missions. Computer terminals rented in homes... hindsight’s always 20-20 I suppose. Come back tomorrow’s world! You were my finger on the pulse all those years ago...
I still don't understand why they didn't improve the Concord instead of ending it. And why Hovercrafts never happened. I guess now we don't need them anymore when the first people fly around on drones
Dungeness B is an advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) power station consisting of two 1,496 MWt reactors, which began operation in 1983 and 1985 respectively. Dungeness B was the first commercial scale AGR power station to be constructed. (only 3 years after this show) They ran nearly 40 years.
After watching this, it makes you wonder about today’s technology. We aren’t as advanced as we think, all the stuff we use today was being developed as far back as the 60’s/70’s.
Actually much further back than that. For example Nuclear Fusion which is now getting closer to commercial viability was being researched in the 1930s...Human ingenuity never fails to surprise.
Originally broadcast 8 May 1986. I watched this show every week and it is amazing to see ideas that were futuristic at the time are common place today, then we have the things that were never seen again lol.
No idea why this appears in my recommended list today. If there is any recollection I have of James Burke (or even tomorrow's world as a whole) from years ago at the time it was originally broadcast, it was when he started the program lying in bed recovering from Hong Kong flu. Thanks for posting.
Yup. A gentle reminder that viruses have been an enemy of humanity from the beginning - they were in existence long before humans ever showed up. And that, sometimes, unfortunately, it's the virus that gets the upper hand - as now, in this pandemic.
In junior school we had to write an essay about the future. My prediction was that peoples waists would get incredibly small as they could get all the nutrients they needed from a single pill a day. I got that one a bit wrong didn't I.
I remember trying to see the colour images on B&W TV when it was first demonstrated. I will can still see the colours, I will know it has a scientific explanation but it is still magic!
@@roswaldwalton1147 wow that's amazing. He certainly was quite a character.. your nan was right not to watch tho, he must have had a lot of faith in his invention.. lucky for you to have this to remember him by...
he said "intelligent computers, where will that take us ? Probably, best not to speculate." AI, Google, Facebook, TH-cam and Amazon, IMO that's just a start.
Interesting the joke about Raymond Baxter and the Concorde. Wonder how many know that he flew for the RAF during the war and had a close encounter with a V2 rocket on one sortie.
The world was more technologically advanced back in the seventies than it is today, we were regularly walking on the moon and flying on our holidays at supersonic speeds. Today we barely get into orbit and passenger aircraft fly at less than half the speed.
Just because something is possible doesn't make it worthwhile. Flying cars were a major vision of the future for 20th century people but they're ultimately just a recipe for high-altitude traffic accidents. We don't have supersonic jets but we do have pocket sized supercomputers, completely realistic 3D rendering, and the entire human genome sequenced. Perspective
5.08 - presenter gets into metal drum with a stick of dynamite and "BOOM"! The ear defenders and presenter emerge blown to bits. Now that was Tomorrows World unique reporting style!
Golden years back then 1960 /70 /80 Especially tv This was one of my favourite programs When BBC was at it best That time Noticed today technology Just expensive Nothing working anymore Back then Had everything And working Because every one was clever and calm back the Nice and slow ❤❤
Damn, if only they knew then what we know now! I swear they should revisit that episode for all the advancements and backwards steps we've been taking.
If NASA had stayed just as determined as they were when they were tring to get to the moon and the government continued to fund them as they did during that time of development it is very possible that we could have made it to Mars by know.
At the end Judith Hann asks 'Will I carry a supercomputer in my pocket?' Yes, it is called a Smartphone, which has far more processing power and capabilities than the most advanced super computer of that era.
New music, new intro, new presentation style, new presenters, not a patch on the 70's show, IMHO like the decade itself, not a change for the better - all mouth and no trousers.
But but but, diversity is good (we're told). Bring back the old days. We will lose the English language to be replaced with gutterspeak or text speak ala Bladerunner and 1984. Englishness is now called racist. The sooner I'm out of this crazy world the better. Or a time machine to take me back to better times.
