This article about the year 2000 has some interesting predictions from 1961:
- Doors will open automatically
- You'll have a home electronics center where messages will be recorded when you're away from home.
- The status symbol of the year 2000 will be the home computer.
- Cooking will be in solar ovens with microwave controls.
- There will be machines doing the work of clerks, shorthand writers and translators.
- Machines will "talk" to each other.
- Our children will learn from TV, recorders and teaching machines. They will get pills to make them learn faster.
However, Some predictions from 1961 were a tad off:
- you will think nothing of taking a fortnight's holiday in outer space.
- Food will be different with instant bread and sugar made from sawdust.
- Medically induced growth of amputated limbs will be possible.
- Mail and newspapers will be reproduced instantly anywhere in the world.
- The family car engine will be smaller than a typewriter. Cars will travel overland on an 18 inch air cushion.
- By the year 2020, five per cent of the world's population will have emigrated into space.
