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Travel Back In Time with Old Technology | Tomorrow's World | BBC Earth Science

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Taken from 'Tomorrow's World' (1979-2002).
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@meagain3876 Ай бұрын

What an amazing glimpse into how our current technology started out. I used to watch Tomorrow's World - they featured so many amazing stories, not all of them came to fruition. Interesting that the batteries for the electric car were behind the dashboard - much more sensible to have them in the car floor, as we have today - far more stable with a lower centre of gravity. Thank you to whoever assembled this selection of clips.

@ross-carlson Ай бұрын

@2:20 "from salesmen to burglars" - EPIC

@magicknight8412 29 күн бұрын

Really miss Tomorrows World, wish there was a modern equivalent or new version. Love that today I use or have made use of so many of the things shown in in Tomorrows World !

@krashd 27 күн бұрын

We still have Click on the BBC, they cover every technology that is just around the corner and occasionally some bonkers stuff like flying taxis.

@FacelessOfficial1 Ай бұрын

why is this so satisfying to watch? is it the retro aesthetic? is it the jokes? (is it that I actually learn technological history?)

@slalomsteve Ай бұрын

Because we can be so smug watching it and laugh at the tech. In 30 years people will be laughing at the things we use today.

@Zanzubaa Ай бұрын

This is why it's important to make efforts to retain the internet (and media) of the past. Big corps deleting it, in the name of saving money. It offers useful insights and lessons.

@AasAja-pk9ny Ай бұрын

Mkinbuybvgtd. Zswa.

@davimash1145 Ай бұрын

True master piece of info Running in the milestone For the better of human race technology

@ewaf88 28 күн бұрын

A bit like the BBC erasing video recordings of classic shows to save money

@JugglesXP Ай бұрын

Please add more of these. It really is something that most people don't realize, the amazing tech we have due to being inspired by episodes of Tomorrow's World

@TheThagenesis Ай бұрын

it still boggles my mind that virtually all young adults haven't used a rotary phone in their entire life

@krisstopher8259 Ай бұрын

@@TheThagenesis i'm a bit old (43) and my first phone was a rotary (still got a phone in my collection that looks like it). and it's crazy that just 3 yrs later i got my first cellphone and then 5-6 yrs later one of the earliest 3G phones with a color screen and stuff and a few yrs later the first iphone

@Zanzubaa Ай бұрын

Trevor Baylis went on to find an investor for his clockwork radio and enjoyed great sucess later in life.

@krisstopher8259 Ай бұрын

good for him!

@MeppyMan 28 күн бұрын

It’s a great idea. Good for emergency radio too. And the bucket tree idea is being looked at on large scale for storing power from renewables to be used when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing.

@kennethmckie1160 28 күн бұрын

He also made it deliberately affordable for many countries

@rebeccanovotny1218 Ай бұрын

I love this! It is so interesting to see early versions of technology and how it all sounds oddly familiar to the modern versions when the hosts explain how it works (also how long it took to make the technology mainstream). I would love more deep dives into the past versions of tech (and also failed ideas too)!

@jdnelms62 28 күн бұрын

It seems so ancient now. Ironically, stuff like this lead me to my career in news graphics, back in the late 80's. I went to work a the Dallas Morning News, where we used the first generation of Apple Macintosh computers to create still graphics. Video graphics like these were typically created by what was called the Quantel Paint Box. The Quantel system was very expensive, so only top market news stations could afford them.

@G-Man-half-life Ай бұрын

Wonder what technology will look like in 100 years from now especially computers.

@jackdoe3889 Ай бұрын

Nothing as 99.99% of us alive now will be dead by then.

@growingmelancholy8374 Ай бұрын

humans won't be around, so who knows.

@giyanvice Ай бұрын

@@growingmelancholy8374 I was going to say the same thing that you said. Well I guess you win. its so sad that many people don't even realize that humans won't be around in 100 years time. But its a fact that cannot be ignored.

@G-Man-half-life Ай бұрын

@@growingmelancholy8374 we humans will still be here 100 years from now we humans are not going anywhere it is our destiny to reign supreme forever.

