I miss Horizon...

[zeitghost]

And decent scientific programmes like that...

The Global Warming thing with Iain Stewart was highly irritating.

Talk about a one note tune.....

And no one seems to explain where the mediaeval climate optimum & the little iceage have gone from the much vaunted hockey stick graph.

They must have been delusions.

Greenland was never green & the Vikings were pulling everyone's legs... the ice fairs never happened on the Thames... etc.

[VectraMan]

He glossed over the medaeval warming period, implying that it hadn't happened and the history books are all lying (proven by some scientist looking at rings in trees in America). And then went on to suggest CO2 must be the cause by discrediting the sunspot theory (but not saying anything about CO2).

[Diver]

I believe everything that they tell me
It's all the fault of that butterfly flapping its wings isn't it?

[bogeyman]

Remember "when the chips are down"?

Best Horizon ever.

Made about 1979 I think. Brilliant analysis of how microelectronics would free us all from a life of skilled jobs and servitude.

There would be so much leisure time that whole new service industries would be created to entertain all those people whos jobs were now being done by various robots.

You can tell that the thinking of the journalists involved with Horizon was, err... somewhat limited.

They didn't foresee that automation would just dump millions of manual workers on the scrap heap. Oh! those brilliant morons.

[cojak]

I know it wasn't the most up-to-date on the knowledge aspect, but I loved Horizon when I was a kid. Watching that Big Bang preview programme brought it all back.

[chef]

tomorrow's world was better IMO

[cojak]

Do you remember the one where they got one of the presenter hammered on air in order to demonstrate a new 'sobrietry' drug? No H&S on the BBC in those days!

[cojak]

Those were the days....

[Troll]

One of the least H&S aware Tomorrow's Worlds was the bullet proof vest demo with real bullets, a chap wearing said vest, and a Magnum revolver, either 357 or 44...

They don't make LIVE telly like that anymore...

Wasn't the former presenter a ex WWII Spitfire pilot,? I suppose fighting 109's gives you a different perspective on life

also I recall some Joe Blogs who had stumbled upon a material with superb heat insulation properties - bit like the Space Shuttle slabs - heat 'till cherry red and you could still pick it up with your hands - he wouldn't tell anyone the formula for his material in case anyone nicked it (think a hairdressing salon provided the components)

Wonder what happened to him?

[HairyArsedBloke]

Wasn't the former presenter a ex WWII Spitfire pilot,? I suppose fighting 109's gives you a different perspective on life

Wonder what happened to him?

Do keep up.