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According to BT's futurologist, Ian Pearson, these areamong the developments scheduled for the first fewdecades of the new millennium(a period of 1000years), when supercomputers will dramaticallyaccelerate progress in all areas of life. Pearson has __1__ together to work of hundreds ofresearchers around the world to produce a __2__millennium technology calendar that gives the latestdates when we can expect hundreds of key __3__ and discoveries to take place.Some of the biggest developments will be in medicine, including an __4__ lifeexpectancy and dozens of artificial organs __5__ into use between now and 2040.
Pearson also __6__ a breakthrough in computer human links."By linking __7__ toour nervous system, computers could pick up __8__ we feel and, hopefully, simulate__9__ too so that we can start to __10__ full sensory environments, rather like theholidays in Total Recall or the Star Trek holodeck," he says. But that, Pearson points __11__, is only the start of man-machine __12__:"It will bethe beginning of the long process of integration that will __13__ lead to a fullyelectronic human before the end of the next century."__14__ his research, Pearson isable to put dates to most of the breakthroughs that can be predicted. However, thereare still no __15__ for when faster-than-light travel will be __16__, or when humancloning will be perfected, or when time travel will be possible.But he does __17__ social problems as a result of technological advances. A boomin neighborhood surveillance cameras will, for example,__18__ problems in 2010,while the arrival of synthetic __19__ robots will mean people may not be able to__20__ between their human friends and the droids. And home appliances will alsobecome so smart that controlling and operating them will result in the breakout of anew psychological disorder-kitchen rage.
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