Predictions I found from 1968 for "the next century":
- Most transportation will be by air, with every family having an aircraft.
- Weekend vacations on Mars and lunar spas may be almost ordinary.
- With machines replacing most of the manual workers, leaving only about 10 percent of the population working, the importance of leisure time will soar.
- Meal planning will be computerized by the week or month, with robot help in cooking, serving, housecleaning, and lawn care.
- Color TV sets will become commonplace; new sizes ranging from billfold size to huge wall screens will be produced.
- Picturephones (seeing the other party) will be in use.
- It will be possible to talk to inanimate objects: phone home and turn off the oven, close the window, turn on the heat, leave a message, turn off the lights.
- Libraries of knowledge will be stored in computers and will be available on instant call.
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They weren't too far off on the computer stuff, but I'm still waiting to purchase my personal airplane. :)
I'd be satisfied with a meal-cooking robot.
I wonder how they figured the 90 per cent of non-working people were going to earn the money to enjoy leisure time? Maybe they were supposed to go to work on Mars or in a lunar spa...
Yeah, I don't know...but I agree that a meal-cooking robot may have been one of the most helpful predictions on the list. (Too bad it was just a prediction!)