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

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, smartwatc…