Kind of reminds me of one of the latest Time Magazine issues that was so boldly claming that by 2045, humans will be immortally fused with machinery such as computers.
There's nothing wrong with using technology in medicine, nor is there any doubt about its inevitability. We already do it, and have been doing so for a long time. It's just a matter of extent. It makes no sense to put a date on it, such as 2045. You could just as easily say 2145, 2005, or 1805. Man and machine have been interacting for a long time, and this is nothing new.
Incidentally, the 2045 date is not new. It's a prediction made by Ray Kurzweil in his 2005 book
The Singularity Is Near.
Also reminds me of how in the 1940s and 1950s the rage of the day was that the 60s and 70s woudl be completely fueld by nuclear power.
To a large extent, progress in nuclear power was stunted for political, not scientific, reasons, by historical accident (and carelessness), much like what happened with the space shuttle program because of the Challenger disaster. (Although, astronauts have always known that space shuttles are an extremely risky business.)
Nuclear power is still around today, and is an evolving technology. The main problem is figuring out what to do with the waste. Solar power and fuel cells are currently of relatively small importance because they are still in the early stages of development, but eventually they will massively overtake fossil fuels as our main energy source.
Predictions generally are a little bit of fact mix with hope, and a lot of hype.
Right. Nobody knows the future. It doesn't hurt to speculate, as long as we keep in mind that it is speculation.
