[steve-b]

Will we still be "ourselves" 100 years from now?

Of course not, any more than we are like the people living at the turn of the twentieth century. As I said, people who don't like the new world should feel free to find a place to keep it out, without interference (beyond the minimum necessary to insure that they don't fester into another batch of terrorist goblins).

[Mr. Silverback]

I'm sorry, I don't see why saying, "Humans should be conceived by a man and a woman, not grown in a lab for two gay men" is a rejection of all things biotech. I can use a scalpel to perform life-saving surgery or I can use it to sterilize "undesirable" races so they can't breed. One is a good and the other is an evil. It's the same with the bio-tech revolution. I'm not saying don't do anything with genes, I'm saying let's use the knowledge for healing instead of license. That isn't animosity toward science or modernity.

[RightWhale]

people who don't like the new world should feel free to find a place to keep it out

It's getting tough to do that these days, although you are free to try. 200 years ago you could go into the wilderness and set up your own best community. You can't do that easily anymore. Even the Islamic fundamentalists are doomed to have to merge with the rest of civilization, or with civilization as some might say. Afghanistan is not far enough, civilization will come for you like it or not.