So science is getting pretty hardout. Craig Venter made headlines when he and his team at the J. Craig Venter Institute created "synthetic life". Basically what they did is made their own sequence for a genome. This genome was implanted into a single celled organism which could then begin to replicate like any living creature does.
Here's a vid of Craig Venter Talking about his truely Sci Fi discovery:
Fact: Science can now custom design organisms!
Combining that sort of discovery with genetic engineering quickly leads me on to thinking that we are soon gonna be able to design more complex organisms. Get the DNA code of a bat, put it with a cat, and not only do their names rhyme but that batcat will have sonar! (bad example, but imaging extracting the quality that makes a tiger massive and chucking it in a house cat. It would keep growing until it was huge. I doubt the science is as simple as that but the concept can't be far off!
With this new technology, made a reality by Craig Ventor it could be possible to make not only domestic tigers but giant freaking spiders and lizards. Even a..dragon..
Technology cannot be underestimated. It is growing at exponential rates. A fact that sees predicting the future pretty futile. One thing for sure is that computers are getting faster at an ever increasing rate. This is explained and expanded in a story done in TIME Magazine called 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal. It has many predictions by Ray Kurzweil, a scientist who was awarded the Medal of Technology by Bill Clinton. He talks about the emergence of A.I (yes thats right, robots) and according to his calculations, the end of human civilization as we know it is about 35 years away...
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