{"id":82949,"date":"2023-06-19T04:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=82949"},"modified":"2023-06-18T22:30:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T02:30:40","slug":"1963-mockumentary-predicts-the-future-of-1988-time-on-our-hands-past-predictions-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/06\/19\/1963-mockumentary-predicts-the-future-of-1988-time-on-our-hands-past-predictions-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"1963: Mockumentary Predicts The Future of 1988 | <em>Time On Our Hands<\/em> | Past Predictions | BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PIARcgoVamo\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>BBC Archive<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 17 Jun 2023<\/p>\n<p>Russian moon landings, week long traffic jams, a workforce replaced by automation and above all, too much leisure time!<\/p>\n<p>These are just some of the bold predictions made in Don Haworth&#8217;s 1963 BBC &#8220;mockumentary&#8221; <em>Time on Our Hands<\/em> &#8211; a remarkable film which projects the viewer a quarter of a century into the future.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine how the futuristic inhabitants of 1988 &mdash; a society freed from the shackles of endless hard work &mdash; might reflect on the way people live and work in 1963. Its aim is to look back at the extraordinary, almost unbelievable, events of the intervening 25 years &mdash; referred to as &#8220;the years of the transformation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This Buoyant programme could be repeated a dozen times and still intrigue, delight and disturb me&#8221;<br \/>\nDennis Potter, <em>Daily Herald<\/em> TV critic, 1963<\/p>\n<p>This footage is compiled of excerpts from <em>Time On Our Hands<\/em>, a faux-documentary film by Don Haworth.<\/p>\n<p>Originally broadcast 19 March, 1963.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Archive Published 17 Jun 2023 Russian moon landings, week long traffic jams, a workforce replaced by automation and above all, too much leisure time! These are just some of the bold predictions made in Don Haworth&#8217;s 1963 BBC &#8220;mockumentary&#8221; Time on Our Hands &#8211; a remarkable film which projects the viewer a quarter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,57,15],"tags":[311,686,350,463],"class_list":["post-82949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-humour","category-technology","tag-1960s","tag-futurism","tag-london","tag-parody"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-lzT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82950,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82949\/revisions\/82950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}