1987: PREDICTING the Person of the FUTURE | Tomorrow's World | Past Predictions | BBC Archive
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Рік томуBack 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.
You can watch the original "Tomorrow's Girl" segment in full here: • 1965: The WOMAN and PU...
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@petergivenbless900 Рік тому
1961: the future is... plastic! 1987: the future is... smart plastic! 2023: ... we are drowning in plastic!
@Sandra-qb4wn 8 місяців тому
When plastic first came out I was about 10 or 11 years old I said that it will destroy the world
@maxslain4543 7 місяців тому
Congratulations on living so long - Bakelite came out in 1907 :D
@BradTheThird 7 місяців тому
Give me my plastic straws. To hell with the turtles!
@JamanWerSonst 3 місяці тому
@@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.
@bruceli9094 2 місяці тому
Government: support the current thing, the current fear. Give me your taxes. Rinse and repeat forever.
@JonHiddenColey Рік тому
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.
@ZX48K Рік тому
I don't think it would have worked today. There has been a slow down in technological advances, Moore's law no longer applies.
@madm4tty Рік тому
BBC Click is the nearest thing to it now
@doriangray_1999 Рік тому
@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* 😳
@TheTruthKiwi 3 місяці тому
@@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.
@dee_-_ 2 місяці тому
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 😂.
@hilaryepstein6013 Рік тому
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.
@markmuller7962 Рік тому
Very deep
@Caz_2087 Рік тому
I was born 5 days after this was broadcast, thanks for making me feel old by saying very deep into the future 😂
@ahronthegreat 8 місяців тому
@@markmuller7962no it’s not😂
@ajs41 6 місяців тому
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.
@rickh3714 3 місяці тому
@@Caz_2087OK Kiddo! Some of us were born 24 years before. No need to rub it in! 🧐
@PsyopAgentProvocateur Рік тому
@4:47 “so I can sh!t out the world.” 😂😂😂 Tomorrow’s girl was super flammable.
@enoz.j3506 10 місяців тому
Hot , i would say, no botox or false personality.
@soundseeker63 День тому
Yeah, hopefully a non smoker! lol 🔥 😱
@afonline2004 9 місяців тому
4:39 He put the "3D TV" goggles on the wrong way round!
@johndelorean2284 3 місяці тому
His futuristic watch was a Seiko TV Watch from 1982 😂
@lueezec358 22 дні тому
I wanted one
@barkleybeaver2859 Місяць тому
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.
@purefoldnz3070 Місяць тому
it was pretty accurate even down to the apple vision pro.
@alanpods______8260 Рік тому
Astonishingly, I remember seeing this live on BBC, some 36 years ago.
@human7932 Рік тому
💪🔥👍
@Stephen_Lafferty Рік тому
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!
@rRekko 9 місяців тому
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
@carrot708 8 місяців тому
The video watch is an apple watch
@flybeep1661 7 місяців тому
@@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.
@marcvandervelsen 2 місяці тому
The video watch is now Apple Vision Pro.
@user-eb2xd2pp8x 11 днів тому
No, a portable printer exist.
@TheRealEtaoinShrdlu Місяць тому
Imagine printing a whole page just with the letter "k" when you receive a reply to a question?! 😂😂😂😂
@JasmineSurrealVideos Рік тому
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.
@eduardoarmenta9232 Рік тому
I'm surprised how similar the VR headset looks compared to a modern one. If only this show had lasted to this day.
@cambs0181 2 місяці тому
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.
@ProjectCreativityGuy96 2 місяці тому
1987 was the coolest year of modern times!
@uru86 Рік тому
I'm pretty sure he wore the 3d headset backwards
@dannymcwilliams422 24 дні тому
And if the tie malfunctioned and told everyone you had the clap, you’d never come back from that
@paulcalvert8105 Рік тому
The tie would have worked well during covid. Lol
@Dan23_7 Рік тому
3:15, Howard the secret metal head 😈🤘🏼🤘🏼
@GURU-1701 Рік тому
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.
@flybeep1661 7 місяців тому
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.
@kelechi_77 5 місяців тому
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.
@user-221i 5 місяців тому
We have smart watches, VR, continues glucose monitoring devices. @@flybeep1661
@Question3verything 3 місяці тому
@@flybeep1661I think it was a sarcastic comment 😂
@fo4357 2 місяці тому
@@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.
