1999 A.D. Future Predictions
Mom and Kid at a beautiful beach
Air Car
House Layout
  School Room
  Computer Room (Where it lives server)
  Swim pool
  Media room TV
  Health center exercises measure
Age 44 not so old anymore (Health Care - Medicine - Younger)
Car with clear roof up doors
Honeycomb structure house modular (grows with the family size and interest)
astrophysicist works away from home several day a week in a lab (colonization of the first planet)
Hobby: botany (working at home on a giant peach with thick protective skin modification)
Work bench with electronic screen
Call up photographic sections
Central home computer with storage (centralized information available to every member of family)
Kid go to school 2 mornings a week and attend school at home (video classes)
Moon landing (Apollo 11 1969) predicted 1967
Assignments feed into teaching machines the can adapt to the kid progress
(no keyboard - buttons inputs)
Self schooling no presence of teacher or guidance (what about questions)
Conference screens to communicate in house
Kid customized buttons to wash face (Amount of water)
Blowing air to dry (push button)
Menu prepared by computer by day (Customizable -Â Recommend alternatives)
Quick lunch (1 min)
Central computer prepared food with intelligent appliances
Split second lunches
Disposable dishes
Instant society of tomorrow
Frozen food individual portions
Computer will keep inventory
Nutritional need of the family
Fed automatically into the microwave oven
House maintenance free
Central atmospheric system (constant temperature year round)
Cleaning closets
Fingertip shopping video console
Video camera at store
Household monitor screen
Pay by the husband with console (different login accounts access)
Central bank computer will debit the account (scanned image of a paper receipt)
Printed copy tax, etc.
Video screen
Electronic correspondence machine (home post office) email
Automatic self diagnosis computer (alerts for repairs)
Home Energy Center (fuel cell - furnishes power, pure water, burns waste, heats, cools rooms)
Photochromic windows (filters)
Music instrument (synthesizer - sequencer with screens)
Health center room
Medical couch
Exercise requirements (Confirmations)
Connects with computer medical center forward info
Rewards
pottery teacher of fine arts
Atemporal games with computer chess
Cooking dinner “the old fashion way”
Media control center (remote control)
Video recorded performance large screen
3d video note
4d video note
“…it remains only to apply what we now know to fulfill these dreams of tomorrow. The world of 1999 and beyond is limited only by the boundaries of our imagination today.”
I can definitely reclaim the idea that regardless of how “intelligent” any technology or device is or will be, it will always require human interaction to be appropriate and relevant.
PS:Â That was a very high note!