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Comment by Ford__Prefect

Sorry to piss on your sunny parade, but:

>> 1) Fully decoding the cellular mechanism of cells allowing for the curing of any disease, repairing any genetic disorder.

-- so you want to cure aging then- how many billions of people you think can a planet with a 6k km radius sustain ?

You think Claus Schwabs of the world wont buy it out to keep it to themselves ?

>> 2) Commercially viable fusion energy. Will change a lot of things.

-- That will eventually happen, and electricity will be just as "expensive" as it is now, simply because the price of a product has nothing to do with its cost and everything to do with the purchasing power of its intended audience.

>> 3) An AI subsystem with some reasoning ability (yeah, could go either way)

-- No, its cant go either way, the power insatiable psychopaths in power will use it to maximize their power. Period. Its psychopath nature- for them its natural and perfectly normal. Until psychopathy is recognized as a disease and sick people are disallowed from positions of power, the world will continue to be an abusive place.

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