Things we will never see in our lifetimes

[Marc Meakin]

A World, or even a nation that completely rejects eating Meat (went for the euthemism).
Sorry Calum but it ain't gonna happen

[Callum Todd]

A fifth thread on this forum about veganism?

[Peter Mabey]

Fair elections

[Marc Meakin]

Proof of intelligent life on another planet

[Gavin Chipper]

Things we may or may not see in the lifetimes of some people alive today:

Superintelligent AI
A cure for ageing and all biological illnesses, or perhaps "posthumanism" where we are no longer dependent on biological bodies to house our minds.
Colonisation of another planet
The end of all life on Earth through a man-made disaster (so this would obviously mark the end of the lifetimes of people alive today).

[Marc Meakin]

Things we may or may not see in the lifetimes of some people alive today:

Superintelligent AI
A cure for ageing and all biological illnesses, or perhaps "posthumanism" where we are no longer dependent on biological bodies to house our minds.
Colonisation of another planet
The end of all life on Earth through a man-made disaster (so this would obviously mark the end of the lifetimes of people alive today).

I can see a time in the next 20 years where you can create a digitised version of yourself, thus making you potentially immortal online.
I should imagine the technology is already there
Perish the thought

[Marc Meakin]

3D printing of Organs.which could make you immortal.
Maybe in 100 years