Epilogue

Wheelan proposed seven questions that are worth thinking about now because they will affect the way that life is lived in 2050. The questions have to do with things from productivity, to how the people in poverty will live. The question that stuck out to me was the second to last one where Wheelan asks if the poor countries will still be poor in four decades. He contrasts this question, which has an ambiguous answer, with the fact that even though we have no cure for cancer we won't stop searching to find it. The question, he feels, needs to be broken down into smaller questions about exactly how these countries will achieve success. When this is done the answers seem simpler to answer and more possible to achieve.