Computing: Silicon replaced in computer chips
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Computing: Cars, homes and people will communicate wirelessly
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Computing: Most people use automated language translation
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Computing: Passwords become obsolete
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Computing: Contact lenses used for augmented reality
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Computing: Wearable computers controlled only by the mind
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Materials: 3D printing manufactures most household items
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Robotics: Drones in common use globally
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Robotics: Robots become common in homes, businesses, hospitals
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Medicine: Human clone
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Medicine: Doctor visits are mostly automated
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Medicine: Effective AIDS vaccine
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Medicine: Effective Malaria vaccine
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Medicine: Alzheimer's disease mostly prevented
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Medicine: Most people have their genome sequenced
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Medicine: Artificial body parts become common
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Medicine: Global life expectancy reaches 100 years
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Medicine: Chips in your body will monitor your health
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Transport: Most cars automatically avoid crashes
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Transport: Most cars fueled by electricity
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Transport: Most cars are self-driving
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Transport: Most commercial flights have no human pilots
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Transport: Flying cars common
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Transport: Most trains float above magnetic tracks
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Energy: Coal use increases as carbon sequestration succeeds
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Energy: Natural gas is largest fossil fuel source
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Energy: Nuclear fusion is largest energy source
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Energy: Major disruption of global power grids
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Space: People on the moon
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Space: People on Mars
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Space: People on a small asteroid or planetary satellite
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Space: Asteroid mining begins
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Space: Permanent colonies on other planets/satellites
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Space: People explore outside the solar system
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Space: Solid and liquid fuels replaced by ions or fusion
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Space: A million space tourists
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Environment: Super drought hits US west
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Environment: Super earthquake hits US Pacific coast
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Environment: Super hurricane hits US Atlantic coast
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Environment: 100-meter diameter meteor hits earth
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Environment: Arctic ocean free of ice in summer
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Environment: Most antarctic ice melts, flooding global coasts
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Environment: Mass extinctions in oceans from carbon dioxide
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Environment: Bangladesh flooding displaces most of population
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Population: Global population reaches 10 billion
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Population: Africa has more people than Asia
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Population: All but 500 languages are extinct
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Population: Most people are atheists
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Population: Most people are vegetarians
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Politics: Marijuana legalized in US
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Politics: Terrorist attack takes over 1 million lives
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Politics: A major world power suffers economic collapse
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Politics: Major global disruption of Internet
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Politics: Major cyber war
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Politics: Major nuclear war
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Politics: Global federation
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