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| Introduction | |
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| As We May Live | |
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| A Revolution in Medicine | |
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| A Tiny Dot in Cosmic Time; A Big Period in Human Time | |
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| What's Ahead: "Figures Don't Lie" | |
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| What a Climatologist Cannot Know about the Next 50 Years (but What He Does Believe) | |
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| No More Heart Disease | |
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| The End of Psychiatric Illnesses | |
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| Simon Caplan's Day | |
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| Fifty Years from Now: Today's Baby Reaches Middle Age | |
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| Blogging from the Future | |
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| Progress Accelerates Exponentially | |
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| An Economist Predicts | |
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| Diary Entry: 2058 | |
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| Deciphering the Mega-Trends | |
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| Will We Be 50 Years from Today? | |
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| The Era of Great Change is Coming | |
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| The Future of Crime | |
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| The Future of Food | |
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| What Does It Mean to Be Human? | |
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| A Brain Scientist's Perspective | |
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| In Harmony with Earth's Water Cycle | |
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| How Will Science Transform Human Society? | |
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| Where Are All the Robots? | |
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| Wind Farming in Pollyanna Land | |
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| Letters to My Grandchildren and Great-Grandchildren | |
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| Future Cars and the Jetsons | |
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| A World without Borders | |
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| Technology, Security, and Liberty in 50 Years | |
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| Our Place in the Universe | |
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| Snapshot of a World with the New Nation of California | |
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| Our Children, Our Future | |
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| Landscapes and Living Conditions | |
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| Go Green by Thinking Blue | |
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| The Paradox | |
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| The Transformation | |
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| A World without Breast Cancer | |
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| Hope for People with Brain Diseases | |
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| A Physician's View of the Future | |
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| Clean Energy for Progress | |
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| CO[subscript 2] for Good | |
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| To Open the World to All People | |
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| The View as I Glide By | |
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| One Tuesday in Australia | |
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| Wake-Up Call on Global Warming | |
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| Dateline: 50 Years into the Future | |
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| Leaps and Eurekas | |
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| Snapshots of the Future with Infectious Disease: Living in a Brave New World with Age-Old Scourges | |
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| The Age of the Global Citizen | |
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| Some Words from "Dr. Future" | |
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| Some Warnings, Some Worries, and a Call for Leadership | |
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| How Our Knowledge Will Increase | |
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| We Will Have Learned Our Lesson | |
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| The Future of the Soul | |
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| A Bird's-Eye View of the Next 50 Years | |
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| Global Climate Change and Our Children | |
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| A Way Back to Wilderness | |
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| Future World: The Bad, the Good, and the Ugly | |
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| Always So Much More to Discover | |
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| The World in Fifty Years: Revolutions and Repercussions | |
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| The Earth in 50 Years: Rescue ... or Ruin? | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |