1989 thought houses would look like this by 2020 | Tomorrow's World | Past Predictions | BBC Archive
Vložit
- čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
- What are the biggest changes to our homes going to be by the year 2020? Will the house of the future be environmentally friendly? What new materials might they be manufactured from, and what new technology will we be living with?
Tomorrow's World's Judith Hann and Howard Stableford enlist the help of futurist Christine MacNulty and glass technology specialist David Button to predict how we might be living in 30 years time, and make a mock-up house in the studio.
Originally broadcast 12 December, 1989.
00:00 Introduction
00:27 Christine MacNulty on the future home
00:58 Home automation
01:41 Change your windows to walls or a TV - David Button
03:05 Energy management
03:53 Smart heating
You have now entered the BBC Archive, an audiovisual time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of TV. Let us educate, entertain and enlighten you with classic clips from the BBC vaults.
Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive - czcams.com/users/BBCArchive?... - Věda a technologie
![[柴犬ASMR]曼玉Manyu&小白Bai 毛发护理Spa asmr](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/0TsXQ7z2Dh4/mqdefault.jpg)
Fairly accurate overall, they just forgot to mention that nobody will be able to afford a home
property prices are an utter disgrace these days. I sold a house a few years ago, not been in a position to buy again yet but looking on Rightmove its shocking what people are charging even for crap properties in crap locations. I was advised a few months ago not to buy yet. The market is over inflated. A lot of properties are simply not worth it.
In the next 37 years they will probably predict that nobody can even make rent or even afford a car, at least in the USA. The inflation will be at least 1000 precent if not more for all items with only a 200--300 precent increase in minimum wage.
@@oddities-whatnot It's been like that for years now though. It's a bubble that refuses to burst.
@The Riddler and will be censored on social media platforms
Oh come on that's not true. If your an oil and gas tycoon you can afford all of the technologies listed above and still have money left over to create propaganda.
Ah yes, the good old days when people were optimistic about the future.
You mean completely unreasonable
True that. 😂
@@_itscrisp If the past was better than the present, then that means things have gotten worse over time.
If things can get worse over time, then it is not unreasonable to conclude that the opposite can also occur. It most definitely is possible for the future to become better than the present. However, in order for the future to be better than the present, someone (or really everyone) needs to think about ways to make the future a better place than the present, and then begin working towards making the future better, starting in the present.
If no one, or nearly no one, thinks about the future and envisions something better than the present, then most likely no one (or few) will be working towards making the future a better place. In this case, the future will almost certainly be either worse than it is today, or at best, about the same as it is today.
People should not accept fatalistic thinking, including the idea that the future will inherently be worse than the present. This is not correct thinking, and it is not constructive thinking. The future absolutely can be better than the present, by a very large amount.
People should also not assume that the world is going to end tomorrow (or otherwise soon), and that it is therefore "pointless" to work towards building a better future. Such thinking is wrong. The world is not truly going to end, even if it may look like it, and many people might start claiming it as well. The Earth will go on. For those with a soul, life will continue. For those with a soul, death and a hoped for "heavenly" afterlife are not the future. "Heaven on Earth" is the future, although it will not occur until/unless someone creates it.
If people want to live a good life in the future, they need to work towards creating it. However, one of the first steps, is that people need to learn how to be good to each other. "Heaven on Earth" cannot be realized, until sometime after people learn how to treat each other right.
"Hell on Earth" is easy to realize, and it does not require specific work to create. To create "Hell on Earth", all people have to do is routinely treat each other badly (ex: by doing things that bring net harm to others).
Creating "Heaven on Earth" instead will require work, and it does require that many things must change. People will need to treat each other right. Nevertheless, it is "totally worth it", to create "Heaven on Earth", rather than "Hell on Earth".
The good old days is a myth and the future we got shows what a bad idea being optimistic about he future is.
The home of 2050 will sport the finest dirt floors and passive air exchange.
1:20 "Bach please"
Alexa: "Woof"
I heard Rick Mayall...
siri: i don't understand
My child: "Alexa make fart noises"
"Ok. Here's one I made earlier..."
Like wtf?
😂😂😂
"The home of the future will look like this"
*Shows an interior that looks dated even in 1989*
I was kind of thinking the same thing, I mean that house looks more 1970's at best. Definitely not 1989.
Budget constraints.
Its about the technology, not the interior.
@@Lesrevesdhiver Clearly the focus was on tech, not on fashion. So I guess they just went with what they thought an average middle class home of the day looked like. In any case you could put the tech in to any home of any taste and style, not just an ultra modern designer chic house.
Fashion has a way of repeating itself same goes for Interior for peoples homes.
I have noticed a lot of 1970's style furniture in a lot of my friends houses today.
1989: I wish I could live in this house!
2020: I wish I could afford a house!
2020: Covid *surprise MudaFukar*
2045: i wish i still alive
You can afford it just make good money
@@boyindica Why didn't I think of that, Doh!! 🤔
It's doable even in places like California. It's not ideal and you will be broke but it's a good investment overall and way easier in most of the country compared to California. Work hard and get a decent job.
Turned out many of us would be living in exactly the same houses as in 1989, except we are now renting a room in them with another four people.
I've lived in the same house since 1972. Made some upgrades though.
And the hause is falling apart because the landlord is too greedy to do renovations. And there is a moss garden on the external wall because of water infiltration, as much is it cleaned. Pretty technological!
the thermostat is a dial from 1950, the doorknobs and locks are from 1930, the windows from 1980, everything is gas powered and the price is 10 times higher because no one builds houses anymore
@@nevreiha lets all just admit it, say the thing nobody says. its not because less houses are being built (much more houses are being built). its because our population increase is at or approaching dangerous levels.
