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March 5, 2013
Video: another prediction from the 60s gets it a bit right and a bit wrong
by Mark Eltringham • Comment, Technology, We Like
The latest in our series of videos looking at how the world in which we now live was predicted a generation or so ago. This time a clip from a 1967 documentary called 1999 AD. Although accurate in many respects including the use of online shopping and e-commerce as well as e-mail it betrays its origins in the use of devices with discrete functions, which is reflected in the clearly defined and – to our eyes – jarring description of gender roles.
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