it turns out the future is not what it used to be, as mo rocca will show us in our cover story. >> reporter: the world to 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 didn't exactly turn out that way. >> where is my flying car? we were promisedded flying cars. >> reporter: ahead on sunday morning, yesterday's vision of tomorrow. >> osgood: drawing in just two dimensions and add the next dimension and what do you have? a futuristic form of printing that could quite literally change our lives. serena altschul will show us how it works. >> reporter: 3-d printing. it's a new way of manufacturing that's been used to make everything from toy tractors to electric cars. now researchers are using 3-d 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: from new treatments for cancer to some day new organs, your future may be a matter of 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 we'll be hearing from tracy smith. >> you're a very strange man. have no idea. oscar-winning actor jeremy irons is used to making us cringe. >> waist is everywhere at ever-increasing 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 we're trashing our future. >> and you have no idea. osgood: we earthlings have long wondered is anybody out there? at long last scientists are hoping they're on the verge of an answer. they'll be sharing what they've learned so far with barry pederson. >> 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. >> it's actually astounding what we can do. >> reporter: so 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 scientists 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: it's 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 it's still worlds away. >> it's something that is nostalgic but is also still very futuristic for us. >> reporter: our jetsonian expectations later on sunday morning. >> this is more like it. osgood: we'll have those stories and much more. first let's go to don dahler in the news room for the sunday morning headlines. >> good morning. it's april 28, 2013. this morning in rome, a gunman shot two police officers outside the italian premiere's office. it happened as a man was being sworn in just a few blocks ay. one man has been arrested. not long after dropping charges against one suspect the f.b.i. has arrested one of his acquaintances in connection with the ricin-tainted letters sent to the president and others. agents arrested j everett dutschke yesterday. he'll be arraigned in federal court tomorrow. u.s. officials say russian authorities have shared information about a conversation they recorded between the now dead boston bombing suspect and his mother. in which he vaguely discussed the subject jihad. four days after that factory collapse in bangladesh the search for survivors goes on. nine more people were found alive in the rubble today, but hundreds are still listed as missing with nearly 400 dead. the building's owners and four employees are facing charges. supreme court justice stephen breyer is spending the weekend in a washington hospital after a bicycle fall. he underwent shoulder replacement surgery yesterday. justice breyer who is 74 is expected to make a full recovery. at the annual white house correspondents dinner in washington last night, conan o'brien got plenty of laughs but so did the president. one came when he unveils a new look for his second term. >> and my team and i talked about it. we were willing to try anything so we borrowed one of michelle's tricks. >> that's a good look. here's today's weather. sunny in the northeast and out west. rainy elsewhere. and the week ahead will bring more storms along with a general cooldown for most of the country. >> osgood: next... imagine how wonderful it would be to live in a house like this. >> osgood: the future throughout history. >> what was a sandy beach diana. osgood: and later jeremy irons. >> ... has been r,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >> osgood: yesterday's tomorrow was a wondrous place full of amazing gadgets and technology that could change our lives. well, a lot of the things we expected did happen. but there are also things that happened that we never expected at all. our cover story is reported now by mo rocca. >> reporter: the world of tomorrow. trains zooming coast to coast by a 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. between 2001 came out. there was a future that looked really possible. in 30-odd years we could probably have space stations and passenger liners run by pan am. >> reporter: pan am doesn't exist anymore. all his life writer and illustrator ron miller dreamed all his life writer and illustrator ron miller dreamed of exploring space. >> we're going to build a resort on mars. >> reporter: he's had to settle for imagining it. >> mars has the wonderful tornadoes. i feel i was promised this future but it has never paid off. >> there's a great big beautiful tomorrow. ♪ shining at the the end of everyday ♪ >> 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 world's fair in new york. >> it was sort of church like. is. reporter: he took us into the fair's hall of science. you're five years old and all your circuits are firing. >> of course. it's like i want to live in this future. >> reporter: a future that was already happening. >> which rocket is this? this is