Asimov Looks to the Future
31st August 2013
Famed scientist and science-fiction author Isaac Asimov attempted to predict, in 1964, what the future would be like 50 years down the road.
I always love reading these sorts of articles. (Did you know that they still have ‘world’s fairs’? I didn’t. I don’t recall hearing anything about them in the news since about 1970. Remember the ‘Motreal Expos’?)
The saddest thing is that Isaac Asimov was a typical Other Left Coast Liberal, as his autobiography makes clear, and a lot of what he predicted would come to pass (Moon colonies! Fission power!) have been made politically impossible by people who believe just like him.