60 deep thinkers gave their view of the world of tomorrow:

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/18/915263.aspx

Of course, the lengthening of human life came up, which is kind of funny or sad, special when today's kids are the first generation who aren't going to live longer than their parents.

So why do we expect people to live up to a hundred, when 2/3 of the Americans are overweight???Also it doesn't take into account any major pandemic what would bring down the averages...

because they will have liposuctions done twice a year

Futurist have usually be very accurate on the basic overview of things to come, but very erroneous on the technological details. They saw cellphones, but could not imagine them fitting in a hand, they saw flying cars but never figured they would be to nosy, to expensive to fuel and to dangerous to let anyone drive. Many saw the internet and knew the changes would be extensive but when and how the changes would happen has not been actually predicted, AI was suppose to be as smart a people decades ago, what we can be sure of is that if we continue to progress AI will be made as smart as people some day (when is a big variable).

And then of course there is the singularity, everything after we hit the event horizon is going to be hard to predict. Once the AI and cyborgs start having full control over the technology development, everything will be to advance for talking monkeys to comprehend yet alone predict.

Our great grandparents lived up to their 80s already. Even with much better medical care, we are not really improving on that average. probably because it is hard to lead a moderate lifestyle. (After all, where is the fun in that?)

Also if we were to live up to 140, should we have to work an extra 40+ years too??? Sure, the priviledged will enjoy the newest inventions in medicine, while the average human will be still dying of malaria or HIV...

dissapointing :(
They honestly believe we're going to end a 2000 year situation that nobody today's really cares abouth in the next 50 years at best we'l be able to stop the weapons flow.

The only thing he's really right abouth is that their will no longer be anonymity in the civilised world.

The list is to long to contradict with yust plain sense.