What it used to be. As mo rocca will show us in our cover story. Reporter the world of the future was supposed to be gleaming, fast, full of possibility. I grew up expecting to live on the moon, to be able to travel in rockets. I was going to be an astronaut. Reporter it didnt exactly turn out that way. Where is my flying car . We were promised flying cars. Reporter ahead on sunday morning, yesterdays vision of tomorrow. Osgood start with a drawing in just two dimensions. Add the next dimension and what do you have . A futuristic form of printing that can quite literally change our lives. Serena altschul will show us how it works. Reporter 3d printing. Its a new way of manufacturing thats been used to make everything from toy tractors to electric cars. Now researchers are using 3d printing to engineer human tissue. The whole process of printing is completed within about 15 minutes or so. Reporter 15 minutes for an ear. 15 minutes for an ear. Reporter wow. From new treatments for cancer to some day new organs, your future may be a matter of in some very fine print. Ahead on sunday morning, printing the human body. Osgood our planet faces a troubled future or so actor jeremy irons believes. He intends to shock us into action as well be hearing from tracy smith. Youre a very strange man. Have no idea. Reporter oscarmining actor jeremy irons is used to making us cringe. Waste is everywhere at everincreasing levels. Reporter but his latest film about our global garbage problem might be the most cringe worthy yet. Trash mountain. Well over 40 meters in height. Reporter ahead on sunday morning, a chat with jeremy irons about how were trashing our future. And you have no idea. Osgood we earthlings have long wondered, is anybody out there . Now at long last scientists are hoping theyre on the verge of an answer. Theyll be sharing what theyve learned so far with barry pederson. Reporter have you ever looked up into the night sky and wondered, are we really alone . In 2009, nasa launched a telescope into space to answer that question. Actual eye astounding what we can do. Reporter what have they found . Sometimes science informs Science Fiction and sometimes Science Fiction informs science, right . Reporter ahead on sunday morning we join the hunt with sign tiffs asking, is anybody else out there . Osgood to sample life in the future all you needed was to meet the jetsons. Or so they had tv audiences believing a half a century ago. This morning lee cowan puts the cartoon promise to the test. Reporter its impossible to talk about the future without talking about one very familiar family. The jetsons supposedly lived in the year 2062, some 50 years from now on the calendar. But in many ways, its still worlds away. Its something that is not jal tick but is also still very futuristic for us. Tickets, tickets. Reporter our jetsonian expectations later on sunday morning. This is more like it. Osgood well have those stories and much more. First lets go to don dahler in the news room for the sunday morning headlines. Good morning. Here are the headlines for sunday, july 14, 2013. Not guilty was the verdict reached last night by a jury of six women in the trial involving the death of florida teenager trayvon martin. Martin, who was unarmed, was shot to death in an altercation with neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman back in february of 2012. Correspondent Mark Strassman reports from sanford florida on the verdict and the reaction. Please be seated. Reporter jurors reached this moment after 16 hours of deliberation. We the jury find George Zimmerman not guilty. Reporter not guilty of murder and not guilty of manslaughter. The jury of six women agreed prosecutors had not proved their case beyond a reasonable doubt. Zimmerman took hands with his lawyers. Behind them in the gallery his wife shelly went. Trayvon martins parents were not in the courtroom when the verdict was read. Outside the courthouse 100 demonstrators reacted bitterly. Most of them wanted a murder conviction. People also protested the verdict as far away as San Francisco. Since zimmerman shot the unarmed teenager 17 months ago, this racially charged case and its claim of selfdefense have divided American Public opinion. Mark omara is one of zimmermans defense lawyers. Obviously we are ecstatic with the results. George zimmerman was never guilty of anything except protecting himself in selfdefense. Im glad that the jury saw it that way. Prosecutors looked ashen after the verdict was read. The state prosecutor. It boils down you have a 17yearold kid who is minding his own business wearing a hoody and gets accosted, gets followed by an individual who wants to be a cop. Reporter tracy martin, the teenagers father tweeted his reaction. Even though i am broken hearted my faith is unshatterd. I will always love my baby tray. Don . Mark strassman. Actor Cory Monteith was found dead yesterday in a Vancouver Hotel room. Still no word on a cause of death. Monteith was 31. Texas governor rick perry hell sign a new restrictive abortion bill into law and claims it will withstand court challenges. Texas state Senate Approved the bill this weekend. It prohibits abortion after 20 weeks and places new limits on doctors and abortion facilities. A sixyearold buried under 11 feet of sand in indiana on friday is said to be responsive and is expected to survive. The boy was playing at a do you know on the Lake Michigan shore when it collapsed. It took rescuers more than three hours to dig him out. The child was found within an air pocket in the sand. Now the forecast. Most of us should expect typical july warmth with storms likely in the southeast and the plains. The week ahead will bring more midsummer heat as well as monsoonlike rains out west. Osgood next. Imagine how wonderful it would be to live in a house like this. Osgood the future, a short history. What was a sandy beach. Osgood and later, jeremy irons. Has been replace,,,,, osgood yesterdays tomorrow was a wondrous place, full of amazing gaj hes and technologies to change our lives. Well, aate lot of the things we expected did happen, but there are also things that happend that we never expected at all. Our cover story is reported now by mo rocca. The world of tomorrow trains zooming coast to coast via vacuum tube. Gleaming cities in the sky. And of course flying cars. That was what the future was supposed to hold for us. I grew up expecting to live on the moon, to be able to travel in rockets. I was going to be an astronaut. When 2001 came out, there was a future that looked really possible. 