In general, John, I agree with you, but there does need to be one other major series of advances in the UK at least. You need to be able to generate optical character recognition and indexing of old handwriting, ideally coupled to an ability to do the same thing for Latin with all it medieval abbreviations. So just different challenges to the next generation! Brian -----Original Message----- From: genealogy-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:genealogy-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of AJ Marsh via Sent: 03 January 2016 06:30 To: samhsloan@gmail.com; genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [DNA] How long will is be before high technology puts us out of business Sam, I agree that full genome sequencing at birth will likely come at some stage.... sooner rather than later. What I have been wondering is how quickly will sophisticated DNA testing kill the hobby of Genealogy? Or can our hobby be killed? If our generation do our job properly, aided by future advances in computer technologies, we will end up with a tolerably complete family tree for the human race, at least for the last half millennium, leaving few mysteries for future genealogists to solve. Future generations will simply input their individual person ID into a tiny computer somehow interfaced with their body, and their past 30 generations of genealogy will spill out from some sort of world supercomputer come super net..... and somehow Ancestry will electronically get forwarded a fee. The Y line will come out complete for the past 500,000 years. If Sykes is still alive, he will have named every one of our ancestors, and the Mormons will have baptised them, every one of them. What will future genealogist have left to do? I guess a few hardy "real" genealogists will still be pawing through old records, and arguing about whether an ancestor born 800 years ago was born on a Tuesday or early Wednesday. Genealogist are a hardy breed. I expect they will reinvent a role for themselves doing something. John. Sent from my iPad > On 3/01/2016, at 4:20 pm, Sam Sloan via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > It is inevitable that at the rate technology is advancing in this > area, if id just a question of time before everybody will know who > their real parents were, whether they want to or not. > It had been suggested that soon every child born will have a full > genome scan done at birth. The doctors will be looking for genetic > defects but if the husband had been cuckolded the doctors will know > right away that he is not the real father even if he suspects nothing. > Will this be a good thing?? > Not only that but anybody going in for any sort of routine medical > checkup will probably have a full genome scan too because the cost > will be so low, so anybody who asks will be told right away who their real parents are. > This is the future. There is no doubt this will happen. My question is > how long will it take for this brave new world to arrive. > I would say that within ten years the technology will be so advanced > that adoption searches will be obsolete. Just as nowadays the doctor > will tell you whether your coming baby will be male or female provided > that you ask, at some future date all you have to do is ask and the > doctors or medical researchers will be able to tell you who your real parents are or were. > How long will this take and will this be a good thing? > Sam Sloan > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message