0373 91 Tomorrow's World 1992
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- A slightly incomplete recording of an episode of long-running BBC technology development magazine Tomorrow's World from 1992, covering:
A safe reinforced windscreen emergency cutter
All-terrain rollerskates
Deep-level water main leak detection
3D TV techniques
Posthumous analysis of fulmer bird contamination
Light-emitting silicon
Automatic Train Protection
Listening vacuum cleaner - Наука та технологія
The modern equivalents of this program like the gadget show, and bang goes the theory arent even a tenth as interesting or compelling as this was 23 years ago, plus the gadget show is like a big corny advert for products anyway...this needs bringing back big time!! great upload
too fuckin right, I don't ever remember watching this when I was wee but... these guys should be hailed as psychics most of the time, they don't usually promote product brands, just technology and they explain it in depth without it ever feeling boring! I'm gonna go out of my way to watch every episode from 1965 just to see how ahead of their time they were!
also.. half the time you could be sure they invented the gopro! haha
American brands demand to be mentioned, and the BBC does not allow product placement, and rightly so, because we pay for it not them.
now in the future times all you get is apple fanboying. we fucked up
this isn't interesting either.
God, I miss British television of the '90s. The programming, the number of channels, the PAL system, CRT sets.
Fewer channels and better quality.
3D TV came and went 🤣
Sarah Louise it got adopted by the 3D gaming community where perception of distance is more important for interaction. I really cannot see it cutting the mustard at a Ingma Bergman art film festival though!
I can't see 3D at all, so no difference either way...
Still a great programme.
@@laxeystu8096 How do you mean please?
@@paulanderson79 My eyes don't see a 3D image giving the 'depth perception' (ie in stereo). I think most people see two images which the brain combines to give the 3D effect.
@@laxeystu8096 Thank you. Is that a neurological condition of sorts? I ask because my wife suffers from complex focal epilepsy and we're finding some perceptions of things in space can trigger seizures. Repetitive high contrast patterns and converging parallel lines, for example.
A PS5 is roughly equivalent to 10,000 CM2 supercomputers. Yikes!
I recall watching this episode. Such a statistic would have melted my brain back then.
Interesting to think I'm looking back at them from the next century 30 years later
Welcome to the future!
I love it when shows pre 00s would film outside Television Centre and then go back to the stoodio.....
that VR machine was on the blink
LoL
God why can’t they bring this back. I was brilliant seeing what could be the future.
I was a fan through pre teen to teen. I loved every episode which was made even better by the fact most of it was filmed live lol.
3D came to our homes and went again. better luck in 30 years
Birds of a Feather after…. Brings back memories!
God 26 years old. Not many people had mobile phones and the smartphone was still 15 years in the future (although there had been some attempts). No proper home computers - the Internet in its absolute infancy - no HD flat screen TV's and most cars didn't have ABS - Airbags or traction control.
Yet the presentation looks modern and is very informative.
Din't need ABS, airbags or traction control in dem days. We just learnt not to crash.
“No proper home computers”? What are you talking about?
And hardly any fat fuckers walking around neither
Oh we had proper home computers, had had them for a while infact. Laptops too.
Just that year saw major games like Monkey Island 2, Lemmings, Civilisation, Duke Nukem, EoB2 and a couple of the Commander Keens for the PC
Edit: I got the year wrong, those were games from 1991, 1992 saw the birth of the FPS with Wolfenstein 3D as well as Ultima Underworld, Dune 2, Zool, Caeser and others.
@@Ben_Dover753 Hi ABS wasn't mainstream nor were home computers.
I mean modern home computers on which you could do film editing - spreadsheets etc.
They existed but we're prohibitively expensive for average households
Already made their point by destroying one windscreen... ahh always good to know the TV license isn’t being wasted
1 billion calculations per second?
I'm assuming that's 1 billion Flops (floating point operations per second, 1 GigaFlops), that sound about right. The TOP500 list doesn't go back to 1991, but just looking at the trend from 96, 95, 94, 93, then yeah 1 GFlops was probably a top supercomputer at the time. Nowadays, your Snapdragon 820-based cell phone outperforms that easily.
My Apple M1 is 16 times faster than that
10:30 The processor in my “old” iPhone 6 I’m enjoying this on (thank you uploader! 🌟) has more computing power than three of those supercomputers! 🤯
The iphone 6 manages 5 trillion operations per second. That's the equivalent of 5,000 of those supercomputers. The iphone 12 is double that again.
Crazy to think about!
I remember this one, satisfying watching that tool.
... what presenter did you mean?
@@michael_mouse the car glass cutting tool,
Ah yes, 3D imaging. The next big thing in entertainment. How many times have we been told that? Only thing is, no matter how massively it's promoted, people just don't want it. Ten years ago you couldn't buy a television that wasn't 3D. Today- none. A clue there?
And what about the emergence of affordable yet high quality VR? A clue there?
Those were the days. I was born that year and remember it occasionally on TV throughout my childhood.
3DTV eventually happened, and nobody gave a single, solitary fuck.
But not holographic tv which was what they were going for here ultimately.
lol yeah because it was bad , I mean is not comfortable to use glasses and now we prefer "virtual reality" over that still a long way to go.
We ended up with two more fatal train crashes before they started fitting TPWS/TPWS+
Probably because couldn’t pay human life yet,i feel sorry for those casualtys.
Are we any better off than 1992, that year is like yesterday to me.
About this time analogue mobile phones started appearing.
8:00 that's how the 3ds screen works
Me silently watching them sawing a square hole on my windshield
I like the glowing silicon process also the sound in the crystal for the hologram
I took the process class like what's the diffusion gradient when you're extruding ingots or something like that
Surprisingly no comments about the apple vision pro. Interestingly, the vr headsets and concepts they have one this episode don't seem to far off from what we have. Pretty fascinating. Most likely what we have today is based off early tech and designs like this I would imagine. Of course the ui, presentation, and maybe the fact that hey had cameras to use as pass through technology to see in front of you is probably a lot different than they imagined back then.
Huge Tom Scott Energy.
1992 The CM2 could do 1 billion calculations second. The new champ in 2018 is 'Summit' can do 200,000 trillion calculations a second. So that's 200 million times faster. If we go back 26 years before 1992 it's 1966. The fastest computer then was probably the CDC 6600 which could now be comfortably out performed by the first generation Pi computer. Now for the year 2044? Quantum computing will certainly be around changing the World making today's first generation efforts look very primitive.
we have the processing power today to finish that hologram TV project.
That glasses-free 3D TV works on a similar principle to the 3DS right? Albeit that came out 20 years later. I think there was a smartphone that worked on similar lines too but nobody ever sold a consumer TV that worked the same way, perhaps because the need to sit still in one position for it to work was more suited to handheld devices.
There were some tvs that did it actually. I saw them at the NAB show in 2015, but I'm not sure if they were released or not. Perhaps it wasn't something most people wanted, but it was pretty neat.
Congratulations Roger Urwin!
I'm here because of Slashdot :)
Great programme and mostly all done live.
recorded "as live", but not broadcast live
lol@@MarkPentler
Roger Urwin of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire is forever famous 23:36
I'm from Cheltenham myself
A billion calculations per second is equivalent to 1 gigaflop (GFLOPS). The term FLOPS stands for Floating Point Operations Per Second and is a measure of computer performance, The Apple M2 chip, found in the late 2022 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro 13, offers a peak performance of 3.6 TFLOPs. The Apple M3 chip, which is used in some of Apple’s laptops, has a peak performance of 4.1 TFLOPs, There’s also an Apple M3 Max chip, which has a higher peak performance of 16.4 TFLOPs2. This chip is used in more powerful devices and can perform 16.4 trillion floating-point operations per second.
12:30 what's with indian wedding? why was it cut short?
Cos it was boring shite.
12:09 Im watching this on my Oculus Rift Cv1 llol
I am surprised after vr died for 15 years it had the same name lol
😀👍
This video is 30yrs old. We're so far behind on VR.
The theme tune is very similar to TIME TEAM in places
Both themes use sounds that were common in commercials and TV themes in the early and mid 1990s.
