Visit to the World's Fair of 2014 (1964)
1 - Glowing ceilings and walls - not really, most people still use separate light fixtures<p>2 - Windows mostly obsolete - no<p>3 - Polarized glass in windows - kind of - mostly no, though some exist<p>4 - Opacity of glass changing based on light intensity - yes, but rare<p>5 - Underground housing - yes, but rare<p>6 - &quot;Light-forced vegetable gardens&quot; - yes, but rare<p>7 - Surface of the Earth used only for large-scale agriculture, grazing and parklands - no<p>8 - Kitchen gadgets - yes<p>9 - Robots with computers minituarized to serve as their &quot;brains&quot; - yes<p>10 - Trash picking and gardening robots - yes<p>11 - 3D movies - yes<p>12 - Waiting in line for movies - yes<p>13 - All appliances lack electrical cords - no<p>14 - Appliances &quot;powered by long-lived batteries running on radioisotopes&quot; - no<p>15 - Fission power supplies &quot;well over half of the power needs of humanity&quot; - no<p>16 - Experimental fusion power plant - no? (experiments with fusion power yes, but no power plants, afaik)<p>17 - Large solar-power stations - yes<p>18 - Power stations in space - no<p>19 - Road building factories - no<p>20 - &quot;crowded highways along which long buses move on special central lanes&quot; - no<p>21 - &quot;ground travel will increasingly take to the air a foot or two off the ground&quot; - no<p>22 - Aquafoil - kind of - these exist but are of very limited use<p>23 - Jets of compressed air lifting land vehicles off the highways - no<p>24 - Self-driving cars - yes<p>25 - Moving sidewalks downtown - no<p>26 - &quot;Compressed air tubes will carry goods and materials&quot; - no<p>27 - Video calls - yes<p>28 - Screens for studying documents and photographs and reading passages from books - yes<p>29 - Global satelite communication - yes<p>30 - Moon colonies - no<p>31 - GM creating &quot;large soft tires intended to negotaiate the uneven terrain that may exist [on the moon]&quot; - no<p>32 - Communication between Earth and moon via laser beams - no<p>33 - Plans for a manned expedition to Mars - yes<p>34 - Models of an elaborate Martian colony - kind of<p>35 - &quot;Wall screens will have replaced the ordinary [TV set]&quot; - no<p>36 - Transparent cubes for 3D viewing - no (though VR might qualify as being similar enough)<p>37 - World and US population predictions - yes<p>38 - Underwater housing - no<p>39 - Underwater cities - no<p>40 - Micro-organism factories for efficient food production - no<p>41 - Food made of yeast and algae - kind of (algae yes, though not popular... yeast, not so much)<p>42 - &quot;algae bar&quot;, &quot;mock-turkey&quot;, &quot;pseudosteak&quot; - yes<p>43 - Mechanical replacements for hearts and kidneys - yes<p>44 - Life expectancy in some parts of the world at 85 - yes<p>45 - Worldwide propaganda drive in favor of birth control - yes<p>46 - Rate of population growth has been reduced compared to 1964 - yes<p>47 - World Population Control Center - no<p>48 - Mankind has become &quot;largely a race of machine tenders&quot; - no<p>49 - Schools with closed-circuit TVs and programmed instructional tapes - yes<p>50 - All high-school students taught computer fundamentals - yes<p>51 - Mankind suffers badly from &quot;the disease of boredom&quot; - kind of, for some<p>52 - Psychiatry is &quot;far and away the most important medical specialty&quot; - no<p>53 - We live in a society of &quot;enforced leisure&quot; - no<p>---<p>Totals:<p>Yes - 22<p>No - 26<p>Kind of - 5