the rocket that launched the mercury program. we're literally on our way by the second season in 1965 men had walked in space so we were seeing progress each year. >> this is almost proof that the future was possible. >> absolutely. reporter: 50 years on, a lot of the fair's predictions didn't pan out though it must be said all those logos were a sign of things to come. the one thing that the world's fair definitely got right about the future is the dominating impact of corporate sponsorship. >> it did. reporter: but wait a minute. we still don't have flying cars. >> we get this all the time. where is my flying car? we were promised flying car cars. >> reporter: the editor in chief of popular mechanics says we could have flying cars right now but the better question is, do we want them? >> it's such a great fantasy and such a cool idea. various ones have been built over the years. there's a company trying to sell some today that work. the problem is that cars and planes are so different. 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 didn't nail it. mail delivery by parachute. isn't that aol? >> really cool. very, very early days of airmail people thought well why shouldn't this go right to your house? again, more or less feasible if crazy, vacuum-tube-powered trains. i mean that's 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 there's the future where lucky never 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. you know what i always wanted to happen? you always saw it in the cartoon is the little pill where you just water on it and it goes into a big turkey dinner? 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 propeller-driven air ship. >> little kid named igor sikorski read it. he said i want to grow up and build a machine just like this. >> reporter: he grew up to build a helicopter. another jules verne classic? from the earth to the moon. >> the founders of modern astronautics, robert goddard, von brown, they all said they became interested in rocketry and the possibility of flying into space because they read jules verne's book when they were kids. >> reporter: then there's the remarkable case of murray, whose 1946 short story imagined a two-way television with a keyboard. >> you would use that to get news, communicate with your neighbors and use it 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 dystopia than utopia. >> oaft utopias are born. dystopias have to be more interesting. in utopia everything is already solved. >> reporter: utopias are kind of like infomercials. >> exactly. reporter: looking back, does it seem that people were more optimistic about the future than they are now? >> i think sometimes they were a little too optimistic in the past and they're too pessimistic today. life expectancy has gone up. disease has fallen around the world dramatically. the cars we drive, the homes we live in are so much more efficient and safer and more... but we tend to really romanticize the past and catastrophize the present. >> reporter: the comic has a great routine... >> the flying one. isn't 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. you're flying. you're sitting in a chair in the sky. >> people take amazing things for granted. like my phone is so slow. it's like wait. your phone is connecting you to the entire world. >> reporter: without a cord and you're walking down the street. >> osgood: ahead. it looks like a child's ear. osgood: absolutely. the next dimension. the soreness was excruciating. it was impossible to even think about dancing. when you're dancing, your partner is holding you. so, his hand would have been right in the spot that i had the shingles. no tango. no rhumba. you can't be touched. for more of the inside story, visit shinglesinfo.com with lively colombian. it's a morning breeze smooth as black silk. with folgers gourmet selections k-cup packs you can turn any day gourmet. rich roasts and flavors... available where you buy groceries. gives you 1% cash back on all purchases, plus a 50% annual bonus. and everyone but her... no. no! no. ...likes 50% more cash. but i don't give up easy... do you want 50% more cash? 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>> i think the neanderthal will probably take you down, but i that i that as soon as the humans in the area found out about that, they would ghettoing and three or four of them would gang up on the neanderthal. >> reporter: are we still evolving? are genes going to change in the coming years? >> absolutely. reporter: it's the evolution of genes shaped by the world around us that will sculpt the human being of tomorrow. take, for example, the ease of global travel. it's already broken barriers when it comes to selecting a mate. de sal says over time that means racial differences will lessen. >> your descendents are probably going to have darker skin, darker eyes. they're h there probably will still be a lot of variation in our facial features. >> reporter: blondes and redheads might become endangered species. signs of evolution are also evident in the human jaw. our jaws are smaller now that we no longer need to chew through tough nuts and roots. and then there's our hair. millions of years ago long before our forebearers wore clothing, hair was essential insulation. some day we're likely to have less of it. especially