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Byline: Robert Sullivan
Let's get ahead of ourselves. Let's imagine the future. Let's see what science has in store for us as far as our health goes. Let's engage in the age-old art of prediction, even if, as nuclear physicist Niels Bohr once famously noted, "Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future." Let's throw Bohr's scientific caution to the wind and start by saying that at the moment it seems as if the future is taking cues from the past, from old movies such as Fantastic Voyage: Journey into the Living Body of a Man, a film full of bad dialogue that tries to relate illness to, I think, what was once referred to as the Cold War.
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