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Stephen Hawking's Predictions

Posted by michael on from the time-on-your-hands dept.

Hero_or_what writes: "CNN has a story about Stephen Hawking.In a recent talk in Bombay, Stephen Hawking has predicted that humans would colonize other planets within 100 years. He also predicts sucessful improvement in the human design in the next millennium." Pretty safe predictions, IMHO.

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  1. That was interesting... by RareHeintz · · Score: 3
    ...but it had a couple of disappointing bits. The line about the earth being covered with people shoulder-to-shoulder and glowing red hot from electricity consumption by 2600 is exactly the sort of facile linear projection of Last Week's Best Numbers that I would not have expected from someone like Hawking - unless he was saying it to get a laugh.

    Anyway, just my US$2e-2.

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