@@socks2441 so you're suggesting we kill everyone? theres so much brownfield land that can be redeveloped, if we let no one into the country the population would reduce and the average age increase meaning the economy would fail and there would be no young and able workforce to facilitate the elderly, the reason why there are less mothers is because so much money has to go towards the housing (high price for multi bedroom due to limited supply). Whether you dont like foreigners coming into the country or you think that the millenials arent having enough kids it's the same answer. Compared to other countries the number of houses produced has fallen to the ground in the last 40 years making the prices go up the other way. We have too many people for our houses, yes, but the solution is to put more up rather than send pete from poland to be tortured in a camp in Rwanda.
They hit the nail on the head the entire video, only thing is most people who lived through 2020 wish it was 1989 again.
I didn't wish that since I wasn't born yet in 1989
So true
Nope. No thanks. Not ever.
As regards whats in Homes we dont have lights that switch on when we enter rooms.. we still have plugs.. we dont have windows that turn white at the press of a button. The only thing they were accurate about was Alexa.
I didn't find 1989 particularly amazing. Tiananmen Square Massacre, dreadful music.
dude, that smart glass thing is the first time I've seen something like that. I've seen windows that have a curtain that covers them up with a button or something but not that, thats pretty cool. I just did a quick research on why it isn't a big thing today and its mainly because of cost, you would think that most cars today would have something like that. Crazy
A new department at my university had windows installed that were like that around 2007/08, I thought it was a new thing back then, I had no idea it went all the way back to the 80s...
Yeah, electrochromic glasses are one of the coolest technologies of today, and the execution is rather simple, but it's still very rare unfortunately. The new Volkswagen ID.7 has a large electrochromic glass as its entire roof, though, so that's cool
I liked the idea of the glass, save a fortune in window coverings.
In Japan there are public bathroom on the streets with glass walls, so everything inside is visible. however, when you enter and close the door the glass automaticaly becomes opaque preserving privacy
I wish I lived in 2020 - it sounds marvelous.
If only they knew!
No you wouldn't my friend, I have been there and it is not very nice, so I think I will stay here in the 1960s, if that is ok with you.
2022 is a horrible time to live in, technology is ruining the world, just like video killed the radio star.
Nah. 2022 is even better.
2020 would have to be the best year in recorded history! What could possibly go wrong?
Fast forward to 2020, and we all wish we had the quality of life we had in 1989.
That is so beyond true, it's actually wild.
Definitely.
Turns out that while this show got a lot of predictions correct, so did cyberpunk.
And body hair
I sure don't.
I just told my Google home speaker to play Bach and it picked the exact same song as that guy 😮💯... 🤘🏽😎 2024 here
I was 23 in 1989 and drove a 3.0S Capri, the most advanced tech I had in my house (which I owned) was a Sony TV with Ceefax. The lack of technology was fantastic compared to the control we are under now. We were so free then compared to how we live now.
In 2023 I drive a 1983 2.0S, I own 2 turntables and a DJ mixer, and a lot of my personal tech is at least 10 years old. Household appliances are newish but not laden with tech. I would have watched this aged 8, and kinda feel 1989 is where I am living in
Truth be told.
I disagee
I think the technology we have now is broadly positive but I blame weak Western governments for allowing private companies to essentially spy on us and hoard information about us purely for their own marketing purposes.
The fact that we now seem to accept this as normal is a disgrace and would have been abhorrent to someone living in 1989.
I think the issue isn't technology but that our governments are allowing companies to essentially spy on us and hoard personal information on us purely for the purposes of selling products and services to us.
It's scary that we now accept this as normal and highlights a total failure of Western governments to protect civil liberties and stand up to big business.
The idea would be abhorrent to someone living in 1989.
That was surprisingly more accurate than I was expecting. Smart lighting, smart thermostats, miniturised computers everywhere, inductive charging pads, voice control. All of it exists in some fashion now, even if it doesn't necessarily exist in quite the fashion they imagined, nor is it all in every home.
The only part they got completely wrong was the idea that we'd take the looming energy crisis seriously and do something about it. Heating bills being practically zero? I wish!
Yeah, they failed to factor in right-wing governments and fossil fuel industry lobbying.
That said though, more people are supplementing their power bills with solar to the point they don't really pay for electricity anymore, and some are even living fully off grid these days.
It's just a shame we don't have Smart governments
the problem is everything is over complex and incompatible... and unreliable. thats why no one uses this stuff except the super rich.
@@-_James_- You really need to re-evaluate your view of "right-wing governments and fossil fuel industry lobbying".
It's "right-wing governments" that created the deregulation that allows people to fit solar to their homes.
It was the "right-wing government" of Margaret Thatcher that closed down the coal mines and no amount of "fossil fuel industry lobbying" stopped that from happening.
I absolutely agree. Pretty accurate and we still talk about climate change as a problem we will look at in the future.
‘Heating bills reduced almost to zero’ - I laughed my spleen up at that.
I know right! In theory, we have come a very long way in energy efficiency. New home built to better insulation requirements, heating systems much more efficient and lower energy outright, most specifically led lighting. However, none of that matters to the consumer if the fuel cost is astronomical!
👌 you could buy a house back then for what is now a years utility bills!
I know right? Let's not extort everyones cash as we see fit and give them free energy and heating.
I really miss the 80s naivety.
How unfortunate they didn't predict how coercive and corrupt so called "democratic" governments would become in the future.
They keep promising us that. In 1930 they said that by 1960 electricity would be so cheap to generate they wouldn't even bother to bill us for it, it would be free!!
Pretty accurate eh - This is why we need Tomorrows World back, to inspire and raise our expectations - and those of our kids
Most of us know or intuitively feel that we don't have much of a future. The trend of things improving year over year has been over for some time now, and our future is likely to be similar to our relatively distant past (e.g., soon most of us will lose access to indoor plumbing).
@@billbauer9795(ﾐㅇ ༝ ㅇﾐ) who knows?
