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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.