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Tomorrow's World
1965 · TV series · documentary · 30 min episodes · 20 seasons
Tomorrow's World was a long-running BBC television series on new developments in science and technology. First transmitted on 7 July 1965 on BBC1, it ran for 38 years until it was cancelled at the beginning of 2003.
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In the UK we had Tomorrow's World [1] on the BBC, a must watch for any budding futurist. It was a pretty breathless experience to get some audio/video mixing software I was involved with demoed on the show in the late 1990's despite having stopped watching it a decade earlier.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow%27s_World
UK is finally getting there, but we have a very long way to go. Our housing is mostly bloody awful for insulation, draught proofing, and sensible forms of heating. The very worst is anything 60s-90s, particularly if there's a flat roof.
We've only been hearing about how well Sweden and other Nordics do insulation, community heating, heat pumps etc for about 40 or 50 years. Various combined heat and power, insulation, passive houses etc would turn up on things like Tomorrow's World (60s-90s technology TV series) fairly often, like it was some sort of breakthrough new discovery. Well it was, to the UK, I guess.
I think you're viewing Tomorrow's World via rose tinted glasses. I loved it as a kid but if you watch an old episode now you're guaranteed to cringe.