@@billbauer9795 ... dear me ( :--(
The pendulum can only swing so far .....
@@garydavid1788 No such thing as the pendulum anymore. Two wings - same bird.
Nah, previous generations were meant to make the world better for their children but they've failed. Food and house prices are insane, minimum wage has barely budged since even boomers were kids, inflation is going mad, billionaires and mega corps have been allowed to exist and influence politics. Hopefully millennials and zoomers can fix it but we're definitely gonna pay the price.
I'm still living in a house that was built in the 50's. Other than my flat screen TV, Blu-ray player and PCs I'm still using tech that they were using back then as well, like an electric fan and a radiator, both with analogue buttons. So much for the future being all Sci-Fi!
I live in a house built in 1790, restored it to its Georgian splendour, open fires, but under floor heating.
1989 "2020 will be amazing"
2020 "I can't wait for this terrible year to end"
2022 Little did I realise 2021 would be worse and 2022 worse still.
And here they are talking about recession is coming and we are going toward 1971 😅😂😂
@@avikarn2906 history repeats itself
2020: "I'm sure 2040 will be better."
2040: "Kill me now."
The multi Billion Dollar energy companies paid lots to see theses technologies at 3:10 go nowhere.
One things for sure. In 2020 we got to spend a lot more time looking at the insides of our homes.
🤣🤣👍
🏆
Dead on
I went to work every day, just like normal...
lucky,i worked all that time lol, the one or two weeks i didnt work in that year were amazing,i loved the time off
I preferred the world and the house in 1989. Those were fantastic times!
Same here. ❤❤
Life was easier but of course it was for me I was only 8 and no responsibilities
having lived in both of those years. Much prefer now. It's nice to tell my speaker to turn on my AC with my eyes closed while I'm sleeping
The basic house I live in
1989 - £10,000
2020 - £200,00
I distinctly remember this. Not for the tech, but for being a 9 year old wondering what I'll be like as a 40 year old in 2020. It seemed so impossibly far away.
Yep, I'm the same age as you and 2020 indeed seemed like the future. Now a year passes like a month 😁
Oh man I’m 40 too and yes a year passes like a month 😂
The grass was greener...
I remember it too. I'm 62 now! yikes. . .
40 this year. Couldn't agree more. How terrifying the sands of time
1960: "We'll have flying cars by the year 2000"
2020: "How to wash your hands"
We're not that far off, are we? Have you seen the video of the flying taxi?
Touché
😂
@@paper_gem flying cars are a massive waste of energy and will never happen.
Tru
i remember watching this as a child
certainly brings back memory's
It's fair to say the future is always more familiar than people expect. It's society that's changed more
My dad was born in 1945 so finished school in 1961.... when I was a kid he used to tell me he had a teacher that used to say soon they would have TVs that you can hang on the wall like a picture (no tube)..... I'm glad my dad got to see that happen before he died
Let me guess.. It samsung TV😃😂
I remember tomorrows world saying that one day we’ll carry cordless phones around in our pockets and use them anywhere and I thought no that’ll never happen
@@serratusx and now you using the cordless phone brand IPHONE
@@justwatchyoutube6583 or any other phone brand that exists
Thinking of one of those wallpaper tv’s. Damn do they look good
I think the biggest thing that they failed to take into account is the sheer number of homes that would still exist that were built before this tech becomes available.
I think people are taking too literally the concept of having these items literally "built-in" to the concrete of our homes. There is an entire "smart home" electronics category, and it is very inexpensive now. You can get an Amazon Echo Dot (or Google nest hub) for $40 as your smart speaker & hub. You can buy dimmable smart bulbs for $10 each now. In my living room all I have to do is say "Alexa, lights on" or "dim the lights" etc. Everyone I know has a huge wall-mounted 50"-75" 4K TV in their living room.
I think they meant a house BUILD in 2020
@@SalivatingSteve Smart homes aren't all that smart. It's even less smart to have those things in your house.
@@SalivatingSteve
The difference is that they made this stuff appear exciting and life-changing while in reality technological gimmicks are stupid and boring.
Just give me some good old-fashioned freedom.
@@Blueknight1960 as someone who struggles with sleep patterns my self opening curtains disagree with your stance immensely!
I used to have to spend the night at my dads house every Saturday. Tomorrow’s World used to be on Saturday nights, basically I was regularly terrified by this horrendous combination for YEARS. Thank you for the flashback.....😮
Voice from the 80s: "Can't wait for the future to come!"
Voice from the near future: "80s were amazing! Bring me back then!"
The reason why this video aged much better than others was because none of these were a crazy stretch. Most of the videos in this genre talk about things that even we couldn't imagine making, but each of these items that they show here were based off of something that had alredy been created, and if enough people put their minds to it, could make a reality even back then.
It aged better because the white papers for Ubiquitous computing(Internet of Things) were provided to them by the likes of Zerox and IBM.
I am not sure but I think the problem may not be how many people are putting their minds to making it work. Instead of it, is probably the material and production prices that make it still not affordable.
Since I made my comment, I decided to purchase LED lights with PIR sensors and placed them around the house, now I don't have to use light switches anymore, plus the lights only come on when needed saving some energy in the process.
@@MultimediaIrelandLED’s are the worst type of lighting. People like me who have depersonalization and seizures can’t be around them, but all the stores took the incandescents bulbs out of stock, which is natural looking lighting. And 🤡 like you sit with your thumb up your hole and the other finger picking your nose going “oh okay! I’ll buy whatever you tell me. Oh LEDS alright!” Because of people like you I have to go out of my way to find incandescents so I don’t have seizure. You’d be told to sit in dusty green lighting and you’d clap like a seal and say okay. You’re that easily manipulated. Go play in traffic.
