UFO (TV series)

:This article is about the television show. For other uses, see UFO (disambiguation).

Predictions

UFO, which was filmed in 1969, made a number of predictions about what life in the 1980s would be like, some of which (to an extent) have come true. Among the innovations predicted by the series:

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• Car telephones (aka cell phones)
• Gull-wing doors on automobiles (actually these had been pioneered over a decade earlier in real life, in the Mercedes-Benz 300SL)
• Spacecraft launched from an aircraft
• Women in a position of authority in the military
• Extensive use of computers in day-to-day life, even to the extent of predicting and analyzing human behavior
• Voice print identification systems; also, vocal analysis used to identify individuals in the same way as fingerprints
• Spy satellites.
• The episode "Conflict" indicates that, in the UFO universe, racial prejudice was wiped out on Earth in the mid-1970s, a prediction that did not come true in the real world.
• That cars would drive on the right-hand side of the road in the UK and be converted to left-hand drive (a prediction that didn't come true either).

UFO also featured episodes dealing with issues that would become topical in later years, such as space junk and the disposal of toxic waste.

Related Topics:
Space junk - Toxic waste

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