The way progress has been accelerating... "Vanilla" humans are not going to be important 10,000 years from now, and might not even exist. In his books in the A

The way progress has been accelerating... "Vanilla" humans are not going to be important 10,000 years from now, and might not even exist. In his books in the Accelerando continuity, Charlie Stross has a "human fundamentalist" movement. What we have in the 20th and 21st century, is that it's much harder for tech and culture to go away completely. Someone, somewhere makes it their hipster shtick, establishes a little shop in Tokyo, or bases a PhD and an academic career on it. This might well happen for the technology of Homo sapiens. (What if we go extinct, then only exist in simulations, then come back from that? That might make for a good Sci-fi novel!)