What happens when scientists and futurists predict the year 2000… in the 1960s? In Popular Science, Walter Cronkite chronicled the state of science and technology in 1967 to project what life might be like in the 21st century. Cronkite and the prognosticators actually got a lot of it right… and some of it they got very, very wrong.

Everyone knew the moon landing was imminent, but why didn’t we ever get networks of road magnets interfacing with our cars? And although Cronkite and Popular Science were eerily accurate on GPS and car navigation systems, why were we so misguided on the future of robots?

It turns out that the future we need isn’t necessarily the one we seem to want.

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