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What will the world be like in 2050?

As the planet faces the most dangerous century in its 4.5 billion year history, the UK's Astronomer Royal Martin Lord Rees looks into his crystal ball.

What the Future looks like

By Martin Rees

It would be foolhardy to venture technological predictions for 2050. Even more so to predict social and geopolitical changes. The most important advances, the qualitative leaps, are the least predictable. Not even the best scientists predicted the impact of nuclear physics, and everyday consumer items such as the iPhone would have seem magic back in the 1950s.

But there are some trends that we can predict with confidence.....

Read the full article to see what Martin Rees thinks the future will look like in terms of population growth, climate change, space exploration and more.

What the future looks like, by Martin Rees
The Guardian, Tuesday 26 May 2009


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