2013 Prediction: Asia Takes Two Routes To Space

China and India have different ambitions in space, but missions from both countries will help us better understand the cosmos. Science and technology have utterly transformed human life in the past few generations, and forecasts of the future used to be measured in decades. But big changes arrive faster and faster these days. So here we've shifted our forecast to the near-term, because we're right on the verge of some extraordinary stuff. These are the trends and events to watch out for in 2013....