Making the assumption that genetic engineering will be not just widely accepted, but actually the norm, Lamm and Kwan also speculate that our features will trend toward things we find attractive; our big-eyed descendants will have supermodel-perfect facially symmetry.
Lamm and Kwan aren't the only ones dabbling in the 'what ifs' of humanity's future.
We already have a universal translator. We have Ray Kurzweil forecasting The Singularity any time now. Mind-reading robots are on Japan's to-do list for 2020. In 2050, you could be living in a building smarter than you are, and, following in the grand tradition of hotels on the moon, in 2060 we'll have a colony on Mars and we'll be able to get there in just 39 days.
There's some fantastic, and fantastical, speculating out there — the kind that drives us forward by making us think "what if?".
Where do you think we're headed in the future? Colony on Mars? Nuclear winter? Thunderdome? The possibilities are endless.
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