Post by mikusingularity on Mar 25, 2023 15:12:51 GMT
As a child, I liked to watch documentaries about science and technology even though I didn't fully comprehend them. One of these was a documentary called "Future Living 2025" on the (Discovery) Science Channel. I saw it when I was about 7 years old, so I don't clearly remember everything about it. But I clearly remember one thing: it had a clip of an egg-shaped rocket taking off, which looked exactly like the video below. Later on, I learned that this was a proposed Japanese single-stage to orbit rocket for 50 passengers, known as "Kankoh-maru," superimposed over a Space Shuttle launch.
(the soundtrack was different, it was more of a futuristic electronic track)
Several years ago, there used to be a YouTube video with this thumbnail. When I found it, the account of the user that uploaded it was already terminated. Now, there is no trace of the video left. I recall that this was a segment talking about the use of virtual avatars for communication, predicting stuff like VRChat (which I haven't personally used) and VTubers.
"Future Living 2025" is listed on a few TV show databases (TheTVDB, Trakt) as having first aired in 2002, but with no more details. However, evidence of its existence can also be found on an archived science.discovery.com page, listing it as part of the "Digital Domain" anthology series.
Since we're only two years away, I tried to add this to the wiki, but the page was subsequently deleted because it didn't have any sources. I wanted to add sources after creating the page, but trying to edit at the time put me in a loop of the fruit CAPTCHA and 'you are editing too quickly, please wait a few seconds/minutes.' Then when I tried to recreate the page, the wiki thought I was trying to spam.
edit: it has now been added.
Does anyone else know about this documentary?
One more thing: there was a similar episode of the documentary series "Understanding" known as "Cyberworld 2020." I could only find a Russian dub and not the original English version.
