Technological Future: Human Evolution

Life and intelligence must never stagnate; it must re-order, transform and transcend its limits in an unlimited progressive process. Our goal is the exuberant and dynamic continuation of this unlimited process... - Max More

People are so tuned in to the near term that they aren't thinking in terms of decades. Yet, over the long run, we have a chance of fundamentally changing humanity. Many people sense this, but don't want to think about it because the change is too profound. - Daniel Hillis




On any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change. -Spock

But while change is painful, it's necessary too. Without it, without turbulence and decay and unity in variety, there's no rebirth, and life stagnates and dies. We fear change, but perhaps we should fear lack of change more, because the ultimate lack of change is death. It's change itself that brings meaning and richness to life. - Gregory J. E. Rawlins

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• future
• robot
• robots
• robotics
• technology
• evolution
• transhuman
• transhumanism
• posthuman
• posthumanism
• cybernetics
• universe

[Kyandros]

Who says we humans are so intelligent?

We have the same DNA as chimps for 98,5%

So our intelligence is in that 1,5%. What if there is alien life who are 1,5% smarter than us? Can you imagine? We would be chimps to them.

[bbphnix]

these people are brilliant and their tehcnolgy is cutting edge;

but do even realize they are working in vain?

artificial implants? by the time we get the kind of technology that allows cyborgs to be built and arms replaced like in Star Wars, genetic engineering will be on the verge of allowing humans to regrow arms, legs, eyes, repair hearing, regrow organs etc. ? geneticists are far more ahead-thinking than these guys

[brandonashplant]

@michealang1 true but unlikely because we are pretty intelligent and at the moment have decent leaders to guide the human race but like you said the faster we get in to space we will live longer because before we know it the world will end or just die like Mars! and have bad weather, the sort of weather life cannot live on :( but hopefully we will quickly get in to space and live out there instead of down here :D

[bbphnix]

@1800levso 200? more like 50

[michealang1]

@hjm13107 Of we course we have something to do with global warming, we are the ones that are using too much of our resources, yes the earth does help do increases global warming by releasing infra red rays which increases tempreture. But these rays was able to escape our atmosphere, now they cant because WE have clogged our own atmosphere. And what i mean is, some people dont see our technology evolving that fast to allow us to live on other planets, but we will see..

[hjm13107]

@michealang1 You say many don't see the bigger picture of life.... what do you mean by that and how do you know for a fact this is all true? The human race is extremely adaptable and we have survived together through thick and thin, what makes you think we can't in the future? Global Warming by the way has been proved that it is all created from Earth's natural causes, we got nothing to do with it.

[1800levso]

robotics is an old stone technology, guess we got to wait another 200 years, and maybe, we would be able to grow all natural human organs, all 100% natural and compatible with each human, forget about robotics, we need biology, computers had a good memory, but compared to the human brain, it's prehistoric, that only tells us how far behind we are compared to nature, when we are able to do biological upgrades in our body, that would be real technology, not the computer old stone tech.

[michealang1]

If we carry on the way we are now, humans will commit genocide. The way we are going now with these wars and global warming there will be NO future for us, we are such a primitive and aggressive race, many don't see the bigger picture of life. The point is, in my opinion, humans will be extinct in the next 500-1000 years. There will be many causes of this such as Nuclear wars or Global warming....if we managed to use our brains we could spread into the galaxy, instead we waste energy on weapons.

[tkathryyn]

@Apidium I doubt it, but you could be right that human evolution could be very well a dead end, but natural selection works pretty well.

[Apidium]

I personally believe that Humans will lose their intelligence within the next millenia due to technology taking over theres going to be so many robots doing everything for us, Humans will have no use.