• Question: what do you predict the world will be like in 200 years? ;)

    Asked by to Edward, Ian, Mathew, Naomi on 25 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Naomi Osborne answered on 25 Jun 2014:

      Good question!!

      I think we’ll be better at treating some diseases like cancer so people with it live longer, but we’ll be worse at treating some infections caused by bacteria (because they’re evolving so antibiotics don’t work as well).

      I think we’ll be 3D printing nearly everything, using computers to make food and even clothes and we’ll be driving cars that run on electricity instead of fuel that are much better than they are now.

      I also think we’ll be living in more packed cities because the population is increasing, this means our food production will have to change to feed the world – maybe we’ll be growing burgers in petri dishes!

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      Ian Stephenson answered on 25 Jun 2014:

      I think it’ll be different in ways we can’t imagine, and the same in every way we thought it would be different.

      Look at scifi from a few years ago. It said that by 2014 we’d be living on mars, driving flying cars, and wearing cloths made from tin-foil!

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