In 1968, a science fiction writer named James R. Berry wrote an article entitled '40 Years in the Future' for the magazine Mechanix Illustrated. It was his futuristic vision of the 21st Century. Berry's predictions of a world featuring driverless cars, tablet-like devices, inter-planetary vacations, and teleshopping inspired this author to take a step back and compare his decades-old vision of a technologically saturated, highly urbanized society with the actual present.