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NBC sold its commercial time to a sole sponsor--Pfizer advertised Celebrex--so it was able to increase its newshole by four minutes. It used the extra time for futurism: a three-part look at The Year 2017 focusing on urban planning, healthcare and biometrics. Tom Costello predicted that scans of our fingerprints and our eyes will be so precise that they will activate everything from security clearances to door locks to financial transactions and customize consumer choices for us. Nancy Snyderman whirled us through future medicine: what diseases will be cured; how we will be diagnosed; how surgery will be performed; how stem cells will regenerate us. Jennifer London predicted that the cities of the next decade will be built around the retirement needs of babyboomers: suburbs will be out of favor and pedestrianized mixed-use downtowns will be all the rage.
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