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Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1964 What the World Will Look Like in 2014

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When New York Metropolis host­ed The World’s Truthful in 1964, Isaac Asi­mov, the professional­lif­ic sci-fi writer and professional­fes­sor of bio­chem­istry at Boston Uni­ver­si­ty, took the oppor­tu­ni­ty to gained­der what the world would appear to be 50 years therefore — assum­ing the world sur­vived the nuclear threats of the Chilly Battle. Writ­ing in The New York Occasions, Asi­mov imag­ined a world that you just may half­ly rec­og­nize at the moment, a world the place:

  • “Gad­getry will con­tin­ue to alleviate mankind of tedious jobs. Kitchen items will likely be devised that may pre­pare ‘automeals,’ warmth­ing water and con­vert­ing it to cof­charge; toast­ing bread; fry­ing, poach­ing or scram­bling eggs, grilling bacon, and so forth. Break­fasts will likely be ‘ordered’ the night time earlier than to be prepared by a spec­i­fied hour the following morn­ing.”
  • “Com­mu­ni­ca­tions will develop into sight-sound and you will note in addition to hear the per­son you tele­telephone. The display can be utilized not solely to see the peo­ple you name but additionally for research­ing doc­u­ments and pho­tographs and skim­ing pas­sages from books. Syn­chro­nous satel­lites, hov­er­ing in house will make it pos­si­ble so that you can direct-dial any spot on earth, includ­ing the weath­er sta­tions in Antarc­ti­ca.”
  • “[M]en will con­tin­ue to with­draw from nature with a purpose to cre­ate an envi­ron­ment that may swimsuit them guess­ter. By 2014, elec­tro­lu­mi­nes­cent pan­els will likely be in com­mon use. Ceil­ings and partitions will glow gentle­ly, and in a vari­ety of col­ors that may change on the contact of a push however­ton.”
  • “Robots will nei­ther be com­mon nor excellent in 2014, however they are going to be in exis­tence.”
  • “The appli­ances of 2014 can have no elec­tric cords, in fact, for they are going to be pow­ered by long-lived bat­ter­ies run­ning on radioiso­topes.”
  • “[H]ighways … within the extra superior sec­tions of the world can have handed their peak in 2014; there will likely be increas­ing empha­sis on trans­porta­tion that makes the least pos­si­ble con­tact with the sur­face. There will likely be air­craft, in fact, however even floor trav­el will increas­ing­ly take to the air a foot or two off the bottom.”
  • “[V]ehicles with ‘Robotic-brains’ … may be set for par­tic­u­lar des­ti­na­tions … that may then professional­ceed there with­out inter­fer­ence by the gradual reflex­es of a human dri­ver.”
  • “[W]all screens can have changed the ordi­nary set; however trans­par­ent cubes will likely be mak­ing their seem­ance through which three-dimen­sion­al view­ing will likely be pos­si­ble.”
  • “[T]he world pop­u­la­tion will likely be 6,500,000,000 and the pop­u­la­tion of the Unit­ed States will likely be 350,000,000.” And lat­er he warns that if the pop­u­la­tion progress con­tin­ues unchecked, “All earth will likely be a sin­gle choked Man­hat­tan by A.D. 2450 and soci­ety will col­lapse lengthy earlier than that!” Because of this, “There’ll, there­fore, be a world­huge professional­pa­gan­da dri­ve in favor of start con­trol by ratio­nal and humane meth­ods and, by 2014, it would undoubt­ed­ly have tak­en seri­ous impact.” [See our Walt Dis­ney Fam­i­ly Plan­ning car­toon from ear­li­er this week.]
  • “Ordi­nary agri­cul­ture will sustain with nice dif­fi­cul­ty and there will likely be ‘farms’ flip­ing to the extra effi­cient micro-organ­isms. Processed yeast and algae prod­ucts will likely be avail­ready in a vari­ety of fla­vors.”
  • “The world of A.D. 2014 can have few rou­tine jobs that may­not be executed guess­ter by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will there­fore have develop into massive­ly a race of machine ten­ders. Faculties should be ori­ent­ed on this direc­tion.… All of the high-school stu­dents will likely be taught the enjoyable­da­males­tals of com­put­er tech­nol­o­gy will develop into professional­fi­cient in bina­ry arith­metic and will likely be skilled to per­fec­tion in the usage of the com­put­er lan­guages that may have devel­oped out of these just like the con­tem­po­rary “For­tran.”
  • “[M]ankind will suf­fer dangerous­ly from the dis­ease of bore­dom, a dis­ease unfold­ing extra huge­ly every year and develop­ing in inten­si­ty. This may have seri­ous males­tal, emo­tion­al and soci­o­log­i­cal con­se­quences, and I dare say that psy­chi­a­strive will likely be far and away essentially the most impor­tant med­ical spe­cial­ty in 2014.”
  •  “[T]he most glo­ri­ous sin­gle phrase within the vocab­u­lary can have develop into work!” in our “a soci­ety of enforced leisure.”

Isaac Asi­mov was­n’t the one per­son dur­ing the 60s who peered into the longer term in a good­ly pre­scient manner. Yow will discover a number of extra on-the-mark pre­dic­tions from con­tem­po­raries under:

Sci-Fi Author Arthur C. Clarke Pre­dicts the Future in 1964

Mar­shall McLuhan Pre­dicts That Elec­tron­ic Media Will Dis­place the Ebook & Cre­ate Sweep­ing Modifications in Our Each­day Lives (1960)

Wal­ter Cronkite Imag­ines the Dwelling of the twenty first Cen­tu­ry … Again in 1967

The Inter­web Imag­ined in 1969

Word: An ear­li­er ver­sion of this submit appeared on our website in 2014.

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