Is Isaac Asimov from the future or what? Writing for the New York Times in August of 1964, the sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov laid out some predictions of what the world would be like in 50 years. You'll be shocked to read how eerily accurate he was.

Asimov was so fascinated by all things science and technology so it isn't really a surprise how accurate his predictions were. What you imagine today for the future could eventually come true too.

But since there's weren't many like Asimov, and that he was ahead of his time, he was able to clearly see the future more so than others.

"Men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better."

Check it out below:

"Kitchen units that will prepare 'automeals.'"

We are only beginning to see the trend of instant food that does its very best not to suck. The two leaders of the pack are Soylent and Finland-based Ambro.

"Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence."

Evidence:



Pretty good if you asked me.

"Much effort will be put into the designing of vehicles with 'robot-brains' vehicles that can be set for particular destinations and that will then proceed there without interference by the slow reflexes of a human driver."

In 5 to 10 years we'll have the driverless car.

"Communications will become sight-sound and you will see as well as hear the person you telephone. The screen can be used not only to see the people you call but also for studying documents and photographs and reading passages from books."

Skype, Facetime, Viber. So many more. Spot on, Asimov.

"In 2014, there is every likelihood that the world population will be 6,500,000,000 and the population of the United States will be 350,000,000."

The estimates aren't actually that far off.

"The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders. "

Read all of his predictions for 2014 here.