According to you, in future, will be possible to change DNA in order to become for example smart as Einstein and good in football as Maradona. In general we could be able to program our genes like a software?

They call it gene therapy. The genes are delivered by innocuous viruses. But how much can change an already developed organism?

Changing your DNA as an adult is like changing the blueprints for your house after it has been built: It's not going to spontaneously reorganize itself based on the new plans.

 

There are some on-going processes that you could alter, but it's unlikely you'd be able to achieve much of anything that can't already be accomplished with drugs or hormones.

Changing your DNA as an adult is like changing the blueprints for your house after it has been built: It's not going to spontaneously reorganize itself based on the new plans.

 

There are some on-going processes that you could alter, but it's unlikely you'd be able to achieve much of anything that can't already be accomplished with drugs or hormones.

 

Not to mention, you can stop taking a drug and it gradually leaves your system. I'm guessing they'll give you the gene's product in drug form first, so you test it out before making that commitment.

Could it be coupled with forced learning somehow? Again, a little pie in the sky, but maybe we will one day have the tech to download the knowledge required for such skills directly into the brain along with the DNA coding to allow the talent needed to display the skill... Thinking about it, they already did that in The Matrix... but that wasn't real... or was it?

...Thinking about it, they already did that in The Matrix... but that wasn't real... or was it?

Today's dream ...tomorrow's reality. We are just information in a wet bag.

Edited July 30, 201510 yr by StringJunky

"Ugly giant bags of mostly water"

Mutation can occur which will cause sudden change in your genes.

That sounds great but it is still a theory now. It may become the reality after thousands of years. DNA repair make progress now and it will solve some gene problem.