In the twentieth century, people dreamed of the future: some claimed that we would have moved to Mars long ago, and others that we would be traveling by flying cars. However, the reality turned out to be quite different, and although a significant technological leap did occur in the 1990s and 2020s, the present still does not correspond to what was predicted in 1987. A video from that time, published on YouTube by the BBC Archive, shows how society imagined the "man of the future.
" As early as 1965, the public thought that instead of the usual hair, everyone would shave their heads and wear stylish wigs, and their clothes would consist of plastic and paper. There is some truth in this because almost all clothes in mass markets are made of polyester, which, in turn, is made of plastic. "No hair and a nylon wig.
A quick wipe with a damp cloth and your head is as good as new. You notice the collarless shirt, but it's made of paper, just right for writing down phone numbers, in fact, you could make notes all over your body. The jacket and skirt are made of plastic, the kind of material that used to cover kitchen tables not so long ago," said TV presenter Raymond Baxter in 1965.
In the next shot, the host Maggie Philbin appears from January 1987 and seeing what people have been predicting since 1965 made her laugh. "What about all these advances in science and technology? Have we done anything right? The fact is that the "woman of tomorrow" appeared and disappeared very quickly. S.