{"id":384,"date":"2009-11-01T10:39:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T09:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=384"},"modified":"2009-11-01T11:30:23","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T10:30:23","slug":"tomorrows-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow&#8217;s World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a wonderful archive of BBC Tomorrow&#8217;s World programmes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/archive\/tomorrowsworld\/\">here<\/a>.  This one, introducing the home computer terminal, predicts a time when homes will have &#8216;special computer points&#8217; (WiFi was unthinkable) and prices were expected to fall below those of renting a telephone.  This first home computer terminal 42 years ago cost \u00c2\u00a330 per week!  That&#8217;s \u00c2\u00a31,500 per year at a time when I was earning \u00c2\u00a3900 per year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flvPlayer\">\t\t\t\t<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0\" width=\"600\" height=\"440\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.loades.net\/megabusblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wflvplayer\/player-viral.swf?file=http:\/\/www.loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/video\/home_computer.flv&amp;autoStart=false;\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.loades.net\/megabusblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wflvplayer\/player-viral.swf?file=http:\/\/www.loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/video\/home_computer.flv&amp;autoStart=false;\" quality=\"high\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"600\" height=\"440\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a wonderful archive of BBC Tomorrow&#8217;s World programmes here. This one, introducing the home computer terminal, predicts a time when homes will have &#8216;special computer points&#8217; (WiFi was unthinkable) and prices were expected to fall below those of renting a telephone. This first home computer terminal 42 years ago cost \u00c2\u00a330 per week! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}