@robertjames4908 Ай бұрын

Flint axes and wooden spears.....Net zero zealots destroyed the manufacture of steel, computers, etc....The population is a lot lower due to mass starvation caused by farming being banned because of Net Zero again....

@phrtao 29 күн бұрын

From what I remember touching any computer screen in 1982 would have given you a really nasty electric shock. The (CRT) screens often had a static charge on them, so mix that with a nice polyester shirt and suit and you would not want to touch it again ! I do remember watching that episode and being fascinated by the possibilities of touch-screen computer interfaces.

Ай бұрын

Wow! A BBC Micro!!!!!

@JenniferNg0529 Ай бұрын

I love seeing how technology started and how far we've come! Please make more videos like this! I enjoyed watching Beyond 2000 as a kid and now I'm an aerospace engineer!

@QueenetBowie Ай бұрын

Look Around You!

@scaredyfish Ай бұрын

A modern computer can crack that 56 bit encryption in around 10 minutes

@growingmelancholy8374 Ай бұрын

sadly, it can't.

@mikehall117 Ай бұрын

Symmetrical DES 56bit encryption could be brute forced within 2-3 days in the 1990’s using specialist hardware. It’s obsolete for a reason, and the modern computational power of a home PC could theoretically brute force a 56bit cipher in hours.

@JB_inks Ай бұрын

@@growingmelancholy8374 it definitely could. Weakness of the algorithm combined with the sheer brute force of multiple GPUs. Also, mainframes back then were probably slower than an Apple watch.

@slalomsteve Ай бұрын

Who cares. At the time it was fit for purpose because it couldn't be cracked. Now that computers are more powerful keys are longer and the encryption is more sophisticated.

@cosmicpop Ай бұрын

@@JB_inks I recently bought the 1983 Guinness Book of Records from a charity shop. The fastest computer at the time was a Cray Supercomputer at a speed of around 200 million operations per second and cost around $4m. My totally ordinary Google Pixel 7a has speed of over 1 trillion operations per second (1142.4 GFLOPS). 5000 times faster. It's incredible.

@FollowTheLion01 Ай бұрын

2:04 I used to have a BBC32 microcomputer. I never used it to read the phone book. 😂

@user-zs9ek1bx5z Ай бұрын

Ancient 😊✌ Excited for the further future 🙏❤

@jeffknight904 29 күн бұрын

From the early seventies through to its demise in the early 2000s, I tuned into Tomorrow's World every week without fail (along with TOTP - Thursdays were a real treat). It was so exiting getting our first insights into the compact disc, digital video tape and the internet. I suppose the programme wouldn't work today because the only sci-fi that hasn't yet come true is time travel and teleportation which, because of those pesky laws of physics, are never gonna happen. Shame.

@krashd 27 күн бұрын

Teleportation could happen if we learn a lot more about string theory, a _lot_ more.

@jeffknight904 24 күн бұрын

@@krashd That's probably true if man can get string theory beyond the theory stage. A physics theory is like an inverted pyramid of cans with the theory itself being the bottom can and all the ones above it being everything else in the universe.

@Matty112uk 28 күн бұрын

The 'Early CGI' device looks like a Quantel 'Paintbox'. These were used extensively through the 80's and 90's to produce early graphical effects for TV shows and adverts. I wonder if these were used for the graphics in Top of the Pops?

@sarcasticstartrek7719 21 күн бұрын

1) it's not CGI, and 2) if you bothered to actually watch the 10 second clip, instead of trying to be clever and write comments that are wrong, you'd have heard them directly say no, it's not the same thing as used on Top of the Pops. But you didn't - you had to write out something to try to sound clever on the Internet, wasting your time and you end up looking like a fool.

@Matty112uk 16 күн бұрын

@@sarcasticstartrek7719 I said it was 'CGI' not that it actually was CGI. I also 'WONDERED' if it was used in TOTP, I didn't say it 'WAS' used in TOTP. Read it again. I have no idea what they used for the effects in their shows, nor did I claim to know.

