If the idea of genetics drastically changing society sounds unrealistic to you, watch a clip from The Today Show from 1994 in which the hosts are discussing a mysterious new concept called the internet. Finally, a confused Katie Couric asks an off-camera producer, “Can you explain what internet is?” Fast forward just 27 years and most of us carry super-computers in our pockets. The internet has changed the way we communicate, shop, vote. We have an entire generation of children who don’t remember a world without limitless information available at their fingertips. It has radically changed society, for better and worse, and we are struggling to catch up.
