More than three decades ago, the BBC envisioned what today's consumer technology would look like — and their predictions were both accurate and hilarious. Aired in 1987, the iconic clip from the British broadcaster's "Tomorrow's World" technology show correctly forecasted that in the year 2024, people would use weather-acclimating textiles, fingerprint passwords, smartwatches, and virtual reality glasses. Looking back at our vantage point in 2025, those predictions are incredibly spot-on — though of course, the way the news producers who dreamed up those projections had them styled was, in some cases, quite goofy. When walking across the deeply 1980s-esque set […]