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from the New Scientist...
What will be the biggest breakthrough of the next 50 years? As part of our 50th anniversary celebrations we asked over 70 of the world's most brilliant scientists for their ideas.
In coming decades will we: discover that we are not alone in the universe? Unravel the physiological basis for consciousness? Routinely have false memories implanted in our minds? Begin to evolve in new directions? And will physicists finally hit upon a universal theory of everything? In fact, if the revelations of the last 50 years are anything to go on - the internet and the human genome for example - we probably have not even thought up the exciting advances that lay ahead of us.
Delve into those visions of the future by author in the story list of this special report, or navigate forecasts by topic here:
Life: Ageing, alien life, consciousness, ecology, embryology, environment, evolution, genetics, health, humans, language, neuroscience, oceans, psychology, sex and social science.
Space and technology: Artificial intelligence, communications, computing, cosmology, space and technology.
Physical sciences: Chemistry, energy, materials, maths and physics.
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I've finally got through reading the whole magazine, and I must say, although I enjoyed it thoroughly, I felt it wasn't original enough. New Scientist used this issue to boost their already large sales, which is of course fair enough.
I didn't read anything 'new' and surprising in the whole issue.
Has science started to repeat itself, or have I just read too much sci-fi? -
- CommentAuthorconstructivist
- CommentTimeDec 13th 2006
It's interesting how we, i lump the readers of this blog into a general archetype: informed, intelligent, and conscious, look to sages like Sterling and Kurzweil to tell us what the future will be. is this futile activity not like reading Nostradomus or searching the bible for hidden ciphers?
think of yourself ten years ago, is the future everything you'd hoped it would be? is it anywhere close? there is value in postulation but prediction is absurd.
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