if sexual selection dictates that hairless men and women are more attractive. >> could there be a little shift towards us being a little wimpier? >> i would imagine that that shift probably happened over the last 5,000, 10,000 years. >> and stearns says as our world continues to evolve, we morph along with it. >> culture changes so quickly. if you were to go back to, say, 1920 and ask anybody, are you going to predict computers? are you going to predict i-pads, nobody would have any idea of that. >> progress that is both a blessing and a curse. >> i think it may be impairing our memory because we delegate so much to it that we used to have to remember. >> on the other hand since we don't have to remember so much, maybe our brains will evolve into other areas. so you think in the future we'll be more emotionally intelligent than we are now. >> i would certainly hope so. humans are going to change genetically to be able to interact with each other better in a social context because we've only started to do that. there hasn't been very much time to adapt to being social. it's a movie. we're in the middle of the plot. >> reporter: do you have any sense how the plot ends? >> 99.9% of all species on the planet are extinct. >> reporter: but there's plenty of time to beat the odds and think about what comes next. in your wildest imagination, have you ever fantasized about where we might be headed? >> oh, i have thought a lot about whether we could become men-machine hybrids. >> reporter: what do you think? to a certain extent we already are. our problem is not how to acquire information but how to make sense of it. >> reporter: to process that information that person will have an evolutionary advantage. >> they'll certainly have technological advantage. i think whether or not it translates into a evolutionary advantage it depends on what women like. >> reporter: you hope they like nerds for that person's sake. >> i think they'll still like people who win hockey games. >> reporter: there will always be a combination of brain and brawn. >> yes. reporter: and hopefully with a pinch of emotional intelligence. >> right and perhaps somebody who is a good cook. >> osgood: still to come, we google eric schmidt. and later, is anybody out there? , >> the future is is now. fast forward with sunday morning. here again is charles osgood. >> osgood: connecting us with each other in ever newer ways is the quest of all of our high-tech wizards. on the list of those innovators you will find the google guy who recently played host to our rita braver. >> welcome to google. thank you so much. is is our new york building. we have roughly 3,000 people. >> reporter: he's considered one of the most influential architects of the internet. after a dozen years helping build google where he's now executive chairman into an international powerhouse. >> this is the original i.b.m. personal computer. >> reporter: but at 58 eric schmidt still remembers struggling with the original i.b.m. personal computer some 0 years ago. >> it used little floppy disks that went in here that were always breaking. to give you an idea your computer, the one that you have on your phone is about 100,000 times more powerful and has about a million times more disk storage than this. >> reporter: and these dinosaurs now on view in google's new york offices are a reminder of how quickly technology can change. schmidt says in the future we'll do most of our computing on our mobile devices with apps that offer a new range of services. >> they'll make suggestions to you. they'll say, eric, you're in your office. you should be working. or it's lunchtime. or you're walking down the street and it will say, eric, you need new parents. the pants on the left store are cheaper than the ones on the right store. >> reporter: google is already working on a new generation of cars that can drive themselves. and schmidt predicts many more advances. in the bookies just cowritten, the new digital age. >> these are the voyages of the star ship enterprise. >> reporter: example: devices like something out of a science fiction show that brings three-dimensional sounds and images right into a room. >> exit. reporter: you're telling us that things like a hollodeck from star trek will really occur in our lifetime. >> with your we are mission what will happen is these digital devices will have a memory of where you were and what you did. you'll go into the room and recreate that memory around you because the visuals will be there, the video is there. you'll have that tremendous feeling of where you were and what you do. in our book we talk about there will be devices that you can send to the concert to watch the concert for you while you're sitting at home taking care of the kids. you'll have the same experience and with that technology you can feel the pounding, right, as you're sitting in your living room. >> reporter: but there is a down side to the new digital age as well. schmidt predicts we will all have to work harder to guard our personal information from identity theft as crooks get savvier. >> when we first started building the internet we didn't even have passwords because we trusted everybody. we never figured that criminals would show up on the internet. can we just get rid of them now? >> reporter: even more troublesome