The Edge Annual Question 2009 — What will change everything?

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.