Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to be a pie guy. On Monday, when asked if he's going to date strippers, Howard, who had promised to have sex with every floozy he ever met the moment his wife died, said, "Obviously, I'm not the type who goes out with bimbos." On Wednesday, he didn't show up for work. Spanking, it seems, is less fun when temptation is replaced by reality...
...years or older," says Stanford chemist Carl Djerassi, synthesizer of the birth-control pill. For that reason, he predicts, drug companies will turn from contraception to conception in an effort to help older women have babies. As for aging men, they'll have at their disposal libido and sex-performance boosters that will make Viagra seem like baby aspirin...
First, the good news: people will still be trying to get each other into bed in 2025, though one can only hope the pickup lines will be different by then. Now here's the revolutionary (or should I say evolutionary) news: sex will seem a lot less necessary than it does today. Having sex is too much fun for us to stop, but religious convictions aside, it will be more for recreation than procreation. Many human beings, especially those who are rich, vain and ambitious, will be using test tubes--not just to get around infertility and the lack...
Lots of creatures already reproduce without sex: whiptail lizards, aphids, dandelions, microscopic rotifers. And, of course, human beings. Since the birth of Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby, in 1978, hundreds of thousands of human beings have been conceived in laboratory glassware rather than...
...human cloning becomes possible--and since the birth of a sheep called Dolly, few doubt that it will be feasible to clone a person by 2025--even the link between sex organs and reproduction will be broken. You will then be able to take a cutting from your body and grow a new person, as if you were a willow tree. And if it becomes possible to screen or genetically engineer embryos to "improve" them, then in-vitro fertilization and cloning may become the rule rather than the exception among those who can afford...