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1995: Asteroid mining predicted for 2025

Name: Tomorrow's World in 1995 predicts asteroid mining in 2025
Duration: 2 min 38 s
Description: Future predictions: Tomorrow's World looks ahead to 2025, explaining how the earth's dwindling resources would mean mining asteroids for precious metals.

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Tomorrow's World, the BBC's programme about science and technology trends, celebrated its 30th anniversary in 1995 by looking forward another 30 years.

Reporting as if it were the year 2025, they claimed that the earth's dwindling resources meant we turned to asteroids to mine precious metals, while debris created by years of exploration led to "space junk's first victim".

Originally broadcast on 7th July 1995.

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19 December 2024