DR. PAULINE TAY SAYS…

By 2050 we’ll have

Transplantation of certain kinds of tissues you’ve lost

Certain cures for cancer based on customized stem cells

Ancillary material derived from stem cells, such as glues and threads needed for surgery and injectables to boost post-operation healing and recovery

A better understanding of systems biology in Western science, or how cells, organs and limbs work in concert with the rest of the human body

And she believes one day we may see

Coding data into DNA becoming a common mode of data storage

“Getting plugged in like in ‘The Matrix’ movies, it seems possible. We train a machine, AI, to understand and mimic a human. Imagine if you married it with a biological product, you can combine the messages in DNA with the messages in a computer. Theoretically, wouldn’t that work? It’s just that right now technology isn’t advanced enough for us to do that, and there are ethical issues too. But if you manage to cross that technological hurdle, it’s could be possible.”

Humans traveling from one dimension to another

“I love the thought that one day we can time travel. It’s just that scientists don’t understand enough of different dimensions, because time is a dimension that we still don’t quite understand. We have given ourselves clocks to track it because we don’t understand whether you can actually coexist in different times. But this probably has a long way to go.”