CNN.com - Heaven or hell? - Jun 12, 2006: "'The pace of change is exponential, not linear,' says inventor, entrepreneur, author, and futurist Ray Kurzweil. 'So things fifty years from now will be very different. That's pretty phenomenal. It took us fifteen years to sequence HIV, we sequenced SARS in 31 days.'

Nanotechnology, genetics and cybernetics will mean that we will become faster, stronger and more beautiful; we will live longer and banish disease; we will be more intelligent and quicker-witted with photographic memories and the ability to go days without sleep."