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Nothing about genetic engineering of humans? I guess that's too unsettling? It seems that there are certain futures that are possible and interesting but peop

• meric 14y ago
  What about implanting a computer into your brain. An AI that's connected to the `human internet` which record your senses and which you can interact with your thoughts. There's a trend in human history where as there are more and more of us, we become closer to each other. Where in pre-historic times, different populations only interact through migrations, in ancient times we begin to have trade routes which allow populations to affect each other in terms of years and decades rather than centuries. Development of oceanic travel reduced this to months and years. The telegraph and railway further reduced this to hours and days. Today with the mobile phone and internet, we can interact with each other in terms of seconds and minutes. Will this trend continue into the microseconds, so that in a thousand years time, humankind is a single hive mind-like entity? "Man considered with himself, for in a way, Man, mentally, was one. He consisted of a trillion, trillion, trillion ageless bodies, each in its place, each resting quiet and incorruptible, each cared for by perfect automatons, equally incorruptible, while the minds of all the bodies freely melted one into the other, indistinguishable." http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm