Robert Boyle’s prophetic ‘wish list’ made in the 17th Century. Boyle was founder of the ”Invisible College” at Oxford University.
(Thanks to George Ure in the Predictors Group, the LinkedIn Group for RecordedFuture, a new temporal search tool that “searches the future”).
”The Prolongation of Life” – health improvements mean we are now living longer.
”The Recovery of Youth, or at least some of the Marks of it, as new Teeth, new Hair colour’d as in youth” – Botox, plastic surgery, teeth-capping, hair dye, transplants.
”The Art of Flying” – planes.
”The Art of Continuing long under water, and exercising functions freely” – submarines and scuba gear.
”The Cure of Diseases at a distance or at least by Transplantation” – transplants and keyhole surgery.
”The Emulating of Fish without Engines by Custome and Education” – free diving.
”Strength and Agility … exemplify’d by that of Frantick Epileptick and Hysterical persons” – steroids.
”The Acceleration of the Production of things out of Seed” – GM crops.
”The making of Parabolicall and Hyperbolicall Glasses” – spectacles and telescopes.
”Making Armor light and extremely hard” – Kevlar.
”The practicable and certain way of finding Longitudes” – satellite navigation.
”A ship to saile with All Winds” – boats with engines.
”Perpetuall Light” – bulbs.
”Varnishes perfumable by Rubbing” – scratch-and-sniff.
”Transmutation of Species in Mineralls, Animals, and Vegetables” – synthetic biology, genetic engineering.
