This 1987 Prediction of What Technology Would Be Like Today Will Make You Gasp and Wheeze

More than three decades ago, the BBC envisioned what today's consumer technology would look like — and their predictions were somehow both astonishingly accurate and hilariously misfired. Aired in 1987, the clip from the British broadcaster's "Tomorrow's World" technology show correctly forecasted that in the year 2024 — now the recent past, for those keeping track — people would use weather-acclimating textiles, fingerprint passwords, smartwatches, and virtual reality glasses. Looking back from our vantage point of now, at least some of those predictions are incredibly spot-on — though of course, the way the news producers who dreamed up those projections had them styled was in some cases impossibly goofy. When walking across the deeply 1980s-esque set for "Tomorrow's World," host Howard Stableford predicted that in the future, suits like the smart, wide-lapeled grey number he was wearing would be "chemically treated to make [them] thermo-sensitive." While we don't exactly have th ... Read full article.