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Chapter 19

Conclusions

Factoids

The Year 2000 – A Framework for Speculation on the Next Thirty-Three Years
written in 1967 by staff members of the Hudson Institute listed 'One hundred
technical innovations very likely in the last third of the Twentieth Century',
including:

New methods of water transportation (e.g. large submarines and special
purpose container ships)
Major reduction in hereditary and congenital defects

Extensive use of cyborg techniques (mechanical aids or substitutes for

human organs, senses, limbs, or other components)
New and useful plant and animal species

Pervasive techniques for surveillance, monitoring, and control of indi-

viduals and organizations
Some control of weather and/or climate

Human hibernation for relatively extensive periods (months to years)

General and substantial increase in life expectancy, postponement of age-

ing, and limited rejuvenation
Permanent inhabited undersea installations and perhaps even colonies

Personal "pagers" (perhaps even two-way pocket phones) and other per-
sonal electronic equipment for communication, computing, and data
processing

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