What If?
A tale of two cities: June 2041
What if a deadly heatwave hit India?
Why Hyderabad is weathering India’s deadly heatwave so much better than Chennai. An imagined scenario from 2041
iHealthy: September 2028
What if smartphones became personal health assistants?
The latest model of Apple’s iconic iPhone is built around health-monitoring features. An imagined scenario from 2028
Rage against the machine: December 2036
What if an AI won the Nobel prize for medicine?
Controversy ensues when the greatest prize in medical research is awarded to a non-human. An imagined scenario from 2036
Mrs Chippy’s benediction: February 2055
What if marmosets lived on the Moon?
A primate colony set up to explore one fundamental aspect of the human condition has ended up illuminating another. An imagined scenario from 2055
Freedom to tinker: October 2029
What if biohackers injected themselves with mRNA?
Members of the Witnesses of Bioinformatic Freedom, a biohacking-rights group, demand the right to alter their own biology. An imagined scenario from 2029
Germ of an idea
What if germ theory had caught on sooner?
The idea that tiny micro-organisms could cause disease was embraced only in the 19th century. But it could have been discovered sooner
Novel treatments: August 2050
What if dementia was preventable and treatable?
How behavioural changes and new therapies turned the tide against dementia. An imagined scenario from 2050
The other epidemic: June 2025
What if America tackled its opioid crisis?
Kamala Harris’s administration is getting serious about tackling deaths from drug overdoses. It is a problem with deep roots. An imagined scenario from 2025
You are what you eat: January 2035
What if everyone’s nutrition was personalised?
How the mass adoption of personalised nutrition is changing people’s health—and the food industry. An imagined scenario from 2035