I want Mabel. Why can I still not have a Mabel 30 years later. The Jetsons promised I'll fly to work with a jet pack while a robot cleans my flat. Not just vacuuming that's not enough
we found out later all that made us lazy and lead sedentary lifestyle leading to insulin resistance, clogged arteries and liver cirrhosis, so they scrapped all those ideas for our own good 🐱👍🏿
@@fidelcatsro6948 that I don't want to clean my apartment? That's the candy I eat doing, that's people getting in cars and never walking. I like riding my bike everywhere and walking when I don't wanna sit anymore. But I don't like cleaning
In 100/200 years people will watch this in pure amazement and wonder , ,,,And the astronaut walking sideways, didn’t it look the same as the way they where walking on the moon 🤔
In 2019 Cyclosporin is used for many conditions. I was procscribed it for Erythroderma. Now Mono Clonal Antobodies , inject twice a month are used. It has also been proposed as cure for baldness. Yes, hair growth can be a side effect, trouble is it isn't only the hair on your head grows. Both Voyagers have now left the Solar System, still working.
Used to love watching this as a kid. Seeing Philippa Forrester in a 1997 episode question why anyone would want to design a weapon like the revolutionary Metal Storm made me embarrassed to be British. I've never watched it since.
Its funny to watch what was considered "tomorrows world" which seem so common place today. It makes me wonder what we will be seeing in 30 years that we simply cant imagine today. I remember watching an episode of Going Live where Philip Schofield did an April Fools day prank. He had a thing called "a cube" that could house THOUSANDS of your music tracks and you could speak into the device saying "Play Billie Jean" and it would play it in a matter of seconds. I mean, the prank was that he was doing that while the production crew were playing it. But its funny that all that and more is possible with something thinner than a deck of cards. In fact the prank device would seem redundant and obsolete by todays standards. Wish I could see that episode again.
Good old Prince Charles. They didnt predict that he would marry a puppet wife, have two kids by her and all the time he was carrying on with a married women in the name of love, more like in the name of adultery.!! That his puppet wife would mysteriously die in a car 'accident' in a tunnel in Paris, he'd go on to marry the woman he was cheating with. and that our royalist media would gloss over the scandal and sell it to the nation as a love story !!! Time for Charles to become King? NEVER !!
We need something like this today instead of the media studies inspired guff issued from overplayed executives trying to emulate the private sector. Public service also the service is s privalaged to its users don't try and impose customer rights on us it only makes lawyer s rich .
The references to "Last weeks [Nuclear] accident in the Soviet Union" (The Chernobyl meltdown) dates this firmly to late April 1986...So how on *earth* is the show presenting what looks like a Sony Xperia at around 35:10 :-o :-p Awesome upload, of course - Even if I couldn't help shedding a tear at being reminded the APT had such a short life in service! Many thanks! :-)
They didnt tell you time travel was already possible many years before in any of these episodes, she bought a smartphone in the future and brought it back to 1986...
IoT is todays version of controlling your 'accessories remotely'. I think a funny scene is from one of the StarTrek movies where the crew come back in time to the 80's. Scotty is talking to a computer but the operator says 'no you need to use the mouse'... so he picks up the mouse and talks into it 8^)
Thursday Tv was great in the 70-80's. Problem was nothing new was happening in science and tech. come the 90's. Many programmes were medical based, bit like Horizon, got boring. So they fizzled out.
Grew up watching this, was my favourite program, remember was last thing I was allowed to watch before bed, now I'm in my 40s still remember like yesterday 😂
At the end, she says 'will I one day carry a super computer in my pocket?' They certainly got that right!
Just amazing to watch this. Growing up in the '70's & '80's, 'Tomorrow's World' was one TV programme you watched and got your imagination fired up. Had a 30 year career in IT and can truly say my interest was sparked by those early '70's editions with LSI and VSLI chips and applications. Thank you for publishing this .. made a 57yo feel like a wide-eyed 11yo again.