@louissimms Ай бұрын

Thabk you for sharing this. It's great to see how far we have come

@maltronics 28 күн бұрын

Cool , meccano set 1:44

@FollowTheLion01 Ай бұрын

This guy looks a lot like Paul McCartney

@damionyates4946 Ай бұрын

Wow he described 72 quadrillion as 72k billion, that's using really old British numbering

@Millennial_Manc 27 күн бұрын

Politicians of the time expressed government spending in thousands of millions rather than billions.

@krashd 27 күн бұрын

That's Numberwang!

@damionyates4946 27 күн бұрын

It's the "long scale", and officially changed in 1974. I knew of this as a child but it's amazing to see it televised.

@ross-carlson Ай бұрын

You know, I think this "touch screen" stuff might be big one day.

@TecraX2 Ай бұрын

Nah, I can't see any Real World practical applications for it...

@rebjorn79 29 күн бұрын

Can't wait for this tech to finally see the light of day

@noneofyourbizness Ай бұрын

pretty sure clockwork radios took off in a big way in Africa...much to the chagrin of the battery firms.

@user-zr2js5vs8b Ай бұрын

❤ 🪐 love travelling Time

@illumencouk 17 күн бұрын

Charge and Recharge is akin to 'repeat business'. How many of you own electric cars, scooters, bikes, laptops etc? I propose this explains why Trevor's 'battery-less' gadget was rejected.

@Javierjoserivas 21 күн бұрын

Wow the technology is Changing and upsetting our World, greetings from Venezuela and the future 🌍❤😂

@David-hk7ul 27 күн бұрын

60 mile range?! and people still say elec cars today are useless cus they can only go 250-300 miles on a charge.

@robertgoldman8064 Ай бұрын

I learned where they got the 'gravity light ' idea. From the gravity radio.

@mr.y.mysterious.video1 28 күн бұрын

I remember seeing the air pistol bit live on first airing

@garyhay6771 28 күн бұрын

Quite impressive

@jagmarc Ай бұрын

7:00 to make that christmas song video for Mike Oldfield

@siphotheguy1870 26 күн бұрын

Wow! Imagine if they put that touch screen tech in to mobile phones! Wait..... what's a mobile phone?

@jeff__w 29 күн бұрын

3:52 “And that, I’m here to tell you, is seventy-two thousand, eight hundred fifty-seven billion…” Wait, isn’t that “eight” a zero? Isn’t it 72,057…? (And I, as someone in the US, would have said “Seventy-two trillion, fifty-seven billion” but maybe, at that point in the UK, a _trillion_ was still a million million millions or 10 to the 18th.)

@palindromicbob Ай бұрын

30 years and the problems faced for Electric then isn't much different today.

@mrJety89 Ай бұрын

2:22 McLEOD!!!!

@ch5139 29 күн бұрын

Ah back when a billion was a million million. Take that Taylor Swift with only a thousand million dollars!😃

@papps44 Ай бұрын

Why can't we have a technology program on mid week for an hour to offset the utter crap that's on. Tomorrows world was so informative, interesting and inspirational, the one show is garbage!

@krashd 27 күн бұрын

We have Click, but episodes are usually just 20 mins or so.

@quantum7145 27 күн бұрын

a coordinate is time and location.

@Thomas-yr9ln 29 күн бұрын

These were also out of the price range of a lot of people back in the day.

@alimibrahem8120 Ай бұрын

After a couple of years, someone will produce a video about the early days of AI that we are living through now, and it will look like this videos.

@enisra_bowman Ай бұрын

more likely they make fun of the bullshit marketing and that they sold the fancy algorhytmn as „intelligence“ when they are still far from it

@tazulislamtushar Ай бұрын

wow

@cpuuk Ай бұрын

The first actual computer that I know that used the photo-diode "touch screen" was the HP 150. It ran a weird version DOS, but run it did by touching the screen. Wow, 1982 and the first mention of PII\ Data Protection. They certainly got one thing on the nose- lists of peoples details would be useful to criminals. That wind-up radio was success, but you don't see them any more :-/

@krashd 27 күн бұрын

They are everywhere in the third world though, in Africa they outsold food for a while.