@BenjyDale Рік тому
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
@matix16 2 місяці тому
And now we have AR headset - Apple Vision Pro
@goodiesguy Рік тому
keep it up with uploading in 50p. It's so refreshing to see archival videotape material being uploaded properly and not filmized.
@LewisLarsen Рік тому
Maggie Philbin has pretty nice hair in this clip, thanks for sharing!
@sammemrys8195 Рік тому
Fun to look back to see people trying to look forward.😊
@TheTruthKiwi 3 місяці тому
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.
@truth-12345. 2 місяці тому
Well, 1987 predictions are somehow close to what we have now.
@simonjones7727 2 місяці тому
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.
@whiteonggoy7009 Рік тому
I remember one show explained velcro and ask will it catch on.
@AtheistOrphan Рік тому
Quite literally!
@warrpedd 13 днів тому
Velcro has me hooked!
@RUSH2112RUSH Рік тому
"...you could make notes all over yourself..." well they were certainly correct with the rise in the popularity of tattoos.
@vanessahawarden9028 Рік тому
@Geddy lee Hammersley…Brilliantly said!
@yoyo1poe 6 місяців тому
Everything went better than expected
@dg-hughes Рік тому
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.
@r4zi3lgintoro65 Рік тому
eink displays are kinda portable printers
@MiceOnParole Рік тому
Lovely Maggie Philbin 😍
@MrDaiseymay Рік тому
What they didn't predict, was the demise of 'Tomorrows World' so no review in 2007.
@angeladawn805 10 місяців тому
3:20 😂 Greetings 20th century people. (Very Bill & Ted)
@Wiki7202 2 місяці тому
if only the BBC would bring this back!
@PocketProjects 6 місяців тому
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 🙄
@heinrichmaneuver6871 7 місяців тому
This man 🤘
@Caz_2087 Рік тому
5 days after this was broadcast I was born. I can safely say, bring back the 80's, the best decade in every way
@GeeEee75 3 місяці тому
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.
@Caz_2087 3 місяці тому
@@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.
@GeeEee75 3 місяці тому
@@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.
@chrisodonnell7252 4 місяці тому
That tie is sick!
@bobstreet2491 Рік тому
"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.
@awakstein 22 дні тому
I love it!
@norbis3939 29 днів тому
A lot of these were pretty accurate.
@indrajitg 2 місяці тому
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!
@WhatALoadOfTosca 4 місяці тому
They also didn't predict you couldn't call a girl a girl in the future.
@captain9fingers Рік тому
Brilliant. Execution-ally different but conceptually close.
@darrengreen6341 16 днів тому
I loved thar show too. Xx
@der.Schtefan 3 місяці тому
The mobile printers were a thing for a long time in the 90s
@soundseeker63 День тому
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!
@bricktasticanimations4834 4 дні тому
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!
@user-eb2xd2pp8x 11 днів тому
3:01 wow that guy look like someone from present time. 😮😮
@simonhawking9757 22 дні тому
Because of the pace of developments these days, I suspect Tomorrows World would literally mean tomorrow’s world, if it were ever rebooted
@The44kGaming 2 місяці тому
Apple Vision Pro. 4:50 😅😅
@ryanmcbride2695 2 місяці тому
I really wasn’t expecting to hear King Tut by Paul Hardcastle in this
@suspectdown5133 Рік тому
Not to mention the Ai putting a video on your personal device for you to watch.
@CaesarAugustus. 5 місяців тому
The earrings was actually pretty close to earbuds.
@budsio 3 місяці тому
And the headset TV is like VR today.
@grahammcdonald Рік тому
Close!
@lukemorris9066 Рік тому
Carrying a printer to get messages and a tv to watch..... I think a smart phone might be a bit more practical lol
@drebone1986 4 місяці тому
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 ✅
@simonjones7727 2 місяці тому
Exactly!
@gemmrk 2 дні тому
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.
@wplegend 24 дні тому
Predicted the apple vision pro
@xayyay 2 місяці тому
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.
@MichaelKingsfordGray 20 днів тому
At least he got the suit correct.
@sonofsilverbullet5860 Місяць тому
Hand and face recognition it accurate
@JohnHenrySheridan Місяць тому
Fun !
@elipaynter Місяць тому
I love that 10lb portable printer
@Larry Рік тому
That's great, a tie that can tell everyone around you how sick you are :D
@dmitrykuznetsov9798 Рік тому
At 02:08, close-up of the presenter's hand. It is evident, this woman has a cat. ))
@AtheistOrphan Рік тому
She also had Keith Chegwin for a husband.
