Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke visit 2014

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In 1964, science fiction author Isaac Asimov gave his predictions in the New York Times for how the world would be 50 years later.

Some of it is remarkably accurate.

Isaac Asimov's predictions

Arthur C. Clarke also made predictions about 2014.

We could be in instant contact with each other, wherever we may be, where we can contact our friends anywhere on earth, even if we don’t know their actual physical location. It will be possible in that age, perhaps only 50 years from now, for a man to conduct his business from Tahiti or Bali just as well as he could from London…. Almost any executive skill, any administrative skill, even any physical skill, could be made independent of distance. I am perfectly serious when I suggest that one day we may have brain surgeons in Edinburgh operating on patients in New Zealand.

Arthur C. Clarke's predictions

[bjd]

Interesting! I wonder if they thought so much about it because they were science fiction writers.

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I heard this on NPR this a.m. and was fascinated by the same.