30odd years we could probably have space stations and passenger liners run by pan am. Reporter pan am doesnt exist anymore. All his life writer and illustrator ron miller dreamed of exploring space. We were going to build a resort on mars. Reporter hes had to settle for imagining it. Mars has the wonderful tornadoes. I feel in a way i was promised this future. But it has never paid off. Theres a great big beautiful tomorrow shining at the end of every day the fair was a fair of the space age. Reporter architectural historian got his first glimpse of that big, bright beautiful world of tomorrow when he was five years old and visited the 1964 worlds fair in new york. So church like. He took us into the fairs hall of science. Youre five years old and all your circuits are firing. Of course. Its like i want to live in this future. Reporter a future that was already happening. Which rock is this . This is the rocket that launched the mercury program. We were literally on our way by the Second Season of the fair in 1965 men had walked in space so we were seeing progress each year. Reporter this was almost proof that the future was possible. Absolutely. Reporter 50 years on, a lot of the fairs predicts didnt pan out. Though it must be said all those log owes were a sign of things to come. The one thing that the worlds to come. The one thing that the worlds fair definitely got right about the future is the dominating impact of corporate sponsorship. It did. Reporter but wait a minute. We still dont have flying cars. We get this all the time. You know, where is my flying car . We were promised flying cars. Reporter the editor in chief of Popular Mechanics said we could have flying cars right now. But the better question is do we want them . Its such a great fantasy. Its such a cool idea. Theres a company trying to sell some today that work. The problem is that cars and planes are so different. So what you wind up with is a terrible plane that, once you land and try to drive around is a terrible car. Reporter Popular Mechanics has been predicting the future for 111 years now. A lot of the times they nailed it. In 1954 the magazine predicted the flat screen tv. It took a long time but we finally got it. Reporter but a lot of times they didnt nail it. Vacuum tubepowered trains. I mean thats pretty cool. That you could get from new york to San Francisco in an hour. A great idea. It would be insanely expensive to build the infrastructure to do it. Reporter then theres the future where nothing ever happened. Imagine how wonderful it would be to live in a house like this. The house of the future where everything was more or less plastic. Everything could be hosed down for convenience. Reporter you know what i always wanted to happen. You saw it in the cartoons. The little pill where you just put water on it and it goes exploding into a big turkey dirn. Some of these predictions feel like they were conceived by the Warner Brothers animation team. A lot of things were conceived by Science Fiction writers. Look up there. The albatross. A fantasy come to life. Reporter in the 1880s, jules verne wrote a novel about a propellerdriven air ship. A little kid named i gsm or sikorkski read it. He said, howe, i want to go up and build a machine just like this. Reporter yes. He grew up to build a helicopter. Another jules verne classic from the earth to the moon. The symbol of founders, of modern astronautics, they all said or they became interested in rocketry and the possibility of flying into space because they read jules vernes book when they were kids. Reporter and theres the remarkable case of murray. His 1946 short story imagined a twoway television with a keyboard. You would use that to get news, communicate with your neighbors, and use its for research. Reporter sounds like the internet. Precisely. Reporter he also predicted that this technological wonder would have disastrous repercussions. A person could learn the best way to murder his wife or how to build a bomb. The world of tomorrow, as most Science Fiction writers see it, is a pretty scary place. More distoppia than utopia. Most utopias are boring. Distopia has to be interesting. In a utopia, everything is already solved. This is like an infomercial. Exactly. Looking back, does it seem that people were more optimistic about the future than they are now . Sometimes they were a little optimistic in the past and too pessimistic today. Disease has fealen around the world dramatically. You know, the cards we drive, the homes we live in are so much more efficient and safer and more capable. But we tend to really romanticize the past and ka at that time throw fiez the present. The comic is a great routine. Flying one. Isnt that great . I had to sit on the runway for 40 minutes. Oh, my god. Really . What happened then . Did you fly through the air like a bird . I had to pay for my sandwich. Youre flying youre sitting in a chair in the sky. People take Amazing Things for granted like my phone is so slow. Its like, wait. Your phone is connecting you to the entire