@@MultimediaIrelandthink I might do that myself, felt like Inowe it to the 1989 viewers of this show to make use of the technology haha
This is so true, except new homes are built with almost no technology built in, energy prices to heat/cool them have never been as high, and to buy a house now costs 10x as much as back then.
Otherwise, spot on.
I know , I was shocked to hear my nanny and grandad bought their house in county Meath in Ireland in 1989 for 10,000 pounds. It’s worth 200,000euro on the market now. They actually both died in the 2006 and 2010 respectively . My aunt lived there after but she’s since died so now it’s being sold . Price changes are insane now.
Houses are 4x the price today than in 2012 in numerous neighborhoods near me (Ausfalia)
Were still building 2x4 wood houses with rockwool insulation. No one has brought aerogel to the market in anything yet
@@janeblogs324 i'm in a place where house prices DOUBLED just in the past 18 months. and here I am trying to buy my first house, wish i'd had the means to do so 2 years ago!!!
@@conorsmith8551 but salaries were less adjusted to inflation then tho
These videos always have something that makes you chuckle. But it is shocking how accurate a lot of these predictions. It’s true, we used to have a bunch of media devices that have disappeared. Yes, we can walk in a room and ask a smart speaker to just play music, dim the lights, etc. Yes, we have replaced a lot of things to make homes more energy efficient, like LED bulbs, heat pump, etc. And everyone is getting smart thermostats to automatically regulate temperatures throughout the home and day. But damn, where are those smart windows!???
Those windows do exist. I was recently looking at booking a cruise cabin that has them.
I see it needs a BBC computer to run everything though lol, 2:33
The thing is that a lot of the clutter of technology DID disappear - but it went into phones. Like alarm clocks and timers, for example, and torches, even books and CDs and DVDs. It's not built into the house, but it is concentrated into one easily manageable place, without knobs or buttons. It's interesting!
Sad, though, I like my CD's Blu rays etc and HIFI, people don't have that, just a phone and even watch films on a 5 or 6 inch screen!!!! Sad, very sad...
@@workonesabs Definitely. Not sure why they would want to peer at a small screen like that. I'd much rather see what's actually happening.
What they DIDN'T seem to foretell is that the hidden tech will listen to and track us constantly and sell our information to advertisers so we see ads for stuff we were just talking about a half hour before.
I sill use CDs, TV, DVDs and occasionally Tapes. I have a tablet for the tech stuff and a Nokia brick for phoning😁
I couldn't live in a star trek style house.
Besides how do you switch the light off if it comes on every time you move.
@@audiotron1003 I have motion sensors in my light bulbs but I can still turn the switch on and off if I want to. (The lights just turn off if there's no movement for 3 minutes. They're sensitive enough that just moving my arms a bit keeps them on)
I used to enjoy watching Tomorrow's World as a kid. A mainstream TV program that treated the viewers as intelligent people.
".. programme that treated the viewers as intelligent people" ... Wink.
Yes, I remember the stanley knife across a CD saying how indestructible they will be, and the auto windscreen wipers that failed to work on the show.
It did, but progressively it stopped doing so and in its latter days it over-explained everything as if it no longer trusted that it's audience would know some basics.
Me too, this and Beyond 2000 was the best grown up TV I could watch!
That was the last time tte BBC did that. 🙄
This was a brilliant programme, its a pity we don't have anything like it, today.
It's fascinating how people wanted the things in the future to be based on their preferences back then and how they perceived the future homes. Interests changed and so did the basic necessities of people and here we are when affording your own home is a big thing in itself.
They forgot about the flying cars and how all of the teenagers will be wearing their clothes inside out…. No wait, those things were supposed to happen by 2015.
I used to produce tomorrows world, and have to say I am looking mainly at how complex the set is - all of that would have been built in the studio just for this show. And recorded live. Crazy eh.
A green screen studio could do the whole lot now. No need to actually build anyhting! 😃
It was shown in Ireland and as a kid it was mandatory viewing for the entire family. A really quality program with mind-expanding content.
@@djdrwatson no more set building, they didn’t foresee that coming by 2020 !
@@dbaider9467 I used to watch it as a kid as well and absolutely loved it, I wish they would bring it back
@@chatteyj I know. I suppose with the rapid rate of tech these days the producers would have a hard time keeping up. Tomorrows World could become todays world in a month.
Wow. That 1989 room looks a hell of a lot more advanced than my 2022 one now. 😁.
That’s sad
Capitalist greed!
It was all planned ahead. I'm sure they even had prototypes 30 years before that in military labs.
it’s pretty impressive how accurate the BBC was with all of these
Great to get to take a look back! They were correct about technology and design. But the prices though!
My grandmother was born in 1901, when household electricity simply did not exist in rural areas. She was a child when the Wright brothers succeeded in making the first powered flight ever. She witnessed man land on the moon and her son (my father) was a part of that space program. She lived to be 100. 😃
Not happened in the last 40 years tho . Other than the internet.
@@rhetoric5173 Have you missed the advances in medical imaging? Did you notice the recent study that reported a 100% success rate in curing colon cancer? Have you paid attention to how much cheaper everything is, in terms of hourly labor -- things like food? How about Elon Musk pushing advances to get humans on Mars? The world around us is advancing faster now than the world my grandmother experienced and it's up to us to watch, and contribute where possible.
@@PeterLawton 🤣
She would have been two years old then when the Wright brothers took to the air in 1903.
@@robanderson473 Oops. I got that date wrong. I will fix it. Thanks, Rob.
3:00
too futuristic? no.
too expensive? hell, yes
It's interesting how accurate there predictions of the smart home of the future would be. Impressive when u think about all the advancements of the modern home 🏡
3:04
Omg I remember playing with that game 😮
Lights that turn on and off on on and and with movement sensors = Hue. heating systems that learn your routine and control different rooms = hive/nest. Large flat LCD screens = every TV. Clever window glass design = yes, coatings/argon filled etc. The list goes on but I think the biggest advancement exemplified by this clip if we managed to get away from horrid 80’s interior design….
