--- Robert Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://architecture.mit.edu/house_n/web/resources/articles/lifeinthefuture/MIRACLES%20OF%20THE%20NEXT%20FIFTY%20YEARS.htm > > The year 2000 as viewed from 1950
"...Tuberculosis in all of its forms is cured as easily as pneumonia was cured at mid-century.... Even in 1950 physicians did not know exactly how a piece of beefsteak is converted by the body into muscle and energy�the process technically known as metabolism. The physician of 2000 knows just what diet is best for a patient. This knowledge, coupled with his knowledge of hormones, enables him to treat old age as a degenerative disease. Men and women of 70 in A.D. 2000 look as if they were 40..." <LOL> Well, then they really did think that they'd figured out how to defeat microbes...but they forgot that *artificial selection* is even more potent than natural selection at forcing change. Cooking As An Artform Will Never Die Maru __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
