I thought it was an interesting read, a bit difficult to understand at times, but fascinating to see his predictions. his thoughts on compression of data like the entirety of Encyclopedia Britannica compressed into a matchbox, or that of cameras becoming smaller and better were very intuitive on his part. I got a kick out of his prediction of data entry via keyboards into a computer by a room full of "girls" to be telling of the sexism of the era that this piece was written.
I found the "bone conduction" to be a little creepy. I guess he was thinking of some kind of memory storage through vibrations in the skull, or something? it just sounded like a medieval experiment to me. but I see his point behind the idea, that being anything is possible.
I was also fascinated by his point about the idea of computers being around long before they became a practical tool. the fact that they couldn't be produced at the time they were conceived because of the man hours and unreliability of the product when pen and paper were still faster.
my predictions for 2073...
medicine will have leaped forward. regenerating lost limbs will be available. people will live longer, some may request to die because they have "lived enough." cosmetic surgery will be even more out of control. there will be gene augmentation to grow hair after it has fallen out. breast augmentation will no longer require surgery that we know of today, just more gene "tinkering." this playing god complex will result in Dr. Frankenstein's monsters living and working among us as normal.
wars will be fought through computers. financial strikes or civil strikes will be the new terrorism. actual combat will be fought by drones, auto-mated vehicles, and robots. if nuclear weapons are used the world will resemble that of the Mad Max movies. wastelands with roving and warring gangs fighting over whatever is left.
global warming and or rape of mother earth will cause us to inhabit other planets for their resources. deep space travel and colonization of other planes will begin the new empirical "land grab" era. wars may be fought over desired planets.
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