Technology has immortality, cures for the worlds devastating diseases, quantum computing and a host of other science fiction notions in its grasp. Current trends in a number of areas indicate that over the next 10 years many of these technologies will come to fruition. "The Next 10 Years" tracks the trends that will transform our everyday lives in almost unimaginable ways.

Wednesday, September 01, 2004

This makes very good reading, the Ars Electronica's timeline +25.

Submit your own predictions.

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University of California at Berkeley astronomer Geoffrey Marcy, a member of the team that discovered the Gliese 436 exoplanet, said the scientific community should expect to see a number of breakthroughs in the field over the next 10 years.
"We can't quite see the Earth-like planets yet but we are seeing their big brothers, and hopefully we will be bearing down on the small-mass planets soon," he said.

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