Word: m
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...computer digests the rectangle of plastic you hand her. "Yes, you've got a bad case of flu," she says reassuringly. "I'm having the pharmacy create a drug for you. It'll be ready before you're dressed, and you should be as good as new by tomorrow...
Snyder was not so sure. "I'm an optimist. Why would evolution have been parsimonious in depriving the human brain of the power of self-healing? I was a pediatrician before I became a neuroscientist. As a pediatrician, I was impressed by how much plasticity there really must be in the human brain. Pediatricians know that damage to the infant brain doesn't have the same outcome as damage to the adult brain. If a newborn has a stroke, even in the cortex [an area important to higher intellectual functions], he or she may sustain it and develop quite normally...
...m not predicting the end of all meat eating. Decades from now, cattle will still be raised, perhaps in patches of natural rangeland, for people inclined to eat and able to afford a porterhouse, while others will make exceptions in ceremonial meals on special days like Thanksgiving, which link us ritually to our evolutionary and cultural past. But the era of mass-produced animal flesh, and its unsustainable costs to human and environmental health, should be over before the next century...
Which is why I'm not entirely gloomy about our future. After all, what's more human than pursuit of self-interest...
Camryn Manheim, who won an Emmy for her work on ABC's The Practice, is the author of Wake Up, I'm...