With all the virtual reality and 3D technology we have now, people still prefer to sit in front of a square 2D box!!
I want to sue the bbc for telling me i'd have an optical computer by now.
Do it then! 👍😂
When presenters presented products without the need for the 'product' to be saving the planet.
3D TV, will it ever catch on?
6:22 Clearly he is holding red/cyan glasses and watching red/cyan anaglyph 3D. Is this a grue issue or does this guy really think cyan is a shade of green?
I think it has to do with how color theory was taught in school for decades. In my experience,
(1) little attention was paid to the difference between additive and subtractive mixing
(2) little attention was paid to the difference between mixing paint and mixing light
(3) it was taught that the primary colors (of paint) were red, blue, and yellow
(4) no mention was made of the system in which the primary colors are red, blue, and green (as in television and digital photography)
(5) when any mention was made of the primary colors used in ink printing, the magenta, yellow, and cyan were _called_ red, yellow, and blue, even though the magenta and cyan were obviously not the red and blue we were used to
(6) colored glasses sold with 3-D kids' books sure seemed to have plain red and blue lenses, and the inks in the books, which may have been magenta and cyan, just looked like light red and light blue
(7) it was taught that the complement of red was green (and that the two other complementary pairs were blue & orange and purple & yellow).
In the light of all that, to me it's not surprising if a person, presented with cyan, told that it's a primary color, and told only such normal color names as red and blue and yellow and green (not such strange ones as magenta and cyan), ends up calling the cyan "blue" or "green". I think the choice between the two words would depend on the ratios of rod cells in his retinas or on his knowledge and experience (e.g., is he more acquainted with the names of primary colors in paint (RBY) or in television (RBG)?).
forgotten what a great program it was 😊
Did Roger Urwin get his tickets ???
I remember Tomorrow's World right back into the early 1970s. Carmen Pryce is gorgeous.
10:00 is early liquid crystal display tech in raw form.
Such a weird choice of music for the hologram bit.. why did they make it seem like a horror lmao
You'd think the Pulfrich effect was never discovered.
WOW! I remember this.
What Happened? It's from the early 90s. Massive black hole in 3d tech.
3D TV was a load of old dogs doings. Who's gonna sit around at home with stupid goggles on, unable to read a book or look at their phone and then fall over if they need to go out for a piss?
Well, presumably, if the 3D TV viewer needed to "go out for a piss," as you so eloquently put it, they would probably take their "stupid goggles" off before doing so, and hence avoid "falling over"? I suppose that didn't occur to you? Oh well, never mind! 😂😂😂
@@marcse7en You are probably right that when adjourning to the privy for a leak one could pull the old goggles off and put them on the sofa to be sat upon on one's return. Or pop them somewhere else and promptly forget where it was. Anyway, my lack of eloquence aside, the real problem with 3D is that in the real world the focus point and convergence point are the same, but in the dogs' doings world of 3D TV the focus point is fixed at the screen and the convergence point moves fore and aft, leading to a confusion in the brain and a wish to throw the jolly annoying contraption out of the window if you're anything like me.
the side window is still faster and safer to bust out then cutting the front glass. imo
22:17 OMG, that is what the latest Dyson cordless vaccume does! It shows you the size of particles it is sucking in.
lol She never mentions the name of the glass cutting tool.
I dont think thats something for us to buy... just the fire fighters...
It's called a Glass Master 😊
25 years later the new Iphone Xs which came out a few weeks ago can perform 5 trillion calculations a second which is 5000 times more powerful than the MIT super computer featured in this programme which was the size of a car.... 5000 times more powerful !! - Mind blown! - another 25 years from now we'll all be laughing at this comment
They put a man on the moon with the power of a modern fire stick
Moore’s law is stalling. We’ve reached the smallest transistor size for silicon. There’s a 4nm process, but it’s not going to be doubling every 18 months from now on.
I thought LEDs were long before this? Or are they different?
Stephen Dickinson LEDs are made with compounds like gallium arsenide and indium gallium nitride (and others, it depends on what colour you want to generate), not sure but I don't think they use silicon because the resulting light would be deep infrared. Interestingly the blue InGaN LEDs are being more widely used with phosphors that convert the blue light to a wider range of colours, so you can get white, pink and cyan LEDs for example.
Let's let's shower the injured people with shards of glass
predicted VR haha
what happened to the indian item?
the guy at 24 minutes looks like rimmer
Hey what happened too that umpa lumpa Indian bit
15:45 is early EUV lithography. Interesting.
3d tv has´been and gone many times..for a good reason..it's complete and utter shite and nothing like real life and makes many people sick watching it.
lol I see its for stealing cars with... hahahah COOL
lik at waaaaaaaa And a passing cop doesn't think to himself, "Nothing unusual about that windscreen with a hole in the middle..."
Kate was a little Hottie !
Jeff Jones she was indeed!
She's no Philippa Forrester but, yeah very cute!
baxtardboy I wonder what happened to Roger?
Yeah, I'm surprised that last shot of her from behind on the proto-rollerblades was allowed to go out before the watershed lol.
is katie the girl in green shirt
i was 5 years old =P
somehow the intro reminds me a bit of fourscore
Floral Shoppe brought me here.
hoover is old xD we use dyson or gtech
I am so suprised thieves didn't just buy one of these axes and simply cut a opening in the window, it doesn't like that much of a slow process!
It only really works on a car screen because it's safety glass, a normal window would just shatter
Why waste time cutting the windscreen when you can just smash the passenger window and reach in?
Vehicles without side windows?
Really?
They're suffocated or on fire,
before that saw thing works.
16:08 I'm Rosie May
Green desk
is that VR?
It was.
And All The While james saville Was Running Rampant
& next im going to ROGER URWIN, jingle jangle,now then,now then.
What a forgettable theme tune this was
The 90s was chock full of bland forgettable themes like this. Why jungle drums? Silly. Not a patch on the 60/70s Dankworth theme, the 70s Brain or 80s Blue/White theme, all classics, all unforgettable.
IMO, this theme is the best theme out of all of them. Sorry.
There was another theme after this one in the mid 90s which was better…
The money wasted in new tec that will never take off
holographic tv is still experimental and we have faster computers nowadays
Macintosh Plus - ライブラリ.
@ 3:36 looks like he fell (bad edit too)
I dunno what it was about Tomorrow's World but, certainly with presenters like Howard "fuck knows what his second name is", arrogance pours off him that something akin to deodorant should've been developed.
3D TV was a huge flop
12.44? 90s racism? I wanted to see what was going to happen to the lady preparing for her wedding.
It’s 2020 and we still don’t have hologram tv’s haha, also funny how that dust suger automatically reduces power once it detects too much noise, but at the cost of performance,do we really want that?ahagaha
Also funny fact is that even our smartphones are way more powerful then those supercomputers from the early 90’s😀
You heard it backwards, I guess. Greater noise = more dirt = a compensating increase in power.
11:02
Those opening titles were likely ground breaking at the time, but they now just look fucking wank.
Haaaa😂 great comment, spat my coffee out
These comments are f hilarious 😂
The future....lol
we're going back to the stone age....why I said 'no' when the missus wanted kids. Life is a tragic affair, and I'm not gambling with anyone's well being
Worst of the theme tunes
I'd completely forgotten it. Bland 90s crap. Were there any great theme tunes from this decade?
Wrong.
@@mpwheatley Friends, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Saved by the Bell, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, X-Files to name a few. But yeah, 80's was much better for themes.
Crap theme period.
The beach boys are the most irritating music in the world
30 seconds to get to a burning crash victim. Can't they just use a brick.
The windshield/windscreen is a sandwich of glass, plastic, and glass. The plastic is a flexible, elastic film. If you hit the windshield with a brick, you'll just end up with broken glass stuck to a brick-shaped dent in the plastic. You need a blade to cut through the plastic. It's like tearing a sheet off a roll of plastic wrap (cling film): if you try tearing with just your fingers, it stretches a lot before you get even a small hole in it; but, if you use the proper motion against the blade on the box, you cut right through. Windshields are made that way so that, if you slam into one, from the outside or the inside, although you may get a blunt-force injury, you won't get deep cuts from free shards of broken glass.