Here’s an interesting article by Freeman Dyson on “Our Biotech Future.”  Basically he predicts that we will soon have personal biotechnology devices and all be able to be genetic engineers.  He suggests that this will create solutions to many problems and also perhaps help eliminate poverty.  One aspect that I found particularly interesting was that with this genetic engineering, there will be more competition between genes of various species.  So perhaps this new era of personal biotechnology would lead to faster evolution?  Although instead of being guided by Darwinian evolution, gene selection would be guided by lots of genetic engineers.  It certainly could result in some interesting (or dangerous) things.