Ten cool emerging technologies.

I like the silicon lasers and the universal memory, but a $0.25 malaria treatment is going to have huge effects on the developing world. The next step after that will be to get rid of the sickle-cell gene (though if malaria is artificially conquered, it should disappear naturally in a few generations).

[Via Geek Press]

Actull only if those people don't make it to have children... and I think in this modern age that many will... It might never go away.

Don't be so sure. Last time I checked I still had an appendix.