It's all too easy to dismiss the future. People confuse what's impossible today with what's impossible tomorrow.

You can't just hoard your ideas inside the ivory tower. You have to get them out into the world.

Clearly, we are a species that is well connected to other species. Whether or not we evolve from them, we are certainly very closely related to them. A series of mutations could change us into all kinds of intermediate species. Whether or not those intermediate species are provably in the past, they could easily be in our future.

We have a love affair with the idea of the 'natural,' even though we, as a species, are about as unnatural as you can imagine.

At some point, someone will come up with an airtight argument as to why they should have a cloned child. At that point, cloning will be acceptable.

Most people are excited about themselves. Personal genome will deliver for inexpensively something about science to which you can relate. Just like computers are becoming something to which you can relate. It should be even easier to relate to your own biology, and I hope that will be one of the ways we get broader literacy in science.