2014

Robert Sawyer takes a look at our lives in 2014:

Your cubicle will have a smart wall of its own, giving every worker the appearance of having a window; yours might show real-time footage of Lake Louise, assuming that global warming hasn?t melted the adjacent glaciers and flooded everything. And no matter which office chair you sit on, it will adjust automatically to your body?s proportions.
Of course, we?ll all live in an enhanced reality. Today?s bulky virtual-reality goggles will have been replaced by contact lenses that overlay textual information on your vision; the lens will be in constant communication with the computing powerhouse in your wristband. You?ll never be in the embarrassing situation of not remembering the name of an acquaintance you happen to run into; facial-recognition technology will identify the person, and provide you with all pertinent details instantaneously.