Correctly:
- Digital color photography
- Taller People
- Mobile phones
- pre-prepared meals
- population control
- hothouse vegetables
- television
- tanks
- bigger fruit
- highspeed rail
- flying cars would exist
- automated bathrooms
Incorrectly:
- No more c, x or q
- everyone will walk 10 miles/day
- no more cars in large cities
- no mosquitoes or flies
- firefighters with batwing
- cross atlantic in blimp boats
- domesticated whales used as transportation
- domesticated giant mutant seahorses
- aerial wing flapping hover cars would be primary mode of transport
- robot barbers
- radium for heating homes
50 years ago people thought
Correctly:
- Facetime
- direct dial any spot on earth
- wall mounted televisions and 3d tvs
- coffee machines
- experimental fusion power plants
- self driving cars
- unequal access to technology
Incorrectly:
- Moon colonies
- Worldwide currency
- "one world government"
Warnings:
- Overpopulation
- global warming
- unequal access to technology
- People living too long with minimized creativity and isolation from each other.
In general, people seem to be envisioning a more efficient world in which many quotidian things are done for us by robots. I think that removing these things will make us bored and unhappy. My predictions for the future are: the hyper loop, better mobile internet networks, a switch to renewable energy sources, vertical farming techniques will become more utilized, bionic limbs will seamlessly integrate into the human body, more cancers will become curable, schooling will look drastically different, with students able to go into the workforce 3 years sooner, and everyone will have a personal AI assistant.
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