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This is actually fairly accurate. Some of the guesses at how the technology would actually work are hilariously bad, but that also would have been extremely hard to guess at the time.
Even down to them having a stack of records in a room full of more modern technology.
Presumably video discs:
The solar panels amaze me.
It also predicted bad haircuts and bum clothes (age of corona).