Retro Tech Tuesday: British Telecom's Vision of the Future

It's funny: we walk around with FaceTime on our iPhones/iPads/iPods, and yet it still just doesn't feel like video calling has arrived. Sure high-end "tele-presence" systems from companies like Cisco have infiltrated top companies, but for most of us, our "videophone" interaction is still quite limited.

In hopes of getting us to use our videophones in our pockets a bit more, let's take a look back at how British Telecom (then named General Post Office) envisioned our video calling future: