Kim Stanley Robinson Sees Humans Colonizing the Solar System in 2312

  My thought is the key to escape from the bounds of solar system is having the technology to encoding/decode/mimic the human reproductive cycle into a non biological format.  Thus, after a 50,000 year sub-light speed journey, humans could be reconstituted in any environment able to support life.  While the Earth my be long-gone at the end of such a journey, the human species will be be the seed that starts the chain of colonization though-out the universe.