This show has been flagged as Clean by the host.
We start with
Orwellian depictions of the future
read about in the 1950/60s. Working in the 1970s at companies such as
British Telecom
and the L
urgie
. We hear about
telex
,
mainframes
with
magnetic tape
,
type-writers
, and the upskilling of the workforce by the
labour-exchange
. How did a cold and lack of a home telephone lead to businessmen arriving in a foreign land sans camels? Why were
filing cabinets
replaced by
databases
(or were they)? We hear about gaming from a home made version of
Pong
all the way to
Alone in the Dark
. Then modern times: we hear about some favourite
youtube
streams and discover that living in the 2020s is (just about) possible without a
smartphone
.