@Candywarhol Рік тому
But no hoverboards!
@leejohnson3209 2 місяці тому
He put his 3d TV on back to front.
@Jay-O_Carlow Рік тому
How ever did the fashon for the girls not take off LOl
@markmuller7962 Рік тому
The portable printer puzzles me, can someone explain? Edit: Maybe the lack of internet so they had to print stuff?
@davidpanton3192 Рік тому
There were no flatscreens then; the crude laptops of the time had small LCD screens so I suppose they thought portable printers were the future!
@r4zi3lgintoro65 Рік тому
they also don't mind cutting trees
@markmuller7962 Рік тому
@@r4zi3lgintoro65 I wish that was the reason why we print less today
@GeeEee75 3 місяці тому
If you wanted to send a document back then you had to fax it, which involved paper at both ends.
@InspireRise300 3 місяці тому
They got the lashes right
@jeffwelshJedidivemaster 3 місяці тому
Bring back tomorrow's world
@pierocastoldi5352 28 днів тому
4:47
@samuelsm.c.8733 Рік тому
Smart Mobile
@michelprins 4 місяці тому
loved tommorow's world well done bbc ;)
@Teeveepicksures 21 день тому
better than google glass
@smguk2412 Рік тому
Portable Doctor, Now we are so advanced you can't even get a Doctor 😂
@alanfox691 11 місяців тому
How very , very true. They did not see that one comeing or Covid - 19 for that fact 😂.
@mariohw8562 6 місяців тому
I always wonder did they forget to cgi to tie to change color?
@TechGamesAU Рік тому
Mobile printers are going to take the mobile phone market by storm
@twisterwiper 10 місяців тому
Funny. Why would you want to print the message you received? They were so printer happy back in those days 😂
@GeeEee75 3 місяці тому
Boomers. They cannot receive a document without wanting to print it out.🙄😂
@supernoob9001 Рік тому
Imagine wearing this tie to work and everyone sees that you're one sick f.
@spr00sem00se 2 місяці тому
Ear buds/ handsfree. Smart watch. Apple goggles. Not far off.
@giulioluzzardi7632 5 місяців тому
Tomorrows person became an avid consumer of todays mass-produced souless trends.
@gracielasaenz9300 Рік тому
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. ✌️
@robmcrob2091 5 місяців тому
They got Google glass/ meta vr pretty much spot on. They just didn't forecast they'd flop.
@TheTruthKiwi 3 місяці тому
Haha too true. They just assumed that once these things became available they'd be universally adopted. 😂
@dtvfan24 Рік тому
so amazing, nowadays we got AI and ML with robots doing work of humans and AI is taking over
@harvestcanada Рік тому
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.
@keurikeuri7851 5 днів тому
Did the 1960s prediction predicted DriFit clothes we have today when they say people are going to wear plastic clothes
@PeterSteelesWombat 18 днів тому
"Tomorrow's girl will have a pocket computer with all the world's information available at the touch of a button. Sadly she and indeed most teenagers, will spend most of their time using these pocket miracles to watch things that will make them lose any sense of self-worth, be depressed all time to the point of medication and hate going out in public. Enjoy the future!"
@TheDevilsAccountant Місяць тому
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.
@Asaski09 Рік тому
Announced next year: WiiR
@thehiddenplace 2 місяці тому
Smart watch... check... mobile printer... we were so innocent back then.
@ChrisBarrett1 Місяць тому
🤘
@SPotter1973 Рік тому
1:00 tomorrow's boy plastic suits?? 3:10 check out those bitchin graphics
@therealknapster 7 днів тому
Didn't predict tomorrow's girl saying ' like ' every other word & being larger from fast/ processed food
@TotemoGaijin Місяць тому
Some of them aren't too far off from what we got, but I'm not sure what their obsession is with clothing. The cotton/poly blend seems decent enough.
@simonjz05 Місяць тому
No one ever said the woman of the future was an undateable nightmare. Thats a lose then for TW.
@thewotsit Рік тому
I too scoff at outrageous predictions of the past while wearing an oversized tater sack.
@VirtuellJo 17 днів тому
1987 should have known about airpods, thus 1965 beeing more right than 1965.
@stocktonjoans Рік тому
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
@dean6816 Рік тому
Better tell them about uncle Jimmy while you're there........actually don't bother, they already knew!
@GeeEee75 3 місяці тому
@@dean6816Underrated comment!
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