Welcome To Humans, Version 3.0
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 - 12:40
in Mathematics & Economics
Where are we humans going, as a species? If science fiction is any guide, we will genetically evolve like in X-Men, become genetically engineered as in Gattaca, or become cybernetically enhanced like General Grievous in Star Wars.All of these may well be part of the story of our future, but I'm not holding my breath. The first of these - natural selection - is impracticably slow, and there's a plausible case to be made that natural selection has all but stopped acting on us.read more