The machine can build itself according to specifications only if you know how to modify the programming. The future of health and fitness lies in the concept embodied by the replicant in Bladerunner . The computer made flesh. We certainly need a Babelian catastrophe to avoid that destiny, if it is indeed the direction we are going. But, in fact, it isn't.
Science is no better than science fiction at predicting reality.
It cannot know the future because it is hardly capable of assessing the present. Lost in conceptual spinnings, interlocking theories and stupefyingly simplistic experiments, most professional scientists are clearly void of any but the crudest perceptions. This is an artist's statement. Few people apart from artists are capable of predicting the present. Our technologies already make us see more, hear more and feel more.