Joshua Lederberg et al.

In 1964, the British magazine New Scientist commissioned nearly one hundred internationally known experts to predict technological innovations for the year 1984. In the following viewpoint, which was published in 1994, eight of these experts, professors and scientists from Europe and the United States, review their predictions and make new ones concerning technology in the future.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. What diseases will gene therapy treat, according to Avrion Mitchison?
2. What does Meredith Thring mean by Equilibrium Engineering?
3. What energy trends and innovations does Ian Fells anticipate"

Professor Joshua Lederberg, Rockefeller University, New York.

The predictions for 1984:

• Successful organ transplants creating a need for moral guidelines to control the market in donor organs.
• Artificial prosthetic organs.
• Increased life expectancy.
• Modification of the human brain through treatment of the fetus or infant.
• Genetic...