By 2050, everyone will ride hoverboards, our brains will be synced to iCloud and we'll all be having sex for purely recreational purposes with zero fear of pregnancy. OK, so I just made up the first two, but the third might actually be a genuine possibility. At least, according to the guy who invented the Pill – and he probably knows a thing or two about contraception. 

Austrian-American chemist Carl Djerassi was only 28 when he created the oral contraceptive pill with two other scientists. Now 91, the godfather of modern contraception has predicted that his own invention will soon become obsolete. Instead, men and women will freeze their eggs and sperm when young and get sterilised, making all sex a for-play thing only. If women want to have babies, they'll choose IVF methods to become fertilised. 

"The vast majority of women who will choose IVF in the future will be fertile women who have frozen their eggs and delayed pregnancy,” he told the Telegraph. But he thinks that increasingly accurate genetic screening will compel most women to use IVF. 

"And once that happens then IVF will start to become a normal non-coital method of having children," he concluded. "Over the next few decades, say by the year 2050, more IVF fertilisations will occur among fertile women than the current five million fertility-impaired ones. For them the separation between sex and reproduction will be 100 per cent."

Djerassi believes that these scientific advancements in fertility will create a "mañana (tomorrow) generation", who are able to safely delay reproduction until they're good and ready. He thinks there's another great side effect of an all-IVF future: abortions won't occur anymore, because unwanted pregnancies just won't happen. 

Can we fast-forward to 2050 already?