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February 11, 2013
Video: The 21st Century Office – how the BBC got it all wrong in 1969
by Mark Eltringham • Comment, Facilities management, Furniture, Technology, Workplace design
Two days ago we published a strikingly prescient report from Walter Cronkite dating from 1967 about how the world of work would look in the 21st century. Two years later the BBC was to get things hopelessly wrong, not only with its tired and misguided wannabe existentialism, but also with its vision of a future which was clearly just a slightly mechanised plasticky version of the present. That’s often the problem with futurology. It tells you more about the time in which people are making their predictions than any real vision of what is to come.
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