is the scenario he paints for nations, a future where virtual armies become as important as real ones to cope with a new era of permanent cyber warfare which he says the chinese are already waging. >> there's evidence that china is busy stealing the intellectual property of american firms to help compete with them. there's also evidence that they're stealing into our government, our newspapers and so forth, for various human rights violations and other things. >> reporter: is there anything that can be done about this? i mean it's ongoing. >> it's always going to happen. and the best thing to do is to strengthen your defenses. i worry about the u.s. government because it's so large and many of its computers are down-rev. >> reporter: what does that mean? >> not up to date. reporter: as for the issue of china and other countries like north korea, which schmidt recently visited, locking... blocking their own citizens from using the internet, schmidt believes people will find ways to get online. >> people are incredibly ingenius but it will take special techniques. these people are hungry for information and empowerment. >> reporter: and as the hunt for boston bombers showed the world of digital technology will increasingly provide new methods for tracking terrorists. >> google is a different culture. >> reporter: on google's roof top deck where you can see the new world trade center going up, schmidt reflected on how much things have changed. >> two of my good friends died in the world trade center. to me the rebuilding of the world trade center is a symbol of renewal. i often wonder in the '90s if we had the tools and techniques today, would we have seen it? would the computers have seen the patterns and the way that we didn't then? art and eric schmidt believes that technology and the way we use it has the ability to make us safer in the future. >> my message is that if we're all connected and we're all sort of paying attention, we can see this. we can get ahead of this. i really do believe that. >> osgood: coming up... this is thomas jefferson's library. this is thomas jefferson's library. >> osgood: dists a collection like none other. t e... i tuned it all out. with unitedhealthcare, i get information that matters... my individual health profile. not random statistics. they even reward me for addressing my health risks. so i'm doing fine... but she's still going to give me a heart attack. we're more than 78,000 people looking out for more than 70 million americans. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. from the united states postal service a small jam maker can ship like a big business. just go online to pay, print and have your packages picked up for free. we'll do the rest. ♪ [ female announcer ] real fruit flavors. real tea leaves. and real honey. lipton tea & honey, it's all here. ♪ feel the refreshing taste of lipton tea & honey. >> osgood: saving books and other cultural items for posterity is what the library of congress is all about. and the many ways it now does so is the story martha teichner has to tell. >> reporter: the difference between carol and the rest of the thicket of photographers in washington clicking away at the cherry blossoms is that her images will be preserved for posterity. >> things are changing. for the good and the better. it's important to catch that. now, do i know what will be important? no, i don't. i'm clueless. can you go anywhere without automatically taking pictures? >> no, no. reporter: she is at work on a decades-long project photographing all 50 states and the district of columbia. her pictures -- thousands of them -- are going to the library of congress free for anyone to use. >> people are using my images now. i want them to. but i'm not living for today. i'm really living for 100 years from now. >> reporter: which is exactly what the library of congress is about. preserving the past and the present... for the future. it is the largest library in the world. walk in and prepare to be in awe. there is a gutenberg bible in perfect condition. a draft of the gettysburg address in lincoln's handwriting. the earliest map with the name "america" printed on it from 1507. the library contains more than 155 million items bounded... founded in 1800 for members of congress to use. >> this is thomas jefferson's library. >> reporter: the library bought thomas jefferson's books nearly 6500 of them after its original collection was burned by the british in the the war of 1812. >> we pull volumes from this collection between 15 and 20 times a week. it's still heavily in use. >> reporter: one of the most requested, according to communications director gail osterberg, is jefferson's koran. >> you can see it was published in 1764. >> reporter: may i touch it? wow. it's just astonishing to be touching a book that belonged to thomas jefferson. >> it's extraordinary. reporter: anybody 16 or older can get a library card. but you can't leave the building with any of its 35 million books, nearly 14 million photographs, or more than three million sound recordings. to name just some of what's here. >> you save... you say what-if, of fundamental importance is the best version you can. and what you save, you have to save very broadly. >> so help me god. reporter: the librarian of congress is appointed for life. james