<p>The 1988 Los Angeles Times Magazine featured illustrations by futurist Syd Mead. A detail from one work shows 1st Street looking west. (Syd Mead)</p><p>Do you enjoy waking up in your self-functioning house, coffee already prepared, your "personalized home newspaper" printed out and your robot cheerfully scurrying about the house doing chores? No? Then it turns out several of the L.A. Times Magazine's predictions in 1988 of what 2013 would be like haven't come true.</p><p>That's not to say that this bit of archival gold isn't without merit after all, the notion of a "personalized home newspaper" rings especially true amid the outcry over Google's decision to end its news-aggregating Google Reader. But we haven't yet seen the likes of home robot Billy Rae.</p><p>"With a twitch, 'Billy Rae,' the Morrows' mobile home robot, unplugs himself from the kitchen wall outlet then wheels out of the kitchen and down the hall toward the master bedroom for his first task of the day. Raising one metallic arm, Billy Rae gently knocks on the door, calling out the Morrows' names and the time in a pleasant, if slightly synthesized Southern drawl: 'Hey, y'all rise an' shine!' "</p><p><a href="http://herocomplex.latimes.com/science-2/25-years-ago-l-a-times-predicted-2013-e-mail-yes-robot-dogs-no/">Keep reading...</a></p>