Clinton:   We just need to be imagining the future, thinking about all the problems
as well as all the opportunities, and then prepare.  Society always has problems, there are always misfortunes, but basically, I believe the future is quite promising and far more exciting than any period in history.  I wish I were going to live to be 150; I'd love to see what happens.

Rose:   Would you like to be cloned?

Clinton:  I wouldn't wish that on anybody.  (Laughter.)

Rose:   There is this thing, too.  I mean, think about Chelsea's children, your grandchildren, say the year 2050, whatever the appropriate time might be.  What's this world going to look like?  Is it going to be more interesting, more challenging?  How will we travel, what kind of food will we eat, will we go to other planets?

Clinton:   I think we'll be eating food that's like what we eat now.  I think it will be safer.  I think we'll know a lot more about it, even safer than it is now.  I think that in big, urban areas, I think we'll still have our love affairs with cars.  I think they will be much more safe.  They'll be made of composite materials that are much more resistant to wrecks, and I think where there is a lot of heavy traffic, I think that we'll all travel by a computerized plan.

I also think there will be a lot more rapid rail transit, I think it will be safer, it will be better, and I think we'll be able to do things while we travel and spend more time.  I think we will go into outer space, and at sometime in the next century, I think there will be large, permanent platforms sustaining life in outer space that will basically be jumping off places to distant planets and maybe even beyond.  

I think that biomedical advances will be stunning.  I think a lot of cancers will be cured.  I think there will be a vaccine for AIDS.  I think that the research in the human gene and the revolution --  the continuing revolution in microchips will enable people to probably cure spinal cord injuries by having a programmed chip that goes into the spine and replicates all the nerves that were damaged.  I think that it will be a fascinating time.