billington has held the position since 1987. >> you've got to preserve the value of the book culture even as you embrace the new possibilities of the digital culture. >> reporter: so on the library's registry of significant films, you'll find the first screen kiss, and just added, the matrix. the library is currently archiving 176 billion twitter postings. ♪ i'm a jolly old fellow way back in new england where apples and peaches and pumpkins... ♪ >> reporter: what was cutting-edge recording technology in the 1880s... ♪... the same i would... >> reporter: is being saved by cutting-edge computer technology today. meet irene. an amazing 3-d scanner, one of only two in the world. irene can read what's on a fragile cylinder or even a broken record. and without ever touching it recreate the sound. among the nearly 38 million items from the library, now available free online, there is this. >> my grandfather belonged to thomas jefferson. >> reporter: a recording of former slave fountain hughes. >> we belonged to people. they sell us like they sell horses and cows. >> reporter: made when he was 101. >> this picture was taken in 1936. >> reporter: one of the most popular downloads is dorothea lang's photograph migrant mother. >> she's 32. looks 50. reporter: it has come to symbolize the great depression. >> it really is the face of a period of time. >> reporter: but who knew when the picture was taken. two weeks after carol highsmith photographed the mascot of the texas state fair, he burned down. >> what's important to me is to record america during my lifetime so that many, many years from now, we can see what we looked like so we have a sense of who we are. >> osgood: ahead, a blast from th,,,,,,,, sleep train's interest-free for 3 event ends sunday! it's your last chance to get 3 years interest-free financing on beautyrest black, stearns & foster, serta icomfort, even tempur-pedic. plus, get free delivery and sleep train's 100-day low price guarantee. but hurry, sleep train's interest-free for 3 event ends sunday! superior service, best selection, lowest price, guaranteed! ♪ sleep train ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ >> osgood: time now to meet the jetsons or meet them again in the case of anyone who watches them on tv over the past 50-plus years. as lee cowan tells us, they raised our hopes for the future and raised our expectations as well. >> we're on the ranch which is like... >> reporter: in the shadow of its iconic water tower at the heart of warner brothers studios, the future is already more than 50 years old. >> these are very old, original story boards from the jetsons series. >> reporter: there in faded pencil is that ever-familiar futuristic family from the 21st century. ♪ meet george jetson >> reporter: everything about the jetsons. ♪ his boy elroy >> reporter: is space age cool. in 1962 when it first debuted it all seemed oddly possible, from suits to make us fly to colonies on the moon. >> moon-hattan hilton hotel. reporter: even pneumatic tube transport. >> these three-day workweeks are murder. >> reporter: the jetsonian future theoretically the year 2062, seemed full of promise. just ask matt novak. >> everything from board games to, you've got lunch boxes and little trinkets of all kinds. >> reporter: he's a self-described jetsonologist. it was just a cartoon. >> that's the thing. it is just a cartoon. i totally understand that and recognize it. but as a par deshow i think it's important. >> reporter: he analyzed all 24 episodes from the original series for smithsonian magazine, making the case that despite it being a half a century old, the jetsons still set the bar for what we expect. >> one soft boiled egg. reporter: the jetsons represent sort of this retro future but in a lot of ways a lot of those elements still feel very futuristic to us. >> reporter: most of what animators hannah and barbara conjured up was for laughs. >> as shown on our million mille meter... >> reporter: but there was a lot about the future that the jetsons got right. >> this is jane. i forgot to remind you. >> reporter: george's videophone sure looks a lot like our modern-day skype. >> what time is it? 8:29. thank you. reporter: his talking watch would likely be pretty good friends with i-phone. >> what time is it? the time is 12:32 p.m. reporter: that's all gee whiz kind of stuff. but those of us who ate our captain crunch glued to the jetsons every saturday morning, we still want more. >> there is a sense though of jetsonian betrayal in a way because where is the flying car? where is my jet pack? where is my rosy the robot. >> reporter: that is the receipt owe futurist mantra. there was a future that was promised to us that wasn't delivered. >> rosy the robot is often the face of those futuristic laments. >> come and get it. she was like a swiss army knife of robotics. >> reporter: sam register, head of warner brothers animation points out that rosy took the world of push button convenience one button further. >> what's incredible is their lives were so easy anyway. that they still would need someone to make it more easy. like you have a robot to press even more buttons. >> reporter: as beloved as they were and as timeless as they are, the jetsons remind us our standard of comfort is rarely comfortable enough. >> even when we have