News clip from 1989 predicts homes in 2020

24/08/20

News clip from 1989 shows what experts thought future homes would be like in 2020. A video from the bbc’s archives in 1989 has resurfaced showing what futurists predicted homes would look like in the year 2020.

The dated show ‘tomorrow’s world’ is presented by christine macnulty, a tech forecaster who has since written two books on the future of technology. In the clip, various predictions are made, including that homes would have vanishing windows and we would be charging our gadgets using pads on the walls.