Early Touch Screen Technology | Tomorrow's World | Earth Science

Taken from "Tomorrow's World" S19 E4

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[Stewie]

The things we take for granted.
*Scrolls down with finger*

[FunnyInLaw]

Eh it looks interesting but I don’t see this technology ever taking off

[AdmiralQ]

Looks like Windows 10 is coming along nicely.

[power-max]

"It is nice when it works!" Thats a great marketing tactic to make'm sell!

[quarantinedvega]

"it's not a toy"
2020: LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO RAID SHADOW LEGEND

[martinparma]

Scientist: "This is not a toy"
Every 5 year old kid in 2020: are you sure?

[richardmattocks]

His “it is nice when it works” at the end suggests that rehearsals didn’t go well.

Always loved Tomorrows World. Transmitted live, so always an added sense of what might happen!

[IvailoStoychev]

Wow, I cannot wait to see how this kind of technology will be implemented into our lives in the near future!

[justlaughitoutyo]

Great excerpt! If you have in mind any more of these futuristic classics, keep them coming!

[fireaza]

Forget the Tic Tac Toe name, what makes this obviously an American invention is that the second thing it can do is shoot a gun ;) 

[detectiveduck]

"Not a toy" he would have never imagined...

[FloridaManGaming]

I’ve always wondered how touchscreens worked. It’s nice to know that I finally learned from a video from the 80’s

[Nothaut]

World's first iPod Touch!

It weighed 75 pounds, had a kilobyte of RAM, and the only apps it had built-in were "Tic-Tac-Toe" and "Gun Selfie".

It's nice when it works.™

[tomchapman]

"It's not a toy"


Mobile phones: let us introduce ourselves.

[sonofsats]

steve jobs: APPLE has invented something amazing! a touch screen!


BBC 1982: ...

[opmdevil]

How marvelous the future must be if they even make this thing work properly. Then we can have small devices that are like computers but smaller and we can control them by touching the screen and we can do all kinds of useful things with these small computers. I bet they will be called SHHDWTC - Small Hand Held devices With Touch Screen

[percivalflores]

I was an IT student and seeing this programmed on DOS really amazed me.

[jeremy]

the fact that this can quite easily be recreated nowadays in a simple electronics lab is incredible

[ryklatortuga]

On next weeks episode : Sharks with Laser beams.

[MaisieSqueak]

Adorable that this was a thing when we see how we achieve a more refined result today... How things change...
Remember when we thought the control panels on the Starship Enterprise D were exciting?
Now we all have a little mini Hitch hikers guide in our pocket 🤩