I honestly don't think youngsters understand the difference between the everyday anxiety that this world brings now compared to what it was like 50 years ago.
If he and people like him at the time had not been so dismissive of the technology,, Britain might have taken a bigger lead in the development of the internet.
He was dead right about "information doesn't guarantee wisdom or tolerance".
CeeFax was ahead of it's time in my opinion. I remember as a kid playing BamBoozle on TeleText.
I was getting football match scores via teletext in 2007-08
Same! Me, my mum and my sibling all used to play it in the morning.
Same
I liked Fyfe Robertson. As a child in the seventies he was (along with Jack Hargreaves) like the grandfather I never had.
I love this. Great reporter. I was too young to have watched him then.
Very wise words, more relevant now than then.
If that was too much communication for him then he would have considered today to be a living nightmare.
I honestly don't think youngsters understand the difference between the everyday anxiety that this world brings now compared to what it was like 50 years ago.
46 years ago and his sentiments around minimising mass information and communication is more relevant now than ever
Love that Skaughtisch accent!
Give this man his job back BBC! He’s great
But also long dead.
Unfortunately, Mr. Robertson left our world in 1987.
@@scottishwildcat easy with artificial Scottish intelligence......
A wonderful journalist and a voice for the ages. Would get flamed on social media for expressing those closing thoughts....
Why reformat the picture like this? To fit the iPhones of all the kids who are into Fyffe Robertson and Ceefax?
LOL, 10 years from now someone will 3D-hologram this video.
'Would help with more peace of mind in a world of troubles'
The Internet would blow his mind.
This came later in NZ and was called 'Teletext' there.
Teletext was the technology, Ceefax was the service
Class 👍
Fyfe was a greag reporter and presenter. A very different era.
This man is cool.
but this is back because it is a digital teefax!
Ban the TV licence go subscribers or add adverts
If you only knew!!
ceefax the poor man's internet 🤗
Ahh the TV the most destructive invention to humanity since the bomb
If he and people like him at the time had not been so dismissive of the technology,, Britain might have taken a bigger lead in the development of the internet.