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Why the Future of Technology Is So Hard to Predict
It’s almost 2023, yet we’re not all riding Segways, having sex with robots and cloning humans. What gives?
The 21st century’s technological wish list.
Photo Illustration by Jessica Karl
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They don’t make technology predictions like they used to. Just look at the amazingly prescient technological wish list famed chemist Robert Boyle jotted down in a note found after his death in 1691:
“The recovery of Youth, or at least some of the Marks of it, as new Teeth, new Hair, new hair color’d as in youth.” Check.