SETI researcher Seth Shostak believes that we will make first contact with intelligent aliens in the next 20 years due to "advances in computer processing power and radio telescope technology".

Advances in LED technology may lead to the widespread replacement of incandescent light bulbs within the next 5 years.

A new drug for treatment of congestive heart failure is gaining a lot of attention because it works extremely well for African-American patients, although it has had disappointing results for Caucasian patients. Some doctors don't like this, because they don't believe drugs should be prescribed on the basis of race. (As a physician, I believe this view to be ridiculous, given that there are well-established physiological and genetic differences between the races. Of course, it would be optimal to discover the exact genetic markers that would predict a good response to this drug, but until such markers are identified, race is a reasonable first approximation in this case.)

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