Really interesting, thanks. The last point is thought provoking:

> Even so, mankind will suffer badly from the disease of boredom, a disease spreading more widely each year and growing in intensity. This will have serious mental, emotional and sociological consequences, and I dare say that psychiatry will be far and away the most important medical specialty in 2014. The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.

> Indeed, the most somber speculation I can make about A.D. 2014 is that in a society of enforced leisure, the most glorious single word in the vocabulary will have become work!

I think this could have already happened, except the definition of "work" is so nebulous, and there is so much wiggle room between the things that actually need to be done and the things we might as well do. Or maybe it has happened in parts of the world, but we are all in denial about it.

Title: Visit to the World's Fair of 2014 (1964)

Past discussions: (56 points, 2019, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20072073

(272 points, 2013, 172 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6287340

I think it’s funny nobody I am aware of from this period predicted the attention economy, and even funnier that Asimov predicted boredom would be a genuine societal issue. Just goes to show Asimov was quite full of himself, I think

A little off topic but I just finished Asimov’s “Foundation and Earth”. I’m so mad at him for tying it back to his Robots series. It completely diminishes the entire Foundation series.