2. PERFECT ARTIFICIAL LIMBS Every year a number of people lose their hands, arms and legs. Prosthetic users may soon control artificial limbs as naturally as their own.
3. BODY REGENERATION We can expect therapies to repair or entirely replace organs in the human body.
4. POCKET INTERNET Leaving aside digital toys, scientists are working on devices which could give us information about almost anything.
5. MIND READING DEVICES Brain scans are used to predict what a person will do. Researchers have built a device that can read your mind. Just think of a letter and it is displayed on a screen.
6. SOLUTION TO HUNGER New varieties of wheat, maize and rice with greater resistance to temperature changes, drought and insects are constantly being developed. Can we expect meat from labs?
7. ROBOTS With robots doing all kinds of chores, people canspend more time with their families (or even robots).
8. CLIMATE CONTROL Scientists are thinking of introducing particles into the atmosphere that would reflect the sunlight and cool down the planet. Can we slow or stop hurricanes by cooling surface water that fuels them?