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Ten ideas to shape our future By Michio Kaku Internet contact lens, by 2030 Professor Babak A. Parviz, university of Washington in Seattle Imagine blinking, and then instantly going on line. Parviz is working on a contact lens that contains an 8*8 array of LEDs (light-emitting diodes). He says: “There will eventually be hundreds of LEDs that from images in front of the eyes, such as words, charts and photographs. Much of the hardware is semitransparent so that wearers can move around without crashing into things or becoming disoriented. Such contact lenses might recognize faces and display the person’s biography or translate from one language to another, so that you would see subtitles on the lens. Tourists will walk the street of Rome and see the Roman Empire resurrected in their contact lenses. Soldiers will see the entire battlefield laid out in their lenses, with friendly and enemy forces clearly marked. Students taking final examinations will probably be the first to by such lenses. Science-fiction fans will love them, because this is a huge step toward creating the holodeck featured in star trek and the fantasy. human body shop, by 2030 Dr Anthony Atala, wake Forest University After an accident or disease you will be able to order spare organs from a “human body shop” grown from your own cells. Already, scientists can grow cartilage, noses, ears, bone, skin, blood, vessels and heart valves. Within five years or so the first liver will be grown. Dr.Atala says: “what we can foresee is a readymade supply of organs, off the shelf, that you can just take out and plug in as needed.” To grow organs, Atala prepares a sponge-like plastic model, which is biodegradable. Then he seeds this plastic with cells from a person’s body and applies a special growth factor to accelerate growth; then the cells proliferate into the sponge. Eventually the plastic dissolves, leaving a perfect replica of the original organ. 3、Telepathy, by 2030 Kendrick Kay, university of Califor