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I loved watching Tomorrow’s World on the BBC. Depending on your age you will have differing memories of periods in the science and technology history.

For me, it was the likes of Judith Hann frying an egg on an indestructible new music format – the compact disc, Maggie Philbin demonstrating a touch-screen computer in 1982, and more recently, Trevor Bayliss and his clockwork radio in 1994.

Tomorrow’s World began in1965, the BBC’s flagship science programme ran for nearly 40 years. A mix of quirky film reports and live experiments examined the changing state of current technology and put new inventions to the test.

The BBC has now opened a Tomorrow’s World section in it’s archive website here. There’s some great viewing of future technologies as seen in the past – it makes interesting viewing, I’m still waiting for my hover-car…