world. Reporter without a cord and youre walking down the street. Osgood ahead. It looks like a childs ear. Absolutely. Osgood . The next dimension. [ laughter ] smoke . Nah, im good. [ male announcer ] celebrate every win with nicoderm cq. Nicoderm cq is the unique patch that helps prevent the urge to smoke all day long. Double your chances of quitting with nicoderm cq. That helps prevent the urge to smoke all day long. Every day were working to and to keep our commitments. And weve made a big commitment to america. Bp supports nearly 250,000 jobs here. Through all of our energy operations, we invest more in the u. S. Than any other place in the world. In fact, weve invested over 55 billion here in the last five years making bp americas Largest Energy investor. Our commitment has never been stronger. The next dimension in printing. Instead of just two dimensions we can now print in three. Revolutionizing manufacturing and helping people in some astonishing ways. Heres serena altschul. Reporter meet claire. Shes your typical threeyearold except claire was born without a right ear. And she could be among the first recipients of one of medicines most cuttingedge technologies, bioprinting. Bioprinting is the latest form of 3d printing. Imagine using a home printer but instead of working in just two dimensions, this printer creates in three dimensions. A nozzle lays down a stream of plastic, metal or ceramic, layer after layer it slowly forms an object. Everything from toys to cars. Even human tissue. If you think of any tissue in the body, its this intricate combination of cells and matrix in just the right particular order. So the idea with bioprinting is that we can impart that organization right from the start. To give this like jello that you might make in your kitchen. Reporter recently lawrence, an associate professor of Biomedical Engineering at cornell university, astonished the world when he printed an actual living human ear. The whole process of printing is completed within about 15 minutes or so. Reporter 15 minutes for an ear. 15 minutes for an ear. Reporter wow, just order one up. The printer deposits layers of living cells forming the shape of a small ear. Within minutes the cells begin to grow and bind to one another. This is one that we have grown in an incubator in the lab for a couple of months actually. Reporter oh, my gosh. Its really clearly. Reporter it looks like a childs ear. Absolutely. Reporter when the ear is finally implanted underneath the skin, it will actually grow like a normal ear. Currently the printed ears are an animal trials. Oh, my gosh, it has the real feel of tissue. He modeled his ear after his daughters ears with the hopes of treating children born without one or both ears, a rare condition. Right now, the best treatment is sculpting rib cage cartilage into an ear. Claires mom, kim, has been considering the procedure for her daughter. They obviously have to take out rib cartilage from her chest. It can be up to six surgeries and its painful. Reporter for now de vein tries to hide claires missing ear but shes hopeful for the promise of bioprinting. If her hair is down you wouldnt notice her ears really. Shes lucky. I wouldnt put her through painful surgeries if iblgd. If it was five years. Reporter she may not have to wait that long. A Company Based in san diego is already printing human blood vessels and other tissues for drug research. Their printer, the first commercial bioprinter, is being used in labs across the country like these at the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health and science university. Theres a camera right here. Reporter professor is printing identical Breast Cancer tumors. Each tumor will be treated with a different drug. This will allow us to actually in realtime get a biopsy from a patients tumor. Then we can load the printer with the different cell types and actually reprint the persons tissue and then in realtime within a week be able to test it and see what it responds to. Reporter seers thinks within a year the printer could be used to help figure out which drug can best target an individuals cancer, leading to customized and successful cancer treatment. Im really real hell excited about this because it could revolutionize how we do personalized medicine and treatment. Reporter and she isnt the only one excited. People are very interested in this for things like alzheimers and parkinsons as well as motor defects of the spinal cord. Printing is a potentially Blockbuster Development because patterning the cells in a way that makes that the body needs to pattern is is real hell critical. This is a fantastic tool to be able to do that. Reporter from new treatments for cancer to some day new organs, your future may be a matter of some very fine print. Osgood coming up, the shape of things to come. In the nation, sometimes bad things happen. But add brand new belongings from nationwide insurance and we wont just give you the partial value of items that are stolen or destroyed. Well replace them with brandnew versions. So you wont feel robbed. Again. Just another way we put members first. Because we dont have shareholders. Join the nation. Nationwide is on your side chalky. Not chalky. Temporary. 24 hour. Lots of tablets. One pill. You decide. Prevent acid with prevacid 24hr. You decide. 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I didnt mean to say youre scwat at all but youre not squat like he is. Youre not as robust in the rib cage as he is. Reporter these changes are the result of a process called natural selection. The key force in evolution. Its the way our genes increase the odds of survival of the species. Passing on desirable traits from parent to child. It helps explain how humans gain the upper hand over the neanderthals who came before us. Steve sterns is a