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关于2020年，这些预测统统没有实现（上）

8 We will have both telepathy and teleportation.

心灵感应和瞬间移动

Michael J. O'Farrell, founder of The Mobile Institute, has been an expert in the technology industry since 1985. But even the experts can make mistakes. In the 2017 book Shift 2020, O'Farrell predicted that 2020 would be the dawn of the "nanomobility era."

移动研究所的创始人迈克尔·J·奥法雷尔自1985年以来一直是科技行业的专家。但即使是专家也会犯错。在2017年出版的《2020年的转变》一书中，奥法雷尔预测，2020年将是“纳米移动时代”的黎明。

"In the pending nanomobility era, I predict telepathy and teleportation will become possible by the year 2020—with both commonplace by 2040," he said. Well, we'll believe it when we see it.

他说：“在即将到来的纳米移动时代，我预计到2020年，心灵感应和瞬间移动将成为可能，到2040年，这两种技术都将普及。”好吧，梦想成真时我们就会相信。

telepathy [təˈlepəθi]：n.心灵感应；传心术

teleportation [ˌtelɪpɔːˈteɪʃn]：n.心灵传动；远距传动

9 All roads will become tubes.

气动管道送你出行

If you're sick of asphalt roads and all the potholes that come with them, then you'll wish Popular Mechanics was right about this prediction for the 21st century. In a 1957 article, the magazine predicted that every road and street in America will be "replaced by a network of pneumatic tubes," and your car would only need enough power to get from your home to the nearest tube. Then, by the calculations of a Honeywell engineer, "they will be pneumatically powered to any desired destination."