The World in 2030

Do you want to live forever? When you are older would
you like to receive rejuvenation therapy to ensure that your
skin, hair and internal organs regenerate themselves (and
then continue to regenerate themselves repeatedly) so that
they never reach a biological age greater than thirty or forty?
Would you like to have your personal DNA decoded so that
any predispositions to disease or malady can be treated before
such conditions occur?
All of the seemingly preposterous propositions in the
paragraph above will have become possible, or will be about
to become possible, by the time we reach 2030. The reason
is that accelerating, exponential technological development
applies to the field of medicine as it does to all other scientific
disciplines.
Already, personal genomes are being analysed which
will provide enormous help for doctors seeking the best
way to treat an individual’s disease (or prevent it). The New
York Times reported in June 2007 that the first human to
be handed a copy of his personal genetic code was a very
appropriate recipient:
James D. Watson, who helped crack the DNA code
half a century ago, last week became the first person