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FUTURE FACTS

Hologram rock stars. Extraterrestrial data farms. The coming decades promise startling innovations—and new problems too

THE MALE PILL

The Pill may not be just for women soon. The U.S. National Institutes of Health is set to test male-hormone-halting gel that’s rubbed onto the back and shoulders.

POSTDEATH PERFORMANCE CONTRACTS

A holographic image of Roy Orbison, who died in 1988, toured in 2018. Amy Winehouse (died 2011) and Frank Zappa

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