The world through the eyes of a writer in 2014

As you know, science fiction has always been known for its insight and the ability to see into the future, not an exception, and a favorite of many writers - fiction writer Isaac Asimov. Wi-Fi, floating cars, movies in 3-D, in 1964, he saw the world in 2014 like that. One gets the impression that if he was able to build a personal time machine. The average life expectancy in developed countries reached 85 years. Procreation will be put under the control





Houses will be mainly underground (like most of the space of the city). This will reduce their heating in winter or cooling in summer. The surface of the city will be given over to orchards, grazing and parks



Tedious household work will be kept to a minimum. Toasters, automatic coffee maker, pressure cooker, etc. - Cooking will be a timer. But a small kitchen will be - will be cooking as a hobby for many people.



Robots do not displace people. There will be plenty of computers with the "brain" of the robot, but to manage them will still be people.



Movies will be three-dimensional, in 3-D format.



Technology will have an electric cord - it will work on long-lived batteries and accumulators.



Half of the energy produced in the world in nuclear power plants.



Large solar power plants will be put in the desert - in Arizona, Israel, Kazakhstan. By 2014, the technology has to be developed, "collection" of solar energy in space and its focus on the Earth.



Vehicles of the future will be a little contact with the road - it will soar above it at a height of 0, 5-1 meter. "Freeboard", sliding over the surface of the water, there will be river and sea transport.



Delivery of goods and materials will be something like a pneumatic.



Phones are portable, and their screens will be used to study the documents and photographs, reading excerpts of books. Communication will be via satellite.



By 2014, the unmanned spacecraft reached Mars. At the same time, the program will be developed in the Martian colony.



World population reaches 6, 5 billion..



The population explosion will force actively explore the arctic, and desert space and colonize offshore (development of underwater cities)



In agriculture, the foundation of progress composition of microorganisms. In particular, they are processed into products of yeast and algae. However, the time may not be able to break the psychological resistance to such innovations.



Computer discipline will form the basis of the educational process in schools



elovechestvo will suffer from boredom. Therefore psychiatry will become the most important medical specialty.



The elite of society will be few in number, and it will engage in creative work.



Source: trasyy.livejournal.com