Tomorrow's World from 1995 - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: 0b01010011
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2017, 08:46:29 am
content: An English technology show, now sadly defunct.This is their entertainment special, covering DAB, digital TV, widescreen TV, and shows a primitive prototype of a colour plasma screen!http://youtu.be/gJm15LMQEHM

author: German_EE
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2017, 02:52:03 pm
content: Yeah, I remember it well, one of the few technology programmes that were on TV. Their presenters were quite a team:Raymond Baxter - An ex WWII fighter pilot who always pointed things out using the fountain pen normally kept in his top pocket.James Burke - Mr Technology, a damn good presenter who also covered the moon landings for the BBCWilliam Woollard - Also did Top Gear when they were a programme about cars one of the BBC's born communicators.Michael Rodd - The enthusiastic youngster of the teamKieran Prenderville - Who I vaguely rememberPlus the ladies:Judith Hahn - Living proof that female geeks can be sexyMaggie Philbin - The female half of the younger team once Raymond Baxter had left.

author: 0b01010011
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2017, 08:08:14 pm
content: Yeah, used to be my favourite show as a kid, mainly for science but also to lust over Kate and Carmen.....

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2017, 09:56:37 pm
content: If I remember correctly, I really, really liked it at the time. It had a fair amount of electronics in it as well, which was of general interest to people. Even if they were not formally into electronics as a work/hobby thing.I never knew (as far as I remember) that it was shown internationally. I probably always assumed that it was only shown in the UK.I'm pleased to know that it was liked/watched/remembered internationally.They did have things going wrong (live at least for the UK, if I remember correctly) on air, quite a lot of times. Party because it was done, using early demo/semi-finished prototypes (often), and partly because the shows were either done live or done quickly, so there was not any time to come back later with a properly working version of the unit(s).In that era, electronics tended to be significantly less reliable than it is today, especially with very new stuff. E.g. early video recorders or early car electronics, etc etc. Assuming you are buying quality brands at reasonable expense and not cheap nonsense, from unbranded/fake Chinese really cheap, ebay suppliers (although even then, some of the stuff is still perfectly ok (ignoring safety), your mileage may vary).EDIT CORRECTION:It was onlysometimesshown live (maybe nearly always, maybe rarely, I'm just not sure now). I can't remember how often that was. I think the show is up to 50 years old or so (1965,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow's_World), now.

author: switchedmodepsu
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 29, 2017, 03:28:05 am
content: We don't have intelligently presented science/technology documentaries of this calibre in the UK any more, we just have the mental equivalent of liquidised food in case the "average" person's brain goes into meltdown from digesting what they're watching. I used to, and do, LOVE Tomorrow's World, from an age where intelligent people weren't "patted on the head" in an intellectual way.