Sponge painted walls and wallpaper dado's, comes to mind 🤮
Exactly. A lot of their predictions weren’t too far off the mark. They were (predictably) a bit too optimistic about cost, but there are plenty of major improvements since then. The glass coatings are available, they’re just a bit pricey for most people.
Home insulation is one major failing though, and it’s mostly because new builds still don’t have to use the latest in insulation technologies. If they did, and had solar (either PV or even just solar heating) become more widespread, then household heating bills would be much lower. The government pulled grants for ‘green’ improvements too quickly, and it slowed adoption a lot. Electric cars are increasingly common, with non-hybrids being phased out within the decade. Widespread adoption of renewables is slowly getting there. Give it another ten to fifteen years. Sadly, 80s fashion has made a comeback of sorts, so there’s always the possibility that 80s interior design will too! 😂
Hue. Nest. Hive.
Got a candidate for the Microsoft overmines here.
Anybody would think this stuff wasn't all built on open standards that you can run from your own house without these tech companies peering into every moment of our lives like something out of an Orwell book.
@@streaky81 Buying something from a technology company to make your life easier? It'S jUsT LiKe 1984!!!!!
that music library was almost spot on, and contactless power was part right
Well, at least they got the extensive music library on command correct.
And the smart bulbs.
And not needing power sockets. I mean, yes, we still need them, but a ton of stuff runs on batteries for hours. And wireless charging also exists.
I'll stick with my cosy cluttered house with a Bob Dylan vinyl on the shelf thank you.
@@goodlookinouthomie1757 Can't stand bric a brac and useless clutter, are you one of them hoarder types that can barely move in your home for all the stuff?
They got nothing wrong...sure most homes don't use(all) these technology`s but they all exist and could be
I have seen some episodes of this show back in the day. At that time, I thought some of the stuff they suggested was "outrageous" but now that I rewatched it after 3 decades, I think they weren't too far off the mark.
Out of all these I still want the window liquid crystal stuff.
Seems like such a cool practical idea if they get the tech to work.
Still living in the same house i watched that episode in as a child. Favourite childhood show….used to be so excited for the future. At 41 pretty sick of the future that’s come to be.
I used to love this show as well, and I also couldn't wait for the future, now I wish I could go back to the past
I'm really impressed at how accurate this is. Almost all of these predictions have come to pass, and the few that didn't are mostly available in some form or other.
I don't know of anyone who has electrified, light-trapping walls, instantly frosting/computer windows nor tables, a voice-controlled television.
All they got right was a need to reduce fossil fuels, a vague idea about big, flat TVs, programmable: light sensors, heating (rare) and voice-activated music.
@@beingsshepherd Yeah the walls sounds very dangerous, imagine drilling into it
@@beingsshepherd it's hard to predict trends, but if you wanted to you could build a house with all or most of these things.
wireless charging pads built into the wall isn't far fetched, we have USB wall sockets that are in homes today, and switching those out with a wireless charging surface wouldn't be much of a difficulty at all.
frosting windows also are something you could totally have, I just think most people would find them pretty useless.
and transparent TVs do exist as well, but they suck... and so noone uses those either.
so the technology is 100% there already, and you absolutely could build a house that does everything they showed in this video, it's just that noone wants that and we have better versions of these.
like why build a wireless charging surface into the wall when you can have them on a cable to use them where you actually need them?
or why have a shitty transparent TV when you can have a high quality OLED instead?
why have frosting glass windows when you can just have shades at a fraction of the cost?
the home automation stuff was absolutely on point tho
@@kevboard As we saw, frosting glass already existed in 1989 ... as did _Back to the Future 2_ with all its 2015 predictions.
In the late '80s I visited Disney's Epcot Center (Florida) where I had a conversation through a colour touch screen computer monitor with staff member wearing a headset who I'd unintentionally summoned into view by tapping 'HELP'.
Many things were already pretty advanced back then.
@@beingsshepherd yes but all of that could be in your house today, it's just that it's mostly impractical or superseded by better solutions.
I doubt there were consumer grade glass panels you could easily install at home back then, let alone transparent screens.
but today, you could totally do that and it wouldn't even be unrealistic to think that someone out there actually did install such things at home.
3:02 "too expensive for most people" is probably their most accurate prediction
A huge amount of people are still living in 1989 or older homes!!
That glass technology that can haze over at the flip of a switch was impressive!
I was an 80s kid, I didn't realize at the time how saturated all those textures made rooms look 0:58 , the floral pattern armchair, the tapestry, the rug, the drapes, oh god it's so much. It's funny how our perception changes.
Same thing is true about hairstyles. It was normal back in the days, but looking back now, it was ridiculous.
I have to admit (bar the chintz) I actually prefer this look to the current trend of mid-century modern. 🙂
@@RevolutiaInfo didn't look ridiculous in the 80s. in fact, many people still love to sport an 80s style haircut
It's a combination of the minimalistic style and saving costs I'd say.
Indeed, Life *was* Beautiful back then... ❤🩹
“ In the future , homes will be made from wood and cost 280 % more than what they do today “
And will be basically a cardboard box with very cheap stucco slapped on it.
@@amyhogarten5038 Cardboard box? We DREAMED of having a cardboard box.....
@@xtenkfarpl665 Do you want to pay 3/4 of a million dollars for one? If so…💵🤏🙏
@@xtenkfarpl665 Dreaming? Luxury! When I was a lad etc. etc.
@@amyhogarten5038 sounds like the homes of California
Always loved watching Tomorrows world as a kid.
