We start with

Orwellian depictions of the future

read about in the 1950/60s. Working in the 1970s at companies such as

British Telecom

 and the L

urgie

. We hear about

telex

,

mainframes

with

magnetic tape

,

type-writers

, and the upskilling of the workforce by the

labour-exchange

. How did a cold and lack of a home telephone lead to businessmen arriving in a foreign land sans camels? Why were

filing cabinets

replaced by

databases

(or were they)? We hear about gaming from a home made version of

Pong

all the way to

Alone in the Dark

. Then modern times: we hear about some favourite

youtube

streams and discover that living in the 2020s is (just about) possible without a

smartphone

.