What I wished for in college.
I wished that #superintelligence, either artificial or genetically engineered, would crack faster than light travel.
I regarded that as the yardstick to measure success or failure.
In those days I was a lot more optimistic than I am now. It seems like a harder project than I originally thought.
And truth be told, in the 5 decades that have passed, AI and GE have disappointed me.
Maybe I expected too much.