Your Favorite Futurist Is Wrong

Your Favorite Futurist Is Wrong

Nobody knows the future. This may seem like an obvious statement, but it bears repeating. Nobody knows the future.

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Asimov’s 2014 Predictions Were Shockingly Conservative For 1964

Asimov's 2014 Predictions Were Shockingly Conservative For 1964

In 1964, sci-fi legend Isaac Asimov penned a piece for the New York Times with his predictions for the world of 2014. Looking at the World’s Fair of 50 years hence, Asimov imagined 3D TV, underground cities, and colonies on the moon. Many people online have hailed this as an incredible example of prescient thinking, but what sticks out to me is just how shockingly restrained—unoriginal, even—his predictions were for the time.

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