I'll call your moon landing and raise you a permanent station at one of the Lagrangian points (L4 or L5).

The DNA work will continue, so I guess I have to call you on that, I'll raise you 10 white chips because I'm feeling lucky about future developments and think that in utero engineering will make my kids have better poker faces than I do.

On a more serious note, I'm going to school to become what my friends have termed as "Human Reengineering", I already have an RFID implant (it cost 60 bucks to get a DIY kit, and Planned Parenthood was helpful for installing the RFID tube itself), and I see both genetic engineering and biomechanical engineering as, by the end of the century, start to become more common for the average citizen, but it will mostly remain medical for the foreseeable future.

So no "Ghost in the Shell", but maybe something closer to "Avatar" (sans long range space travel).

Then again... these are thoughts at the beginning of this century, and one century ago the moon was seen as improbable, nuclear fission/fusion wasn't even known about outside of theory, and DNA wasn't known to be made of different proteins, and was thought to be just nuclein, which was seen as a bizarre part of Chromosomes.

Running large-scale experiments to see which, of all the technologies that sci-fi writers claimed would destroy us, will actually destroy us.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
Is this the future?

The discovery of DNA wasn't that big a deal; i mean the idea of genetics (that some gene, or unit of information was passed from parent to child) was fairly well know, and some mechanism for holding this information was expected.

BUT finding that we could identify structures - using xrays - within cells which we then went on to show coded genetic information; was a VERY small step. I mean, it meant we knew what to start looking at, or at least guessed, because the discovery of the structure of DNA was a long process, it took several years before DNA was accepted as the 'genetic code' - and several more years, if not decades, before we could do anything useful with it. This century will see more gene therapies, for both developing embryos and adult humans. It will see more genetic engineering and synthetic life.

Meanwhile this century has already seen wikipedia - a collaboration of humans on scales never before possible - we will find more projects which take off, like protein folding games, which take advantage of human intelligence in ways previously unimaginable. We will solve bigger and greater problems - and we will likely face some inevitable problems aswell.

"The discovery of DNA wasn't that big a deal; i mean the idea of genetics (that some gene, or unit of information was passed from parent to child) was fairly well know, and some mechanism for holding this information was expected."

http://thingist.com/user_uploads/32136238287549872.gif

"The discovery of DNA wasn't that big a deal; i mean the idea of genetics (that some gene, or unit of information was passed from parent to child) was fairly well know, and some mechanism for holding this information was expected."

That's like saying the discovery of sub-atomic particles was not big deal, because even the Ancient Greeks had an idea that everything was made up of something else. Sure, they thought is was earth, fire, water and air...but they were on the right track...lol

krellin, my gif effectively dealt with that comment. Please add something original. ;-)

meh...I don't open up a lot of links like that, to be honest.

"thingist.com/user_uploads...." Yes...that sounds like a very safe link. I will get right to opening that link...right after I have unprotected sex with the toothless hooker on the corner with the open festering sores...

Oh for the ability to do image tags in forum posts...