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Article: IN 50 YEARS ... BIG BRAINS HAVE BIG IDEAS FOR WHAT LIES AHEAD.(Life and Arts)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- May 30, 2008
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Byline: CECELIA GOODNOWP-I reporter
We'll live to be 140 - if we don't kill each other first.
We'll still need oil.
Water will be scarce and AIDS will be eradicated - along with a host of chronic diseases that will turn out to be the fault of Sylvester and Tweety Bird.
We'll even be able to e-mail products to ourselves and "print" them out at home.
That's a snapshot of life in 2058 as envisioned by 60 top thinkers whose short essays make up "The Way We Will Be 50 Years From Today," edited by CBS newsman Mike Wallace, correspondent-emeritus of "60 Minutes."
Predicting the future is notoriously difficult, as anyone ...