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He said

After seeing this talked about in an otherwise paranoid documentary, I'd really like to see an efficient, global mass transit system.

The term global village is only going to grow more and more poignant in the future as we become even more dependent on the global society. What that's going to mean is that we're going to have to be even more connected to our fellow villagers on the other side of the world.

The documentary I saw envisioned a rail system of supersonic trains, vacuum tube trains, which they allege we have the technology for now. Travelling at 4,000 miles per hour, using magnets and moving beneath the oceans, this transit system could get you from New York to Shanghai for your morning business meeting and back in time for a New York slice at the end of the day.

Currently, maglev trains have produced a top speed of just under 400 miles per hour. The as yet unbuilt vactrains move with magnets and levitation, like the maglevs, but can theoretically travel much faster. Hopefully, we can turn these theories into practice.

These systems would be expensive to implement and build, once we actually got the technology properly tested, but a man can dream. A Chinese university is developing a vactrain that could reach speeds of 620 miles per hour, and that can maybe be put into operation in 10 years. It's probably just a small jump from there into the 4,000-mile range anyway.

These trains appeared in Fahrenheit 451 and Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Sure, it's science fiction, but at some point science fiction just blends into the world we know. I hope it's sooner rather than later.

She said

There are the old standards: world peace, the end of hunger, the end of war and a cure for cancer. I'd love to see all of those achievements in my lifetime.

But I'm realistic. World peace would be great, but I'm not sure it's possible due to many factors, like human nature. There's a rumour that cancer has been cured, but the cure hasn't been made public because the "cancer industry" brings in too much money. If that's the case, it speaks to a horrible condition of humanity - I really hope it's not true. Regardless, I don't expect a cure for cancer in my lifetime. I'm hopeful, but I don't think it will happen.

Personally, I'd like to see a cure for multiple sclerosis in my lifetime. MS is a debilitating disease that can affect people of all ages, and here in Canada, we have the highest rate of MS in the world.
Strides have recently been made toward finding a cure. Liberation treatment may or may not be the cure, but it has already improved countless lives. Liberation treatment has people talking, and has governments moving toward making finding a cure for MS a priority. This is partially why I think this is a realistic goal in the next 80 years. I think we're on the cusp of finding the cure to MS and improving the quality of life for millions of Canadians.

I'd love to see every beauty pageant girl's dreams come true during my lifetime, with an end to poverty, disease and the start of world peace. However, I don't think it's going to happen. A cure to MS is an achievement that genuinely makes me hopeful, so fingers crossed for that.