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Given what I remember of '79 (was only 8), this seems well thought out! Hell, the Buck Rodgers guy even has a wireless remote. Not sure I'd ever seen one or if they even existed.
The robot is the only thing totally off the wall. But back then, we thought domestic robots would be cheap and useful enough to be ubiquitous. Be hilarious if they had predicted a Roomba instead.
They seem to have overestimated hardware (5cm flatscreens in the 90s? Eh... 3D Holographic replacing normal cameras? No way), but underestimated miniaturization and bandwidth. An early BlackBerry could do everything pictured save shopping, and that would come soon. Yet daylight displays are only getting common now 30 years later, and robots competent enough to be worth using is a rabbit hole as deep as fusion.
Definitely a saner-than-average take though. I'd rate 75% on predictions, and only 15-ish years late.