1. Predictions about the future people were making 100 years ago//50 years ago
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- flying taxis
- routine moon travel
- transferring knowledge through wires attached to the head
- self-driving cars
- firefighters will fly around with bat wings
- blimp boats
- domesticate whales and use for transportation
- flying cars
- winged hover cars
- automated bathrooms
- robot hairdressers
- holographic/video chatting
- mobile society
- automated industry
- wild animals are only in zoos
- pre cooked meals and purchases delivered through pneumatic tubes
- zero traffic noise- transit is completely underground
2. Most of them should be placed on a "wish-list" since they can make life simpler, but things like robotic hairdressers or knowledge transfer through wires should not. I think that will lead to a wall-e situation where everyone is lazy and immobile. Also wild animals only being in zoos seems more like a prediction of a dystopian future, since that would completely destroy the eco system and natural process of life.
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Predictions that have come true
- video chatting : facetime, skype
- a mobile society: mobile homes/trailers
- automated industry: 3d printers, factory farming, technological vegetable farming
- self-driving cars: Tesla and other industries are super close to releasing them
- automated bathrooms : popular in japan, interactive toilets, showers, and towel racks
Predictions that are still out of reach
- routine moon travel is far too expensive and still risky for the public
- wire knowledge transfer
- flying cars
- underground transit seems highly unlikely and not a desire anymore
- domestic robots in every household
4. The trend throughout most of these predictions is that they are mostly all technology based. They all seem to anticipate a comfortable world that requires a minuscule amount of human effort since everything is done for them.
5. I definitely see self-driving electric cars in the future which can mean clean energy, which hopefully will be a trend that we see in all industries. Either way I think the world will continue to advance technologically and socially since so many changes have been made in just the last ten years like legalizing gay-marriage. If the clean energy trend doesn't rapidly spread then I don't think anyone will be able to even breathe.
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