Advancements made through scientific discovery will yield new and powerful technological innovations, ultimately securing an abundance filled, prosperous future. Major technologies are converging and advancing exponentially fast. Vivek Wadhwa, Vice President of Academics and Innovation at Singularity University, says, "These exponential technologies will help us solve many of humanity's grand challenges.... In addition to developing technologies for energy conservation and water purification, it is imperative that we continue to make similar size strides in the science behind human h...

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Biotechnology is any technique that uses organisms or their products to make a new product, to improve the life of humans or to develop microorganisms for specific scientific uses (Cooley, 2014). ... According to Gargesi (2013) green biotechnology uses modern technology to explore plants like organisms. ... As biotech processes replace old rust-belt technologies, they are enabling a transformation from a petroleum-based economy to a bio-based economy....

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Bioethicist and Scientific American advisory board member Arthur Caplan raises the question: will this lead to an increase of terminated pregnancies that otherwise would have been born (Beware the Destiny Test)? ...

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