Academics weigh in on their ideal future.
In the century about to dawn, contraception will become superfluous, the attention span will cease to exist and two intelligent species will roam the earth. Come 2010, according to the often-prescient Arthur C Clarke, Prince Harry will become the first member of Britain's royal family to fly in space. This is all hugely exciting. I get the sense from these predictions that there is limited time span for human beings unless we change. It may therefore turn out that 2084 is a much more accurate prediction of the 1984 scenario than the original date.