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250 years is a long, long time in tech and science. 250 years ago, Watt was just coming up with the first efficient steam engine. You can actually already edit
by inglor_cz 4y ago
250 years is a long, long time in tech and science. 250 years ago, Watt was just coming up with the first efficient steam engine.
You can actually already edit genome of living things today, using tools such as CRISPR. Granted, they are still rather primitive, but they are getting better.
I am almost positive that by 2070, genetic engineering will be as ubiquitous as semiconductors are today.
- sokoloff 4y agoI mostly agree with you, though the natural rate-limiting cycle time of edit-to-observe is much longer in human developmental genetics than in software or semiconductors.