Five scientific predictions by Professor Stephen Hawking

From catastrophic climate change to alien invasion, the theoretical physicist ’s thoughts about what might lie ahead were often far from optimisticIn his recently published posthumous collection of articles and essays, Brief Answers to theBigQuestions, Stephen Hawkingforecast that genetic editing techniques will give rise to a breed of “superhumans” – “a race of self-designing beings who are improving at an ever-increasing rate”.Continue reading...

Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 21, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Ian Tucker Tags: Stephen Hawking Technology Science Climate change Artificial intelligence (AI) Computing Consciousness Gene editing Source Type: news