Robots may gradually attain a degree of 'self-awareness' and consciousness of their own.

Today, your cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the moon. Video games, which consume enormous amounts of computer power to simulate 3-D situations, use more computer power than mainframe computers of the previous decade. The Sony PlayStation of today, which costs $300, has the power of a military supercomputer of 1997, which cost millions of dollars.

Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like?

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.

There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists... Many of these theories have been killed off only when some decisive experiment exposed their incorrectness... Thus the yeoman work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology.