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I really wish there was something like Tomorrow's World now, (is there?) - it brilliantly explained the possibilities of tech for the future, without ever just

by ljf 4y ago

I really wish there was something like Tomorrow's World now, (is there?) - it brilliantly explained the possibilities of tech for the future, without ever just being an advert - in fact I don't think I ever saw a device on there that you could purchase (or at least I don't remember them). I vividly remember seeing an LCD display that kept the display on without power - very early e-ink, and the possibilities seemed so exciting to me. Nothing scratches that itch for me today (other than Hacker News to a degree) as most tech writing it avertorials or built from press releases. At times Engaget came close for me, but these days it is just another tech news site with all the same information, and very little focus on 'across the horizon'.

atonse 4y ago
totally agree. For me it was shows like Beyond 2000 (on Star TV in India), and reading magazines like Popular Science and Popular Mechanics (on the potty, who are we kidding), which served as massive inspiration as a kid for the power of technology to shape the world to come.
- p_l 4y ago
  Beyond 2000 was a wonderful show. Funnily enough the one episode I remember the most is the one about RFID tags and possibly using them for scanning purchases in shops, where you'd just put your bags in correct place and it would count them up - with a joke that it won't work for everything, pointing to loosely packed vegetables :-)
zeristor 4y ago
Watching it as a child I was bored by all the health tech stories, now I’m far more interested in them.
- taylorius 4y ago
  Me too! Whenever Judith Hann came on (she did the health stories, if I recall) I would roll my eyes. You're immortal when you're young, after all! :-)
taylorius 4y ago
I worry that there are probably 1000, but they are all forced to clamor for attention so hard to get noticed, that they'll be all hype over substance. I think the internet's "everyone has a voice" brings its own problems. It's like a Denial of Service attack on our attention.
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
  > It's like a Denial of Service attack on our attention. Stealing it.

by ljf 4y ago

atonse 4y ago

totally agree. For me it was shows like Beyond 2000 (on Star TV in India), and reading magazines like Popular Science and Popular Mechanics (on the potty, who are we kidding), which served as massive inspiration as a kid for the power of technology to shape the world to come.

p_l 4y ago
Beyond 2000 was a wonderful show. Funnily enough the one episode I remember the most is the one about RFID tags and possibly using them for scanning purchases in shops, where you'd just put your bags in correct place and it would count them up - with a joke that it won't work for everything, pointing to loosely packed vegetables :-)

zeristor 4y ago

Watching it as a child I was bored by all the health tech stories, now I’m far more interested in them.

taylorius 4y ago
Me too! Whenever Judith Hann came on (she did the health stories, if I recall) I would roll my eyes. You're immortal when you're young, after all! :-)

taylorius 4y ago

I worry that there are probably 1000, but they are all forced to clamor for attention so hard to get noticed, that they'll be all hype over substance. I think the internet's "everyone has a voice" brings its own problems. It's like a Denial of Service attack on our attention.

ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
> It's like a Denial of Service attack on our attention. Stealing it.