These old shows are so entertaining. Calm, peaceful, intelligent, informative, AND funny? Why is this not being carried on now? The only person who does their videos in this manner I can think of is Tom Scott.
Oh, Tom Scott! If Tomorrow's World ever got a relaunch he'd be ideal alongside people like James May and Suzi Perry!
Thank you so much for sharing this. Bill Walton was my grandfather, and I don't often get to hear his voice.
Best documentary series ever.
Raymond Baxter was King when he covered any subject. He was particularly good with Aviation.
He visited our airfield signing his book. I didn't know at the time he was only few hundred yards away. Few months later he passed away.
Documentary series?!?
What a great show this was. Like so many, I would love to see this return.....
like so many id like to scrap aunty beeb
@@binarysignals9593 Agreed. Run by Lefties who ram their politics down your throat and cry when they don't get their way. The Today programme is just a vehicle now for these politics and a far cry from what it once was. Scrap the license fee and force the BBC to finish the gravy train of The Luvies....
The researcher hit the nail on the head regarding wave power; "the better we did, the less they liked it." It was his veiled way of telling us about the powers of the energy cartel.
The BBC should bring back tomorrows world.
Agree...
It's all mindless "entertainment" & "talent" shows now
@@Fifury161 Yes, there were no mindless "entertainment" & "talent" shows then, were there? Oh Wait ... Dusty Bin and The Entertainers ....
@@Nautilus1972 Really? Did you ever watch an episode of 3-2-1 (Dusty Bin), it was a bit more involved than the dross of shows on now. How many "talent" shows do we need?
Hugh is Green’s Opportunity Knocks - Paula Yates’s dad
And yes dear you will carry your super computer in your pocket one day
We do.
The next level will be bio/Ai combined.
Long live Judith Hann, the Queen of live TV!
She was very attractive!
January 2020 would be an excellent time to start a new series of Tomorrow’s World. How interesting to see the 21st anniversary in 2041.
There is no 2041 😂 👀
@@johnnytran4365 Says you
@FlyingMonkies325totally agree. Would probably be a promotion vehicle for Rylan, Jimmy Carr and some tosser off Gogglebox! Sad but true.
Judith Hahn , the 1st Carol Vorderman in every way ♥ .....Classy ..
Watching this at the end of 2019.... we’ve come a long way in and in some cases... well. Concorde, the hovercraft, the mars missions. Computer terminals rented in homes... hindsight’s always 20-20 I suppose. Come back tomorrow’s world! You were my finger on the pulse all those years ago...
I still don't understand why they didn't improve the Concord instead of ending it. And why Hovercrafts never happened. I guess now we don't need them anymore when the first people fly around on drones
I speak Arabic
This TV show and similar ones like Beyond 2000 had an unbelievable effect on me and made me interested in English
Judith Hahn is absolutely gorgeous
Looking back at Tommrows World today is a real eye opener to say the last...
Thanks for uploading ☺
God, I remember most of the 80s stuff, doesn't seem too long ago.
Have to admit no television show like this now
And why not?
the gadget show is sort of it,but would not dare predict anymore than a few months future.
Cause we're already in the future (sans the flying cars)
Click?
... And now we're going to subject Mr. Walton to battery fire without the armour to demonstrate how effective the armour is.
The BBC no longer employs such wonderful personalities or characters like it did during the period this show was aired.
@lifesbutastumbleName one ?
@lifesbutastumble
Just name one current wonderful personality .
He’s not really doing much for the BBC anymore is he? He was one of the wonderful personalities I think of from the good days of the BBC❤
Dungeness B is an advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) power station consisting of two 1,496 MWt reactors, which began operation in 1983 and 1985 respectively. Dungeness B was the first commercial scale AGR power station to be constructed. (only 3 years after this show)
They ran nearly 40 years.
Thanks for uploading. A much missed show.!!
After watching this, it makes you wonder about today’s technology.