The tv bit is quite accurate I use my 85" QM8 as my PC monitor for gaming
I remember New Year's Eve 1999, I was smoking a huge joint w/my roommate and he said, "It's not like there will be flying cars tomorrow. Tomorrow is just another day." That blew my mind. He was a true realist.
Flying cars are possible. But what are the social consequences of personal flying cars ?
@@bagofnails6692 Exactly. Not every human can be trusted to drive on the road as we see all the time so flying cars would be lethal.
If I understand the point of your anecdote, it's smoking a great joint with the right people can upturn terrific wisdom in the blink of an eye. Insights and humorous phrases roll off the tongue, and generally all seems right with the world. Your friend wasn't making any entrenched statement about flying cars - he'd have forgotten what the hell he was taking about within a minute anyway. I too would've been doing the same as you and your buddy back in 1999 - fantastic days for sure!
Neil Degrasse Tyson made a great point as to why we won't have flying cars;
Because they're not necessary. If we want to fly, we fly. But for driving, if we go in one direction, we go, interstates and flyovers have been made so you can have traffic go in several directions at once without the need to stop. The quick spread of highways across the world has made it unnecessary to introduce another billiondollar/triliondollar way to travel at differing altitudes safely in the sky. We already have the ability to change direction and go in one way and others simultaneously. Isn't that what a flying car would do, but you would have to measure altitudes to go over one another and in another direction. Why bother when we have the infrastructure to do all that and get where we need to get AND fly when we need to get further on top of that?
He made a great point.
@@pebblesandwoowoo5924It is a stupid point. Most intersections are at grade, not flyovers and you cannot go in any direction you want, you have to follow the narrow confines of roads. If I want to go anywhere in a car I am confined to the arbitrary restrictions of roads, spend most of the time travelling in an indirect direction and spend time banked up behind traffic at red lights.
"....energy management in our homes will become critically important". Yes indeed, but very little was done about it over the last 33 years - probably because no-one was going to make money doing so in a virtually unchanged regulatory environment.
Energy standards are woeful, it's not even a UK thing, it's international and industry wide. There are very simple things which can be done to save energy that simply aren't bothered with. Heat recovery is SUPER easy to achieve and yet the manufacturers make such things crazy expensive and crazy complex for all they do.
The almost total absence of heat recovery in new build residential is frankly criminal. Considering how much these companies make from selling these shitboxes the addition of ventilation ductwork and air to air heat recovery would represent a considerable improvement in quality of life, heath, and energy efficiency. Such a system MUST made mandatory in building regulations to see any real change in residential energy efficiency, plus having a much better air replacement rate will improve health and happiness as a bonus.
But because of the issues in the industry, such a system would add a HUGE price increase, the extra labour, extra time, extra materials, all have the incumbent building companies fighting against such policies as they fear for their bottom lines. It wouldn't be bad if the houses were at least designed to make it easier to retrofit such a system later...
A lot of modern materials and insulation catches fire more easily or burns hotter than a wooden frame etc.
And the amount of lobbying and corruption from the fossil fuel industry has been a major player too
Well compared to 100w light bulbs think 10w is a massive improvement, heating systems have also massively improved, TVs use way less enagy as well, only problem is that PCs now use more and we have more devices plugged in
@@simonupton-millard Agreed that overall household energy consumption we have probably improved since 1989. However, on overall "energy management" we are still, in the average household, very basic or non-existent. For example, my property built in 2012 came with a single basic thermostat (technology of the 1980s or before) to cover the whole living space, without any flexible "intelligent" response to external temperatures/weather (incl evolving climate), changing daylight hours, changing room use patterns, numbers of residents, numbers of rooms being used, etc - or even the ability to manually re-set quickly and easily. I think that TW presenters in 1989 would have been very, very disappointed in the "energy management" in 2022, because it is still the practically identical "dumb" technology to what they (we) had then! The Internet of Things (IoT), while prematurely hyped, does show one way we could move to more intelligent "energy management" systems, that use the applied science we already have acquired.
Our energy requirements have dropped over this time, despite the increased population and extra houses. For instance, in the last 10 years, our average consumption has dropped by about 7GW.
My house in Canada was built in 1962. I upgraded the electrical panel and removed some old carpet. I don't really have a smart home. I actually used to install smart home devices and I remember being able to view customers cameras and usage. The home of the future is more like "1984" with big brother watching you.
Loved this show back in the 80’s
They missed that you can now fly London to New York in 7 hours instead of 3.5 hours.
Concord and even then that was obsolete then. Non of the other markets where interested back then to buy. Decade ago when this video was made it was already sealed as a failure as neither governments wanted to fly it in other regions other than it's 2 routes it was back in. It's a real shame it never take off. It was successful in tech, but a failure unfortunately as a future. Too expensive tickets for non execpt the rich and oil prices sealed it.
@@gerogyzurkov2259 unfortunately the project was never viable from day one. 90 tonnes of fuel in a 70 tonne aircraft to cross the Atlantic was never going to work. The British and French government effectively subsidised the tickets of all the rich people that flew in it, to the tune of $1.5 billion.
@@DMC888 Yeah set the British and European commissions back alot in the Aerospace. We could of had Airbus giant Corp type company earlier with the amount spent on Concord, would of lasted way longer and benefited more probably upto what Airbus is right now if not better.
Maybe by 2040 you can do it in 3.5 hours. Too bad they didn't make more condord sst jets.
"Bringing heating bills to nearly zero" us in 2022 like 👀📈🙃
See Gosforth Handyman Insulation Vids, seems heating usage has dropped by about a fifth on an incomplete system, I would expect to see a third to a half off on cost by the time the house is complete compared to typical 4 bed usage of a 1930s house.
Had there been the political will this vision of the future could have come to pass
They didn't factor greed into the equation.
It's all Putins fault 😉
For those that build or refit to the PassivHaus standards, heating a house can be done with body heat alone at best, or at worst with the energy to run a hair dryer.
