Born in 1890, my great-grandfather had great-uncles who fought in the Civil War. He saw the invention of the automobile, the airplane, two world wars, and saw the Apollo 11 moon landing a month before he died.

I was born in the 80s, I have been trying to take stock of how much life has changed since then. Cable television? Satellite television? Cell phones to smartphones? The internet? Life hasn’t seemed to have made much progress. When we get down to it life isn’t radically different now than it was in 80s. Just hoping there is more that I’m simply not noticing

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    Gene Editting with CRISPR and other techniques. Eventually this will be truly personalized medicine at an affordable fee.

    Fusion with more power output than input will become a game changer. Currently we have done fusion but the energy to do the demonstration was in total more than the output