These new materials are of course made from the existing chemical elements in the world, but scientists can now mix these elements, like a painter producing a new colour from his palette of basic colours, to produce new materials with amazing properties that do not exist in our natural world. Thus in the next 1000 years, life scientists will create new forms of life that do not exist in nature. Tissue engineering from our own cells will produce replacement body parts with no problems of rejection. Many diseases and mental disorders have a genetic component, which will be correctable. Intelligence has a genetic component and hence it would seem that the intelligence of a nation could be improved.
Genetic modification can produce more efficient plants, which can help to eliminate world hunger.
Equally dramatic changes will be produced by advances in the physical sciences and engineering. We will have cars, buses and lorries producing zero pollution. Pollution from power stations will be trapped at source. Voice operated personal communication systems will control our homes, via a central computer, and facilitate our personal relationships from wherever we are in the world. The implications of this new science and technology revolution are immense.