Pretty accurate, as it turned out. All of my lighting, inside and out, is voice controlled via Alexa, rather than motion sensitive, as is the heating, doorbell camera and alarm system. I just wish stuff was as affordable as it was in the 80s. I liked the no power sockets idea, for new build homes. That'd be cool.
Affordable? I don't think so. A video recorder in 1980 cost £500 and my house cost £10,000. Tech is cheap NOW.
Intelligent heating in 2020 :) ...when so many can't even afford to heat the home like they did in 1989. They failed to mention that almost everyone would be stuck inside the home without being able to go outside.
0:09 Windows 11 logo lurking in the background
Ironically it is perfectly possible to live in a home that produces a high percentage of its own power and water etc, but construction companies are building huge estates of cheap, small houses that are still dependent on the national grids, that we pay a fortune for. How disappointing.
It's also perfectly possible to retro fit old houses with both insulation and renewable energy but no one bothers.
@@beetooex hopefully now that there is a financial incentive...
...but construction companies are building huge estates of cheap, small houses that investment companies snap up, making life difficult for first time buyers so they can rent to them at extortionate prices instead.
"[...] but construction companies are building huge estates of cheap, small houses" I wish
@@rewindoflow I don't mean they are cheap to buy, that's why I'm STILL renting! But compared to housed built 50 - 60 years ago they must be cheaper to build. They're smaller, thinner walked etc. I don't feel my Mums house will be standing in 100 years from now, but my Grandparents house might be.
Loved this show, I Use to look forward to my weekly dose of Tomorrows World and QED
Spot on. 4 years on and i’ve not got any much of these on me gaff
Actually pretty accurate in principle. The details are off in places, but lights and music control are all available like this, the glass changing to solid colour is available (I've only seen it in offices and grand designs though). Energy efficiency is massive now too. Well done to them in 1989!
Such glass was evidently available in 1989, but it's still not widely used in homes.
I read an article that they are working on clear windows that work as solar collector panels. Now to me that might be a game changers, I wonder if the petrochemical industry will ever let anything like that become available. Imagine if all the windows in the world were passively generating free energy ! UM, no not going to happen, no money to be made by big trillion dollar companies to profit from......oh well it was a good idea.
@kfl611 you may be right. But, one point i would make is that petrol companies are now the big investors in hydrogen, because they want to provide it as fuel in the future. Tibacco companies are the biggest investors in vaping equipment. So it might not be as bleak as you think. There will be big money to be made manufacturing new windows for every building in the world!!
🤔oO(What's with all the exclamation marks.)
How much do those windows cost ? What are the actual advantages over curtains ? What are the disadvantages ?
hahaha my house still looks like that 1989 house....tell you what though, that electric wall would be handy to stop the cat pissing up the wallpaper.
Not quite on the money with that one were they, although wireless charging pads for phones could be built into a wall.
😂😂😂
Kudos to whoever had to build the set!
2:24 - is this an early OLED prototype? damn that's so freaking cool.
used to love watching this show as a kid. I saw the first sat nav, the first self driving car. It was pretty amazing, and demonstrates how long it takes to get these things right before they go into production. It would be interesting to see an updated version of this show for whats to come in another 30 years.
til then teslas will just have keep killing
The endless issues with every iOS release beg to differ.
Haven’t you seen walking dead?
You'll be able to buy a perfect robot woman for amazing sex and work from home for sick money
I'm still waiting for flying cars and people to be living on the moon, all things they had predicted to have been possible by the 1990's or surely by 2000.
And in 2022 you get to decide if you want to starve to death or freeze to death, what a time to be alive
People in 1989: hows it going to be like in 2020?
2020: covid + no travelling allowed + social distancing + no shaking hands
Love this, the tech was in development at the time and we can now see the current results. IT was defined in the 50s-90s. We stand on the shoulders of giants for their work.
Weird how everyone kept predicting voice control devices for decades, yet when they did made the Echo everyone kept scratching their heads about what it was for.
It was like a big dream for them. Then came, Google, Alexa, Siri & Cortana 😁
Really? I never heard anyone confused about what it was for. More about worried about big corporations storing our personal data. Voice control is cool. Have corporations have access to your info, seeing that info is not cool. Nor is having something listening to you all day that is also tied to a server that is not in your home but also part of a big corp.
I remembered watching a video mocking a voice control devices. About someone can't enter his house during rain due to the door can only opened by his voice (which overwhelmed by rain's noise). In the end he become wet and caught a cold.
I don't watch terrestrial tv but would absolutely love to see this show made again. I bloody loved this show growing up in the 80's!
Me either. I prefer interdimensional tv (Rick n Morty)
This show sort of already exists all over the web, only now its done by content creators on CZcams getting paid to adverti--, eh, review the various tech products.
I don't think the BBC would consider making this programme again, unless they could find a way of putting many black people in the show.
20-22 tomorrows world- in the future everything's going to be shite, EVERYTHING!
The BBC still make this kind of show, it's named _'Click'._
Though feels more like a children's program.
1:41 Why don’t all car manufacturers or tint shops use this on cars instead of tinted windows. I’ve never seen this glass this is way better than tinted windows. Also probably can charge more to install instead of tint that should be a cheaper route. This is good especially if you can change the color of what type of glass you want so if a cop pulls you over you can just clear all your windows before he even gets out of the car.
I think that this type of glass is already in use in Japan, but only for restrooms.
It's a thing.
3:46 😂😂😂 got that wrong! Heating bills are crazy now 😅
This is actually very spot on. This is what a thorough objective research is able to do, even predict some of the future outcomes fairly accurately.
Plus completely overlook smart phones, email, social media and the internet.
I just love slapping my appliance pads on the wall at home
@@beingsshepherd they were talking about houses
@@beingsshepherd Not really, he demonstrated you can turn on music with your voice, Google will do that for you.
