The prescience of the Beeb
Via Alec Muffett’s dropsafe, I learned [http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/articles/security/post20051020090728.html] of a British SF television program which eerily predicted a future Britain in which
a sinister governmental department that has abolished individual rights and introduced ID cards for all citizens, rationing and sophisticated electronic surveillance
I would have preferred to have gotten a transdimensional police box.