https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/m7gamx/william-shatner-introduces-the-future-of-robotics-in-rarely-seen-1984-video

In a rarely seen video about robotics optimistically called “The Future is Now,” William Shatner takes viewers through a 19 minute tour of the latest in industrial robotics. It’s got everything one wants in an educational video from 1984: grainy montages, a beep-boop soundtrack, nonsensical vaporwave graphics, and an overall look like it was once rolled into a classroom on a giant TV cart.

The video, a project of educational content company AIMS Media, was uploaded to the Internet Archive in 2016 but received few views. The Computer History Archives Project uploaded it to Youtube on Monday, to similarly little fanfare, but it’s a piece of eighties computing nostalgia that’s worth revisiting.