Hello and welcome to Meanwhile in the Future is a podcast about what might happen tomorrow or next year or in a hundred years.

Every week we take on a new possible future. Every episode we start with a little trip into that

future to see what's going on.

Then we come back to now and talk to a few experts about how they think that future

might really go down.

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This week we're going to the year 2065. You work out, you ain't right, you take care of your body. All because you want to be the best you can be.

But why stop there? Thanks to new breakthroughs in technology, we can be even better.

Let me show you what I mean.

This is Susie.

Susie looks like a totally normal American woman, but Susie is even better than that.

She's got a chip in her hand that can unlock doors, pay for coffee, and even send messages to her cell phone.

And this is Jim. Smile when you talk to Jim. He's got a camera

implanted in his eye. You can't even see it, but it can see you. Jim never misses the perfect photo

opportunity.

Soon boys and girls it will be time for you to pick your extras.

You've got a lot of choices and it's important to do your homework on what you want to add.

Remember, everybody gets two bonus features, talk to your

parents, your coaches, and your health teachers about what extras might be right for

you. You want to be the best and soon you'll be even better.

So we've gone 50 years into the future and every high school student gets to pick two types of body modifications,

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