It's The Edge annual question with answers from 151 brilliant minds from actor Alan Alda to physicist Anton Zeilinger.
The World Question Center 2009
WHAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING?
"What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?"
But it's a question anyone can consider so here are my thoughts.
In my lifetime the world has moved from Analog to Digital. Things have gone from being real to digital and I don't think it's going to stop. Say I live another 50 years, maybe that's long enough for whatever it is that makes me me to be decoded, stored and maybe even restored.