PREDICTIONS 12.20.07

As much as 30 percent of our food in the next 20 years will include genes that were spliced in from human sources, such as rice modified with human genes that produce protein ordinarily found in human breast milk. In the future, there will be a thin line between vegetarianism and cannibalism.
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Our wars will increasingly be fought with robot soldiers. Within five years, robots will have taken over many of the tasks of the foot soldier, such as reconnoitering a terrain and guarding a location. These robots will tend to look like high-powered weapons on wheels, and many will be under the direct control of bivouacked human soldiers, but the wars of the future will involve machines that do our killing for us.
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Do to the WGA writers strike, this year’s Oscar ceremony will be entirely improvised.