Proof The BBC Has Been Using Time Travelers As Fact Checkers For Their Documentaries About The Future

A production sketch for a BBC doco made in 1967 :



A fantastic piece by Nigell Calder on how the age of the internet was foreseen, dramatically accurately so, way back in the 1960s :

(the) “a total information system” alias World Box.

“The work of commercial and professional organisations will be transformed. There may be no very clear distinction between authors, scholars, publishers, librarians, television producers or anyone else who can be called an information mediator – but it will be their task to save mankind from drowning in its own information.” Included also was a warning about the use of the system for pornography, and even a speculation that we might one day carry the World Box in our pockets.

Apparently the British government could have put together the internet and its architecture, but just wasn't interested in a worldwide information network they could have owned and licensed. Whoops.

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