Dr Judith Amos (author of Clean New World)
It might not be long before the sun, the wind and the sea become our main sources of energy. We will live in a cleaner, healthier world. Will it be a safer one, too?
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Professor J B Gartenberg (University of London)
Research scientists will find cures for most of the world’s diseases in the next 50 years. We will all live longer and, by the year 2020, there will be more than one billion people over 60 years old. How will this change our society and how will we pay for the elderly?
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Randy Oakes (journalist)
The 21st century is the age of the internet. More and more, people are using the internetforbusiness,education,shoppingandeventomakefriends.Thistalkwill explore how internet use will increase in the next 20 years.
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Duncan Hague (Institute of Sociology)
In the US and the UK, prisons are almost full and crime is increasing every day. Soon, there won’t be enough room for all our prisoners. Where will we put them? Space stations may be the answer.
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Dr Mikhaïl Radvanyi (Lingua Foundation)
Learning a foreign language may soon be a thing of the past. This talk will look at new developments in automatic translation machines.
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Xavier M Berman (author of Light Years Away)
A hundred years ago many scientists said that space travel was impossible. Now they say that we will never be able to travel in time. But new theories of time suggest that they might be wrong.
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Stella May Roche (War on War)
American military scientists are developing new laser technology that may change the world for ever. Laser guns on military satellites will
be unstoppable and the future for the smaller countries of the world is extremely frightening.