What will life be like, say, in 2014 AD, 50 years from now? Gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs. Kitchen units will be devised that will prepare "automeals,"
heating water and converting it to coffee; toasting bread; frying, poaching or scrambling eggs, grilling bacon, and so
on. Breakfasts will be "ordered" the night before to be ready by a specified hour the next morning.
Much effort will be put into the designing of vehicles with "Robot-brains" vehicles that can be set for particular
destinations and that will then proceed there without interference by the slow reflexes of a human driver.
However, by 2014, only unmanned ships will have landed on Mars, though a manned expedition will be in the works.
As for television, wall screens will have replaced the ordinary set; but transparent cubes will be making their
appearance in which three-dimensional viewing will be possible.
All the high-school students will be taught the fundamentals of computer technology, will become proficient in binary
arithmetic, and will be trained to perfection in the use of the computer languages that will have developed out of
those like the contemporary "Fortran" (from "formula translation").
Source: Isaac Asimov, "A Visit to the World's Fair of 2014," New York Times, Aug. 16, 1964
Focus on some of the predictions given in sources 1, 2, and 3. Do you think any of them came true? Fill in the table to
organize your observations. This will help you draw conclusions and write an essay in Part B. The first row of the table has
been completed for you: