If you want to get an idea of what the black world has in the way of technology, do a reasonable extrapolation of what you see now to 10 years in the future. You will miss the truly breakthrough stuff, but you will catch everything that requires incremental change.

If I resemble my naked sexy pics in 20 years I'll be a very happy man! Yeah, BABY!

Scientists have done this with dragonflies: Giant Dragonflies.

See also my post below about the adventures of the transgenic goats before they got to Wyoming, original at Transgenic goats

Here you go!

Arachnicillin

"I shall desire you of more acquaintance, good master cobweb... If I cut my finger, I shall make bold of you."
- The character Bottom in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

"After injecting spider genes into a goat, a silk-like material, dubbed BioSteel®, is extracted from the goat's milk. Because of its compatibility with the human body, BioSteel appears to have some remarkable real-life applications (artificial limbs, tendons and ligaments). It is stronger than steel with a breaking strength of 300,000 pounds per square inch."

This research was being done by a company called "Nexia Technologies", which unfortunately went bankrupt. One might ask what happened to the goats. The Air Force Office of Scientific Research took an interest and rescued them. There is an interesting story associated with that at The Story of the Transgenic Goats (continued).

This is guaranteed to have many applications from the useful to the beautiful to the absurd. Combine this with recent research on direct neuro-electronic interfaces (see for example multiple papers at link below) and you now have interesting possibilities for sending and receiving signals to/from devices on the skin -- or across the room. Directly stimulating cells in the skin responsible for detecting pressure, heat and so forth might enable more compelling virtual or augmented realities. Combine with LED technology and you could have moving full-color tattoos. Amazing and exciting!

Neural Engineering (NER), 2011 5th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on

I've been getting the print version of ScienceNews (bi-weekly) for 40 years. The online version http://www.sciencenews.org/ is just as good. There are many other good sites out there of course. This is one I can vouch for as a scientist without hesitation.

Agreed 100%. As an undergrad I majored in psychology and did a CS major on the side. Psychology has been huge for me as far as developing user interfaces, understanding reasonable assignment of function to human vs. computer in larger systems, and most importantly for my research in artificial intelligence. My philosophy classes as an undergraduate, especially those focusing on formal logic, automata theory and epistemology have been very useful. I could go on and on. If you want to be a technician, a computer programmer, then you don't need a CS degree. If you want to really understand WHY you do what you do when you design, develop, and deploy systems, then a broader grounding in sciences and humanities is required. Frankly, there is more to having a Bachelor degree than simply qualifying for a job -- it means you have a certain breadth of education to enable you to go on to further study, and more importantly, it educates you as a citizen of the world to a level you are very unlikely to reach in any other way. That said, if college is not right for you, don't do it. Too many people go to college thinking that is what they have to do. Most undergraduate programs are crappy and far too many people drop out of school. Go to school only if you have a hunger to learn.