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Steven Weinberg forecasts the future
The Nobel prize-winning physicist predicts the discovery of a final theory that dictates all properties of particles and fields
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Paul Davies forecasts the future
The director of a new cosmic think tank is passionate about alien life, and suspects we may well find it soon
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Sydney Brenner forecasts the future
He won the Nobel prize for medicine. Now he predicts major advances in our understanding of the biology of the most interesting species - us
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Lewis Wolpert forecasts the future
As systems biology and computer models progress, the development of embryos will eventually become fully "computable"
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John D. Barrow forecasts the future
Cosmologists have much to look forward to: the direct detection of dark matter and gravitational waves, to name but two
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Francis Collins forecasts the future
If the genetic advances that Collins foresees come to pass, entire generations of us will be living happily into our hundreds
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Gerard 't Hooft forecasts the future
The Nobel prize-winning theoretical physicist looks forward to the uniting of quantum mechanics, gravity, and the evolution of the universe
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Max Tegmark forecasts the future
In 50 years, you may be able to buy T-shirts on which are printed equations describing the unified laws of our universes
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Frans de Waal forecasts the future
Disentangling the feedback loop between brain development and the ancient primate tendencies that shape our societies will be a huge advance
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Edward O. Wilson forecasts the future
The biggest leap in biogeography and conservation biology will be the near-complete mapping of global biodiversity at the species level
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Marcus du Sautoy forecasts the future
The next 50 years hold the real prospect that we might finally reveal the secrets behind prime numbers
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Steven Pinker forecasts the future
"I absolutely refuse even to pretend to guess how I might speculate about what, hypothetically, could be the biggest breakthrough of the next 50 years"
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Rocky Kolb forecasts the future
The most significant breakthrough in cosmology will be the discovery of background gravitational waves produced in the very early universe
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Richard Miller forecasts the future
In ageing research, the key breakthrough will be the elucidation of the molecular pathways that render cells from long-lived animals so resistant to injury
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J. Richard Gott forecasts the future
Establishing a self-supporting colony on Mars would change world history - it wouldn't even be "world" history any more
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Michael Gazzaniga forecasts the future
The next 50 years will focus on the social mind, the fact that humans are social animals and that most of the time we think about relationships
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Robert May forecasts the future
The significant breakthough we really need is better understanding of human institutions, particularly of the impediments to useful cooperation
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Lisa Randall forecasts the future
The Large Hadron Collider should tell us more about the underlying nature of matter and how elementary particles acquire mass
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Ellen Heber-Katz forecasts the future
The day is not far off when we will be able to prescribe drugs that cause severed spinal cords to heal, and hearts to regenerate
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Niles Eldredge forecasts the future
The most significant breakthroughs will come in the form of retro-fitting existing advances in molecular and biology to a more integrated synthesis of evolutionary theory
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Daniel Pauly forecasts the future
A device to detect, amplify and transmit to us the emotions and fleeting "thoughts" of animals would be useful, with a view to building our empathy
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Peter Norvig forecasts the future
Google's director of research predicts a growing transformation in the global access to information. Forget search engines as you know them
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Stephen Wolfram forecasts the future
A central theme of the next 50 years will be a systematic exploration of the "computation universe" of all possible programs
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Timothy Gowers forecasts the future
There are about half a dozen problems that almost all mathematicians agree are supremely important
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Martin Rees forecasts the future
The Astronomer Royal hopes that by 2056 we'll know if the laws of physics we know are the only ones there are and if our big bang was unique
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Igor Aleksander forecasts the future
A scientific understanding of consciousness will come from a recognition of the brain as an informational machine
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Bernard Wood forecasts the future
We will know exactly how we evolved to be us and not chimps
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Michael Benton forecasts the future
A near-complete picture of the "tree of life" will reveal rates of evolution and patterns of mass extinctions and of diversification
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Andrew Knoll forecasts the future
Most fossils will have been found, but new technologies and a greater focus on physiology will compensate
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Frank Wilczek forecasts the future
The Nobel prize-winner expects a golden age for physics, computers with superhuman intelligence and solar power providing much of our energy
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Geoffrey Miller forecasts the future
Evolutionary psychology will undermine consumer capitalism, foster stronger communities and replace religion with a naturalistic moral philosophy
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Chris McKay forecasts the future
A "second genesis" of life! We may find evidence of alien life frozen in Martian permafrost or on other worlds, perhaps dead but preserved
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Rodney Brooks forecasts the future
How to make artificial intelligences that can recognise and classify objects is something we have struggled with for 40 years - we will crack it
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Lawrence Krauss forecasts the future
Will we discover the mystery behind dark matter by 2056? Possibly, but we will need a brilliant new theoretical idea
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Elizabeth Loftus forecasts the future
Imagine a world where anyone with the correct technique and the right pharmaceuticals can implant false memories into anyone they choose
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Peter Atkins forecasts the future
Computers will continue to illuminate chemistry and the reactions of natural life - eventually we may be able to build synthetic life from scratch
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Sean Carroll forecasts the future
The seconds following the big bang have been described in elaborate detail, but we will hopefully nail down exactly what happened at the awesome moment itself
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Arthur McDonald forecasts the future
The elucidation of dark matter should be the biggest breakthrough of the next half-century, and many tools are already in place to detect it
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Bruce Lahn forecasts the future
Biomedicine will be transformed when we discover the ability to to produce unlimited supplies of transplantable human organs
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Terry Sejnowski forecasts the future
Fifty years is about the time it takes for breakthroughs to occur that you cannot anticipate, nevertheless…
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David Deutsch forecasts the future
On the experimental side, the construction of a working, general-purpose quantum computer is what this emminent physicist hopes for
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Nathan Myhrvold forecasts the future
Applied physics will be revolutionised by advances in metamaterials and intricate synthetic structures, trancending natural materials
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Benoit Mandelbrot forecasts the future
The creator of the famous Madlebrot Set believes the fractal geometry of roughness is set to expand rapidly, carving itself an important role in science
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Eric Horvitz forecasts the future
By 2056 the computational revolution will be recognised as a transformation as significant as the industrial revolution
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Paul Nurse forecasts the future
Within 50 years it should be possible to provide mechanistic explanations of the intricate self-regulating nature of the cell, the basic unit of life
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Anthony Atala forecasts the future
How about injecting universal donor cells that naturally migrate to an injury site, where tissue repair and regeneration can occur, all without rejection?
