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Post by Craig Oxbrow on Jul 10, 2010 2:17:20 GMT
From the Scientific American website, 12 EventsList: Polar meltdown Extra dimensions (think this is in the context of particle physics) Discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence Nuclear exchange Creation of life (i.e. synthetic biology) Room temperature superconductors Machine self-awareness Human cloning Pacific earthquake Fusion energy Asteroid collision Deadly pandemic #5 has already sort of happened, but never mind. "The twenty-first century is when everything changes..." as the saying goes.
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rev503
2nd Incarnation
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Post by rev503 on Jul 13, 2010 12:48:03 GMT
ummm add to that Practical Nanotech (and count the number of days until the human race is destroyed) mind/machine interfacing mind transfer/archival (thats the serious biggie - if you can store a mind you can edit it, or download it somewhere else, or interactively edit your own mind/memories)
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