@@lukasg4807 Exactly, and what they described is nothing like our houses actually are.
Accurate predictions of what is possible but only the things that actually make life easier have been adopted. Also it's ironic that the old fashioned hi-fi system would sound much better than most 'smart speakers' used today. All most people want is a quiet life.
Totally agree it’s a shame that hifi has gone so far backwards and people (or perhaps Producers..) seem to equate bass & compression - lots of it. - with quality. And that’s a complete travesty. I love a good bassline but there’s nothing like listening to Wish You Were Here’s full runtime on my Wharfedales coupled to my Denon CD player. That’s a cheap combo and even that sounds better than 95% of ‘smart’ speakers on the market.
I didn't think 'smart speakers' were _meant_ to sound good. Aren't they just Stasi-style listening devices?
I listen to 80s music on on 80s speakers. So much better
Media consumption is more about quantity than quality today.
@@mhoppy6639 Perfectly easy to get good value sound systems, it's just that most people don't want to arse about with wires and cable systems that they don't understand, and that take up too much space. Hence when Bluetooth, Sonos etc have become more popular.
One of the best prediction videos on the internet.
This is alarmingly accurate. (Except for using a window as a TV screen). Partly because it's a sensible prediction. Not using wild ones. I don't even think they realised that small display is actually what we did migrate to. With the advent of smartphones and the abundance of personal choice of visual media.
2:20 may be one of the first oled displays ever demonstrated.
possibly but without the blue spectrum. Kodak invented the oled screen way way back and by 2000 i had the opportunity to play with one that was full color, and not to mention flexible. They also had an infrared version for military use in the dark. Too bad Kodak had so many great inventions, but chose to just shelve them on the thinking that they would detrmine when to release such technology, when in fact, the market determmined this (Digital camera is one such example of misguided judgement) . Ultimately, this way of thinking killed kodak completely in via a fast death (RIP 2005-2007)...although they did make a lot of money from licensing out many patents, OLED was just one of them.
A fantastic program, used to love watching it as a kid.
Me too¡
In 1989, we were still struggling to get our antenna rotator to work, let alone rotating the full 360 degrees without twisting the coaxial so severely the it would rip it out of the connector box and my father sending me four stories up to the roof in freezing weather - often with a flip-flop in his hand as a means of persuasion - with a pair of pliers, a screwdriver, and a roll of electrical tape to cut and reconnect the coaxial.
as someone from 2024, I am amazed to know that these technologies existed before 1989.
It's interesting how people actually change more than we think over the years and our products change less.
The windows switching from opaque to transparent at the flick of a switch would be awesome.
That’s been a thing for a number of years. You could buy windows like that later today if you wanted to.
This exists.
@@johnqpublic331 But nobody can afford to buy them...
I spent my younger years through peak humankind, very thankful for that. Not expected it would go downhill that quick.
1:32 that was such an accurate prediction, however, it was not the Windows he intended.
I love the optimism about tackling climate change. 30+ years later and we still can't agree to take sufficient action.
Yes, imagine how optimistic now would look in 30 years.
"Wow they signed global accords in Paris trying to combat it"...
it's too cold out as is, i'm still wearing my zebra snuggy and it's almost MAY. this is what we get for protecting the environment. i want MORE GREEN HOUSE GASES
There is no action we can take as there is no problem. The weather scared ancient man to the point he sacrificed his fellow man to please the weather gods. Modern cultures burned women as witches for cooking the weather. Now Co2 is to blame. What we are experiencing today is what mankind has endured since the dawn of man. Extreme hot and cold, drought and flood and everything in between regardless of what Co2 levels have been. This is documented in centuries old newspaper articles and other documented history.
Fear mongering is profitable. CLIMATE CHANGE!!! COVID!!! WAR!!! $$$$$!!!
@@007kingifrit Because you are a fool.
@@007kingifrit that's only gonna make it worse, climate change dosn't just cause hotter summers but in most places colder winters as well.
Amazing how accurately they predicted the future way back then!
You say way back then, but 20 years is nothing in terms of technological advances. For example, we know in 20 years what sort of technology we will have in 2044
@@zafmo9829 the simulation will be over by then your in a vr game and dont even realize it your playing some earth character that lived 1000s and 1000s of years ago. humanity escaped earth 1000s of years ago and put people into simulations until we reach our new world sometimes you see our true reality in your dreams but instantly you forget about it they plant false memories into your head just as your waking up if you die in this simulation you will die in the real domain too so be careful.
@@evildeed90s lol. That's a bit wild in terms of simulation theory. It's most probably that we are living a simulation that's controlled by people on earth, probably 100 years into the future. Wouldn't make sense to put us asleep until we reach a new world.
@@zafmo9829 just watch Blade Runner 2040
not to amazing actually maybe if they predicted the yar 2020 100 years ago then yes. Also all the predictions are wrong, and i mean its also very brief in its predictions not scientific even.
Wow! Pretty much nailed it! Wireless phone charging pads like the hairdryer, got them!
Spot on...30+years ahead of time! ...well except the 'heating bills to zero'! (2024)!
1:25 That would be awesome 🥹
So interesting to see that they got so much right, and how much our technology evolved. All the concepts are out there, not exactly as presented, but everything they said actually exists.
True! I could even say the technology was even better than its concepts
the got 10% right, we still burn to much fossil fuel and Pay to much to greedy Fossil fuel Corp., This is a big Fail for us Humans, No progress in the right Areas
"The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed yet" - William Gibson.
Technology was moving forward so quickly in the 80's that they expected things like flying cars by now. They didn't predict corporations to switch the focus to profit alone, and token incremental tech improvements.
Back then it was nice to think into the future and look forward to what was coming. In this day and age I’m dreading what’s to come
Actually, a lot of us dreaded what was to come back then as well.