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Simon Baron-Cohen forecasts the future
To speculate on the next 50 years in cognitive neuroscience, look at what has emerged over the last five years and multiply by 10
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Gregory Chaitin forecasts the future
By 2056, weird astronomical observations may have led to radical new fundamental physics, and people will be tampering with the human genome, which should be fun
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Simon Conway Morris forecasts the future
The depths of reality are only now being uncovered, but by 2056 the springs of imagination, intuition, abstraction and even pre-cognition are revealed
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Antonio Damasio forecasts the future
The future will no doubt promote advances molecular neurobiology and an understanding of the systems related to cognition and behavior
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Dan Dennett forecasts the future
Cognitive neuroscience will figure out how neural nets in the brain are stitched together to produce the mental activities familiar in cognitive psychology
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Carl Djerassi forecasts the future
A big breakthrough will be the development of an efficient and convenient means of storing a young woman's ovarian tissue or eggs to be used years later
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Freeman Dyson forecasts the future
We have been searching alien life for 50 years and found nothing, but in the next half century we shall discover it
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Jane Goodall forecasts the future
It is now possible to go online and see the world's lush forests and the effects of deforestation - the breakthrough will come in how we act on this information
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Monica Grady forecasts the future
Many theories predict that at least Mars and Europa are suitable hosts for life within our solar system - it will be disappointing if our increasingly sophisticated tools fail to find some
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Susan Greenfield forecasts the future
Brain imaging has revolutionised cognitive neuroscience and diagnostics - in the future we will be able to see changes at the synaptic level that underpin learning
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John Halpern forecasts the future
Increasing use of "psychedelic" drugs may lead to a new field of medicine in which spirituality is kindled to help us accept our mortality without fear
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Piet Hut forecasts the future
The discovery of life elsewhere in the universe would be the most significant breakthrough, not only for astrophysics, but also for biology, philosophy and culture
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Bill Joy forecasts the future
The most significant breakthrough would be to have an inexhaustible source of safe, green energy that is substantially cheaper than any existing energy source
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Jaron Lanier forecasts the future
In the next 50 years, computer science needs to achieve a new unification between the inside of the computer and the outside
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Charles Nemeroff forecasts the future
Identifying gene variants that confer vulnerability to major psychiatric disorders will result in the emergence of a new field, preventative psychiatry
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Colin Pillinger forecasts the future
We have been promised humans on Mars for so long now that I almost despair that this will be achieved by 2056, but we should at least have brought back Martian samples
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Carolyn Porco forecasts the future
The most significant development in planetary exploration in the next 50 years will be the discovery of either extant or fossilised extraterrestrial life forms on another solar system body
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Carlo Rovelli forecasts the future
Between now and 2056 a coherent way of thinking about the world will emerge, compatible with new discoveries such as quantum theory and relativity
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Steve Squyres forecasts the future
There could be no more significant advance than learning whether there is life elsewhere in the universe - either way, a definitive answer would be profound
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Kip Thorne forecasts the future
Over the next 50 years, gravitational waves from the big bang will be detected, first indirectly by the imprint they leave on the cosmic microwave radiation and then directly
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Alan Walker forecasts the future
In a perfect world, in 50 years we will have found hundreds of beautiful skeletons of those bipedal apes that were the ancestors of modern humans
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Beverly Whipple forecasts the future
In addition to a better understanding of brain activity during sexual response and orgasm, we will hopefully come to the universal acceptance that sexual health is a fundamental human right
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Tim White forecasts the future
The most significant breakthrough in hominid palaeobiology will be the recognition that fossil vertebrates are a limited and non-renewable resource
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Edward Witten forecasts the future
Even if the present cosmological picture remains unchallenged, there will be numerous discoveries involving, for example, extra-solar planets
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Anton Zeilinger forecasts the future
The major breakthrough in quantum mechanics will be to finally understand why nature is such that we have a description that is so enormously successful, yet so counterintuitive
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