Seth Shostack of the SETI Institute thinks it's likely, as seen in his recent TED Talk. Why so soon? Cut to the chase: Moore's Law applies to radio telescope signal processing, and the processing-limited searchable number of stars is fast converging with the actual number of stars within reach.
OK, Shostack rambles a bit and ends on a sappy "do it for the children" note, but there's much food for though in the talk. At only eighteen minutes and change it's worth a whirl.
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