5. Cars would fly sort of. Roads and bridges would be rendered all but obsolete: "Jets of compressed air will also lift land vehicles off the highways, which, among other things, will minimize paving rs will be capable of crossing. The world would be seriously automated. Asimov imagined that "the world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. In what Asimov declared his "most somber speculation I can make about A.D. 2014 the writer believed society would fall into a sense of enforced leisure: "Mankind will suffer badly from the disease of boredom, a disease spreading more widely. New York Times essay he titled "Visit to the World's Fair of 2014 a glimpse 50 years ahead into the future of human history. 1. The human race would be incurably bored. Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders." To fit the need, all high school curricula of the future would make "binary arithmetic" and "formula translation" mandatory. via Smithsonian. 4. At least two experimental fusion-power plants. Scientists would also have constructed models of "power stations in space, collecting sunlight by means of huge parabolic focusing devices and radiating the energy thus collected to earth." Solar energy would be just. Undergraduate degree in chemistry from Columbia University, 1939; MA in 1941; PhD in chemistry from Columbia University, 1948. Additional Biographical Data: Bio:Isaac Asimov Author Tags: science fiction (50 recursive sf (NESFA index) (10 list NPR Top100 (2011) (8 young-adult sf. The Jetsons was. 7. Moving sidewalks, raised above traffic. Which Asimov determined would only be be functional for "short-range travel." The writer also envisioned that "compressed air tubes will carry goods and materials over local stretches, and the switching devices. When sci-fi author Isaac Asimov sojourned to the New York World's Fair in 1964 according to his writings, he "enjoyed it hugely" he regretted the Fair's lack of foresight. So, thoughts turned to the future, Asimov penned a.

“That's chump change compared to Asimov's guesses of the world's population (6 and a half billion) and the population of the United States (350 million). As of January 1, 2014, the U.S.A.'s actual population was 319 million, and Asimov's prediction.”
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Due to the region encompassing Boston to the nation's capital being the most crowded area of its size on earth, the region would band together to form one metropolis of more than 40 million residents.

3. Fission-power plants that would energize most of the world. By 2014, Asimov surmised that fission-power plants would be "supplying well over half the power needs of humanity." But Asimov also predicted that fission-power technology would already be on the.