Tomorrow's World - Office of the Future 16 April 1969 - BBC
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From the BBC Archive 'Tomorrow's World' collection: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/tomorrowsworld/index.shtml
James Burke experiences the automated office of the future. In this compilation of reports from a longer programme, James Burke (pictured above) becomes an executive in a futuristic office where the role of a secretary has been usurped by an automated robot. Derek Cooper also reports on a new process for manufacturing micro-electronic crystal lights and visits a South Dakota laboratory deep underground where scientists are collecting information about the sun.
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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?
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I can't believe that's the origin of LCD displays! Amazing!
Back when Britain used to invent stuff and everyone had a combover
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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.
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BJ39?! Pffttttpfpft!
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god this crap. so boring
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In the future, everything will be viewed through mirrored tubes.
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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!
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This video reminds me of YouTuber, Ashens.
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" BJ-39 works for me, much better than a human being " ? lol the mind boggles
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@ptracerfastlane Yes I never realised James Burke was actually John Cleese
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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.
weeneldo 1 year ago 44
Superb bit of archive strangeness from the BBC vaults.
norsef 1 year ago 13