Self-driving cars and ocean colonies: revisit Isaac Asimov's vision of 2014. Isaac Asimov has detailed countless visions for what the future could look like, most with a clear label of "fiction" on them. But in 1964, while reflecting on that year's World's Fair, Asimov described in The New York Times what he believed the 2014 World's Fair would really look like. He predicted a world of advanced appliances, simple robots, and incredible ways of harnessing power, with a common theme being that "gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs.
" "Much effort will be put into ... vehicles with 'Robot-brains.'" For the home, Asimov predicted that kitchens would automatically prepare meals, that walls would glow with light, and that windows would intelligently alter their opacity to prevent harsh sunlight from coming through. He also predicted that work would have begun on cars capable of automatically driving people around.
But while Asimov's vision for how cars will be operated was spot on, his predictions for transportation at large were hit and miss. Visit to the World's Fair of 2014. August 16, 1964 By ISAAC ASIMOV he New York World's Fair of 1964 is dedicated to "Peace Through Understanding. " Its glimpses of the world of tomorrow rule out thermonuclear warfare. And why not? If a thermonuclear war takes place, the future will not be worth discussing. So let the missiles slumber eternally on their pads and let us observe what may come in the nonatomized world of the future.
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