We aren’t as advanced as we think, all the stuff we use today was being developed as far back as the 60’s/70’s.
Actually much further back than that. For example Nuclear Fusion which is now getting closer to commercial viability was being researched in the 1930s...Human ingenuity never fails to surprise.
we only good at making computer software nonsense today
Originally broadcast 8 May 1986. I watched this show every week and it is amazing to see ideas that were futuristic at the time are common place today, then we have the things that were never seen again lol.
I'm still waiting on fibre in my area. It's all dark fibre.
Have you got it now ❓
No idea why this appears in my recommended list today. If there is any recollection I have of James Burke (or even tomorrow's world as a whole) from years ago at the time it was originally broadcast, it was when he started the program lying in bed recovering from Hong Kong flu. Thanks for posting.
Anyone else watching a reporter with "Hong Kong flu" doing his bit from his bedroom in 2020?
Yup.
A gentle reminder that viruses have been an enemy of humanity from the beginning - they were in existence long before humans ever showed up. And that, sometimes, unfortunately, it's the virus that gets the upper hand - as now, in this pandemic.
@@klaxoncow oh fuck off lol
I thought the Hong Kong Flu was from 68-70.
Judith Hann was my favorite presenter :)
The last Apollo mission 1972 ... until the 80s and mankind boldly going into ... low earth orbit .. .where it stayed until today.
I remember watching as a child. They said in the future we would eat food that's made of paper, I cried.
Technically we are, it's called Vegan food
It's called McDonalds
In junior school we had to write an essay about the future. My prediction was that peoples waists would get incredibly small as they could get all the nutrients they needed from a single pill a day. I got that one a bit wrong didn't I.
I remember trying to see the colour images on B&W TV when it was first demonstrated. I will can still see the colours, I will know it has a scientific explanation but it is still magic!
its funny how there watching and laughing about what the future would be like and we are doing the same thing
15:35 shooting live rounds at the inventor of the bullet proof screen was quite interesting and slightly insane.
He was my grandfather and actually insisted on it. One of the two guys firing at him was one of his best friends. My grandmother refused to watch.
@@roswaldwalton1147 wow that's amazing. He certainly was quite a character.. your nan was right not to watch tho, he must have had a lot of faith in his invention.. lucky for you to have this to remember him by...
The one program I always watched, thinking 50% is rubbish, but loved it... I have never followed another program since
he said "intelligent computers, where will that take us ? Probably, best not to speculate." AI, Google, Facebook, TH-cam and Amazon, IMO that's just a start.
Interesting the joke about Raymond Baxter and the Concorde. Wonder how many know that he flew for the RAF during the war and had a close encounter with a V2 rocket on one sortie.
That poka dot outfit. I just couldn't take it after like the 3rd time.
The bloke at the beginning, I'm sure I've seen his face somewhere before...
Um um. I think he works in asda.
the days before all of this political correctness bollocks
I used to love that theme tune, sounded really futuristic at the time, similar arrangements were used for other BBC programmes of the time too.
I'd like to hear a 2020 remix
The world was more technologically advanced back in the seventies than it is today, we were regularly walking on the moon and flying on our holidays at supersonic speeds. Today we barely get into orbit and passenger aircraft fly at less than half the speed.
Just because something is possible doesn't make it worthwhile. Flying cars were a major vision of the future for 20th century people but they're ultimately just a recipe for high-altitude traffic accidents. We don't have supersonic jets but we do have pocket sized supercomputers, completely realistic 3D rendering, and the entire human genome sequenced. Perspective
5.08 - presenter gets into metal drum with a stick of dynamite and "BOOM"! The ear defenders and presenter emerge blown to bits. Now that was Tomorrows World unique reporting style!
That was booming hilarious, Like he had a death wish LOL
I remember watching an episode that covered computers that had a device called a mouse......those things have lost their tails
we using rats now
Remember Raymond Baxter demonstrating that vest.
