I count 22 hits, 17 misses (2 other): men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better - Hit By 2014, el

I count 22 hits, 17 misses (2 other): men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better - Hit By 2014, electroluminescent panels will be in common use. Ceilings and walls will glow softly, and in a variety of colors that will change at the touch of a push button - Close Windows need be no more than an archaic touch, and even when present will be polarized to block out the harsh sunlight. The degree of opacity of the glass may even be made to alter automatically in accordance with the intensity of the light falling upon it. - Miss if its windows are not polarized, they can nevertheless alter the "scenery" by changes in lighting - Miss Suburban houses underground, with easily controlled temperature, free from the vicissitudes of weather, with air cleaned and light controlled, should be fairly common - Miss Kitchen units will be devised that will prepare "automeals," heating water and converting it to coffee; toasting bread; frying, poaching or scrambling eggs, grilling bacon, and so on. - Hit reakfasts will be "ordered" the night before to be ready by a specified hour the next morning. - Miss Complete lunches and dinners, with the food semiprepared, will be stored in the freezer until ready for processing. - Hit I suspect, though, that even in 2014 it will still be advisable to have a small corner in the kitchen unit where the more individual meals can be prepared by hand, especially when company is coming. - Hit Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence. - Hit It will be such computers, much miniaturized, that will serve as the "brains" of robots. - Hit In fact, the I.B.M. building at the 2014 World's Fair may have, as one of its prime exhibits, a robot housemaidlarge, clumsy, slow- moving but capable of general picking-up, arranging, cleaning and manipulation of various appliances. - Honda, not IBM but Hit The appliances of 2014 will have no electric cords, of course, for they will be powered by long- lived batteries running on radioisotopes. - Miss And experimental fusion-power plant or two will already exist in 2014.- Hit Large solar-power stations will also be in operation in a number of desert and semi-desert areas - Hit An exhibit at the 2014 fair will show models of power stations in space, collecting sunlight by means of huge parabolic focusing devices and radiating the energy thus collected down to earth. - Miss There is every likelihood that highways at least in the more advanced sections of the worldwill have passed their peak in 2014; there will be increasing emphasis on transportation that makes the least possible contact with the surface. - Miss There will be aircraft, of course, but even ground travel will increasingly take to the aira foot or two off the ground. - Miss Much effort will be put into the designing of vehicles with "Robot-brains"vehicles that can be set for particular destinations and that will then proceed there without interference by the slow reflexes of a human driver. - Hit For short-range travel, moving sidewalks (with benches on either side, standing room in the center) will be making their appearance in downtown sections. - Miss Traffic will continue (on several levels in some places) only because all parking will be off-street and because at least 80 per cent of truck deliveries will be to certain fixed centers at the city's rim. - Miss Compressed air tubes will carry goods and materials over local stretches, and the switching devices that will place specific shipments in specific destinations will be one of the city's marvels. - Miss Communications will become sight-sound and you will see as well as hear the person you telephone. - Hit The screen can be used not only to see the people you call but also for studying documents and photographs and reading passages from books. - Hit Synchronous satellites, hovering in space will make it possible for you to direct-dial any spot on earth - Hit For that matter, you will be able to reach someone at the moon colonies - Miss As for television, wall screens will have replaced the ordinary set - Hit but transparent cubes will be making their appearance in which three-dimensional viewing will be possible. - Miss In 2014, there is every likelihood that the world population will be 6,500,000,000 and the population of the United States will be 350,000,000 - Hit Boston-to-Washington, the most crowded area of its size on the earth, will have become a single city with a population of over 40,000,000. - Miss Most surprising and, in some ways, heartening, 2014 will see a good beginning made in the colonization of the continental shelves. - Miss Ordinary agriculture will keep up with great difficulty and there will be "farms" turning to the more efficient micro-organisms - Mixed Processed yeast and algae products will be available in a variety of flavors. The 2014 fair will feature an Algae Bar at which "mock-turkey" and "pseudosteak" will be served. - Hit It won't be bad at all (if you can dig up those premium prices), but there will be considerable psychological resistance to such an innovation. - Hit A larger portion than today will be deprived and although they may be better off, materially, than today, they will be further behind when compared with the advanced portions of the world. They will have moved backward, relatively. - Hit There are only two general ways of preventing this: (1) raise the death rate; (2) lower the birth rate. Undoubtedly, the world of A>D. 2014 will have agreed on the latter method. - Hit Indeed, the increasing use of mechanical devices to replace failing hearts and kidneys, and repair stiffening arteries and breaking nerves will have cut the death rate still further and have lifted the life expectancy in some parts of the world to age 85. - Hit There will, therefore, be a worldwide propaganda drive in favor of birth control by rational and humane methods and, by 2014, it will undoubtedly have taken serious effect. The rate of increase of population will have slackened*but, I suspect, not sufficiently. - Hit One of the more serious exhibits at the 2014 World's Fair, accordingly, will be a series of lectures, movies and documentary material at the World Population Control Center (adults only; special showings for teen-agers). - Miss The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders. - Hit All the high-school students will be taught the fundamentals of computer technology will become proficient in binary arithmetic and will be trained to perfection in the use of the computer languages that will have developed out of those like the contemporary "Fortran" (from "formula translation"). - Miss Even so, mankind will suffer badly from the disease of boredom, a disease spreading more widely each year and growing in intensity. - Hit The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine. - Hit Indeed, the most somber speculation I can make about A.D. 2014 is that in a society of enforced leisure, the most glorious single word in the vocabulary will have become work! - Miss