In Year 1999 AD the kids are all watching YouTube at school and people are Skypeing 24/7. But there's no Britney.
Mike is an astrophysicist who travels several times a week to a "distant" laboratory.
He's working on the Mars I project (colonization of the planet). Oh, and BTW, the minor at his midwestern university was botany.
This is basically just a big projector. It's like a really annoying version of iPhoto.
This is the home computer. It is a wall of switches. And the children never, ever play around with them.
The home computer "is secretary, librarian, banker, teacher, medical technician, and bridge partner..."
Kids go to school only two days a week. (What?! So unfair!)
This kid, Jamie, gets the rest of his schooling from the home educational center where he gets to watch a lot of TV.