Will We Ever Reach Another Star?

We already did launch a probe to the stars. In fact, we launched two of them, the Voyager spacecrafts!

well... before i make a prediction about sending a probe to another star... what about the Voyager program? they included data about humans (and a record) in case it met up with alien life... now, i know that the primary mission was to study the outer solar system but, considering they also included data for extra-terrestrial life to examine, doesn't that "technically" make it our first attempt to send a probe to another star? i will predict that we will send another probe out in the next 200 years... that may sound like a long time, but i feel that if we can get viable interplanetary missions within our solar system active for commercial and other purposes (something that i don't see being feasible until at least 30+ years) then it is inevitable that we will turn once again to our closer stars for more data. I put such a short time period there for a simple reason: technological progress. Given our current state of affairs and our driving need for knowledge, we will move ahead in great leaps towards expanding our living quarters to other planets just for the sake of exploration... the time frame may be driven by need (AGW) or by curiosity, but i feel that it will be driving us more rapidly in the next millennium for several reasons, starting with population, control, shattered cultural paradigms that are negative to our survival (i hope) and the need for expansion beyond our simple rock. Once we start truly exploring our solar system with boots on the ground science, we will be looking at stars for the next step... and survival. and unicorns