"60 Top Thinkers" Predict the Future: Eugenics, Surveillance Society, Globalism

The "top thinkers" included Google Vice President Vint Cerf, secretary-general of Interpol Ronald Noble, transhumanist Ray Kurzweil, and Francis S. Collins, leader of the Human Genome Project.

Some highlights from their 20 predictions:

7. People must have government approval to marry and have children, based on their genetic compatibility, or face a huge tax burden for any sick or disabled children they produce in defiance of a ban.

12. Global interdependence will allow people, capital and information to flow freely across borders, eroding the power of nation-states.

13. Goodbye, privacy. Data from cameras, biometrics (retinal scans, fingerprints, face recognition software), full body scans and perhaps microchip implants will be sent to intelligence "fusion" centers to tell governments where people are going and what they're doing in the public realm.

From the Seattle Post