This years Edge question is: What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?
Biocurious has a good overview of the answers, here.
My personal favorite is Stuart Kauffman’s answer, that large parts of the universe are free of physical law. A brilliantly argued piece of true scientific heresy (although here from a biological rather than a fundamental physics perspective). This is an idea which I have a hunch may be right, placing natural selection as the creation mechanism above gods and scientific law, rather than the the artifacts which are produced by them.
Kauffman’s piece was certainly interesting, though I think it’s wrong. At issue: he mistakenly treats the predictability/entailment of phenomena given a set of physical laws as necessary for those laws to bind the phenomena. There are people who subscribe to this account of reductionism, but they’re a dying breed as physics comes to look increasingly indeterministic. I wrote a little bit about this here: http://www.caritj.org/2009/02/04/scientific-laws-bind-without-entailing/#more-35
(inspired me to start a blog, in fact)