This week continues the list of 40 things in the next 40 years as mentioned last week.  It would be interesting to be around when all of this takes place.
 I often think of my grandparents who would be astounded at the advancements of the last 40 years.
21. Science will probably enable a person to re-grow a limb.  Ooh!  Hope they don't grow extras!
22. Scientists will find proof of other life, in our solar system or beyond.  (See, I told you that last week!)
23. Astronomers will take action so we don't suffer the fate of dinosaurs.  (They scan the heavens now for asteroids or comets coming within 30 million miles of the earth's orbit.  These are pretty much countless.  We will have warning so we can blast it with a nuclear weapon before it hits earth.  Either that or be able to evacuate the area most in danger.  Sounds like a movie plot to me!)
24. Brain scans will illuminate the workings of the infant mind. ("This will enable us to know what to do for children and how to do it, providing "new" insights into parenting, education, medicine, even play.")
25.  Artists will have a huge say in how the world is run, making constant use of all the media around us.
26.  Novelists will rue the absence of the unanswered phone call as a plot device. (Go look up the word.)
27.  Composers will no longer be the only people who are capable of composing. Specialists who are part psychiatrist, part composer, part neuroscientist will create, prescribe, shape and tweak it for maximum impact!  By the way, do you know what Bach is doing now that he is dead?  He's decomposing!
28. JFK's questionnaires and psychological tests will be revealed.  Oh, I just can't wait for that.  By then, who will even really care??!!
29. James Cameron will still be making movies at age 96. (Think "Avatar," "Terminator," "Titanic"...maybe he'll cast 96 year olds in the movies.)
30. Stand-up comedy will be no more...we'll watch it on a device of some sort...iPhone, iPod, BlackBerrys, etc.
31. Native American youths will revive their culture.  That's a good thing.
32. US-Muslim relations will improve.  My comment here is that there will be many more Muslims everywhere because NON-Muslims are aborting so many babies. If this trends prevails, we will be vastly outnumbered.
33. In parts of the US, human evolution may even reverse itself, so a humorist/columnist suggests.....citing that the truth is becoming stranger than fiction....He suggests that what we read in the paper and see on television daily suggests a "sliding backwards" by humans.  I agree with that assertion.
34. A medical lab will be the size of a postage stamp.  These "stamps" will be used throughout the world to detect disease.
35. Viruses will help build machines.  This is one use of nanotechnology which is way beyond my brain's capacity to understand.
36. Sound systems that replicate how we hear will replace stereo systems.
37. Electricity will be harvested from your skin.
38. Crucial energy will be generated with mirrors.
39. Your refrigerator will talk to you.  Mine will say, "Go away!"
40. Reading will become an athletic activity. We will use "screens" on our devices to keep up with everything we do, say, think, want, etc...
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