Back to the [High-Tech] Future

BT claims — with good reason, it appears — to be the world’s oldest telecommunications company. Even before it became British Telecom, as the General Post Office (GPO), it was envisioning a future that included an array of sophisticated technologies, foreshadowing VoIP phones, Google maps, videoconferences and telecommuting.

Very cool and surprisingly prescient, this video appears to have been produced in the late 1960s/early 1970s, imagining leading-edge technology in the 1990s.