‘The Human Typewriter’ Isaac Asimov was an eminent science fiction author and humanist, and made some fairly accurate predictions about 2019 (some more than others). Biography.com On the 31st of December 1983, Isaac Asimov predicted what the world of 2019 might look like, as part of The Toronto Star ’s feature leading into the namesake year of George Orwell’s 1984 . 35 years later, with the benefit of hindsight and a new year ahead of us, Asimov’s predictions read partly as an amusing nostalgia piece (solar-space farms, anyone?), and partly as a sobering realization that we haven’t achieved quite […]
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