A relevant article in the latest New Scientist
How to Survive the Coming Century:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126971.700-how-to-survive-the-coming-century.html
My prediction is that if we do not either destroy ourselves or drag
society down into a new Dark Age, we will be utterly transformed from
the kind of humans we are now thanks to biotechnology and AI.
Or we may get pushed aside altogether by the new intelligence that
comes from us and has far higher ambitions for its existence than we do.
http://iss.whu.edu.cn/degaris/