The future was a fantastic place, once. Twenty years ago, the BBC’s pioneering science show Tomorrow’s World came to an end after 1,400 episodes. First beamed into living rooms across the nation back in 1965, the series envisioned the inventions of the near future, offering a blueprint of blue sky thinking.
As well as introducing products that soon became commonplace – such as artificial grass, the pocket calculator, the mobile phone and the robotic vacuum cleaner – it stretched the imagination to breaking point with the robot snooker player, paper underwear and the worm omelette, a protein-packed dish predicted to take over dinner tables.
