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To see the the whole thing go to these links :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/electricdreams/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/electricdreams/about.shtml
Extras:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-storie ... -21708332/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvan ... eview.html
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The 30 year experiment:
Electric Dreams explores how the technological revolution of the 1970s, 80s and 90s has transformed Britain’s homes and all our lives.

The Sullivan-Barnes family from Reading are a thoroughly modern family who own the latest in 21st century gadgetry. In a unique experiment they were stripped of all their modern tech and their own home was taken back in time so that they could live with the technology of earlier decades. The family lived a year per day starting in 1970 right up to the year 2000.

Woman in 1970s interior

Mum Struggles with the twin tub.

The experiment was designed to show just how much technology has changed the British home and the British family. How would a modern family cope with one black and white television set, one shared dial telephone in the hallway and no central heating in 1970?
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Girl and a boy playing computer games

The children get gaming

Would the lack of multiple screens and technology-free bedrooms encourage them to spend more time together or just result in very bored children? How would they fare without the labour-saving domestic technology we now take for granted?
As the rate of technological change sped up during the 1980s and the 1990s the family saw first hand just how much the way we use our homes, family life and attitudes to childhood has changed.
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The Sullivan- Barnes Family: Dad, Adam is an accountant he's keen to rediscover the gadgets of his childhood and adolescence but what is the reality of living with the cars and games he thought were so cool now that he's a grown up?

Mum Georgie juggles a busy family life with a demanding job in NHS management, she hopes that a spell in the 1970s will show the kids a simpler low-tech life that will bring them together as a family but will life as a 1970s mother without the labour saving gadgetry she's used to, takes its toll?

Adam and Georgie have four children between them, Hamish 13, Ellie and Steffi both 12 and toddler Jude. They are used to a vast amount of tech, they've got their own mobile phones, laptops, games consoles and their home has multiple screens. Will they get used to tech-free bedrooms and embrace life outside the home or will they miss their 21st Century electronic distractions.
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The Technical Support Team:

The family were helped by their very own Technical Support Team – three experts who worked to make the family’s experience as authentic as possible. They sourced retro-tech from the time, delivering it to the family’s doorstep in the year that it would have been available to them. Gia Milinovich is a technology writer with a lifelong passion for computing, comedian and gadget geek Tom Wrigglesworth was in charge of all audio-visual and communications devices and Dr Ben Highmore is a sociologist who specialises in the history of domestic technology. Together they were on hand to answer any queries the family had and to fix things when they go wrong – which they frequently did.
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The 1970s:

The family experienced the technological wilderness that was the 1970s when domestic technology such as the Teasmade and cumbersome black and white television sets were luxury items and still made in Britain. But it was a trying time for British industry; industrial unrest impacted on the home; power cuts were a regular feature of everyday life. By modern standards the home was virtually free of high-tech distractions.

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The 1980s:

This was the decade when computers came into the average home – early in the decade Britain led the way in the production of home computers. Microwave ovens, video recorders and compact discs were all supposed to make our lives easier. Technology began to shrink in size and was geared more toward leisure and entertainment. But prices were still high and gadgets weren’t as user-friendly as they are today.

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The 1990s:

A whirlwind of technological progress and the communication revolution hit the British Home big time, Britain was introduced to a virtual world with the arrival of the World Wide Web and mobile telephones meant we stopped phoning buildings and started calling people. Electronic goods were mainly made outside the UK and ever-decreasing prices meant that gadgets and constant upgrades infiltrated every area of the home.
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Time Tunnel:

Now, here's your chance to explore the gadgets and gizmos of the Electric Dreams era.

Take a trip through our Time Tunnel and reminisce about the 70s, 80s and 90s. Delve deep into our catalogue of nostalgia and remember the hissing Teasmades, beeping Tamagotchis and fizzing Soda Streams. Were these inventions simply flashy gimmicks or revolutions in technology? And could you imagine a world without mobile phones, home stereos or space hoppers? See what other people have to say and tell us what you think! You can rate them too; did they change your world or were they just a bit pointless? Then you can test your knowledge of nostalgic trivia and watch rare clips from the archives.

Start your journey through the time tunnel
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Some Videos:

damn nice!!!

Never notice in 1982, We need to learn Programming to use a Computer LOL

first gaming machine 195x

Well as the Electric Dreams : 1970s show said in 1970s Technology is Developing but quite dangerous like Cars, Washing meachines and etc :X

The last chapter is Electric Dreams : 1990s which will be premiere on 26/03/2010 on 12:00AM and 12:00PM on the Channel in Malaysia / South East Asia.
Astro - History Channel - Channel 555 for Malaysian others not sure.

Well For Singaporean is the same time, if your TV doesn't have History Channel well you need to wait till Youtube Uploaded it

International broadcasts

In Australia the series is broadcast by Channel Ten and narrated by Amanda Keller. A lot of the music used throughout the show on the BBC airing, including the main theme by Philip Oakey 'Together in Electric Dreams', were removed from the Australian airing which is believed[citation needed]to be due to licensing and copyright reasons. Episodes were edited and shortened, due to advertising on the Australian showing.

This programme is also seen in Asia on History Channel in late January 2010.
[edit] Episodes

havent watch finish.

Well It is on History Channel on this Friday. And it seems people are not interested on people living the 1970s-1990s in the 21st century.

iSean wrote:Never notice in 1982, We need to learn Programming to use a Computer LOL

If i am not wrong, computer's start with 8 switches, on or off, to decide what to do. This is how binary is form.
0=Off
1=On

But 8 switches is too small for calculating big numbers, so computers start something called floating point. Which uses some of the switches to represent the mentissa, first bit to tell if the value is positive or negative. the next if byets as the exponent and the rest will be for the mentissa.

Currently computers are still use floating point. Floating point in th current 32bit(x86) CPU processor use IEEE 754 standard. First bit as sign bit, next 7/8bit as exponent bit, the rest will be the mentissa bit.

To know more, read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-2008.

i can't live in 1980... the techonology just suck.

Boredness wrote:i can't live in 1980... the techonology just suck.

same lols