Our Postcanine Future?

In light of this article, will Francis Fukuyama need to write a sequel to his book, Our Posthuman Future?

My votes for the first three postcanine alterations.

1. Add just enough brain power so that they have a concept of time.
2. Alter their digestion enough so that they can survive eating anything we can eat.
3. Give them a rudimentary voice box, (making sure that when they learn to speak they sound just like Astro, I prefer him over the Scooby paradigm of cute canine speech)

Geneticists will go to town on the doggie genome, and given the degree of selective breeding dogs have undergone in such a short timespan, the job of understanding what each section of DNA controls will be much easier to study, and then to experiment upon, and finally to manipulate.