@abt833 28 күн бұрын

I was thinking for the tree charger he was going to tie the string to a branch and let the wind blowing the branch wind the power

@finthegeek Ай бұрын

Why did they think it was a good idea to finish the radio section off with the old guy taking off his clothes and diving into a pool in dimly lit room :|

@MeppyMan 28 күн бұрын

90s bro. The 90s.

@4362mont Ай бұрын

Randomly turnimg square world was a solid contender, but the spinning globe won out & was a feature of 95% of websites before its reign of terror was over. Those were the days....

@TheDdm1234 26 күн бұрын

A british billion lol

@rockets4kids Ай бұрын

2:30 That bit didn't turn out so well..

@SuperJinxter Ай бұрын

If only touch screens had caught on.

@mark3464 Ай бұрын

That’ll never catch on

@markedis5902 Ай бұрын

Take me back to the 70s and 80s. I for one was happier then.

@gavinathling Ай бұрын

Crime was higher, homophobia was rampant, the USSR was threatening society, and women were more maligned... Nostalgia for the recent past is misplaced by forgetting how bad things were.

@MrLunithy 26 күн бұрын

@@gavinathling Ignorance is bliss, l would love to be back in the 80's 😔

@deltaray3 27 күн бұрын

But they don't have to wait a million years to crack the code, they can just buy another computer in 20 years that will crack it.

@digitaldobbie Ай бұрын

Well I have arrived at 2024 so where’s my personal jet pack?

@pcpanikMusik 28 күн бұрын

8:33 - That would have been the right way to go. But then the Bush government came to power and reversed everything. The cars got even bigger and consumed even more fuel.

@alzeNL Ай бұрын

4:04 - well Enigma was 159 quintillian, and was cracked by the Poles in July of 1939, Turing and his Team cracked the transatlantic ciphers in June of 1941. Today that key could be cracked on raspberry pi.

@rockets4kids Ай бұрын

With all of the cribs available to the allies during WW2, sure. Without those cribs, and with proper communications protocol, it would still be quite a challenge to crack.

@pjuk Ай бұрын

15:15 going without food to listen to the BBC, wow their local radio must be bad! Fast forward to now and many of us don't even think the BBC is worth the TV licence.

@gower1973 29 күн бұрын

Its no wonder its taken over fourty years to get viable electric cars and they are still shit, a peltier device for heating car seats! You couldnt of made it any more ineffiecient 😂

@xdasdaasdasd4787 Ай бұрын

What happened to thoses electric cars :(

@jagmarc Ай бұрын

Top of the list of daft technology propagandered into credibility must be the Electric Car. But then in California reducing local combustion it's a necessity because of its geography. They need to generate the electricity a distance away (most of it still from fossil fuel) and transport the energy down as electricity.

@robertgoldman8064 Ай бұрын

The ev prediction, was wrong but they still believe it to this day .

@omniverideus Ай бұрын

$20 a month for electricity to power your electric vehicle instead of $20 a week worth of petrol... That's what they thought...

@bennylloyd-willner9667 Ай бұрын

...or that was what the marketing Dept. wanted to say to sell their product...

@MechanicaMenace Ай бұрын

I'm paying £12 a month to charge my car compared to £150 a month I was spending on petrol. If I wasn't charging at home though it'd be closer to £60 a month. Chargers in carparks are extortionate.

@gavinathling Ай бұрын

And they were right...

@omniverideus Ай бұрын

@@MechanicaMenace Nice. UK has also got caps on electricity. Right now in Australia there is no limit and single bedroom households are seeing bills upward of $600 per month. I can't see $20 per month charging a car here being anywhere near possible unless running via solar charged battery banks, but even then the up-front cost of that must be calculated in.

@MechanicaMenace Ай бұрын

@@omniverideus the unit price is capped, but the average unit price is still higher here. In USD it averages about $0.40 here compared to $0.29 in Australia. You guys on average use a lot more electricity than us and I'm guessing drive a lot further but even with your cheaper petrol price per mile/km is still going to be lower for an EV.