I hope that by 2056 weird astronomical observations will lead to radical new fundamental physics. I expect people will be tampering with the human genome, which should be fun. In my own field, I hope the current desiccated, formal approach has died out and people are more adventurous and creative.
Gregory Chaitin is a mathematician at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York state
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