Many in the 1960s era of "future shock" attempted to predict the the coming decades. Most were wrong, but here are a few 1964 predictions that Isaac Asimov got right about 2014: Skype, Kindle, etc.: "Communications will become sight-sound and you will see as well as hear the person you telephone. The screen can be used not only to see the people you call but also for studying documents and photographs and reading passages from books." Flat Screen Televisions and Computers: "Men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better. By 2014, electroluminescent panels will be in common use." Automated Manufacturing “Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.” Google Driverless Cars "Vehicles with ‘Robot-brains’ … can be set for particular destinations … that will then proceed there without interference by the slow reflexes of a human driver.” Population “The world population will be 6,500,000,000 and the population of the United States will be 350,000,000.” Modern Workplace “The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders." The Explosion in Emotional Distress "Mankind will suffer badly from the disease of boredom, a disease spreading more widely each year and growing in intensity. This will have serious mental, emotional and sociological consequences, and I dare say that psychiatry will be far and away the most important medical specialty in 2014.”
Posted on: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 15:46:39 +0000
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