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In the year 2117 I May 2017 01 Oceans will be extensively farmed Likelihood 10/10. We will need to feed 10 billion people and nature can’t keep up with demand, so we will need much more ocean farming for fish. But algae farming is also on the way for renewable energy, and maybe even for growth of feedstock (raw materials) or resource extraction via GM seaweed or al- gae. According to Dennis Bushnell, chief scientist at the Nasa Langley Research Center, saltwater algae that’s been genet- ically modified to absorb more nitrogen from the air than con- ventional algae could free up to 68% of the fresh water that is now tied up in conventional agriculture. 02 Telepathic neural transmissions Transmission will be just as easy as other forms of brain aug- mentation. Picking up thoughts and relaying them to another brain will not be much harder than storing them on the net. Synthetic telepathy sounds like something out of Holly- wood but it is absolutely possible, so long as “communication” is understood to be electrical signals rather than words. 26 .isms I May 2017 .isms I May 2017 27 “Home” by Joseph Kim