Some predictions are accurate, some are wrong, and many of them are plain weird or impractical.
Its a long article, but it sure makes an entertaining read.
A text version of the entire article can be found after these images.
You dont realize what is happening because it is a piecemeal process.
The jet-propelled plane is one piece, the latest insect killer is another.
Thousands of such pieces are automatically dropping into their places to form the pattern of tomorrows world.
There are parks and playgrounds and green open spaces not only around detached houses but also around apartment houses.
The heart of the town is the airport.
Surrounding it are business houses, factories and hotels.
In concentric circles beyond these lie the residential districts.
Tottenville is as clean as a whistle and quiet.
It is a crime to burn raw coal and pollute air with smoke and soot.
In the homes electricity is used to warm walls and to cook.
Factories all burn gas, which is generated in sealed mines.
Beneath the lower deck is the level reserved entirely for business vehicles.
Tottenville is illuminated by electric suns suspended from arms on steel towers 200 feet high.
But the process of generating the light is more like that which occurs in the sun.
Atoms are bombarded by electrons and other minute projectiles, electrically excited in this way and made to glow.
Power plants are not driven by atomic power as you might suppose.
It is as hopeless in 2000 as it was in 1950 to drive machinery directly by atomic energy.
Engineers can do no more than utilize the heat generated by converting uranium into plutonium.
The heat is used to drive engines, and the engines in turn drive electric generators.
A good deal of thorium is used because uranium 235 is scarce.
Theoretically, 5000 horsepower in terms of solar heat fall on an acre of the earths surface every day.
Because they sprawl over large surfaces, solar engines are profitable in 2000 only where land is cheap.
Many farmhouses in the United States are heated by solar rays and some cooking is done by solar heat.
Steel is used only for cutting tools and for massive machinery.
The light metals have largely displaced it.
The Dobson house has light-metal walls only four inches thick.
This Dobson air-conditioned house is not a prefabricated structure, though all its parts are mass-produced.
Around this central unit the house has been pieced together.
Some of it is poured plastic - the floors, for instance.
By 2000, wood, brick and stone are ruled out because they are too expensive.
It is a cheap house.
With all its furnishings, Joe Dobson paid only $5000 for it.
Though it is galeproof and weatherproof, it is built to last only about 25 years.
Nobody in 2000 sees any sense in building a house that will last a century.
Everything about the Dobson house is synthetic in the best chemical sense of the term.
When Joe Dobson awakens in the morning he uses a depilatory.
No soap or safety razor for him.
Two dozen soluble plastic plates cost a dollar.
When Jane Dobson cleans house she simply turns the hose on everything.
A detergent in the water dissolves any resistant dirt.
Tablecloths and napkins are made of woven paper yarn so fine that the untutored eye mistakes it for linen.
Jane Dobson throws soiled linen into the incinerator.
Cooking as an art is only a memory in the minds of old people.
Even soup and milk are delivered in the form of frozen bricks.
Jane Dobson has one of these electronic stoves.
In eight seconds a half-grilled frozen steak is thawed; in two minutes more it is ready to serve.
Some of the food that Jane Dobson buys is what we miscall synthetic.
Thus sawdust and wood pulp are converted into sugary foods.
Discarded paper table linen and rayon underwear are bought by chemical factories to be converted into candy.
Of course the Dobsons have a television set.
Businessmen have television conferences.
Documents are held up for examination; samples of goods are displayed.
In fact, Jane Dobson does much of her shopping by television.
Department stores obligingly hold up for her inspection bolts of fabric or show her new styles of clothing.
By holes punched in a roll of paper, every operation necessary to produce a helicopter is indicated.
Every operation in the plant is electronically and automatically controlled.
The purpose of this improved Zworykin-Von Neumann automaton is to predict the weather with an accuracy unattainable before 1980.
It is a combination of calculating machine and forecaster.
With storms diverted where they do no harm, aerial travel is never interrupted.
In one of these supersonic planes the Atlantic is crossed in three hours.
Nobody has yet circumnavigated the moon in a rocket space ship, but the idea is not laughed down.
The Dobsons take the cheaper jet planes.
This extension of aerial transportation has had the effect of distributing the population.
The car is used chiefly for shopping and for journeys of not more than 20 miles.
The railways are just as necessary in 2000 as they are in 1950.
They haul chiefly freight too heavy or too bulky for air cargo carriers.
Passenger travel by rail is a mere trickle.
Hundreds of thousands make such journeys twice a day in their own helicopters.
In Tottenville the clerks in telegraph offices no longer print out illegible words.
Everything is transmitted by phototelegraphy exactly as it is written - illegible spelling, blots, smudges and all.
Mistakes are the senders, never the telegraph companys.
It was the beginning of what was even then known as chemotherapy - cure by chemical means.
By 2000, physicians have several hundred of these chemical agents or antibiotics at their command.
Tuberculosis in all of its forms is cured as easily as pneumonia was cured at mid-century.
It no longer is necessary in 2000 to administer the purified extracts of molds to cope with bacterial infections.
The antibiotics are all synthesized in chemical factories.
It is possible to modify their molecular structure, so that they acquire new and useful properties.
The physician of 2000 knows just what diet is best for a patient.
Men and women of 70 in A.D. 2000 look as if they were 40.
Wrinkles, sagging cheeks, leathery skins are curiosities or signs of neglect.
The span of life has been lengthened to 85.
In the viruses, little bodies have been detected with this instrument.
They are virtually protein molecules.
Even in the 20th century hospitals were packed with instruments and machines.
The hospitals of 2000 have even more.
Cancer is not yet curable in 2000.
But physicians optimistically predict that the time is not far off when it will be cured.
Such afflictions as multiple sclerosis or palsy are no longer regarded as incurable.
A little battery-driven apparatus must be carried in the pocket to provide the stimulus the nerves need.
It is astonishing how easily the great majority of us fall into step with our neighbors.
