Posted on 01/02/2025 12:53:24 PM PST by Red Badger
In 1995, the BBC's Tomorrow's World programme decided to predict what the world would look like 30 years later, in 2025.
The show, which is no longer broadcast, featured one of the most famous scientists of the age, Prof Stephen Hawking, who predicted: "By 2025 we can expect big changes."
The programme team agreed, suggesting a raft of world-shaking innovations from hologram surgery to space junk gel.
So, with the help of some experts - and the benefit of three decades of hindsight - let's take a look at how much of today's world that Tomorrow's World successfully anticipated.
The 'Cyberspace Riots' of 2005
In 1995, the world wide web was really taking off - a development Tomorrow's World thought would bring future trouble.
They predicted "business barons" and banks would take control of the internet by 2000, establishing a "supernet" which they restricted access to.
That, in turn, would prompt hacks, viruses and even riots.
Verdict - The internet has remained - mostly - open, and there have been no riots but there is little doubt the actions of hackers have caused misery for many people.
One thing the programme didn't predict was the role of the nation state hackers like North Korea, expertly told in the BBC's Lazarus Heist podcast.
Cybersecurity is hugely important for governments and companies, and people who are suspicious of banks have championed cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
Asteroid mining and space junk gel
The programme speculated space mining would become a lucrative industry, with companies excavating asteroids near Earth for precious metals.
The show also suggested space junk would become such a problem it would not be safe for astronauts. The answer - a gigantic foam gel to slow down debris.
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The X-Files spinoff show The Lone Gunmen in the pilot episode had a hacked instrument system of a 727 jet with passengers on board diverted to fly into the World Trade Center. The hacker calculated the amount of jet fuel which would explode. Members of the US Government were behind the plot.
Show aired March 4, 2001.
The director and production staff and network brass were understandably upset when the real tragedy happened September 11th.
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Aired on March 21, 2018, the last, shortened season of the X-Files (Season 11) had in the plot for “My Struggle IV” episode:
“I am going to unleash a pandemic and there will be no cure and no protection for it.”
Did they predict a globalist tyranny? If so, I might be impressed.
One thing that they didn’t predict - the Transgender Insanity.
Did they predict the downfall of of the UK and London being run by a Muslim and the country destroyed by immigrants.
Jeez. That’s like that fraud Gordon Michael Scallion. Make 10,000 predictions then take credit for the 4 or 5 that actually come true.
Tranny into Princess Leia?
That would have been unthinkable and considered to be a mental defect............
I didn’t see the show but I am sure they predicted palm trees growing in Juno, Alaska.
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