Robert Boyle's 1660s document predicts the 21st century

Wrote Charity Brown in today's Washington Post, "In the 1660s, English chemist Robert Boyle wrote an extraordinary document [above], a combination of wish list and predictions of what science might achieve in the coming centuries. Found in his private papers, the list is a centerpiece of the exhibition "The Royal Society: 350 Years of Science," running until November at the society's headquarters in London."

"Boyle -- who was a founder of the society, the world's oldest scientific academy in continuous existence -- seems to have envisioned airplanes, organ transplants, submarines, commercial agriculture and psychotropic drugs. Some wishes, such as 'The Recovery of Youth, or at least some of the marks of it, as new Teeth, new Hair colour'd as in youth,' seem to have come true, while others, such as 'The Transmutation of Species,' remain unfulfilled."

Below,

samples from Boyle's list.