Anyone interested in thinking about this should read Children of Time and the sequel Children of Ruin. The first is about the (accidental) future uplift of spi

Anyone interested in thinking about this should read Children of Time and the sequel Children of Ruin. The first is about the (accidental) future uplift of spiders via genetic engineering and evolution, the sequel about octopuses. The author does an excellent job of imagining how this might come to pass.