It's worth noting that, while quite impressive, Asimov didn't get everything right. 2014 will most surely come and go without "jets of compressed air [that] will lift land vehicles off the highways." He also predicted that the entire East Coast from Boston to Washington would merge into one large mega city, which seems unlikely at this point in time. But perhaps the most telling (and disheartening) is Asimov's inaccurate notion that we'd even have a World's Fair in 2014. But still, pretty good!