Enter the year you were born. We'll show the breakthroughs our odds say are likely, and how old you'll be when each one arrives.
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How to read this. "Likely" means our odds that it has happened, counting the chance the science fails, pass 50% by that year. "Possible" means they pass 25%. The percentage beside each one is our honest estimate that it works at all. "Furthest so far" is the strongest real result to date. Medical breakthroughs assume digital patients (computer copies of people used to test drugs) arrive on our likely schedule, around 2033; tick the box above to see the timeline without them. These are our estimates from public reporting, dated and logged, never promises.