Vermehlo_Steele
Grand Arbiter II
This article basically looks at the question of how evolution would effect future humanity. [link] It got me thinking of what the future of humanity could look like.
Indulge me, we all know that evolution dictates the rise or fall of a species. Humans themselves are the anomaly of the evolutionary bush, but are we still evolving? some scientists thought no, but that's incorrect. But if so, what will man and woman look like in 1000, 100,000 or even 1,000,000 years time? (assuming, naturally we survive that long.)
How humanity will evolve will be less dictated by death and more dictated by things like who does and who dosn't choose to have children, genetic engineering and any long-term (read centuries) stable living environments of the future. Optimists predict a glorious future where every immune system is able to counter-act even the most aggressive and innovative virus, where human's resemble elves in terms of beauty and athleticism and that death will finally die. Pessimists foresee a future of humanity reduced to a mere species of slavish drones genetically engineered to fulfill the wishes of some tyrannical group, that immortality and a race of 'perfect' humans will have lost what it means to be human.
So, what are your stab-in-the-dark guesses of what humanity will become in the future? Is humanity destined for a utopia free from war, disease, misery and death? Or could we be steadily be approaching a Brave New World scenario (long story short, BNW is a novel about a futuristic society where the people are genetically engineered and manipulated from conception to become un-thinking drones unable to operate beyond the parameters set by the World Controllers) Or could it be something else all together?
Indulge me, we all know that evolution dictates the rise or fall of a species. Humans themselves are the anomaly of the evolutionary bush, but are we still evolving? some scientists thought no, but that's incorrect. But if so, what will man and woman look like in 1000, 100,000 or even 1,000,000 years time? (assuming, naturally we survive that long.)
How humanity will evolve will be less dictated by death and more dictated by things like who does and who dosn't choose to have children, genetic engineering and any long-term (read centuries) stable living environments of the future. Optimists predict a glorious future where every immune system is able to counter-act even the most aggressive and innovative virus, where human's resemble elves in terms of beauty and athleticism and that death will finally die. Pessimists foresee a future of humanity reduced to a mere species of slavish drones genetically engineered to fulfill the wishes of some tyrannical group, that immortality and a race of 'perfect' humans will have lost what it means to be human.
So, what are your stab-in-the-dark guesses of what humanity will become in the future? Is humanity destined for a utopia free from war, disease, misery and death? Or could we be steadily be approaching a Brave New World scenario (long story short, BNW is a novel about a futuristic society where the people are genetically engineered and manipulated from conception to become un-thinking drones unable to operate beyond the parameters set by the World Controllers) Or could it be something else all together?
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