a world of flying cars and jet packs and pills and you only work a few hours a day, you're still going to take that for granted. >> reporter: besides at the end of the day all those cool gadgets are really only as good as the people who use them. >> jane, stop this crazy thing. jane! jane! help! jane! >> i think i bought this one after win number five. >> osgood: up next. that was 842,000 dollars. osgood: jackpot. ,,,,,,,,,,,, as many of us struggle to charter our economic rhode island, a florida man has found just the ticket. it's left our bill geist no choice but to pay him a visit. >> reporter: what's in your financial future? if you're like me, a happy squanderer who more or less forgot to save enough money for that first house, college tuition or retirement, there are still a few options available that could bail you out. shooting craps. >> 063. reporter: bingo parlors. bingo. reporter: the dog tracks. robbing banks. >> 95.6 million dollars. grab those power ball tickets. good luck. >> reporter: and buying lottery tickets. >> ook at this. you just won $20. >> reporter: all right. it is possible to win the lottery, you know. thank you. $20. what game did you win your biggest? >> my biggest one was in mega money. >> reporter: richard of orlando won the lottery grand prize seven times. but how you may ask. >> there's a method to playing it. >> reporter: he shares some common sense tips in his $40 book. available at finer liquor stores and on amazon. tips like never changing your numbers. and checking the lottery website. >> i see people every day buying scratch tickets to a game that i know has already sold out all its grand prizes. >> reporter: sudden riches can change a man. >> i think i bought this one after win number 5. >> reporter: how much was that? $842,000. reporter: that's a big one. that was a big one. reporter: his biggest jackpot yet. >> in one of my winnings i bought the jag. that was win number 6 i think. >> reporter: and he bought a car for his son. >> a beamer because we had the money. >> reporter: and richard purchased this house. with a resort appropriate pool s did you ever think you'd have your own waterfall. >> if it wasn't for the lottery we'll never be able to live in this kind of house. the lottery plays a part in everything. >> reporter: he's now a full-time lottery player. >> with the book sales and the money that i win playing. >> reporter: which was initially of some concern to his wife. >> but it's still a little scary because, you know, it's still gambling as far as i'm concerned. but because he does run it like a business, it's been successful. i think i've learned to become confident in what he's doing with it. >> reporter: people just think you're a lucky guy? >> oh, i hate when they say that. boy, you're just a lucky guy. no, i'm not a lucky guy. this has nothing to do with luck. >> reporter: math math i cannians, however, do question his methods. >> the guys say i'm a proceed of professor at such-and-such university. your math doesn't mean anything. it's a bunch of hogwash. i just say how many times have you won? i've won seven. >> reporter: chasing an 8th grand prize, richard makes almost daily ticket runs. >> more winners, as always. reporter: he puts much of his winnings right back into more lottery tickets. >> this is kind of exciting. i'm kind of a lottery virgin. then i took a shot at building my financial future. worthless. didn't win again. $20. so far, i've spent $57. and got back $20. >> got everything in order. i have my tickets here. payday, baby. we're just minutes away from finding out whether we're millionaires or not. >> reporter: still i had some chances left. >> the number 40. reporter: when they drew lottery numbers on the 11:00 news. 9, 11, 12, 18. you didn't win anything. >> reporter: nothing? nothing. craps. the dog track. lottery tickets. ask your financial planner what's right for you. >> those plastic drinking bottles. have we got one in here i'll bet there is. >> osgood: ahead, jeremy irons on our throw-away future. this is recyclable. this is great. >> reporter: later, it's as intuitive as walking. what didn't change our lives. ♪ we went out and asked people a simple question: how old is the oldest person you've known? we gave people a sticker and had them show us. we learned a lot of us have known someone who's lived well into their 90s. and that's a great thing. but even though we're living longer, one thing that hasn't changed: the official retirement age. ♪ the question is how do you make sure you have the money you need to enjoy all of these years. ♪ >> let the chips fall where they may. >> that's what an innocent man would say. >> i know. fast forward, a sunday morning in the future. here again is charles osgood. >> osgood: jeremy irons commanded attention in the film "reversal of fortune." now he's going all out to draw our attention to the crippling mountains of trash he sees in our future. tracy smith has our sunday profile. >> have something personal to finish. >> reporter: in the 1995 movie die hard with a vengeance, jeremy irons was pure evil. an urbane and elegant bad guy. as simon gruber, he terrorized pre-9/11 new york city practically in the shadow of the still intact world trade center towers. scary stuff. >> waste is everywhere at ever-increasing levels. >> reporter: