Tomorrow's World - Office of the Future 16 April 1969 - BBC

[MumblingMickey]

well first thing... Ms Smith is the most flat chested secretary I've ever seen... her computer has no monitor...and it's not a wonder he never left the office cos his cellphone had to be carted through the streets on a mobile trolley!

The rest of it is interesting though... the manufacturing of IC's has changed a bit... essentially 35 logic gates in that one... add another few billion and you have a HD screen...maybe thats what Ms Smith is waiting on?

[roggerfrogger2]

I can't believe that's the origin of LCD displays! Amazing!

Back when Britain used to invent stuff and everyone had a combover

[SnowHarp]

Amazing to see this and to realize that computers were not really envisaged as being on every desk in the future. The first thing he touches on his desk is a pen and paper. They also did not foresee LCD panels. Obviously not watching Star Trek which came out at about this time.

[MrYorkshireFella]

BJ39?! Pffttttpfpft!

[GameMusicCompiIation]

god this crap. so boring

[therealbluedragon]

In the future, everything will be viewed through mirrored tubes.

[4beatlefans]

What a load of unadulterated nonsense. Still; I wonder what a price of beer was in those days? I do remember my first pay-packet (as an apprentice, August, that year) £7-7-0.  Mmmm!

[MrYorkshireFella]

This video reminds me of YouTuber, Ashens.

[KThxsBy]

" BJ-39 works for me, much better than a human being " ? lol the mind boggles

[playgirlc]

we don't have a harpist playing when we walk into our offices nowadays

[xander7b]

"No distractions !" guess they didn't imagine anything about Internet Distractions

[friltsarTG]

The narration for the opening office bit sounds like a neurotic shut-in about to lose it and head off on a murder spree any second now.

[Jarren202]

Calling Miss Smith... Calling Miss Smith...

Please come into my office immediately.

Lock the door on your way in, there's a good girl.

[Huttate1]

You should tag this with "Raymond (Ray) Davis, Jr" and "Solar Neutrino" as well - at least. Davis was key in identifying solar neutrinos and was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize as a result. I am certain those interested in him would be interested in this.

[RetroGamerVX]

Lol, the most interesting thing is the deep seated phsycological problems that guy has lol

[wolfchimneyrock]

is that mr. rumboldt?!?

[vividman100]

That motorised cabinet is nothing short of ingenious.

[plavins1]

miss smith has really hot legs!

[cableguy786]

KNOB!!!

[ptracerfastlane]

This is obviously the office for the Ministry Of Silly Walks!

[Timsquonk]

@ptracerfastlane Yes I never realised James Burke was actually John Cleese

[berryje1964]

miss smith has nice legs ;O)

[huntingtigers]

Checkout 1:17 seconds - BJ-39 !!! you gotta be kidding who called it that ?

[Envergure]

AWESOME! I never imagined they could make semiconductor wafers by hand! 70 years before this show aired, the LED was discovered by accident, and nobody really cared because apparently they couldn't think of any use for a small yellow light.

[robt135utube]

no mention of 'top shelf' aspects

[norsef]

Superb bit of archive strangeness from the BBC vaults.

[weeneldo]

Its quite amazing to think that in 1967, they had only made 4 of those displays, but by 1974 they had the technology to rebuild a man's body with bionic implants for only 6 million dollars, including giving him an eye that could zoom in and legs that could run at 60mph. Amazing.

[echo680]

@weeneldo nice !

[LHunterO78]

@weeneldo amajin what we could do now...........2010

[jsl151850b]

1) Meh.

2) They were able to detect individual atoms of Argon??

3) All those people HANDLING the semiconductor!

No wonder it was so expensive!

We in the 21st century assume automation perform those processes.

[Huttate1]

@jsl151850b 2) Davis was awarded the 2002 Nobel for his work.

[ECTBWHO]

: ) not that much off.. : )

[BGDPPL]

all that to make the screen of a digital watch? wow

[dudewhosaysarrh]

@BGDPPL That was one of the first numeric LED displays, waay too big for a watch. The first digital watches with LED displays were intruduced in the seventies, they were expensive, heavy and the batteries didn't last long. Towards the end of the seventies, they came up with liquid chrystal displays, which were much more energy efficient.