Brilliant Minds Forecast the Next 50 Years

November 20, 2006 | Source: NewScientist (subscription required)

What will be the biggest breakthrough of the next 50 years?

As part of New Scientist’s 50th anniversary celebrations, they asked over 70 of the world’s most brilliant scientists for their ideas.

In coming decades will we: discover that we are not alone in the universe? Unravel the physiological basis for consciousness? Routinely have false memories implanted in our minds? Begin to evolve in new directions? And will physicists finally hit upon a universal theory of everything?