I`m watching this youtube video on my VR Oculus Quest headset. TV will be a thing of the past.
the reason why we don't have this anymore is because we're living in tomorrow's world
Bloody hell this makes me feel ancient.
you are! 😁👍🏿
Golden years back then 1960 /70 /80
Especially tv
This was one of my favourite programs
When BBC was at it best
That time
Noticed today technology
Just expensive
Nothing working anymore
Back then
Had everything
And working
Because every one was clever and calm back the
Nice and slow ❤❤
30:10 -- that stuff cost about $120 USD per 20-ounce bottle.
28.57 The titles circa 1972 - with the exploded Ford Cortina that (thanks to a film reverse) comes back together - are brilliant.
Damn, if only they knew then what we know now! I swear they should revisit that episode for all the advancements and backwards steps we've been taking.
If NASA had stayed just as determined as they were when they were tring to get to the moon and the government continued to fund them as they did during that time of development it is very possible that we could have made it to Mars by know.
At the end Judith Hann asks 'Will I carry a supercomputer in my pocket?'
Yes, it is called a Smartphone, which has far more processing power and capabilities than the most advanced super computer of that era.
Such a formidable theme tune; it gives the show such tremendous gravitas
Nah, the 80s synth theme was far superior - this one sounds like Antique Roadshow meets Newsnight
Givemethevalium Givemethevalium yes it does
New music, new intro, new presentation style, new presenters, not a patch on the 70's show, IMHO like the decade itself, not a change for the better - all mouth and no trousers.
Show-in-show. Note the posh BBC English, as always in those days!
And now it's full of retarded skanks just like every other channel 😂😂😂😂😂😂➕➕
But but but, diversity is good (we're told). Bring back the old days. We will lose the English language to be replaced with gutterspeak or text speak ala Bladerunner and 1984. Englishness is now called racist. The sooner I'm out of this crazy world the better. Or a time machine to take me back to better times.
@@sixonesix9429 Hear! Hear! 🏃🏃🏃
8:14 - The Flux Capacitor!!
I want Mabel. Why can I still not have a Mabel 30 years later. The Jetsons promised I'll fly to work with a jet pack while a robot cleans my flat. Not just vacuuming that's not enough
we found out later all that made us lazy and lead sedentary lifestyle leading to insulin resistance, clogged arteries and liver cirrhosis, so they scrapped all those ideas for our own good 🐱👍🏿
@@fidelcatsro6948 that I don't want to clean my apartment? That's the candy I eat doing, that's people getting in cars and never walking. I like riding my bike everywhere and walking when I don't wanna sit anymore. But I don't like cleaning
@@stephjovi yes longwalks are good for stress and body...
3:49 Fidber optic cable. Old timer never heard of the technology until this point.
Hovercrafts were cutting edge high class machines.
1986! 58:19 - nope! 58:34 - will I carry a super computer in my pocket? YES! I miss Judith Hann, what happened to William Wollard?
15 shillings per barrel of oil..lol yeah I'll take it.
Dude, Where's my rocket scientist? 🇨🇳⚖👽🧧
It would be good to see some of the things they got wrong as well and also the pranks they pulled.
15 shillings ]75p ]per barrel of oil ha ha Well expensive apparently
Plastic man is my doppelganger....finally found him ☺
15.23......and men on Planet Earth wailed and wrung their hands!
In 100/200 years people will watch this in pure amazement and wonder , ,,,And the astronaut walking sideways, didn’t it look the same as the way they where walking on the moon 🤔
In 2019 Cyclosporin is used for many conditions. I was procscribed it for Erythroderma. Now Mono Clonal Antobodies , inject twice a month are used. It has also been proposed as cure for baldness. Yes, hair growth can be a side effect, trouble is it isn't only the hair on your head grows. Both Voyagers have now left the Solar System, still working.
Used to love watching this as a kid. Seeing Philippa Forrester in a 1997 episode question why anyone would want to design a weapon like the revolutionary Metal Storm made me embarrassed to be British. I've never watched it since.
Charles is such a muppet…
Just recently, the design-a-baby just became a reality.
this theme music was chronic. the programme lost its way from here onwards.
Not really, the late 90s killed it.
This so relevant to us now 😮
Its funny to watch what was considered "tomorrows world" which seem so common place today. It makes me wonder what we will be seeing in 30 years that we simply cant imagine today.
I remember watching an episode of Going Live where Philip Schofield did an April Fools day prank. He had a thing called "a cube" that could house THOUSANDS of your music tracks and you could speak into the device saying "Play Billie Jean" and it would play it in a matter of seconds. I mean, the prank was that he was doing that while the production crew were playing it. But its funny that all that and more is possible with something thinner than a deck of cards. In fact the prank device would seem redundant and obsolete by todays standards. Wish I could see that episode again.
gravity nullifying skateboards of course...and cats that can communicate with us with assisted interface devices 🐱👍🏿
then there was an episode that showed the first prototype mobile phone
And Prince Charles has just had his 70th birthday. Time eh?
Good old Prince Charles. They didnt predict that he would marry a puppet wife, have two kids by her and all the time he was carrying on with a married women in the name of love, more like in the name of adultery.!! That his puppet wife would mysteriously die in a car 'accident' in a tunnel in Paris, he'd go on to marry the woman he was cheating with. and that our royalist media would gloss over the scandal and sell it to the nation as a love story !!! Time for Charles to become King? NEVER !!
We need something like this today instead of the media studies inspired guff issued from overplayed executives trying to emulate the private sector. Public service also the service is s privalaged to its users don't try and impose customer rights on us it only makes lawyer s rich .
The references to "Last weeks [Nuclear] accident in the Soviet Union" (The Chernobyl meltdown) dates this firmly to late April 1986...So how on *earth* is the show presenting what looks like a Sony Xperia at around 35:10 :-o :-p
Awesome upload, of course - Even if I couldn't help shedding a tear at being reminded the APT had such a short life in service! Many thanks! :-)
What is APT?
They didnt tell you time travel was already possible many years before in any of these episodes, she bought a smartphone in the future and brought it back to 1986...
Did TW predict a future without Nationwide , TW & TOTP on a thursday.?
What happened to those pockets 😂😂😂😂
Love to show them a iPhone 40 years agora
The Salter Duck was killed off by the nuclear industry, I reckon. I remember this as a BEng (electrical) student in the 80s.
Problem with things at sea, barnacles, etc. These things and similar would soon be encrusted.
Love the version of Amazon Alexa
4:50 WTF? I mean, what could go permanently wrong !?!
27:25 Talking of the Voyagers in 1986, who would have believed that in 2020 it would still be transmitting useful data back to us?
An interesting look back into the past. Shame about the terrible '80s clothes though....
I had a huge crush on Judith Hann.
Ouch! Hope neither of you were injured, and you both had insurance! :-)
Its a pity someone did not walk up to Raymond Baxter and give him a smart phone or a tablet.
someone did!.. the video was edited and all live spectators we made to sign a secret non disclosure agreement to the time travel witnessing event!
I wonder what it would look like with a 21st-century twist to it?
even our now King was a fan
1:12 when you wear curtains
I like Pealy Maghti as a presenter. Jack Morgan is also good.
Proper Telly
38:16 - That's how I speak to Alexa!
IoT is todays version of controlling your 'accessories remotely'.
I think a funny scene is from one of the StarTrek movies where the crew come back in time to the 80's. Scotty is talking to a computer but the operator says 'no you need to use the mouse'... so he picks up the mouse and talks into it 8^)
I could make so many comments on this sitting here in 2021.
58:35 - Yes!
Did everybody see the colour on the Zip can?
Video recorder??? Where can I get one.. can’t be possible surely?
Thursday Tv was great in the 70-80's. Problem was nothing new was happening in science and tech. come the 90's. Many programmes were medical based, bit like Horizon, got boring. So they fizzled out.