>>12359365Depends, we already have GMOs. Smart Babies and ethical eugenics is within our lifetime. A lot of black budget stuff is going on behind closed doors, who knows what abominations they’ve created that we’ll only hear about when we’re all old cyborgs.
Being able to program biology essentially is probably a few hundred years if we can keep producing generations of smart scientists. But it depends how effective quantum computers are and if we create AGI, since they'll be doing the heavy lifting.