in 14 years time I think we will have made leaps and bounds! I can speak especially for the medical research area and cancer research.
It is amazing to think that only 10 years ago the human genome was sequenced. That means it has only taken ten years to find out SOOOO much stuff about what causes disease, to develop technology to detect disease and also to make new drugs to treat disease. There are certain cancers where the rate of people dying has gone down a lot. The rate of people getting cancer seems to be increasing though, which is partly because we now have better ways of spotting who has cancer.
I think by 2025 we will have new ways of preventing and stopping cancer. I really hope that by then we will treat cancer like we treat allergies – with medication that keeps it in check and under control. We will have ways to see exactly what types of treatment will be best for the patient, without the awful side effects and we will also have ways of detecting the cancer early, at a stage when we can simply remove it by surgery 🙂
Here are my guesses (I stress that they are just guesses).
Technology and applied science:
– Nanotechnology will be everywhere and will be a kind of engineering (something we understand pretty well and want to use) more than a kind of science (something we want to understand better).
– Biotechnology will be ahead of nanotechnology in this journey from science to engineering.
– Medical sciences will have advanced as Kate says, but there will be plenty we still don’t understand and there will be an increasing need to use mathematics and computers to do medical and biological sciences.
– Agricultural science, which involves several other fields including biotech, biology, and nanotech, will also be a big thing because the world will have problems producing enough food.
Astronomy and Pure Physics (as opposed to applied physics related to nanotechnology, for example):
– A planet outside the solar system will have been found that could be suitable for life. (562 planets outside the solar system have already been found, most of them since 2000. It’s only a matter of time before an “Earth-like” planet is found.)
– The mysterious particle called the Higgs, that is the reason things have mass (weight), will have been discovered. In finding it, we will learn a lot more about the deep, most fundamental workings of the universe.
– If we still don’t have proof of what dark matter (which makes up 80% of the matter in the universe) actually is, we will at least have a pretty good idea, theoretically, of what it should be.
Hi oliviak,
in 14 years time I think we will have made leaps and bounds! I can speak especially for the medical research area and cancer research.
It is amazing to think that only 10 years ago the human genome was sequenced. That means it has only taken ten years to find out SOOOO much stuff about what causes disease, to develop technology to detect disease and also to make new drugs to treat disease. There are certain cancers where the rate of people dying has gone down a lot. The rate of people getting cancer seems to be increasing though, which is partly because we now have better ways of spotting who has cancer.
I think by 2025 we will have new ways of preventing and stopping cancer. I really hope that by then we will treat cancer like we treat allergies – with medication that keeps it in check and under control. We will have ways to see exactly what types of treatment will be best for the patient, without the awful side effects and we will also have ways of detecting the cancer early, at a stage when we can simply remove it by surgery 🙂
I’m looking forward to that time!
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Hi oliviak,
Here are my guesses (I stress that they are just guesses).
Technology and applied science:
– Nanotechnology will be everywhere and will be a kind of engineering (something we understand pretty well and want to use) more than a kind of science (something we want to understand better).
– Biotechnology will be ahead of nanotechnology in this journey from science to engineering.
– Medical sciences will have advanced as Kate says, but there will be plenty we still don’t understand and there will be an increasing need to use mathematics and computers to do medical and biological sciences.
– Agricultural science, which involves several other fields including biotech, biology, and nanotech, will also be a big thing because the world will have problems producing enough food.
Astronomy and Pure Physics (as opposed to applied physics related to nanotechnology, for example):
– A planet outside the solar system will have been found that could be suitable for life. (562 planets outside the solar system have already been found, most of them since 2000. It’s only a matter of time before an “Earth-like” planet is found.)
– The mysterious particle called the Higgs, that is the reason things have mass (weight), will have been discovered. In finding it, we will learn a lot more about the deep, most fundamental workings of the universe.
– If we still don’t have proof of what dark matter (which makes up 80% of the matter in the universe) actually is, we will at least have a pretty good idea, theoretically, of what it should be.
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