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The book has no numbered prediction list. Captured: passages with an explicit year or year range that are public (the author's 2010 essay reprints several passages with page numbers; Wikipedia quotes others with page numbers). Passages without a year (robotic home servants 'early next century' p. 322, customized clothes pp. 427-428, national patient databanks p. 439, reading machines for the blind p. 441, Soviet Union and open communication pp. 445-447) are not captured. The author's 2010 essay discusses these passages but gives no verdicts for them.
we will see a [computer] world champion by the year 2000
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A personal computer with the necessary attributes should become available around the end of this century.
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With the historical ten-year lag of the educational field in adopting new computer technology, we can expect a critical mass level of ubiquitous utilization of such technology by the end of the first decade of the next century.
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We can expect the personal computers of 2010 to have considerable knowledge of where to find knowledge.
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Adoption of the advanced media technologies described here will begin in the late 1990s and mature over the first half of the next century.
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