but that was nothing compared to his latest film. >> waist from the ancient leb and he's city has been brought to an uncontrolled dump on the edge of the city. >> reporter: in the new documentary "trashed," irons shows us the terrifying possibility of a future world buried in its own garbage. >> what was a sandy beach has been replaced by a trash >> what was a sandy beach has been replaced by a trash mountain. well over 40 meters in height. >> reporter: after doing the documentary, how conscious are you when you walk down the street of trash? >> well, i mean, this part of new york is wonderful. there's no trash in sight. and i think it's a case of out of sigh, out of mind. >> reporter: we throw it away and it's gone. >> that's right. it's clean, it's lovely. it's not something we have to worry about but where does it go. >> reporter: where indeed. most of the rubbish from the 11 million inhabitants of indonesian rapidly developing jakarta ends up here. >> reporter: in indonesia, garbage goes into the nearest river and eventually out to sea: worldwide according to the film we throw away 58 billion disposable cups and 200 billion plastic water bottles every year. >> i mean, those plastic drinking bottles. have we got one in here. >> reporter: i'll say it. it's weird to see an oscar-winning actor rooting through trash cans in new york city's nicest neighborhood but for jeremy irons, garbage has become, well, personal. >> now this is recyclable. it's half full. so it's wasted food. >> reporter: celebrities get asked to be involved in aate low of different causes. what was it about trash that made you say, i have to do something? >> i wanted to make a documentary about something which i thought was important and which was curable. it's not rocket science. >> reporter: just takes a little effort. >> it takes a little effort. it takes a little thought. it takes a little education. i think most people want to do what is right but they need a bit of organization. >> i must speak to her. reporter: it might not be easy to picture jeremy irons as a garbage activist. >> come back! reporter: from his breakout role in 1981 the french lieutenant's woman, he's been in more than 40 movies. at least as many plays and has won just about every acting award there is. >> i've been very lucky. reporter: you have a slew of awards that would say you have some talents. >> if awards mean that, yeah. reporter: you don't think they mean much? >> i do. i do. i really don't want to degrade them. i think awards are fantastic. i don't let them go to my head. i always when i start a new piece of work i still feel like i don't know how to do it, like a plumber. >> reporter: like a plumber? yes, i feel out of my depth. i'm not very good at plumbing. >> reporter: he's good at something. born in england in 1948, jeremy john irons trained as a stage actor before breaking into film. he's been married to actress since 1978 with whom he has two sons. but on screen, he hasn't always played the devoted husband. >> you're a very strange man. have no idea. reporter: in 1990s "reversal of fortune" irons was playingciale claus von bulow accused of trying to kill his super wealthy wife by giving her an overdose of insulin. >> you do one have thing in your favor. everybody hates you. >> well, that's a start. reporter: did you love getting in claus von bulow's head? >> i was slightly embarrassed and in fact fought off playing him for a while because he was alivement. i thought there was something tasteless about playing someone who was still alive. i fought against it and finally glen close persuaded me. she said if you don't play him, someone else will. someone will have a crack at it. it's interesting. >> reporter: glen close was right. the performance earned him the oscar for best actor. >> anything else? yes. a vile of insulin. just kidding. >> reporter: irons' claus von bulow may be a saint. >> now is the time of reckoning. reporter: compared with his current role in the show time series the borgias. he's pope alexander 6th. a man of many passions. >> the lovely bianca. indeed. reporter: you have no hesitation? >> it's rubbish. reporter: off screen you might say jeremy irons has become the unofficial pope of recycling. >> does anyone know what happens to it all. >> reporter: and in what might be his most important role yet, an elegant and refined voice of caution. >> this is not just a local problem. >> reporter: are we doomed? i don't believe we're doomed because i believe that human nature is extraordinary. i think we will be brought to our senses eventually. i think things may have to get worse. we're on a hiding through a very spence i have been and unhealthy future if we do nothing. >> reporter: and gloomy future. well, the sun will still shine. need help keeping you >> osgood: next, close but no cigar. it's the number one ge recommended probiotic that helps maintain digestive balance. ♪ stay in the groove with align. wthe sadness, anxiety,e pleasthe loss of interest. the fatigue and aches and pains. depression hurts. cymbalta can help with many symptoms of depression. tell your doctor right away if your depression worsens, you have unusual changes in behavior or thouts of suicide. antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults. cymbalta is not for children under 18. people taking maois, linezolid or thioridazine or with uncontrolled glaucoma should not take cymbalta. taking it with nsaid pain relievers, aspirin, or blood thinners may increase bleeding risk. severe liver problems, some fatal, were reported. signs include abdominal pain and yellowing skin or eyes. tell your doctor about all your medicines, including those for migraine and while on cymbalta, call right away if you have high fever, confusion and stiff muscles or serious allergic skin reactions like blisters, peeling rash, hives or mouth sores to address possible life-threatening conditions. talk about your alcohol use, liver disease and before you reduce or stop cymbalta. dizziness or fainting may occur upon standing. simple pleasures shouldn't hurt. talk to your doctor about cymbalta. depression hurts. cymbalta can help. >> osgood: the segway was supposed to save us countless steps and change everything. then there's the edsel. remember that? as dean reynolds reminds us, there have been fiascoes along our road to the future. >> you lean forward and you go forward. you lean back and you go back. it's as intuitive as walking. >> reporter: ah, yes. the segway. it promised to revolutionize us but never quite got on a roll. ♪ segway >> the segway was supposed to change transportation forever. we'd all be riding around on these little motorized scooters. it came out and was much much more expensive than people expected. cities started banning them on sidewalks. it became a joke rather than the future. >> you know what would be really cool if it had four wheels and a compartment where people could sit inside. >> reporter: a professor of marketing at wharton business school in philadelphia says the segway is part of a long dubious american tradition. the flop. it comes in all shapeand sizes. you never know when the next new thing is about to take off or not. >> it can fly. how does it feel to own an edsel? >> it's like falling in love. reporter: the ford edsel of the 1950s gave everybody a good laugh unless you owned one. >> people would talk about getting a car with different pieces missing, that they'd have to go back and get them replaced. >> reporter: a few decades later, new coke went flat. ♪ it's a coke ♪ coke is it >> a lot of the next big things never end up being as big or as next as we hope they're going to be. >> reporter: inside the new product works in ann arbor michigan on shelves groaning with all manner of stuff, you can find a guide to what works and what doesn't. >> we have approximately 120,000 different products in about 350 different categories. >> reporter: this collection of products belongs to a market research company called g.f.x. it's elliott rosen's job to help clients discern fad from fizzle. >> when companies come out with new products, they're often thinking how can we change the world? 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now that that's been answered, the burning question remains: are we alone? do you have any doubts that there's life out there besides us? >> oh, goodness. i myself think that life is too creative. here on earth we find life on every... under every rock we lift. so i tend to be of the camp that believes that life is going to be prolific. so, this board gives me rates for >> osgood: next, an age old question. and they're them. yes. but they're here. yes. are you...? there? yes. no. are you them? i'm me. but those rates are for... them. so them are here. yes! you want to run through it again? no, i'm good. you got it? yes. rates for us and them -- now that's progressive. call or click today. >> osgood: what does the future hold for us? that's the question josh landis and mitch butler of the fast draw have set out to answer. >> so maybe there is no fountain of youth. but if you think about it, we've been pretty good at slowing down the hands of time. back when ponce deleon was looking for that mythical place, most people didn't make it to their 40th birthday but today a child born in america can expect to live for more than 78 years. and researchers say that's only the beginning. in theory, a healthy person should be able to live 120 years or longer. but this jump in life expectancy won't come because we get better at fighting the diseases that kill us, our shot at immortality will come at hacking our own cells. in order for us to stay alive our cells so to divide and replace themselves. every time they do they're copying genetic material. make too many copies of copies and eventually things get a little glury-everything falls apart. but researchers are inspired by worms, of all things. by tweaking just a few genes, scientists can get round worms to live four times longer than normal. okay. it's just a worm but discoveries like these in the past have changed our lives. if you want to get super futuristic, the new longevity craze is nano-bots, a fleet of tiny robots could swim through your bloodstream repairing dna, fixing up your brain and reprogramming your biochemistry from the inside out so cells can theoretically anyway live forever. >> when you think of how complex prosthetics have become today, just imagine the orders we'll be placing for all kinds of body parts and the other thing we'll want to order when all of us start to live forever? 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