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Tomorrow's World.
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We didn't all end up owing our own helicopters and electricity never did become so cheap to produce that it's wasn't worth metering the supply. Did any of the inventions mentioned in that BBC programme go on into production and make a change in our lives?
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I remember when they were showing us the future in the form of CDs. The were all glistening and shone brightly and you could have a stampede of rhinos trample all over them, drive a bulldozer over them, scratch them with a carving knife and lo and behold, they would still be perfect and play perfectly. What they failed to tell us was that if you dared to get so much as a teensy weensy little smudge fingerprint on them , they would skate around all over the place and never play properly again.
Also, Back To The Future 11 was set in 2015 and there are all sorts of flying cars etc in that. Well, 2015 is only 6 weeks away. I still haven't seen any flying cars or sky highways.
Also, Back To The Future 11 was set in 2015 and there are all sorts of flying cars etc in that. Well, 2015 is only 6 weeks away. I still haven't seen any flying cars or sky highways.
Hang on a little longer, janbee... http:// wtkr.co m/2014/ 11/14/t he-firs t-affor dable-f lying-c ar-is-a lmost-h ere/
A few things I remember:
1. Seeing them demonstrate the idea of having all the indicators on a car flashing at once, to act as 'hazard lights'. (It looked ruddy silly to me at the time; I thought that people would only see it as indicating 'I'm not sure which way to turn'!)
2. Those CDs which, we were told, would mean that we'd never have to put up with the problem of 'skipping' music tracks again. (Oh, yeah?).
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3. My favourite quote from 'Tomorrow's World' (frequently remembered while I'm shredding piles of confidential documents, print out copies of important emails, etc): "By the year 2000 we will all live a paperless society".
1. Seeing them demonstrate the idea of having all the indicators on a car flashing at once, to act as 'hazard lights'. (It looked ruddy silly to me at the time; I thought that people would only see it as indicating 'I'm not sure which way to turn'!)
2. Those CDs which, we were told, would mean that we'd never have to put up with the problem of 'skipping' music tracks again. (Oh, yeah?).
and
3. My favourite quote from 'Tomorrow's World' (frequently remembered while I'm shredding piles of confidential documents, print out copies of important emails, etc): "By the year 2000 we will all live a paperless society".